I. EXORDIUM:
Are you like CHRIST?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that we are like CHRIST in this world.
IV. TEXT:
1 John 4:17 (New International Version)
In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.
V. THESIS:
We have been passed from judgment to life, because of CHRIST's Love for us, we are like Him.
VI. TITLE:
We are like CHRIST
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Apostle John
B. Date written: Uncertain
C. Purposes:
1. To add to their joy
1 John 1:4 (Amplified Bible)
And we are now writing these things to you so that our joy [in seeing you included] may be full [and your joy may be complete].
2. To guard them against sin
1 John 2:1 (Amplified Bible)
MY LITTLE children, I write you these things so that you may not violate God’s law and sin. But if anyone should sin, we have an Advocate (One Who will intercede for us) with the Father—[it is] Jesus Christ [the all] righteous [upright, just, Who conforms to the Father’s will in every purpose, thought, and action].
3. To warn them against false teachers
1 John 2:26 (Amplified Bible)
I write this to you with reference to those who would deceive you [seduce and lead you astray].
4. To strengthen their faith in CHRIST and assure them of eternal life
1 John 5:13 (Amplified Bible)
I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the Son of God [in the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, yes, eternal life.
D. To whom written: to us, the Church, the Believers
E. Main Themes: GOD is Life, Light and Righteous Love.
F. Keywords: fellowship, love, know.
G. Key verse:
1 John 5:13 (Amplified Bible)
I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the Son of God [in the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, yes, eternal life.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
A. Love is made complete among us
"In this way, love is made complete among us"
1 John 4:12 (Amplified Bible)
No man has at any time [yet] seen God. But if we love one another, God abides (lives and remains) in us and His love (that love which is essentially His) is brought to completion (to its full maturity, runs its full course, is perfected) in us!
1 John 2:5 (Amplified Bible)
But he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety], truly in him has the love of and for God been perfected (completed, reached maturity). By this we may perceive (know, recognize, and be sure) that we are in Him:
James 2:22 (Amplified Bible)
You see that [his] faith was cooperating with his works, and [his] faith was completed and reached its supreme expression [when he implemented it] by [good] works.
GOD's Love have been demonstrated among us, that's why it's made complete, we don't deserve GOD's love, while we were still unlovable, GOD sent His Son to die in our place.
Romans 5:10 (Amplified Bible)
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more [certain], now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily delivered from sin’s dominion) through His [resurrection] life.
Romans 5:8 (Amplified Bible)
But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.
B. We have confidence on Day of Judgment
"so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment,"
Romans 5:1 (Amplified Bible)
THEREFORE, SINCE we are justified (acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us [grasp the fact that we] have [the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
Romans 8:1 (Amplified Bible)
THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.
John 5:24 (Amplified Bible)
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life.
Our judgment was passed from us to JESUS CHRIST who bore our sins, He was punished for the sins committed by the first Adam.
1 Corinthians 15:22 (Amplified Bible)
For just as [because of their union of nature] in Adam all people die, so also [by virtue of their union of nature] shall all in Christ be made alive.
C. In this world, we are like CHRIST
"because in this world we are like him."
1 John 3:3 (Amplified Bible)
And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless).
1 Peter 4:1-3 (Amplified Bible)
SO, SINCE Christ suffered in the flesh for us, for you, arm yourselves with the same thought and purpose [patiently to suffer rather than fail to please God]. For whoever has suffered in the flesh [having he mind of Christ] is done with [intentional] sin [has stopped pleasing himself and the world, and pleases God],
So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills.
For the time that is past already suffices for doing what the Gentiles like to do—living [as you have done] in shameless, insolent wantonness, in lustful desires, drunkenness, reveling, drinking bouts and abominable, lawless idolatries.
Romans 8:29 (Amplified Bible)
For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
Hebrews 12:2-3 (Amplified Bible)
Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds.
We are like CHRIST, we are His Exact copy, that's why we can do more miracles because He is with our Father.
John 14:12 (Amplified Bible)
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father.
IX. CONCLUSION:
We have been passed from judgment to life, because of CHRIST's Love for us, we are like Him.
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