FBC Seminole – April 18, 2021 | First Baptist Church Seminole

Prove It – Obey

A Christian’s life should be living proof of their connection to the Father. Essentially, our sacrificial love for others is a testament of our sacrificial love for God. In his first epistle—which forms the basis for this series—the apostle John walks through several aspects of the Christian life, revealing where the evidence lies for each. Do you know God? You can prove it because the evidence is in your obedience. Do you truly love your neighbor? You can prove it because the evidence is in your sacrifice. We don’t earn God’s forgiveness with our good deeds, but a transformed life should look just like that—transformed.

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[1 John Series] I Was There!

7 Days

Read Plan

It’s not what you remove – it’s what remains

John 17:3 NLT

3 And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.

1. There are people who don’t know God and know they don’t know

God.

2. People who don’t know God, but think they do know God.

3.People who know God, but they are not sure they know God

4.People who know God, and they know they know God.

1 John 1:5-10 NLT

5 This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. 6 So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. 7 But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. 9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

1 John 2:1-6 NLT

1 My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. 2 He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world. 3 And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. 4 If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. 5 But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. 6 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.

The Moral Diagnostic (2:3-6) – No one is above simple obedience

The Social Appraisal (2:7-11) – Love for other believers is a hallmark.

The Doctrinal Assessment (2:7-11) – Is Jesus, the Christ, God in the flesh?

1. The Moral Assessment

1 John 2:1-2 NLT

Obedience is not a prerequisite course or condition to be fulfilled for knowing God, but it as a demonstration and validation that we do know Him

2. Two Types of People

On the one hand, someone claims to know God

but doesn’t keep his commandments. John calls him a

liar and not living in the truth. On the other hand, there is

a man who obeys God out of genuine love of God. He

proves it by His love and His life. He demonstrates it.

1 John 2:6 NLT

6 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.

Luke 6:46-49 NLT

46 “So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say? 47 I will show you what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it. 48 It is like a person building a house who digs deep and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against that house, it stands firm because it is well built. 49 But anyone who hears and doesn’t obey is like a person who builds a house right on the ground, without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it will collapse into a heap of ruins.”