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).