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Call To Worship Scripture
Call To Worship Scripture
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
who satisfies you with good
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
The Lord works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.
He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel.
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
He will not always chide,
nor will he keep his anger forever.
He does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 103:
Sermon Scripture
Sermon Scripture
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines on the New Testament Introduction
The Gospel of John
The Epistles of John
The Revelation of John
Emphasis on salvation
Emphasis on sanctification
Emphasis on glorification
Past history
Present experience
Future hope
Christ died for us
Christ lives in us
Christ comes for us
The Word made flesh
The Word made real in us
The Word conquering
Intro Notes:
Wiersbe
Gospel John. - emphasis salvation - past history - Christ died for us - word made flesh
Epistle John. - em. sanctification - present experience - Christ lives in us - Word made real in us
Revelation given to John. - Emphasis on glorification - Future hope - Christ comes for us - Word conquering
*Gk verbs are important
The Characters:
We: (In the we is referring to Peter & John) - this would follow with the theme or purpose of 1John to re-afirm the core of Christianity saying that either we exhibit sound doctrine, obedience, and love that characterize all Christians, or else we are not true Christians. Peter also references the eye-witness account in 1Peter 1:16
Him: The Father (vs3)
You:
The letter has no named recipients mentioned within it. Identification of the readers as “dear children” (2:1) and “Dear friends” (2:7) suggests they were a group well known by John. It is best to view the letter as addressed to a group of people perhaps in more than one Asian community. John personally knew them and wrote to warn them of the infiltration of false teaching (4:1–2).
Dockery, D. S., Butler, T. C., Church, C. L., Scott, L. L., Ellis Smith, M. A., White, J. E., & Holman Bible Publishers (Nashville, T. . (1992). Holman Bible Handbook (p. 772). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
Jesus: The Son (vs.3)
The Message:
God is light - descriptive of God/ God here described as the one who is able to make appear. God is the enabler of sight. It is the “Father” who enables the eye to discern, to see form and color.
light requires an organ adapted for its reception (
Matt
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
where the eye is absent, or where it has become impaired from any cause, light is useless.
Man, naturally, is incapable of receiving spiritual light inasmuch as he lacks the capacity for spiritual things. (
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Believers are called “sons of light”, (
The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
we have received a revelation from God
in the New Birth we have received the spiritual capacity for it.
in him is no darkness at all
There is no blindness in God - truth is plain to see and therefore made able to be appropriately acted upon.
if we say:
“we have fellowship with him”
koinonia - the fellowship of communication, of having in common, of enjoying one another. open communication and life in common.
while we walk in darkness
not just to walk in sin, but in spiritual depravity (
the people dwelling in darkness
have seen a great light,
and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death,
on them a light has dawned.”
The message of Jesus
fellowship without following is no fellowship. (
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
to follow Jesus is to have the light of life: life in the absolute sense, as life as God the Father has in himself, and which He gave the Incarnate Son to have in Himself, (, and which the Son manifested in the world, (, …This is the life which man has been alienated from in consequence of the fall manifested in their hardness of heart,
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
to walk in darkness is to walk as blind- to not know where you are going, to not be guided by the security of truth or substance or form. (
So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
darkness here is an action…one who is walking in a way that is contrary to the fullness of God or contrary to the revealed will of God as displayed by Jesus Christ, cannot truthfully claim fellowship with him for God cannot fellowship with darkness.
The one who trust in Christ has no need to remain in darkness (
I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
we lie
we are deceived. If we think or say, that though we practice sin, or practice the way of the depraved, or living outside of Christ or walk according to our own will and not that of his…if in this we say that we still have fellowship with God for whatever reason - we lie
do not practice the truth
to put it plainly: we are not walking in reality.
The spoken reality is that one who walks outside of the life that is bestowed upon us by the Father through Christ, has no fellowship or communion with either.
The flip of this is also true that true communion with God is a necessary counterpart and great blessing of walking in “the light” and walking by truth or reality.
but if we walk in the light (what is the light)
we have fellowship with
one another
speaking of the entirety of the fellowship in God:
fellowship with the Son
fellowship with the Father
fellowship (in this case) with John & Peter and all other in the light walking children of God…what you notice in the text is that the we is speaking of the church brethren and the others in the context is Jesus and the Father, specifically the Father through Jesus.
the blood of Jesus his Son
cleanses us from all sin.
if we say:
“we have no sin”
this is to say, that we “don’t miss the mark” or that morally we don’t fall short or deviate from that which is required for perfect holiness such as found in and required by God. If we say, “I am a good person” in hopes of being recieved by God, then....
we deceive ourselves
the truth is not in us
if we confess our sins
he is faithful
he is just
to forgive us our sins
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
if we say
“we have not sinned”
we make him a liar
his word is not in us