Introduction Review of last week: Much of 1 John discusses the subject of love. However, last week we looked at the kind of love that is not honoring to God; rather it is a love that He hates. The apostle John says, "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world,…

Introduction: Do we really love God? Have we turned away from sin? Have we been born of God? · If we live in sin, if we are enslaved by the habits of sin, this is a clear sign we do not love God. But if we have turned away from sin, if the habits of sin have been broken by Christ and permanently conquered…

Having arrested Him, they led Him away and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance. On the Anvil 3: Now, Don’t Get Carried Away! Max Lucado Peter was sharp. He kept his distance from Jesus. “I’ll stay close enough to see him,” Peter reasoned. “But not too close,…

Do we dishonor the Lord when we gather for the Lord’s Supper?

I have hiked multiple mountains, several fourteeners, and one of my favorite things to do at certain points is to pause the step after step of hiking, take a breather, and look back. Looking back at the beauty of where you have been going, seeing the progress, remembering the trail past invigorates me…

First John: 1 John 5:9-God’s Testimony is Superior to the Testimony of Human Beings

Christians Have Victory & Power Over Sin (v.18-19) a) The Christian Does not sin (v.18a): Whoever is born of God does not sin q If we are born of God we do not make a habit of sin; we do not constantly; continually, habitually sin. q Before we knew Christ, the trend & direction of our life was toward…

First John: 1 John 5:13-The Purpose of 1 John 1:1-5:12

The Father Receives Prayer from Three Different Sources

First John: 1 John 5:11-The Content of God’s Testimony Concerning His Son

Easter is in a little over a month and we are going to start this week in preparing for celebrating the resurrection. Starting on that Sunday, I will be preaching a message of Joy…Joy in the Resurrection. Let me read a passage from John 16 ... 19 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he…

Be careful who you listen to because not all spirits are from God, but God has given a clear way to tell them apart. If they profess Jesus is both God and human they are true. If they do not then they are against Christ.

This is a question that is at the heart of every religion. If you are on a search for God, at some point you will have to answer this question. Every major religion in the world has had to answer, "Whom do you say that I am?" This in itself displays the preimenance of Christ because Christianity spends no time defining other religious leaders for there is no comparison between them and the ressurrected Christ Jesus: the Son of the living God.

There are only TWO SIDES This is NOT what the WORLD says. In our PLURALISTIC society people want their side to be recognized as VALID From SATAN ACKNOWLEDGING the differences in positions is often seen as UNFAIR or JUDGMENTAL . Spirit here is used to convey the SOURCE of the position, doctrine or teaching.…