Welcome, and thank you for taking a bible break to test your knowledge of God's word.
This week's question:

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:16). Well, we know that the book of John is not the answer to our question, but we also find out how much God loves mankind! John tells us, "See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him." (1 John 3:1), and again, "Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." (1 John 2:15). Although we live on this planet earth, we are not to love it so much that we place it before our Creator, but God expects more than lip service to demonstrate our love as Jesus defines mans love to Him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him." (John 14:23). Jesus also says, concerning the saints, "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do what I command you." (John 15:12-14).

That brings us to our question, "'Love' is not in which book?". Jesus demonstrates His love for mankind by giving up His life on the cross, "Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation," (Hebrews 5:8-9). Just as Jesus demonstrated His love to the Father by learning obedience on Calvary, so too is our love demonstrated to the Son, Jesus, "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments and His commandments are not burdensome." (1 John 5:3).

And what commandments are we are to keep? "And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, 'I have come to know Him,' and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps his word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked." (1 John 2:3-6). So, our love is shown by our obedience to Him, which is His word of truth (John 17:17 & 1 John 1:1). "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name and in Your name cast our demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' And then I will declare to them, 'Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.' Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and acts upon them may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock." (Matthew 7:21-24).

Once again the Lord demonstrates how love is to be shown to him, "Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. But someone may well say, 'You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.' You believe that God is one, you do well; the demons believe and shudder. But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered Isaac his son on the alter? You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; and the scripture was fulfilled which says, 'And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.' You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone." (James 2:17-24).

So faith by itself is useless, but faith bonded together with works (action by the individual) is perfect love to our Lord!

So then, for the answer to our question we finds that it is the book of Acts, sometimes called the book of conversions, that does not have the word "love" mentioned in it. Although we find the demonstration of the love of the brethren to each other as well as the Lord, by their actions, as the apostles suffered for His names sake (Acts 5:40-42), Stephen as he was stoned for standing for truth (Acts 7:54-60), Paul, once a persecutor of the saints, as he turned to the Lord (Acts 9:1-20), Lydia (Acts 16:13-15), the jailer Acts 16:22-34), Cornelius, the first Gentile convert (Acts 10), the concern for Paul's life when Agabus prophesied that he would be bound and delivered to the Gentiles (Acts 21:10-14), as well as many others, all men and women of whom the world was not worthy (Hebrews 11:32-40)! So although the answer to our question is the book of Acts, that does not mean that it does not demonstrate the actions of the love of men toward God, because it does so very handily!

May we also demonstrate our love toward Him by being more than believers in Him, like the demons, but by putting our faith into action and being obedient to the word of our Lord, that They, the Father and Son, may make their abode with us for life everlasting (1 Thessalonians 1:2-10)!