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1 John chapter 1 · Scripture Unscripted

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  First John chapter one, let us pray.
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  Oh Lord, God, we love you. We love everything about you.
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  Thank you God for saving our soul.
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  Thank you God for these words. Thank you Lord for church.
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  Thank you God for who you are. Thank you, Father, that you love
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  us, Lord, and that we can come to know you and be known by you.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus for marriages.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus for prodigals.
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  God, I pray you'll bring them home.
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  Restore marriages, God, restore families, Lord, heal us.
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  Heal our broken bodies. Heal us, God, of all of our
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  infirmities. God, I pray that we will live
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  lives that are meaningful and purposeful.
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  Help us to live lives that are pleasing unto you.
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  Teach us your eternal paths today.
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  Show up and show off, Lord. It's in your holy and precious
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  name, King Jesus, that I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one, that which was from the
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  beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our
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  eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have handled the
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  word of life in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
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  with God, and the Word was God. And here John wants us to know
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  that they actually had fellowship with Jesus Christ,
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  who is the Word. How amazing is it that we hold
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  the Word in our hands and this word is alive and active and
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  heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one of His words.
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  This is gravity. Friends, you need to understand
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  that the Bible is not something to place on the shelf to collect
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  dust, open it up and read it and know it and learn it and own it
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  and hide it. Friends, do not be those who
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  just want to be spoon fed or want to watch sermons and little
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  short videos in clips. We need to be students of the
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  Word of God from Genesis to Revelation 66 book Canon.
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  Nothing added and nothing subtracted God's complete
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  authority for our lives. And He came, and He dwelt among
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  us. Emmanuel 2 For the life was
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  manifested, and we have seen it. And bear witness and show unto
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  you that eternal life which was with the Father and was
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  manifested unto us. So the apostles, the disciples,
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  they actually got to sit with him and talk with him, discourse
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  with him. And now, after his ascension and
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  after Pentecost and the Holy Spirit comes and dwells within
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  them, they saw and they finally understood that Jesus was the
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  Christ, the long-awaited Messiah.
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  And you can see that they are reliable eyewitnesses of it.
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  This is not just fairy tales. This is not just a feel good
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  book about another religious teacher.
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  This is not basic instructions before leaving earth.
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  This is all authority. This is God Almighty breathed
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  upon. This has wait for every single
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  person who has ever been born, is living or will be born.
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  This is the authority for all lands and all people groups, all
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  countries and all languages. This is the authority over their
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  lives. This is God the only uncreated
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  Almighty. The God of Abraham, Isaac and
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  Jacob is the only one true living God.
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  And he revealed his son to the entire world, and everything got
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  flipped right side up. 3 That which we have seen and heard
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  declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with
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  us. And truly our fellowship is with
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  the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
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  That is the intention of John as he wants the entire world to
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  have fellowship with God Almighty through His Son Jesus
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  Christ. And that is the only way that
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  you can be at one with God and have peace with God is by being
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  covered in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  That was spilled out for us on Calvary 4.
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  And these things right we unto you, that your joy may be full.
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  So this joy that is available to us, we must take it, friends.
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  We must choose it, friends, in light of all of our external
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  circumstances. We choose joy.
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  We choose to live in light of eternity, not believing all of
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  the lies of this world and the deception of the enemy, not
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  believing all of our feelings and emotions, but choosing to
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  believe that God is and that He rewards those who diligently
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  seek Him. And we have an eternal abode
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  with Him forevermore that is incorruptible regardless of our
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  external circumstances. 5 This then is the message which we
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  have heard of Him, and declare to you, that God is light, and
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  in Him is no darkness at all. He there is no shadow of
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  shifting. God is, and we must believe that
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  first. We must believe that He is the
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  great I am, and He dwells in unapproachable light.
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  There is no shadow or shifting. There is no darkness at all.
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  God is good, and good is God, and we are eternally thankful
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  and grateful because God the only God.
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  There is no other God. It's only God is good.
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  What a reason for us to rejoice. There is no evil in God.
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  He is light and Jesus showed us that.
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  And if we look to Jesus then we can see God. 6 If we say that we
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  have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do
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  not the truth. You cannot live in perpetual sin
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  and have fellowship with God, who is light.
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  Darkness and light do not cohabitate.
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  The light expels the darkness. And this is not somebody who is
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  tripping up. This is somebody who is living
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  in perpetual sin, and then they lie about being in fellowship
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  with God. God does not have fellowship
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  with darkness, and you need to understand that the only way
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  that we could ever stand in the presence of an Almighty God is
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  because of the blood of Jesus Christ covering us.
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  And blessed is the man whose sins will never be counted
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  against him. And if you understand that, then
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  you can have fellowship with God, because you will
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  immediately experience conviction, and you will confess
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  those sins, and you will turn from those sins, and you will
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  not live in perpetual sin. 7 But if we walk in the light, as He
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  is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and
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  the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.
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  That is a beautiful picture of what it looks like, this
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  Koinonia, this one another ring one another, the fellowship in
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  the commonality friends that we will have with one another.
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  When two people are in right relationship with God, they will
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  naturally have fellowship with each other.
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  And when we understand the our position is in Christ Jesus,
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  then we will not want to sin. And when we do not if but when
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  we do sin, we will immediately have conviction and we will turn
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  from those things. And the Holy Spirit speaks to
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  us, and he whispers softly and gently that that is not from
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  God, and to confess it and to turn from it.
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  But if we sear our consciences and grieve the Holy Spirit, we
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  do not have fellowship with God and we will not have fellowship
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  with each other. And this is where so much
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  division and dissension, this is where so much of the problems
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  within the body of Christ come from, is because we are not in
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  right relationship with God. And you can tell when somebody
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  is out of step because they will have a spirit that is
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  cantankerous, they will have a spirit that picks you apart.
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  They will always have something smart to say about every little
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  thing. And you can tell that they are
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  not in right relationship with God.
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  This critical spirit that creeps in and they just want to try to
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  pick every little thing apart is a sure sign of somebody who is
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  out of lockstep with God Almighty. 8 If we say that we
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  have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
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  in us. So what a beautiful verse.
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  Highlight it, underline it. Write it in the margins.
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  Put it in your journal. Save it as a screensaver.
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  Friends, it's not if we sin, it's when we sin.
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  But the difference is conviction, not condemnation.
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  When you sin because you will, you immediately know that it is
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  sin and that will cause you to move away from it.
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  Don't adopt it, don't live in it, don't make your identity in
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  your sin. But just know that love covers a
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  multitude of sin, and Jesus's love on the cross was enough.
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  Jesus's blood is enough. It's not Jesus's blood plus
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  works, friends, it's only the blood of Jesus Christ that gets
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  us into heaven. And if you think that you are
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  standing, you just might be falling. 9 If we confess our
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  sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
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  cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  This is the work of the cross, friends.
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  This is what Jesus did for us, friends.
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  Confess when you have your shortcomings and you sin,
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  receive forgiveness and then forgive yourself and extend
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  forgiveness out to others. We'll end on 10 If we say that
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  we have not sinned, we make him a liar and His word is not in
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  US. No one can save themselves.
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  No one is perfect. There was only one that was
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  perfect. His name is Jesus Christ.
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  That's who we trust in. We don't trust in self.
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  We don't trust in our ability to live a perfect sinless life.
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  We're not like the rich young ruler friends who think that we
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  have it all together. You need to know that you are a
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  Sinner and that you are in desperate need of a Savior.
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  And that is where we start. That's the starting point.
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  That's the building block, friends, is that we trust in Him
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  and Him alone. Jesus's blood is enough.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.