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God Revealed And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. The main purpose of Christ’s coming was to revel the Father and the way home “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me. I have revealed…

1 John 1:5-2:2 Good morning church! Welcome back to all of the ladies that were at the retreat last weekend, we missed you and are glad that your here this morning. The men would like to ask all of you to return the favor and begin to pray for our retreat in September as we did for yours as there is…

Ephesians 4:29-32 We have been looking at The Great Life. The Great Life is the life of the Spiritual Man. A life that is continually yielded to the Holy Spirit of God. We looked last week at the seventh ministry of the Holy Spirit, the Filling of the Holy Spirit, and we saw that entails our yielding…

Good Morning! I want to share with you three doctrinal statements from the 56 th Annual Conference. They are pretty basic, so you should be able to learn the 3 of them. We believe, The Bible is Real! Jesus is the ONLY WAY ! People should know this! We will talk more about doctrine, later in this message.…

Introduce self... Pray... Starting the book of 1 John. Lots of ways to approach a new book... Who is John? Why should we listen to him? Sometimes we forget this was written by real people who lived real experiences. 6 reasons to listen to John (1) John was an eye witness From the beginning… stability…

Good Morning. Glad we can be here. Today we are going to a look at the book of 1 John. We will be working our way through it over the next several weeks. One of the great things about this book is it is short. It is easy for all of us to read this book and really dig into it together. To set some context…

1 John 1 Good morning church! We are starting a new book this morning that I’m very excited about. It is another short one, only 5 chapters, I’m not yet 100% sure yet how long it is going to take us to get through, you guys know that I’m not 100% sure how far we are going to ever get today, but that’s…

Author: John This is the author of all three books. We will look at each book separately but there will be some overlap. The text does not specifically name the author. There is a claim of an eyewitness relationship. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our…

24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. What was heard from the beginning? 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked…

We Walk in the Light Last week I said that 1 Corinthians 15:1-2 could be remembered with the acronym - EGG. 1 Corinthians 15:1–2 (GNB) 1 And now I want to remind you, my brothers and sisters, of the Good News which I preached to you, which you received [EMBRACED], …and on which your faith stands firm…

22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 24 because “All flesh…

The Must Tell News of Jesus’ Resurrection

1 John is one of the most quoted books in the New Testament, and for good reason. The overall theme of the book is knowing who God is, believing in His Son Jesus Christ, and having assurance of eternal life. 1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have…

Fellowship is one of the primary reasons why God created His Church. It's not about doing it alone. But coming together to see the Kingdom Of God flourish on the earth. Let take the time to explore What fellowship is all about.

Intro Can we have joy even knowing that we are not in control? We must answer a few more questions before we can answer that one. If we are not in control, then who is? What is the character of that being that is in control? Are they good, are they evil? This will directly impact our ability to find…

Entertaining Angels has been our theme this season, following along with Christ’s Birthday Observance from the Christian Women’s Connection annual reminder to make Jesus the Subject of our Christmas celebrations. Mary Lopez began the season for us on the first Sunday of Advent with a reminder that we…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

Introduction Lets start with a passage out of the Johns 1st Letter 1 John 2:18 (NASB95) 18 Children, it is the last hour; ... Pastor Ben spoke last week about john and the early church bringing to light . Words like syncretism Gnosticism and Political Correctness We are not going to veer off from Bens…

Intro What have we learned up to this point? Adam - how to deal with sin - Key word Repentance Sin is a fire that burns and devours also - Presence is not good enough - It is presence with practice. AMEN Noah - God deals with wickedness Noah Did what God asked him to do - not only this but all God asked…

Starting our series going through the letters of John. We will be placing our Christian life up against scripture to examine ourselves and ensure that we are in the faith and truly illuminated to walk in the light saved by the Word of Life.

Alan Bloom - “The Closing of the American Mind” - contemporary intellectual climate as one in which there is no ability to distinguish good from bad, truth from error, even the important from the unimportant. All such distinctions are seen as being contrary to the chief virtue in today’s world, that…

1 John 1:1-4 Christianity stands or falls on the person and work of Jesus Christ. Christianity succeeds or fails on whether or not a true and genuine incarnation actually took place in space and time. The options as to who Jesus is and what Jesus did can basically be reduced to four possibilities. This…

Starting a new book - John’s context: John writing to a church experiencing what we would call a “split”. The community he’s writing to lived in a pluralistic culture, like ours. Any and every religion and philosophy were available. Some members of the community were trying to mix together the gospel…

Learn what the modern church in America is missing today.

3 We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy. 5 This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare…