SERMONS ON 1 JOHN
Our sermon ideas on the book of 1 John will help you preach a powerful message on the topic of combating false-truths with Christ-like relational equity. We learn from John that in Christ no darkness will prevail and Christ will shine through our search of Truth. Prepare your messages on God's Word in 1 John with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
1 John: Life in the Son (25 of 29)
by Roger Thomas
These three verses near the end of 1 John provide a bird's eye view of the entire book. Note the five indisputable facts contained in these lines: Fact 1: God gives eternal life. Eternal life is more than living long. It is a quality of life. The Greeks had two words for life. Bios described physical life. Zoe referred to something more. It was life that was more than existence. The difference between the two is the difference between adding years to your life and life to your years. God gives more than existence. He offers an abundant life. Note that it is God who gives this life. We can't manufacture it on our own. We can't buy, bargain for, or earn it. Real life is...
Being Certain You Can Be Certain (1 of 5)
by J.D. Greear
New Series Introduction: We are starting a new series today through the book of 1 John called Assured. The book of 1 John is one of my favorites because it is all about assurance. John, who was one of the closest disciples to Jesus, deals with subject a lot: covering things like how you can know for sure you are saved (at peace with God); how you can know that what you believe is true; how you be assured of God's love and control in your life, and how to maintain that certainty in the face of disappointment and opposition. I'll be honest: these are things I have struggled with for all of my life. For one, how can you know...
The Power of Love (4 of 4)
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: The cartoon ''Peanuts'' has been in newspapers for years. The author of that delightful comic strip actually died some time back… but the comic was so powerful and amusing that newspapers have simply reran the comics of the past. In one of ''Peanuts'' comic strips Lucy says to Shroeder (the boy she's hopelessly in love with)''Guess what...If you don't tell me that you love me, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to hold my breath until I pass out!'' Looking up from his piano, Shroeder says, ''Breath-holding in children is an interesting phenomenon. It could indicate a metabolic disorder. A forty-milligram dose of Vitamin B6...
The Vital Signs of Life
by Ernest Easley
Now join me in the New Testament book of First John where we are thinking today about ''The Vital Signs of Life.''Just as there are clear indicators of physical life … there are clear indicators of spiritual life. There is such a thing as The Vital Signs of Life. For instance … your PULSE RATE is one of those vital signs that indicate a healthy life. A pulse rate between 72-88 with 80 being average, indicates a healthy life. If there is no pulse, there is no life. The pulse indicates life. Your BLOOD PRESSURE is another Vital Sign of life. Under normal conditions, your blood pressure should be close to 120/80. Blood pressure...
Am I Really a Christian? (1 of 12)
by Jonathan McLeod
And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete (v. 4). SCRIPTURE READING The author of 1 John was probably the apostle John. (There are many similarities between 1 John and the Gospel of John.) John probably wrote this letter while he was living in Ephesus. It was probably sent to churches in cities near Ephesus. A possible date for 1 John is the early nineties A.D. [Read 1 John 1:1-4.] NOT EVERY CHRISTIAN IS A REAL CHRISTIAN When I was around 18 years old, I would mail baseball cards to players, asking them to sign the cards. Most of the cards were signed and mailed back to me....
God's DNA Test
by Ken Trivette
1. In recent years DNA tests have become an important part of our culture. DNA, simply defined, is material that governs each person's inheritance of eye color, hair color, stature, bone density along with many other human traits. The cells of the human body contain a complete sample of a person's DNA. A single string or strand of DNA is packed into a space roughly equal to a cube 1/millionth of inch on a side. Basically, every part of the human body is made of these cells and each contains a sample or complement of DNA identical to that of every other cell within a given person. 2. When I think of the complexity of DNA...
Getting Started With God (1 of 10)
by Larry Osborne
Two questions that separate those who've actually started the journey from those who've never left base camp.- Purpose: Written so we can tell the difference between a genuine Christian and a bogus Christian. - 10 Spiritual Tests: Scattered through 22 different passages - ''God is light, in him there is NO darkness at all.'' - The moment we start to doubt God's goodness, we're headed for spiritual trouble. 1. The Basic Morality question: Am I walking in the light? 1 John 1:6-7/ Galatians 5:19-21, Matthew 5:14-16/ John 3:19-21 and Ephesians 5:8-16/ 2 Peter 1:3-11 1. If you had to travel 500 miles, which mode of transportation...
Series: Living the Life
by Stuart Briscoe
''Love'' is a common theme both of Christian and secular thought and interest. Because of this, Christians need to be careful to understand the uniqueness of the love that characterizes the children of God: what it is, what it does, and what it says. 1. We need to know what it is because we may not have experienced it. 2. We need to be clear what it is because there is much confusion about it. 3. We need to understand the difference between human and divine love. 4. We need to know what it is if we are to walk in it. B. ''This is how we know what love is.''1. ''Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.'' 2. ''[God] sent His one and only Son…
Evidences of Salvation (3 of 6)
by Stan Coffey
I want you to take your Bible and turn to I John chapter 5. And I want you to keep your Bibles open to that chapter because I want to share several passages out of I John with you. I know that some of you, maybe many of you have been wondering how can you tell the difference between a backslider and a church member who is lost. I mean how do you know whether or not you have been saved and you have just gone away from the Lord and need to come back to the Lord, make a rededication of your life or maybe you were never saved in the first place and that is the reason you have no peace or assurance? I believe today...
I Have a Friend Who Used to be a Christian (3 of 3)
by Scott Maze
We are two Weeks from Easter. Invite a friend to join you. Easter is coming and that means more people in our building. Make yourself uncomfortable by sitting closer to the front and parking farther away - so visitors can have the preferred places.This morning we're looking at this question, ''Can Someone Be Saved and Then Lose Their Salvation?'' Again, we invite your questions throughout this series. This series is designed to get conversations going. The second thing this series is designed to do is this: these messages are online and can be accessed at anytime. Today, you can ask anything you want to ask....
Courage of Confession (3 of 4)
by Jeff Ecklund
In our continuing series on living A Life of Courage, I want to teach on confession this morning...Obedience has been taught and presented in mostly a negative way, were it is actually glorious, and unlocks the favor of God in our lives...Much the same, confession has been presented in a way that it loses the power and the dynamic influence it can and should have in our lives. If you google confession, most all of the first results have to do with the Catholic tradition of confession, and possibly because of that influence in history the church today does not understand or want to understand it in a biblical context...Text Illustration: A man...
Jesus is Witnessed About (24 of 32)
by Patrick Edwards
Introduction:''[B]ecause you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.'' (John 15:19) These are some of the most important words of caution that Jesus gave the church, and they have produced, historically, one of two general responses. On one extreme these words have been generally ignored. When you look at the Roman church during the Middle Ages you see a church that was driven toward control and power rather than faithful witness. Rather than advance the Gospel in love and humility, the Roman church advanced their own kingdom through the sword and corruption. It's fair...
Be Real (62 of 66)
by Tony Thomas
In the fall of 2011, ABC-TV premiered a fantasy drama titled, Once Upon a Time. The setting is the fictional town of Storybrooke, Maine. The residents are fairy tales characters who time-traveled to Storybrooke, but they were robbed of their memories. In other words, they live in Storeybrooke with new identities. The Evil Queen is the town Mayor, Snow White is a fourth grade school teacher, Prince Charming is a comatose hospital patient, their infant daughter is now (28-years-old), and Rumpelstiltskin runs the local pawn shop. In six seasons, there have been dozens of characters, from Robin Hood to the Mad Hatter to...
Living Right in a World Gone Wrong (5 of 6)
by Stan Coffey
We have been in a series of messages called ''Living A Christian Life In An X-Rated Society''. And today we come to the fifth of these messages and I am going to speak today about ''Living Right In A World Gone Wrong''. I think you would have to agree that we are living a world gone wrong but we don't have to go the direction the world is going. In I John 2 he addresses the three things that we talked about in previous messages. He addresses heathenism, materialism, and narcissism. Heathenism is that pursuit of pleasure. Materialism is that pursuit of possessions. And Narcissism is that pursuit of pride or position. He calls it...
