Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Hebrews 2:14-151 John 4:7-211 John 1:51 John 2:291 John 3:2Romans 5:81 John 2:1
About this sermon
Opinion polls about what people fear most open a study of 1 John 4:7-21, where Cloyce Sutton finds four grounds for assurance that God loves us: the nature of that love, His presence by the Spirit and the Son, its effect on the day of judgment, and its demand that we love the brother we can see. "Perfect" love, he argues, means mature and complete rather than flawless. The line he leaves the congregation with is that God's love is not increased by our performance nor diminished by our failures.