Confident (Part 3) [Reworked: Phrases]
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Wednesday Night: Comeback (Week 3)
Introduction
Attention:
Sons of the Day
Unique.
Confident series (1 John 3:1-10)
Need:
Flipping the script
Looking like the world
Body
The Big Idea: Find confidence in your difference.
The Big Question: How can you find confidence in your difference?
1. Accept your identity (1 John 3:13)
1 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.
Explanation:
Q. According to this verse, how much does God love us?
Very much
Q. How does God prove that He loves us very much?
By calling us “His children”
Q. Who is the “us” referring to?
Believers
We are “us”
Gods unfathomable love
Being called something you’re not
Beyond TELLING
How is it that believers become God’s children?
Q. How is it that someone enters into a new family?
A. Adoption
“People who belong to the world,”
Don’t recognize the adopted
Adoption = identity > acceptance
Illustration
JRPGS and amnesia
Knowing your backstory
Application
Identity acceptance > peer pressure
Self acceptance
Transition Statement
Accepting our identity gives us something to anticipate.
The Big Question: How can you find confidence in your difference?
1. Accept your identity (1 John 3:1)
2. Anticipate His return (1 John 3:2-3)
Explanation:
2 Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.
“The already” vs. “the not yet.”
Q. According to this verse, what are we “already?”
“We are already God’s children.”
Right now!
Q. What has “not yet” happened?
Likeness following appearance
The known vs. the unknown
“The not yet” > “The already”
3 And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure.
Q. What is “this eager expectation?”
The return of Christ
The “not yet”
Q. What is it that having the “not yet” in mind will do according to this verse?
Kept pure.
Living “in the already”
Future hope creates present desire
Present desire = different
Illustration:
Being a teenager
Application
Having something to look forward to
Transition Statement:
As we look forward towards Christ’s return, we can also look backwards to see the change that has taken place in our lives.
The Big Question: How can I have a confident difference?
1. Accept your identity (1 John 3:1)
2. Anticipate His return (1 John 3:2-3)
3. Acknowledge your change (1 John 3:4-10)
Explanation:
4 Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God.
Sin is a big deal
Christians not defined by sin
The Holy Spirit
What Jesus has done
5 And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him.
The sinless takes away sin.
6 Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is.
Scary
Q. How does the second sentence help explain the first one?
From “will not sin” to “Anyone who KEEPS ON SINNING.”
“To sin without restraint”
The Holy Spirit
False teachers
7 Dear children, don’t let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous.
Not saved by works
The Gospel
Q. With this in mind, what does this verse tell us about the connection between being righteous and doing what is right?
Ephesians 2: Saved for good works
Points to Him
8 But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil.
Children of God vs. children of the devil
Seek and destroy mission
The Resurrection
9 Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.
Q. Who is it that doesn’t make a practice of sinning?
Believers
Habitually sinning
10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
False teachers
The fruit proves the root.
Illustration
Recovering from sickness
Application
God’s transformation in your life
Conclusion
Visualization:
The script has been flipped
Reiteration:
See being different as a good thing
PRAY
Lesson Overview
The Big Idea: Find confidence in your difference.
The Big Question: How can you find confidence in your difference?
1. Accept your identity (1 John 3:1)
2. Anticipate His return (1 John 3:2-3)
3. Acknowledge your change (1 John 3:4-10)
Small Group Questions
What challenges do you face when in it comes to being different from other people?
What would it look like for you to fully accept your identity as God’s child? What practical steps could you take this week to move toward that full acceptance?”
Do you look forward to Jesus coming back? Why or why not? How does the promise of Jesus’ return impact your daily decisions and mindset?
What are some of the ways that you can see God’s transformation taking place in your life right now? What evidence or moments have you noticed that confirm God’s work in you
How can you allow your uniqueness as a follow of Christ to encourage your faith this week? How might you share your unique journey with someone else in your community?”
