Sermons about 1 John 2:16-3:18

The Greater Inheritance (Part 3)

Contributed by Eddie Snipes on Jan 8, 2002

based on 18 ratings

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Is our inheritance in this life, the life to come, or both?

Greater Inheritance (Part 3) Forfeiting Our Reward In God’s plan, everything in life works together for our benefit. As we have looked at beforehand, it is our eternal benefit God has in mind. Sometimes what benefits today also has eternal rewards as well. However, many times what seems to be a ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:16-19, 1 John 2:15-17

Denomination: Baptist

The Characteristics Of A Christian

Contributed by David Cambridge on Jan 19, 2002

based on 34 ratings

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There are several characteristics that every Christian should possess. Reveiwing these will help us to examine ourselves, and be in a better position to help the erring.

The Characteristics Of A Christian A Question Of Judgment Introduction 1. What characterizes a disciple of Jesus? I ask this question because I believe there are some people who are “confused” about this! 2. In this lesson I will share my concerns and remind us of what ought to characterize a ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:2, 1 John 3:16-17

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Worrying For Our Treasure

Contributed by Russ Houser on Jan 19, 2002

based on 13 ratings

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Life sometimes deals us a rotten hand. We can either let that eat at us, or we can learn from it and move on. But what happens when we dwell on these bad things that happen to us and our families?

Worrying for our treasure 1-20-02 AM Matthew 6 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 2:15-17, Matthew 6:19-34

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Warning This World Can Be Hazardous To Your Health

Contributed by Cedric Portis on Jan 22, 2002

based on 34 ratings

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We tend to get so tied up in the hustle and bustle of our daily lives that we can become idolatrous without even realizing it. Make God’s will a priority in your life to aviod the traps of this world.

Warning!! this world can be hazardous to your health John I 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. John I 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 2:15-17

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Funeral Service For Judy ____________

Contributed by Wayne Major on Jan 23, 2002

based on 177 ratings

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I was asked to share my feelings about suicide by the husband, who had been hurt many years earlier by some inappropriate comments by a pastor upon the suicide death of his friend.

“My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our hearts condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:18-23, 1 John 4:7-11

Denomination: Methodist

The Enemy Is Among Us

Contributed by Cedric Portis on Feb 5, 2002

based on 41 ratings

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The antichrist has not come yet, but his spirit has been actively working in the world through false teachers.

The Enemy is Among Us John I 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. John I 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 2:18-23

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

A Chip Off The Old Block

Contributed by J. Douglas Duty Jr. on Feb 14, 2002

based on 57 ratings

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From series in 1 John

“A Chip Off The Old Block” I John 3:1-12 One of the strangest moments in life is the day that you happen to glance down and at the end of your arm you suddenly realize that someone has taken your hand and replaced it your parents. The shock of that moment is hard to describe. I remember the day ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:1-12

Denomination: Baptist

Being The Family Of God

Contributed by David Gant on Apr 25, 2004

based on 44 ratings

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This sermon can be used to call a congregation into closer fellowship, or to teach the believer’s responsibility toward the church family. [Key points in this sermon may have come from other sources. If you see anything that should be credited to another,

Being the Family of God Drawn from 1st John 3 The church is Identified With God as being His Children … therefore, we make up the Family of God [John 3.1] Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent virus of modern American life, what sociologist Robert Bellah calls "radical ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:1-24

Denomination: Baptist

What Are You Doing? Anything?

Contributed by Charles Whatley on May 20, 2004

based on 54 ratings

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We know the goal, but we keep running off down "rabbit trails." We keep letting ourselves be distracted away from the important things.

Bill Bright tells the story of a farmer who told his wife he was going out to plow the "south forty." He got off to an early start so he could oil the tractor. He needed more oil, so he went to the shop to get it. On the way to the shop he noticed the pigs weren’t fed. So he proceeded to the corn ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:1-7

Denomination: Methodist

We Know We Have Passed From Death To Life

Contributed by Glen Lawhun on May 23, 2004

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We know we have passed from death to life if we love the brethern.

We know we have passed from death to life because… I John 3:7-15 1. Read I John 3:7-15 2. I John 3:7 Little children, let know one deceive you…. a. (do not let the devil trick you into thinking you love someone by saying, “I love him but I don’t like him!”) (I John 3:18) b. Col. 2:8 Beware ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:7-15

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Using What You've Got Series

Contributed by Tim Bond on May 27, 2004

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The Holy Spirit not only give us spiritual gifts to use in our service to God, He also gives us the power, love and self-discipline to utilize them effectively.

Last week we began a series of 3 messages on the nature and responsibility of having Spiritual Gifts. If you were here you might remember that we read from Romans 12 and 1 Peter 4. And we learned that every believer has at least one spiritual gift. These are God given abilities distributed among ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:3-7, 1 John 3:14-18

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Worldliness

Contributed by Donald Jewell on May 28, 2004

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Cheap substitutes for the peace of God

1Jo 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1Jo 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. Does ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 2:15-16

Denomination: Wesleyan

What's Love Got To Do With It?

Contributed by Guy Glass on Jun 3, 2004

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When John talks about love – particularly in this letter, he is primarily using the term with regard to spiritual condition. Love is the defining factor that sets believers – Christian apart from all other people, and Christianity apart from all other re

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? 1 John 2:15-17 INTRODUCTION: When John talks about love – particularly in this letter, he is primarily using the term with regard to spiritual condition. Love is the defining factor that sets believers – Christian apart from all other people, and Christianity apart ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 2:15-17

Denomination: Baptist

God's Children - That Is What We Are!

Contributed by Charles Degner on May 2, 2003

based on 64 ratings

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We wonder in awe every day that God has made us his children, and strive to become more and more like what we already are!

1 John 3:1-3 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:1-3, John 1:1-3

Denomination: Lutheran

"We Know Love By This"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on May 9, 2003

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Jesus loves us so much, and that means that we ought to love others.

1 John 3:16-24 “We Know Love By This” By: Rev. Kenneth Emerson Sauer Pastor of Parkview United Methodist Church, Newport News, VA Humankind has made so many attempts to define love. Volumes upon volumes of books have been written about it. Over the centuries romantic love has been the theme of ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:16-24

Denomination: United Methodist

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