<p>4:9 <em>Herein was the love of God manifested to us, in that God has sent His only Son into the world that we might live through him</em>- The supreme manifestation of God's love was in the cross. We live through Him in that He gives to us the gift of His life, His spirit, the kind of thinking He thinks and life He lives, breathing it into every open heart through the gift of the Comforter. As the Father sent the Son into the world, so we are sent into the world in obedience to the great commission (Jn. 17:18). Our mission likewise is to manifest His love and to give others the gift of His life, acting as a channel for the movement and gift of His life / Spirit.</p>