Sermon Tone Analysis

1John 3:4-9.

I. Purity is Provided For the Child of God vs.4-5,8

a.

The Standard Was Set v.4

“the law”

This is the standard that was set in the garden.

You say we are no longer under the law.

You are correct we are not under the law but we are still judged by the law.

1. God still requires the law to be obeyed.

That is it in a nut shell.

The Law.

Honor God with everything you have.

How many in here honor God every day?

Then you and I have broken the Law of God.

James tells us in James 2:10

That is how much emphasis God puts on the Law.

so then

2. The Law is the standard we are judged by

The law is what tells us we are sinners and unable to satisfy God’s standards.

Rom.3:20

Paul is saying he did not know he was a sinner until the law told him he was.

Some people say this verse shows that we no longer have to keep it.

they go as far has to put Rom. 6:14 with it.

The point of these verses is not that we have no further obligation to keep the law, but that we have now a new incentive to keep it.

Lets put it in modern terms.

You can go out and break the laws of this land all you want and you may think that the law does not apply to you.

but once you get caught, it does not matter what you think of the laws of the governing authority, they are still laws and you will be held accountable.

The incentive for us to obey the laws of the land are no fines and or no jail time.

The same thing goes for Gods law.

You wake up every day and give it no thought and continue in your sin thinking His law does not apply to you.

But there is coming a day that you will have to stand before the Judge the Governing Authority, and you will be sentenced for your crimes and God only hands down the death penalty for breaking His Laws.

So regardless of what you or I think about His laws, they are right and just and perfect!

and the thing is We have all disobeyed the laws of God.

3. The law forces us to acknowledge ourselves guilty before God.

But with all that the law does, the most gracious purpose of the law, lies behind what Paul says in Gal.

3:24.

so The law teaches us three things

1.

We ought to do it.

2. We havent done it.

3. We cant do it.

So our very helplessness drives us to Christ Who alone has fulfilled the law so that we may be justified by faith.

How ready we are, then to be brought unto Christ in whom we find that...

b.

The Failure was Met vs.5,8

The failure of the human race, our failure was met and satisfied by Christ.

Christ became a man…was manifested in the flesh..

1.

To Take Away Sin v.5

“manifested to take away, …and in him is no sin”

Long "before the foundation of the world", (I Peter 1:20)

before there was a world,

before there was a race,

before there was a sin,

GOD knew what would happen, and what would be the unhappy plite of man would be,

and in the Council Chamber of Deity a plan of salvation was drawn up to meet the situation that would arise.

And in process of time, Christ appeared as the Divine Executant of the Plan of Grace.

This was the prime cause of His being "manifested" among men.

Paul tells us in I Timothy 1:15 so clearly that,

You say you dont believe Paul, How about Christ Himself.

Christ says in

And how would he save that which was lost?

Verse 5 gives us the answer.

"To take away our sins" -

His precious Blood is the Sovereign Eraser of all our guilty stain.

The blood of the Old Testament sacrifices could not do it

It could only cover them for a season

But there came a Divine Time for Rom.3:25

God sent His son to take away the sins of all those that would call upon Him.

Hypothetical,

You have been tried and convicted of capital murder.

Your punishment is death, but at your sentencing as the Judge is about to slam the gavel, One steps up in the courtroom and says, Judge I will take his punishment.

The judge looks at you and says, there is someone that will take your punishment do you accept him as your replacement?

if you dont accept his offer, you will be punished.

So I ask those that are here this morning lost and without Christ, will you accept the offer that has been presented to you this morning.

Will you accept Christ to be your propitiation?

Christ not only came to take away our sin, He came....

2. To Destroy Satan

“manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil”

This verse can be looked at in three different ways,

the past, the present and the future.

In the Past: Christ bruised satan’s head at Calvary and he took captivity captive and took the keys to hell and to death.

In the Present: To be alive in Christ is to be dead to Satan Rom.

6:6

In the Future: Satan will be cast into the bottomless pit

Satan was conquered at Calvary and another blow is laid on him every time a sinner is saved by grace and every time a saint realizes they no longer have to live a defeated life and can live a life of purity because God as provided “Christ” for the believers purity.

And when it is all said and done, Christ will once and for all destroy satan’s works and satan himself.

Next we see..

II.

Purity is Produced in the Child of God

Let me go ahead and say this, our purity is just like our righteousness

it is nothing more then filty rags, but if we are a Child of God Purity can be produced in us..

a. Through our Residence

“abideth in him”

Now I believe one can be saved by the grace of God and not abide in Christ.

They can be a child of God, but not living in fellowship with Christ.

The first word sinneth is used differently then the second word.

The first word sinneth is a finite verb, dont worry I had to look it up to.

A finite verb is one whose form changes in order to match the form of the subject.

put it like this : When we abide in Christ i.e are in fellowship with God, we may sin but we realize our sin, we confess our sin and God forgives our sin and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

Now the second word sinneth is an attributive participle which acts like a pure adjective.

It tells us about an action that the noun is performing.

So whosoever continues in sin, i.e keeps on sinning with no remorse, no conviction is one that as never seen him, neither knows him.

So I ask which one are you?