Providence Bayswater 10am
Go to helper by a Holy Spirit, open our minds to the scriptures are read and your word is proclaimed. We may be let into your truth until your will so that we live faithful and courageous lives and Delight in your plans. For the sake of Jesus Christ, Our Lord
1, John is a bat Assurance. Not a test. 1. John chapter 5:35. This thing's to you believe in the name of the son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
Most of us when we read the Bible, to Me Only With A B Concepts of radiant. In fact, in time. Team, that's made myself at the Stockton one. A course of a few weeks. And he like had it really deep into your barbering to engage had understand and grasp with her test which I'm sure you guys might be familiar with. Is that we ask a few questions. The first question is, what is the big question is Texas asking? What is the big question? The second question is what is the big answer? So what is a text Rana say, things? What is to be questioned? What is to be gone? So, he's a third thing that we use that. I reckon most of us would be less familiar with the question. What's it going to do?
What's the function of the text?
And I reckon that last question is when most of us struggle with one Jung, we struggle with its function. We get the function wrong of lunge on whenever we think that this is a test. Instead of a bad insurance.
Most of us read 1, John like a test unite 1, John exposes some cruise and questions about the Christian faith and if we need the app to answer them and ask them to be genuine Christians and if you read 1 John like that you feel like you don't stack up and you doubt what you're a real Christian or not. And the are any was that is exactly what is audience felt when he was riding his letter, any right? One, John to answer that feeling. And so one John if you read it and you can read it like a test, it's actually having the opposite effect of what it was meant to do and say something is going wrong and that is the function of the text wrong. 1, John is less a test small, like a market report. Diamox reporting of the good ones. I was saying this, the class did well in this exam. No one failed. Section 8, people who got around 18 to 25 section, be able to answer the question on geography that well section c. Unseen section very well. Onsted high quality of our averaging around 18 to 20, 18 to 20 out of 25. And if you read that kind of my
I didn't file.
And one, John is meant to be like that.
We're going to try and do that. As we read chapter 2 today, Let's write verses 15 to 27.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world would love for the father is not in them for everything. In the world, the last of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life comes not from the father. But from the world, the world and its evil desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. Are children. This is the last hour of heard that the Antichrist is coming. Even now, many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour they went out from us but they did not really belong to us. If I had belong to us they would have remained with us but they going showed that none of them belongs to us. Are you of anointing from the Holy One and all of, you know, the truth? I did not write to you because you do not know the truth but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is Elijah? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the Antichrist. Denying, the father, and the son. no one who denies his son has a father whoever it and knowledge is our son has the father also I see you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you? If it does, you also remain in the Sun and in the father, and this is what he promised us a lot. I'm writing these things to you about those who trying to lead you astray as for you. The anointing you receive from him, remains in you and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit. Just as it has told you remain in him.
Free things to do from this text. The first thing is, do not love the world.
Out of all the things that John right in this letter W vs. In this Antichrist antichrists confession truth life and love. There's only one thing done tells you not to love And is this your thing? Do you not love the well?
That's not a statement that to come on. It's a cold action. It's like to go over there. It will go sit over there worship, right? John says the command do not love the world. So the question is, what's the weather? I like literally it could be in the whole world. That could be one on some. It could mean like the creation kind of referring to God as he created, you are my weld welding something smaller than everything. Aaron Jones. Gospel refers to the unbelieving world. So, you know, he's in the world and particular things would come from, not following Jesus. SI Jonah saying, do not cherish things, which aunt from God But then to carpets agree with what I just said, don't know what I said, don't let anything in the world would actually catches but we typically think so he is actually talking about anything in this creation. That's material, possessions goodrich's hasn't caused United. Do not love the world or anything in it because if you love those things you can't love God.
And that confuses Us in verse 16. He kind of explains what that is. Everything in the world with the loss of The Flash, the last of the eyes and the pride of life comes not from the father but from the world
Do you not desire? What your eyes can see? Because if you love those things, you cannot love God.
are you a pretty hot actually to pinpoint what John means exactly if you're trying to think like a scientist, Because John isn't riding really for scientific accuracy. I actually think he's riding dialectically singing and big contrast all the time black versus white, a versus b y u puzzle. Over it. She let it change you and respect you because even though it might be hard to pinpoint what John and actually sang in a formula here. I think we all know what he instinctively names, right?
We all know the point he's making.
You can't love things in the world and you cannot love God at the same time.
In our clears moments, we know that.
In the crystal. Clear my name, as we know it this world and its riches white. Last we know they don't satisfy Are we so easily? Forget that.
One of the greatest things about being married to my wife back is, she's my wife, is that she is very good with money and I'm horrible with money. I in fact, it's what it is. The lowest are evap. Should I take in kind of like strength finding test and what have you. And I finally have an email coming out to the church tomorrow about our finances tonight. Maybe I'll magically lose like six million dollars or something, I've got no idea but you can often so how much to it? Funnily enough, I even though I was a social worker and kind of passed profession and some not doing amazing money could have much more points, a lot of money than Becky's. A package between that can may I get fixated on it. The her doesn't really United really affect. And so, one of the clearest examples of that is that one time back was really graciously given by this property, is very kind, kind of donation. And at one point we decide to sell that property. And I was handling that sound up because of my attitude obviously but because of Life Second sounds inside a bit more energies from back. I think it was somewhere around Sammy's a birth or just before that.
We kind of I kind of negotiated a, so it didn't for 3, I decided not to pull the trigger on that Sal and about a year later, we sold it and I lost a speaker box. Huge box. I think I lost in the realm of 25% of a property's value. And Becks response.
Don't worry, it's not any money.
Don't love the world or anything in it.
Second, second thing Jones history is do not live in lies.
Done closest moment. Versace chain the last hour of time, for Jesus returns. And don't say it's the last vitamin and you can be sure of one thing the antique that one spiritual able being to a part of God in Jace's and John says in this last moment you can be sure that the Antichrist is here. But how much is 1? How many other Verse 18 even now many antichrists have come. So many already here, Antichrist roaming around where what do they look like, what are they doing? What is John tells to look for? What is the mark of the Antichrist? Best 19. They went out from us but they were not from us.
And then if you think you're not, if you want more explanation of where they are who they are. Well, why did I go out with us vs 2223? John is explaining the ones who left the many and cross. What did they do? They lied about Jesus. That's what best 22 is saying, who is Elijah? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ.
Say Christ there. So the last name that means God's tracing King. And those four stages, the ones who went out from them. They was saying that Jesus is not the Christ. You've got cheeses from he is not God's chosen King.
that was a particular challenge of one John and that's what the false teachings were saying and I reckon from there, we can go one of two ways Sorry, we could try and apply to us and we can ask a question. That Augustine does with one junk food and he said, well isn't Austin the fruit of believing lies about Jesus. Correct. And that lie is that Jesus is not the king. Isn't there a little bit of antichrist in all of us? Which is true. But that's starting to used one. John is a test. That's not using one John as reassurance. And that's not the way that one John functioned, unless you one of those posts. So, how do we apply this B?
I think the thing to be wary of then, Is what we actually believe. Do you believe that Jesus is God's King? If you do, you know the truth. Now things can undermine that Truth by by believing in things contradictory to it that you could deny rule sinful, you could deny that we need to repent. You could deny the importance of following God and His grace, the line. You could know that Jesus really is God. And there is foundational contradictions. Make the word Jesus Christ. Fulfills any meaning, But my cats, if you're a Christian today,
if you've signed up to follow Jesus, you would not I that Jesus really is the Lord, the king. The crust.
and if, you know of that, No matter how much he died and if you trust in that, no matter how much you waiver if you follow that, no matter how much you wonder. That's a big dick.
Yeah. This is great. The ticket. If you don't feel like Jesus yet and I into it like an inside, what it's like to be a Christian. A Christian is not to rely on how strong your faith or your knowledge. He's
it's to know how great Jesus is. That he's the one who holds on to us that he really is God's King.
John Edward Moore sing and that thing is 420. But you have an anointing from the Holy One and all of, you know, the truth. So the opposite of the lying. Antichrist is the truth and John says, we have that anointing from Gods, nor the truth to anoint is meaning to dedicate or the set something aside for God. And what we think of someone has an anointing wait to place. Think that, you know, that person has a really strong gift. You are really strong faith. It was something above, and beyond the rest of us, and I'm Pentecostal circles. You might hear the words and double portion of the spirit. What's anointing in 1 John?
First 20, but you have an anointing from the Holy One and all of, you know, the truth. You know that whole section following on its on lying and denying Jesus the Christ in verse 26 it comes just after those who are trying to is about. He's trying to the safe and then verse 27. It says you don't need anyone to teach you and say senses to the entire church. It sang. This entire truck has the anointing and the anointing John is talking about. Then it's the gift of knowing the truth of Jesus.
It's knowing Jesus is the Christ. And knowing that truth, a wolf that's only done by the spirit in us that anointing. John is talking about, is knowing who Jesus is.
that is, so hopefully I reckon
I reckon for the most part being a Christian in this world when confronted with how few people actually believe in Jesus with how Hustle the world can be at times, with how lonely it is, to be a Christian in 90% of Our Lives. Confronted with genuine evil and actual Horrors in this world. We food drastically ill-equipped to fight tomorrow.
Can I still believe in Jesus, after seeing all that?
If it was so hard to keep him believing in Jesus and now it told me about the Antichrist and Antichrist. How do we face that?
Well, according to John.
You go do what you need.
You could all your night.
You got the tree? you know, God the Father The spirit has changed your heart. You know, Jesus is God's King the Christ. You've go to, you need.
You got it all.
The why don't you all the way to win the battles? We fight to get through the grind of trust in unbelief, isn't to find something? New isn't to go, somewhere else isn't annoyed. Something you didn't know you before the way through it is to remain in the one you already know.
That's a fair thing. John chose to do is remain in him verse 27.
Just as a choice to remain in him.
How do we remain in the gospel had to remain in Jesus? We keep on turning back to it time and time again. We keep on staking it time and time again. We keeping rating it time and time again. We sing it. We think it, we remember, we pray it over an oil.
And then, what do we do next?
We keep on turning back to it. We hate when seeking it with cavemen rating. It we sing it. We think it will remember. We pry it over and over
And what are we doing next? We keep on turning back to it. We could even stay, can't we keeping rating it? We sing it. We think it, we were member it. We pray it over and over and over again.
And maybe that sounds simplistic. But, you know, that's the hottest thing in the world to do.
We tend to think of remaining in Jays as a passive thing as something that happens to us, maybe to stay somewhere, not true, a body, in Jesus is very active, it's determine. It has a whole lot of Is the quote from Martin Luther joins the pre-shot in his book, spiritual depression.
There are no shortcuts in the Christian Life.
If in the midst of persecution, we want to feel as pulled felt we must live as Paul lived. I must do what he tells me both to do and not to do. I must read the Bible, I must exercise. I must practice a Christian Life. I'm at live the Christian Life in all of its fullness. In other words, I must implement or call as being teaching and dresses. I did not he's dating a passage. This is I understand it is a new testament doctrine of a body in Christ. Now, the word abiding make people become sentimental. They think my body has something passive and clinging but to abide in Christ is to do what he tells you positively and pray without ceasing. Abiding is a tremendously active thing.
About a month ago I was training up some paper we are not Ministry directors training that's kind of how training that equates papal 22RE at it too. Late to Ministries here Church watching videos with custom pipe is because for some practical skills together, we read the Bible and I said, I'll just had this. I've just had a horrible day. Knowing then Prozac horrible, wake and horrible months, but I can't quite remember how long was that? I hadn't read the Bible and ages? And then I said something, which was so encouraging.
I said, so I went home. I just read the whole Gospel of Luke. I prayed and I Cry.
Abide in Jesus. Search John.
It's tremendously active thing. It's not passive, it's not sentimental, it's not staying. Still it's the active pursuit of Jesus himself.
Let's do a line under this together.
A couple of years ago, when my five-year-old semi was scared of the dark. I tried to give him this boy.
Alice is a Pikachu that I used to have and I gave it to him after I stop playing with Pokemon which sounding like a few years ago now, cuz if I try to give it to him, so he wouldn't be scared of the dark and I and I love Pokemon and it was so great. And I Pikachu, as a little extra clean house. Ash Ketchum finally won the park one leg. I think I left it with 15, 17 years of the series, and she looks 10 years old. And I remember when my parents bought me, that toy them, mom and dad, this is not a fat I am going to play Pokemon Forever.
Reality was.
It was a fad. And that you don't no matter what. For I got I always went in of every fat and I sometimes it was Tazza is marbles. Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon things went on and on and on because as humans with rude by anything. We love getting on board with a new shiny toy and you hack the new program. That's not the way to live the Christian Life.
and it's certainly the opposite to get any any kind of assurance that John is talking about
That's why they also trim. And wax. He wrote a book recently, quit at 3 Levoxyl Orthodoxy, he's beginning of it.
The church faces her biggest challenge to win. But when old truths no longer, wow.
Token once said that, the most regrettable feature of human nature is how quickly we become unsatisfied with the good.
We are safe. Good gift from God. And then cardboard with blessings. Spiritual Donis blurry vision. Hardness of Heart.
This is a true challenge for the church.
Don't let the truth of Jesus grow a doll.
No one else has words of eternal life. No one else has all the fullness of God. He is truth. There is no other. And some of you really need to know that because things are growing though and you are looking elsewhere and you're tearing out. Abide in Jesus. And and some also really need to know that now because at the moment of truth is Rich and it's full and it's so powerfully what you believe. Apologies. whatever side of the spectrum, you on what is John say to all of us abide in Jesus,
and so, if that's what you trying to do, if that's what you're keeping on trying to do. that is genuine real true Faith according to John, There's nothing, you're missing is nothing you're getting wrong. Jesus is God's King. He is the Lord. He is the Christ. And we stay in him.
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