1 John 4:7-21
God is LOVE
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
Jesus teaches us the eternities...The Kingdom of God is all about eternity...And most of Jesus’ teachings are about eternity, because that is what He taught...Jesus shows us what the eternities are and puts them right smack in front of our face and our thoughts...He put the eternities right in the face of those who followed Him and those who questioned Him...And that in itself is a paradox, because we live in this world, in a world that does revolve around time, where others can be constantly around us...Yet, He really (in my opinion) does not think too much about time, because of His focus on God, the Kingdom of God, and His teachings about the eternal...So if we read His parables as being face to face with eternity, maybe we can better understand them...
And Jesus constantly taught about love, which is eternal, because God is LOVE...Yet His teachings and deeds of love are eternal in this world and the Kingdom of God...