As He Is As Love, So Are We By Spiritual Birth with David Kenebrew, Th.D.

2025 October 5th Streaming

We conclude our teaching on First John chapter four this week.  In chapter four John continues to build on the foundation he laid in the previous chapters – his foundation is “Love.”  John is known as the apostle of “Love.”  In this chapter he guides readers into the true and exact identity of Love! Up until now the word “Love” has not truly been defined.  In chapter four we see “Love” is not just a word written and spoken in various languages and tongues and is more than the Greek word “agape” in the biblical text.  Love is a person! Love as a specific person who is absolute and unchangeable!  Love is Eternal and is outside of time, space, and matter! Love cannot be understood, controlled, or known by anything or anyone created by Love! God is Love!  Because Love is God! And this person as Love MUST be revealed!  Love is Spirit! Jesus said;

Jhn 4:24 God (Love) is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

Paul said this,

1Co 2:9-11 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God (Love) has prepared for those who love him”– these things Love has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of Love. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of Love except the Spirit of Love. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from Love, that we might understand the things freely given us by Love.

Everyone born into this world has a deep need to be loved put there by Love Himself.  This need to be loved is imbued into the very fabric of identity in humankind!   From birth to death everyone hungers and thirsts for love.  So, what’s the problem?

Sister Brenda said this in her message last week.

“Due to mis-information, dis-information and mal-information, emotional temperatures are rising among groups of people based on political affiliations, geographical origins, ethnicity, and culture identities which has created an atmosphere of fear, hate and distrust. Sadly, as a result, many men and women, and Spiritual Sons in the Church hearts have “waxed” cold.”

Mathew 24: 11- 12 says,

And many false prophets shall be raised up, and deceive many.  And because anxiety shall increase, the love of many shall be cooled.

So, what’s the issue or problem?  More to come!  Let’s talk about it…