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1 John 5:6-8 And Jesus Christ was revealed as God’s Son by his baptism in water and by shedding his blood on the cross—not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit, who is truth, confirms it with his testimony. So we have these three witnesses— the Spirit, the water, and the blood — and all three agree. God made His salvation plan by sending His Son to the world to redeem all people, if only they believe. This plan of redemption has been even before the creation of the world, it is just that there has been many events since the creation of man. Matthew 13:34-35 Jesus always used stories and illustrations like these when speaking to the crowds. In fact, he never spoke to them without using such parables. This fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet:  “I will speak to you in parables.  I will explain things hidden since the creation of the world.” 1 Peter 1:19-20 It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. God chose him as your ransom lo

Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Psalm 150:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. What is, or where is God's sanctuary? Another word for sanctuary is "temple" it is that separate, holy place where God comes to commune with man. He is worshipped there. Is it a building or a physical edifice? No, God Himself builds His temple. So.. . Jesus said: John 4:23-24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth. Where is man's spirit? In his body, thus Paul instructs: 1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? See it from NLT: 1 Corinthians 3:16

1 John 5:5 And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. When Jesus said: John 8:32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Who was He talking about? What truth? Of course it is the truth about Himself, what is this truth? John 14:6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. The whole of scriptures spoke of this truth, every record pointing to the person of Christ. John 5:39 “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! So our victory of the world dwells in our faith in Christ Jesus: 1 John 5:4-5 For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. Some do not even know that their is a battle in this world. The battle is the same as what it was as the

1 John 4:17 And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. What will the Lord be looking out for when He returns? Remember what the commandments are: 1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us. Firstly, it is our faith in Him, that is if we believe in God, them we must believe in His Son the only way He set for salvation. Acts 4:11-12 For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says,  ‘The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.’ There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.” The next is like the first, we must live the life of God here on earth. What is this life? We recall 1John 4:7 and 1 John 4:16 - God is love! This Jesus explained when He talked of His

1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. No one has ever seen God, only the Son revealed Him and the revelation of God He gave us was LOVE! 1 John 4:10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. We who have experienced Christ ought to be able to reveal God to the world. How are we assured that we are God's children? It is by His Spirit in us: 1 John 4:13 And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. How do we know those who have God's Spirit in them? It is by their confession: 1 John 4:14-15 Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. So if You are still struggling with the person of Christ, His Sonship and oneness with Go

1 John 4:7-8 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. There is so much use of love on our air waves, most of it being abused, others are false representations, very rarely do we hear of real love. The greatest of all is the one of Him who is above all things and from whom all things have their origin. He Himself is love. The true definition of love. He is the one who made us, "human" come to existence. He is the Heavenly Father, God the Almighty. 1John 4:8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God is love! but His love is not an abstract one, His love made Him sacrifice His Son for us, that His blood will cleanse us from all sin, and then grant us the right to be children of God. (Remember, love is expressed) 1John 4:9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son in

1 John 4:3 But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here. There are spirits that manifest on the earth, their purpose is not of the Heavenly Father but of the enemy, this is why we must test all spirits. 1 John 4:1 Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. These spirits have religions, sects, believes etc, attached to them, some have grown so popular and powerful that many have accepted them to be the truth. Now listen - there is only one truth! He alone could claim it. John 14:6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. Thus, Christ Jesus is the test for every spirit to know which is of the Heavenly

1John 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God. I remember after a class on grace many years ago I asked the Reverend who led the teaching "What about sin?" The new teaching on grace talks of all our sins being taken care of by the one sacrifice, summarily that a believer cannot sin, some go ahead to talk of the sin unto death and the sin not unto death. Others yet, still talk of the condemnation of sin, still based on the sentence on the original sin "the soul that sinneth shall die". All these have their bases in scriptures. This morning however we look at the issue of our conscience, our mind. The issue of guilt. Not linking in any argument, we need to see that the consciousness of sin would cause major issues in the life of the believer: * becoming unfruitful in preaching the gospel to others; * asking and not receiving (weak faith); * not being able to intercede; * not able to shine the light (be an example); * t

1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us. When Christ said that if we love Him we should keep His commandments, many think of the many laws and practices listed in the old testament. However when Christ gave the sermon at the mount as recorded in Matthew chapter five, He gave us the real explanation of the laws.  We see how difficult it is to be perfected by the law. He thus gave us the power behind it, the law is summarized by love. Selah So John explains to us what Christ meant by the commandments: 1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us. For Christ is the word and love is His nature. When we talk of love, it is expressed, that is why it is relative to obedience. Our Heavenly Father who is love, showed His love for us by expression/action: 1 John 3:16 We know what real love is because J

1 John 3:11 This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. If the commandments seemed too complex to understand or too weighty to bear, then one has not seen what it is about. Jesus summarized it thus: Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” Thus, any one pushing a different agenda is not on the right track, for the opposite of love is hate, thus hate is compared to murder: 1 John 3:15 Anyone who hates another brother or sister is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don’t have eternal life within them. So because we love, do we expect that everyone will love us in return? No. 1 John 3:13 So don’t be surprised, dear brothers and sisters, if the world hates

1 John 3:7-8 Dear children, don’t let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil. It is that simple! Sinners sin, while the righteous do not keep sinning. Sin is evil, while righteousness is good and acceptable! This simple difference between those who do evil and those who obey God is the crux of the matter, for in trying to explain why it isn't so is where we lose it. Genesis 3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” I love this song from Casting Crowns titled "slow fade" ( do listen to the entire song) The chorus goes thus: "It's a slow fade when you give yourse

1 John 3:1 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. For truly the resurrection of Christ was the accomplishment of God's purpose for man, which is for us to be called His children. For this to happen man had to be freed from the bondage of sin and death, someone had to pay the price, someone had to serve our sentence and someone had to win our battle, this Christ did for us. John 19:30 When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and released his spirit. Concerning this exclamation, C H Spurgeon  says TETELESTAI(It is finished) conveys: “an ocean of meaning in a drop of language, a mere drop. It would need all the other words that ever were spoken, or ever can be spoken, to explain this one word. It is altogether immeasurable. It is high; I cannot attain to it. It is deep; I cannot f

Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. One thing the resurrection power gave to us, is the mind of Christ. Remember that corruption begins with the mind. That is how the serpent deceived Eve: 2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Our mind must be filled with the knowledge of the truth of God's word. We must know, believe and accept who we have become in Him. We must not accept captivity again. Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Our mind must be set on things above, on the Heavenly Father for we have been translated by the resurrection. Colossians 1:12-14 always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share

1 John 2:29 Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God’s children. Christ came to this world, to fulfil the Father's will, that is to bring salvation to man. John 4:32,34 But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.” Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work. John 5:30 I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will. In fulfilling this will, Christ walked in righteousness, in doing this He brought us into righteousness. The whole victory was not for Himself but for us. He was already in glory, He was already in the Father, He left the Father to be with us, to save us. Yet man did not recognize it, those who ought to know refused to recognize Him John 1:10-11 He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him. He came

1 John 2:22-23 And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist. Anyone who denies the Son doesn’t have the Father, either. But anyone who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. You lose religions when you state the key of salvation. Religion is about practices, beliefs, man trying to reach out to God(a god). However when it comes to salvation it is God reaching out to man. What man has to do is to believe, accept then walk in obedience. Of course religion is about a faith, a belief, however what you believe is either truth or NOT the truth. John 8:32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” All you believe right now is a collection of what you have been told, what you have read and of course what you have been compelled to accept, however it is important for you to experience it. That is, when it comes to the Heavenly Father who is Spirit, you must have an inner witness. 1 John 2:20 But

1 John 2:15,17 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever. In all parts of the world people remember today what the Heavenly Father did for the world, He allowed His Son to be sacrificed that all men would be saved. John 3:16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. The death was for the benefit of all man-kind, it did not bring about a religion, for the Heavenly Father has no religion, He is not limited by human practices, ideology, sentiments or theology neither is He limited by time or space. HE IS GOD! So, what are we saying, man cannot save Himself, God had to come to save man. What a great testimony. It deserves more than a shout, more than a song, let the whole world k

1 John 2:14 I have written to you who are God’s children because you know the Father.  I have written to you who are mature in the faith because you know Christ, who existed from the beginning.  I have written to you who are young in the faith because you are strong. God’s word lives in your hearts, and you have won your battle with the evil one. There are three stages of growing in the Christian faith. Firstly the level of childhood, this is obviously the period immediately after salvation. The believer at this point needs a lot of care, just like a child and seems to have it easy with the Heavenly Father, just the way we are to our children at their tender years. 1 John 2:12 I am writing to you who are God’s children because your sins have been forgiven through Jesus. Every believer begins from this stage and never leaves the humility of this stage but grows in the love and knowledge of God. Selah I believe there is an intermediary state which is the youth stage, where the believer i

1 John 2:7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before. No one can talk of walking in the light if they are not walking in love. Jesus said that the commandments are summarized thus: Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” So if you are practicing anything that is contradictory to this, you are definitely in the wrong path! When you come to Christ you come to light, darkness is removed and light comes in: 1 John 2:8 Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. For the darkness is disappearing, and the true light is

1 John 2:3-4 And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. The evidence of our love for God is shown in our obedience to Him. It is easy to say it or sing it in a song but the evidence is seen when we actually walk in obedience. Jesus said: John 14:15 “If you love me, obey my commandments. For the true evidence of what is in your heart is shown in your actions, remember words are spoken, speaking is actually an action word. Selah So, this is the right order: you obey, because you love. Religion is different, obey that you may not die or go to hell etc. This is why the Lord said through His prophet: Isaiah 29:13 And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine.  They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.  And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote. If it is not from love then it is not from th

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Our faith in God is definitely not limited by our feelings or our emotions. For we cannot afford to live by sentiments, they are just a fling of the moment. Faith is tangible. We cannot trust our feelings and emotions, they fluctuate day after day, today we are elated, the next we could be gloomy, we cannot work with the Heavenly Father that way. Explaining God intellectually is actuality a futility. He is Spirit and cannot be limited by the five senses. That's why the law was actually a bondage. It is not wisdom trying to live to please a Spirit based on our senses. It has to be by faith. It is when our faith is activated that our senses could begin to display it's results. (Faith without works is dead) We must remember that Salvation itself is a product of faith. Romans 10:10 For with the heart one b

Man was created from God's desire to have a replica of Himself. His glory, His dominion, His will and ability to make and take decisions. Genesis 1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Man carried God's signature in Him. He desired the way God did, he creates the way God did. He had the will, the power of choice, just as God did. It was these characteristics that the enemy used against man to cause him to fall from glory. Yes, man desired yet again, but now in the wrong direction. Man sought for what would perish. Energy and time wasted on what would not last. * a false fight to stay  on top * a hunger of false dominion ( man was never commanded to have do