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*THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION*
1 John 3:1-10
Imagine that you've been asked to write a book on marriage.
Your publisher says, "We want to target young engaged couples who are considering getting married."
So you dust off your typewriter and get to work.
What do you want to say to young couples considering marriage?
Maybe you'll talk about Compatibility.
Give them some ideas on how to determine if they're right for each other.
Maybe you'll talk about Assurance.
Before the couple goes through with the wedding, they need to be absolutely certain they're making the right decision –
so you'll give them advice on how to be sure this is the right decision.
Maybe you'll talk about Support.
You'll encourage them to listen to what others are saying.
Do friends and family support the idea of getting married?
You'll encourage them to listen to the advice of others, no doubt.
With these things in mind you begin writing your manuscript.
Several weeks (and 100 pages) later your publisher calls and says,
"Change of plan.
We don't want a book for young engaged couples considering marriage.
We want a book for married couples considering divorce.
We've discovered that most people who consider divorce get bad advice from their friends and family –
most of the time they encourage them to go through with it.
So we want a book for married people in this situation."
Changes everything, doesn't it?
You look at the first draft of your manuscript and realize that everything you've written –
though it is certainly true –
doesn't apply to your new target audience.
For example,
an engaged couple should ask the question
"Are we right for each other?"
For a married couple, it's too late to ask that question.
Instead, they need to ask,
"How can we make this work in spite of our differences?"
If a young engaged couple said,
"Everyone we know is telling us not to get married."
We would say, "Maybe you should listen to them."
But if a married couple says, "All our friends are saying we should split up."
We would say, "Don't listen to your friends."
Different people in different situations need to hear different advice.
The book you write for a struggling married couple is different than the one you write for a young engaged couple.
Does That make sense?
*JOHN'S TARGET AUDIENCE *
In the same way, 1 John was written for people in a specific situation.
In order to understand 1 John, you need to understand who these people were.
They weren't seekers.
They weren't non-believers.
They weren't game-playing religious people.
They were born-again, Spirit-filled, fully-devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
Now, among them there were some heretics who were trying to lead them astray, but John isn't writing to those people.
He writes /about/ them, but not to them.
John is writing to a group of dedicated and devout Christians who are, most certainly, saved.
Here's the problem.
Some people go to 1 John with questions that he didn't intend to answer in this letter.
1 John wasn't written to answer the question "Am I really saved?"
He makes it clear that he knows his readers are members of God's family.
Instead, he's answering the questions,
"How can I change?
How can I be more like Jesus?
How can I go deeper in relationship with God?"
This is an important distinction because John says some things in chapter 3 that are difficult to understand if you don't know who he's talking to.
Case in point.
He says...
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9) Anyone born of God does not sin.
(KJV)/*
I think I had been a Christian about six months the first time I read this verse, and it sent me straight into despair.
I actually hadn't realized how sinful I was until after I became a Christian.
Before, I thought I was a fairly decent guy.
When I got saved I discovered that I was, in fact, truly wretched:
I was selfish.
I was petty.
I was jealous.
I was irresponsible.
I was deceptive.
And on and on.
Before, none of this bothered me – in fact, I hardly noticed it.
When I became a Christian something happened: the Holy Spirit entered my existence and began convicting me of sin.
He showed me again and again, day after day, just how much was in my life that shouldn't be there.
And then I read John's words, */"Anyone born of God does not sin."/*
This bothered me because I struggled so much with sin.
I went to see my pastor about it, and he explained to me that the verse indicated "on-going" sin,
and he showed me how other translations rendered the verse differently.
*/(v.
9) No one born of God practices sin.
[NASV]/*
*/(v.
9) No one born of God will continue to sin.
[NIV]/*
Oh, I thought, he's not talking not about one sin.
He's talking about on-going continuous sin.
Hmmm.
Guess what.
It didn't make me feel better.
I still qualified for John's exclusion.
I "continued to sin".
I had been at the Christian life for six months now, and I was still sinning every day.
Several times every day.
Every hour.
Several times every hour.
Almost every minute.
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