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1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.

God is like the windthe wind; we can't see Himcan't see Him, but we can

see what He doesHe does in us and through us.

And, as we loveas we love one another, people of this world can see the Lovesee the Love of God in us.

13 Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit. 14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

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When God saves us, we are born ofborn of His Spirit, and He comesHe comes into us to

live forever.

It is only in the WisdomWisdom and PowerPower of God's Holy Spirit that we can testifywe can testify of Jesus.

1 Corinthians 12 3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

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This is true evidencetrue evidence of the Holy Ghost.

"Jesus is LordLord of my life, and LordLord of all."

15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

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Intellectual consentIntellectual consent to the truth doesn't save.

The devilsdevils believe in God and Jesus.

Just saying the right wordsright words doesn't save.Trust and obey, for there's no other way, to be

happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

16 And we have knownknown and believedbelieved the lovelove that God hath to us. God is loveGod is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

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We know it with our mindmind and heartheart.We have experiencedexperienced and enjoyedenjoyed God's Love.

When we get saved, we choosechoose to exercise the faith God has given us, and believe in Him.

But the moment that God comes into us, we we knowknow that we have believed the Truth!

"God is Love."

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Love is God's charactercharacter.

Everything God doesdoes is motivated by love.

17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as as He isHe is, so are we in this world.

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This verse might be rendered, literally, “In this respect love is made complete with us, namely, that we should have boldness in the day of judgment.”

The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty

We will notnot stand in judgment as to whether we are saved or lostsaved or lost; that's already decided.

An unloving Christian is unlikeunlike his Lord and may anticipate rebukerebuke and lossloss of reward at the judgment seat. But a loving believer is one in whom the work of God’s love has been made complete …, and the fruit of that is boldness before the One Who will judge him.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty.

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1 Corinthians 13 kind of love.

18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

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Any person who truly understandstruly understands how much God loves us, will have no fearhave no fear.

Psalms 84 11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing no good thing will He withholdwill He withhold from them that walk uprightly.

"Fear hath torment."

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Anyone who has ever experiencedever experienced that nagging, constant fear that we call anxietyanxiety

Knows the truthtruth of that statement.

Fear is only useful if it bringif it brings a sinner to Jesus or a disobedient child of God to his knees.

For an obedient child of God, here is Truth:

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2 Timothy 1 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of powerpower, and of lovelove, and of a sound sound mindmind.

PowerPower to do God's wonderful work.

The ability to lovelove as God loves.

A disciplined mind to live life God's WayGod's Way.

God has given us His SpiritHis Spirit that we may rightly rightly representrepresent Him in this world,

And lead lost souls to Jesusto Jesus for salvation.

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