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Sermon Scripture:

1 John 5:1-4

Two weeks ago when we began looking at 1John back in chapter one we saw that our basis for walking together as believers is founded upon our walking by the light of the Father, abiding in Him and having fellowship with Him.

Thus, all Christian fellowship begins with fellowship with the Father through the Son, who is Jesus Christ our Lord.

The absence of Christian fellowship displays an absence of divine fellowship, or at the very least one that is lacking in truth or sincerity.

In the light is the fullness of fellowship…when darkness is presented then fullness is lost.

1 John1

Last week we saw that this divine fellowship is in light of a hope which is birthed within us by faith and love.

The hope is the reappearing of Christ.

The love is that which was displayed by Christ

The faith is that which is in the work of Christ alone.

These three things: faith, hope and love made alive in us by faith, has an effectual work within us whereby we as the bretheren live amoungst each other not by word alone but by truth and action.

In this righteousness thrives and the sin which attempts to rule over us and divide us (as it did with Cain) looses it’s power.

Again, this loving in deed and truth, in labor of sincerity, points us directly to Christ Jesus who is the first born of the brothers.

Again, Jesus is the faith, hope, and love that births within us the salvation from the nature of depravity to the nature of the divine, which is that of Him who is the first fruit: faith, hope, love.

And thus, chapter 5 begins:

1 John 5:

Notice the order of the text:

Everyone who believes

there is no discrimination upon belief.

Everyone is reference every type…meaning from all walks of life, the unifying or identifying factor is belief.

This must be noted in two ways:

While it is all inclusive, it is not all inclusive.

The everyone is referencing those who believe.

This means if one does not believe then they are not part of the everyone followed up upon in the text.

Thus the everyone here is saying simply: all believers.

The language is unifying a particular group together or identifying and thus separating a group out from every other which does not hold this one mark in common: belief.

b. believe: I would describe belief in three steps:

to be persuaded of as a truth…to suffer oneself to be persuaded.

to place confidence/trust upon the truth of which you have been persuaded

To rely upon that confidence.

Thus, the belief that we are talking about is beyond mere credence.

Belief upon Christ that is in usage with being born of the Father is more than:

head knowledge

emotional state

It is actually a revolutionary persuasion in ones life.

Believes that Jesus is the Christ

c. Believes that Jesus is the Christ

i. Jesus is the Christ

The persuasion that takes place that the Christian brother places his confidence and reliance upon is that Jesus is the Christ.

Jesus is the anointed one.

The Messiah, the great High Priest of God.

The one of whom has provided a way unto the Father.

ii. this is contrasted to the antichrist and the spirit thereof those who deny that Jesus has come and deny His saving work.

b. believe: I would describe belief in three steps:

to be persuaded of as a truth…to suffer oneself to be persuaded.

to place confidence/trust upon the truth of which you have been persuaded

To rely upon that confidence.

Thus, the belief that we are talking about is beyond mere credence.

Belief upon Christ that is in usage with being born of the Father is more than:

head knowledge

emotional state

It is actually a revolutionary persuasion in ones life.

b. believe: I would describe belief in three steps:

to be persuaded of as a truth…to suffer oneself to be persuaded.

to place confidence/trust upon the truth of which you have been persuaded

To rely upon that confidence.

Thus, the belief that we are talking about is beyond mere credence.

Belief upon Christ that is in usage with being born of the Father is more than:

head knowledge

emotional state

It is actually a revolutionary persuasion in ones life.

2. Has been fathered by God

The persuasion that takes place that the Christian brother places his confidence and reliance upon is that Jesus is the Christ.

i.

To be fathered by is to be begotten/born of God.

The literal here is, “the one who fathers”

Jesus is the anointed one.

The Messiah, the great High Priest of God.

The one of whom has provided a way unto the Father.

ii.

We do not birth ourselves, we do not father ourselves.

The one who believes upon Christ has been brought to the newness of life by the work of the Father and the plan that he has put in place.

3. Who loves the father:

i. loves the child fathered by him

a. how do we know that we love the children of God?

i. love God -

a. this is speaking of God’s love and thus when it says, “loves God” it is implying that the love of God…that which caused you to be born of the Father by the work of Christ, abides in you.

To love God is to have His love in you.

The effectual work of this, is just as we see demonstrated in the life of Christ: keep His commandments.

ii.

keep His commandments

a.

The word for commandment here stresses the concrete character of the commandment.

As God’s love abides in us, so does His character which is thus displayed by our living, or fleshing out the character of God: righteous living, abiding by the commands/will of God.

i.

The commandments of God are not burdensome to the believe who is living by the divine nature and not that of the world.

It is not a drag, a heavy weight for the believer to live by the decree of God.

It is a good thing to have such a prompting of the Holy Spirit because it is the pathway to overcoming the world.

For the child of God the reverse is true.

Worldliness is a great weight, while righteousness is the new found freedom.

4. Conquers the world:

i.

The conquering, victory, or prevailing of/over the world is for the believer found in the keeping of God’s commands.

This is the building of confidence, the holy rebellion, the sanctified revolution by which the powers of the antichrist world are shown to have no power over you and your life, neither present nor future.

ii.

With your eyes on victory, you love God and keep His commandments.

As those who believe (convinced, trust) that Jesus is the Christ, who have been born of God, who have the love of God abiding within, who have love for the fellow begotten of God and live joyfully by the character and commands of God as victorious over the world, we joyfully know the victory:

1 John 1: