Liberti Sermons

Christian, you know you know Jesus because you know, and because you say "no" and that gives you great confidence in prayer.

We were created for God, to find our joy and life with him for all eternity and to live in light of that gracious gift here and now.

Christian faith isn't a concept or a theory - it's Jesus Christ. As brothers and sisters, we stand in the faith of the victory He has won over all our enemies every day.

Unity is a rare gift in the world but every Christian has it. We don’t need to work for it, we have it, it’s for us to dwell in.

The Gospel gives us a family with sisters who have strength that flows with gospel wisdom and is shown in the Gospel.

The Family of God is marked by the love of the Father, and so we examine our hearts and put to death those sinful desires of anger and lovelessness

“And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.” ~ ‭‭1 John‬ ‭2‬:‭28‬-‭3:10

There is something particularly sinister about the antichrists that John warns us about in this part of his letter - they looked so much like us. And so we must be discerning.

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.”

‭‭1 John‬ ‭2‬:‭15‬-‭17‬ ‭

The evidence of our salvation to the watching world is our love for one another. This is the "ABC" of the Christian faith, but it's easy to move past the basics and when we do, the results can be disastrous