Sermons on 1 John

You please turn with me in your Bibles to First John chapter 5 beginning at verse 11. And this is the testimony: that God gave us eternal life and this life is in his son. Whoever has the son has life; whoever does not have the son does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the…

[Music] Amen. If you’ll turn with me in your Bibles, please, to First John 4, beginning at verse 19. John writes, ‘We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, ‘I love God’ and hates his brother, whom he has seen, he cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.’ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and…

Amen. Please turn within your Bibles to First John chapter 4, beginning at verse 7. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is…

If you turn within your Bibles, please to First John chapter 4, beginning at the first verse. John writes, ‘Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from…

Oh man, if you’ll turn within your Bibles please to First John chapter 3, beginning at verse 11. John writes, ‘For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.…

Foreign please turn to First John chapter 2, beginning at verse 28. And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. See what kind of love the Father has given to us that we should be called children of God! And so…

[Music] Foreign with me it’s in your Bibles first John chapter 2, beginning at verse 18. Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard the Antichrist is coming. So now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it might be plain that…

If you’ll turn within your Bibles to John’s first letter, chapter 2, beginning at the third verse: And by this we know that we have come to know him if we keep his Commandments. Whoever says, ‘I know him,’ but does not keep his Commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever…

Please turn with me in your Bibles to the first letter of John, beginning chapter 1, verse 1: ‘That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life. The life was made manifest, and we have seen it and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made…