Title: Overcome the World (1 John 5:1-12)
Whether it's church work or family work, we can achieve what we want to do smoothly when we do our best in the work entrusted to us and take responsibility for it.
In particular, serving in church work should be carried out more responsibly.
Because it is not my personal work, but because of me, I have to benefit many people and build up the church.
Therefore, in order for us to fulfill our missions joyfully and joyfully, we must fully open our faith toward God, cherish and love the church, and have closeness to serving the saints.
In order to at least become Christians and do the work of mission and service received from the church as people of God, we must have faith to empty ourselves and fill ourselves with Christ, and we must be able to devote ourselves to fulfilling God's will rather than our own .
Otherwise, even if you are doing God's work, you may not be glorifying God, not being virtuous to the church, and may not be beneficial to your neighbors.
The Bible verse we read today introduces the Christian's wrestling that allows us to overcome self and overcome the world, and introduces the biblical way to serve God's work to please God.
1. Everything must be God-centered.
God's work must be God-centered, and church work must be virtuous for the church.
God-centeredness must do the best in the duties and missions received from God. And we must obey and bear it in the Word of God. The beginning, process, and result of everything must be God-centered. Only then will God accept it and please Him.
(1 John 5:1) Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and loves the One who gave
Everyone who does love loves him who is born of him.
(1 John 5:2) By this we become children of God when we love God and keep his commandments.
know that you love
Our God-centered service and serving is never a heavy burden.
If we serve in faith and with a grateful heart, God's work can be pleasant and light work. This comes from a heart that loves God and a heart that loves the church and the saints. So we must love God, keep His commandments, and love His children.
(1 John 5:3) This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.
is not heavy
When we live centered on God and live by faith, we overcome ourselves and the world.
You must overcome the things of the world and overcome the worldly concerns and worldly things to become a person of God in order to fully serve and dedicate yourself.
(1 John 5:4) For everyone who is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world.
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2. You must be led by the Holy Spirit.
Our dedication, service, and service are not something we can afford with our own skills or time. It's not about working in the church with the leisure and satisfaction of that day. We must always be guided by the Holy Spirit by the grace of God to serve to edify the church.
If God is centered on worship and the Word, the guidance of the Holy Spirit is prayer, thanksgiving, and obedience.
(1 John 5:5) Who overcomes the world except he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
(1 John 5:6) This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, who came not only by water, but by water and blood.
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(1 John 5:7) It is the Spirit that beareth witness, and the Spirit is truth.
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Son of God can overcome the world
Those who believe in Jesus Christ are led by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit speaks the truth.
Therefore, only those who are led by the Holy Spirit can complete service, service, and devotion.
If we are not led by the Holy Spirit, our hidden self will be revealed at any time.
The accumulated envy and jealousy, complaints, dissatisfaction, and resentment in your life will be revealed.
Disappointment, disappointment, and disappointment are revealed. Emotional moods or habits are revealed.
Therefore, we can fully serve, serve, and dedicate ourselves only when we reveal our feelings of self and receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
(Romans 8:26) In the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought to pray.
The Holy Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
(Luke 4:18) The Spirit of the Lord has come upon me, so that I may preach the gospel to the poor.
He anointed me and sent me to set liberty to the captives and restore sight to the blind.
Preach and set the oppressed free
(Luke 4:19) That the year of the Lord's favor might be proclaimed.
The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness, boldly preaches the gospel, and makes us dedicated and serving.
3. We must testify of Jesus Christ.
Whatever we do, we must advance the gospel and become witnesses of Jesus Christ
(Ephesians 3:7) For this gospel, as his power works, the grace of God
By the gift I became a servant
(Philippians 1:12) I want you to know, brethren, that what happened to me was actually progress in the gospel.
(Philippians 1:27) But ye live worthy of the gospel of Christ, for I go to you
Even though you are apart, you stand with one mind and work together for the faith of the gospel with one mind.
(Colossians 1:23) If ye abide in the faith and stand firm on the foundation, in the hope of the gospel that you have heard
I, Paul, am the one who preached this gospel to every creature under the world.
I became a minister of the gospel
(1 Thessalonians 2:9) Brethren, you will remember our toil and toil; to any of you
Working day and night, so that you will not be a burden to you, God
preached the gospel of
In this way, wherever we are, whatever we do, we should have the opportunity to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and serve it worthy of it.
Because the essential purpose of our faith is the gospel.
(1 John 5:9) If we receive the testimony of men, then the testimony of God is greater.
This is your testimony, which you testified about his Son.
(1 John 5:10) He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself and does not believe in God.
one who believes makes God a liar, because God
because he did not believe the evidence that testified about
(1 John 5:11) And this is the evidence, that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is his
it is in the son
(1 John 5:12) He who has the Son has life, and he who does not have the Son of God has life.
there is no
Living with the gospel of Jesus Christ is living a life of vitality, and serving and serving without Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is lifeless.
Therefore, it has no meaning or value.
All of our service, service, and devotion must be God-centered.
You must be led by the Holy Spirit.
And we must be worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ and bear witness to the gospel.
When we are in the grace of the Holy Trinity, we can be most complete, mature, and full.
I bless you to become a saint who serves with full grace.