As I have loved you, so you must love one another. How do we deal with sin, fellow Christians, and truly love. Now that word 'slew' in verse 12 literally could be translated 'to butcher' - 'Do not be like Cain, who was of that wicked one, who butchered or slaughtered' - it literally means 'slaughtered by smashing his throat'. 1 (and) 2. Now the church at Antioch in Syria, and those in Asia Minor were influential. Then we must move on quickly to the positive aspect of things that John deals with, because he says that demonstrating brotherly love proves the presence of eternal life, verses 16 to 18. Where are we there? He wasn't a child of God, he was a child of the devil! This includes love found in Song of Solomon or even in unhealthy places mentioned where sex and sexual immorality become an idol for certain communities. This means that in 1 John 4:7-21 we find 8.5% of its usage in the New Testament and 3.5% in the entire Bible. Of all the "loves" mentioned in the New Testament, love for the brethren is one of the most prominent (see, for example, John 13:34-35; 15:12, 13, 17; Romans 13:8; 1 Peter 1:22; 2:17; 4:8; 1 John 2-4 ). 2. Now right away we see that love is more than an airy fairy feeling, it is more an act of our will rather than a feeling. This expression 'lay down the life' is used many times in John's writings - John 10, 11 and 15. In which chapter (s) are the words lie, lies, liar, liars and lying mentioned the most times? That means 58.7% of the usages of love, loved, loves, and loving throughout the entire letter is found in 1 John 4:7-21. God's loving the world was not a matter simply of feeling; it resulted in His sending His only Son to redeem the world ( Jn 3:16 ). If we're to demonstrate brotherly love that proves the presence of eternal life we need to lay down our lives, but we need to meet the known needs of our brothers. Jesus Christ is the origin and example of true godly love and without that love in us, we cannot, Love is obedience to Gods commands. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you'. Not only were they renowned for doctrinal purity, but early Christians were renowned for practical charity. Now, we all know well John 3:16, 'For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son', and we've memorised that one - but one I'm sure you have never memorised, let alone exemplified, is 1 John 3:16: 'We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren'. How many times are the words lie, lies, liar, liars and lying mentioned in 1 John 5? Thats roughly 1.3 times per verse. What Paul says about love in that part of his letter is worldview altering. Let us not love with word or tongue, but in deed and in truth", "For this is the love ofGod that we keep his commandments", "Whoever keeps Gods word, in him the love ofGod has truly been perfected", "We know that we love the children ofGod when we love God and do his commandments", "He who does not have love does not know God". 3. But this word 'love' is found fifty times within 1 John, and it's remarkable when you consider that 1 John is only a book of five short chapters - but this theme of love is found fifty times right across those five chapters. It doesn't mean that God is against sexual union, it just means the concept was totally depraved and perverted. 1 How many times is the word love in the Old Testament? The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. Living Waters Church of Hastings, 1302 South Hanover Street, Hastings, MI, 49058, United States. John 17:26 Verse Concepts and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them." Romans 5:5 Verse Concepts b. For example, within the Bible, the Greek word Phillia, Eros, Philautia, and Mania are used as forms of love. John is a familiar figure in most of the scenes with Jesus and the disciples. Do you know that God doesn't want to meet you with a grudge towards another brother, an unforgiveness in your soul - why don't you let us go away from here and tell the other brother deacon that you've forgiven him?'. The mighty fact of the portion that we are studying tonight is that this is the very love that we are called upon as Christians to show to our brothers and sisters in the church. These numbers may not match with non-English translations of the Bible, because English only has one word for love, while some other languages have more than one. Make us a people who love. Jesus is truly the Son of God come in the flesh, John writes in Chapter 4 (4:2-3). This is his illustration, an illustration of a lack of brotherly love that proves an absence of eternal life. 1. . Answer (1 of 5): The word "love" occurs 240 times in the Old Testament in the King James version. Additionally, it appears 46 times in the First Epistle of John. The first two times Jesus asked Peter if he loved Him, Jesus used the appropriate form of agp; Peter responded, with a form of phila, a. The New International Version (NIV) mentions love 551 times, and in the King James Version (KJV), love is written 310 times. This sermon was delivered at The Iron Hall Assembly in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Pastor David Legge. What we could do, if you keep your Bible open at this passage, 1 Corinthians 13, you could substitute - and I've done this with you before - the word 'love' for 'Christ' or 'Jesus'. Below is an approximate list of the number of times love appears in different popular translations of the Bible: One thing to note is that the King James Version count does not include the count for charity, a word used in the early 17th century when translation was first published which referred to the highest form of love, selfless, and reciprocal. The various translations have love appear at different consistencies because of the different theories about translation applied to the versions. Again we could remind ourselves of what John said in chapter 2 and verse 6: 'We ought to walk even as he walked', in every aspect, not least showing that great agape love in our lives. This is not referring and in the category of any form of life man can naturally have, but that supernatural life that only comes from knowing Jesus Christ as one's personal Savior. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Click again to see term 1/9 Previous Next Flip Space Created by MemVerseFanatic Terms in this set (9) 44 How many times is the word love used in 1 John? - These are the people who wrote the false so Do you know many people who would put their lives on the line for you? To put it into a bit of perspective, love, loved, loves, and loving is used a total of 46 times throughout all of 1 John. How can we say the love of God abides in us? In 1 Corinthians 13, love (and in context, it) is used a total of 17 times in just 13 verses. How often does it happen? What this agape love is, and this agape love is the love of God that has been displayed and manifested for us in Christ, is the love that we ought to show to one another. If you are truly a child of God, the world will hate you. I wonder do we really appreciate the seriousness of how bad envy and jealousy can be among God's people, because John is likening it to murder, the murder of Abel by Cain right at the beginning - that first act of murder. Are we all mouth, all talkie-talkie and very little walkie-walkie? Again the Emperor Julian the Apostate complained during his short reign from AD 361 to 363 that, I quote: 'The impious Galileans', another name for Christians, 'support not only their own poor, but ours as well!'. Romans 5 and verse 8: 'God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us'. He claims to have personally known Christ. We might be tempted to think that there is much about the world for God These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. David Jackman says that on the few occasions he met him he sensed most powerfully the love of Christ in God's servant. Would you put your life on the line for someone else? That's roughly 1.8 times per verse. My friend, there could be a hundred Christians that you know, and you love 99 of them, and there's just one that you hate - and John says if you hate that one you're in deep spiritual trouble! One is not responsibility for the other. Tap a Lookup below to generate a list oflessons. Faith is love's eyes opened, the living Christ to see, The New Testament mentions love 179 times, while in the Old Testament, love is mentioned 131 times. How many of us tonight can say, including me: 'Lord, let me live from day to day 551 times in New International Version. 'David Legge is patient' - I'd have to stop right away! person has two parallel natures and they are completely separate. (see v3 also) John says he is going to show us Jesus Christ. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". He said: 'Well, you go off and tell him that I've forgiven him, but remember: if I get better the deal's off'. The table below gives some word counts for four popular versions of the Bible. -They deny He is the Son of God. In this passage, God says It is not good for man to be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him. This shows that from the beginning of time, Gods plan was for humans to be in relationship with each other. He gives us the illustration par excellence: Christ is the only source of true agape love, John is saying, and Calvary is the only measure and standard of that love. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. The first time that love is mentioned in the Bible is in Genesis 2:4-5. Transcribed by: In this same epistle in chapter 2 and verse 11 he's already stated that not only are we dead, but we're in the dark: 'He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes'. Not only was there his parentage, but there were his practices. How much does this agape love impact on our personal lives, in our own backyard, when our own back door is closed? Any exceptions to these conditions must be explicitly approved by Preach The Word. Chapter 5 and verse 21: 'Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire'. My friend, there could be a hundred Christians that you know, and you love 99 of them, and there's just one that you hate - and John says if you hate that one you're in deep spiritual trouble! Of course, last week we looked at John 8:44 that the devil was a thief and a murderer from the beginning, and here Cain is following in the footsteps of his spiritual father, committing murder. We begin now to look at Johns teaching onlove. The last time we visited this theme was in chapter 2 verses 7 to 17, we're not going to look at those tonight, but it would be good for you to recap at your own leisure and cover that again, what we have already studied in those verses. Now in Genesis 3 we have the story of how fellowship between God and man broke down, and then when we come to Genesis 4 we find that the offshoot of the fellowship between God and man breaking down is that man's fellowship with his fellow man breaks down, and Cain slays Abel. If we take all those modern definitions of love, we can see that there's a trend running right throughout them all, and it is simply this: that love in some shape or form is understood as being something that gives you self-gratification. That is why you cannot build a society, a community or even a family on love alone. Love is "an old commandment yet a new commandment" (1 Jn 2:7-8). John gives us, first of all, an illustration of what this love is not, what this love is not like. c. He LOOKED UPON: means "to gaze a long time". Everything God does is impelled and influenced by His love. (Matthew 22:39-40, John 13:34). Eros in the Bible Pronounced AIR-os, Eros is what we would call romantic love. If you do it's a good sign that you're saved, if you don't it's a sure sign that you're not. If you don't love your brother, you're still dead, you're a murderer like Cain, and he says at the end of verse 15 you do not possess eternal life. Where in the Old Testament does it talk about love? Biblical agap love is a matter of the will and not a matter of feeling or emotion, though deep feelings and emotions almost always accompany love. Answer (1 of 5): The word "love" occurs 240 times in the Old Testament in the King James version. Secondly, you have to have your eyes open to see the needs - and I think that's half the problem. In this passage, God says It is not good for man to be alone I will make him a helper comparable to him. I think love, as a concept and indeed as a word, is one that, perhaps, has been more abused and misused than any other in our language, or indeed any world language - especially over the last decade. In fact, for every 50 words you read in John, one of them is the word "love.". Now the false teachers in John's day were advocating that the problem for all mankind is ignorance, they need to learn more, they need to get a special knowledge from God. We have to step back for a moment if we are naive, and say: 'Is this possible? Is the word love mentioned in the Old Testament? Saint Peter and Saint John Run to the Sepulchre, by James Tissot c. 1886-1894. Indeed Paul said in Galatians 5:23 that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance - but love is the fruit of the Spirit, the Spirit of God. You might not have used a dagger on anybody, but John is talking about looking daggers at your neighbours, at your friends, at your brothers and sisters in Christ. called gospels of Jude and dozens of other spurious books claiming to be from God. 1. Not only did He lay down His human life here on earth, but we go back into the eternity of past and we see in Philippians 2 that here He comes from the right hand of God, and He lays aside the grasping at divine power. John 13:34-35 "A new command I give you: Love one another. So we begin in chapter 1 and chapter 2 of this book with several core cardinal themes that John's going to take right throughout this book as threads, but each time he revisits it in this spiral he adds another aspect of truth to it or another application to it. What John is bringing to us as believers is that we ought not to behave like Cain, who was envious and jealous - because that is a sure sign that the love of God is not residing in our hearts, and ultimately that there is a lack of eternal life. King James Pure Bible Search John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. Love never fails'. 1:1-3, 4:14. c. Close remembrances in style, language, thought to the Gospel of John and the 2-3 John. About one in every 50 words is a form of "love"that makes for about 52 mentions of love in just five short chapters. Even as a Christianand it's a sure sign that you don't possess eternal life. That believers could be envious and jealous of one another?' What are some examples of how providers can receive incentives? Also note that you can select from a number of different translations, with the King James Version (KJV) being the default. My friend, what John is saying is that if you have a lack of love towards your brothers it proves an absence of eternal life. The amount of times the word love is mentioned in the Bible depends on the translation of the Bible. Even in Bible 541 times the word love has been mentioned. Remember Cain was the first baby ever born, and he becomes a murderer. The most used words are Lord. 4 How many times does John use the word love? If you ask anybody why they work today, they'll say: 'It's to feed my family, my wife and my kids', but they don't even conceive that it is also to feed and supply the family of God - and it is! O Thou Saviour divine, A loveless man, John is saying, is a lightless man - he can't see his way. e. Expressions such as eternal life, a new commandment, abide in Christ, walketh in darkness, that your joy may be full. And wherefore slew he him? What does it mean that the Bible was divinely inspired? It may not be the act of murder. "This is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another" (1John 3:11). In love, God sent His Son to die on the cross of Calvary, bearing man's sins and offering to fallen men the righteousness of God. Well we're turning, of course, again to 1 John, the first epistle of John, and this is study number 10 tonight, and the title is 'Brotherly Love'. John is saying that where there is no love there is no life, You see, when the Almighty God of heaven sees hate, do you know what He cries? I'm thinking of the Irish man, and somebody from England stops him at the lights, and says 'Can you tell me the way to Belfast?'. Wiki User 2009-08-15 21:05:02 This answer is: Study guides Old Testament 20 cards. Cain told Abel his brother. and to bring the believer into a personal fellow- ship with Christ. It always protects, it always trusts, it always hopes, it always perseveres. 6 What are the 4 types of Love in the Bible? Second John is about love, truth, and obedience. 1. "If we love one another his love is perfected in us. fellowship with Christ. We are to lay down our lives for our brothers, whoever they are and wherever they hang their hat. David Jackman in his commentary, and with this I finish, speaks of one of the loveliest Christians he ever met, Dr Kenneth Moynihan was his name, and for years he was a missionary doctor in Rwanda. The deacon said: 'Did the doctor really say that I was going to die?'. He was not only of the wicked one, but he practised wickedness because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous. Sure, it's probably the most popular doctrinal belief of the whole lot. 2nd Verse 2. 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