Sermons
Expositional
Expository preaching takes a passage of scripture and explains its meaning, closely following Ezra’s method of Nehemiah 8:1-12, “So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the…
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First John Chapter 3 (#7)… Verses 16-17Part 7 of 9
3:16-17 for God and Christ's wonderful love for us by laying down His life for us on the cruel cross of Calvary. The call from heaven is for us to lay our lives down in a similar manner for our…
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First John Chapter 3 (#6)… Verses 13-15Part 6 of 9
3:13-15 for brotherly love proving a huge difference from nature and the world and proof of everlasting life. Lack of brotherly love is hatred and the same as murder, which proves no eternal life. The standard here and the severe…
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First John Chapter 3Part 5 of 9
In contrast to brotherly love is the horrible example of a hateful brother – Cain. Think! Why did the Holy Spirit bring up this devilish murderer in this lesson about love? Because the old man inside every Christian is like…
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First John Chapter 3Part 4 of 9
Here begins John's significant emphasis on brotherly love, which is the greatest duty and evidence of grace in a Christian's life. If churches stressed it more, they would grow in grace by the Holy Spirit faster and better. Brotherly love…
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First John Chapter 3 (#3)… Verses 4-7Part 3 of 9
3:4-7 is John's instructions and warnings of how Christians should live in light of being adopted and glorified. A lifestyle of sin proves a person is not saved, for such a life is contrary to Jesus Christ. A e Christian…
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First John Chapter 3 (#2)… Verses 2-3Part 2 of 9
3:2-3 adds glorification to adoption, when we shall receive new bodies that have never been seen before. When Jesus returns, He will make our bodies to be just like His body, which will then be able to comprehend His. Adoption,…
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First John Chapter 3 (#1)… VersePart 1 of 9
3:1 for the glorious doctrine of adoption, a gift by God's love to the elect – they are made the sons of God. Behold! What manner of love! The five phases of adoption are very helpful. Just as the world…
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First John Chapter 2 (#16)… Verses 23-29Part 16 of 16
2:23-29 continued John's argument that the believers had heard enough and had it confirmed by the Spirit to know the lies of the seducers. God had promised eternal life to the faithful, who could be confident at Christ's coming by…
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First John Chapter 2 (#15)… Verses 20-22Part 15 of 16
2:20-22 reviewed the context that limits the verses to basic facts and truth about Jesus. Early believers in apostolic churches knew the basics about Jesus well enough to identify and reject antichrist liars and their lies, which at this point…
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First John Chapter 2 (#14)… Verse 20-27Part 14 of 16
2:20-27 is to be understood as John's kind encouragement to his readers against the antichrist and seducing liars corrupting the doctrine of Christ in those times. They knew the truth and needed no help to identify and expose the heretics…
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First John Chapter 2 (#13)… Verse 20Part 13 of 16
2:20 can be misunderstood and misapplied, as if believers can know all things without teachers. Such a view contradicts the rest of the Bible, proving it a false view. The first word of the verse, But, limits the extent of…
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First John Chapter 2 (#12)… Verses 17-19Part 12 of 16
2:17-19 ends John's warning against the world, for it is opposite God, and He will soon destroy it; the obedient live forever. His readers knew about the pope antichrist, but he warned of heretic seducers already at work. Many believers…
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First John Chapter 2 (#11)… Verse 16Part 11 of 16
The pride of life is the third bucket of sins John warned against. Lust of the flesh requires a body need or desire. Lust of the eyes requires your eyes to see something. But pride is with you 24/7 and…
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First John Chapter 2 (#10)… Verse 16Part 10 of 16
The lusts of the eyes is the second bucket of sins John warned against. The world pushes visual things at us constantly, so they enter our hearts and minds by our eyes. We must commit, promise, and pray against sins…
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First John Chapter 2 (#9)… verse 16Part 9 of 16
John by the Holy Spirit reduced all sins that tempt Christians down to three buckets – lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life. These things are not of the Father but are of the world. This…
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First John Chapter 2 (#8)… verse 16Part 8 of 16
This world is the enemy of God, and He has called us to hate it, if we truly love Him. All Christians must face the fact we live in a place that hates God and promotes sin to us every…
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First John Chapter 2 (#7)… Verses 15Part 7 of 16
2:15 begins a three-verse list of rules for an evil world. The world is God's enemy, and Christians must hate it from several angles, but especially its evil passions that find a friend in our depraved old man. Everything in…
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First John Chapter 2 (#6)… Verses 12-14Part 6 of 16
2:12-14 identifies three levels of spiritual maturity, not biological age. After warning about false professors, John comforted and assured new converts, strong Christians, and old saints by their virtues. The context on both sides are two crucial commands – love…
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First John Chapter 2 (#5)… Verses 9-11Part 5 of 16
2:9-11 teach love or hatred toward a brother has serious consequences on the soul. Love will give internal light by the Spirit to avoid errors in life, but hatred blinds and deceives men to make errors without knowing why. Hatred…
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First John Chapter 2 (#4)… Verses 8-9Part 4 of 16
2:8-9 used the N.T. era as a reason to love one another. The darkness of hateful and violent living under Satan's universal rule had been broken, as the apostles took the loving religion of Jesus to the nations. A new…