• Perilous Times for the True Believer • A Worldly Mindset Cultivated by the Spirit of Error
I. The Reassuring Truth of the Spirit Given to Those Born of God (3:24)
• Abide in Christ: Evidenced by Keeping Christ’s Commandments • Christ Abides in the True Believer: Evidence by the Spirit Given Us
II. The Warning and the Test (4:1-3)
• The Warning (v. 1) • The Test (vs. 2-3) • Confessing Rightly - the Person of Christ • Confessing Rightly - The Work of Christ • The Subtle Deceptions of Satan pervade everywhere
III. The Victory that Belongs to All Who Are Born of God (vs. 4-6):
• The First Ground of our Victory – Our Union with Christ (v. 4; 1 John 2:14; 16:33; Rom. 8:37; Revelation 12:11; John 10:28-29)
• The Second Ground of our Victory – A Different Disposition (v. 5; John 15:19; 2 Timothy 4:3-4; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11; Isaiah 30:10-11; John 10:27)
• The Children of God Hear the True Preachers & Teachers of God (v. 6; 1 Corinthian 2:12-14; John 14:17; 15:26; 2 Corinthians 4:3-4; Ephesians 2:2)
Conclusion and Application
• “By This We Know the Spirit of Truth & the Spirit of Error”
• Put Our Trust in Him Who is Greater Than the World (Acts 4:19-20) – “Here I Stand” Luther)
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