1 John 5:1-12

Jason VonBehren

The Letters of John • Sermon • Submitted 6 months ago • Presented 6 months ago

1 John 5:1–12

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Introduction

Obedience that Conquers the World

1 John 5:1–5 CSB

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him. This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey his commands. For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden, because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. Who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

belief love and obedience are how he has shown we have assurance. he is bringing the threads together here

What John is at pains to show is the essential unity of his threefold thesis. He has not chosen three tests arbitrarily or at random and stuck them together artificially. On the contrary, he shows that they are so closely woven together into a single, coherent fabric that it is difficult to unpick and disentangle the threads. John Stott

https://www.truthforlife.org/resources/sermon/faith-is-the-victory/

https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/regeneration-faith-love-in-that-order

Assurance Gives Life

1 John 5:6–12 CSB

Jesus Christ—he is the one who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water and by blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and these three are in agreement. If we accept human testimony, God’s testimony is greater, because it is God’s testimony that he has given about his Son. The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. The one who has the Son has life. The one who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

They were saying he was not a real person. so blood was important for john to make sure they never forgot. get the real Jesus wrong and you have nothing in this life or in the life to come

https://www.truthforlife.org/resources/sermon/call-the-witness/

https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/he-who-has-the-son-has-life