{"id":9552,"date":"2025-11-24T06:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=9552"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:20:21","slug":"1-john-program-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=9552","title":{"rendered":"1 John (Program #31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bible_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>1 John (Program #31) &#8211; The Virtues of the Divine Birth to Practice the Divine Love (4)<\/p>\n<p>In his first epistle the apostle John talks very much about love.\u00a0 Chapter four particularly places a strong emphasis on love. But if we examine John&#8217;s presentation of this most visible virtue of the divine birth we realize that the love spoken of in this book is not a vague or general love nor is it a natural love, a love that finds its&#8217; source in the human heart. It is the love that flows from the divine source from God Himself.\u00a0 In verse 8 of chapter 4 John puts it this way, &#8220;<em><em>He who does not love has not known God, because God is love.<\/em><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"1 John (Program #31)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-11-24T06:20:21-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"1 John (Program #31) - The Virtues of the Divine Birth to Practice the Divine Love (4)\r\n\r\nIn his first epistle the apostle John talks very much about love.\u00a0 Chapter four particularly places a strong emphasis on love. 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