God's love is unique in that it is not like the world's love. The world's love is often self-centered and self-serving, where God's love is self-sacrificing; yet we need to surrender to his kind of love.
Dear Children, Love As Your Father Loves
1 John 4: 1-12
June 17, 2018 • Darin Travis
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Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning. Is John saying that everyone is a child of the devil? Most of us admit to exemplifying his characteristics at http://times.the heart of this passage is not to have us stewing over who is a child of the devil and who is a child of God. John’s point is those who are born of God will not make a practice of sinning. Their new nature is one of righteousness and love. "Righteousness and Love: Natural for a Believer" Darin Travis