1 John 4:1-16 Jesus’ love reveals truth
Vrs 1 John is referring to teachers that teach error. Believers have the Holy Spirit and false teachers don’t and have evil sprits inspiring them.
Two cults right now. Jehovah’s Witnesses –Charles Taze Russell in 1874 started to doubt the Christian teachings of the Scriptures and come up with his own interpretations also believed that Jesus became a go and his teachings later led to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Mormonism Joseph Smith in 1820 at 14yrs went out to the woods to pray and apparently Jesus and the Father stood before him and told him all the churches were wrong. And there were some special golden plates with crystal glasses that had another revelation of Jesus Christ and is now the Book of Mormon
How do we know this is a false teaching. 1. Said Jesus became a god and 2. You can also become a god
These two groups in specific will try to use God’s Word and deceive people by twisting Scriptures and to say what they want it say.
Vrs 2-3 Who is from God who is not? Those who have right theology about who Jesus is 1 Cor 15:3-4
Vrs 4 Reliance on Jesus is the secret to all victory whether it is heresy, personal problem, or struggle with sin.
Vrs 5 “They” are those who don’t believe in Jesus, they give ear to all the false teachings and promote those teachings themselves.
Satanically inspired thoughts and philosophies will always appeal to a worldly mind
Often times there is an inner conflict because those teachings do not answer their questions and they get frustrated. Rich ill His understanding did not answer the questions
The Bible does when it rains it pours two weeks ago this happened to me, it poured, but I can make sense of it because I have Jesus. I know the…
Incarnation-Jesus went through what I go through
Expiation- Jesus cleans the guilt, shame and stain of sin
Propitiation-I deserve wrath but Jesus saved me from it and took it on Himself
Sanctification- Jesus is in the process of setting me apart
Regeneration-Jesus gave me a new heart, and with that heart comes new desires and abilities.
Vrs 6 unfortunately there are spiritual blinders on people 2 Cor. 4:4 which makes it hard for them to understand the message of Jesus. Because this message is hard for them to understand they do not understand the outworking of that message in our lives.
John was speaking of believers listening to Apostles, accept the apostles teachings because they were the ones that were with Jesus.
So what can we as Christians do to help people to understand a message that they deem foolish, dated and close minded and useless? The Answer is love, in some way shape or form the word love is used 43 in this book
Vrs 7-8 As said early in our study, love is a natural outworking of our trust in Jesus, this is like a litmus test #1. The absence of love is evidence that a person does not know God
If you have a relationship Jesus, love will be a result.
Vrs 9 The Gospel is a definition of love “only begotten” carries the idea of true oneness with the father. Jesus is God.
“that we might live through Him” The gospel of Jesus effects our lives now, that is how we can love.
Vrs 10 main goal is to teach others through the example of Jesus’ love for us. We only love Him because He first loved us. Lets apply that, it is hard to love someone that shows you love? Jesus loved us when we didn’t love Him “propitiation” you deserved wrath. That is how much Jesus loved you
John Newton understood this (Amazing grace writer) “Through all my years the only two things I know is how wretched a sinner I am and how amazing the love of Jesus is”
Vrs 11 Reminder, we have been treated in a way that we don’t deserve, treat others that way as well.
Vrs 12 John 14:9b No one has ever seen the fullness of God. John 1:18 declared Him (explains Him). The way they see Jesus is through you and your love toward one another, Jesus has given us perfect love to draw on. Jesus said they will know you are my disciples if you love one another.
Vrs 13 Litmus test #2 The Spirit
Vrs 14-16 Explains this in more depth John 14:15-18
The bottom line is this…
1. Understand truth by the Holy Spirit
2. Are able to love when we understand Jesus’ love for us
3. When we are willing to love we help others understand how much Jesus loved them
No comments:
Post a Comment