The Epic Life - Bob Hallman

17. Perfect Love (1 John 4:15-21)

The authentic Christian life, and as I've been saying for a number of weeks here, in fact, a couple of months, if it's not authentic, it's not worth living. It's not worth going to church.
 
It's not worth reading your Bible if it's not authentic. It's a waste of our time. It's a waste of my time. And I'm not talking about you being a waste of my time. I'm saying if I'm not living an authentic Christian life,
 
I'm wasting my time because God is looking for people who will live the authentic Christian life.
 
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16. The Way of Love (1 John 4:7-16)

The topic of his message to the people that he's writing to, is love. It's the supreme test. It's a supreme authentic test for true Christianity.  As I've been teaching, that without love, we can be all kinds of things. We can be knowledgeable about Scripture. We can be gifted. We can be teachers. We can be worship leaders. We can be serving after church, before church, during the week. We can be sacrificing ourselves, our finances. We can be sacrificing our time to good deeds. We can be doing all kinds of things. But the scripture says that if we do not have love then all of those things amount to nothing in God's sight. 
 
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15. Don't Believe Everything You Hear (1 John 4:1-69)

We've been, again, looking through the book of 1 John at the qualities of the authentic Christian life. That's what living the Christian life is all about. In fact, when I was at Kapa 'a High the other day,
 
I had a question-and-answer time for about 15 minutes and one of the kids said that the biggest turn off for them is hypocrisy. And one of the questions I asked them right at the start is, you know, when you think of a pastor, what do you think of? And of course they said, "Oh, a holy man and a righteous person." And I said, "Come on, you know, tell me what you really think and then then all the stuff came out you know, and I explained to them that's why I couldn't think of anything worse in life than being a pastor when I was a young person and now, I'm so grateful at God's calling.  The fact is, John is talking about the authentic Christian life and how important it is to live the authentic Christian life . 
 
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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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