1 John Message 3
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Announcements:
Announcements:
No youth next week for mother’s day, do something for mom!
Following week, youth will be on Saturday afternoon??
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Recap Last Week:
Recap Last Week:
2 TESTS (CHRISTIANITY)
KNOWING…JESUS = SON OF GOD
DOING…LIVING LIKE JESUS.
This WEEK we’ll LOOK further into what John means about DOING the RIGHT THINGS
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(H) EVER BEEN TOLD…LOOK/SOUND LIKE A PARENT?
YOU ANSWER PARENT’S PHONE…WHO IS THIS?
THEY’RE YOUR PARENT = SIMILARITIES
CHRISTIANS RESEMBLE GOD = HEAVENLY FATHER.
LOOKING DIFFERENT THAN THE WORLD!
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1 John 2:28–29 (ESV)
Children of God
Children of God
28 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.
WHEN JESUS COMES again if you are SAVED you have NO NEED to FEAR!
29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
BORN AGAIN =PAST EVENT, PRESENT EFFECT!
BEGIN - BABY CHRISTIAN…GROW TO ADULTHOOD IN CHRIST.
EVIDENCE OF CONVERSION!
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English Standard Version (Chapter 3)
1 John 3:1 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.
“SEE” is a COMMAND, he’s saying, “CHECK THIS OUT!” Pay attention!
AMAZING…GOD = CREATOR… & FATHER. CALLING CREATOR, FATHER.
IT’S EXPECTED…WE WON’T FIT IN.
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2 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. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
REMEMBER…JESUS COMING AGAIN, & WE’RE GOD’S CHILDREN.
THIS SHOULD TRANSFORM THE WAY WE LIVE!
JESUS = OUR EXAMPLE & MOTIVATION for PURITY.
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4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
NOTE WORD “PRACTICE” - CONTINUALLY.
5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.
CHRISTIAN’S GOAL- TO BECOME LIKE JESUS
MATTER OF HEART…TREVOR @ BLUE RIDGE...
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7 Little children, let no one deceive!! you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. 8 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. 9 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. 10 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.
DON’T DO WRONG, DO WHAT’S RIGHT. - LOVE OTHERS
Love One Another
11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.
JESUS SAID, “HATRED” IS LIKE “MURDER”
13 Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
JESUS WENT TO THE CROSS FOR YOU!
LIVED A PERFECT SINLESS LIFE, FOR YOU!
& FOR OUR EXAMPLE...
JESUS GOING TO CROSS = TRUEST DISPLAY OF LOVE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
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19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
SERVING GOD = DESIRES WILL BE SHAPED.
THEN WHAT WE ASK, IS PLEASING TO GOD.
DELIGHT IN HIM, THEN HE WILL GIVE.
23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
BEING A CHRISTIAN ISN’T COMPLICATED.
BUT IT’S NOT EASY.
BIG IDEA: We are called to believe in Jesus and then manifest that belief through the lives we live in loving others and obeying God’s Word to us.
NOT SAVED BY WORKS, OBEYING RULES.
YET, WHEN WE HAVE SAVING FAITH - CHANGES THE WAY WE LIVE.
1 WAY WE CAN THANK HIM.
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28 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.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
1 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.
2 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.
3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.
13 Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;
20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.