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Let’s Pray...
Abide in Him...
Today we are going to go over a little Doctrine, is that okay with everyone?
A lot of churches today don’t speak of Doctrine because:
They don’t know it
They don’t want to offend people because “doctrine divides” right?
and as John MacArthur would say, “yes it does, it divides right doctrine from wrong doctrine”.
But we believe that the Doctrines builds us up and strengthens us.
So many times we read the Bible to see what we MUST do to be saved.
So many times we read the Bible to see what we MUST do to STAY saved don’t we?
When we do this we are reading the Bible wrong!
Let’s look at Verse 28 and 29
Don’t raise your hand but when you read this verse are you thinking “man, I HAVE TO ABIDE in him
So many times we come to verses like this and try to find out what is it telling me to to do?
Here it says to:
Abide and practice righteousness.
So we think to ourselves: “If I do these things then when he comes I will be saved in the end!”
Some look at verses like these and say, “okay…I can do that!
I’ll just do it!
It says to do it so I’ll do it”
But we are reading it wrong if we read it like this!
Here is the good news… “you are not under law but under grace”.
The LAW says DO THIS… but we’re not under LAW!
Look at what John said just before this in verses 26 and 27…
HE has already given us what we need to abide in Him!
HE has already given us what we need to abide in Him!
The Christian already has what he needs to abide in Christ…do you believe that?
Do you trust His Word?
The Christian already has what he needs to abide in Christ…do you believe that?
Do you trust His Word?
So HOW and WHY do we ABIDE in Him?
How do we Rest, remain in Him?
FIRST…by his Word…the apostolic teaching of His Word
Col 3:
Look back at verse 24
We have to saturate our minds with the Word of God.
We need to always be in His Word.
HIs Word should always be in our thoughts and on our minds.
How did Christ fight the lies of the Evil One?
By quoting Scripture.
Maybe that is something we need to do to fight the lies of the Evil One when they whisper temptations in our ears.
But in order to quote Scripture we must KNOW Scripture.
Rest in in His Word Church.
Secondly…Abide, REST, REMAIN in Him Alone!
It says, “And now, little children, abide in him...” In HIM ALONE.
We can never get too big for our britches thinking that we can do this on our own.
None of us are good enough to do what God has commanded us to do on our own.
When we forget what he has done for us we start thinking that we did it ourselves.
Remember …before the 10 Commandments are given it says “I am the Lord YOUR God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of SLAVERY”
Don’t forget what it felt like when you realized what a depraved sinner you were in need of a Savior.
Don’t forget how you fell on your knees and cried out the Jesus to save you from your sins because for the first time in your life you realized what a wretched sinner you were.
I never want to forget that.
When we forget that moment, that moment we came to Christ broken and desperate to save us from our sin we start abiding in ourselves don’t we.
Time passes, months pass, years pass and we grow in our knowledge of Scripture…we start new and better habits and we think… “I got this”.
No you don’t!
That’s Pride and we have all fell into it.
I know I have.
And when we go there we aren’t abiding in Christ.
We Abide in Christ by relying on him for our strength.
John began this with “little children”…think of a little child, can they make it on their own?
NO!
We need to think of ourselves in this way…like little children who can not make it on our own without our loving Father in Heaven.
Sometimes children think they can make it on their own but man…that never works out does it.
We rely on Christ for justification and also our Sanctification.
phil 2:
So WHY do we ABIDE?
“so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming”
Think about your life right now.
Think about where you are in your Christian walk right now…Think about where you have been...
Let this verse sink in...
“little children, abide in him, SO THAT when he appears we may have CONFIDENCE and NOT SHRINK BACK from him IN SHAME at his coming”
How would you have reacted if Christ came back last night?
Were we abiding in Him?
What if Christ came back when we were lusting in our hearts?
Think of the shame we would feel if in the midst of that sin the heavens opened and Christ came back.
Imagine screaming at your wife, screaming at your husband in a rage the moment Christ returned.
Imagine how we would shrink back in shame at his coming.
What if we had bitterness in our hearts, unforgiveness in our hearts toward someone when he came back.
Imagine how we would shrink back from him in shame at his coming.
Imagine if we have claimed to be a Christian for years and years and we never really ran the race.
We were always too busy to invest in the Kingdom of God.
We were too busy chasing money, our own desires and passions…we were just too busy to run the race for Christ… a life wasted you might feel.
If that is us, we will shrink from him at his coming.
The King IS COMING!
See, it is only when we ABIDE in Him that we may confidence and NOT shrink back.
CONFIDENCE IS THE REWARD at his coming!
WOULD’NT that be an awesome feeling to be CONFIDENT when we see HIM.
I want to encourage all of the believers in here to Abide in Christ Alone this morning…and that includes me.
I want us all to have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
1 john 2:
The false teachers that John is writing against (verse 26) say they have some “secret knowledge”.
A “knowledge” that is not revealed in Scripture or in the Apostolic teaching.
They claim to have this great “knowledge” but they walk in darkness.
John says that what matters more than this “knowledge” they claim to have is a life lived in righteousness.
A TRUE regenerate believer can not claim to be born of God and not live righteously.
You know why?
Because “a child always exhibits the parents character because he shares the parent’s nature.
A person’s righteousness is thus the evidence of his new birth, not the cause or condition of it” (Stott).
LOOK AT VERSE 29 AGAIN… (ON THE SCREEN)
Now look at
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