Notes for Sunday

1. Whose Kid Are You?
1 John 3:1–10

2. 1 John 3:1–10
1 See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

3. V3-7
3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. 7 Little children, make sure no one deceives you;

4. V8-9
the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

5. v10
10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.
6. Whose Kid Are You?
Families look alike
Families act similar

7. Family resemblance
Johnson Family
Kayla, Nick, Chloe, Hallie, Nate, Kara, Tony, Anthony, Riley, Kenny, Ximena, Tanner Kelsey, Devon, Kraig, Kolin, Kassie, Kiah, Kameron, Korrin, Katrina, Kole, Katie
And Randy and Denise 25 kids, grandkids, parents

8. Last sermon
Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.

9. Little children
 Live in Him
 Gives confidence
 Christ our model
 Imitating Him is our proof

10. Proof from John 3 and 1 John 3
You must be born again (born of Him)
Jesus sent from heaven (know of Him)
He was lifted up (destroy Satan’s works)
Belief in him (hope fixed of Him)

11. 1 John echoes his gospel
…he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.

12. We are HIS little children
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are.
13. Our Father’s terms of endearment
Little Children…abide in Him
Children of God…great love
Beloved Children of God…be like Him

14. The world doesn’t get it
 Don’t know us or Him
 They practice sin/lawlessness
 Children of the devil
 Practice sin/Doesn’t practice righteous
 Doesn’t love

15. Our Hope
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

16. Promise
 Jesus will come again
 We will see Him
 We will be changed

17. Discipleship Based on HOPE
And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

18. What did Jesus say?
John 14:15…If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:21…He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”
John 14:23…If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
John 15:10…If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

19. Tall order
Purifies himself

20. According to James
James 4:7–10…Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

21. According to Peter
1 Peter 1:22–23…Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
22. Born of God
1. Receive the Living Word
Not just fire insurance
Transformative power of the Gospel

23. Transformative Word
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
24. There’s a fight for your mind tug of war
2. Become spiritually aware of your mental activity
Thinking is spiritual warfare
Urges, fantasies, ideas, thoughts

25. BOOM!
We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,


26. Bible end-product
3. Apply the written Word
How do I do this?
Practice, practice, practice
READ HEAR MEMORIZE

27. Application not just memorization
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

28. Want a short-cut? Jesus says
John 14:16–17 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
John 14:26…But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
29. Little children
make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning.
30. Don’t be lied to
 Practice what is right makes you His kid
 Practice sin you are his kid

31. Big for us
No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

32. Remember
The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

33. You are a Child of God
 Act like it!
 Practice it!
 Apply the Living Word
 Submit to the Holy Spirit
 Do be afraid of sin

34. Whose Kid Are You?
Whose Kid are you?



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