John 3 Recap

Honestly I wasn't very pleased with how the lesson came out and I apologize if you didn't get the most out of it. I will try harder next time to make the most out of the time we have. So let's review some of it briefly.

1 John 3:1-3

How loving is it for God to take us, who were children of the devil rebelling aginast Him in our sin, and adopt us to make us His children, which gives us forgivenss, heaven, purity, etc?

Do we really put our hope in not only what Jesus has done for us but in also what he will do for us when he comes back? That he will make us as he is? Does that thought give you comfort, give you hope, and make your day better when you think of it? If so...John says that hope in Him purifies us. Only hoping in Jesus do we beat the sin in our lives.

3:4-10

If sin is rebellion against God, what Jesus came to take away, and was not ofun in ?Jesus at all...how can we keep on sinning when He lives in us ans we in Him? That is the question John is asking. Rmember though, he isn't asking it to shake his finger at believers, but to show that the heretics in John's churches could not be of God since they had such a cavalier attitude towards their sin. They were sons of the devil, as were we before we were born again...born of God.

3:11-18

What else distinguishes the children of Satan from the children of God? Their love for the brothers (and sisters). Those of Satan generally hate God and his offspring as typified in Cain. Hate is murder (remember the Sermon on the Mount?). Murderers abide in death. God's children love as he loved us. Instead of taking life through hate we give ours in love. We passed from abiding in death to abiding in life...Jesus, the word of eternal life.

3:19-24

The children of God can have confidence to approach our heavenly father in prayer. Living a righteous life of love (which requires believing in His son) assures our hearts to ask God for what we need and He wants to give us.

Until next time...

casey