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Epistemology is one of those words that few of us have heard of, let alone have any idea what it might mean.
Epistemology is the Philosophy of Knowledge and Justified Belief, and it addresses mainly the following questions:
* What is knowledge?
* How is knowledge acquired?
* To what extent is it possible for a given subject or entity to be known?
Epistemology helps us know how we know stuff.
Isn’t that exciting?!
Just how do we come to know or know about stuff?
We come to know and know about stuff through Experience.
Experience is based on perceptual observations through the senses.
We come to know and know about stuff through Intuition.
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference and/or the use of reason.
Some would say that it is the result of innate common sense.
Every woman has it, few men do.
At least that’s the commonly accepted wisdom of our culture.
We come to know and know about stuff through Rationalism.
Rationalalism is reasoned reflection and is the ability to take a wide-ranging set of facts and from them to logically deduce a conclusion.
But for us as Christians there is another way we come to know and know about stuff.
It is through the infallible revelation of God.
The intellectual world will sneer at our belief in the authoritative disclosure of truth that we find in the Scriptures.
However, for the believer it is the surest source of knowledge there is.
Sixteen times the Apostle John writes in this brief epistle, we know.
We know, because the Spirit of God, working through men of God, gave us the word of God that can be absolutely trusted.
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I. WE KNOW THAT SIN & SATAN NO LONGER HAVE DOMINION OVER US
* /“We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.”/
(1 John 5:18, NIV84)
#. as he winds down this letter, John reiterates a vitally important principle he introduced earlier in this epistle
#. no one who has been transformed by the new birth goes on living in an unbroken lifestyle of sin
#.
Godliness, and holiness and Christlikeness become our motivation, and our goal
#. if we know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin, then we can discern to important truths ...
!! A. THE UNCONVERTED CAN DO NOTHING BUT SIN
* ILLUS.
I don’t know if it’s original to him or not, but the late Adrian Roger, long-time pastor of the Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, use to say that /“We should never be surprised when lost people act like lost people.
Rather, the surprise is when they act like saved people.”/
* /“A person who does not have the Spirit does not accept the truths that come from the Spirit of God.
That person thinks they are foolish and cannot understand them, because they can only be judged to be true by the Spirit.”/
(1 Corinthians 2:14, NCV)
#. the unconverted can do nothing but sin because ...
#. ... they are sinners from birth (Ps.
51:5)
#. ... they are slaves to sin (John 8:34; Rom.
6:16)
#. ... they are defiant, rebellious haters of God (Psa.
5:10; 68:1; Rom.
1:30; 5:10; 8:7)
#. ... they are under the dominion of Satan (Eph.
2:2; cf.
Acts 26:18; Col. 1:13)
#. in short, the unconverted are “dead in [their] trespasses and sins” (Eph.
2:1)
#. and before our conversion, we were all those things, too!
!! B. THE CONVERTED HAVE TURNED THEIR BACK ON SIN
#. the person who is born of God cannot live in an unbroken pattern of sin, for several reasons
#. 1st, sin is incompatible with the law of God
* /“Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.”/
(1 John 3:4, NIV84)
#. the redeemed of the Lord love God’s law and cannot habitually live in violation of God’s commands
* /“Oh, how I love your law!
I meditate on it all day long.”/
(Psalm 119:97, NIV84)
* /“We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands.
The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”/
(1 John 2:3–4, NIV84)
* /“Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them.
And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.”/ (1 John 3:24, NIV84)
#. 2nd, sin is incompatible with the work of Christ, who /“appeared in order to take away sins”/
* /“But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins.
And in him is no sin.”/
(1 John 3:5, NIV84)
#.
Jesus died not only to forgive us our sin, but to give us power over our sin
#. 3rd, sin is incompatible with the work of the Holy Spirit, who in the new birth plants the principle of divine life in the redeemed
* /“And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.
Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.”/
(Ephesians 1:13–14, NIV84)
#. the repeated teaching of the Scripture is that the world, the flesh and the devil no longer have dominion over the life of the believer
#. that we do not continually live in sin does not mean that believers ever reach a point in this life where we never sin
#. in fact, John said that those who make such claims are liars
* /“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.”/
(1 John 1:8, NIV84)
#. further, his description of Jesus as believers’ Advocate (1 john 2:1) assumes that they will continue to sin and need His intercession
#. the point here in v. 18 is the same as the Apostle John makes earlier in his letter
#. a pattern of righteousness characterizes the redeemed, whereas a pattern of unrighteousness characterizes the unredeemed
#. the Apostle Paul reminded the Christians at Rome that sin’s power over them has been broken
* /“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves.
Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of?
Those things result in death!
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.”/
(Romans 6:17–22, NIV84)
!! C. THE REDEEMED ARE KEPT SAFE IN CHRIST
#. the reason we can be victorious over the world, the flesh and the devil is because He who was born of God keeps him safe
#. this is a reference to Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God
#. as the Good Shepherd, Jesus protects His flock so that the evil one (Satan) cannot harm us
#. the word harm in v. 18 literally means to touch—the Apostle John is saying that, because of Christ in us, Satan cannot lay a hand on us
#. it means that he can no longer do us any spiritual harm
#. believers are no longer under the Devil’s control, having been /“rescued … from the domain of darkness”/
* /“For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,”/ (Colossians 1:13, NIV84)
#.
Satan can tempt and harass the saints, as he did Job (Job 1–2) and Peter (Luke 22:31), but he can never reclaim them
#. in Christ we are supernaturally preserved by the promises of God, the power of God, and the unchangeable purpose of God until the final day of redemption
* /“May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through.
May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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