I am very excited about the message God has laid upon my heart for this coming Sunday. I realize it is a holiday weekend and many people may be out of town or away - but I am also sure that god will bring many visitors to our church this Sunday. I am continuing in the teaching series from the book of 1 John. As I began my study to condensed study of Chapter 3 I was overwhelmed by the truths of this passage. I plan to walk us through every verse of this chapter. Get ready for a power packed, Spirit energized, full volume sermon this Sunday.
I invite you to join us with an open heart, thirsty soul and prepared to worship the Lord and be prepared to present a generous over sized financial offering to the Lord.
Here is the order of worship we have planned....
We now pause for a season of pray and a time of communion with the Lord and the body of Christ.
A few moments for announcements about or growing ministry and opportunities to serve.
Now the message of the day from 1 John Chapter 3.
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that
we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the
world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are
children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know
that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he
is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is
lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our
sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one
who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The
one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who
does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from
the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s
work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed
remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the
devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is
anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning:
We should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil
one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own
actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my
brothers and sisters,if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed
from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love
remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and
you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid
down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and
sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in
need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in
truth.
19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and
how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we
know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear
friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and
receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what
pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son,
Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps
God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he
lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
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