Lord's Day: June 7, 2026 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Prayer Scripture: 1 John 5:10–15; Ephesians 6:18; Romans 13:12; Hebrews 4:14–16; 1 John 3:21–23; John 14:13–15; 16:23–24; Matthew 6:7–13; Psalm 125:2; 22:3; 113:1–9; James 4:3; 5:16

And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. 1 John 5:14–15

I. Confidence & Boldness before Him

• These verses are precious gospel promises and indicatives, and guide our understanding of our assured confidence and status before God as believers, and our intimate relationship with Him, how we relate to Him in prayer
• Prayer: to boldly ask God, confidently, according to His will

II. Now, we have confidence before Whom? Who is Him?

• The Father? The Son?
• The Lord's Prayer

III. Prayer: God’s Condescension

IV. To ask boldly, according to His will

• What does it mean to ask God according to His will?

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Lord's Day: May 31, 2026 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Assurance Scripture: 1 John 5:13; Titus 3:5; John 20:30–31; 1 John 1:3–4; 2:1, 8, 12–14, 21, 26; 3:24; 4:10–11; 1 Timothy 4:1–2; James 2:18; 1 John 1:9; Hebrews 11:6; 6:4–6

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:13

I. Assurance: Imbalances and extremes to avoid

• “[Presumption] may be defined as the condition of a soul which, because of a badly regulated reliance on God's mercy and power, hopes for salvation without doing anything to deserve it [salvation]…” (Catholic Encyclopedia)

II. The beloved apostle wrote this letter to God’s people for several reasons.

• Knowledge of the doctrinal truth in John’s letter is a means which God uses to personally assure us of our salvation in an ongoing, enduring sense.

III. Is this verse law or gospel?

• The biblical doctrine of assurance requires and presupposes a proper law and gospel balance and distinction.
• The 1689 London Baptist Confession (and most Reformed confessions) dedicates an entire chapter on the doctrine of assurance.

IV. Biblical ongoing assurance is like a well-watered tree—with roots, trunk, fruits

• External, objective, and internal, subjective means of assurance
• Means of Grace

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Lord's Day: May 24, 2026 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Of Woman Scripture: Proverbs 31:10–31; 1 Timothy 2:9–10; 1 Peter 3:3–4; Luke 16:13; Matthew 6:24; 1 John 5:11; 1 Corinthians 15:10; Titus 2:1–5; John 16:20–22; Ecclesiastes 12:13

"An excellent woman, who can find? For her worth is far above pearls." Proverbs 31:10

I. A Woman of Excellence

II. A Godly Mother is a Godly Christian

• Godliness applies to both men and women, but in different ways.
• The Proverbs 31 woman as a whole is a woman of faith.

III. A Godly Mother is all of these wonderful things, and more

• A godly mother is a composite of godliness.

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Lord's Day: May 17, 2026 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Of Woman Scripture: Proverbs 31:10–31; Genesis 1:27; Titus 1:9; 2 Timothy 3:1–9; 1 Corinthians 11:3, 7–10

"An excellent woman, who can find? For her worth is far above pearls." Proverbs 31:10

I. A godly mother is a godly woman

• Feminism teaches women (and children, and men) to believe that the best thing for a woman, the highest good for a woman, is to be independent, to have her own career, finances, to make her own living—outside of a man.

II. A godly woman is against feminism

• A godly woman acknowledges her proper place in her family, her marriage, her own family, her church, her society, and respects the boundaries of each God-ordained sphere.
• A godly woman does not make important, life-altering decisions independently, without first seeking godly counsel, including male authority, in her life—her father, mother, her heavenly Father, her church, the older, wiser women in her church, the male leadership in her church, premarital counseling, and so on.

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Lord's Day: May 10, 2026 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Of Woman Scripture: Proverbs 31:10–31; Ephesians 6:1–4; Colossians 3:21; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; Ephesians 2:10; Psalm 68:3–6; Proverbs 12:4; Mark 4:16–20; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Philippians 2:13; 1 Peter 3:1–6; Ephesians 5:22–24

"An excellent woman, who can find? For her worth is far above pearls." Proverbs 31:10

• Motherhood cannot be considered in isolation.
• Motherhood presupposes other identities, roles, responsibilities, relationships.
• God has designed and instituted a logical, necessary creation order to our creation identities and roles as men and women.

I. A Godly Mother is a Godly Daughter

• The Baptist Larger Catechism, Questions 113-117
• Psalm 68:3-6

II. A Godly Mother is a Godly Wife

• A godly wife trusts God her Father to always and continuously work in her, to accomplish all His good purpose in her life (Phil 2:13).
• 1 Peter 3:1–6, Ephesians 5:22–24

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Lord's Day: May 3, 2026 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Means of Grace Scripture: 1 John 5:9–12; Matthew 3:17; 1 John 5:1, 4; John 1:12–13; Romans 3:21–26; 2 Samuel 15:12, 31, 34; 17:14; Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8–10; John 3:13–18; Titus 2:11–14

10The one who believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne witness about His Son. 11And the witness is this, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have that life. 1 John 5:10–12

I. God uses means.

• God's Providence
• Does God ever accomplish his purpose without or apart from some means or other?
• ‘Gordon Clark and the Philosophy of Occasionalism’, Douglas Douma, 23 February 2018

II. And the witness of God is this…

• The difference between having the Son and not having the Son is the difference between having eternal life and not having eternal life.

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Lord's Day: April 26, 2026 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Love Scripture: 1 John 5:1–3; Philippians 2:13; 1 John 4:19; Hebrews 11:6; Romans 14:23; James 2:14–17; John 14:15, 21–23; 15:8–14, 17; Romans 13:8–10

2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do His commandments. 3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. 1 John 5:2–3

I. The Assurance of Love

• The believer will grow in his/her love for God and for other believers, for those who also “have been born of Him”

II. The Orders of Love

• Martin Luther's Bondage of the Will: “For if there be nothing by which we are justified but faith only, it is evident that those who are not of faith, are not justified. And if they be not justified, they are sinners. And if they be sinners, they are evil trees and can do nothing but sin and bring forth evil fruit—Wherefore, "Free-will" is nothing but the servant of sin, of death, and of Satan, doing nothing, and being able to do or attempt nothing, but evil!”
• Faith without love...

III. Love According to Christ

• Both God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord define love (man’s true love) almost exclusively as obedience to Their commandments.

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Lord's Day: April 19, 2026 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Truth Scripture: 1 John 5:6–11; John 20:31; Mark 15:39; Matthew 3:16–17; Romans 3:21–26; Matthew 17:5; John 5:33–47; 10:1–10; Luke 10:16; 1 Samuel 8:4–9; 1 John 5:20

9If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for the witness of God is this, that He has borne witness about His Son. 10The one who believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne witness about His Son. 1 John 5:9–10

I. The witness of God is greater

• When did God the Father specifically bear witness about His Son? What is the witness of God pointing to, concerning His Son?

II. Is there any other time when the Father bore witness about His Son?

• The Death of Death in the Death of Christ

III. The Word of God can bear witness for you, or against you…

• The Word of God makes no distinction between believing a person, or believing in a person, or believing a proposition, or something about someone.
• To reject God’s witnesses and means is to reject God Himself.

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Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org and 316publishing.com