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Live Out the Love of God
Joel Wood
Jesus has shown us what God is really like. Jesus as also shown us what love is really like. If we want to know God, we look to Jesus. If we want to know love, we look to Jesus. We live in a time where God is love has been turned into love is God. We assume that we are able to discover love on our own and then our view of love should be universally acceptable. The Christian worldview instead says we look to God to discover what love looks like and to find the love we truly long for. And then we reflect him by demonstrating that same love in our relationships with others. As we see how unlovely we are and yet how great God’s love is for us, we find power to love when loving each other is difficult.
1 John 4:7-12
The Filter
Joel Wood
We need to be discerning in who we give our ears and or attention to. Just because people sound good does not mean we should listen to them. Just because people are saying what we like does not mean we should listen to them. Discernment on what voices and what content we allow into our lives takes work, but is worth the effort. We find joy in discerning what is true and allowing that to shape our life and discerning what is false and avoiding that.
1 John 4:1-6
The Joy of Assurance
Kyle Kauffman
So many of us live with a constant low-level sense of condemnation. We are painfully aware of our sinfulness. We are painfully aware of all the ways that we have failed God or other people. We are painfully aware of the fact that we don’t measure up in some area where we feel like we should measure up. Whether it’s because of what other people have said to us, what Satan has whispered into our ears, or just simply what we tell ourselves over and over again, we live feeling condemned and defeated. The gospel should be the end of all condemnation in our lives. It should crush every voice that leaves us feeling condemned. And the gospel as a result frees us to live a live that is really pleasing to God.
1 John 3:19-24
The Joy of Sacrificial Love
Kyle Kauffman
The church is not meant to be a place where we smile at each other, make small talk with one another, but secretly we are indifferent to each other or harbor hateful thoughts and feelings toward each other. Too often this is what we settle for: a smile on the outside with a heart of indifference or hate on the inside. This is no different than Cain. We find the power to really love each other when we are living in confidence of God’s love for us. And we find the pattern for loving each other in the way that Christ has loved us. We are called to real love because real love changes people. Afterall it was God’s real and costly love for us that has changed us.
1 John 3:11-18
The Joy of Freedom
Kyle Kauffman
We all take our freedom very seriously. We don’t want anyone encroaching on our freedom or taking away a part of our freedom. But do we realize that true freedom is not found in living however we want, but rather in living how God designed us and wants us to live? While a life lived for self may seem to be a life of freedom, in reality it’s a life controlled by sin and Satan. The freedom that God grants us in Jesus is the freedom to turn away from the power of sin and live for him. We now have the ability to say no to sin and yes to God. This is the type of freedom we were designed for. And this is the type of freedom we find in Christ.
1 John 3:4-10
The Joy of Being a Child
Kyle Kauffman
One of the greatest privileges of being a Christian is to be adopted by God. Our adoption into God’s family should be a continual source of joy for us. God has made you his child forever. Which means that we have all the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of belonging to God’s family. We can find peace in knowing God is our Father. We can find value in knowing we are his children. We can look with confidence to our future because of what we will be. And we can live with a new purpose right now because of our belonging to God’s family.
1 John 3:1-3
The Comfort of Endurance
Kyle Kauffman
We are called to endure in our faith and we can live with confidence that we will endure because God is the one who enables our endurance. His grace enables us to resist falling away. His grace enables us to see through lies that undermine our faith. His grace is what gets you through to the finish line. If your faith is currently in Jesus then you can take comfort in the fact that God has got you this far and you can trust that he will continue to enable you to endure.
1 John 2:26-29
The Challenge of Endurance
Kyle Kauffman
We are called to endure in our faith. Not everyone does this. There are people who seem to have faith that turn away. This is especially tempting in an age where deconstruction of faith is seen as heroic. God calls us to endure in our faith and not give way to the people or pressures that might tempt us to walk away. We should recognize that endurance in our faith is continuing evidence of God’s grace in our lives, just as we should take seriously God’s call to us to endure and not give up.
1 John 2:18-25
Proper Foundation of Love
Ben Armstrong
We are creatures made to love. But what we love and how we love are eternally consequential decisions. John warns us not to love the world or the things of this world. God, the creator of all things good, is to be our guide as we learn to love others and things with a proper foundation of a love for God. It is when we seek to love things that are not of God or love things in a way that is ungodly that we lose joy. But when we learn to love the way God has intended, we find security and joy that the world cannot provide.
1 John 2:15-17
The Joy of Confidence
Brandon Fisher
It’s easy for us to live defeated lives. We see our sin and feel defeated. We see the hurt and suffering in the world and feel defeated. We see the evil in the world and feel helpless in the face of it. A defeated life is not a life that is full of joy. God wants us to live with a faith-fueled confidence in this life.
1 John 2:12-14