Title: Man Begotten by God
Content A person born of God / 1 John 5:1-12
Subject: A person born of God
Text: 1 John 5:1-12
We humans are created with body and soul. Before believing in Jesus, all people's souls are dead in their sins and trespasses (Ephesians 2:1). When we believe in Jesus as our Savior, our souls, who were dead by the Holy Spirit, come back to life. This is called being born again or being reborn. All who believe in Jesus are born of God and are born again (1). We who believe in Jesus are now God's children and become God's people.
Then, now, how should a person born of God live?
1. You must love God (1).
We must love the One who gave us. We must love God who regenerates us, makes us His children, and gives us all His blessings. The happiest people in the world are those who are loved by God. But God loves those who love Him (Proverbs 8:17). To love God is to obey His Word well. I pray that all the members of our church will be loved by God because they obey God, but love Him with all their heart, all their soul, and all their strength.
2. We must love those who are born of God (1).
Those born of God are born-again saints. A person who believes in Jesus. If we are people who are born of God, of course, we must love those who are born of God. Those who believe in Jesus must love each other and those who believe in Jesus are children of God. Everyone, it is “love” that can tell you are a true believer. Why? Because God is love. So everyone who is born of God loves him who is born of him. It is said that God desires mercy, kindness, and mercy rather than sacrifice (Matthew 9:13, 12:7). What is your love? He is shown mercy and compassion to those who are less than him or to those younger than him. Faith and friendship between people who are similar to you are shown. Shows respect to those higher than you. Then, only when we love God in the faith of fearing God can we love our neighbors and brothers. When we enter into the breadth, length, height, and depth of God's love, feel it, enjoy it, and live, we believe that we will become born of God and fully love our brothers and sisters.
3. Those who are born of God overcome the world (4).
“For everyone who is born of God overcomes the world” (4). Those who have received God's love and are born of God love God and also love the saints. There is the power of faith in that love. This belief will overcome the world. A person who has received God's love can overcome any satanic power, tribulation, and temptation in the world. When Jesus was crucified and resurrected, he completely broke the authority of Satan's head and gained a great victory. He conquered not only the power of Satan but also the power of death through resurrection. That is why Jesus said, “In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). “For everyone who is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God” (1 John 5:4,5). Everyone, let's know the love of the cross and enjoy the thrill of that love, looking only at Jesus who is the main and perfecter of our faith.
4. Those who are born of God have the evidence of eternal life in themselves (10).
“He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in him” (10). So what is the evidence? Verse 11 says, “And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is in his Son.” That is why he said, “He who has the Son has life, and he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” (12). Those who are born of God certainly have evidence. There must be evidence of grace, evidence that you have made me a child of God, evidence that He loves me this way, and evidence of joy, gratitude, and blessings for me. Let's testify to the glory of being a child of God, the grace and blessings we enjoy as a person born again of God.
Dear brothers and sisters, are you really born again by God?
Then, love God and love people of faith and believers.
And I hope you have faith that overcomes the world. You must also have evidence of your faith. There must be evidence of the life of Jesus, eternal life, and the life of the Spirit.
Let us all repent and give thanks, praise and glory to God who has regenerated us.
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