A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” In the concluding verses of John’s epistle, he centers on our need to pray for others. In the previous study, Pastor Jack looked at John’s encouraging words that say to us that as believers we can have confidence in prayer. Now with that confidence we can bring the needs of others before the throne of God.
A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” Believers have an amazing privilege to be able to go to their Heavenly Father at anytime and pray. In fact God invites us to do so and even instills confidence through His word so that we might know that He listens to us. In this study, Pastor Jack emphasizes that God has given us prayer because He wants to have fellowship with us. However, we are also given conditions for answered prayer. God is not a genie that is ready to respond to every request. We are told that we must pray according to His will. But when we do, we are in a place where mountains can be moved and lives changed.
A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” In this study, Pastor Jack points out that we are all quick to believe what some people say or become very confident of what is said in an article, but don’t always believe what God has said. In these verses, God gives us His testimony about eternal life and that being if we have the Son, we have this life. Therefore, we need to pay attention to God’s Word and believe this record concerning Jesus Christ and eternal life.
A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” Since many false teachers were discrediting the divinity of Jesus, John now gives many evidences that point to the truth about Jesus. God had said in the Old Testament that no testimony could be substantiated based on only one witness. Therefore John gives us many witnesses that attest to the divinity of Jesus Christ. We, like jurors in a courtroom hearing the evidence of witnesses, must either accept or reject God’s testimony about His Son. For those who receive it, they are given forgiveness and eternal life.
A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” In this final chapter of 1 John, Pastor Jack looks at the distinguishing features of believers that he calls “birthmarks.”
A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” As Pastor Jack covers these verses, he will point out that the one distinguishing attribute of Christianity is love. No other religious system has love as its basis for belief. This love that only comes from God will manifest itself in the life of the believer vindicating his relationship to God and that he has been born again. Moreover, this love, that only comes from God, enables the believer to love as God loves even those who are not particularly lovable.
A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” In John’s day, there were many false teachers seeking to draw believers away from the truth of God’s Word. Therefore, John warns the people of these false teachers and then gives them a means of discerning the true teachers of God’s Word versus the false. Basically the test comes down to what is being said about Jesus and His deity. John then gives believer’s the assurance of God’s protection by telling that since God lives in us by His Spirit, He then is greater than the false spirit of the world. In this study, Pastor Jack brings John’s application into the context for today’s world.
A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” From time to time, believers doubt their relationship with God especially when circumstances tell them otherwise. In the final verses of 1 John chapter 3, Pastor Jack points out many foundational truths that should give believers confidence in their standing before God and the peace and rest that follows.
A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” When a person comes to Christ and becomes born again, he then begins to have a love that only a child of God can experience. In this study, Pastor Jack goes to great length to draw a comparison between God’s love as seen in a believer and that of a seemingly religious individual. He takes us back to Genesis 4 and the account of Cain and Abel showing that what happened in that early day is the basis for what we see now. This love that comes only from God will be clearly in individuals who have a relationship with Him.
A message from the series “1 John ’08-09 // A Father’s Loving Words.” On the surface, it seems that John is telling us that believers must live sinless lives. But is that possible? Our own experience teaches us otherwise. The Bible is filled with individuals who lived less than perfect lives, yet we know they were saints who died and one day we will meet them in heaven. In this study, Pastor Jack will look at certain Greek terms to show the true meaning of what John was teaching and how we as Christians can live victorious lives as we allow Jesus to live His life through us.
