Living as God’s Children: Love (I John 3:10 ““ 24) Purpose: God’s Children Love Like He Loves 1. God’s Primary Message To Love One Another (1 John 3:10-11) 2. How Not to Love (1 John 3:12-15) Not like Cain (v. 12) Not like the world, you’re different now (v. 13) Not like you’re dead (v. 14) Not hating your brother (v. 15) 3. What is love? (1 John 3:16a) Philippians 2:3-11 4. How To Love (1 John 3:16b-24) Love like Jesus (v. 16b) Love using God’s provision (v. 17) Love is an action (v. 18) Love God with all your heart (vv. 19-20) Love God prayerfully, to please Him (vv. 21-22) God’s Love In and Through You (vv. 23-24)

God is Father (I John 3:1″“9) 1. Happy Birthday! (1 John 2:29) Welcome to the family! Who gave birth to you? See John 1:12-13 & 3:3-21 2. Your Inheritance (1 John 3:1a) 3. Your New Family (1 John 3:1b-2) 4. Future Glory, Present Purity (1 John 3:3) 5. Not My Kid! (1 John 3:4-9) Who’s Your Daddy? Of whom are you born? Children of the Sinless Savior, Sin Less

Living in the Light: Keep The Faith 1 John 2:18 ““ 29 The Fourth Condition for Living in the Light: Keep the Faith 1. Antichrists Attack the Faith (1 John 2:18, 22-23) Jesus IS the Faith John 8:19; 16:3; 17:3 1 John 4:15; 5:1 2 John 9 2. Adversaries Abandon the Faith (1 John 2:19, 26) 3. God’s Anointing Causes us to Abide in the Faith (1 John 2:20-21, 23-25, 27-29) Jesus IS Eternal Life 1John 5:11 1John 5:20 Do you have the real Jesus? Will you stay in Jesus no matter what?

Living in the Light: Reject Worldliness (I John 2:12 ““ 17) 1. True Christians Encouraged (1 John 2:12 ““ 14) Sins forgiven (v. 12) Know the Father (vv. 13-14) Word of God abides IN you (v. 14) Overcome the evil one (v. 14) 2. True Christians Love God, not the World (1 John 2:15) Overcome the evil one = Overcome the world! See 1 John 4:2-6; 5:3-5 Is the Love of the Father IN you? 3. Why? We shouldn’t love things that aren’t from God? (1 John 2:16) Worldly love is not from where? But is from where? 4. Live for the eternal rather than the temporal (1 John 2:17) What is passing away? What is forever? See 1John 3:8; 1Peter 4:1-5; 1Thessalonians 4:1-7; 1John 5:19-20 What do you live for?

Living in the Light: Be Obedient I John 2:3-11 1. How do you know that you’re God’s? (1 John 2:3-6) The main premise (1 John 2:3) A test that someone is NOT God’s (1 John 2:4) A test that someone IS God’s (1 John 2:5-6) 2. Why? God’s Commandment of Love IN You (1 John 2:7-8) See 1 John 3:23; 4:21 and John 13:34-35 3. Light begets light, Love begets love (1 John 2:9-11) An example of FALSE Christianity (1 John 2:9, 11) An example of TRUE Christianity (1 John 2:10)

Living in the Light: Renouncing Sin I John 1:8-2:2 1. Admitting Our Sinful State To Ourselves (1 John 1:8) 2. Answering for Our Sinful Actions (1 John 1:9) 3. Acknowledging Our Sin Before God (1 John 1:10) 4. Abiding in the Light, Not in Sin (1 John 2:1) 5. Jesus Christ -The Only Advocate for Our Sin (1 John 2:2)

The Word of Life, God is Light I John 1:1-7 I. John Describes The “Separatists” 1. They do not practice love in relationship with the readers (2:9-11 and 4:20-21) 2. They do not acknowledge the humanity of Christ (1:1, 2:22, 3:5, 4:2-3, 5:56) 3. They have aligned themselves with forces opposed to faith, the world (2:15, 4:5-6) 4. They are instruments of evil and “actors in the last days” because they act like Christ but are anti-Christ (2:18-23) 5. They were never confessing Christians (2:19) 6. They do not adhere to John’s teachings or the general corporate body (4:6) 7. They falsely claim to know & love God (2:4, 4:20) and to be in the light (1:6, 2:9) 8. They falsely regard themselves free of sin (1:6-10, 3:3-6) 9. They are w/o moral restrictions in their behavior (3:4-10) II. John’s Purpose for the Readers 1. That you may have fellowship – to confirm their Christian faith and walk (1:3) 2. To make “our” joy complete (1:4) 3. In order that you will not sin (2:1) 4. To you who believe = ETERNAL LIFE (5:13) 5. To refute false doctrine (1:6, 8, 10; 2:18, 26; 3:7; 4:1-3) III. The Word of Life, God is Light (1:1,5) IV. Come out of the Darkness, Come to Jesus Christ (1:6-7) Right fellowship is with the apostles and Jesus Christ Wrong fellowship is with those who do not believe or follow Christ