READ: 1 John 3:1-3

The Love of God the Father is demonstrated in His Manner, Means, Matter, and Method through His Son. Because of His work of salvation, those who believe are given the right to be called children of God.- John 1:12-13 - 1 John 3:1 - “See what kind of love (means) the Father has given (manner) to us, that we should be called children of God; (matter) and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

“What kind of love” is not meant to make us think about what God’s love is like, but to tell us what the quality of God’s love is. The manner, means, matter, and method of His Love is Christ, the complete and perfect expression of the Father’s Love. Hebrews 1:3 “He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power…”

The Manner of God’s Love: Manner: the way, style, or method in which something is done or happens. - Romans 5:8

The Means of God’s Love: Means: a method, instrument, or process used to achieve a goal,

- John 3:16

The Matter of God’s Love: Matter: a situation, subject, or level of importance. - Romans 5:19

Situation: A subject, problem, or event of concern; one man’s disobedience

Subject: Trouble (Idiom): Used in questions like "What's the matter? All made sinners

Importance: To be of significance or value - one man's obedience, the many will be made righteous.” (salvation for many)

The Method of God’s Love: Method - a planned, logical, and systematic way of doing something

- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

- Ephesians 1

The Father Set the plan - Ephesians 1:11

The Son Fulfilled the plan - Ephesians 1:7-10 & 13a

The Spirit Seals the plan - Ephesians 13b-14

- Leviticus 20:26 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:7

- 1 John 3:2-3 - “Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

READ: 1 John 2:15-29

What is Christian Deconstructionism? Christian deconstructionism is the process of critically examining, questioning, and dismantling a person's previously held religious beliefs, church culture, and foundational doctrines. Often starting within evangelicalism, it involves taking apart a lifelong belief system to see what is true, harmful, or shaped purely by politics and tradition.

John 6:59-71: The deconstructors or defectors of Jesus’ day

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” Matthew 6:24 - James 4:4 - 1 John 2:15-17 - “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Those who Deconstruct never knew Christ nor left the world. - Hebrews 6:4-6 - 1 John 2:18-20 - “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.”

• 2 Thessalonians 2:3 - “Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,”

You can not deconstruct from something you never had, Jesus said, “And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.” - John 17:39 - John 17:3 - 1 John 2:21-25 - “I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.”

To abide in Christ and He in you is to know Him. - John 14:17 - 1 John 2:26-29 - “I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 27 But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him. 28 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.”

The Beginning of Knowledge

1 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

2 To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight,

3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

4 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—

5 Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,

6 to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.

7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.