1 John 4:9-10
“In this was manifest the love of God toward us. God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through 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.”
“The more I study the New Testament and live the Christian life, the more convinced I am that our fundamental difficulty, our fundamental lack, is the lack of seeing the love of God.
The first commandment is ‘thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. The second is like unto it: thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself’ (Matt 22:37, 39). You will never be able to do the second until you have done the first. Notice how reminiscent this is of John 3:16. These two verses together are a perfect and complete synopsis of Christian theology.
Says the average man, “all I am interested in is that God is a God of love and that He will forgive my sins.” But how do you know that He will forgive sins? What is the authority? The love of God can only be finally understood and appreciated in the Lord Jesus Christ. God’s love has been manifest by what He has done for us and in us in the Lord Jesus Christ. God has manifested His love towards us in that He, there in glory, sent from Heaven, with its eternal bliss and absolute perfection, into this world His only begotten Son. That is God’s way of making forgiveness. Without the doctrine of atonement you cannot understand the love of God.”
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