Much of the feverishness with which men plunge into business, and whirl in the eddies of pleasure, arises from their dread of God. 1 John 4:18(NASB) Verse Thoughts. Then there arises up another object of dread, which, in like manner, derives all its power to terrify and to hurt from the fact of our discordance with God; and that is ‘the shadow feared of man,’ that stands shrouded by the path, and waits for each of us. What does 1 John 4:19 mean? If our love is not a reflection of His love, if it is so weak and feeble that, when the cloud passes over it and darkens the sunlight, it cannot keep our heart from failing because of fear; then let us look up to Him who is our life, and seek that gift of love which He alone can bestow, and the dominion of fear will end. Certainly, and is it not just as natural that we should, when we are joined in covenant relationship with God, trust Him as fully and realize that any feeling of fear is simply impossible, because we know and believe the love which He hath toward us?1 [Note: C. O. Eldridge, in The Preacher’s Magazine, 1894, p. Every one who thinks and looks forward to what may be in the world, and in the country where he lives, must sometimes feel fear and anxiety coming over him, taking possession of him, and distressing him. “I feared thee, because thou wert an austere man, and so, because I was afraid, I went and hid my talent, and did nothing for thee” is a transcript of the experience of far too many of us. And when we rise to the highest form of it, namely, the love which is fixed upon God--oh! https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/1-john-4.html. But love has to take some things upon trust. Arising from that discomforting consciousness of discord there come, likewise, other forms and objects of dread. 194. Total forgiveness is also necessary for a transparent relationship ( Ephesians 4:31-32). https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/1-john-4.html. But as long as we live, failure is possible; there must be the possibility of ultimate failure, even on the part of the gray-haired saint, as Bunyan in his “dream” saw that “there was a way to hell from the gates of heaven as well as from the city of destruction”; as, before now, men have fallen from God at their very “lust hour.” And that possibility involves a fear which dwells not on the mere pain of future punishment, but on that which is the essential and misery of hell--the forfeiture of the life giving love of God. There is no reverence where there is desperate fear. “Fear” is the fear of judgment, mentioned in verse 17th, and he who fears is said to be not perfected or made perfect in love, which obviously refers to love in us. As I said, you cannot love and fear the same person, unless the love is of a very rudimentary and imperfect character. But this is not the confidence of love. BibliographyZerr, E.M. "Commentary on 1 John 4:18". Ah, dear friends, do not rest until you face the facts, and having faced them, have found the way to reverse them! That flowed from conscience trembling before the half-seen face of the Divine Judge. And that possibility involves a fear which dwells not on the mere pain of future punishment, but on that which is the essential and central misery of hell: the forfeiture of the life-giving love of God. Fear is entirely based on a consideration of some possible personal evil consequence coming down upon me from that clear sky above me. 1 decade ago. BibliographyAlford, Henry. ].” Were we to interpret the text as speaking of love to man, it would not admit of any satisfactory explanation: but, as referring to God, it sets love before us in a very instructive point of view, in that it marks, “Fear” is that passion which is chiefly dominant in the breast of fallen man—. "Commentary on 1 John 4:18". Fear is always revolving the punishment deserved; and, by anticipation (through consciousness of deserving it), has even now its foretaste. It needs no proof that the apostle has in view in this verse no other fear than that of which Paul says, Romans 8:15 : οὐκ ἐλάβετε πνεῦμα δουλείας πάλιν εἰς φόβον, and therefore not the childlike awe of God arising from the consciousness of God’s glory, which forms an essential element of love to God. But if they be deaf to the voice of conscience here, it will be heard at the instant of their departure hence. S. Paul teaches the same doctrine; ‘Ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father’ (Romans 8:15). For, inconsistent as the two emotions are, love, in its earlier stages and lower degrees, is often perturbed and dashed by apprehension and dread. Yes, beloved; though now more fearless than the devils (for they believe and tremble), you will then know what “a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God.”, But is it fear that I wish to excite in your minds? "Commentary on 1 John 4:18". The following sentence: ὁ δὲ φοβούμενος οὐ τετελείωται ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ, which is not connected with the subordinate clause ὅτι ὁ φόβος κ. τ. λ., but with the preceding principal clause, does not contain a conclusion from this ( δέ is not = οὖν), but (as Braune also thinks) expresses the same thought in negative form (hence the connection by δέ); only with this difference, that what was there expressed in an objective way, here receives a subjective aspect. 2. What penalty will He appoint as the punishment of fear, but that which he who denies is to pay, who has to be slain, body and soul, in hell” (Scorp. It is this towards which fear looks, and the dread of it fills the soul with misery. i., p. 200. Could we but behold the obdurate sinner, or the scoffing infidel, on his first entrance into the presence of his God; does his boldness continue there? Then according to them, servile fear is here set in opposition to voluntary reverence; and hence has arisen the distinction between servile and filial fear. "Commentary on 1 John 4:18". But in these cases we may hope that there is a blessed surprise of love in store for souls which here lived too much in the darkness of mistrust and self-suspicion. I speak not, indeed, of a filial fear; because that is a very essential part of love: but a slavish fear, a “fear that has torment,” can find no place in a bosom that is filled with love. The two elements cannot reign together. He who is not yet perfect in love may speedily become so, because God can say in a moment, I will, be thou clean; and immediately his leprosy will depart. Proctor.]. Perfect love rests on the bosom of Christ, and looks forward to the day of judgment without apprehension. Charles Schribner's Sons. BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Oh! The experience of hosts of professing Christians is only too forcible a comment upon the possibility of a partial Love lodging in the heart side by side with a fellow-lodger, Fear, whom it ought to have expelled. From this kind of fear the convinced man, if he yields himself to Christ’s teaching, will pass on into a higher. Fear has no place in love. H. W. Beecher, Christian World Pulpit, vol. Love is based upon the forgetfulness of self altogether. 3. There foam and swirl all manner of evils, some of them certain, some of them probable, any of them possible, since we are at discord with Him who wields all the forces of the universe, and wields them all with a righteous hand. The love of God entering into a man's heart destroys fear. They mistrusted every one. See Matthew 25:46. He will lay His hand on you, as He did of old, with the characteristic word that was so often upon His lips, and which He alone is competent to speak in its deepest meaning. For surely every part of life, not alone of the human family, but down to the lowest animated particles, has to struggle for its existence. If the world were all peaceful, fear would be a torment; but on the supposition that the world is full of antagonisms and destroying influences, and that life is to be maintained and developed in spite of the difficulties and dangers which surround everything and everybody, fear is a preservation. Love is gentle, but it is omnipotent, victor over all. No: it is neither desperate nor deplorable; he is in the way of salvation, and not far from the kingdom of heaven. My fear should be to me like the misshapen guide that may lead me to the fortress where I shall be safe. I fear; then what do I do? This kind of dread is the opposite of παρρησια — parrēsia (boldness). Peers in upon us through the window shade, Full soon love’s finger, rosy tipped, is laid. What he is saying is true about love and fear, whatever or whosoever may be loved or dreaded. But I think we shall scarcely understand the religion of Love unless we recognise that dread is a legitimate part of an unforgiven man’s attitude towards God. How are these facts and statements to be reconciled with the assertion that it is the duty of Christians not to fear? First John 1:7 says, “If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” Here two things are combined to secure our cleansing from sin: one is the blood of Jesus; the other is walking in the light. "Coffman Commentaries on the Old and New Testament". 1870. Cf. A person altogether unacquainted with the operations of a machine, a steam-engine or the like, would fear to meddle with it, because it might do him injury in some way which he would have no reason to expect; an engineer by profession would have no such fear as this. Fear must go before love. Fear is not in charity, &c. By the fear, which a perfect charity and love of God excludes, we may understand a fear of temporal losses in this world, of the loss of goods, of banishment, of torments, of death itself, which the love of God made so many glorious martyrs contemn; or an anxious servile fear of punishment in the next world, for the more perfect charity and the love of God is, so much the more doth it banish this imperfect and servile fear; but as perfect charity does not exclude a love, and constant desire of loving God as our last end, for whose enjoyment we were created, so it does not exclude a fear of displeasing, offending, and losing him by sin. It is the first and largest in a series of 3 epistles that bear the Apostle John’s name. “Men‘s states vary: one is without fear and love; another, with fear without love; another, with fear and love; another, without fear with love” [Bengel]. kolasia. Shows the philosophy of the gospel. Men take the first steps in their development because they fear; but afterwards their development is carried on by other influences. II. I remember the instance of a pale woman who taught a village school in summer. The secrets of our hearts are revealed to ourselves, and the searching eye of a Divine truth is set upon us. The Biblical Illustrator. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/1-john-4.html. For many false prophets have gone out everywhere. The crown and perfect work of our love of God is shown in this, that it enables us to look forward even to the dreadful day of judgment with courage and boldness. A fresh boy in school, on the first day, is afraid of everything, and while that fear lasts he learns nothing. He might tremble, he might pity, he might weep for others; but in the earthquake, and pestilence, and storm, and death, what fear for himself? It is the bravest of all human emotions. Bibliography"Commentary on 1 John 4:18". At night he would say, “Bye-bye, Poo-ah!”—“Goodnight, Out-of-doors!” Another went in mortal dread of a feather from the eider-down or a fluff of the wool in which a banana had been packed, and he would flee with a yell when it moved towards him on a breath of air. Fear by anticipating punishment has it even now. Love is fruitful in good works; it inspires the mind to keep the commandments of Christ, and imparts power to surmount the greatest difficulties, while fear takes away our strength, enervates the soul, and deprives us of our moral and spiritual energy. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/1-john-4.html. So the one who fears is not complete in love." Human life is often like one of those great tragedies where, in the earliest scenes, a suspicion is infused of the darkness that is to deepen round the close. My fear should be to me like the misshapen guide that may lead me to the fortress where I shall be safe. ], The genial Principal of Glasgow University, in the course of a public speech a year or two ago, told this story. In such passages the underlying purport is obvious: “Do this, avoid that, or it will be the worse for you: obey, on peril of the consequences of disobedience.” How, then, will the text stand when confronted with a line of address at once so authoritative, so luminous, and so stern? BibliographyHaydock, George Leo. ].” Indeed, the whole religion of the heathen world has its foundation in fear: love to their deities is never an operative principle in their hearts. The latter fear is natural to us all until love casts it out. BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on 1 John 4:18". Bengel gives the various stages thus: ‘Neither love nor fear; fear without love; both fear and love; love without fear’. He has been saying that perfect love produces courage in the day of judgment, because it produces likeness to Christ, who is the Judge. (282) Several commentators, however, explain κόλασις by “pain,” thinking that “here causa is put pro effectu” (Ebrard), or, in more correspondence with the thought, by “pain of punishment” (Besser, Braune, so also previously in this comm. Behold then, I say, the two emotions are like the scales of a balance: where fear preponderates, love will be found but light: but where love abounds, fear will in vain strive for an ascendant. 1851. “Men's condition is varied; without fear and love; with fear without love; with fear and love; without fear with love” (Bengel). "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". The meaning is, that as there is nothing more miserable than to be harassed by continual inquietude, we obtain by knowing God’s love towards us the benefit of a peaceful calmness beyond the reach of fear. But the reality—the force of such reality—lay in this, that he did not project it into some distant future, else it would have lost much of its terribleness by such distance. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. A strong expression: turneth out of doors. To such men the very name of the God who governs the world is fear. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/srn/1-john-4.html. It is appropriate for the earlier stage of spiritual training; it marks a stage in the moral progress through which the Supreme Educator, Divinely equitable and patient, conducts His children by slow steps, in consideration of hearts not fully softened and consciences not thoroughly enlightened, which, as yet, are unfit for a high religious standard. I. Then there rises up another object of dread, which, in like manner, derives all its power to terrify and to hurt from the fact of our discordance with God, and that is, the “shadow feared of man,” that stands shrouded by the path, and waits for each of us. Fear, by anticipating punishment (through consciousness of deserving it), has it even now, that is, the foretaste of it. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on 1 John 4:18. All these are necessary to our well-being. In the love which we have for a parent, a child, a friend, there is no fear. A settled confidence in God’s fatherly regard for us. Of course, he is speaking about the emotions which men cherish with regard to God. She rejoices in his strength because she has perfect confidence in his love, she cannot fear because she knows and believes fully the love that he has for her. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/1-john-4.html. Love is the highest element; but this is at the other extreme. The kindred verb, κολάζομαι topunish, is found Acts 4:21; 2 Peter 2:9. 1 John 2:24; 1 John 2:27; his readers clearly and sharply set against the antichristian teachers) are of God, little children (thus he ever speaks to his readers, as being children of God, see ch. (3) There will be no dread, either, in approaching Him in prayer. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love. The very essence of love is, that it looks away from itself. It is a strange faculty that we all have, of forgetting unwelcome thoughts and shutting our eyes to the things that we do not want to see, like Nelson when he puts the telescope to his blind eye at Copenhagen, because he would not obey the signal of recall. They had been rescued from a slave-ship that had been coming up the eastern coast of Arabia with those little fellows, to be sold on the date plantations along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Copyright StatementThe New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Modernised and adapted for the computer by Larry Pierce of Online Bible. Beza inadequately paraphrases the adjective τελεία by: sincera, opposita simulationi; it is not love in its first beginnings, love which is still feeble, but love in its perfection, that completely casts out fear. 1 John 4:18 serves to establish the preceding thought, that love has its perfection in παῤῥησία. A. Maclaren, Sermons in Manchester, vol. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. One of the strangest things in the organization of this world is the prevalence of a universal destructiveness. According to the Apostle, therefore, Christian love is elevated into the very highest type of spiritual chivalry. The passage is a good instance of the difference between ἀλλά and δέ (sed and autem, sondern and aber). With what thoughts of things to come would such a man live? It is therefore a plain consequence, that he who has any servile dread of God, is far from living under thepowerofthisdelightful perfect love, which springs from the full assurance of faith, and enables us to consider God, not only as the most amiable object, infinitely lovely in himself, but as all love to us.". The sinner must begin by fearing the God against whom he has sinned. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. And you will be very unwise if you simply turn away from the question I am speaking of—if you decline to question yourself thus. No one can love God aright without fearing Him; though many fear Him, and yet do not love Him. Here are the two models—and we are all growing more like to one or the other of them. It assures us that “sin shall not have dominion” over us. The more we love God the more we grow like God. 2. Ye (so we had ὑμεῖς ch. BibliographyMacLaren, Alexander. Church (R. W.), Village Sermons, iii. To him the day of judgment was the day of Christ, it was the coming back and appearance of his beloved and departed Lord, the beginning of that kingdom of glory for which he daily waited and daily prayed. To those who are "in Christ" and who abide in him, loving him, following him, obeying him to the fullest extent of human ability - to all such persons shall be given and certified the very blessings in view here; and thus "in Christ" they may attain the unattainable! No man can think of God and of eternity without many fears and misgivings: and the very efforts which men use to dissipate all serious thought, clearly shew, that they do not dare to think, and that God is to them an object of dread, and not of love. 258.]. Every one who looks out into life and takes cognizance of the things that are going on—the silent sufferings, the secret mischiefs, the wastes, and the wails that spread throughout the whole human family—must feel that some defence is needed to make life tolerable or even possible. You cannot call that a perfect love in any of the human relationships which looks suspiciously, which is full of forebodings. The very essence of love is, that it looks away from itself, and to another. BibliographyBengel, Johann Albrecht. “Perfect love casteth out fear.” You must not be afraid to accept the broad statement that “God is love.” (J. M. Fear of punishment, either as imminent or distant, is not a false or bad principle of action in its own place and for its own time. Fear is the opposite of Faith. ‘The stars in their courses fight against’ the man that does not fight for God. (Matthew 10:28; Philippians 2:12; 1 Peter 1:17; Proverbs 3:7). But if anyone does sin, y we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. We so often begin the other way. Now they have risen to such a state of purity, and of beneficence, and of likeness to God that they live in a higher sphere and on a nobler plane, and work by the positive attractions of good, and not by the fear of the mischiefs of evil. That is, it has associated itself with other faculties. You can ignore it; and buy immunity at the price of leaving in full operation the causes of your dread--and that is stupid. There is no trace of gospel fear in all this. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/1-john-4.html. 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched —this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 303.]. I never went to church unwillingly; and I always liked hearing sermons, which was my state when I went to Oxford.1 [Note: E. S. Purcell, The Life of Cardinal Manning, i. iii. Love is no weak thing, no mere sentiment. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cgt/1-john-4.html. I fear; then what do I do? Perfect love takes out of the heart all that bitter sense of possible evil coming on one and leaves one at liberty, with thankful, humble heart, and clear eye, to look into the centre of the brightness and see there the light of His infinite mercy. No: it must be carried on by love, if ever it shall terminate in joy. The river, turned into the foul Augean stables of the heart, will sweep out all the filth and leave everything clean. My text points out the natural antagonism, and mutual exclusiveness, of these two emotions. Faith is of God. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/1-john-4.html. "Commentary on 1 John 4:18". fear hath torment — Greek, “punishment.” Fear is always revolving in the mind the punishment deserved [Estius]. For this he has no excuse!" Fear, guilt, and shame cannot coexist alongside faith, hope, and love. Often, when we see men soft and gentle, like St. John, we fail to remember that there must be a stronger side to their characters; just as, on the other hand, when we see men who are evidently cast in a sterner mould, we frequently forget that there may be—often, indeed, that there must be—warm springs of feeling within their hearts which we cannot see, to account for that strict or even rigid performance of duty which we can see. 1 John 4:9.The manifestation of the love of God is the sending of His Son. There is no fear in love - The man who feels that he loves God with all his heart can never dread him as his Judge. – 1 John 4:18 (Message) Fear. 67 (Morris). He sighs for the light, but it comes not; feels after God, but He evades his touch. For if I am out of harmony with Him, what will be my fate in the midst of a universe administered by Him, and in which all are His servants? All other rights reserved. Fear arises necessarily from our ignorance. What may I not live to see overthrown or set up? BibliographyIce, Rhoderick D. "Commentary on 1 John 4:18". They only know God as the Terrible One. 2 This is how you will be able to know whether it is God's Spirit: anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God. So in religion also. What is the difference between the two? Let the dread direct me to its source--my own sinfulness. Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Fear hath torment; literally, fear hath punishment. The perfect love - that fullness of love, which he has received, casteth out fear - removes all terror relative to this day of judgment, for it is of this that the apostle particularly speaks. There is no fear in love ( φόβος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ ). ), Love is like honey, but perfect love is like the honey with all the comb and wax strained out. There is no fear in love, &c.— "This perfect love is of such a delightful nature, that though it be ever attended with a holy filial reverence of God, and cautious filial fear of offending; yet there is no distrustful or terrifying fear of God in it, as if he were our enemy. So my fear should proclaim to me the merciful “name that is above every name,” and drive me as well as draw me to Christ, the Conqueror of sin and the Antagonist of all dread. It means suffering, but suffering for a purpose; suffering which is correction; suffering which is disciplinary; suffering which is intended to lead to something beyond itself. Awful as it was, he could have boldness when it came. Among men we find some that have neither love nor fear; others that have fear without love; others that have love and fear; and others that have love without fear. Who has not things which he values as the apple of his eye, things to which he has always been accustomed—things which he believes to be bound up with all that is good and precious in life, things whose removal would make days for ever dark and unbearable—and yet does not see that they hang but on a thread; perhaps that what is to bring their ruin and overthrow has already begun to work? mutilationem; so that the sense is: “metus amorem mutilat atque infringit, aut prohibet, ne se exserat”), and instead of φοβούμενος: κολουόμενος (“qui mutilatur aut impeditur in dilectione, is in ea perfectus non est”); and that of Lamb. In love, lit., the love, that perfected love of which John has been speaking. And if the Bible Contains passages which teach us not to fear, does it not contain other passages which teach that we ought to fear? We are not to suppose that the love of God casts out every kind of fear from the soul; it only casts out that which has torment. 2 z He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but a also for the sins of the whole world. (c) Natural fear, which is necessary to the preservation of life. Nor does it cast out that fear which is so necessary to the preservation of life; that fear which leads a man to flee from danger lest his life should be destroyed. Because fear hath torment - It is a painful and distressing emotion. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfb/1-john-4.html. John uses a rare word in my text when he says ‘fear hath torment.’ ‘Torment’ does not convey the whole idea of the word. The maintenance of this consciousness, sustained and justified by the external life, is the highest aim of life. III. (Samuel Dunn.). Believing this, the heart fills with a mighty tide of calm responding love which sweeps away on the crest of its rejoicing wave, the vileness, the sorrows, the fears, which once littered and choked the channels. We cannot love a noble human character without in some degree becoming like that character; and if we love Christ, and God in Christ, we shall be changed into the same image from glory to glory. 1832. Then it lifts its crested head, and shoots out its forked tongue, and venom passes into the veins. Copyright StatementThese files are a derivative of an electronic edition prepared from text scanned by Woodside Bible Fellowship.This expanded edition of the Jameison-Faussett-Brown Commentary is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed. John has been speaking of boldness, and that naturally suggests its opposite--fear. Oh! Gregory (B. I said my prayers, such as I had learned, I suppose, from my mother. 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