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The Test of Righteousness

1 John 2:29-3:10The Test of Righteousness If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 2, as we continue to make our way through this great, short letter of John to the Church and to us. We've seen all along John giving us tests to show the marks of Christians. We have seen a doctrinal test, a test that pertains to the person of Jesus Christ: Does a person who professes to be a Christian embrace Jesus as the divine Son of God who existed in real, human form among us? John is concerned that those who call themselves Christians would embrace the glorious truths of the Scriptures about who Jesus was. He sees it as essential to being a Christian. But he also gives what we might call a social or a relational test: How do we love those who are also united to…

The Test of Acknowledgement of Christ’s Humanity

The Test of Acknowledgement of Jesus as the Messiah come in the flesh 1 John 4:1-6 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 4. As we've been looking through this book, we have seen John do three things repeatedly. First of all, in the first chapter of the book especially, John was concerned to make sure that we as Christians understood the relationship of sin and holiness in the Christian life. On the one hand, John wanted us to know that as believers we would still struggle with sin; but on the other hand, John wanted to make sure that we strove for holiness in the Christian life, that we were seeking to be conformed into the image of God, that we were realistic about the sin that we still faced and had, and at the same time, were striving to be…

The Scource of Love

1 John 4:7-16 The Source of Love If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 4, beginning in the 7th verse. We’re continuing to make our way through this book, and we've really come to a culminating passage. John has a lot more to say, but he's come back in the passage we're going to read today to the subject of love as a test of authentic Christian experience and profession for at least the third time in this book, and he has combined it with the idea of rightly believing in the truth of God's word as to who Jesus is. The last time we were together looking at 1 John 4:1-6, we saw his emphasis again being on the confession that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh and is from God–we see that in verse 2 of 1 John 4. And now he immediately…

The Inseparable Link Between Divine and Christian Love

The Lord's Day March 7th, 2004 1 John 4:20-21 The Inseparable Link Between Divine and Christian Love I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 4. We’re returning to our study of 1 John today. One of the things that has become apparent to us through this study is that John has love on his mind. John is very concerned to exhort the Christian church to love, and especially to a love which expresses itself not merely in a claimed love of God, but in a practical, manifested love to…

Life In His Son

The Lord's Day March 21st, 2004 1 John 5:6-12 Life in His Son If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 5. We’re continuing in our study of 1 John today, and we're coming close to the end of the book. Now much of the book of 1 John has been about tests, three tests in particular that the Lord gives us whereby we may measure the genuineness of our profession. These three tests are doctrinal, moral, and relational or social. They’re doctrinal in the…

Examination For Assurance

The Lord's Day March 28th, 2004 1 John 5:13-21 Examination for Assurance If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 5. Today we come to the end of our study of 1 John. This is the epilogue of the book, from the 13th verse of this chapter to the end: John's final words, his parting words, an afterword to us in which he sums up some of the great emphases of this book. Now we've focused much on what John has said about three tests of genuine…

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