The document discusses several passages from 1 John chapter 3 regarding what Christians can know. It discusses that we can know we are called children of God, though we do not yet know what we will be like when Christ returns. It also discusses that Christians can know their sins are removed, that they have passed from death to life through loving others, and how to define love based on Christ laying down his life. The document emphasizes that Christians have assurance because they have the truth and Spirit within them.
The Roman Road To Salvation will show you simply how to have all of your sins forgiven so you can go to Heaven when you Die.
You don't have to repent, be water baptized, or stop sinning. All that you have to do is believe the Gospel.
The Roman Road To Salvation will show you simply how to have all of your sins forgiven so you can go to Heaven when you Die.
You don't have to repent, be water baptized, or stop sinning. All that you have to do is believe the Gospel.
Many people think they will go to heaven because they have lived a good life. Perhaps, they treat all of their neighbors fairly. Maybe they volunteer for charity work and have never broken the law. Maybe they were even baptized or go to church regularly. But the Bible, God's Word, says that no one can live up to God's standard of righteousness.
This Roman Road as laid out in scripture is God’s plan of salvation set forth in Paul’s letter to the Romans. The following scriptures build a beautiful road to Jesus Christ.
What do you hope for? Do you hope for a new job? A new relationship? A new adventure in life? A new smartphone? But first let me ask you this question, what is hope?
Hope looks at the future. You are hoping because there is something to look forward to. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Singles individual might hope in their work to achieve their goals and dream. Or they might hope for a relationship where they would receive the love they need. These can be the wrong anchors or sources of our hope.
Hebrews 12:2 says keep your eyes on Jesus who perfects our faith. It is actually also saying that we are to hope in God. Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Wherever there is full assurance of hope, there is faith. Faith is the full assurance of hope. Hope is part of Faith. Therefore, in Hebrews 12 God is the one who initiates, He is the author or source of our faith and He is the one who is the source of our hope. He is the one we are to hope for because he will be one who will make what we hope for come into a reality. Look at what Romans 15:13 says also.
Romans 15:13 - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
God of hope means God is the source of hope. I like how its translated in the NLT version, it says this: “God, the source of hope, will.” Hope here in Greek is elpis meaning expectation, trust, confidence and expectation of what is sure or certain. We can now relate this to God the source of hope as God our source of confidence as we expect something to be sure or certain
That’s why I would like to define hope as CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE ANCHORED ON GOD WITH GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Great Expectations because God can do more than what we could think of our imagine and because we expect it to actually happen. As one famous preacher said, biblical hope is just not a desire but it expects it to happen
Sometimes our religious beliefs are crooked and hold us back emotionally. Here are some freeing ideas based in sound theology reminding us of the truth and importance of self and other acceptance to realizing peace in our lives and world.
One of the problems that many Christians face is that they are not sure about their relationship with God. John writes to remind us that we can have assurance despite our heart’s misgivings.
Prayer is the believer's breath. As we cannot live without breathing neither can a Christian without prayer. This study describes the nature of prayer and the believer's compassion for a fellow Christian who sins.
Many people think they will go to heaven because they have lived a good life. Perhaps, they treat all of their neighbors fairly. Maybe they volunteer for charity work and have never broken the law. Maybe they were even baptized or go to church regularly. But the Bible, God's Word, says that no one can live up to God's standard of righteousness.
This Roman Road as laid out in scripture is God’s plan of salvation set forth in Paul’s letter to the Romans. The following scriptures build a beautiful road to Jesus Christ.
What do you hope for? Do you hope for a new job? A new relationship? A new adventure in life? A new smartphone? But first let me ask you this question, what is hope?
Hope looks at the future. You are hoping because there is something to look forward to. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Singles individual might hope in their work to achieve their goals and dream. Or they might hope for a relationship where they would receive the love they need. These can be the wrong anchors or sources of our hope.
Hebrews 12:2 says keep your eyes on Jesus who perfects our faith. It is actually also saying that we are to hope in God. Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Wherever there is full assurance of hope, there is faith. Faith is the full assurance of hope. Hope is part of Faith. Therefore, in Hebrews 12 God is the one who initiates, He is the author or source of our faith and He is the one who is the source of our hope. He is the one we are to hope for because he will be one who will make what we hope for come into a reality. Look at what Romans 15:13 says also.
Romans 15:13 - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
God of hope means God is the source of hope. I like how its translated in the NLT version, it says this: “God, the source of hope, will.” Hope here in Greek is elpis meaning expectation, trust, confidence and expectation of what is sure or certain. We can now relate this to God the source of hope as God our source of confidence as we expect something to be sure or certain
That’s why I would like to define hope as CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE ANCHORED ON GOD WITH GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Great Expectations because God can do more than what we could think of our imagine and because we expect it to actually happen. As one famous preacher said, biblical hope is just not a desire but it expects it to happen
Sometimes our religious beliefs are crooked and hold us back emotionally. Here are some freeing ideas based in sound theology reminding us of the truth and importance of self and other acceptance to realizing peace in our lives and world.
One of the problems that many Christians face is that they are not sure about their relationship with God. John writes to remind us that we can have assurance despite our heart’s misgivings.
Prayer is the believer's breath. As we cannot live without breathing neither can a Christian without prayer. This study describes the nature of prayer and the believer's compassion for a fellow Christian who sins.
Jesus gave us an instruction to make disciples but do we understand how. From Luke's writings in the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts we see the pattern Jesus showed us an the New Testament church implemented.
In times like these ones, we need to have a clear definition of what Love is and what is not.
Nothing better that the Bible to help us understand what love is.
All of us at one point in our life have wondered why our prayer was not answered the way we wanted. In this lesson we examine Martha, Mary, and their brother Lazarus who was sick and died. www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian Birdow
Do you look like your parents? For me, some may say I really look like my dad. He just smiles more often and I don’t. Hehe. It’s just amazing to see how a child can really resemble his or her father or mother. We have a resemblance to our earthly parents no matter who big or small it may be. But we should also consider our resemblance to our heavenly Father. We will learn a lot about this as we study 1 John chapter 3.
In this message we look at what it means to abide in the Father's love. We discover eight outcomes of abiding in the Father's love and learn the importance of obedience and divine discipline to abide in the Father's love.
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"Will my friends want anything to do with me now that I am a Christian?" That was the question I asked after I gave my life to Jesus. It wasn’t long before I found the answer. If I acted like them, they would accept me, but when I acted like Christ, they would reject me. I struggled to determine the correct path. You see, I wanted Christ in my life, but I also wanted Christ in my friends’ lives. I thought that if I broke my ties with my worldly friends, they would lose their opportunity to learn of Christ. So I tried to live as a child of God while hanging out with the "devil’s kids". As you would expect, more often than not, they would often tempt me to do the things that I didn't want to do anymore. Eventually, I would give in.
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Often times we set our minds on getting and if we are not careful we can and will miss the blessing of giving. Both audio and slides can be enjoyed at www.cmcoc.org Sermon by Brian Birdow
2. 1Jn 3:1-3 NKJV Behold what manner of love
the Father has bestowed on us, that we should
be called children of God! Therefore the world
does not know us, because it did not know
Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God;
and it has not yet been revealed what we shall
be, but we know that when He is revealed, we
shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
3 And everyone who has this hope in Him
purifies himself, just as He is pure.
3. • The Love of God in Revelation
• Degrees of Separation
• Past, Present, Future
4. 1Jn 3:3-5 NASB And everyone who has this
hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is
pure. 4 Everyone who practices sin also
practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5
You know that He appeared in order to take
away sins; and in Him there is no sin.
• We know our sin is removed
5. • 1Jn 3:14 NASB We know that we have
passed out of death into life, because we love
the brethren. He who does not love abides in
death.
• Not mere theory but we experience it.
6. • 1Jn 3:16 NASB We know love by this, that He
laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay
down our lives for the brethren.
• He defines love.
7. • 1Jn 3:19-20 NASB We will know by this that
we are of the truth, and will assure our heart
before Him 20 in whatever our heart
condemns us; for God is greater than our
heart and knows all things.
• We have the truth in us and we know Him
that knows it all.
8. • 1Jn 3:24 NASB The one who keeps His
commandments abides in Him, and He in
him. We know by this that He abides in us, by
the Spirit whom He has given us.
• We have the testimony of the Spirit
Editor's Notes
Each of us attempt to build for ourselves the best life possible, we do so by building our lives on a foundation we believe to be trustworthy. Such a foundation is built with the justified beliefs we hold to be true and trustworthy. These truths are also sometimes referred to as presuppositions and are the truths we believe about the world and our place in it. As long as these truths are consistent with our experiences we are at peace and can be happy but our lives are thrown into crises when we become aware that our presuppositions cannot be trusted. An example of such an event is described by Matt Richard “A common example that authors have shared in describing an epistemological (presupposition) crisis is with a story of a wife discovering a hand written note from another women in the pants pocket of her husband. The note says, “I Love You.” This new knowledge, if accepted, has drastic consequences. In other words, the inescapable result of these three simple words on a note will bring into question the truthfulness of what her husband says about their marriage and the status of the marriage. The note will also bring into question her marriage values, her behavior and feelings towards her whole family. The conflict between her prior knowledge and the new knowledge collide, which creates an epistemological crisis. As a result of the collision, she may accept the new knowledge, which could potentially bring about an alternative reality and reveal that she has been living in a lie for countless years. She may also reject the new knowledge or try to rationalize it away so that things will stay relatively the same, with the exception of possible lingering doubts. Painfully she may choose to neither fully accept nor reject the note but try to absorb the new knowledge into her prior knowledge, thus attempting to hold the two truths together in an obviously painful contradictory unit.”
The book of John was largely written as a defence against Gnosticism that was confusing some of the believers. Gnosticism holds that the physical or material is corrupt and should be rejected while the spiritual is pure and should be accepted. According to them Jesus cold not have come in the flesh because that would’ve made Him evil and therefore Jesus did not die on the cross. John’s defence against this attack is powerful in that it is based on his personal witness of the life and death of Jesus. He is not merely debating a theory but giving testimony to what he saw first hand. How do we know we can trust scripture and our own knowledge of God? The scripture is based on testimony and our lives contains the testimony of the love of God at work in us. This experience is not just subjective but over time and through the collective validation of millions has been proven to be trustworthy knowledge.
God’s love is seen in the fact that He does not hide or is unknowable but that He makes Himself known. He reveals Himself, calls attention to himself, steps into plain sight so that we can know Him.The line of separation in this world does not run along concepts of morality, ethnicity, nationality, wealth or status but along the knowledge of God. Do you know God or don’t you?We may not know exactly what the future holds but we know Him that holds the future. He forms the basis of all our knowledge, “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom” Psalm 111:10
There are two levels of sin that John addresses. The first level is acts of sin committed by the Christian. In 1Jn 2:1 (NASB) he states “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” As believers we do not want to sin but when we do acts of sin (Greek aorist form) we repent and receive forgiveness. Acts of sin is a result of our humanity in a broken world and not because we have a sinful nature any more.Secondly is the practice of sin as seen in 1 John3:4 and refers to the continuation of sin (Greek present continuous tense) it is because we do not know God and what He has done for us. The issue is do you know God or not, if you knew Him your life would testify of it.
The result of knowing God is that our hearts are renewed in its capacity to love. Remember we spoke previously about the flesh (law) being dead and beyond the capacity for life but that the Spirit brings life. This life is evidenced in the love we have for each other.
His actions become the standard for us, by it we define what we know and understand. Our concept of love is formed by His actions and it is what we aspire to.
Even where our knowledge fails and our hearts lack we know we can trust the one that knows all things. We are not our own judge but God is our judge
The Spirit of God is in us and continues to testify that God is with us. Remember the truth for us is not simply based on a theory or a law or an empirical experiment but on a living God with whom we have a relationship.