1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:01,880 If you would turn with me to 1st. 2 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:07,280 John Chapter 5. We will be. 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:14,000 Reading from verse 5. Through verse 13, who? 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,720 Is the one who overcomes the world, but the one who. 5 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,080 Believes that Jesus. Is the Son of God. 6 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,760 This is the one who came by water and. 7 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:29,100 By blood, Jesus Christ. Not with water only. 8 00:00:29,540 --> 00:00:32,299 But with water. And with the blood. 9 00:00:32,740 --> 00:00:37,180 It is the Spirit that testifies because the Spirit is truth. 10 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:41,340 For there are three that testify the. 11 00:00:41,340 --> 00:00:46,700 Spirit and the water and the blood and the three are in 12 00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:48,620 agreement. If we. 13 00:00:48,620 --> 00:00:53,620 Receive the witness of men. The testimony of God is. 14 00:00:53,620 --> 00:00:56,700 Greater for the. Testimony of God. 15 00:00:56,700 --> 00:00:59,600 Is this? That he has testified. 16 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:04,440 Concerning his son, the one who believes in the son of. 17 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:09,200 God has the. Testimony in himself the one who 18 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,200 does not. Believe God. 19 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,600 Has made him out to be a liar because he has not believed in 20 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,960 the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,440 And this is the. Testimony that God has. 22 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,560 Given to us eternal life and this test. 23 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:28,640 And this? Life is in his Son. 24 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,840 The one who has the Son has life. 25 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,320 The one who does not have the Son of God does not have life, 26 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,480 these things. Have I written unto you who 27 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:44,520 believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that 28 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,560 you have eternal? Life. 29 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:56,550 On Wednesday night, June 19th. I reviewed the 1st 4 chapters. 30 00:01:56,590 --> 00:02:02,030 Of first John. Plus the 1st 4 verses of chapter 31 00:02:02,030 --> 00:02:04,790 5. Because the last time I had 32 00:02:04,790 --> 00:02:11,110 preached on 1st John was Wednesday March 4th 2020, so I 33 00:02:11,110 --> 00:02:16,310 thought some review was needed. So we did that on Wednesday 34 00:02:16,310 --> 00:02:19,190 night and. Today as we look through the 35 00:02:19,190 --> 00:02:21,750 verses. We have tonight verses 5 through 36 00:02:21,750 --> 00:02:25,080 13. Actually, 5 through 8 would be a 37 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,880 review of. Wednesday night. 38 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,680 So let's start with verse five. Who? 39 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,080 Is the one who is overcome the world, but the one who. 40 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,800 Believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 41 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,440 This word. Overcome or Overcomer? 42 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:49,560 It's a word that. Means conqueror or victorious. 1 43 00:02:50,130 --> 00:02:52,650 It was used when the Ancients would go out to. 44 00:02:52,650 --> 00:02:56,290 War and they would war against another king, the. 45 00:02:56,410 --> 00:02:59,330 Victorious ones would come home with this. 46 00:02:59,330 --> 00:03:01,410 They would. Be the overcomers. 47 00:03:01,970 --> 00:03:04,770 So the question is. Acts here who is? 48 00:03:04,770 --> 00:03:08,730 The one who overcomes the world, but the one who. 49 00:03:08,730 --> 00:03:11,570 Believes that Jesus. Christ is the Son of God. 50 00:03:12,370 --> 00:03:16,690 You and I, believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, puts 51 00:03:16,690 --> 00:03:19,170 us in that camp of the overcomers. 52 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:21,780 Now this. Isn't talking about an 53 00:03:21,780 --> 00:03:23,820 intellectual belief, It's talking. 54 00:03:23,820 --> 00:03:28,780 About a practical belief, if you believe in Christ, that means 55 00:03:28,780 --> 00:03:31,980 you trust. In and rely up on Christ and 56 00:03:31,980 --> 00:03:37,100 what it is He has done. For your salvation and that 57 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:40,500 believing also brings with it obedience. 58 00:03:41,260 --> 00:03:46,780 There is nothing to the idea of being a Christian and not being 59 00:03:46,780 --> 00:03:50,230 obedient to God. That's just not in the. 60 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:53,510 Scriptures at all. And so when we see that. 61 00:03:53,510 --> 00:03:57,070 We must understand that then, and that he says. 62 00:03:57,070 --> 00:04:00,630 The one who? Believes that Jesus. 63 00:04:00,630 --> 00:04:06,430 Is the Son of God. Everyone who believes this is a 64 00:04:06,430 --> 00:04:10,830 continuing belief when he talks to us about the. 65 00:04:10,830 --> 00:04:14,350 Ones who have been commanded to believe in God. 66 00:04:14,550 --> 00:04:16,510 That's talking about the time that we. 67 00:04:16,510 --> 00:04:23,120 Gave our life to Christ, but every Christian continues from 68 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,400 that point of giving their life to. 69 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:31,080 Christ to believing in what it. Is that God has done for him. 70 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:44,720 But the Christian never will, and that's what he is bringing 71 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,760 to us, to help us to understand that. 72 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:36,160 There's never a point to where we as Christians stop believing. 73 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,800 Someone else may stop and and stop participating with us and 74 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:49,760 walk. John helps us with that idea in 75 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,520 John Chapter 5, verse one, everyone. 76 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,360 Who believes that Jesus is the Christ is? 77 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:02,480 Born of God and everyone who. Loves the father, loves the 78 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,280 child, that is. Born of him, everyone who 79 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:07,840 continues to believe he's born of God. 80 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:10,960 That's your proof of. How it is that you know that 81 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,240 you're born of God. Then he talked about that one 82 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,600 time thing and. First, John 523. 83 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,600 And this is his commandment that we believe in the name of. 84 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,400 Jesus Christ. And love one another. 85 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,760 Just as he has. Commanded us See this is that 86 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:36,000 one time thing, remember? The jailer in Acts chapter 16 87 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,600 when he asked the question men and. 88 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,560 Brother And what must I do to be saved? 89 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 In Acts chapter 16 verse 31 they give him the answer. 90 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,520 Believe in the Lord. Jesus Christ and you will be 91 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,840 saved. And your whole house make a 92 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:55,000 decision now this point in your life. 93 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,400 Believe in the Lord. Jesus Christ and. 94 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:03,560 You will be saved and from that point on the the jailer continue 95 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,120 to believe. And that's what's happened. 96 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,680 To all of us as. Christians and we see this. 97 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,870 What are we to believe? Believe that Jesus is. 98 00:06:14,870 --> 00:06:20,270 The Son of God when John. Says Jesus is. 99 00:06:20,270 --> 00:06:25,390 The Son of God. Every Jew knew that John was. 100 00:06:25,390 --> 00:06:31,870 Saying that Jesus is God. Every. 101 00:06:31,870 --> 00:06:35,350 Jew would believe that. Look at the. 102 00:06:35,350 --> 00:06:40,190 Gospel of John chapter 5, starting at verse 15. 103 00:06:41,980 --> 00:06:44,500 He's already talking about. The persecution of Jesus. 104 00:06:45,940 --> 00:06:48,820 He says for this. Reason the Jews. 105 00:06:49,220 --> 00:06:53,140 Were persecuting Jesus because. He was doing these things. 106 00:06:53,140 --> 00:06:58,500 On the Sabbath for things he had healed a lame man. 107 00:06:59,460 --> 00:07:03,540 He did this on the Sabbath, but he answered them. 108 00:07:03,940 --> 00:07:09,140 My father is working until now and I myself am working. 109 00:07:09,550 --> 00:07:12,750 For this. Reason, therefore the Jews were 110 00:07:12,750 --> 00:07:16,430 seeking. All the more to kill him because 111 00:07:16,430 --> 00:07:18,190 he. Not only was breaking. 112 00:07:18,190 --> 00:07:23,630 The Sabbath, but he was calling God his own Father, making 113 00:07:23,630 --> 00:07:26,910 himself equal with. God. 114 00:07:27,910 --> 00:07:33,270 No person in the Old Testament ever called God his Father when. 115 00:07:33,270 --> 00:07:38,150 They saw this, they said. This man has now claimed to be 116 00:07:38,150 --> 00:07:42,260 God. Because, he said, my father has 117 00:07:42,260 --> 00:07:46,900 worked up until now and now. I am working look at John 118 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:50,420 chapter 10. Verse 33 the. 119 00:07:50,420 --> 00:07:54,340 Jews answered him. We are not stoning you. 120 00:07:54,340 --> 00:07:59,300 For good work. But for blasphemy, and because 121 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:06,860 you being a man made. Yourself out to be God now if 122 00:08:06,860 --> 00:08:10,230 you familiar with? How they translated? 123 00:08:10,230 --> 00:08:13,110 The Bible. If you look at those 3 words out 124 00:08:13,190 --> 00:08:15,750 to be, they're probably in italics. 125 00:08:16,270 --> 00:08:18,950 In your Bible, that means they're not in the. 126 00:08:18,950 --> 00:08:23,110 Original, so the. Phrase would really mean you 127 00:08:23,110 --> 00:08:29,750 being man, made yourself God. This why that they were about to 128 00:08:29,750 --> 00:08:34,309 stone him, that he. Being a man had made himself. 129 00:08:34,309 --> 00:08:37,110 Out to be God. But you know, even the disciples 130 00:08:37,110 --> 00:08:40,789 didn't really get it. You look at John chapter 14. 131 00:08:42,030 --> 00:08:47,550 Verses 7 to 9 Jesus would say to them, if you have known me, you 132 00:08:47,550 --> 00:08:52,750 would have known my Father also. From now on you know him and 133 00:08:52,750 --> 00:08:56,190 have seen him, Philip said unto him, Lord, show. 134 00:08:56,190 --> 00:08:59,030 Us the Father. And it is enough for us. 135 00:08:59,750 --> 00:09:04,350 Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you? 136 00:09:04,350 --> 00:09:07,970 And yet. You have not not come to know 137 00:09:07,970 --> 00:09:11,450 me, Philip. The one who has seen me has seen 138 00:09:11,450 --> 00:09:14,170 the Father. How can you say? 139 00:09:15,410 --> 00:09:19,690 Show us the Father. It is clear from Scripture that. 140 00:09:19,850 --> 00:09:25,410 Jesus Christ is God. And when John uses this term? 141 00:09:25,410 --> 00:09:29,770 He is telling us that. Believe that Jesus is the. 142 00:09:29,770 --> 00:09:33,510 Son of God. He mean in the fullest sense of 143 00:09:33,510 --> 00:09:35,710 the. Bible description of Jesus. 144 00:09:36,350 --> 00:09:40,950 He is the Christ from the Old Testament called the Messiah. 145 00:09:41,790 --> 00:09:46,190 He has come to us in the flesh. That he would die. 146 00:09:46,190 --> 00:09:49,310 On the cross and be. Raised the third day he would 147 00:09:49,350 --> 00:09:52,510 ascend back into. Heaven to make intercessions for 148 00:09:52,510 --> 00:09:54,870 us. And He's coming again to receive 149 00:09:54,870 --> 00:09:59,980 us unto himself. This is what He's calling us to 150 00:09:59,980 --> 00:10:06,140 do when he says believe in. Jesus Christ, let's move. 151 00:10:06,140 --> 00:10:10,660 Further in our review for first John Chapter 5. 6 through 8. 152 00:10:11,940 --> 00:10:16,740 This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, 153 00:10:17,540 --> 00:10:22,020 not with water only, but with water and with the blood. 154 00:10:22,540 --> 00:10:26,020 It is the Spirit who testifies because the Spirit is true. 155 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,640 For there are three that testify the Spirit. 156 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:40,160 And the water and the blood. And the three are in agreement. 157 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,320 When you're in agreement, that means you say the same. 158 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,960 Thing you you are bringing out the same thing. 159 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:50,880 What are the? 3IN agreements. 160 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:59,100 About about who Jesus Christ is. At the baptism the heavens open. 161 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:03,180 The father spoke. And the spirit came down in the 162 00:11:03,180 --> 00:11:05,380 form. Of a dog dove. 163 00:11:05,380 --> 00:11:09,420 And rested up on him. Matthew chapter 3 verses 16 164 00:11:10,420 --> 00:11:14,340 through 18 at the Crucifixion the. 165 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:18,820 Veil was torn from. Top to bottom Matthew Chapter 7, 166 00:11:18,820 --> 00:11:23,110 verse 51, indicating that there is no reason to keep the. 167 00:11:23,110 --> 00:11:25,430 Holies of Holies heed from everybody else. 168 00:11:25,630 --> 00:11:29,750 Because he who is holy has. Died on the cross and paid the 169 00:11:29,750 --> 00:11:33,150 penalty for all of our sins, therefore. 170 00:11:33,590 --> 00:11:35,990 All of those who? Could not go in now and see it 171 00:11:36,110 --> 00:11:39,070 it has been ripped. From top to bottom. 172 00:11:40,510 --> 00:11:46,750 That brings us to our. Verses for today if we received. 173 00:11:46,750 --> 00:11:51,220 The Testimony of Men, verse 9. The testimony. 174 00:11:51,220 --> 00:11:55,980 Of God is greater for the. Testimony of God is. 175 00:11:55,980 --> 00:12:03,860 This that he has testified concerning his son John. 176 00:12:03,860 --> 00:12:06,780 Lets the people. Of his day know. 177 00:12:07,420 --> 00:12:10,540 That if they. Accept the testimony of men on 178 00:12:10,540 --> 00:12:15,700 lesser issues. How foolish it is to not to 179 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:22,350 accept God's testimony. On greater things if John was 180 00:12:22,350 --> 00:12:23,910 writing. To us today he would say 181 00:12:23,910 --> 00:12:27,750 something like if. You receive the testimony of the 182 00:12:27,750 --> 00:12:34,150 Internet or your favorite news. How foolish it would be. 183 00:12:34,150 --> 00:12:40,670 Not to receive the testimony of. God, because God's testimony is 184 00:12:40,670 --> 00:12:43,870 greater. And that's the thing that we 185 00:12:43,870 --> 00:12:47,820 have to come to and have to keep in mind and share with. 186 00:12:47,820 --> 00:12:54,020 Those as we go among. People of the world today, Donna 187 00:12:54,020 --> 00:12:57,060 and I was up in. Washington visiting some 188 00:12:57,660 --> 00:13:00,260 relatives and having a family reunion. 189 00:13:00,260 --> 00:13:03,180 And there was a preacher there in the group. 190 00:13:05,220 --> 00:13:07,340 He asked me. He's What's your opinion on the 191 00:13:07,340 --> 00:13:11,460 flood? He just Was it a worldwide 192 00:13:11,460 --> 00:13:13,140 flood? Was it a local flood? 193 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:18,160 And then he quoted. Hugh Ross and I already knew he 194 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,480 was in trouble. When he said that, so I said to 195 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,840 him my opinion. Of the flood is the exact as the 196 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:30,080 Bible says it was. We don't have to wonder, was it 197 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,160 a worldwide? Flood the The Bible tells us it 198 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:37,840 was so why are we debating whether or not it was a 199 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,400 worldwide flood or not? I don't care who. 200 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:45,880 Says it is. When God says it, we can believe 201 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,480 it. And we can stand on it. 202 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:53,160 And that's the thing. That we are called to do because 203 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:58,400 God testimony is. Now look at verse 10. 204 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,080 The One who believes. In the Son of God. 205 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,560 Has this. Testimony in himself. 206 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,120 The one who does not. Believe God has made. 207 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:13,520 Him out to. Be a liar. 208 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,360 Because he has not believed the testimony that God has given 209 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,360 concerning his Son. Now, on Wednesday night, the 210 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,840 19th, when I shared this, I quoted John McCarthy. 211 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,440 Here he he talks about the fact that is John writes in his 212 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:34,600 epistle and as he wrote the gospel, John always make a clear 213 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:40,300 comparison between two things and John MacArthur says he never 214 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:46,420 adds 1/3 and that's a good point because when he walks through 215 00:14:46,420 --> 00:14:49,180 these scriptures with us he keeps the comparison. 216 00:14:49,380 --> 00:14:53,380 To two the one who believes in the son of. 217 00:14:53,380 --> 00:14:56,660 God has this. Testimony in himself, by the 218 00:14:56,660 --> 00:15:00,500 way, that's a clue. He didn't say he knows this 219 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:03,300 testimony. He says he has this. 220 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:07,430 Testimony within himself. The one who does not. 221 00:15:07,430 --> 00:15:09,270 Believe God has made. Him out to. 222 00:15:09,270 --> 00:15:11,510 Be a liar. Because he is not believed in 223 00:15:11,510 --> 00:15:14,630 the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 224 00:15:15,710 --> 00:15:21,190 What arrogance? To believe that you know more 225 00:15:21,190 --> 00:15:25,150 than God and you're willing to say now, it doesn't mean that 226 00:15:25,150 --> 00:15:28,670 God is a liar. He said for that person he has 227 00:15:28,670 --> 00:15:30,150 made God. Out to be a liar. 228 00:15:31,310 --> 00:15:35,390 And that's what you and I. Are called to. 229 00:15:36,910 --> 00:15:41,470 By the way, we see. A lot of things being passed off 230 00:15:41,590 --> 00:15:49,070 as Christianity Today, one of our cousins in Washington said 231 00:15:49,070 --> 00:15:51,630 to her parents recently. I. 232 00:15:51,630 --> 00:15:57,510 Am giving up on the church, but I'm not giving up on God now. 233 00:15:57,510 --> 00:16:03,150 My concern was that the parents didn't ask any questions. 234 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,920 My question would have been how do you give up on the church 235 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,480 whom God died? For and not give up on God. 236 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,160 It's impossible. How is it that you forsake the 237 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,280 assembling of? Yourself, together with the 238 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:23,080 people who God has told you not to forsake yourself and not. 239 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:28,560 Give up on God. There are times to ask question 240 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:33,000 people, and when you hear some junk like that, you need to ask 241 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:39,330 some questions. In verse 10 here the one who 242 00:16:39,330 --> 00:16:44,010 believes in the Son of God has this testimony in himself. 243 00:16:44,530 --> 00:16:46,730 Look at first John chapter. 4 verse 2. 244 00:16:48,530 --> 00:16:50,570 He says By this you know the Spirit. 245 00:16:51,130 --> 00:16:54,290 Of God. Every spirit that confess that 246 00:16:54,290 --> 00:16:57,810 Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 247 00:17:00,610 --> 00:17:05,670 Every Spirit that confess. That Jesus Christ is coming to 248 00:17:05,670 --> 00:17:08,710 flesh. There's a difference between 249 00:17:08,710 --> 00:17:12,270 saying that Jesus Christ is coming to. 250 00:17:12,270 --> 00:17:18,270 Flesh and confessing that Jesus Christ is coming to flesh when 251 00:17:18,270 --> 00:17:19,829 you say something you're speaking with. 252 00:17:19,829 --> 00:17:22,829 The mouth. When you confess something, you 253 00:17:22,990 --> 00:17:26,790 are agreeing with what has already been said. 254 00:17:27,810 --> 00:17:30,130 We have to agree with what the Bible. 255 00:17:30,130 --> 00:17:33,810 Has said about Jesus Christ not what man says about him. 256 00:17:34,370 --> 00:17:37,890 That's what he's bringing us to understand here, a lot of 257 00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:39,450 people. Will come and knock on your door 258 00:17:39,530 --> 00:17:42,650 and tell you about a. Jesus that they believe in. 259 00:17:42,810 --> 00:17:46,250 It is not the Jesus of the. Scripture and that's what John 260 00:17:46,250 --> 00:17:49,370 is pointing out here. You have to believe in the 261 00:17:49,610 --> 00:17:53,890 Jesus. Of the scripture first. 262 00:17:53,890 --> 00:17:57,730 John Chapter 4, verse 15, whoever. 263 00:17:57,730 --> 00:18:00,330 Confesses that Jesus is. The son of. 264 00:18:01,010 --> 00:18:03,770 God. Remains in him and he and God. 265 00:18:04,050 --> 00:18:08,050 There's that word again. Confess whoever agrees with. 266 00:18:08,090 --> 00:18:12,090 What? The Bible has already said that. 267 00:18:12,090 --> 00:18:15,050 Person has the. Spirit of God. 268 00:18:15,290 --> 00:18:18,530 In him. That's why the Bible tells us if 269 00:18:18,530 --> 00:18:21,470 we confess our sins, it's not really telling us to. 270 00:18:21,470 --> 00:18:24,350 Tell God our sins. It's telling us. 271 00:18:24,350 --> 00:18:27,670 To agree with the Holy Spirit who has convicted. 272 00:18:27,670 --> 00:18:31,310 Us that we have sent and when we do. 273 00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:33,230 That he says he's faithful and just to. 274 00:18:33,230 --> 00:18:37,030 Forgive us of our. Sins and to cleanse us from all 275 00:18:38,550 --> 00:18:43,710 unrighteousness. Moving on to verse 11. 276 00:18:45,550 --> 00:18:50,040 And this is the testimony. That God has given to us eternal 277 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:54,400 life, and this life is in his Son. 278 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,680 He just keeps coming back to this this thing about eternal 279 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,640 life. John has a point that he wants 280 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,880 to make here. For the believers and He's. 281 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:13,040 Bringing it home to them. Look back at first. 282 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:22,620 John Chapter one verse. And the life was revealed. 283 00:19:23,420 --> 00:19:28,300 And we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal 284 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:32,780 life. Which was with the Father and 285 00:19:32,780 --> 00:19:38,300 was revealed to us. He says This life. 286 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:42,460 Was revealed. And we have seen it and. 287 00:19:42,460 --> 00:19:50,390 We have testify. And proclaim to you the eternal 288 00:19:50,390 --> 00:19:54,590 life which. Was with the Father and has been 289 00:19:54,590 --> 00:19:56,470 revealed to us. Now who was that? 290 00:19:57,550 --> 00:20:00,950 Jesus Christ, he says. We've seen him. 291 00:20:00,950 --> 00:20:04,190 He would go on to say we have touched him, Our eyes have seen 292 00:20:04,190 --> 00:20:06,390 him, we have touched him with our hands and we've handled. 293 00:20:06,510 --> 00:20:13,110 Him. He says this is eternal life. 294 00:20:14,510 --> 00:20:19,830 First John chapter 2 verse 25. This is the promise which. 295 00:20:19,830 --> 00:20:25,150 He himself made to us eternal. Life. 296 00:20:30,470 --> 00:20:32,230 You know, people make promises all the time. 297 00:20:28,030 --> 00:20:35,670 This is the. Sometimes they're kept, 298 00:20:35,670 --> 00:20:40,270 sometimes they are not. Paul as he was writing to 299 00:20:40,270 --> 00:20:42,790 Timothy. I'm sorry to Titus. 300 00:20:43,970 --> 00:20:49,490 In Titus chapter one verses one and two Paul. 301 00:20:49,570 --> 00:20:53,930 A slave of God and an. Apostle of Jesus Christ, for the 302 00:20:53,930 --> 00:20:58,890 faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge. 303 00:20:58,930 --> 00:21:05,170 Of the truth which is according to godliness in the hope of 304 00:21:05,170 --> 00:21:09,930 eternal life. Which God who cannot lie, 305 00:21:10,330 --> 00:21:12,810 promised? Ages ago. 306 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,680 Now, isn't it? Good to have a. 307 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,120 Testimony about God that He is the One Who. 308 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:24,560 Can not lie. He has promised. 309 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,560 What has he promised? He's promised to us the hope of 310 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,920 eternal life. And I just want to keep going 311 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,200 over this word. Hope because the English. 312 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:39,800 Word isn't good enough for us, You know I. 313 00:21:40,450 --> 00:21:42,210 I hope. I get to tomorrow. 314 00:21:42,210 --> 00:21:43,810 Don't know if I will or not, but I hope. 315 00:21:43,850 --> 00:21:46,410 I get there. That's the English word but the 316 00:21:46,410 --> 00:21:49,570 Greek word. Here is the assured expectation, 317 00:21:51,250 --> 00:21:57,930 so let's read it that way. In the assured expectation of 318 00:21:58,010 --> 00:22:01,370 eternal life, which God who cannot lie. 319 00:22:01,570 --> 00:22:06,800 Promised a long time ago. What does an assured expectation 320 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,240 mean? Something that you are. 321 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,440 Sure of that you? Do not have right now, he says. 322 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,680 That's the hope that we live in. That's how we. 323 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:20,240 Live this life and we get this from the God who cannot lie. 324 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:26,400 Who is promised so John, as he writes in First John 225. 325 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:31,520 He says this is the promise. Which he himself made to us 326 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:39,920 eternal life. John would further on this and 327 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,000 1st John 5/20 he says and we know that the son of. 328 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:49,440 God has come and has given us understanding so that we might 329 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:55,080 know Him who is true and we are in Him. 330 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:00,680 Who is true in his Son Jesus? Christ, this is the. 331 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,930 True God and. Eternal life. 332 00:23:05,850 --> 00:23:08,290 John just keeps on bringing this out that. 333 00:23:08,490 --> 00:23:13,570 Jesus. Christ is eternal life and that 334 00:23:13,570 --> 00:23:18,570 he has come. To share this with us in this 335 00:23:18,570 --> 00:23:22,530 next verse. Would be verse 12. 336 00:23:23,250 --> 00:23:28,130 John breaks the whole. In the two groups of people. 337 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,800 He breaks the whole. World into. 338 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,920 Two groups of people. Verse 12 says the one who has 339 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,320 the son has life. The one who does not have the 340 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,080 Son of God. Does not have life. 341 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,160 There's not a room. Here for a third group. 342 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,680 You either have the Son and have life, or you do not have the Son 343 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,320 of God and you do not have life. And the life that is being 344 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,160 talked about here is eternal life. 345 00:24:01,710 --> 00:24:08,310 John makes it clear this is how we can know where we stand. 346 00:24:09,750 --> 00:24:14,470 You know, you can just about Google, Google anything today. 347 00:24:15,350 --> 00:24:21,350 So I went and googled what was the population of the earth at 348 00:24:21,350 --> 00:24:26,950 the time of Christ? Came back with an answer, they 349 00:24:26,950 --> 00:24:29,390 said. There was about 300 million 350 00:24:29,390 --> 00:24:32,830 people. Living on the earth at the time 351 00:24:32,830 --> 00:24:38,310 that this was written, John broke those 300 million people 352 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:44,110 into two groups, The one who has the son and the one who does not 353 00:24:44,110 --> 00:24:47,950 have the son. The same report goes on to. 354 00:24:47,950 --> 00:24:52,350 Tell us that the population. Of the earth was unchanged all 355 00:24:52,350 --> 00:24:56,790 the for about another 1000 years, and then in 18. 356 00:24:56,790 --> 00:25:02,500 O4 the population. Surpassed the 1 billion mark. 357 00:25:04,580 --> 00:25:08,260 But it was still true. That the ones who had the Son 358 00:25:08,460 --> 00:25:11,980 had life and the one. Who did not have the son did not 359 00:25:11,980 --> 00:25:16,660 have life. Our population records tells us 360 00:25:16,660 --> 00:25:21,180 today that we are approaching 8 billion people in the world. 361 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:30,580 The Bible is still true. The one who has the Son has. 362 00:25:30,580 --> 00:25:33,460 Life and the one who does not have. 363 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:36,260 It's just that simple. The Son of God does not have. 364 00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:39,940 People. There are two groups of people 365 00:25:39,940 --> 00:25:44,900 in the world. Two, you and I as Christians, 366 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:49,620 make up one of those groups. And the other group would be 367 00:25:49,620 --> 00:25:51,580 those who do not have the son or the. 368 00:25:51,780 --> 00:26:02,240 Scripture would say they're. Sinners for you and for me every 369 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,880 time we meet a new. Person our thought should be. 370 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,480 What group are you in, Donna and I? 371 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:17,600 Was down in Texas recently, if you don't know this. 372 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:24,120 Texas has a travel center. Called Bucky's if you. 373 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:26,560 Ever in Texas, you want to stop by Bucky's. 374 00:26:27,930 --> 00:26:31,210 So Donna and I. Was had visited Bucky's early in 375 00:26:31,210 --> 00:26:32,770 the morning. Donna's gone back. 376 00:26:32,770 --> 00:26:34,370 To the car and I was walking out. 377 00:26:34,690 --> 00:26:37,490 To the car and there was this young lady walked up beside me. 378 00:26:37,730 --> 00:26:41,450 She said good morning, Sir, said good morning, she says. 379 00:26:41,450 --> 00:26:43,090 I just want you to know that. Jesus. 380 00:26:43,090 --> 00:26:45,570 Loves you, and he has a wonderful plan for your life. 381 00:26:46,930 --> 00:26:49,250 As we chatted there. For a couple of moments and 382 00:26:49,410 --> 00:26:51,610 decided that we were both on our way to heaven. 383 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:54,370 We greeted each other and we went our separate ways. 384 00:26:55,850 --> 00:27:01,450 I have a question for you. Why did she approach me? 385 00:27:03,410 --> 00:27:05,130 She wanted to know what group I was in. 386 00:27:06,970 --> 00:27:10,730 When she found out then we had a short time of fellowship. 387 00:27:11,970 --> 00:27:15,730 Here are two people leaving Bucky's and she decided I'm 388 00:27:15,730 --> 00:27:20,730 going to find out what group this guy's in and the benefit 389 00:27:20,730 --> 00:27:22,330 was. We got the fellowship for a 390 00:27:22,330 --> 00:27:26,180 little bit. You and I have to be in that 391 00:27:26,180 --> 00:27:31,340 same mind. Reference Meet this new person, 392 00:27:32,060 --> 00:27:34,220 How can I get? To the question. 393 00:27:35,140 --> 00:27:40,340 Of what group is this person in? If it's a believer. 394 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:44,260 We get to rejoice. If it's not a believer, then we 395 00:27:44,260 --> 00:27:49,260 look for an opportunity to share that we might proclaim him. 396 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:51,820 You see this third mark on the board. 397 00:27:51,820 --> 00:27:56,030 Over here. Our purpose is to proclaim him. 398 00:27:57,110 --> 00:28:00,310 That's what our purpose is. That's why we have been left 399 00:28:00,310 --> 00:28:02,590 here on this earth. To proclaim him. 400 00:28:03,390 --> 00:28:06,190 Who are we proclaiming him to? To those who do not know him, 401 00:28:07,830 --> 00:28:12,670 that's what our responsibility is. 402 00:28:14,510 --> 00:28:16,310 Now let's. Look at verse 13. 403 00:28:18,630 --> 00:28:21,870 These things have I written into you who believe in the name of 404 00:28:21,870 --> 00:28:25,130 the Son of God, that you might know. 405 00:28:26,050 --> 00:28:31,490 That you have eternal. Life when I was. 406 00:28:31,930 --> 00:28:35,850 Studying this years ago and I reviewed this this time. 407 00:28:35,850 --> 00:28:38,570 When I'm studying it, I I look. This word. 408 00:28:38,930 --> 00:28:44,890 No, up in about 20 different versions of the scripture. 409 00:28:46,730 --> 00:28:50,570 All of them translated the same way. 410 00:28:51,380 --> 00:28:58,620 That you may know that you have eternal life one writer. 411 00:28:58,620 --> 00:29:00,460 Said this is a. No. 412 00:29:00,460 --> 00:29:05,100 So salvation We aren't wondering whether we are saved or not. 413 00:29:06,060 --> 00:29:10,220 We can know. That we are saved. 414 00:29:12,620 --> 00:29:17,300 When John says in this verse these things, he is referring 415 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:19,580 back to everything that he has written. 416 00:29:19,660 --> 00:29:24,780 Up to this point, these things have I written unto you. 417 00:29:26,740 --> 00:29:28,740 Let us. Look at a similar station, a 418 00:29:28,740 --> 00:29:37,580 statement in John's Gospel in John chapter 20 and verse 31. 419 00:29:39,740 --> 00:29:42,620 The Gospel of John, chapter 20, verse 31. 420 00:29:43,780 --> 00:29:49,930 These things, excuse me, but these have been written. 421 00:29:50,010 --> 00:29:56,170 So that you may believe in that. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of 422 00:29:56,170 --> 00:30:02,650 God, and by believing you may have life in His name. 423 00:30:04,530 --> 00:30:09,010 These things have been written. John is referring back. 424 00:30:09,330 --> 00:30:12,530 To what he is written from the first of the gospel. 425 00:30:12,890 --> 00:30:18,580 Up to this point. Now he tells us who he is 426 00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:24,060 writing to and why he is writing to unbelievers. 427 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:27,500 So that they might come to believe. 428 00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:34,020 I find it interesting that John waits until chapter five of 429 00:30:34,220 --> 00:30:36,260 First John. To tell us who? 430 00:30:36,260 --> 00:30:39,780 He's writing to these things. Have I? 431 00:30:39,780 --> 00:30:43,540 Written unto you who believe. So now he's writing to 432 00:30:43,540 --> 00:30:46,060 believers. For what purpose? 433 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:50,140 So that we may know that we have eternal life. 434 00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:54,620 If someone asks you. Today for the address. 435 00:30:54,620 --> 00:30:58,260 Of your home, you wouldn't say. Well, I think it's this. 436 00:30:59,380 --> 00:31:04,620 You would tell them what it is when someone asks you or you 437 00:31:04,620 --> 00:31:08,300 saved. We're not to say, I think. 438 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:15,850 So we ought to say I know so. Why? 439 00:31:21,570 --> 00:31:20,650 Is and what it? Because of my belief in who? 440 00:31:20,770 --> 00:31:26,290 Jesus. Is that he has done and by the. 441 00:31:26,410 --> 00:31:32,730 Evidence in my life of my. Obeying him, having put my faith 442 00:31:32,890 --> 00:31:37,850 in him. This is not the first time, by 443 00:31:37,850 --> 00:31:43,700 the way, that John has made it clear that we can know this in 444 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:49,100 first John chapter 3, verse 10. He says by this the children of 445 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:52,060 God and the children of the. Devil are obvious. 446 00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:58,340 Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor 447 00:31:58,340 --> 00:32:01,380 the one who. Does not love his brother John 448 00:32:01,380 --> 00:32:04,620 is clear. There's a way to know whether. 449 00:32:04,620 --> 00:32:06,980 You are of the. Children of God or the children 450 00:32:06,980 --> 00:32:11,700 of the Devil? And he says it's obvious you 451 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:14,710 don't have to. Well, I think that person. 452 00:32:15,150 --> 00:32:17,670 Is saved. Or I think I'm. 453 00:32:17,670 --> 00:32:22,270 Saved, he says it's. Why is it obvious? 454 00:32:22,510 --> 00:32:26,470 It's obvious because of your conduct, he said. 455 00:32:26,470 --> 00:32:31,270 The one who does not practice righteousness is not of God. 456 00:32:32,750 --> 00:32:38,390 If your lifestyle is more of unrighteousness than it is of 457 00:32:38,390 --> 00:32:40,910 righteousness, John says, there's a problem. 458 00:32:42,530 --> 00:32:49,290 You can claim all you want to that you are his child, but 459 00:32:49,290 --> 00:33:00,050 you're not my middle. Son lives in that category and 460 00:33:00,050 --> 00:33:01,730 when I challenged him on it, he said. 461 00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:04,010 Dad, you are too serious about this stuff. 462 00:33:05,770 --> 00:33:11,250 My response is son you are not serious enough and if you die in 463 00:33:11,250 --> 00:33:15,730 that condition. You're headed for a Godless. 464 00:33:15,810 --> 00:33:23,250 Eternity now we can't change people, but we can share. 465 00:33:24,290 --> 00:33:26,130 And that's what you and I have been. 466 00:33:26,130 --> 00:33:29,530 Called to do our. Purpose is to proclaim him. 467 00:33:33,810 --> 00:33:38,530 John says I write unto. Those who believe so that they 468 00:33:38,530 --> 00:33:40,530 might know that they have eternal life. 469 00:33:43,530 --> 00:33:45,690 First John, chapter one, verse 4. 470 00:33:45,770 --> 00:33:50,650 John says these things we write so that our. 471 00:33:50,650 --> 00:33:56,810 Joy may be complete. I write these things so that our 472 00:33:56,810 --> 00:34:03,850 joy may be complete. John is telling us to know that 473 00:34:03,850 --> 00:34:07,290 you have eternal life. Is to know complete? 474 00:34:10,070 --> 00:34:11,550 Doesn't mean there are no problems. 475 00:34:13,790 --> 00:34:17,469 Doesn't mean that death won't come into your family. 476 00:34:18,750 --> 00:34:22,389 It means when it does, God. Gives you. 477 00:34:22,909 --> 00:34:25,909 Comfort. And that's the thing that he's 478 00:34:25,909 --> 00:34:30,590 pointing to us. John, through the inspiration of 479 00:34:30,590 --> 00:34:33,230 the Holy Spirit, wants us to know that eternal life. 480 00:34:33,510 --> 00:34:39,790 That we have eternal life, although eternal life is living 481 00:34:39,790 --> 00:34:44,469 with God forever. It is more than just living 482 00:34:44,469 --> 00:34:48,230 forever. It is the quality of life we 483 00:34:48,230 --> 00:34:54,350 live now and. Forever as a. 484 00:34:54,350 --> 00:34:57,910 Christian, I'm not waiting to get to heaven to enjoy my. 485 00:34:58,190 --> 00:35:02,190 Eternal life. I experience it now. 486 00:35:03,180 --> 00:35:07,420 With the joy that God brings to me, and with the comfort He 487 00:35:07,580 --> 00:35:11,500 gives to me and the opportunity He gives me to share and to 488 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:15,940 bring this to others. That's because I have the 489 00:35:16,020 --> 00:35:18,940 eternal life. That he has given unto. 490 00:35:18,940 --> 00:35:24,500 Us that we might know him and that we might. 491 00:35:25,020 --> 00:35:29,500 Follow him. It is with this knowledge. 492 00:35:31,150 --> 00:35:35,390 That we, the children of God, know that we have eternal life, 493 00:35:36,910 --> 00:35:41,910 that we come to receive the elements this morning that's on 494 00:35:41,910 --> 00:35:46,750 the table. It is out of that confidence 495 00:35:48,110 --> 00:35:52,190 that we come to this time. We don't just come because we 496 00:35:52,190 --> 00:35:54,670 did it last first Sunday. Or. 497 00:35:54,670 --> 00:35:57,910 Because we've been doing this for years, we do it because of 498 00:35:57,910 --> 00:36:03,870 the confidence that God gives. Us in Him that we have eternal. 499 00:36:03,950 --> 00:36:09,630 Life and If you are here this morning and not a member of the 500 00:36:09,630 --> 00:36:14,870 church, but you are a believer, you are welcome to join us as. 501 00:36:14,870 --> 00:36:24,350 We come to this point, Paul writes in First Corinthians 11, 502 00:36:24,350 --> 00:36:28,000 starting at verse 23. He says. 503 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,720 For I received from the Lord. That which I also delivered to 504 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:36,080 you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was. 505 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:42,160 Betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and 506 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,040 said this is my body. Which is for you. 507 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:51,240 Do this in remembrance of me in the same way. 508 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:58,240 He took the cup after supper, saying, This is the cup in the 509 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:00,800 new Test, in the new covenant, in my blood. 510 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:08,040 Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me, for as 511 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:12,560 often as. You eat this bread and drink. 512 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:17,400 This cup you proclaim the Lord's. 513 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:22,840 Death until he comes. Every time we take the cup. 514 00:37:24,460 --> 00:37:26,980 We are saying. That it represents the blood 515 00:37:26,980 --> 00:37:29,500 that. Jesus Christ has shed for us. 516 00:37:29,740 --> 00:37:33,900 On the cross, and therefore we are proclaiming to each other. 517 00:37:35,020 --> 00:37:37,300 That. This has been done so we can 518 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:43,860 then go out and proclaim to others that they might come and 519 00:37:43,860 --> 00:37:47,780 join us and have this fellowship that we have in here. 520 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:52,980 As the men come down, let us. Pray Father, we thank you for 521 00:37:52,980 --> 00:37:56,460 our time in your word. Ask that you would direct us 522 00:37:56,460 --> 00:38:01,260 now? As we prepare our hearts to 523 00:38:01,260 --> 00:38:06,540 receive this representation of your body and your blood, in 524 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:12,060 Jesus name we pray. Amen.