THE MOST SECURE PLACE IN THE WORLD

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1 John 5:1-21 [NLT]

1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. 2We know we love God’s children if we love God and obey his commandments. 3Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome. 4For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. 

Memory Verse: 1 John 5:18 [NLT]

18We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning, for God’s Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them.

The Most Secure Place in the World is - being in a right relationship with GOD. it means…

1. Believing that JESUS is the Messiah

1. John 5:1a [NLT]

               1Everyone  who believes that Jesus is the Christ 

Isaiah 32:1 [NLT]

   Look, a righteous king is coming! And honest princes will rule under him. 

1 John 5:1b [NLT]

• has become a child of God. 

• And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. 

Acts 4:11, 12

11 Jesus is ‘the stone  that you builders rejected,

   which has become the cornerstone.’

12 Jesus is the only One who can save people. No one else in the world is able to save us.” 

The Most Secure Place in the World is - being in a right relationship with GOD. it means…

1. Believing that JESUS is the Messiah

2. Proving our confession by submission to GOD’s commandments.

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1. Proving our confession by submission to GOD’s commandments.

• 1 John 5:2-11 [NLT]

• Loving GOD results in obedience to His commandments and loving fellow believers. 

2We know we love God’s children if we love God and obey his commandments. 3Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome. 

• Our faith in GOD, keeps us faithful to GOD and free from worldly control.

4For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. 5And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. 

• Our faith in JESUS CHRIST gives us spiritual life.

6And Jesus Christ was revealed as God’s Son by his baptism in water and by shedding his blood on the cross—not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit, who is truth, confirms it with his testimony. 7So we have these three witnesses—8the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and all three agree. 9Since we believe human testimony, surely we can believe the greater testimony that comes from God. And God has testified about his Son. 10All who believe in the Son of God know in their hearts that this testimony is true. Those who don’t believe this are actually calling God a liar because they don’t believe what God has testified about his Son. 

• CHRIST’s baptism - a symbol of death to sinful desires and behavior at immersion and a symbol to new life of holiness at the raising from the water. Water is a symbol of cleansing. We wash our bodies from accumulated and physically harmful dirt and germs. So we wash our spirits in the symbolic water of baptism.

• CHRIST’s blood -  is a symbol of a life given as payment for the sins that condemn mankind.

Hebrews 9:13, 14 [LEB]

13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled sanctify them for the ritual purity of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God? 

• The HOLY SPIRIT is witness to both present at the baptism of JESUS AND His death at the cross

Deuteronomy 19:15

A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses”

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James 4:3  [NLT] 

And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

The Most Secure Place in the World is - being in a right relationship with GOD. it means…

1. Believing that JESUS is the Messiah

2. Proving our confession by submission to GOD’s commandments.

3. Enjoying a dependent relationship with GOD.

4. Rejecting a sinful lifestyle.

1. Rejecting a sinful lifestyle

• Scripture/Explanation: 1 John 5:16-21 [NLT]

16If you see a fellow believer sinning in a way that does not lead to death, you should pray, and God will give that person life. But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you should pray for those who commit it. 17All wicked actions are sin, but not every sin leads to death. 

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1. A Specific, Deadly Sin. 

Deuteronomy 17:12, 13 [ESV]

12 The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again. 

2. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. 

1 Sam 2:25, 

If a man sins against another man, God may mediate for him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who will intercede for him? 

3. Total Rejection of the Gospel. 

Heb 6:4–6; 10:26–27 states:

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the Word and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.… If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume God’s enemies.

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The Most Secure Place in the World is - being in a right relationship with GOD. it means…

1. Believing that JESUS is the Messiah

2. Proving our confession by submission to GOD’s commandments.

3.  Enjoying a dependent relationship with GOD.

4.  Rejecting a sinful lifestyle.