Pastor Dustin Clegg walks us through 1 John 4:1-6 and has 4 observations:

1) Verse 1

2) How do we test the spirits? (vs 2-3)

3) The True Gospel of the Real, Biblical Jesus will almost never be most popular, but will always be most powerful. (vs 4-5)

4) The content of the old Gospel message will not and cannot ever change. (vs 6)

How do we respond?

As we look at 1 John 3:10-24, Pastor Dustin Clegg shares three observations from the text:

1) Gospel love moves from Gospel thought to Gospel activity. (vs 16-18)

2) We can over think Gospel love. (vs 19-22) 

3) Believe, like remain, is a verb. (vs 23-24).

How do we obey this?

Pastor Dustin Clegg continues with our study of the book of 1st John and as we look at 1 John 3:10-24 he gives us three questions to consider as we study the text:

1) What is love as defined by Jesus?

2) Why are we prone to hate others?

3) Why must we guard against being surprised when we are hated by others?

Today Pastor Dustin Clegg walks us through 1 John 3:1-10 and we talk through some observations of being children of God:

1) Genuine children of God will be currently treated like Jesus was treated. (vs 1)

2) Genuine children of God will be becoming like Jesus. (vs 2)

3) Holiness begins to overflow from the hearts of genuine children of God. (vs 3)

4) Sin begins to lose its power in genuine children of God. (vs 4)

What are YOUR applications from the message today?

Continuing in our study of the book of 1st John, Pastor Dustin Clegg walks us through 1 John 3:1 and offers two points to consider:

1) Beholding His love for me always makes me more like Him.

2) Beholding is not all that is involved with abiding, but we cannot abide without beholding.

Pastor Kirk Owens walks us through 1 John 2:24-29 and we talk about what it means to "remain" in Jesus. Kirk also shares 3 key points:

1) When we remain with Jesus, we can rest assured and not be ashamed at His coming.

2) If you are a born again follower of Jesus Christ...you have all you need.

3) We must all go to "The Beginning" with The Word made flesh, Jesus.

Continuing with our study of 1st John, today we look at 1 John 2:18 - 23 and Pastor Dustin Clegg presents us with 3 questions to reflect on as we study the passage:

1) How can John say they were in the last days 2000 years ago?

2) Antichrist or antichrists?

3) Is it only confession that gets us a relationship with Jesus?

Pastor Dustin Clegg touched on this message last week and today he continues the discussion about conquering the undertow of our self-destruction. Dustin organized his thoughts around 3 questions and then led us through the answers to the questions:

1) Why does John repeat these phrases?

2) What does the word "world" mean?

3) Why does he list these 3 things being "not from the Father but from the world"?

Lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.

Abide!

After 4 baptisms presented us with a wonderful "sermon" Pastor Dustin Clegg felt led to just bring 1 point from his message to help us all understand the "why" behind the baptisms today. Taken from 1 John 2:15-17 he asks the question, "What does the word "world" mean?". Tune in next week as Dustin talks more about Conquering the Undertow of Self-Destruction. 

This is Part 2 of a message from 1 John 2:3-11 titled The Amazing Love Life. Pastor Dustin Clegg walks us through the passage and has 3 observations and 3 applications from the text for us this morning.

Observations

(1) Love is the key identifier for those who follow Jesus.

     (A) Love is new in its model.

     (B) Love is new in its supremacy.

(2) We are unable to see Biblically, rightly, and clearly when we are not walking in Jesus' love.

(3) Abiding, staying, and remaining in the love of Jesus is as important or more important than any other command we follow.

Applications

(1) Stop justifying a lack of love.

(2) Start begging the Spirit for help to love.

(3) Even when we are going, we better be staying.