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TITLE: Are we
Perfect?
TEXT: 1 John 3:6-9
PROPOSITION: Some teach that it is impossible for Christians to sin.
QUESTION: Which?
KEY WORD: Words
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
- There is a doctrine called “Eternal Security”, “Once
Saved, Always Saved” and several other names.
- The idea is – When one becomes a Christian – nothing
they do from that point on can cause them to lose their salvation.
- This error brings comfort to sinning Christians, but is
not taught in the New Testament.
- There are two things to watch for in all the passages
used in an attempt to prove OSAS:
- Present active – currently in progress, “I am
walking” – continuing action, now going on and continues to go on
- Conditional promises – IF you do this, you will
never be lost.
Look
at our text:
1 John 3:6
- If you abide (continue, remain) in Him, you do not sin.
- There is a condition – remain, abide, and
continue.
- Cannot interpret this passage to say – impossible to sin
(1 John 2:1)
1 John 3:7
- Do not allow yourself to be deceived – It is possible to
be led astray
- Righteousness = doing right – not just being in the
right place
1 John 3:8
- Key word – Practices – habitual habit
- Present active – “He who keeps on doing sin”
1 John 3:9
- Everyone born of God = a Christian, born again
- Does not practice, live in, continue to sin as his
course of life
- Do we sin – Yes – But we don’t want to – Not our intent,
nature, purpose
- When we sin – we seek forgiveness – see 1 John 2:1
- When we are born of God:
- We become His children, His offspring
- We have his “seed” (nature) in us
- Even when we sin – We still have a nature that opposes
sin
- Cannot = We will not, don’t want to, not our nature, not
where we abide
Conclusion:
- If you are a child of God – You have God in you (His
seed, His nature)
- Don’t wander away
- You will still sin, but it is not your lifestyle, your
nature, your on going practice
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