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What Christmas Promises - Forgiveness - 1 John 3:1-10 | Warren Wiersbe Sermons | Warren Wiersbe | YouTubeToText
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Core Theme
The central theme is that Jesus Christ's coming (manifestation) is the ultimate solution to the pervasive problem of sin, offering forgiveness for its penalty, power for daily living, and eventual eradication of its presence.
1-10 gives us another insight into the
Christmas behold what manner of love the
father hath bestowed upon
us that we should be called the children of
of
God therefore the world knoweth us not
because it knew him not
beloved now are we the children of God
and it does not yet appear what we shall
be but we know that when he shall appear
we shall be like him for we shall see
him as he
is and every man that hath this hope in
him purifieth himself even as he is
pure whosoever practices sin
transgresseth also the law for sin is
the transgression of the
law and ye know that he was manifested
to take away our sins and in him is no
sin whosoever abideth in him does not practice
practice
sin whosoever practices sin hath not
seen him neither known
him little children let no man deceive
you he he that doeth righteousness is
righteous even as he is
righteous he that committeth sin is of
the devil for the devil sinth from the
beginning for this purpose the Son of
God was manifested that he might destroy
the works of the
devil whosoever is born of God does not practice
practice
sin for his seed remaineth in him and he
cannot practice sin because he is born
of God in this the children of God are
manifest and the children of the
devil whosoever doeth not righteousness
is not of God neither he that loveth not his
his
brother Jesus Christ was
manifested to take away our
sins and you
know that he was manifested
to take away our
sins this statement that the Apostle
John makes in his first epistle chapter
3 and verse
5 is one of four statements that he
makes concerning the promise of
Christmas in chapter 1 in verse two
Christmas promises life the life was
manifested in in chapter 3 and verse
8 for this purpose the Son of God was
manifested that he might destroy the
works of the devil the promise of
victory in chapter 4 in verse 9 in this
was manifested the love of God toward us
that God sent his only begotten son into
the world that we might live through him
the promise of
love and here in chapter 3 and verse 5
the promise of forgiveness
he's talking about
Sin it's interesting to note that many
people today are talking about
Sin the word sin has come back into our
popular vocabulary once again a leading
psychiatrist writes a book entitled
sin and sin is something that all of us
have trouble with in one way or
another is not a person listening to my
voice right now who does not have to
confess that he has a problem with
sin and this is
understandable because of what sin
is and because of where sin came from
and because of what sin does sin is much
more than a word in the
dictionary the word that John uses for
sin is the word that means to miss the
mark this is one of of the favorite
words for sin in the Bible to miss the
mark God said here's the target you
ought to hit and we hit down here
somewhere and we miss the mark for all
have sinned and come short of the glory
of God but he tells us there's another
word for sin in verse four it's
transgression of the
law sin not only means to miss the mark
but sin means to go over the mark that
God has drawn God says here is a line
you don't go there any farther than this
lawlessness sin came from the
devil that would that's what makes it
such a difficult dangerous thing he that
practices sin is of the
devil sin is not
weakness sin is not just some kind of
disease in our system sin is an ingrained
ingrained
inborn Rebellion against
God and it leads to
death it led to the death of our Lord
Jesus who was
sinless no one here can afford to joke
about Sin laugh about
Sin it's so easy for us to say well now
this is the way I am this is my
lifestyle that word lifestyle covers a
mul multitude of
sins now you can't change my lifestyle
well God will change your lifestyle
someday and you'll discover that
lifestyle may have been death
style what has the Lord Jesus Christ
done for us to solve the sin problem the
basic problem in the world today the
biggest problem in the world today is
the sin problem at the heart of every
problem is the problem of the heart and
the Heart Is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked who can know it
what has Jesus Christ done to help you
and me solve the sin problem well
according to First John 3:
1-10 our Lord performs three very wonderful
wonderful
Ministries to help us solve the sin
problem and if you and I will just let
him do what he wants to do in our
lives we can have Victory now what has
our Lord Jesus Christ done and what does
he do well verse 5 gives us his first
Ministry he died for
us and you know that he was manifested
to bear away our
sins the word that's translated here
take away is the same word that John the
Baptist used used in John 1: 29 Behold
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin
of the world so the first Ministry our
Lord performed to solve that sin
problem was the ministry of Dying For
Us you see his death really explains his
birth if you begin at the manger you had
better end up at the
cross if you begin with the Shepherds
you'd better end up with the shepherd
giving his life for the Sheep if you
begin with people bowing low at the
manger you'd better come to the Cross
where our lord said it is finished his
death explains his
life Thou shalt call his name
Jesus why for he shall save his people
from their sins
when Mary was rejoicing at what the Lord
had done for us she says and my spirit
savior when dear Godly Zacharias the
father of John the Baptist was praising
the Lord for the birth of his
son he mentions the fact that the Savior
has come listen to what he says in uh
Luke and chapter
1 and his father Zacharias was filled
with the Holy Spirit and prophesied
saying blessed be the Lord God of Israel
for he hath visited and redeemed his
people and hath raised up an Horn of
salvation for us in the house of his
servant David he's talking about a
savior the Angels said that when the
Angels appeared to those frightened
Shepherds they said' don't be afraid we
bring you good tidings good news Evangel
of great joy which shall be to all the
people for unto you is born this day a
savior which is Christ the lord when
Mary and Joseph brought the little baby
Jesus into the temple for his
presentation that Godly Old Saint Simeon
met them here was a man who had been
waiting for the consolation of Israel
and he took the Lord Jesus up in his
arms and he blessed God and said
Lord now letest thou thy servant depart
in peace according to Thy word for mine
eyes have seen thy
salvation his birth is explained by his
death and he was
manifested he came to us that he might
be able to die for us now need I tell a
congregation like this that only Jesus
Christ could die for us there was no
other good enough to pay the price for
sin he only could unlock the Gate of
Heaven and let us in John tells us why
only the Lord Jesus could take away our
sins chapter 3: 7 he is righteous
chapter 3: 5 in him is no sin chapter
3:3 he is pure now you cannot point to
any human being on the face of this
Earth and say he is pure she is pure he
is righteous in him is no
sin only Jesus Christ is the sinless one
he was sinless in his birth therefore
that Holy thing which shall be born of
thee shall be called The Son of God and
he was not sinless in his birth because
his mother was holy he was sinless in
his birth because the Holy Spirit who
generated his body was
holy he was sinless in his life which of
you you convince me of sin he said to
his enemies they had to hire false
witnesses to lie in court to convict
him yes the Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one who could die for us and pay
the price for our sins because he's the
only one who is pure he's the only one
who is righteous he's the only one who
never missed the Mark he's the only one
who always hit the target he's the only
one who never rebelled against the
father I do always those things that
please him I have come not to do my own
will but the will of him that sent me
and he died for us and in his
death he solved the sin
problem you see when Jesus Christ was
here on Earth there was no sin in him in
him is no sin says John but when he went
to the Cross there was sin on on him not
sin in him sin on him had there been sin
in him he never could have died for us
how could a sinner die for Sinners oh no
only a savior can die for Sinners and in
him is no sin but on him was all
sin and God took all of the filth and
all of the moral sewage and all of the
godlessness and our lying and our
rebelling and our
lusting and our hatred and all of our
wickedness and all of our unbelief and
all of the respectable
sins that society says are permissible
and God took all of these sins in one
great burden and laid them on his son on the
the
cross you say what did Jesus Christ do
to help you solve the sin problem my
friend he died for you
the theologians tell us that sin creates
three problems for us there is the
penalty of sin which is eternal judgment
and there is the power of sin that drags
us down daily and there's the very
presence of sin all around us and when
he died for us he took care of the
penalty of
sin now the Jewish people who were in
the congregation that receiv received
this letter UND OD what John was talking
about because for centuries they had had
a religious holiday called the day of
atonement yam Kapur and on the day of
atonement the high priest would get two
goats and one of those goats would die
his blood would be shed and the blood
taken into the holy of holies and
sprinkled on The Mercy Seat the other
goat was kept alive and the high priest
would come out and he would lay his
hands on the head of that goat and
confess the sins of the people of Israel
and then a man would take that goat out
into the
Wilderness and typically
symbolically that goat was bearing Away
The Sins of the people as far as the
East is from the West so far hath he
removed our transgressions from us my
friend in this Advent season I ask you
this question has Jesus Christ taken
away your
sins have you trusted him can you point
to him and say behold my Lamb of God who
has taken away my sins even as he's
taken away the sin of the world the
penalty for sin has been taken care of
he died for us someone says but Pastor
if I trust Christ as my savior and he
forgives me and he takes away the
penalty of my
sin I'm still a sinner oh but not in
God's sight when God forgives God
forgets and God takes that record book
that has all of the record of our sins
and across that record book he writes
righteous in Jesus Christ accepted in the
the
Beloved as a second Ministry the Lord
Jesus performs for us in solving the
problem of sin he not only died for us
but he lives in us and this John
discusses in verses
6-10 you'll notice when I read the
scripture I gave the literal meaning of
the Greek verbs it's important
here I doubt that any language has more accurate
accurate
verbs than the Greek language whosoever
abideth in him does not practice sin
now he may
sin in fact John tells us back in
chapter 1 verse 8 if we say we have no
sin we deceive ourselves and the truth
is not in US verse 10 if we say that we
have not sinned we make him a liar and
his word is not in us but that's no
excuse for sinning he says in chapter
2:1 my little children these things
write I unto you that you sin not
and if any man sin we have an advocate
with the father Jesus Christ the
righteous John says a Christian is not
someone who is
sinless a Christian is one who does sin
less he does not practice
sin when Paul wrote to the Galatians he
said my brethren if a man be overtaken
in a
fault that happened
sometimes Temptation swoops down upon us
sometimes we find ourselves fighting a
tremendous battle and sometimes we give
in we don't want to and our heart Rebels
against it and we're broken after it a
Christian is not someone who is perfect
a Christian is one who is accepted in
Christ but occasionally he does sin now
says John what does the Lord do to solve
that problem well there is a new life
down in side verse 9 whosoever is born
of God that's the new birth does not
practice sin why his seed the divine
nature the implanted life of God is down
inside when a person becomes a Christian
nature God implants a new nature and as
long as you and I Yi to that new nature
and Let Jesus Christ live in us the old
nature is subdued the old nature is
crucified the old nature is not
cultivated and fed and
encouraged every one of us has had this
experience I'm sure we trusted Christ as
our savior we were born again a new
nature came within and life became
different the old things we used to love
we didn't love anymore and the things we
used to dislike we begin to love the
word of God and prayer and being with
God's people and doing the things that
are right and each of us had some area
in our lives that bothered us some
habitual sin or some weakness and we
begin to get victory over that as we
prayed as we walked with the Lord and
perhaps you had been saved a year two
years 10 years and then one day pow that
old sin came back again and you fell
lots of people have this
experience and we go running to the
pastor or to someone say how could this
have happen I haven't lost my temper
like this for five years I haven't used
these words in 10 years how could this
have happened and the answer is my
friend your old nature is just what it
was 10 years ago just what it was 20
years ago and what it will be 20 years
from now if the Lord doesn't return he
does not change the old nature he
implants the new nature his seed
remaineth in him and he cannot practice
sin because he's born of God he may
occasionally fall into sin but he cannot practice
practice
sin and there are those today who lives
lives of immorality and say oh but we're
saved we believe the same way you
believe but our lifestyle is different
my Bible says we don't practice sin
because because he lives in us one of
the beautiful themes in first John
involves Three Little Words as he
is over in chapter 4:1
17 herein is our love made perfect that
we may have boldness in the day of
judgment because as he is
so are we in this world you couldn't
find a simpler statement as he is so are
we in this world as he is in heaven so
are we in this world now just Trace as
he is through first John look at chapter
1: 7 if we walk in the light as he is in
the light now the unsaved person can't
walk in the light he's in darkness but
we've been saved we have the new nature
and so we walk in the light as he is in
the light chapter 2: 6 he that sath he
abideth in him ought himself also so to
walk even as he walk as he is how did
how was he he walked in righteousness we
walk in righteousness chapter
3:3 every man that hath this hope in him
purifieth himself even as he is pure as
he is pure as he is is in the light as
he is righteous he says in verse 7 he
that doeth righteousness is righteous
even as he is righteous and the ultimate
is we shall see him as he is so we are
in this world as he is up in heaven and
the Victory he won we can win and the
righteousness he possesses we can
practice and the light that he is we can
walk in day by day now how do we do this
well he tells us in verse 6 of chapter 3
whosoever abideth in him does not
practice sin now abide in him what does
it mean to abide in him once again if
you'll just take this beautiful book of
First John and see what he says about
abiding I'm looking for example at
chapter 2 and I'm looking at verse
19 chapter 2 verse 19 John is talking
about people who left the church they
left the fellowship they went out from
us but they were not of us for if they
had been of us they would no doubt have
continued with us and that word
abide but they went out that they might
be made manifest that they were not all
of us is everyone whose name is on a
church role saved no no John said there
are people who went out from ourth
Fellowship didn't lose their salvation
they never had it to begin with they
were in us but not of us one of the ways
we abide in Jesus Christ is by abiding
in the fellowship don't you write off
the importance of fellowship with God's
people I know you have a radio and a
television set and you have a cassette
recorder in a large library but that's
no substitute for the fellowship in God's
God's
church and I have seen it over and over
again when people get careless about
their worship of God with God's people
they stop Abiding and when they stop
abiding they start
sinning so we abide in the fellowship
over in chapter 2: 24 we abide in the
word let that therefore abide in you
which ye have heard from the beginning
if that which ye have heard from the
beginning shall abide in you ye also
shall abide in the son and in the father
oh no time for the Bible no time for
meditation no time for study no time to
get into the word but plenty of time for
sin how do we abide in him we abide in
him through the
word how do we abide in him we abide in
him through the Holy Spirit walking in
the spirit verse 27 but the anointing
that's the Holy Spirit the unction from
above the anointing which ye have
received of him abideth in you
and ye have no need that any man teach
you now he's not discounting teachers
and preachers what he's saying is I
can't teach you spiritual truth the Holy
Spirit has to take what I say and make
it real to you that's what he's saying
otherwise it's
secondhand you need not that any man
teach you but as the same anointing
teaches you of all things and is truth
and is no lie and even as it hath taught
you you shall abide in him how through
the anointing of the Holy Spirit when
did you get that when you were saved
abide in the fellowship abide in the
word abide in the spirit and you shall
abide in Jesus Christ and when we abide
in him and he lives in us we don't practice
practice
sin we walk in
Victory I've said this so many times I'm
sure people don't hear it but I'll say
it again because somebody may dare to believe
believe
it the life of
victory is the life in the word in the
spirit in the fellowship of God's people
and if you don't take time every
day to Fellowship in the word through
the spirit in
prayer there's going to be defeat he
lives in us now there's a third Ministry
our Lord performs he died for us that
takes care of the penalty of sin he
lives in us that takes care of the power
of sin sin shall not have dominion over
spirit Chapter 3 of 1 John the first
three verses here's his third Ministry
he is coming for us and this will take
care of the very presence of sin behold
what strange kind of
love says John what peculiar foreign
kind of love
the father has bestowed upon us that we
should be called the children of God and
many manuscripts add at this point and we
are beloved now are we the children of
God now oh but you can't know if you're
saved until you die don't wait that long
now are we the children of God it does
know that when he shall appear we know
over 20 times in this little letter Paul
John uses the word no KN n o w we know
we know we
know oh but that's arrogance no it isn't it's
it's
confidence oh but that's pride no it
isn't it's Assurance we know that when
he shall appear when not if when he
shall appear we shall be like him for we
shall see him as he is is the second
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is just
as certain as his first
coming you could trace through the Old
Testament scriptures the plan of his
first coming and he came according to
plan you can read through the New
Testament scriptures and find the plan
for his second coming and he's going to
come according to plan just as he kept
the Old Testament prophecies so he will
keep the New Testament prophecies just
as he came as he promised so he will
come again as he promised it's that
certain and we know that when he shall
appear not
if now when will he appear we don't
none my understanding of scripture is
that no signs have to take place before
Jesus can come he could come
today I would that he
did the last Prayer in the Bible is even
Jesus and he's coming for us and this is
going to take care of the very presence
of sin he's coming for us because we're
his children this world is not our home
God's children are not of this world the
world doesn't understand us and the
world doesn't even want us we are not of
this world even as Jesus is not of this
world we don't belong here we are left
here to be lights in the world and salt
in the earth we are left here to witness
and to
win but this isn't in our home I go to
prepare a place for you and if I go and
prepare a place for you I will come
again he comes for
us and when he comes for us he's going
to finish what he started he died for me
that takes care of the very penalty of
sin he lives in me that takes care of
the power of sin he comes for me that
will take care say the theologians of
the very presence of sin my body will be
transformed to have a glor glorious body
like unto his I'll have a new home a
whole new atmosphere a whole new
environment where everything will be
pure and glorious and holy and righteous
and loving and Splendid all of the glory of
of
God when he
comes now it seems to me that our Lord
Jesus Christ has done a very very fine
job of solving the sin
problem Moses didn't solve the sin
problem in fact Moses in giving the law
accentuated the problem by the law is
the knowledge of
sin and all that Moses could do is say
don't do this and don't do that but do
this and do that and people cried out
and said we
can't God said I know you can't that's
why I gave you the law to let you know
you could not now by Grace I want to save
you Moses did didn't solve the sin
problem with the law and yet people
today are trying to solve the sin
problem with law John the Baptist didn't
solve the sin problem with
baptism I've met many people who have
been baptized and I believe in baptism
but they they've never been saved they
think that by being baptized they're
going to solve the sin problem John the
Baptist didn't solve the sin problem
Jesus did John himself said to our Lord
in those Waters in this manner said
Jesus to John in this manner we shall
fulfill all righteousness in what Manner
through death burial and Resurrection
how did Jesus bring in righteousness and
solve the sin problem death burial and
Resurrection he was
manifested to take away our sins this is
the only solution for the sin problem he
was manifested to take away our sins now
you know this John said so John says and
you know you know that he Jesus was
manifested to take away our sins you
know this what have you done about it
you say what should I do about it well
you should trust him you should come to
him and say Lord Jesus I believe that
you died for me I believe that you bore
my sins in your body on the cross and I
will trust you now as my savior I will
receive you implant that new nature
within forgive me take the record of my
life and across that record please write
accepted in the beloved one wash away my
sin and then once we have been saved we
come to him and say Lord I want to abide
in you and I want you to abide in me I'm
going to abide in the fellowship and
abide in the word and abide in the
spirit because I want you to give me
victory over the power of
sin that like as Christ was raised up
from the dead so also we should walk in
newness of life therefore If any man be
in Christ he's a new creation old things
are passed away behold all things are become
become
new no reason for us to stumble and
fall when Jesus Christ lives in us and
then we
spend our thoughts and our mind and our
heart lifting them upward to heaven and
saying you know he's coming for
me the return of Jesus Christ is a
tremendous motivation for Godly living
every man that hath this hope in him
purifieth himself even as he is pure and
now little children abide in him that
when he shall appear not if when he shall
shall
appear we may have confidence and not be
ashamed before him at his coming asham
shame he was manifest to take away our
sins the greatest problem in the world
today has been
solved the sin
problem because he died for us he lives
in us and he's coming for
us the
son has solved the sin problem for you
now will you receive
him and trust him
God if our hearts Were Somehow projected
on a
screen and we let alone others could
see what our sins are really like oh God
how we would cry out for
Mercy forgive us Lord because we have
covered sin we we have whitewashed it we
have redefined it we
have sometimes even approved of
it we've argued about it we've excused
it but oh Lord the one thing we need
more than anything else is to be saved from
from
it and I pray that today people will
come and Trust Jesus Christ and be born
again and receive the new
nature and find in Christ for
forgiveness I pray for
believers Lord you know the needs of our
own Hearts we need to walk as he walked
and be as he is in this
world I pray that during this season and every
every
season we might live as those who have a
savior and who are looking for him to come
come
again I pray this in jesus'
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