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Who are you?
How do you answer that question?
Most often we define ourselves by what we do and the roles we play in life.
I am a mom or a dad
I am a nurse, teacher, supervisor...
We then attribute our value/worth to how well we perform in those roles.
We are scored by our performance and the results of our labor.
If my kids are successful, happy, and well behaved then I am considered a good parent.
If I get promoted, well-liked, or am productive in my occupation, then I am a successful and valued employee.
We are on the constant roller-coaster of earning our value and/or finding our identity in how well we perform for others acceptance.
Maybe this isn’t you in your everyday life (it is true of 95% of us), but it is most definitely true in our Christian lives.
Most of us would answer the question “What makes someone a Christian?” by pointing to things that we do or don’t do.
They go to church.
They read their bible.
They pray before meals.
They give money and serve.
They don’t drink, smoke, or cuss.
They don’t listen to certain kinds of music or watch certain movies.
Some traditions would add quite a few things to the list, but we get the gist.
John is presenting a different answer today.
Christians are defined by God’s love.
There are only two groups of people here today.
Those that
John is saying “BEHOLD the other-worldly, unfathomable love God has for us”
John is, and wants us to be, astonished by the love God has shown us in Christ Jesus.
John wants us to stop and gaze at the love of God, not just glance at it in passing.
Have you ever stopped and looked at something you pass by everyday?
The Himalayan mountains out my window.
Showed them pictures of KY and they were astonished, as we are looking at THIS!
We have a tendency to become too accustomed to the most amazing of things.
We are all familiar with Jesus’s words in John 3:16--
John is saying “take a look at the love God has for us”
You are not defined by your successes or your failures.
He is
You are not defined by what others think of you or how they define you.
Your identity comes f
God’s love is put on display in sending Jesus to die for us.
Even more so, His love is put on display in that Jesus died for us “Even while we were sinners”.
But it gets even better than that:
This is the love of God that John wants us to see:
God had no obligation to save us from His wrath for our sin.
He could have left us in our condition, decided that His Son was too valuable to die for sinful man.
And He would have been just to do so i our rebellion
He would have been gracious to save us from hell, forgive us of our sin, and give us eternal life with His watch-care and not His presence.
That would be incredibly gracious and loving, giving us something we do not deserve and could never repay Him for.
But He goes beyond just saving us and forgiving us, He adopts us into His family.
We are made sons and daughters of God, heirs with Christ of all that God owns.
We are
Ephe 2:6-
Gal 3:4-7
We have a seat at the table with Christ Jesus and the Father.
We are not just forgiven, we are brought into the family of God.
Those that deserve the wrath of God are made His children.
God had no obligation to save us from His wrath for our sin.
He could have left us in our condition, decided that His Son was too valuable to die for sinful man.
And He would have been just to do so i our rebellion
He would have been gracious to save us from hell, forgive us of our sin, and give us eternal life with His watch-care and not His presence.
That would be incredibly gracious and loving, giving us something we do not deserve and could never repay Him for.
But He goes beyond just saving us and forgiving us, He adopts us into His family.
“Who God is is revealed through what God has done, which leads to who we are, and to what we do.”
is revealed through what God has done (created),
May that move us.
which leads to who we are (created image-bearers made in God’s likeness),
Let’s play this our in an example:
Who God is (Creator),
and to what we do (display God and co-create more image-bearers).
Who God is (Creator),
is revealed through what God has done (created),
is revealed through what God has done (created),
which leads to who we are (created image-bearers made in God’s likeness),
which leads to who we are (created image-bearers made in God’s likeness),
and to what we do (display God’s creativity and multiply and produce in the world He has placed us).
and to what we do (display God and co-create more image-bearers).
Our identity as moms and dads is grounded in who God is, what He does, who we are because of who He is, and what we do because of who He has made us to be.
Being proceeds doing.
So in our passage today John is saying:
God is Love and we see His love in on display in Christ.
So we who have received salvation in Christ are Loved, children of God, so we live as Children who are loved by God the Father.
God’s Love defines...
Our IDENTITY.
1 jn 3:1
Jeff Vanderstelt draws our the progression of where our identity is found.
Jeff Vanderstelt draws our the progression of where our identity is found.
“Who God is is revealed through what God has done, which leads to who we are, and to what we do.”
Let’s play this our in an example:
Who God is (Creator),
is revealed through what God has done (created),
which leads to who we are (created image-bearers made in God’s likeness),
and to what we do (display God’s creativity and multiply and produce in the world He has placed us).
Our identity as moms and dads is grounded in who God is, what He does, who we are because of who He is, and what we do because of who He has made us to be.
Being proceeds doing.
So in our passage today John is saying:
God is Love and we see His love in on display in Christ.
So we who have received salvation in Christ are Loved, children of God, so we live as Children who are loved by God the Father.
Our identity does not come from what we accomplish or earn.
Our identity is not something we get from other people.
Our identity is not based on our successes or our failures.
Our OBEDIENCE.
1 jn 3
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