This Sunday we will finish the book as we study 1 John 5:18-21. All through the letter John has focused on evidence and assurance. He has shown us the evidence of salvation and how we can have assurance that we have been born of God. The text has also insisted at every point that this evidence is what God does in the people He saves, not a standard we must meet in order to earn life. John repeatedly showed us the evidence of God’s work in the life of those He saves: faith in the true Jesus whom the apostles proclaimed, a life whose direction is pointed toward keeping his commandments, and a lifestyle of love for the brothers and sisters. In 5:13 he said he wrote these things so that we would know we have eternal life. These are the evidences that a person has been born again.
In 5:18–21 he closes by telling those born of God three things they can know with certainty, and ends with one command. The “we” in these verses is not everyone who sits in the church. It is those in whom God’s work is already present. John says we know that Jesus keeps his own, so the one born of God does not continue on in a lifestyle of sin, and the evil one cannot overpower him. We know that we are of God, while the whole world lies in the power of the evil one, with no neutral ground between the two. We know the true God only because the Son has come and given us understanding, and we are in him who is true only because we are united to Jesus. And because that is so, John tells us to keep ourselves from idols. John warns of here is any god we invent to suit ourselves, and anything that occupies the throne that belongs to the true God.
I. We Know Jesus “Keeps” Us (v. 18)
II. We Know We Belong To God (v. 19)
III. We Know The True God Through Jesus
IV. (v. 20) Keep Yourselves From Idols (v. 21)
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