SOP

Turn to :28

One of my favorite books

Read it all this week

Baptized but they do not go to Church anymore.

Read the Text

How you answer the question impacts what you will do?

This is also one of those questions, you can give the Sunday School answer?

does you description match you?

Read the Text

1 John 2:28–3:10 ESV

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. 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.

ABIDE- Stay, continue, to marry, trust, reside

RIGHTEOUSNESS - Innocent, just, be right, what is correct

1John 2:28-3:10

LAWLESSNESS -Not allowed, outside the law

LAWLESSNESS -Not allowed, outside the law

2 Groups

Those who follow Christ and those who do not.

They act differently

They believe differently.

A big mistake is not to believe this.

Believers

Righteousness

They still struggle with sin.

You will as long as you are here on this earth.

The difference is conviction.

Conviction and struggle is sign of growing.

Let me tell you a secret

People have a idea about what christians should act .

Have Confidence

Their faith is Christ.

They have not held back.

They have tried to be like him

1 John 3:3 HCSB

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.

1John 3:

Non-Believers

Those who have not make a public confession.

Walked down in Church and said I am a Christian.

Baptism

Those who claim but have not really given their life to Christ.

Holding on to something.

I will only serve in a Church in North Texas.

New Slide

Mark 8:38 LEB

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Mark 8:38

Practice Lawlessness

I love this Word PRACTICE IN VERSE 4

SOP MEANS THIS IS HOW WE DO IT EVERY TIME.

Good if you get it right but bad if you do it wrong.

You know it is a sin but you do it anyway.

Lack Confidence

Color outside the lines

Bad Decisions to sin anyway

I watch the Twins color. they are getting better at it.

We all sin But

We all sin But

Not everybody makes it a practice

Not everybody is toxic

Not everybody thinks they are exempt from parts of scripture

Not everybody is a bad example

The John the Baptist Question

New Slide

Matthew 3:7-9

Matthew 3:7–9 ESV

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

What if you met somebody like this?

They did not care if you got mad when you got convicted.

They were not worried if you liked them.

Their only concern was you spiritual life

Change my Practice

Set some Boundaries

Sin is not to have a place in my life

We think some sins are respectable but that is not true.

The Word

You do not set your boundaries by any think else

Luke 6:39 LEB

And he also told them a parable: “Surely a blind person cannot lead the blind, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?