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What is the hardest thing you have ever tried?
I looked up the 10 jobs with the highest fatality rate in the world care to take any guesses
Most dangerous Jobs In the World
Highest fatality rate.
1. Fishers and related fishing workers
2. Logging workers
3. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
4. Structural iron and steel workers
5. Farmers and ranchers
6. Refuse and recyclable material collectors
7. Roofers
8. Electrical power line installers and repairers
9. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
10.
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
I read recently that for a child to actually learn to walk proficiently it takes 1000 hours of practice.
But what about this statement that is in our text today.
Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
Is this even possible.
There is a tension in our lives to actually think we can follow Jesus.
What if we phrased in the term of goal.
What if we said we want God’s love to be made complete in us.
Is that a little more reasonable?
When God finally got hold of me and said Craig, it is time to take things in a new direction I was open to it.
I had been living the way I wanted to and there was not a good ending in sight.
I had been living the way I wanted and there was ne freedom, only difunction.
But when God got hold of me there was something new that I hadn’t had before.
Hope.
So in my dysfunction I managed to get three other guys to leave town with me and attend a Bible School in Sask.
It was the only Bible school I knew existed at the time so I thought my options were fairly limited.
When I got there I jumped in with both feet.
Into the library that is.
I had never seen that many books on God and Jesus.
I wanted to follow Jesus and know him.
It wasn’t all great though.
I am a Reimer and that can mean stubborn.
But God said that’s ok Craig, I can work with that.
So a deeper process was started of what it means to follow Jesus, one baby step at a time.
Sometimes I feel like I have come far, sometimes I feel like I am still the baby learning to walk, pulling myself up on the couch to get to standing.
What about you?
We all have questions about what it means to follow Jesus.
But what does that look like.
To have love made complete in us what do look at, what do we do, how do we live, what do we think about?
The church in the passage we are looking at today had these same questions in the situations they were facing.
The author is John—the same person who wrote the gospel of John, the other two letters from John, and Revelation.
This is the same John who was one of Jesus’ 12 disciples.
In fact, John was probably the last living disciple of Jesus when he wrote this letter.
The audience is a group of Christian communities around Ephesus (MAP).
Paul had planted these churches around 30 years earlier, at some point John moved to Ephesus to serve as a kind of spiritual mentor for these Christian communities.
And they needed John’s spiritual guidance, because they had been spiritually damaged by a group of fake Christian teachers.
These teachers claimed to believe in Jesus—but they had fabricated a different Jesus.
They also claimed to know God through spiritual enlightenment—but the results of this spiritual knowledge belied this claim.
It was a group that has shaken and fragile and needed to be brought back to the heart of knowing Jesus.
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9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
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1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin.
But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.
4 Those who say, “I know him,” but do not do what he commands are liars, and the truth is not in them.
5 But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them.
This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
Is God’s love being made complete in you?
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1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin.
But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
John was speaking specifically to believers here.
So if you aren’t a follower of Christ you can turn your ears off for awhile.
The point John is making here is that.
God’s grace and forgiveness should lead to obedience not sinning.
It talks about Jesus being an advocate here.
He didn’t just inherit that position.
He won it through living among us, struggling the way we struggle, showing incredible miracles and teaching taking the punishment for yours and mine sin by dieing on the cross, and then rising from the dead.
And making a way for us to be called children.
That is the gospel the good news.
Atoning=used in pagan lit to appease a god.
So if things were going really bad, your grass wasn’t growing or you had to many cats in the house, or your horse went lame.
You would go to your local temple and offer a prescribed sacrifice to that God to try and make them bless you.
To remove the punishment you thought you were going through and bring good times.
The sacrifice then became the punishment for you.
It atoned for whatever you thought might be wrong.
With us we have this nasty condition called sin that we deal with everyday.
Christ takes action to remove sin, take the punishement and restore relationship.
He atones for our sin, he takes the punishement we deserve for our sin on to himself.
But there are some conditions that we have to meet.
But if we want to know him how do we work this sin out of our life?
3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.
Following the standards that Jesus has laid out for us.
Now when you think commands what do you think about?
Rules, regulations, sports, board games.
His commands are not burdensome.
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3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands.
And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world.
This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
5 Who is it that overcomes the world?
Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
A lot of what we think of when we hear commands is we think rules to be followed to appease God.
I’m following you so that you can smile on me and make my grass grow.
But what sets following Jesus apart from all the other religious systems in the world is that it is based on a realitionship.
We don’t follow rules so that we can appease, that’s religion and it based on that system we talked about of appeasing the god’s.
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