A Tour Through John, Lesson 43

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/tour-john-lesson-43/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p><br /> </p><p>00:00</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>00:00</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a>Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.</a></p><p> </p><p>5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christhas been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, 4 for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. 5 Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?</p><ul><li>Those who accept that Jesus (the fully human, earthly man) is the Christ (the Messiah) are the Christians, not those who replace Jesus with a spirit or apparition or any subhuman theology.</li><li>It isn't possible to accept God while rejecting the biblical Jesus (v.1).<ul><li>When we are close to someone who becomes a parent, we rejoice in the birth of the child.</li><li>The Gnostics took little pleasure in the real, historical Jesus—a sign they did not have a relationship with God. (See John 3:18.)</li></ul></li><li>Loving God means obeying his commandments (v.3), as in John 14:15, 23-24. It is unthinkable that one could be faithful to God while being willfully disobedient to him. See Matt 11:28-30.<ul><li>His commands are not burdensome, when kept out of a faithful heart.</li><li>In Deut 30:11-20 God assured the Israelites of the same thing.</li></ul></li><li>Obedience lifts the burdens of sin, bad relationships, meaningless living, and more. Faith overcomes the world (v.5). It leads to obedience, and obedience to God leads to victory.</li></ul><p>6 This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spir