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How confident are you?
Matt Richardson’s fastball in little league
Daddy throwing fastballs at me in the dark
I stood in and got a hit
I had confidence to stand firm and swing hard
That you may know… (5:13)
John’s goal in writing is to give the believers assurance of their standing before God.
Assurance of their salvation and confidence in their eternal standing.
But that assurance is not only for the future, we live in the present with a confident assurance that shows up in our everyday lives.
John points to one of the clearest ways our confidence displays itself…in prayer.
The FRUIT of confident assurance is confident PRAYER (5:14-15)
How you talk to someone and the responses you get from them says a lot about your relationship.
If you barely know someone you are likely not going to talk to them in the same way you would talk to someone you have known for a long time.
How familiar you are to a person determines your level of confidence in speaking to them.
Your relationship with someone also has a great deal of influence on whether they will go out of their way to help you or engage with you.
We all know the oversharers and TMI folks right?
Our prayer life reveals a great deal about our relationship with God and the strength of our faith.
John points to the source of this confidence in 2 places:
We know He HEARS our PRAYERS (5:14)
it is the gift of eternal life that allows the believer to come directly before God with boldness or confidence.
It is the gift of eternal life that allows us as believers to come directly to God with boldness and confidence.
1 jn
God’s listens to the prayers of His people.
God’s listens to the prayers of His people.
This is a bold declaration of confidence for us to rest in.
Prayer is often hard because we do not audibly hear God speak to us when we speak to Him.
But John is saying “God hears your prayers, so don’t stop praying.”
We know He ANSWERS our PRAYERS (5:15)
This is not a blank check for believers.
Bruce Almighty- answers all with yes.
Everyone wins the lottery and chaos ensures.
Bruce Almighty- answers all with yes.
Everyone wins the lottery and chaos ensures.
He says He hears our prayers when we ask “anything according to His Will”
Jesus give us this model in His model prayer “The Lord’s Prayer”:
Matt 5
Our prayers can so often focus on what we think is best for us or for others,
It is not “Got I need this to happen” it is “God may you
but our hearts will only be satisfied when we rest in God plans and purposes.
Faith will accept that God’s will is best, and it will trust his plan and purpose, even if it does not understand at the time.
John and Jesus are saying our prayer must be a longing after God’s best and come from an ever-growing faith in Him.
Faith will accept that God’s will is best, and it will trust his plan and purpose, even if it does not understand at the time.
Our pursuit of knowing Jesus will guide our prayers:
Making our home with Jesus, staying in Him, remaining close by him is the rooted of confident prayer.
We know He ANSWERS our PRAYERS (5:15)
But not only does he HEAR our prayers, our confidence is that He ANSWERS our prayers.
But there is a specification and requirement.
According to His Will
This is not a blank check for believers.
Bruce Almighty- answers all with yes.
Everyone wins the lottery and chaos ensures.
He says He hears our prayers when we ask “anything according to His Will”
Jesus give us this model in His model prayer “The Lord’s Prayer”:
Our prayers can so often focus on what we think is best for us or for others,
but our hearts will only be satisfied when we rest in God plans and purposes.
John and Jesus are saying our prayer must be a longing after God’s best and come from an ever-growing faith in Him.
Faith will accept that God’s will is best, and it will trust his plan and purpose, even if it does not understand at the time.
Our pursuit of knowing Jesus will guide our prayers:
Making our home with Jesus, staying in Him, remaining close by him is the rooted of confident prayer.
Prayer is not to be self-focused
John has an aside in verse 16-17.
He wants to direct the prayers of the readers to pray for those who have been deceived by the false teachers.
1 john 5 16-17
General principles:
Pray for other people, not just yourself.
Pray for the sins you see your brothers and sister in (don’t just gossip and judge them behind their backs).
Trust that God can, and will, lead them back to himself.
Some you are praying for do not really know Jesus at all.
Sin that leads to death = unbelief in the REAL Jesus.
Rejection of who Jesus is and what He has done (the Gospel)
He isn’t saying don’t pray for them, but don’t pray for them like they are brothers and sister in the faith, THE ARE NOT.
The FOUNDATION of confident PRAYER is confident FAITH.
John gives us three pillars of confidence that our faith is founded on.
We know we have VICTORY OVER SIN.
(5:18)
Shame is the killer of confident assurance.
How could God ever love me and listen to me when I am such a horrible person?
I can’t pray after I have acted like that, He would be offended.
No way will God listen to me when I haven’t done anything for Him this week.
Oh that we may remember these words.
1 jn 1
We cannot claim to be without sin, but we can claim the redeeming work of Jesus to destroy our sin.
Yes you have sinned and yes it is grievous and gross, and yes you need to repent and pursue righteousness
But your sin is not bigger than your savior
We know that we BELONG TO GOD.
(5:19)
The confidence we have to pray comes from our identity as Children of God.
romans 8
gal
God is our GOOD FATHER and He cares for us as His beloved children
this is our father God, who loves us better than any dad could EVER love His children.
Go to Him will confidence that He love you.
We know the ONE TRUE GOD.
(5:20)
1 jn 5
The final and most REAL reason we have confidence, Jesus has come, and without Him we have no hope in life, in death, and especially in prayer.
He came to show us who God is- when we see Jesus we see the will and the very nature of God.
He has given us understanding- “the power or capacity of knowing”
Understanding of what is true- literally what is REAL.
We stand in confident assurance because we know the one who is true.
We know the one who created all that is true, good, holy, right, and just.
We not only know Him, but we are “In Him” - We are covered by Him, sheltered by Him, and find our identity in Him.
We can embrace truth and reality because He has come and we are in Him.
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