Welcome to episode 135 of Grasp the Bible. In this episode, we continue our study in the Book of 1 John, covering chapter 5:1-12. The series is called “Unshakable.” Today, we will cover:
- Obey God and Enjoy the Victory of Faith (vv. 1-5)
- Believe in the Son and Enjoy Eternal Life (vv. 6-12)
Key takeaways:
- Love, obedience, and faith are the three spiritual birthmarks that identify people who are in the family of God.
- Love for God means a love that expresses itself in obedience to His commandments.
- Daily victory comes from recognizing that faith teaches me how to overcome the world.
- What is of the world cannot give us victory over the world.
- Jesus came into his power by the water of his baptism and even more so by the blood of his cross.
- Since we believe the testimony of man, how much more should we believe the testimony of God. What is God’s testimony? Jesus is His son and that he is the only means by which one can have eternal life.
Quotable:
- You cannot claim to love God and be indifferent to His commands. Obedience is the proof of your love.
Application:
- If you love the father, it is a foregone conclusion that you are not only going to love the father who gave birth to you, but you are going to love everybody else in the family as well.
- We must do more than just know the commandments. God is interested to see if we carry them out.
- Love for others is not a sentimental emotion or merely getting along; it is living in right relationships with others and by meeting the need of others for life’s sustaining provisions.
- Some questions to ask yourself:
- Is your Christian life more of a duty you have to force yourself to fulfill?
- Do you feel that if you don’t keep God’s commandments you are afraid of what He might do if you don’t?
- Or do you genuinely desire to obey God’s commandments?
- If I am to overcome the world, I need a force and power beyond my own strength. I am given the weapon of faith.
- When someone rejects God’s love offered in Christ in favor of some other system of belief (or nonbelief), they implicitly declare that they know better than God, thus “making” Him a liar.
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