An Essential Doctrine
Notes
Transcript
📖 Morning Worship Sermon Outline
📅 October 12, 2025 | 🧍♂️ 1 John, Pt. 13
🙏 I. Welcome & Opening Prayer
🙏 I. Welcome & Opening Prayer
📍 Encourage the church to turn to 1 John 5:6
!! Open in Prayer!!
----------------------------------------
----------------------------------------
🔑 II. Introduction: Hills Worth Dying On
🔑 II. Introduction: Hills Worth Dying On
DIFFERENT OPENING:
BELIEVERS: THINK on:🤔
SOME NONNEGOTIABLE DOCTRINES
HILLS YOU WOULD DIE ON.
-------------------
**Disclaimer** SOME BELIEVERS DIE on EVERY HILL…
“HILL-DYING” SHOULDN’T BE OUR HOBBY
--------------------------------------
🗝️Key Idea: GOOD BIBLE SCHOLARS, PASTORS, TEACHERS— SEE CERTAIN ISSUES DIFFERENTLY🗝️
Illustrate: LOCAL PASTORS’ GROUP— 5 GUYS— ALL SLIGHTLY DIFFERING BELIEFS
=> THE CORE is the SAME
--------------------------------------
Challenge: WE SHOULD BE GRACIOUS W/ SECONDARY MATTERS
BUT WE SHOULD HAVE HILLS WE DIE on EVERY TIME. 📌
Focus: THIS MORNING’S TEXT—A HILL EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD DIE ON…
🛑 Not all hills are worth dying on…
✅ But this one is.
************
Transition: LOOK W/ ME @ PASSAGE…
READING 1 JOHN CH. 5.... V.6-12
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 --- 38 minutes left---🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
📜 III. Passage Reading: 1 John 5:6–12
📜 III. Passage Reading: 1 John 5:6–12
1 John 5:6–12 (ESV)
6 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
7 For there are three that testify:
8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.
9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son.
10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
“This is God’s Word for us this morning.”
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 --- 36 minutes left---🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
📚 IV. Context Recap: A Proven Love
📚 IV. Context Recap: A Proven Love
Last week:
REALITY of NEW BIRTH—
& THOSE BORN AGAIN PROVE LOVE for GOD THROUGH ACTION…
KEEPING GOD’S COMMANDMENTS…
COMMANDMENTS NOT BURDENSOME!
-------------------
Good News: FAITH LEADS to OVERCOMING the WORLD
GOD GRANTS US HIS SPIRIT
SHAPES OUR HEARTS AND DESIRES!💡
-------------------
JOHN ENDED W/ REFLECTION:
1 John 5:5 (ESV)
5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
THERE is NO OTHER WHO OVERCOMES the WORLD—
—EXCEPT ONE W/ FAITH in CHRIST…
Focus: W/ JESUS CHRIST in FOCUS—
— TODAY’S TEXT WILL UNPACK MORE on WHO HE IS & WHAT HE’S DONE...📷
************
Transition: LOOK W/ ME @ VS. 6...
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 --- 35 minutes left---🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
📖 V. Exposition: 1 John 5:6–12
📖 V. Exposition: 1 John 5:6–12
1. Christ’s Coming by Water & Blood (v6)
1. Christ’s Coming by Water & Blood (v6)
1 John 5:6 (ESV)
6 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
RIGHT BELIEF CONCERNING JESUS CHRIST = ESSENTIAL
JESUS = ONE WHO CAME—WATER & BLOOD
=> Focus: MARKS the BEGINNING & END of HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY <=
---------------------------------------------------------
🔹First,, Water = His Baptism
🔹First,, Water = His Baptism
**Disclaimer** CHRIST HAD NO NEED to BE CLEANSED FROM SIN…
SCRIPTURE—IN MANY PLACES—OUTLINES the SINLESSNESS of CHRIST.
-------------------
WE ARE BAPTIZED as an APPEAL to GOD
POWERFUL SYMBOL of BURIAL W/ CHRIST & RESURRECTION to NEW LIFE
IF YOU’RE a BELIEVER—YOU SHOULD BE BAPTIZED.👣
--------------------------------------
🗝️Key Idea: JESUS BAPTISM = INITIATION INTO PUBLIC MINISTRY 🗝️
💡 ADDRESS HERESY, ADOPTIONISM—JESUS BECAME CHRIST @ BAPTISM
SCANDAL of INCARNATION---IMMANUEL GOD WITH US IN VIRGIN’S WOMB!
JESUS NEVER BECAME GOD—HE ALWAYS WAS—HE NEVER CEASED to BE.
-----------------
@ BAPTISM—CHRIST WAS COMMENDED BY FATHER:
Matthew 3:16–17 (ESV)📜
16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;
17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
NO GREATER ENDORSEMENT THAN THIS!
JOHN BEGINS—THIS JESUS—ENDORSED @ BAPTISM...
👉OBEYED in BAPTISM...
--------------------------------------
👉👉ALSO OBEYED UNTO DEATH:
🔹 2. Blood (v6) = His Death
🔹 2. Blood (v6) = His Death
HE OBEYED—NOT ONLY to BE EXAMPLE—BUT to BE OUR SACRIFICE…
**CONSIDER CHRIST’S TRIUMPH in GETHSEMANE—STRESSED to SWEATING BLOOD & STILL OBEYS!**
1ST ADAM FAILED in GARDEN
ISRAEL FAILED in WILDERNESS
BUT the SON TRIUMPHED OVER ALL SIN & TEMPTATION…
Luke 22:42 (ESV)
42 saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
-------------------
🗝️Key Idea: JESUS DIDN’T JUST COME to LIVE—BUT HE CAME to DIE… 🗝️
CROSS = SOURCE of CONTROVERSY
Ref: V6.... NOT WATER ONLY— BUT ALSO BLOOD!
TROUBLERS in JOHN’S DAY => DENIED the CROSS
GOD DYING??
SPIRIT of CHRIST LEFT JESUS UPON the CROSS?
BLOODINESS of ATONEMENT??
--------------------------------------
Cross = Controversial
Cross = Controversial
CROSS HAS ALWAYS BEEN & WILL FOREVER BE CONTROVERSIAL.
BARBARIC
HORRIFIC
SYMBOL of DEATH & HUMILIATION
SOME SAY:
DIVINE CHILD ABUSE
PROPITIATION is ANTIQUATED
--------------------------------------
Focus: SACRIFICE is BLOODY & AWFUL📷
🗝️Key Idea: CHRISTIANS BELIEVE,, GOD INSTITUTED IT🗝️
NOT JUST MAN’S IDEA of TRYING to APPEASE HIM…
Hebrews 9:22 (ESV)
22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
NOT MOSES’ IDEA—BUT GOD’S!
SINS WOULD BE PAID FOR BY a SUBSTITUTE…
-------------------
HEBREWS: BUILDS UPON FOUNDATION,, CHRIST = FULFILLMENT of THOSE SACRIFICES…
WE DON’T MOVE PAST the CROSS💥
WE DON’T EVOLVE to NEW UNDERSTANDINGS...PAST SACRIFICE
THE CROSS is ABSOLUTELY INTEGRAL to the GOSPEL…
---------------------------------------------------------
🔹(v6.c.) Spirit = Divine Testimony to these things...
🔹(v6.c.) Spirit = Divine Testimony to these things...
SPIRIT DESCENDED @ BAPTISM
CONTINUES to BEAR WITNESS to CHRIST…
John 15:26 (ESV)
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
HOLY SPIRIT BEARS WITNESS to MESSAGE of CHRIST—MAKES IT MAKE SENSE…
MESSAGE of CROSS = FOLLY to UNBELIEVERS📜
TAKES a WORK of GOD’S SPIRIT…
Quote, Luther: “THE WORD COMES FIRST,, THEN the SPIRIT BREATHES UPON MY HEART SO THAT I BELIEVE”
SALVATION = SUPERNATURAL WORK WROUGHT BY GOD’S SPIRIT…
************
Transition: TESTIMONY CONCERNING CHRIST is EVEN FURTHER VALIDATED…
LOOK W/ ME @ VS. 7-9
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 --- 23 minutes left---🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🛡️ 2. The Three That Testify (vv7–9)
🛡️ 2. The Three That Testify (vv7–9)
1 John 5:7–9 (ESV)
7 For there are three that testify:
8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.
9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son.
BEFORE WE DIVE INTO THESE VERSES… QUICK ASIDE on TEXTUAL CRITICISM…
& WHERE WE GET OUR ENGLISH BIBLES FROM…
**REF: P.P. PIC**
---------------------------------------------------------
📚 A Quick Note on Textual Criticism
📚 A Quick Note on Textual Criticism
😱SOUNDS SCARY, BUT IT’S NOT!😱
🗝️REMINDER: BIBLE WASN’T WRITTEN in ENGLISH… 🗝️
HEBREW, ARAMAIC, GREEK
EVERYTHING WE READ = TRANSLATION of ORIGINAL LANGUAGES…
😬=> BUT IT’S NOT THAT SIMPLE… 😬
THOUSANDS of COPIES of PORTIONS of N.T.
MANUSCRIPT COPYING WASN’T EASY:🥱
**SEE P.P. PIC**
---------------------------------------------------------
Defining Variants
Defining Variants
SLIGHTLY DIFFER—TYPOS, MARGINAL NOTES—VARIANTS
🗝️Key Idea: NO VARIANT AFFECTS CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE!!!🗝️
No Doubts:
JESUS WAS BORN of a VIRGIN
IMMANUEL—GOD INCARNATE
LIVED SINLESSLY for 33.5 YRS
DIED on a CROSS
RESURRECTED
SALVATION BY GRACE
HE’S COMING BACK AGAIN
-------------------
Definition: TEXTUAL CRITICISM = PROCESS WHEREBY SCHOLARS DEDUCE ORIGINAL READING AMIDST TYPOS… 💡
📚COMPARING & CONTRASTING… RESULTING in CRITICAL GREEK TEXT (SHOW!)📚
Modern Translation Footnotes: OLDEST MANUSCRIPTS DON’T CONTAIN…
-------------------
Addressing Verse 7
Addressing Verse 7
KJV: LONGER READING in V7 “There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one”
MANY USE KJV & NKJV— WONDER WHERE IT IS—
MODERN TRANSLATIONS GO OFF WHAT is an OLDER GREEK TEXT---MORE MANUSCRIPTS FOUND in LAST 400 YEARS…
**addressing conspiracy: MODERN TRANSLATIONS DON’T CUT MORE EVERY YEAR**
-------------------
(V7 CRITICISM)
(V7 CRITICISM)
OLDEST MANUSCRIPTS DON’T CONTAIN the FIRST PART of V7
QUOTED in NONE of CHURCH FATHERS
ORIGINALLY FOUND in MARGINS—PROBABLY CAME from a LATIN VERSION
MODERN TEXT-CRITICS DEDUCED IT WASN’T ORIGINAL—THEY AREN’T TAKING VERSES OUT—SOMEONE PROBABLY ADDED THEM ACCIDENTALLY ALONG the WAY…
-------------------
Concluding Thoughts:
Concluding Thoughts:
Should This Bother Us?🤔
NOT AT ALL—IT MERELY SHOWCASES THAT GOD is WILLING to WORK THROUGH IMPERFECT PEOPLE LIKE YOU & ME!
But hear this clearly: NO VARIANT READING AFFECTS CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
VERY LARGE SCHOLARLY CONSENSUS…
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS/CONCERNS ABOUT THIS —
I’D LOVE to SPEAK W/ YOU AFTER CHURCH—
I ALSO TOOK TIME to WRITE UP an ARTICLE on the TOPIC THIS WEEK I CAN SEND YOU…
**MERELY WANTED to NOT GLOSS OVER THIS TOPIC**
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 --- 14 minutes left---🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
Back to v7-8
Back to v7-8
(V7-8) JOHN’S GOAL—POINT OUT the THREEFOLD WITNESS to JESUS CHRIST’S PERSON & WORK
Quote, One scholar: , “The water and blood testify that he came to us; the Spirit testifies that he came for us. One provides historical attestation, the other personal appropriation.”[1]
THREEFOLD ATTESTATION— PLUS the FATHER’S ENDORSEMENT
GOD CANNOT LIE (TITUS 1:2)
AGAINST HIS COMMANDS to BEAR FALSE WITNESS
-------------------
GOD TESTIFIED:
@ BAPTISM
@ MT. TRANSFIGURATION
@ RESURRECTION
JESUS WASN’T JUST SOME “ORDINARY GUY” BUT THE LAMB of GOD…
RESURRECTION WAS GOD’S “AMEN” to CHRIST’S “IT IS FINISHED!”
(V9) IF WE RECEIVE MAN’S TESTIMONY.... GOD’S IS GREATER!
************
Transition: THIS is a TESTIMONY WE CAN BE A PART of…
LOOK W/ ME @ VS. 10…
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 --- 10 minutes left---🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
📢 3. The Testimony of God (v10)
📢 3. The Testimony of God (v10)
1 John 5:10 (ESV)
10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
WHOEVER BELIEVES in JESUS CHRIST— HAS the TESTIMONY in HIMSELF…
=> WE AFFIRM WHAT GOD HAS SAID!
HE is SON of GOD—IMMANUEL,, GOD-INNCARNATE
THE MESSIAH—LONG-AWAITED DELIVERER
SAVIOR of the WORLD…
GOD’S ENDORSEMENT: @ BAPTISM, @ TRANSFIGURATION @ RESURRECTION — & CONTINUALLY BY HS SPIRIT!!
-------------------
THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE—CALL GOD a LIAR!😬
THOSE WHO SAY “JESUS = JUST GOOD MORAL TEACHER” — IMPLICITLY CALL GOD a LIAR!
************
Transition: REJECTING CHRIST is to REJECT the FATHER…
WE’LL SEE THIS SO CLEARLY in the CLOSE…
LOOK W/ ME @ VS. 11-12
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 --- 8 minutes left---🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🌿 4. The Son of God & Life (vv11–12)
🌿 4. The Son of God & Life (vv11–12)
1 John 5:11–12 (ESV)
11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
IN V10—JOHN PUT FORWARD “THE TESTIMONY”
(V11) TESTIMONY UNVEILED: GOD GAVE US ETERNAL LIFE in HIS SON...
GOD GAVE HIS SON—THAT WE MIGHT LIVE! (4:9)
-------------------
Focus: WHAT HAPPENED to CHRIST WASN’T JUST SOME INCONSEQUENTIAL HISTORICAL EVENT!!📷
… ETERNAL SIGNIFICANCE…
YES—WATER & BLOOD 2,000 YEARS AGO.... BUT THAT SAME HISTORICAL BACKGROUND GIVES US HOPE TODAY!!
--------------------------------------
The Certainty of Death:
The Certainty of Death:
Paramount Importance: WE DESERVE DEATH…
DEATH = ONE of FEW CERTAINTIES in THIS LIFE…
NO RESPECTER of PERSONS… 💀
NO MATTER:
HOW SMART,
STRONG, GIFTED, ETC… YOU ARE,
ONE DAY WE’LL ALL DIE & LEAVE THIS EARTH.
BEST CASE SCENARIO: WE LIVE a LONG TIME—BUT IT’S STILL COMING
C.C.: ANYONE NOTICE IT GETS FASTER EVERY YEAR? 🙋
B. Sauve: “AMOUNT of TIME BETWEEN CHRISTMASES”
-------------------
BEST CASE SCENARIO....
BUT WE AREN’T ALL PROMISED THAT.
we LIVE in a WORLD FRAUGHT/ WE TRAGEDY
Focus: WHEN DEATH is CERTAIN—WE NEED a HOPE BEYOND the GRAVE. 📷
-------------------
Hope = Christ
Hope = Christ
ONLY HOPE = JESUS CHRIST WHO CONQUERED DEATH…
(V11) GOD GAVE US ETERNAL LIFE — DONE DEAL!
aorist tense—wholistic/not in process
(V12) WHOEVER HAS the SON HAS LIFE,,
WHOEVER DOESN’T HAVE the SON DOESN’T HAVE LIFE.
JESUS is THE WAY, TRUTH, & LIFE… 👑
ALL RELIGIONS DO NOT LEAD to GOD.
GOOD WORKS DON’T LEAD to GOD.
PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS DOESN’T DO IT.
WE NEED JESUS CHRIST
************
Transition: ALL in ALL,, JOHN is SAYING to US:
💬 Passage Idea:
💬 Passage Idea:
Eternal life is only found in Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
THIS = GOD’S TESTIMONY— IF WE DON’T AGREE, WE CALL GOD a LIAR…
************
Transition: TEXT DEMANDS 1 of 2 RESPONSES…
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 --- 3 minutes left---🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
✋VI. Application & Response
✋VI. Application & Response
🙌 To the Unsaved: Agree with God's Witness
🙌 To the Unsaved: Agree with God's Witness
PERHAPS YOU’RE HERE—YOU HAVEN’T PUT YOUR TRUST in JESUS CHRIST…
CROSS SEEMS BARBARIC
OFFENSIVE
NEEDLESS
✝️THERE CHRIST DIED FOR US.
DOESN’T MAKE SENSE to NATURAL MAN—BUT IT’S the HOPE of SALVATION… ✝️
Romans 6:23 (ESV)
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
WE DESERVE to BE ETERNALLY SEPARATE from GOD FOR OUR SINS…
BUT CHRIST TOOK OUR PLACE
PAID for OUR SINS...
BY TRUSTING in HIM—WE CAN HAVE ETERNAL LIFE
HE is the ONLY WAY!
📢 Invitation: IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS REGARDING MATTERS of FAITH/ASSURANCE—I’D LOVE to SPEAK W/ YOU AFTER the SERVICE TODAY…
************
Transition: FOR the BELIEVERS…
✝️ To the Saved: Rest in Gospel Security
✝️ To the Saved: Rest in Gospel Security
THE CROSS = MOST OFFENSIVE PART of CHRISTIAN FAITH to MODERN MAN…
DIVINE CHILD ABUSE
BARBARIC
PROPITIATION = ANTIQUATED VIEW of GOD…
ACCORDING to GOD’S THREEFOLD WITNESS— IT IS the APPOINTED MEANS of SALVATION…
Church… A Hill Called Calvary is a hill I will die on…
… because it was there the Savior died for me.
-------------------
⚔️WE CANNOT BACK DOWN from the CROSS⚔️
WE DON’T NEED to MOVE ON from the CROSS & the BLOOD…
WE NEED to MOVE BACK there....
I STILL BELIEVE:
THERE is a FOUNTAIN, FILLED W/ BLOOD....DRAWN FROM IMMANUEL’S VEINS…
AND SINNERS PLUNGED BENEATH THAT FLOW LOSE ALL THEIR GUILTY STAINS!!
---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------
Conclusion & Charge:
Conclusion & Charge:
Charge: WILL WE STAND for the CROSS?👣
WHEN IT’S CONTROVERSIAL?
WHEN IT’S OUTDATED?
WHEN IT’S OFFENSIVE?
--
🎯 Church… the BLOOD of JESUS SHED on the CROSS is the VERY PLACE where our SALVATION was ACCOMPLISHED...
That is a HILL we MUST DIE ON… Amen?
🙏 Let’s Pray.
🙏 Let’s Pray.
