God Is Love (1 John 4:7-21)

God is love. This is a bedrock truth. But, the reverse is not true. Love is not God. That is also good news. God sets the terms of love and the agenda. The terms are the truths of who Jesus is and what He has done for us. The agenda? We are to be formed into the Jesus centered, gospel defined love of God both in receiving it, seeing it, confessing it, and passing it along to others in the power of the Holy Spirit and by the fear destroying power of the gospel.