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As followers of Jesus, we have a new identity in Christ. If you trust Jesus, this is who you are. There will not be a sing-along this week. I was asked if we could do the whole album this week. That would be something, wouldn’t it? I think the elders would want a word with me if we did the whole album. No, we will not be singing this morning in the sermon. But strangely, we will be looking this morning at the portion of First John that is most like a song. For the last four weeks, we have been carefully exploring John’s magnificent instructions for determining the state of your own soul. His statements on light and darkness have challenged us to think deeply about our true standing in the presence of God. He has helped us to expose our own hypocrisy, not to judge us, but because he loves us. It’s unloving not to tell somebody the truth, to let them just go on walking in spiritual darkness that ends in judgment. John wants us to know Christ and to know that we know Christ. He’s rattling our confidence so that we can establish our confidence. Friends, I don’t want you to just think that you know Jesus. I want you to know that you know Jesus. I want you to walk confidently in the knowledge that your sins are covered by Jesus sacrifice, and that you are in Christ and that Christ is in you. And then from that confident standing before God, you get to live for him. You get to live that out. You get to find true joy in him. You get to love people the way he loves people. You get to share the gospel with him and help save their lives. Up to this point in the letter, we’ve been challenged to examine ourselves closely. That’s what he wants us to do. Today, John, is shifting perspective. This time, instead of calling us to question whether we walk in the light of Christ, he’s just going to speak to those of us who do. He’s going to talk to us directly. The churches that he was writing to were filled with people who love Jesus. He probably knew these people personally. It’s possible the original readers were in churches that John had either visited or perhaps even planted. He might have been the one who started these churches. We don’t know a lot about John’s ministry following the early chapters of the Book of Acts, but his letters show us that he was a major leader in the early church. So I think that he knew these people personally, the way Paul considered himself a sort of spiritual father to the churches that he had planted. So John knows these people. He has watched them confess Christ. He likely led many of these people to the Lord, which is why he knows the content of the gospel that they heard from the beginning. Remember that which you’ve heard from the beginning, right? You’ve known these things from the beginning of your walk. He was probably there. So he knows the gospel that they heard. Beginning at this point in the letter, John starts talking to the true church community who walks in the light. And this is the perspective that he’ll carry through to the end of the letter. And he starts this part of the letter with six sentences that form a kind of poem, or song, or saying, or framework, or colloquialism, or something. Okay? Let me just bring you right into my study this week. Church. I’m not sure what our passage is today. I don’t know what it is. I know what it says. I know what it says. And that’s the most important thing. It’s a very encouraging passage filled with statements that build our confidence. I know what it says. I’m not sure exactly what it is. There’s some different ideas out there about the form of what we’re going to read. But I got to tell you, church, I’m not sure which one is correct or if any of them are correct. Here’s what I do know. John wants us to know who we are. As followers of Jesus we have a new identity in Christ. If you trust Jesus, this is who you are. We’re in First John chapter two, verses 12 to 14 today. I do encourage you to open your Bibles and follow along, because I’m going to read the passage all the way through here to begin with. And then after a word about the form of this, we’re going to go back and look at each of these six lines that describe our identity in Christ. Here’s the full passage. I’m writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. You can hear how different that sounds from the rest of the letter. Can’t you? Is it a Limerick? It’s probably not a Limerick. It has poetic elements, though. There’s poetic elements in here. Things like parallelism, ...
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