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1 john 2: 3-6

1 john 2: 3-6. ASSURANCE OF SALVATION. FREDINAND WALDO DEMARA FRED “THE GREAT IMPOSTER”. MASQUERADED AS MANY PEOPLE FROM MONK SURGEON PRISON WARDEN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT LAWYER TEACHER ETC. ETC. MADE A FULL LENGTH MOVIE OF HIS LIFE FROM 1961 BIOGRAPHY BY ROBERT CRICHTON.

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1 john 2: 3-6

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  1. 1 john 2: 3-6 ASSURANCE OF SALVATION

  2. FREDINAND WALDO DEMARAFRED “THE GREAT IMPOSTER” • MASQUERADED AS MANY PEOPLE FROM • MONK • SURGEON • PRISON WARDEN • UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT • LAWYER • TEACHER • ETC. ETC. • MADE A FULL LENGTH MOVIE OF HIS LIFE FROM 1961 BIOGRAPHY BY ROBERT CRICHTON

  3. SO EASY TO DEFRAUD • IF “FRED DID IT” … … … …. THEN • THINK ABOUT THE EARLY CHURCH…. • WHO DID NOT HAVE THE PRINTING PRESS • SO MOST PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE A COPY OF SCRIPTURE • MOST SCRIPTURES THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN • ONLY COPIES AVAILABLE WERE HAND WRITTEN COPIES.. • ORAL REPLICATION WAS PRIMARY MEANS… • SET-UP FOR SATAN TO DECEIVE……

  4. MOTIVE • THIS ELDER STATESMAN, THE BELOVED JOHN, WHO MOST EVERYONE KNEW HAD BEEN WITH JESUS CHRIST …FROM THE BEGINNING… OF MINISTRY… AND WAS KNOWN AS “BISHOP” OF ALL ASIA MINOR (TURKEY)… WRITES A LETTER TO ENCOURAGE TRUE BELIEVERS. • MOST 1ST CENTURY WRITERS REVERE AND HIGHLY RESPECT THIS ONLY LIVING APOSTLE WHO WAS FORMERLY KNOW AS “SON OF THUNDER”

  5. FALSE TEACHERS • HAD THE THEORY THAT SINCE GOD WAS ABSOLUTELY HOLY…. NO WAY GOD COULD BECOME MAN IN THE FLESH… WITH IT SINFUL WAYS… (lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and pride of life). • SOUNDED REASONABLE to MANY • DREW AWAY MANY FROM ASSEMBLING WITH THE CHURCH… TO THEIR OWN ASSEMBLIES.

  6. GENERALIZED DOCTRINEtaught by false teachers PLATO /culture of day … (WELL KNOWN) • MATERIAL …SINFUL SOUL …………PURE • SO… APPLIED TO CHRISTIANITY…. GOD IS HOLY (PURE/RIGHTEOUS/NO EVIL) • THEREFORE CHRIST HAD TO BE A SPIRIT (DID NOT HAVE A REAL BODY), ONLY APPEARED TO HAVE A BODY… • Thus, He did not leave footprints. • ALLOWED FALSE TEACHERS TO LIVE DEBOTCHED LIVES … (WHICH THEY DID)…. AS THEY SAW IMMORALITY AS “MATERIAL” … • PREVALENT FOR FIRST 250 TO 300 YEARS A.D.

  7. So JOHN WRITE’S TO HIS DEAR FLOCK’S AN ENCOURAGING LETTER • I JOHN • ON KNOWING WHAT IS TRUE SALVATION… TRUE RELATIONSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP

  8. John as pastor of the Asia minor (Turkey) churches writes this letter to encourage true believers Judges 1 John

  9. PRE-REQUISTE • MUST HAVE PROPER VIEW OF CHRIST… • HOWARD BUCK AND SAM CALOROSO • BEST OF CHRISTMAS • MUST HAVE PROPER VIEW OF SIN • DR. SAM K. AND PETE MAHONEY • CLEANED BY BAPTISM?? --- LUTHERN FRIEND PHILOSOPHICAL SPECULATION, INTELLECTUAL ARGUMENTS, SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION • (ENCOURAGING TRUE BELIEVERS BY REFUTING THE FALSE TEACHING – GNOSTICS) • REMEMBER THEY DID NOT HAVE THE PRINTING PRESS

  10. OT/NT • GOD NEVER CHANGES • LEV. 17:11 “The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls’ for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.” • Romans 3:24-26 “Being justified freely by HIS grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by HIS blood, through faith, to demonstrate HIS righteousness, …. “

  11. NOW JOHN WANTS TRUE BELIEVERSTO KNOWTHEY POSSESS SALVATION • GOD KNOWS…. BUT DO YOU? • MOST “CHRISTIANS” DON’T HAVE A CLUE • MANY DENOMINATIONS TEACH THAT ONE CAN LOSE SALVATION…. (ITS REALLY NOT ETERNAL LIFE) • LAST RITES • SINNING JUST AS ONE DIES • WEARING LIPSTICK • DRIVE A BUGGIE WITH CHROME • GET REMOVED FROM ASSEMBLY

  12. JOHN SPEAKS FOR APOSTLES • HE IS SAYING THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT CHRIST SAID… AND PETER, AND JAMES, AND PAUL, ET AL • (SO WE BETTER LISTEN UP) • THERE ARE SUBJECTIVE TESTS AND OBJECTIVE TESTS

  13. FIRST, READ 1 JOHN 2: 3 - 6 AND BY THIS WEKNOW THAT WE HAVE COME TO KNOWHIM, IF WEKEEPHIS COMMANDMENTS. WHOSOEVER SAYS “I KNOW HIM” BUT DOES NOT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS IS A LIAR, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM, BUT WHOSOEVERKEEPSHIS WORD, IN HIM TRULY THE LOVE OF GOD IS PERFECTED. BY THIS WE MAY KNOW THAT WE ARE IN HIM WHOSOEVER SAYS HEABIDES IN HIM, OUGHT TO WALK IN THE SAME WAY IN WHICH HE WALKED.” ESV • “

  14. NOW, DON’T GO TO SLEEPI KNOW THIS HAS PROBABLY BEEN AN EXHAUSTING WEEK • “I WILL TRY TO PUT THE COOKIES ON THE BOTTOM SHELF.”. • Dr. J. Vernon McGee

  15. LET ME BEGIN BY A THOUGHT FROM DR. JOHN MITCHELL • TRUE HAPPY HOUR • GOD (PROBABLY THE “WORD”) MEETING DAILY FOR A WALK WITH ADAM AND EVE….. • REMEMBER ADAM AND EVE WERE BRILLANT • A FEW GENERATIONS LATER, THEY WERE INVENTING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (Gen 4:21) and ITEMS OF BRONZE AND IRON… I.E. THEY DEVELOPED SMELTERS, ETC. • SO THEIR CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD WERE AWESOME …. UNTIL THEY DISOBEYED GOD’S COMMANDS

  16. BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HAPPY HOUR AFTER THEY SINNED? • ANYONE KNOW? • THIS IS VERY VERY INSIGHTFUL • Have you ever observed that when we pray…. GOD IS ALWAYS THERE… (WAITING FOR OUR FELLOWSHIP)

  17. Scripture Based • 2 Peter 1:10 “Be diligent to make sure about God’s calling and choosing you” (You have to apply a certain diligence to the pursuit of that certainty … a privilege that we should enjoy … you ought to know that you are saved) Assurance is the best of blessings.. Peace, joy, taste of heaven on earth Fanny Crosby wrote hymn about this wonderful scriptural truth..”Blessed Assurance” (in contrast, some live in perpetual state of fear)

  18. 2 Cor. 13: 5 • “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?” • Satan will try to discourage you • Roman Catholicism, Wesleyanism (Methodism), Arminianism (many types of Pentacostalism) .. No assurance • Reformation attempted to restore

  19. Reformers Taught • If I believe what the Bible says about my conditions… not as a righteous person, but as a sinner, the wickedness of my heart, the condemnation that awaits me, alienation from God…et al … then I see myself as wretched, miserable, naked, blind, cut off from God, separated, doomed, damned to hell…. Then • When THAT SAME scripture also says “BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM HE GAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD” • IF I BELIEVE THAT AND RECEIVE HIM…. THERE IS “COGNATIVE” ASSURANCE.

  20. Our Minds are Weak • SO… GOD HAS GIVEN US “SUBJECTIVE” ASSURANCE… • THE INTERNAL WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN US… • ROMANS 8: 14-16 “For all who are lead by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God” • Have you experienced in your life the direction and leading of the Spirit of God, verse 14 says YOU ARE GOD’S SON.

  21. VERSE 15 • YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION, AS SONS BY WHICH WE CRY OUT ABBA FATHER… • HAVE YOU APPROACHED GOD WITHOUT FEAR? • HAVE YOU APPROACHED GOD WITH AN EXTREME NEED? • YOU HAVE A RIGHT… TO GO AND CRY OUT…

  22. VERSE 16 • “THE SPIRIT HIMSELF BEARS WITNESS WITH OUR SPIRIT THAT WE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD.” • ONE OF THE WAYS THE SPIRIT LEADS US IS WITH CONVICTION… WHEN WE SIN… YOU FEEL HORRIBLE OVER YOUR FAILURE AND WEAKNESS AND DISHONORING OF THE LORD • (THAT’S A MINISTRY TO HIS CHILDREN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT) … THAT’S ANOTHER WAY THE SPIRIT LEADS US. • THAT’S AFFIRMATION THAT YOU’RE A CHILD OF GOD … WE COULD GO ON ABOUT “CHASTENING”

  23. OK, WHERE ARE WE? • THERE IS THE COGNITIVE WITNESS.. • SCRIPTURE • THERE IS THE WITNESS INTERNALLY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT • NOW THE THIRD ELEMENT OF ASSURANCE OUR TEXT… OBEDIENCE (1 JOHN 2: 3-6) P.S. TWO MORE TESTS OF ASSURANCE : NEXT SESSION (BY NONE OTHER THAN the Rev. HOWARD BUCK

  24. Third Test of Assurance:OBEDIENCE • AND BY THIS WEKNOW THAT WE HAVE COME TO KNOWHIM, IF WEKEEPHIS COMMANDMENTS. WHOSOEVER SAYS “I KNOW HIM” BUT DOES NOT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS IS A LIAR, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM, BUT WHOSOEVERKEEPSHIS WORD, IN HIM TRULY THE LOVE OF GOD IS PERFECTED. BY THIS WE MAY KNOW THAT WE ARE IN HIM WHOSOEVER SAYS HEABIDES IN HIM, OUGHT TO WALK IN THE SAME WAY IN WHICH HE WALKED.” ESV

  25. REASON FOR THE LETTEROF 1 JOHN • WE HAVE COME TO THE HEART OF THE BOOK…. AS CHAPTER 5: 13 SAYS: • “THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN TO YOU WHO BELIEVE IN THE NAME (ALL THAT HE IS) OF THE SON OF GOD IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE”

  26. GOD WANTS YOU AND ME TO HAVE ASSURANCE OF OUR SALVATION • ‘AND BY THIS” – A NEW SUBJECT IN THE TEXT. • JOHN IS DONE WITH DISCUSSING THE PRE-REQUISITES … RIGHT VIEW OF CHRIST AND SIN • HE IS NOW GOING TO DISCUSS THE “TESTS” FOR US TO KNOW THAT WE ARE A CHILD OF GOD. • TEST 1: IF WE OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS • ‘AND BY THIS WE “HOPE” --NO, NO • 40 X’s IN THIS BOOK, JOHN USES WORD “KNOW”

  27. ASSURANCE • SOME OF OUR EMOTIONS WILL COME FROM READING AND BELIEVING SCRIPTURE • SOME WILL COME FROM THE INNER WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT • SOME WILL COME FROM OUR EXPERIENCE… • DO WE OBEY HIS COMMANDS (SANTIFICATION) • DO WE ….(OH TWO “TEST’S” FOR US TO OBSERVE IN OUR LIFE…. IS NEXT SESSION)

  28. ONE OF PAUL’S STATEMENT’S • Titus 1:16 • “Such people claim to know God, BUT BY THEIR WORKS (I.E. THEIR LIVES) THEY DENY HIM” “YOU DON’T KNOW GOD UNTIL IT SHOWS UP IN HOW YOU LIVE” --- JOHN MacARTHUR JEREAMIAH (PROMISE OF NEW COVENANT) … GOD SAYS HE WILL WRITE IN ON OUR HEARTS…. “DESIRE (DRIVEN FROM THE INSIDE) TO OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS”

  29. QUOTE FROM DAVID GUZIK • “WHEN A PERSON BECOMES A CHRISTIAN, THERE IS A CHANGE IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH SIN. SIN IS NOT ELIMINATED IN THE BELIVER UNTIL HE COMES TO GLORY, BUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO SIN IS CHANGED. • A Christian no longer loves sin as he once did. • A Christian no longer brags about their sin as he once did. • A Christian no longer plans to sin as he once did. • A Christian no longer fondly remembers his sin as he once did. • A Christian never fully enjoys his sin as he once did. • A Christian no longer is comfortable in habitual sin as he once was.”

  30. ANOTHER OF PAUL’S STATEMENTS • QUOTING DAVID .. • ROMANS 7 “EVEN THOUGH I DON’T DO WHAT I OUGHT TO DO, AND OFTEN DO WHAT I OUGHT NOT TO DO,O HOW I LOVE YOUR LAW(I.E. SCRIPTURE)”. • GOD WANTS YOU TO KNOW YOU ARE HIS CHILD • (BY OBSERVING YOUR OWN LIFE) • PETER ….

  31. LETS PRAY • OUR RESPONSE…. • THANK HIM FOR PROVIDING THESE ASSURANCE’S OF SALVATION

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