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People were denying that Jesus was and is the Christ and were leaving the community of believers. David perry: how can you be assured of eternal life? what is the new birth? how do we know we love God?
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People were denying that Jesus was and is the Christ and were leaving the community of believers. David perry: how can you be assured of eternal life? what is the new birth? how do we know we love God?
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People were denying that Jesus was and is the Christ and were leaving the community of believers. David perry: how can you be assured of eternal life? what is the new birth? how do we know we love God?
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Context: People were denying that Jesus was and is
the Christ and were leaving the community of
believers.
1 John 2:22
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the
Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
It is no different today. The different cults and
sects that have attempted to incorporate the “gospel” into their beliefs have only changed their names over the last two thousand years. Polytheism (the belief in gods) has brandished a bible, put on a nice suit, and has been riding across town in the form of Mormonism.
The Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe what Jesus
said about Himself is true and trust that He is a mere angel. Nothing more, nothing less.
Adoptionism = Jesus was born human and then became
divine (similar LDS) Arianism = Christ given everything EXCEPT divinity Donatism = Perfectionists. Docetism = Jesus's body was an illusion. He did not really die. Ebionism = Jesus is the messiah, but not divine. Rejected Paul and His epistles and viewed James as the head of the church. Euchites = You can only know God through your carnal senses. Perfection through prayer. Marcionism = Rejected the Hebrew Bible and Yahweh. Montanism = Prophecies spoken by their group SUPERseded the Bible. With All the heresies and our own doubts, how can you be assured of eternal life?
What is the new birth?
How do we know we love God?
How do we know that we are saved?
1. Regeneration.
Regeneration means: To Make Alive.
1. Ephesians 2:5 (dead in sin)(grace comes)
(alive in Christ) 2. Colossians 2:13 (dead in trespasses) (forgiveness given)(alive in Christ)
Regeneration occurs only twice in the New
Testament.
1. Individual Regeneration in the New Birth or
being Born Again 2. Titus 3
3. For we ourselves were once foolish,
disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit 4. Corporate Regeneration of the New Heavens and the New Earth 5. Matthew 19:28 6. Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Context: Peter is telling Jesus that the disciples
have given up house and home and Christ Himself promises that Christians are going to experience the new Heaven and the new Earth.
IT IS WORTH IT TO FOLLOW JESUS.
It is through God's grace that we believe that the
man Jesus is the incarnate Son of God or Christ. That God has come down from Heaven to dwell among us as the only God-Man. Do you trust in this with all of your heart, mind, and soul?
It is not a question of whether all the
implications of this faith are happening right now in your life. Christians get depressed and lose hope, Christians don't always love their neighbors as they should, Christians don't always immediately obey His commandments, but Christians ARE Christians.
When all else fails, when your world crumbles, when
you suffer persecution for who God has called you to be, when you stumble in sin and when NOT IF you doubt whether or not Jesus Christ speaks the truth consider this.
He (Jesus Christ) is the propitiation (means of
forgiveness) for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
In many movies featuring sailors on the sea, a
great storm will come and will threaten the security of the ship, the trust of the crew that the ship will arrive where it's going safely, and cause doubt. What happens is that sailors will tie themselves to the mast of the ship so they are not tossed overboard by the screeching wind and the pounding waves.
Look down at your waist, are you tied to the mast?
Do you believe that Jesus of Nazareth is God? Do you believe that He was sent from Heaven to be born of a virgin, live an immaculate life, die a bloody death, and rise again so you too may glorify God and enjoy Him forever?
If you believe this, you have been regenerated or
born of God. If you believe this, the Bible makes the promise that you will overcome the world.
1st verse: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the
Christ has been born of God
4th verse: For everyone who has been born of God
overcomes the world. O Holy Night.
Truly He taught us to love one another, His law is
love, and His gospel is peace.
2. If you Love Jesus = you Love God and you
will Love Neighbors
1 John 3:18
Little children, let us not love in word or talk
but in deed and in truth.
Love walks, talks, and breathes.
Do not say you love your brother when you do
nothing for him.
Christ did not say “I love you, but.” He said, “I
love you and I'm going to take away your sins by dying on the cross.”
Matthew 22:34-40
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced
the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Loving God is obeying His commandments, Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Okay, I know I should love God and neighbor.
And I know that I should love God but in what way?
1st Corinthians 13
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or
boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2nd By this we know that we love the children of
God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
4th For everyone who has been born of God overcomes
the world. 3. OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS
Commandments obeyed show love for God.
Obeying your parents shows your love for them,
obeying God is the same way.
GET THIS
Christians view the Law differently than Non-
Christians.
Paul describes Sinners (who we used to be) in
Romans 3.
For we have already charged that all, both Jews and
Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
TO THE SINNER the Law: Stops the sinner's mouth, no
excuses, no justifications, nothing. No one will be free from the judgment of the Law.
When Sinners get what the Law is, they will
understand sin, and their need for a Savior.
TO THE CHRISTIAN
You have dealt well with your servant,
O Lord, according to your word.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
for I believe in your commandments.
Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep your word.
You are good and do good;
teach me your statutes. The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;
their heart is unfeeling like fat,
but I delight in your law.
It is good for me that I was afflicted,
that I might learn your statutes.
The law of your mouth is better to me
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
3rd verse: For this is the love of God, that we keep
his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1st everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has
been born of him.
4th verse: For everyone who has been born of God
overcomes the world.
4. The Victory With Christ
For everyone who has been born of God
overcomes the world.
1. Believing Jesus is who He says
He is 2. Loving God and Loving your neighbor 3. Joyous Obedience to His Commandments
And this is the victory that has overcome the
world—our faith.
The word for overcome in the Greek is nikos.
Means Nike = The Greek Goddess of Victory
1 John 2:13: Overcome the evil one – from death to
life 1 John 4:4: Overcame the false prophets – from lies to truth
Faith is the MEANS by which we overcome the world.
Our Faith? Individual (meaning you) and Corporate
(meaning our) faith in Jesus.
Faith in Jesus Christ and His love He has shown
towards us on the cross by dying for our sins. He is victorious over sin and so are we.
Conclusion
We are born of God (and therefore will overcome the
world) IF...
1. we believe that Jesus is the Christ that He
is who He said He is 2. we love God and we love neighbor 3. we obey His commandments
the above are evidences of the new faith, us being
born again, if we have these things in our lives rest assured we are born again and we will overcome for Christ has overcome.