Know, Love & Obey | 1 John 2:1-29

Preacher: Matt Hardy
Scripture: 1 John 2:1-29

1 John 1:10
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 3:22-25
_the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. _

John Stott
_It is abiding in him that enables me to live like him. I don’t do it in my strength. I do it in His! I don’t have to be like him to be assured, I want to be like Him and am assured. We cannot claim to abide in Him unless we are like him. But as we abide in Him we will be like him because we will know him _

John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, (walking like
Jesus) for apart from me you can do nothing.

Leviticus 19:18
You shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

John Stott
_Love is as old as the sun and as new as the dawn _

John 8:12
_Jesus says “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. _

Corinthians 2:2
_For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified _

1 Corinthians 15:56-57
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.