1 John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Application: 

The Son of God is the Savior of the world (4:14). If you have trusted in him, he has delivered you from sin, Satan, and death. But he wants to use you to communicate that saving love to others. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God participates with God in his delivering activity (4:15). The one who remains in love remains in God (4:16). Remember, to “remain” is to “hang out” (see 2:6). Hang out with love—seek out opportunities to express God’s definition of love (see 4:9–10)—and God will hang out with you. Living in the atmosphere of love means you are living in the atmosphere of God.

When love is made complete in you in this way, you can have confidence in the day of judgment (4:17). Every believer will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Don’t think of it as a trial to determine your salvation but as the Judge’s opportunity to evaluate the Christian life you lived (see 2 Cor 5:10). Despite your sins and failures, if you actively sought to minister in love to members of God’s family, you will be able to stand with confidence on that day because “love covers a multitude of” offenses (1 Pet 4:8). You will have no reason to fear. Mature, perfect love drives out fear (4:18). Our capacity for love is only possible because he first loved us (4:19).

Reference: Tony Evans, The Tony Evans Bible Commentary (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2019), 1377.

To God be the glory!

Our Lord Jesus Christ created everything! By Him, For Him!

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