Sermons on 1 John (Page 4)

How Well Can We Obey?

1 John 1:8-10 We question how well we can measure up to God’s standards. We see that in every way we fall short of His glory and that we break His commandments every day in thought, word, and deed. We cannot trust in our own righteousness to save us at all, but must wh

Children of God

1 John 3:1-3 We see how great is the love of God that He should adopt sinful men and women as His children. There are no closer human relationships than between a husband and wife and between a parent and child – yet the believer becomes part of the Bride of Christ an

What Is Sin?

1 John 3:4 God’s word tells us that sin is lawlessness. Whenever we break God’s Law or do not perfectly keep His commandments, we are sinning. The Bible is clear that all have sinned, and that we all sin every day. The Ten Commandments are a summary of God’s Law tha

This Is the Love of God

1 John 5:1-3 The love of God makes everything which is of God to be delightful. Relation of love to God with love to His children and His commandments

You Have an Anointing from the Holy One

1 John 2:20, 27 God imparts to all of His children a new spiritual faculty, or ability, by which they are not only able to discern between truth and error, but also by which they can see the beauty of holy things.

Do Not Love the World

1 John 2:15-17 We must not love the world, nor the things in the world, but we must love God. Love God; hate the world; both mutually exclusive

The Blessings of the Covenant of Grace

1 John 5:11-12 The Covenant of Grace guarantees to us a gracious Mediator, and salvation through Him, the gift of the Spirit to work faith in us, and every spiritual blessing, in Christ Jesus.

Sin Is Lawlessness

1 John 3:4 Sin is that which is against the holy and perfect standard of God’s righteousness, the Law of God.

God is Love

1 John 4:7-11 God is pure and absolute love and those who are born of Him will exhibit that same love in their lives.