Sermons on 1 John
1 John
His Law is Love
1 John 3 In this passage, the apostle John notes three key truth’s about God’s love that are revealed in the Christmas narrative: love was always God’s intention, love is freely gifted, and love is demonstrated to others.
Love not the world
1 John 2:15-17
A Unique Baby
Millions of babies are born every year around the world. Billions have been born throughout history. But one baby born 2000 years ago was unlike any other baby ever born. The birth of Jesus was absolutely unique, but why? Listen in as Pastor Murray shares with us three special reasons that help us understand the true meaning of Christmas, and make it relevant to each of us personally. John 1:1-5 and 1 John 1:1-4
Russell Matthews: Criteria for church members
John gives in this passage 4 criteria for evaluating members – believing, loving, obeying and prevailing.
Daily assurance
John closes his letter with a reminder of the daily assurances that all Christians can have.
Greg Beaumont: No doubt
We live in a world where doubt is the default state. We are told that nothing can be truly be known. John pushes us to see that Christian’s have no reason for doubt by describing true faith in three areas – its origin, its object and its outflows. Finally, he wraps up by describing the witnesses for Christian faith. In all this he shows us that Christians can know for sure that we will inherit eternal life through Jesus Christ.
Encountering God’s love
The Apostle John encountered the extraordinary love of God on that first Easter. From his writings, it is clear that he never got over just how amazing God’s love for us is. On Easter Sunday, let John remind us again of the extraordinary, life changing love of God.
Test the spirits
In tonight’s passage, John urges us to test all teaching we hear and he gives us a framework by which we can discern between truth and error.
Dealing with doubt
Tonight we see John encourage his readers to have assurance as those who belong to the truth.
What is love?
Listen as John shows us what it looks like to truly love one another.
Greg Beaumont: Motivations to fight sin
The fight against sin in the Christian life is incredibly difficult. In this passage, John points out three objective realities to help motivate his readers to fight hard against sin. But not only this, John uses these objective realities to show that for a Christian, a life of ongoing sin is simply incompatible and that they should not be deceived by anyone who tells them different!
The essential ingredient
Listen as John encourages his readers to keep Jesus at the centre of their faith.
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