Monday, March 9, 2009

Know the Son Series: "Sin and God's Kids" 1 John 3:1-16

So far in our study of 1st John we learned about…
Incarnation-Jesus became a man and made His dwelling among us
Expiation-Jesus’ death cleanses us from the stain of sin and guilt and shame
Propitiation-Jesus took the wrath that we deserve as sinners upon Himself
Sanctification- the process that believers experience that sets us apart from living in a sinful way

Vrs 1 “Behold” This is amazing that through Jesus we can be called God’s kids Uncle Joe ill

“World” does not know us…You are a freak, an alien. The people that follow the ways of the world will not understand you, why are you nice to people that deserve to be spat upon, why do you give time and money to church, why do you sing love songs to Jesus, why do you make right choices when the right choice is harder.
The world did not know Jesus

Vrs 2 is the key to understanding that we are not perfect but when Jesus comes He will make us perfect. End Times moment, when Jesus comes back at the Rapture we will be changed, in the previous chapter John talks about His coming back.

I am convinced that the NT teaches us that a main motivation for living a life that is pleasing to God is that He will return and the End Times events are real and there are rewards to be had.

Vrs 3 When you set your hope in Jesus your heart becomes “regenerated”
Regeneration means that God has taken away the old self and given us a new self. This does not change the fact that our fleshly sinful nature still exists and that Satan is trying to deceive



O.T Ex. Ezek. 36:26 Heart of stone to heart of flesh.
Jer 31:33 God’s writing his law on the human heart In the New Testament, N.T. 2 Cor. 5:17 a new creation
Rom 6:13 being brought from death to life
1 Peter 2:9 being called out of darkness into God’s wonderful light
John 3:3 or being born again

Vrs 4 The fact that John uses “Lawlessness” here and in view of chapter 2 mention of the AntiChrist it seems reasonable that John is speaking of how the AntiChrist and antichrists soften the view of sin.
Example: Sexual purity “Old-fashioned” Porn: look but don’t touch “Adult entertainment”. Gossip: Tv shows named for it

Vrs 5 Jesus came to die for sins. Things that we laugh at, call old-fashioned, and watch as entertainment Jesus died to pay for that.

Vrs 6 Four issues
1. 1 John 1:8 everyone sins
2. “Abiding” when we are abiding we are living in obedience to Him. Jesus said in the Gospel of John “If you abide in me you will bear much fruit” So when you are abiding you are not sinning and being productive
3. Sin can never come out of seeing and knowing God. It can never be a part of the experience of abiding in Christ.
4. If we claim to be a Christian and habitual unrepentant sin is a way of life for us, others can legitimately question whether we are a Christian.

Vrs 7-8 don’t be deceived right is right and wrong is wrong, sin comes from the devil and Jesus came to destroy the sin, death and the devil

Vrs 9 John is dealing with the false notion that evil and sin and these false teachings can come from God. Now we go back to ‘regeneration” if we are living according to our regenerated heart we will not sin. But when we live according to the flesh we can.

Vrs 10 Here is how you test the teaching of a person, If they are living in right relationship with Jesus. It never surprises me that when a public preacher or teacher falls into gross sin also has bad theology. (Not always the case) God knows the heart we can only judge based on outward actions. Jesus said to Peter “get behind me Satan” I think Jesus knew that Peter was not Satan, but He also knew that Peter was acting in a way that was serving Satan rather then Jesus.

Vrs 11-12 Remember what John said in 1 John 2 Love, Cain as an example of hate

Vrs 13 Wants the worst for you, wants to destroy your character, wants to mock you Why do they hate you? 1. Jesus says because they hated Him first John 15:18 2. Because you remind them of their sinfulness 2 Cor 2:16 3. Because they are blinded 2 Cor. 4:4

Vrs 14-15 The real question here is what do you let abide in you?

Death- Dead Christians, hate other Christians, complain, criticize, are not friendly, two faced, serve for their own benefit, cause division, gossip, spend too much time worrying about certain issues and not about Jesus, are not happy for other Christians when good happens to them
What should these dead Christians do. Repent Rev 3:3 the dead church

Eternal Life- described like a fountain flowing with living water. Nothing but good comes from this. Giving, loving, helping, kind words and building up, encouraging, serving out of pure motives. Thinking how we serve Jesus better and more effectively, looking at each person as a soul the God desires to come to Jesus.
Someone from “The Five” gave them a car, that is displaying eternal life.

Live like you have eternal life because you do

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