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What’s Your Eternal Life Look Like? X2
July 13, 2025 – What’s your eternal life look like? X2 – 1 John 5:1-5, 13-15, and 18-21
1 John 5:1-5, 13-15, and 18-21 emphasizes that believers in Jesus Christ have assurance of eternal life and can overcome the world through faith. This passage highlights the importance of loving God and others, keeping his commandments, and having confidence in prayer based on God’s will. It also assures believers that they are protected by God and can know they have eternal life.
Key Themes and Summary:
Overcoming the World:
1 John 5:1-5 focuses on the believer’s victory over the world through faith in Jesus, who is the Son of God. This victory is a result of believing in Jesus and loving both God and other believers.
Assurance of Eternal Life:
1 John 5:13-21 provides reassurance that believers can know they have eternal life. This assurance comes from believing in Jesus Christ, loving God, and keeping his commandments.
Confidence in Prayer:
Verses 14-15 emphasize that believers have confidence that God hears and answers their prayers, especially when those prayers are in accordance with His will.
Protection and Security:
1 John 5:18-21 highlights that believers, being born of God, are protected by God and cannot be ultimately harmed by the evil one. The passage also warns against idols, suggesting that anything that competes with God can be considered an idol.
Love and Obedience:
The passage links love for God with obedience to His commandments, and love for others with love for God. It suggests that believers should strive to live in obedience to God’s commands, recognizing that this obedience is not burdensome when done through faith in Christ.
Discernment:
1 John 5:20 encourages believers to know the true God and to distinguish Him from false teachings or idols.
1 John 5:1-5, 13-15, and 18-21
1 John 5:1-5
5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John 5:13-15
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
1 John 5:18-21
18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. 19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
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What’s Your Eternal Life Look Like? X2
July 13, 2025 – What’s your eternal life look like? X2 – 1 John 5:1-5, 13-15, and 18-21
1 John 5:1-5, 13-15, and 18-21 emphasizes that believers in Jesus Christ have assurance of eternal life and can overcome the world through faith. This passage highlights the importance of loving God and others, keeping his commandments, and having confidence in prayer based on God’s will. It also assures believers that they are protected by God and can know they have eternal life.
Key Themes and Summary:
Overcoming the World:
1 John 5:1-5 focuses on the believer’s victory over the world through faith in Jesus, who is the Son of God. This victory is a result of believing in Jesus and loving both God and other believers.
Assurance of Eternal Life:
1 John 5:13-21 provides reassurance that believers can know they have eternal life. This assurance comes from believing in Jesus Christ, loving God, and keeping his commandments.
Confidence in Prayer:
Verses 14-15 emphasize that believers have confidence that God hears and answers their prayers, especially when those prayers are in accordance with His will.
Protection and Security:
1 John 5:18-21 highlights that believers, being born of God, are protected by God and cannot be ultimately harmed by the evil one. The passage also warns against idols, suggesting that anything that competes with God can be considered an idol.
Love and Obedience:
The passage links love for God with obedience to His commandments, and love for others with love for God. It suggests that believers should strive to live in obedience to God’s commands, recognizing that this obedience is not burdensome when done through faith in Christ.
Discernment:
1 John 5:20 encourages believers to know the true God and to distinguish Him from false teachings or idols.
1 John 5:1-5, 13-15, and 18-21
1 John 5:1-5
5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John 5:13-15
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
1 John 5:18-21
18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. 19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
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