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Sometimes we pastors have great confidence in that what we say will get through to others.
Sometimes it is true, sometimes not so much.
Here is one such story.
Two little boys were best friends at church, but they both had a reputation for getting into trouble.
One Sunday, one of the boys was home sick, but the other boy, not wanting to let his friend down, was twice as bad as normal.
As he was running through the sanctuary after church, the pastor grabbed him and with confidence, knowing this would make the boy straighten up at church from now on said, "Where's God?!"
The little boy was frightened and didn't know what to say.
The pastor continued, "I want you to go home and think about it and I don't want you to come back until you can tell me where God is."
The boy went home and called his sick friend on the telephone.
"Guess what," he said.
"They've lost God, and they're trying to blame that one on us, too."
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The book of 1 John is one of the five books in the New Testament that was written by John the Apostle, brother of James.
They were known as the sons of thunder.
This letter was written between A.D. 85 to A.D. 100.
First John was written to a church or group of churches in crisis—churches who were being attacked by false teaching.
Some individuals who had once been associated with the church had accepted heresy and had left the church.
After they left they continued to spread their false teaching to the church.
They went so far as to organize and send out itinerant preachers to various churches with the goal of converting those in the churches to their beliefs.
This created confusion and plunged the churches into crisis.
In response to this situation, John wrote 1 John, following that up with 2 and 3 John.
His goal was to stop this false teaching and to bring comfort to the Christians in these churches.
Biblical Text -
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Life Principle - A True Believer Will Not Walk Away From Jesus, And Can Have Confidence In Their Faith.
Life Point- We Can Have Confidence In Our Faith
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John had just written that only the believer can overcome the world.
Now He writes to fix a popular but false teaching.
This teaching stated that Jesus was not the Christ until he was baptized in water and then The Holy Spirit came upon Him, making Him the savior.
Before His crucifixion they taught the Spirit left Jesus and thus the Christ, the savior never died.
Anybody remember Gomer Pile?
I got 3 words for this view.
heresy, heresy, heresy!
I got one phrase for this view too, “So much heresy, so little time.”
Did you know, I was watching Christian TV years ago while I was doing something else.
You know what happened?
I heard this exact heresy with very little word changes being taught by Kenneth Copeland.
But, with a twist.
He was teaching that Jesus emptied himself to become a man.
Ok I am with Him there.
He then stated that Jesus could do no miracles, and could not be the savior until His baptism.
SIREN ALARMS WENT OFF IN MY HEAD.
This is why we must study what is called Apologetics, which is a fancy term for defending the Christian faith, using logic & reason that is Grounded in the Word of God.
When Jesus came, He was still Jesus the second in the trinity.
Jesus was, is, and always will be God.
He was, is, and will always be The Savior.
So the water and blood reference here points to the false teachers and says, it is not the baptism that is the important part, but the shed blood of Jesus that is the important part.
Since it is the death of Jesus that is important, the Holy One who was, and is, and is to come and not this garbage about bestowing Divinity on the man Jesus; since Jesus was and forevermore will always be divine.
What does John mean by water and blood?
He refers to the process of becoming saved.
A particular prophesy that was fulfilled in Jesus.
This is an entire reference of what happens when a person is saved and their spirit is regenerated.
sprinkling of water in the Old Testament was the sign of God’s cleansing power and so that sign is made reality when we are saved.
We are given new hearts and we become regenerated upon salvation.
He says he will take the old hardness of heart and get rid of it.
This is part of Biblical salvation.
Then He says He will put His Spirit within us.
Again, happening at salvation.
He says that we will walk in His statutes.
Again, this happens at salvation.
The Christian life should be a natural outpouring of the Holy Spirit manifest in the fruit of the Spirit and our actions toward others.
John says that if you are a believer then it is the Holy Spirit that testifies to all that he just said.
Because the Spirit is truth.
He doesn’t stop there.
He goes on to say:
In the law it took a matter 2-3 witnesses for it to be settled in court, as it were.
No one could be condemned on one witness alone, but on 2, maybe; on 3 definitely.
This also refers to the Godhead.
For God is 3 and He is 1.
God in heaven bears witness to the complete work of salvation through Christ.
Here on earth, the people witness 3 main events that bear witness to the truth of salvation:
The Baptism of Christ was witnessed by many people, as well as the miraculous signs that went with it.
The shed blood of Christ is witness.
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A couple of pastors from the local churches are standing by the side of the road, pounding a sign into the ground, being very confident that its’ words would help people.
It Read: "The End Is Near! Turn Yourself Around Now -- Before It's Too Late!"
As a car sped past them, the driver yelled, "Leave us alone, you religious nuts!" From the curve they heard screeching tires and a big splash.
The one pastor turns to the other and asks, "Do you think the sign should just say 'Bridge Out'?"
Life Point - True Believers Don’t Walk Away
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If we, as humans, will accept an event from people who witness said event.
You know, like an accident or a crime.
Should not God’s witness be greater?
God The father and God the Holy Spirit testify to the works of God The Son.
We who are Christians have this witness inside of us.
If we were not to believe God then in our own selves we are calling God a liar.
There are many people who call themselves atheists who said they were Christians in the past.
You see that can’t be true.
The true believer, due to the witnesses that have been given will not walk away from Christ.
If one were to walk away from Christ then they were not truly Christ’s to begin with.
So why do some walk away and never return?
This is the wrong question.
Why?
Because they were never saved.
The question should be, “Why do people not become believers?”
To give over to Jesus would cause them to take themselves off the throne of their lives.
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