1 John 5:13-21 Series

1 John 5:13-21

13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

“Ye have eternal life” Now we have to understand first this is for the believer obviously, but does it say it's possible that we will have eternal life or that if we are perfect from the point of salvation on to death that we will have eternal life? No, we have it! If we are in Christ we have it!

Gospel of John 10:28-30 ~ (Jesus) 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and My Father are one.”

Who is greater than God and Jesus? Are you greater than God or Jesus? Am I greater than God or Jesus? No one is it says. So when Jesus says that you have eternal life and that no one can snatch you from His hand He means not any person can, nor Satan and not even ourselves can.

What assurance do we have and what secures us for salvation? The Holy Spirit in dwelt sees us through our Christians life and secures our Christian life.

Is the Holy Spirit God? Does anyone here have more power than the Holy Spirit? No one does! If you are truly saved we have assurance.

Now there are a lot of people in the world that think they are saved, there are a lot of false churches, there are a lot of lukewarm churches filled with people who think they are Christians, but they are not Christians. God will judge them on that final day.

Matthew 7:21-23 ~ (Jesus) Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Jesus is not fooled by those who say they are believers and are not. We can be though, and often we are. Jesus says even those who seem to be doing everything right may not be. See, Jesus knows what they may have done in His name, but what we can't see that Jesus can is their wicked heart.

That's why we can't judge if someone is going to heaven or not, we can't see their heart. There will be people there that we will be shocked to see when we get there. There won't be people there that we for sure thought would be and we will be equally shocked.

14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

The will of God and Jesus are contained in scripture and this is where we should seek the things from them.

16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

Sin is a never ending thing even for the believer because of our sinful flesh which will follow us to our grave. We also have a sinful mind that we are hopefully always renewing and building up to be more Christ like. But that doesn't keep us from salvation and heaven.

So what is the sin that leads to death? Never believing that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of your life to begin with. That's it.

18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

This seems like a contradiction to what we just read before but in its context it is not. This shows the importance of reading everything. The past verses just talked about the sin that leads to death and ones that don't. So in the context here this is talking about that believers will not commit the sin that leads to death.