WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW? (15 OF 15)
Scripture: I JOHN 5:18-21
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Well What Do You Know? (15 Of 15)
James Merritt
I john 5:18-21
Introduction
1. One of the most aggravating things in the world to me is to read a book particularly a lengthy book and then come to the end of the book and not know how the plot turns out. For example though gone with the wind is certainly a great book i've always wondered did rhett butler go back to scarlet o'hara or not. You never know. You' re just left wondering. But as you end the book of i john you are not left wondering about anything. John ends his book on a positive high note.
2. John ends the book using his favorite word know . Four times in these 4 verses john uses that powerful 4 letter word. John is the apostle of assurance. Contrary to the atheist who says "i know there is no god." john says "i know there is a god. Contrary to the agnostic who says "i cannot know if there is a god." john says i can know and do know that there is a god. I know who he is and i know he loves me."
3. Now it is impossible for anybody to know every- thing. We live today increasingly in an age of specialization when more and more people are narrowing their fields of knowledge to less and less things. Someone has said a specialist is a person who knows more and more about less and less until finally he knows all there is to know about nothing.
4. In some cases that maybe true. But in a real sense a christian is a specialist. He is a special? In the knowledge of god. Even a christian cannot know everything but john says he may know the most important things. He closes the book by giving 2 us a trinity of certainty. Now john has told us throughout the epistle that we can know many things. In chapter- he tells us we can know that we have come to know god. In chapter 2 verse 5 he tells us that we can know we are in god. In chapter 3 verse 14 he tells us that we can know that we have passed from death into life. In chapter 4 and verse 16-,he tells us that we can know the love that god has for us. I ...
James Merritt
I john 5:18-21
Introduction
1. One of the most aggravating things in the world to me is to read a book particularly a lengthy book and then come to the end of the book and not know how the plot turns out. For example though gone with the wind is certainly a great book i've always wondered did rhett butler go back to scarlet o'hara or not. You never know. You' re just left wondering. But as you end the book of i john you are not left wondering about anything. John ends his book on a positive high note.
2. John ends the book using his favorite word know . Four times in these 4 verses john uses that powerful 4 letter word. John is the apostle of assurance. Contrary to the atheist who says "i know there is no god." john says "i know there is a god. Contrary to the agnostic who says "i cannot know if there is a god." john says i can know and do know that there is a god. I know who he is and i know he loves me."
3. Now it is impossible for anybody to know every- thing. We live today increasingly in an age of specialization when more and more people are narrowing their fields of knowledge to less and less things. Someone has said a specialist is a person who knows more and more about less and less until finally he knows all there is to know about nothing.
4. In some cases that maybe true. But in a real sense a christian is a specialist. He is a special? In the knowledge of god. Even a christian cannot know everything but john says he may know the most important things. He closes the book by giving 2 us a trinity of certainty. Now john has told us throughout the epistle that we can know many things. In chapter- he tells us we can know that we have come to know god. In chapter 2 verse 5 he tells us that we can know we are in god. In chapter 3 verse 14 he tells us that we can know that we have passed from death into life. In chapter 4 and verse 16-,he tells us that we can know the love that god has for us. I ...
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