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1 John 5:1-5:5
Stephen Caswell © 2000
A Couple Getting Married
The prospective bridegroom was extremely nervous as he and his fiancée were discussing their wedding plans with their pastor.
I’d like to see a copy of the wedding vows, the young man said; and the pastor handed him the service.
He read it carefully, handed it back, and said, This won’t do!
There’s nothing written in there about her obeying me!
His fiancée smiled, took his hand, and said, Honey, the word /obey/ doesn’t have to be written in a book.
It’s already written in love on my heart.
Introduction
Tonight I would like to look at the theme we saw this morning from a different angle.
Because of the second birth Christians have a new nature.
They can live victoriously over sin.
However this isn't automatic and requires that we appropriate Christ's victory in our lives.
*1 John 4 & 5* shows how /faith/, /love/ and /obedience/ all work together to produce the victorious Christian life.
In doing this, John reveals how the Christian life is real and not a role that we play.
*/Tonight we will look at: /*
*I.Faith Begets New Life II.New Life Begets Love III.
Faith & Love Beget Victory*
/Firstly/ Faith Begets New Life
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*1 John 5:1a*/ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, /
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Born Again In Binumarien
When translator Des Oatridge, working in Papua New Guinea, came to the words /born again/ in John's Gospel, he asked his native co-translator to think of a good way to express it.
The man explained this custom: Sometimes a person goes wrong and will not listen to anybody.
We all get together in the village and place that person in the midst of us.
The elders talk to him for a long time.
/You have gone wrong!/ they say.
/All your thoughts, intentions, and values are wrong.
Now you have to become a baby again and start to relearn everything right.
/It was the answer Des was looking for.
Today the words of *John 3:3* in Binumarien reads /No one can see the Kingdom of God unless he becomes like a baby again and relearns everything from God's Word./
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As we observed this morning the Christian life begins with faith.
John says that anyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is the Son of God.
/Isn't that too simple?
/Yes and no! Firstly to believe is simple.
In fact young children can come to saving faith.
But what they must believe is not simple.
Verse 5 says that to be saved we must /believe that Jesus is the Son of God. /But verse 1 says that we must believe Jesus is the /Christ/.
Verse 5 emphasises Christ's deity whilst verse 1 highlights His role as the /Messiah, or Savior/.
The word */Christ/* highlights His ministry as the sinless Son of Man.
It is only when sinners believe that Jesus Christ came to die for them that they can be saved.
Such repentant sinners are in fact trusting completely in Jesus to save them.
The Word of God and Spirit of God bring about this new birth.
They cause this new to happen in response to the sinners faith in Christ.
Application
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Jesus said that unless one is born again they cannot see the kingdom of God.
As we have observed to be born again means to hear the Good News of Jesus' death and resurrection and believe in Him.
Only those who receive Jesus as their Savior can be saved.
/Do you believe that Jesus died for your sins and rose again to give you life?
Have you been born again?/
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/Secondly/ New Life Begets Love
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*1 John 5:1b-3* /And everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.
And His commandments are not burdensome./
Everything in creation except man obeys the will of God.
Fire and hail, snow, and vapor, stormy wind fulfilling His Word.
In the Book of Jonah, you see the winds and waves, and even the fish, obeying God’s commands; but the prophet persisted in disobeying.
Even a plant and a little worm did what God commanded.
But the prophet stubbornly wanted his own way.
Ever since the Garden of Eden man has disobeyed God.
However Christ has made it possible for man to obey God.
The new birth gives us the ability to obey God if we choose.
Because of the new birth Christians receive both a new life and a new nature.
No longer are they removed from the life and love of God.
As God's children they begin to love others.
This starts with our love for God.
Believers love the Father and the Son.
This is the natural response for believers as we begin to comprehend God's great love for us.
The wonderful love God has showered upon us causes us to love Him in return.
*1 John 4:19* says it well: /We love Him because He first loved us.
/As well as loving the Lord we also love our brethren.
In fact to love the Lord and our brother is to fulfill the commandments.
Jesus said this very thing in *Matthew 22:37-39*, Paul said it in *Romans 13:8-10* and in *Galatians 5:14*.
Then James said it in *James 2:8.*
Therefore, if we are born again we ought to love one another.
If we don't love our brother then we don't love God either.
God is love and He shares His nature with His children.
*1 John 4:20-21 says:* /If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
/Believers that say they love God and yet hate their brother are only pretending.
They are hypocrites and their life is not real.
Poetry & Love
A woman visited a newspaper editor’s office, hoping to sell him some poems she had written.
/What are your poems about?/ the editor asked.
They’re about love! gushed the poetess.
The editor settled back in his chair and said, Well, read me a poem.
The world could certainly use a lot more love!
The poem she read was filled with /moons/ and /Junes/ and other sticky sentiments, and it was more than the editor could take.
I’m sorry, he said, but you just don’t know what love is all about!
It’s not moonlight and roses.
It’s sitting up all night at a sickbed, or working extra hours so the kids can have new shoes.
The world doesn’t need your brand of /poetical/ love.
It needs some good old-fashioned /practical/ love.
/But how can we demonstrate this God like love to others?
/We can't do it just with just words because talk is cheap.
If we really love someone we will demonstrate it with action.
The */one another commandments/* in the New Testament tell us how to demonstrate our love!
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Love John 13:34-35* /A new commandment I give to you, that you *love* one another; as I have loved you, that you also *love* one another.
By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have *love* for one another./
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