OH, IT IS WONDERFUL

1 JOHN 1:1-2

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. WE CAN HAVE IT [1 JOHN 1]

1. Full Fellowship [v. 3, 5-7]

2. Full Joy [v. 4, Philippians 3:1, 3, 4:4]

-Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

-For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

-Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

3. Full Forgiveness and Cleansing [v. 7-10]

 

II. WE HAVE IT [I JOHN 2]

1. Heaven’s Undefeated Lawyer [2:1]

2. His Unlimited Atonement [2:2, 2 Cor. 5:14, Rm. 5:18, Jn. 3:16]

-For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead.

- Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

3. His Unvarnished Truth [2:3, 2 Tm. 1:12]

 

III. WE CAN KNOW [I JOHN 2]

1. We can Know Him [2:1-3a, 5:13] (that’s relationship)

2. We can Know His Presence [2:3-5, 1:6-7] (that’s fellowship)

3. We can Know His Truth [2:18-21, Jn. 15:13-19, Jm. 4:4] (that’s friendship)

- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

- Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God