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Do you want?
Have confidence before God.
Receive whatever you ask
Have the Holy Spirit living in you
The Message From the Beginning: Love Each Other (v.11)
The Greek term for “message” is only used here and in .
The first time it was a message for doctrine, this time it is for application.
I think this shows the balance John help between doctrine and application.
Teaching us that teaching and application should go hand and hand.
What I find intresting is how John refers to the beginning very often.
in his first book:
in his second book: ; , , , ;
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in his third book: ,
What Love Is Not (v.12-15)
As you can see John likes to refer to the beginning.
pass out handout on “ARXE”
Notice how John speaks of the word beginning more than anyone else.
Teaching me that: this message is not new it is old.
Many people want to say the message of the NT is so different from the OT.
They are wrong its that the Old testament is an example of the messages in the NT.
As Jesus said in
What Love Is Not (v.12-15)
John’s doctrinal example of what love is not: Story of Cain and Abel ()
John’s example of “the message from the beginning” (to love each other) comes from the very first recorded moment when a man did not love his brother.
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John’s example of “the message from the beginning” (to love each other) comes from the very first recorded moment when a man did not love his brother.
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John’s example of “the message from the beginning” (to love each other) comes from the very first recorded moment when a man did not love his brother.
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You should know that murdering your own brother was considered one of the most hideous crimes in the ancient world.
John application of what love is not: hate/murder
Hatred/anger is murder in God’s eyes.
to take it to the next level:the greek word for murder here means to butcher, or cut the throat.
Look if anyone has the right to be angry it is God towards us.
He created us for his purposes.
But we say but what this person did or didn't do wasn't right....
But how many things have you done to God that wasn't right?
If God loves you and is not angry with you.. then you have no right to be angry.
If that speaks to you you should read
So your anger/hatred is butchering or cutting off the throat of the person in God’s eyes.
A Roman Philosopher in Jesus day named Seneca said whenever you feel hatred toward someone just laugh, or scoff it off”
We see that Jesus taught to love your enemies (Mt 5:44)
“Hate takes a life but love gives a life” - Bob Utley
What Love is (v.16-18)
Laying down your life (v.16)
as Jesus laid (aorist) His life for us.
now when we lay down our life for others there is no atoning value to it… but we do it because thats what Jesus taught us.
Not holding tightly to what you own (v.17)
that Greek word for “closes his heart” means to slam the door of his compassion
in some Jewish thought holding tightly to what you own is the same as starving a person.
Josephus boasted “no Jew depended on outsiders for charitable support, since the Jews cared for all of their destitute and disabled brethren”
Love in deed and truth (v.18)
the ancient world often coupled the words “deed and truth”
What Love Does For Believers (v.19-24)
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1 John 3:19-24
Confidence before God (v.19)
Verse 20 tells us why love gives us confidence before God.
God is greater than your heart and knows everything about you...
If anyone can judge you and condemn you it is God, but instead He loves you.
Receive whatever I ask (v.22)
the verse continue to say “because you obey him”
we obey God by keeping his commandments.
Verse 23 tells us the 2 commandments:
“trust in Jesus” - as Jesus said in
“love each other”
The Holy Spirit living in us (v.24)
Conclusion
Don’t be angry or hate others = murder
Lay down your life for others
Don’t hold tightly to what you own
Love in deed and truth
Then as you love others and trust in Jesus you will:
Have confidence before God.
Receive whatever you ask
Have the Holy Spirit living in you
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