The Manifested Love of God | 1 John 4:9-10

Lord's Day: July 27, 2025  Preacher: Carlos Montijo  Series: First John  Topic: Love  Scripture: 1 John 4:9–10; Romans 5:8–10; Ephesians 1:7–8; 1 John 2:1–2; 1 Corinthians 15:3; Isaiah 53:4–10; 1 John 3:1; 1 Peter 2:9–10; Revelation 1:5–6; 5:10; Romans 8:30

⁹By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. ¹⁰In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:7–10

• Great gospel memory passage

I.   This “Other Love Chapter” explains what love truly is, and what it looks like

• What then is love? God’s love is gospel; our love is law (obedience)
• The Excellencies of God's love:
  • (a) Redemptive, Restorative (Justifying: Forensic [synthetic])
  • (b) Regenerative, Reformative (Sanctifying: Renovative, Transformative [analytic])

II.  Redemptive: God’s love forgives all our sins

• How is our Redemption accomplished? One “Word”—Christ

III. God’s gospel of love is a gospel of propitiation

• The atonement is central to Christianity; propitiation is the heart of the gospel

• Propitiation is “the means of appeasing wrath and gaining the good will of an offended person; especially with respect to sacrifices for appeasing angered deities.”[1]

• You cannot be saved without a gospel of propitiation, you must believe the true gospel
• Against Eastern Orthodoxy
• 1 Corinthians 15:3
• God, Man, Salvation, His Word—a failure to grasp these primary doctrines can lead to a false gospel
• Isaiah 53:4–10
• You cannot understand God’s love unless you understand God’s wrath
• You cannot have God’s love unless God’s wrath has been satisfied through His Son whom He sent, to be the propitiation for our sins.

IV.  Restorative: God’s love not only restores to us the benefits that we lost in the Fall, but surpasses them with more blessings and benefits

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Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org and 316publishing.com

^[1] Rick Brannan, ed., Lexham Research Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, Lexham Research Lexicons (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020).