Sermon Tone Analysis

Call To Worship Scripture

Psalm 103:

Sermon Scripture

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

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.

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Believers are called “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 message of Jesus

fellowship without following is no fellowship.

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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,

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.

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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 (

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