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Overview
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John
A. Introduction
[OR]
John's Reason for Writing
(1Jo 1:1-4)
I.) The family with the Father: fellowship (1Jo 1:1)
A.) The Incarnation Makes Fellowship Possible [OR] What Was Heard, Seen, And Touched [OR] The Word Of Life [OR] Introduction, The Incarnate Word [OR] John Describes The Purpose Of His Letter (1Jo 1:1)
B.) Fellowship Is With The Father And With The Son (1Jo 1:3)
B. God is Light (1Jo 1:5-2:27)
1. Through Christ We Have a Relationship With God (1Jo 1:5-2:2)
A.) The Conditions Of Fellowship (1Jo 1:5)
1.) The Walk In The Light [OR] Fellowship With Him And One Another [OR] Walking In The Light [OR] God Is Light [OR] We Must Make Our Lives A Living Testimony Of Our Profession Of Faith (1Jo 1:5)
2.) The Fact Of Indwelling Sin Admitted (1Jo 1:8)
3.) Sins Confessed, Forgiven, And Cleansed (1Jo 1:9)
4.) Fellowship Maintained By Christ's Advocacy [OR] Christ Is Our Advocate [OR] Christ Our Advocate (1Jo 2:1)
2. Those Who Know Christ Obey His Commandments (1Jo 2:3-11)
1.) The Tests Of Fellowship: Obedience And Love [OR] The Test Of Knowing Him [OR] To Know God Is To Keep His Commandments (1Jo 2:3)
(I.) A New Commandment (1Jo 2:7)
(II.) To Love Our Brethren (1Jo 2:9)
3. Don't Love the World (1Jo 2:12-17)
(I.) Their Spiritual State [OR] Do Not Love The World [OR] And To Shun The Things Of The World (1Jo 2:12)
(II.) The Children Must Not Love The Present World (1Jo 2:15)
4. Live in Christ (1Jo 2:18-27)
(I.) The Children Warned Against Apostates Who Deny The True Deity Of Christ [OR] Deceptions Of The Last Hour [OR] Warning Against Antichrists [OR] Beware Of Seducers (1Jo 2:18)
(A.) from whose deceits the godly preserve themselves through perseverance in faith and
loss of life (1Jo 2:20)
(B.) Let Truth Abide in You (1Jo 2:24)
(C.) The Promise Is Eternal Life (1Jo 2:25)
C. God is Righteous (1Jo 2:28-4:6)
1. We Are God's Children (1Jo 2:28-3:10)
(A.) The Children of God (1Jo 2:28)
(I.) How The Little Children May Know Each Other [OR] Children Of God (1Jo 2:29)
(A.) Children of God Love One Another [OR] John declares the unique love of God toward us, in making us His children (1Jo 3:1)
(B.) We therefore ought to obey His commandments (1Jo 3:3)
(C.) Sin and the Child of God (1Jo 3:4)
(D.) The Imperative of Love [OR] Love One Another [OR] and to live with each other in brotherly love (1Jo 3:10)
2. Love One Another (1Jo 3:11-24)
(I.) How The Little Children Must Live Together (1Jo 3:11)
(A.) The Outworking of Love (1Jo 3:16)
(B.) The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error (1Jo 3:24)
3. Test People Who Say They Have God's Spirit (1Jo 4:1-6)
I.) The family and the world (1Jo 4:1)
A.) Parenthetic (1Jo 4:1)
1.) The Children Warned Against False Teachers [OR] Test The Spirits [OR] Testing The Spirits [OR] He Warns Us To Test All Teachings Before Accepting Them (1Jo 4:1)
2.) The Marks Of False Teachers (1Jo 4:2)
(I.) The False Doctrine Of Christ's Person (1Jo 4:2)
(II.) The World-marks Of False Teachers (1Jo 4:5)
D. God is Love (1Jo 4:7-5:12)
1. God's Love Lives in His People (1Jo 4:7-21)
A.) The True Children Are Born Of God Through Faith In The Propitiation Of The Son Of God [OR] Knowing God Through Love [OR] God's Love And Ours [OR] God Is Love [OR] He Enumerates Many Reasons For Showing Brotherly Love (1Jo 4:7)
B.) The Love-Life Is Shown By The Life Of Love (1Jo 4:11)
1.) Seeing God Through Love (1Jo 4:12)
2.) The Consummation Of Love (1Jo 4:17)
3.) Obedience By Faith (1Jo 4:20)
2. Those Who Believe in Christ Are God's Children (1Jo 5:1-12)
A.) Faith Is The Overcoming Principle In The World-Conflict [OR] Faith In The Son Of God [OR] Overcoming The World [OR] Faith Conquers The World [OR] Those Who Love God Love His Children And Keep His Commandments (1Jo 5:1)
1.) God's Law, To The Faithful, Is Not Burdensome (1Jo 5:3)
2.) The Certainty Of God's Witness [OR] Testimony Concerning The Son Of God (1Jo 5:6)
3.) We Are Witnesses Of The Son Of God (1Jo 5:9)
E. Conclusion (1Jo 5:13-21)
1.) Concluding Remarks [OR] This Is Written That You May Know [OR] Epilogue (1Jo 5:13)
2.) Confidence And Compassion In Prayer [OR] Our Confidence In Christ (1Jo 5:14)
3.) Knowing The True - Rejecting The False (1Jo 5:18)
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