The Epic Life - Bob Hallman

14. Walking the Talk (1 John 3:16-24)

Last week, as I was talking about the example of Cain, there are a couple of things that came to mind in terms of hate and love. And when I think of hate and the example of Cain, hate is negative.
 
Clearly, it's a very negative kind of quality. It's a quality that God doesn't allow in our lives unless we're hating sin and hating evil. And hate when it's demonstrated toward other people, it seeks another person's harm.  And it doesn't even mean that we have to act on it. But even in our hearts, if we're withdrawing or pulling away or angry or bitter toward another person, we're actually seeking the harm of the other person in that relationship.
 
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13. The Warning of Cain (1 John 3:11-15)

The thing that's so sad is oftentimes there are Christians, and I don't think we have any in this church, but sometimes it's a struggle for us. Sometimes we'll slip and fall and we'll find it's kind of half in and half out of God's kingdom in our hearts. And it's misery. It's really awful because we can't enjoy sin and we can't enjoy our relationship with the Lord.
 
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12. The Truth About Sin (1 John 3:4-10)

This last couple of weeks we've been taking a look at the book of 1st John, and it's just been marvelous seeing what God has for us as believers. It's incredible. And this last week, John kind of interrupts himself in chapter three. If you want to start turning there, that would be great. But he interrupts himself as he's talking about the authentic Christian life and what it entails and what we should be looking for in terms of fruit in the authentic Christian life.
 
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11. Out of This World! (1 John 3:1-3)

Between authentic Christianity and Gnosticism, which again, for those of you that haven't been here with us, is just the teaching and belief that You can profess one thing with your mouth and have a spiritual relationship with God and at the same time live any way that you want So there are no constraints.
You can do anything that your heart desires and still please God and they were involved in sexual immorality. They were involved in idolatry They were involved in all kinds of things anything was fair game and it didn't have any impact on your relationship with God because the physical body and the spiritual nature were so separated that they had no impact on each other.
 
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10. Confident and Unashamed (1 John 2:28-29)

The first thing that John tells us in this verse in chapter 2, verse 28, he says, "Continue in him." And this word "continue," it's a different word than we've been looking at in the last couple of times we've been studying first, John, but it's the same word as remain. It's the same word as to abide. It's the same Greek root word, but the context is slightly different, so the interpretation or the actual wording is slightly different.
 
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09. Spiritual Perils in the Last Days (1 John 2:18-27)

John has been speaking as I've said so many times in the course of this study, to Gnostics. And he's speaking to the early church about the perils of Gnosticism.  And he continues his address in first John dealing with the spiritual perils of the last days. And part of that spiritual peril is the Antichrist. And John more specifically addresses Antichrists in the plural.
 
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08. In This World, Not of It (1 John 2:12-15)

I'm looking out at all of you and I'm thinking, "That's my sister. That's my brother. We're going to be together forever." So even though you're strangers to me, I got to meet a few of you. It's like, "Man, we're family. We're permanent family. 
That's wonderful. First John chapter 2 verse 15. The scripture says, "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world, the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes, and the boasting of what he has and does, comes not from the Father, but from the world.  And the world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. 
 
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07. Growing Up in Christ (1 John 2:12-14)

You know, John has been laying out what it means to be an authentic Christian, what it means to be a genuine Christian. And, he's laid out a number of things for us the genuine authentic believer walks in the light, acknowledges and confesses sin, obeys God's commands, and walks as Jesus walked. And he's laid out some pretty stiff standards for what it means to follow Christ.
Today what we're going to look at is his encouragement, his affirmation of the believers in their walk with God. Because after getting this far and looking at these high standards, it can almost give you a feeling like, gee, can anyone consider themselves a Christian? 
 
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06. Love: The Timeless Command (1 John 2:7-11)

We've been taking a look at some of the characteristics of the authentic Christian life.
And if you recall, one of John's primary aims is that we would have fellowship with a father, with the son, and with one another. And that fellowship, if it's genuine, authentic Christian fellowship, is centered on Jesus Christ. He talks about several characteristics that should mark the life of a Christian. And again, I want to emphasize we're not trying to generate these things in our life, but If we're abiding in the vine, if we're abiding in Christ and we're drawing off of Him, spending regular time in fellowship with Him, enjoying communion with Him, being led by the Spirit, then these fruits should be evidenced in our life.
 
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05. Obedience: The Fruit of Love (1 John 2:3-6)

First John chapter 2 starting in verse 3. We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His commands. "The man who says, 'I know him,' but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him." But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him.
 
Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. As I was thinking about 1 John, and of course as we've talked about 1 John extensively for the last few weeks, John's purpose is to kind of straighten out some faulty doctrine that was happening in the New Testament church, and the problem was Gnosticism, as we've talked about that. And I've spent some time over the last few weeks explaining what Gnosticism is.
 
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