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1 John - 2019 Exposition

The Importance and Steps to Having Assurance of Salvation

This Lord’s Day evening we will enter into the study for the third dominant theme in his letter – assurance of salvation. We hope to look at four reasons why assurance is important and the seek to understand the means God has given us to have assurance. Assurance is a key issue in the Christian life and determines both the quality and effectiveness of our faith in Christ.

The Scripture-Directed Spiritual Experiences and Safeguards

And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. 1 John 1:4 A.  The Spiritual Experiences in 1 John 1.  Living relationship with our Triune God:  1 John 1:6-10 2.  Purposeful obedience to our God’s commands: 1 John 2:1-5, 1 John 3:24, 1 John 5:2-3 3.  Fruitful life clinging to Christ: 1 John 2:28 4.  Conforming life to…

The Life of Love: Understanding and Applying God’s Love in our Walks with Him

This Lord’s Day evening we continue our series in 1 John with our thematic study of his book exploring the second of five themes – love. In doing so, we gain understanding of what is to characterize our fellowship with God and other Christians – love for God in vertical fellowship leading to love for one another in horizontal fellowship.

Scripture-Directed Spiritual Experiences

This Lord’s Day evening we continue our series in 1 John looking at the spiritual experiences of the Christian life as they are directed by the Scriptures. We hope to establish the “spiritual guardrails” enabling us to discern if a spiritual experience we are having is truly of the Lord or a counterfeit as defined by the Word of God, not our subjective experience.