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Children of God

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To understand ourselves better, our future better, and our God better, we must abide in the Lord. Why abide? Because Jesus is coming back! Well, good morning church, and good to be with you today. I was having a chat. He doesn’t know I’m about to say this. I was having a chat with my friend Philip recently, and we were talking about this truth. Parents of young children, I listen up, I want to help save you some money. Your kids don’t care where you travel in the world, so long as there’s a pool. Right. See, when I was growing up, my dad was a teacher and therefore had, you know, a modest salary. And look, my, my parents gave us a lot. And it was wonderful. And when we were older, we did some of those more exciting trips. You know, we did the Disney thing. We even did Europe when I was in high school. Super cool. So I’m not, I’m not in no way am I disparaging. What my parents provided for me was amazing. But I’m going to be honest, one of my favorite family memories was when we got in a conversion van with my grandparents, my sister and I and my parents, and we drove 30 minutes away to a mid-range hotel and spent the weekend eating peanut butter and jelly and swimming in the pool. And what I mean is like, I’m not talking the fancy pools, you know, with the slides and the splash pads. Like some of y’all. It’s too fancy. Do you know what I mean? We’re talking like a 20 by 30 pool in a Comfort Inn. You know what I’m saying? And it’s honestly one of my greatest memories as a child. Like, why is that okay? So maybe when you’re six, your world is kind of small. You know, you don’t have big expectations for vacation. Fine. But I think there’s something deeper going on there. It’s because I didn’t need thrills. I didn’t need roller coasters. What I really wanted was to spend time with my people. I just wanted to swim with my dad and sit next to my mom in a restaurant and talk with my grandparents and belt out Disney songs in the back seat with my sister. You know, a whole new world. Okay. Anyway, that was not in my notes. Just kind of happened. Here’s the idea. We just wanted to spend time together, or to use the phrase that we’re going to see in this passage today. But also we’ve seen earlier in this letter from John that we have. I just wanted to abide with them. I just wanted to dwell with them, spend time with them. That’s what I wanted to do. So what is abiding? We’ve encountered it a little bit throughout the letter, but here is one commentator’s definition. To abide is to stay, remain, live, dwell, abide. To be in a state that begins and continues, yet may or may not end or stop. To abide in Christ is to follow his example of a life obedient to the will of God. As we look back into this letter of First John that we’ve been traveling through a little bit, we see abiding used in several different ways and referring to several different ideas. John is using this repetitive language, presumably on purpose to make a point. Let’s look at some of this repetition briefly in verse ten. He says, whoever loves his brother abides in the light. So he’s talking about abiding in the light. Then in 14 the Word of God abides in you, or in 17 the will of God abides forever. These are all different forms of abiding. Twenty-four, what you heard, the gospel, let it abide in you. And. And if it abides in you, you too will abide in the Son and the Father. And then last week we heard about this anointing that you received abides in you being the Holy Spirit being within you. And then right at the end of 27, you see John make this turn. He says, so I’m going to give you an imperative. Now, if you are abiding, abiding in all of these things and all of these things are abiding in you, then what are you supposed to do? You’re supposed to abide in him. And that’s what we’re going to see moving forward here. There’s a second contextual piece, though, that we need to understand before we jump into our passage for today. And that’s the idea that I need to make sure it’s very clear, because we’re going to talk about being a child of God here. And I want it to be understood that not every human who walks the face of this earth is necessarily a child of God. Now that gets confusing because God as creator made every human. So in that way, he’s a father. And that does make sense. But that’s not the way that John is using it here in this letter. He is defining who is in the family of God and who is out of the family of God. Or as my systematic theology professor used to say, who are the innies and who are the outies? Knowing whether or not you are a child of God is essentially important to your life, to your future, and your eternity. And so what John’s been doing throughout the letter so far is he’s been making a claim about who’s in and who’s out. In chapter one, verses seven through nine, he says, those who walk in the light are in the family of God. ...
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