Overcoming the World

New Birth and Faith Verse 1

Verse 1

Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ = Faith

is Born of God = New Birth

New Birth Proceeds the Faith

John 3:3 NASB95

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Then he equates Belief that Jesus is the Christ

with everyone who loves the Father

Knowing that the Father allowed us to see the beauty of the Son redeeming us by His love causing Love to spring up within us

John 8:42 NASB95

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.

We are Born Again through faith in Jesus allowing us to understand the Love of God and we in turn Love the Father for the Gift leading us to Love our brothers and sisters in Christ understanding all we have been forgiven.

Loving God and Keeping His Commandments Verse 2

1 John 2:5 NASB95

but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

1 John 3:14 NASB95

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.

How do we know we love the Children of God

by loving God and keeping his commandments to love each other as Jesus loved us.

His Commandments are not Burdensome Verse 3

John 14:15 NASB95

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

1 John 2:3 NASB95

By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

Matthew 11:30 NASB95

“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Matthew 23:4 NASB95

“They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.

The Pharisees loaded the people down with requirements to keep the law of Moses

The Mishnah was a book of Jewish Oral Law with commentary on how to keep the 613 commandments of the Torah which are the first five books of the Bible. The Talmud is a collections of rabbinic commentary on a proper understanding of the Mishnah written over the centuries showing how to be a Jew in a post temple era.

But what really makes the law of Jesus Burdensome

We need to go back to

1 John 2:16 NASB95

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

When you Joyfully obey the commandments of God you are set free from the burdens

Have you Overcome the World or are the Commandments of God Burdensome? Verse 4

Here we have a return to Verse 1 Like book ends to drive home the truth of this Scripture

John 1:12–13 NASB95

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

1 John 4:4 NASB95

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

1 John 2:15 NASB95

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.

The world is exposed as unsatisfying.

New Birth

Faith

Love to God

Over coming the World

Keep the Commandments Joyfully

Loving the Believers