What Manner Of Love

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WHAT MANNER OF LOVE

I JOHN 3:1—10

I.                    THE DEPTHS OF CHRIST’S LOVE:  ITS LAVISH BENEFITS

I JOHN 3:1-3

A.  “HOW GREAT IS THE LOVE THE FATHER HAS LAVISHED ON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD!  AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE!  THE REASON THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW US IS THAT IT DID NOT KNOW HIM.”  V. 1

               

1.  This verse has been one that I have been living on for the last two weeks.

                                WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HAS FOR US

                                                IN THAT HE SHOULD CALL US

                                                               THE CHILDREN OF

                                                                                GOD

                                AFTER TALKING ABOUT THE ANTICHRISTS THAT EXIST IN THE WORLD,

                                                JOHN PROCEEDS TO ENCOURAGE HIS HEARERS BY GIVING

                                                ONE OF THE GREATEST PROMISES IN THE WORD

                                                                “OH WHAT LOVE THE FATHER

                                                                HAS FOR US, IN THAT HE

                                                                CALLS US HIS CHILDREN!

                                WHY ARE WE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD?

                                                IS ALL STARTED WITH GOD’S LOVE FOR US

                                                                WE WERE

                                                                                REBELIOUS TOWARDS HIM

                                                                                DISOBEDIENT TOWARDS HIS LAWS

                                                                                IN A STATE OF DEATH IN THE FACE

                                                                                                OF THE GREAT BEING OF LIFE

                                                HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON

                                                                WHO LIVED AMONG US

                                                                WHO DIED, FREELY, ON THE CROSS

                                                                WHO ROSE ON THE THIRD DAY FROM THE DEAD

                                                                WHO ASCENDED TO HEAVEN

                                                THUS, PROVIDING THE WAY FOR ADOPTION INTO HIS FAMILY

                                                                I KNOW ABOUT ADOPTION         

                                                                                MY OLDEST SON IS ADOPTED

                                                                                                CAME TO MY HOME AS A FOSTER CHILD

                                                                                                                AT THE AGE OF 22 MONTHS

                                                                                                AFTER TWO YEARS WHEN HIS MOTHER’S

                                                                                                                PARENTAL RIGHTS WERE

                                                                                                                TERMINATED THE RULES IN

                                                                                                                STATE OF KENTCUKY WERE

                                                                                                                BROKEN THAT ALLOWED US

                                                                                                                TO ADOPT HIM INTO OUR FAMILY

                                                                GOD ADOPTS US INTO HIS FAMILY:

                                                                                DON’T DESERVE IT

                                                                                BUT OUT OF LOVE, HE ADOPTS US

                                                                                                NOT BECAUSE OF OUR DEEDS

                                                                                                BUT BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE

                                                                                JOHN PIPER:

                                                                                                LOOK AT I COR. 3:21—23

                                                                                                                “THE MEASURE OF OUR

                                                                                                                INHERITANCE AS THE CHILDREN

                                                                                                                OF GOD IS ONE MEASURE OF THE

                                                                                                                LOVE THAT GOD HAS FOR US.  AND

                                                                                                                THE MEASURE OF OUR INHERITANCE

                                                                                                                IS THE ENTIRE CREATION.”

                                                SHOULDN’T THIS AFFECT HOW WE LIVE!??

2.       NOW, LET’S LOOK AT 1 C “THE REASON THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW US IS THAT IT DID NOT KNOW HIM.”

                                JOHN PIPER IN HIS SERMON

                                                                                “THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE

                                                                                   The Depths of Christ’s Love:  Its Lavish Benefits”

                                                                                                “BUT JOHN SEES MORE.  GOD DOES NOT

                                                                                                ADOPT [IN THE SAME SENSE THAT WE

                                                                                                MIGHT ADOPT].  HE MOVES IN, BY HIS

                                                                                                SPIRIT, HIS SEED, JOHN CALLS IT, AND

                                                                                                IMPARTS SOMETHING OF HIMSELF TO

                                                                                                US, SO THAT WE TAKE ON A FAMILY

                                                                                                RESEMBLANCE.”

                                        WE ARE NEW CREATURES IN CHIRST

                                                        DIFFERENT FROM THE WORLD

                                                        LED BY THE SPIRIT

IMPLICATION:  HE IS MOLDING US TO BE LIKE HIM

                THE WORLD DID NOT KNOW CHIRST

                                DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM AS

                                                GOD IN THE FLESH

                                DID NOT REALIZE THAT THEY

                                                HAD GOD WITH THEM

                LIKEWISE THE WORLD DOES NOT

                                RECOGNIZE US AS WE REALLY

                                ARE BECAUSE

                                                WE ARE BEING MOLDED

                                                                INTO BEING LIKE

                                                                                JESUS

                                                WE ARE NOT THE SAME AS

                                                                THE WORLD

B.      V. 2  “DEAR FRIENDS, NOW WE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD, AND WHAT WE WILL BE HAS NOT YET BEEN MADE KNOWN.  BUT WE KNOW THAT WHEN HE APPEARS, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM, FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS.”

HENRY DAVID THOREAU WROTE “If I do not seem to keeping step with those about me it is because I am listening to another drum beat.”

        Isn’t this what the Child of God is doing?

“NOW”—AT THE PRESENT TIME:  NOT IN THE FUTURE, BUT NOW WE

        ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD

        NOT RECOGNIZED BY THE WORLD AS SUCH BUT IT HAS ALREADY TAKEN        

                        PLACE

“BUT WE KNOW THAT WHEN HE APPEARS, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM, FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS.”

        Ray Stedman wrote in his sermon “WHAT SHALL WE BE?” 

        “The day is coming when the sons of God will be manifest.  But the mystery now deepens because John says that not only does the world not know who are now, but we, now, do not know what we shall be.  What is it like actually to be with the Lord?  What is it like to have Christ return and to be with him, experiencing the program God has in mind for his own?...some of our beloved friends have left us, have gone to be with the Lord.  What is it like for them?  What are they experiencing?  What are they like now?  Those questions are shrouded in mystery to us.  ‘It does not yet appear what we shall be.”

        THERE IS NO POSITIVE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT LIFE BEYOND THIS WORLD IS LIKE,  IN FACT, IT IS ALL NEGATIVE:

                        NO TEARS

                        NO SORROW

                        NO NIGHT

                        NO DEATH

                        NO SEPARATION

                        NO WEAKNESS

                        NO PAIN

        BUT WE KNOW THAT SOMEDAY, WE

                        HE WILL BE COMING BACK

SHALL SEE JESUS AS HE REALLY IS

                        AND WE WILL BE DIFFERENT

                                        WE WILL BE LIKE HIM

BUT HOW ARE WE DOING NOW IN BECOMING LIKE HIM?

C.      VERSE 3  “EVERYONE WHO HAS THIS HOPE IN HIM PURIFIES HIMSELF, JUST AS HE IS PURE.”

THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT JESUS IS PURE, IS THERE?

BUT HOW ABOUT US?  CAN WE SAY THAT WE ARE PURE?

ACCORDING TO JOHN, HERE, WE ARE ‘PURIFI[NG OURSELVES].

        HOW IS THIS SO?

                        AGAIN QUOTING FROM RAY STEDMAN “WHAT SHALL WE BE?”

                                        “THE PROVISION FOR OUR CLEANSING IS THE WORD OF

GOD AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD.  ‘THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, GOD’S SON, CLEANSES US FROM ALL SIN,’ {I JN. 1:7}.  THIS MEANS THAT WE MUST BEGIN TO TAKE SERIOUSLY THIS MATTER OF A BREAK OF FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST BECAUSE OF AN IMPATIENT SPIRIT, OR AN UGLY WORD, OR A LUSTFUL IDEA OR THOUGHT WHICH WE HAVE DWELT ON.  WE MUST REALIZE THE STAIN OF IT DOES NOT DISAPPEAR BY THE PASSAGE OF TIME.  IT HAS INTERFERED WITH OUR FELLOWSHIP WITH THE SON OF GOD, AND WE MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  WE CANNOT SIMPLY FORGET IT, WE MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  WE MUST PURIFY OURSELVES, USING THE PROVISIONS HE HAS PROVIDED, THAT WE MIGHT BE CLEAN.”

JOHN CLAVIN “[JOHN] NOW DRAWS THIS INFERENCE, THAT THE DESIRE OF HOLINESS SHOULD NOT GROW COLD IN US, BECAUSE OUR HAPPINESS HAS NOT AS YET APPEARED, FOR THAT HOPE IS SUFFICIENT; AND WE KNOW THAT WHAT IS HOPED FOR IS YET HID.  THE MEANING THEN IS, THAT THOUGH WE HAVE NOT CHRIST NOW PRESENT BEFORE OUR EYES, YET IF WE HOPE IN HIM, IT CANNOT BE BUT THAT THIS HOPE WILL EXCITE AND STIMULATE US TO FOLLOW PURITY, FOR IT LEADS US STRAIGHT TO CHRIST, WHOM WE KNOW TO BE A PERFECT PATTERN OF PURITY.”

II.  THE GREATEST REVOLUTION   V. 4—5

A.      V. 4 

1.       “EVERYONE”—NO ONE IS IMMUNE

2.       “WHO SINS BREAKS THE LAW; IN FACT, SIN IS LAWLESSNESS.”

THIS VERSE IS A PROFOUND IDENTIFICATION OF ALL HUMAN HEARTACHE AND MISERY THAN ALL THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BOOKS THAT HAVE EVER BEEN WRITTEN

                BILLY GRAHAM SAID TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES CONFERENCE A FEW YEARS BACK:  “WE STAND AT THE HEART OF A WORLD REVOLUTION.  OUR WORLD IS ON FIRE AND MAN WITHOUT GOD CANNOT CONTROL THE FLAMES.  THE FIRES OF GREED, HATE, AND LUST ARE SWEEPING UNCONTROLLABLY AROUND OUR GLOBE.  WE LIVE IN THE MIDST OF CRISIS, FEAR, AND DEATH.”

                WHAT IS THIS LAWLESSNESS???

                ROMANS 1 & 2 GIVE US AN UNDERSTANDING OF THIS TERM:   IT IS

                                HATRED, THE VIOLATION OF LOVE

                                DARKNESS, THE EXSTINGUISHING OF LIGHT

                                DEATH, THE DESTRUCTION OF LIFE

                     HATRED: EVIDENCED BY

                                                CLIQUES

                                                INDIFFERENCE TO THE NEEDS OF OTHERS

                                                QUARRELING PARENTS

                                                RESENTFUL CHILDREN

                                                BITTER FEUDS

                                                SCHEMING ACTS OF REVENGE

                                                BROKEN HOMES

                                                NEGLECTED CHILDREN

                                                INDIFFERENCE TO THE SALVATION OF OTHERS

                     DARKNESS:  EVIDENCED BY

                                                CONFUSION

                                                UNCERTAINTY

                                                DOUBLE-MINDNESS

                                                ANXIETY

                                                FEARS

                                                TENSIONS

                                                NEOROSES

                                                OBSESSIONS

                    DEATH:  EVIDENCED BY

                                                WARS

                                                KILLING OF KIDS IN SCHOOLS

                                                KILLING OF OTHERS AT THE WORKPLACE

                                                GENERAL CARLOS ROMULO, FOR MANY YEARS THE

                                                                PHILIPPINE AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED

                                                                STATES, STATED THE CASE PRECISELY,

                                                                “WE HAVE HARNESSED THE ATOM, BUT

                                                                WE WILL NEVER MAKE WAR OBSOLETE

                                                                UNTIL WE FIND A FORCE TO BRIDLE THE

                                                                PASSIONS OF MEN.”

                                                                WE HAVE TRIED

                                                                                EDUCATION

                                                                                PSYCOHOLOGICAL TREATMENT

                                                                                LEGISLATION & POLICE

                                                                                                ENFORCEMENT

                                                                                & AS  RAY STEDMAN WROTE “WE

                                                                                                HAVE TRIED ‘BO PEEPISM,’

                                                                                                I.E. ‘LEAVE THEM ALONE

                                                                                                AND THEY’LL COME HOME,

                                                                                                WAGGING THEIR TAILS

                                                                                                BEHIND THEM.’ “

B.      THE REVOLUTION:  V. 5 “BUT YOU KNOW THAT HE APPEARED SO THAT HE MIGHT TAKE AWAY OUR SINS.  AND IN HIM IS NO SIN.”

WILL DURANT, A FAMOUS HISTORIAN, WROTE IN HIS BOOK THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

        “THE REVOLUTION THAT JESUS SOUGHT WAS A FAR DEEPER ONE, WITHOUT WHICH REFORMS COULD ONLY BE SUPERFICIAL AND TRANSITORY.  IF WE COULD CLEANSE THE HUMAN HEART OF SELFISH DESIRE, CRUELTY, AND LUST, UTOPIA WOULD COME OF ITSELF, AND ALL THOSE INSTITUTIONS THAT RISE OUT OF HUMAN GREED AND VIOLENCE AND THE CONSEQUENT NEED FOR LAW, WOULD DISAPPEAR.  SINCE THIS WOULD BE THE PROFOUNDEST OF ALL REVOLUTIONS, BESIDE WHICH ALL OTHERS WOULD BE MERELY COUP D’ETATS OF CLASS OUSTING CLASS AND EXPLOITING IN ITS TURN. CHRIST WAS, IN THIS SPIRITUAL SENSE, THE GREATEST REVOLUTIONIST IN HISTORY.”

CHRIST

        CAME TO CHANGE MAN BY TAKING AWAY OUR SINS

        KNEW NO SIN

III.               THE MYSTERY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS  V. 6-10

A.      VERSES 6-7 TELL US HOW WE CAN LAY HOLD OF THE GIFT OF OVERCOMING LAWLESSNESS

JOHN DOESN’T CALL THIS THE MYSTERY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BUT PAUL DOES IN I TIMOTHY 3:16 WHEN HE REFERS TO IT AS “THE MYSTERY OF GODLIKENESS, OR GODLINESS”

1.       V. 6  “NO ONE WHO LIVES IN HIM KEEPS ON SINNING.  NO ONE WHO CONTINUES TO SIN HAS EITHER SEEN HIM OR KNOWN HIM.”

THERE MIGHT BE SEEM TO BE A CONTRADICTION WITH VERSE OF CHAPTER 2

“IF ANY ONE DOES SIN, WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS.”

HOW CAN THIS BE?

THE PRASE  “KEEPS ON SINNING” GIVES US THE CLUE

AN ATTITUDE OF CONTINUING IN SIN

                               LIVING A LIFE THAT IS CONTROLLED BY SIN

        JOHN DID NOT SAY “NO ONE WHO ABIDES IN HIM CAN COMMIT EVEN ONE SINGLE ACT OF SIN.”

        USED A CONTINUOUS TENSE OF THE VERB TO SAY “KEEP ON SINNING”

2.       V. 7  “DEAR CHILDREN, DO NOT LET ANYONE LEAD YOU ASTRAY.  HE WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT IS RIGHTEOUS, JUST AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS.”

SO WHAT ARE THE GIFTS OF OVERCOMING LAWLESSNESS????

A.      “YOU IN ME”

IN UNION WITH CHRIST IN WHICH HE

        IMPARTS HIS LIFE IN YOU

        IMPARTS HIS LOVE IN YOU

B.      “I IN YOU.”      CHRIST IN YOU

HE MAKES HIS HOME IN OUR HEARTS

 WHICH FREES US FROM THE REIGN OF SIN

WHICH CAUSES US TO BEAR FRUIT:  JN. 15:5B “HE WHO ABIDES IN                         ME, AND I IN HIM, HE IT IS THAT BEARS MUCH FRUIT”

                        RECENTLY I REALIZED MORE ABOUT THIS VERSE THAT

                                        BROUGHT MORE LIGHT TO ME ABOUT IT

                        JESUS IS REFERRING TO THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

EP. 5:22-23 “BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS AND SELF CONTROL.  AGAINST SUCH THINGS THERE IS NO LAW.”

                B.  V. 8-10  “HE WHO DOES WHAT IS SINFUL IS OF THE DEVIL, BECAUSE THE DEVIL HAS BEEN SINNING FROM THE BEGINNING.  THE REASON THE SON OF GOD APEARED WAS TO DESTROY THE DEVIL’S WORK.  NO ONE WHO IS BORN OF GOD WILL CONTINUE TO SIN, BECAUSE GOD’S SEED REMAINS IN HIM; HE CANNOT GO ON SINNING, BECASUE HE HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD.  THIS IS HOW WE KNOW WHO THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE AND WHO THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL ARE:  ANYONE WHO DOES NOT DO WHAT IS RIGHT IS NOT A CHILD OF GOD; NOT IS ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER.”

JOHN DECLARES THAT ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT WE FACE IN TODAY’S SOCIETY IS THE RESULT OF THE EXISTENCE OF AN EVIL BEING.

1.     THREE PARALELISM IN THESE VERSES:  V. 4—7 &  8--10

A.      EACH TALKS ABOUT SIN

V. 4 “EVERYONE WHO COMMITS SIN IS GUILTY OF LAWLESSNESS”

V. 8 “HE WHO DOES WHAT IS SINFUL”

B.      THERE IS A WORD ABOUT CHRIST AND HIS APPEARING

V. 5 “YOU KNOW THAT HE APPEARED TO TAKE AWAY LAWLESSNESS.”

V. 8 “THE REASON THE SON OF GOD APPEARED WAS TO DESTROY

THE WORKS OF THE DEVL.

C.      A LOGICAL CONCLUSION RESULTS

V. 6  “NO ONE WHO ABIDES IN HIM SINS”

V. 9 “NO ONE BORN OF GOD COMMITS SIN”

2.     THE DEVIL

A.      JESUS SAID OF THE DEVIL “[HE] ABODE NOT IN THE TRUTH” (JN. 8:44)

B.      SCHOLARS SAID THAT IS. 14: 12--14 DESCRIBES THE FALL OF THE DEVIL

“HOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN,

O DAY STAR, SON OF DAWN!

HOW YOU ARE CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND,

YOU WHO LAID THE NATIONS LOW!

YOU SAID IN YOUR HEART,

‘I WILL ASCEND TO HEAVEN;

ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD

I WILL SET MY THRONE ON HIGH;

I WILL SIT ON THE MOUNT OF ASSEMBLY

IN THE FAR NORTH;

I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS,

I WILL MAKE MYSELF LIKE THE MOST HIGH.”

                                NOTE:  HOW MANY TIMES (5) HE SAYS “I WILL”

C.      WHEN JOHN SAYS THAT EVERY ONE WHO COMMITS SINS IS “OF THE DEVIL”, IT IS BECAUSE WHAT HE IS DOING IS REPEATING IN HIS OWN LIMITED AREA OF EXPERIENCE, THE SIN OF THE DEVL

AN ATTITUDE OF LAWLESS DISREGARD OF THE AUTHRITY OF GOD

ACTIVITIES THAT RESULT BECAUSE OF THIS ATTITUDE

D.      WHAT DOES THE DEVIL DO TO MAN:

1.       STEALS THE BLESSINGS GOD INTENDED FOR MAN

NOTHING POSITIVE COMES FROM THE DEVIL

2.       ATTACKS MAN PHYSICALLY THROUGH DISEASE AND DEATH

IN THE GARDEN—NO DISEASE AND DEATH

AFTER THE FALL—DISEASE AND DEATH ENTERED INTO HUMAN EXPERIENCE

E.       THE ANWSER TO THE DEVIL’S WORKS:  “THE SON OF GOD APPEARED TO DESROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL.”

JESUS

                CAME TO SET US FREE FROM THIS BONDAGE TO SIN

                CAME TO UNLOOSE & UNTIE THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL

QUOTING FROM RAY STEDMAN’S SERMON “THE MYSTERY OF EVIL”

                “W. STUART BISCOE, WHO IS A YOUNG ASSOCIATE OF MAJOR IAN THOMAS, PUT IT VERY CLEARLY THIS WAY.  HE SAYS THE WAY GOD INTENDS MAN TO LIVE IS AS FOLLOWS: 

                                THE DEATH OF CHRIST IS THE PRELUDE TO ALL

                                CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.  WHEN THE SON OF GOD

                                DIED, HE LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR

                                EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE CHRISTIAN

                                LIFE.  THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST IS THE

                                PATTERN OF ALL CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.  JUST

                                AS THE SON OF GOD AROSE FROM THE DEAD,

                                SO WE ARE TO BE CONSTANTLY RISING FROM

                                THE DEATH AROUND US INTO A NEW VITALITY,

                                A NEW ADVENTURE OF LIVING, DAY BY DAY.”

                HOW DOES GOD DO THIS:   PUTTING HIS SEED IN US:

                                HIS SPIRIT INDWELLS US

                                                GIVING US THE RESURRECTED POWER

                                                                TO OVERCOME SIN

                                                GIVING US THE POWER MOMENT BY

                                                                MOMENT

3.  NOW, LET’S LOOK AT VERSE 8

A.      SOME HAVE SAID THAT THIS VERSE SAYS THAT CHRISTIANS

SHOULD ARRIVE TO A STATE OF SINLESS PERFECTION

1.       1ST VIEW—CHRISTIANS CANNOT COMMIT EVEN ONE SINGLE ACT OF SIN

2.       2ND VIEW –SIN HERE SHOULD BE NARROWED DOWN TO  CERTAIN SPECIFIC THINGS SUCH AS MURDER, ADULTERY, CRUELTY AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF LOVE

3.       3RD VIEW—THIS REFERS TO CERTAIN WILLFUL SINS:  THE CHRISTIAN MAY DRIFT INTO SIN BUT WILL NOT WILLFULLY SIN:  BUT WHAT ABOUT DAVID

4.       4TH VIEW—SIN IN A BELIEVER IS NOT REGARDED AS SUCH BY GOD, THAT WHAT MAY BE DONE BY AN UNBELIEVER AND CALLED A SIN IS NOT SO CALLED WHEN DONE BY A BELIEVER

5.       5TH VIEW—JOHN IS DESCRIBING AN IDEAL CONDITION, NOT A REALISTIC ONE

6.       6TH VIEW—

A.      THERE ARE TWO NATURES WITHIN THE BELIEVER

1.       THE NATURAL NATURE WHICH STILL LEANS TO SIN

2.       THE SPRITIUAL NATURE WHICH LEANS TO RIGHTOUSNESS

B.      PAUL SAID IT THIS WAY IN ROM. 7: 17 “IT IS NO LONGER I THAT DO IT [SIN], BUT SIN THAT DWELLS IN ME”

BUT PAUL IS NOT SAYING THAT HE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS SINS AS THIS VIEW SEEMS TO BE SAYING

7.       7TH VIEW—THE CHRISTIAN CANNOT PERSIST IN HABITUAL, CONTINUAL SIN

RAY STEDMAN “WHEN WE ARE BORN AGAIN, SOMETHING VERY RADICAL HAS HAPPENED IN US.  THERE IS A DEEP, RADICAL, INWARD TRANSFORMATION WHICH CHANGES US FROM THE BOTTOM UP.  BECASUE OF THAT CHANGE, THE PROCESS CAN NEVER BE REVERSED.  GOD’S SEED ABIDES IN US AND WE CANNOT PERSIST IN HABITUAL SIN BECAUSE THERE IS A ROOT WITHIN, A LIFE THAT IS CONSTANTLY SURGING UP, THAT SIMPLLY WILL NOT PERMIT THIS THING TO GO ON FOREVER.”

           WHEN A CHRISTIAN SINS, HE

                           FEELS GUILTY

                           REALIZES THAT GOD IS DISPLEASED

                           SEEKS FORGIVENESS

      I LIKE THIS ILLUSTRATION GIVEN BY RAY STEDMAN  “IT IS POSSIBLE FOR BOTH A SHEEP AND A PIG TO FALL INTO A MUD HOLE, BUT THE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR NATURE BECOMES IMMEDIATELY EVIDENT IN THEIR REACTION.  THE PIG IS PERFECTLY HAPPY.  HE ROLLS OVER ON HIS BACK, SINGING ‘HOME SWEET HOME.’  BUT THE SHEEP IS VERY DISTURBED, TROUBLED, UNHAPPY AND MISERABLE, AND EARNESTLY DESIRES TO GET OUT.”

                                4.  V. 10  CONCLUDES THIS PASSAGE

A.      THE TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHIRDREN

1.       CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL WHICH

NEGLECT RELGION

HATRED OF OTHERS

2.       CHILDREN OF GOD

HOW CAN YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE BORN AGAIN?

                                                THIS VERSE ANSWERS THIS QUESTION

                                                                RIGHTEOUSNESS

                                                                LOVE

                                                THESE TWO ARE INTERWOVE AND INTERTWINED TOGETHER

           CANNOT HAVE THE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER

                                  

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