In part 4 (click here to read it), we discovered that we cannot of ourselves, love with God's kind of love, but He can through us. This is the new covenant way of walking in love. Here we look at how to walk in the certainty of His love that is in us.

In part 3 (click here to read part 3), we looked at God's love in contrast to our love. Here we look at walking in God's love within the context of the new covenant.

The key lies in the way things work in the new covenant

In part 2 (click here to read it), we looked at the text in 1 John 4 through the eyes of the new and old testaments. Here we seek to establish God's kind of love and how it differs from ours.

In part 1(click here to read it) we looked at the call to love and the challenges it presents. We also established the difference between the old and the new testament approach to our christian walk. With that background in place, let us now look at the text in 1 John 4.