Week 2 “The Cure for Our Universal Condition”

From 1 John 1:8-2:11

To find the right , we have to rightly the .

📖 Mark 7:20–23 (ESV) And He said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

📖 1 John 1:8–10 (ESV) If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Sin is something you before it is something you .

Gnosticism = “Secret Knowledge”

America’s favorite faith = “ME-ISM”: FAITH in Me

The with the is a of in the .

📖 1 John 1:8 (ESV) If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1. Sin’s : Jesus Christ our .

📖 1 John 2:1 (ESV) My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

📖 Romans 8:34 (NLT) Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and He is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

📖 Revelation 12:10 (ESV) the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

📖 Job 1:6 (NLT) One day the members of the heavenly court came to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them.

2. Sin’s : Jesus Christ our .

📖 1 John 2:2 (ESV) He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

3. = to God by .

📖 1 John 2:3–6 (ESV) And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

📖 1 John 2:7–8 (ESV) Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

📖 1 John 2:9–10 (ESV) Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

📖 1 John 2:11 (ESV) But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

📖 Luke 6:35–36 (ESV) But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

The way to and truly be God is to be from your and .

📖 Galatians 5:6 (ESV) For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.