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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 2, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 30.

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Our Bible Reading

Love

1. Love is an attribute of God.
"Beloved, let us love one another: for LOVE IS OF GOD. . . . He that loveth not knoweth not God; for GOD IS LOVE." 1 John 4: 7, 8.
2. God's love is manifested in impartial giving.
"He GIVETH TO ALL life, and breath, and all things." Acts 17: 25.
3. God's greatest gift is His Son.
"For God SO loved the world, that HE GAVE HIS ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3: 16.
"In THIS WAS MANIFESTED THE LOVE OF GOD toward us, because that GOD SENT HIS ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON into the world, that we might live through Him." 1 John 4: 9.
4. God's love for us precedes our love for Him.
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that HE LOVED US, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." Verse 10.
"God COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US, in that, while we were YET SINNERS, Christ died for us." Rom. 5: 8.
"We love, because HE FIRST LOVED US." 1 John 4: 19.
5. When God gave His Son He gave ALL.
"He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not WITH HIM also freely GIVE US ALL THINGS?" Rom. 8: 32.
6. God's love for us lays us under obligation.
"Beloved, if God so loved us, we OUGHT ALSO TO LOVE one another." 1 John 4: 11.
7. The Word also gives us a test of our love for one another.
"By this we KNOW that we LOVE the CHILDREN OF GOD, WHEN we LOVE GOD, and KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS." 1 John 5: 2.
8. We can not love God and love the world at the same time.
"LOVE NOT THE WORLD, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the WORLD PASSETH AWAY, and the lust thereof: but HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF GOD ABIDETH FOREVER." 1 John 2: 15-17.
9. The divine definition of love is obedience.
"THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS." 1 John 5: 3.
"If ye love Me, keep My commandments." John 14: 15.
"Whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected." 1 John 2: 5.