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1 John Chapter 3

Sep20

Good Morning y’all. Today we are looking at 1John chapter 3.

I looooooovee this chapter so much 🙂 John starts out by reminding us that we are children of God. Then he moves on to say as children of God we cannot live in sin and lastly he tells us we are expected to walk in love- the kind of love Jesus came to show us.

Holy Spirit we ask you open our eyes to see, our ears to hear and our hearts to percieve the truth in the word today. Without you we can’t understand what we are reading so we ask for your help. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Here we go 🙂

S – scriptures that stood out for me

1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭9-10‬ MSG : People conceived and brought into life by God don’t make a practice of sin. How could they? God’s seed is deep within them, making them who they are. It’s not in the nature of the God-begotten to practice and parade sin. Here’s how you tell the difference between God’s children and the Devil’s children: The one who won’t practice righteous ways isn’t from God, nor is the one who won’t love brother or sister. A simple test.

1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭19-20‬ CEVUS06: When we love others, we know we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God. But even if we don’t feel at ease, God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything.

1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭23-24‬ NLTAnd this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us. Those who obey God’s commandments remain in fellowship with him, and he with them. And we know he lives in us because the Spirit he gave us lives in us.

O – Obsevations
O1- God loves us very much that he made us His children. The world doesn’t recognise us because they don’t know or understand who God is.

O2- We know that when Christ returns we are going to be like him and will see him as he is. In the meantime we need to continue living a life of purity

O3- Anyone who sins is breaking Gods law for sin is contrary to Gods law. Jesus came to take away our sins. We fall into sin when we wander away from Jesus but if we are in close fellowship with him,we won’t fall into sin.

O4- Knowing and understanding the nature of God will also keep us away from sin for if we truly know God or understand him, we will realise he is a holy God who doesn’t like disobedience and everything he instructs us to do is for our own good and not for his benefit.

O5- Doing what is right shows we are righteous just as Christ is righteous. When we keep sinning it shows we belong to the devil who has been sinning since the beginning. Remember Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.

O6- Gods children don’t make a practice of sin because Gods life is in them so they can’t keep sinning. We can’t keep sinning if you have him in us. He is the spirit of truth and always lets us know what we are about to do is wrong. Plus the more of him we know, the more sin becomes less pleasurable to us because we know it doesn’t make him happy. It’s like when you are in a relationship with someone you love deeply, once you know there is something you do that they don’t like, you stop doing it because you love them and you don’t want to hurt them. So it is with us and God. We are in a relationship with him and the more time we spend with him, the more we learn the things that pleases him and makes him happy. When we learn those things we make sure we  do them. He has even made it easier by giving us His Holyspirit to help us so we don’t have to struggle on our own. Wow what an awesome God!

O7- A person who hates is like a murderer. V15 says Anyone who doesn’t love is as good as dead. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know very well that eternal life and murder don’t go together. (‭1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭15‬ MSG)

O8- Jesus is our example of love. He gave up his life for us so we too ought to be willing to love others sacrificialy. Our love should not be in words alone but in action. Love is a DOING word. If you see others in need and you can help, but choose to turn away then you are not practicing love and Gods love is definitely not in you. We should always be ready to help others even without expecting anything in return. By showing love the world will come to know the truth about God

O9- God is greater than our feelings and knows everything (Gives me so much hope to know that God is not limited by my feelings 🙂 ).

O10- We can come to God with bold confidence and will receive from him because we obey him and do things that please him

O11- We experience Gods deep and abiding presence in us by the spirit he gave us.

A – Application

Be obedient to God.
Stop practicing sin.
Show love to others even if we think they don’t deserve it .

P – Prayer
Dear Lord we thank you for today. Thank you for making us your children. Give us the grace to be obedient and stop living in sin. Thank you for the victory we already have in you. Help us walk in love today. Thank you for in Jesus Name we have prayed.

Thanks for joining us today. Pray you have been blessed.

Feel free to leave your thoughts 🙂

Have a wonderful Saturday. Remember, we are Gods children.

1 John Chapter 2

Sep19

Good Morning y’all. We are continuing our study of 1 John and we are in chapter 2 today :). This chapter is full of soooooo many goodies to help us in our walk with Christ 🙂

Holy Spirit we ask you open our eyes to see, our ears to hear and our hearts to percieve the truth in the word today. Without you we can’t understand what we are reading so we ask for your help. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Here we go 🙂

S – Some Scriptures that stood out for me.
1 John 2:5-6 NLT : But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.

1 John 2:15 NLT: 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.

1 John 2: 24 NLT : So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father.

1 John 2:27 NLT: But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.

O – Observations
O1- Jesus is our advocate and he intercedes on our behalf. His blood washes away our sins.

O2 – Our obedience to God, is a measure of how much we know him, how much of him we have on the inside of us. For if we truly know him and love him as we claim, we would obey him at all times even when it’s difficult.

O3- Obedience to God brings assurance that we love him and belong to him.

O4 -Partial obedience doesn’t cut it. God desires complete obedience.

O5- We are to follow the example of Jesus. He was obedient even to the very end.(See Philippians 2:5-11)

O6 – You can’t have Jesus and also have hatred in you. In 1 John Chapter 1,  we established God is light in whom there is no darkness. Hatred is a form of darkness. We can’t belong to the light and darkness at the same time. We have to choose one or the other. Choose this day whom you will serve: Light or darkness.

O7 – When you are in the dark,  you can’t see where you are going cos it’s dark. So it is when we have darkness in us, our judgement becomes clouded and we cant see our way. We make poor decisions and end up hurting people around us. But if we let the light of God into our hearts, it brings illumination and lights our path so we see where we are going.

O8- We shouldn’t love the world and all the things that are associated with it. Verse 16 says “For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world”. As Christians, we are in this world but we are not of it. We are of the Kingdom of Heaven therefore we mustn’t forget ourselves and become too comfortable. Romans 12:2 Message version says “Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you”. We are meant to be examples showing the world the right way to live and not us joining in the craze!

O9 – Obedience to God guarantees us eternal life. Obedience to world guarantees death.

O10- The world and all its evil desires will end one day but those who please God will live forever with him.

O11 – We need to keep reminding ourselves of the Word of God. The more we remind ourselves, the more the Word becomes a part of us. It’s not just enough to remind ourselves though, we must also put into practice what the word tells us to do. By doing this we will always be in fellowship with God.

O12 – We have been blessed with the Holy Spirit. He is the spirit of truth and teaches us everything we need to know.
O13 – Remain in constant fellowship with God.

A – Application
A1 – Obey God’s commands
A2 – Keep our focus on God and not get distracted by what’s going on around us.
A3 – Walk in Love
A4 – Be an example in our speech and conduct

P – Prayer
Dear Lord we thank you for today. Thank you for the privilege to learn at your feet. Thank you for Jesus and for blessing us with your Holy Spirit. Help us be obedient to you. Help us not to love this world but to keep our focus and attention on you. Help us not to walk in darkness but walk in the light you freely offer us. We love you so very much and you will always be the object of our affection. No one will ever take your place in our lives. You are an awesome God. All this we ask and by faith recieve In Jesus Name. Amen

Thank you for joining us today. I encourage you to spend some time reading the chapter for your self as there is so much to glean from the chapter.

Don’t forget to share your thoughts and prayer request 🙂

Stay blessed. Remember, our Obedience is a measure of our love for God.