Lovers Are Born of God

First John 4:7 says, “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.” It is possible that some of the most liberal or radical commentators would use this passage to try to prove that homosexuals are acceptable with God, for they apparently love each other, but we have not seen that yet. It is practically impossible to conceive of an honest, sincere student of God’s Word who thinks this means that everyone who loves his wife or children, his friends, or the world is thereby made a child of God or proven to be one. The only other sensible alternative of which we can think is that he means that everyone who has the kind of love of which he is talking–the kind of love that causes a man to put God first and keep his commandments and loves the brotherhood with a sacrificial love (agape) is a child of God, for no one does that who is not a child of God. He is talking to and about children of God, not just anyone who loves anything or anybody.