Summary: We must know the love of God for us.

THE LOVE THAT CAST OUT FEAR

1st John 1:4

1. The source of this love

1st John 4: 7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

2. The standard of love

1st John 4: 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

3. The sphere of that love

1st John 4: 16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

4. Security of that love

1st John 4: 17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

5. The scope of that love

1st John 4: 21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.