Expectations Made Clear
From 1 John 2:1-6
Definition Of Expectation: An expectation is a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future. An expectation is a belief that someone will or should achieve something.
What Do We Expect From God?
1. Jesus is Our Forever .
📖 1 John 2:1 ESV My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense– Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
📖 Matthew 1:19 ESV And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
What Do We Expect From God?
2. When We Pray, He Our Prayers.
📖 1 John 5:14-15 ESV And this is the confidence that we have toward 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 that we have asked of him.
What Do We Expect From God?
3. Jesus Is Our .
📖 Hebrews 7:24-26 NLT But because Jesus lives forever, his priesthood lasts forever. Therefore, he is able, once and forever, to save those who come to God through him. He lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf.
📖 John 17:9 ESV I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
What Do We Expect From God?
4. Jesus Sins.
📖 Acts 10:43 ESV To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
📖 1 John 1:9 ESV If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
What Does God Expect From US?
1. As A father, He Expects Us to Him.
📖 1 John 2:3 NLT And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments.
📖 1 John 2:5 NLT But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him.
📖 1 John 2:6 NLT Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.
What Does God Expect From US?
2. As A Father, He Expects Us to With Sin.
📖 1 John 3:9 ESV No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
What Does God Expect From US?
3. As A Father, He Expects Us to to Others.
📖 Colossians 3:13 ESV bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
What Does God Expect From US?
4. As A Father, He Expects Us to Truth.
📖 1 John 3:18 NLT Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.
📖 3 John 1:4 NLT I could have no greater joy than to hear that my children are following the truth.
Expectations Can .
📖 Proverbs 13:12 ESV Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
📖 1 Kings 8:17-19 NLT Then Solomon said, “My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 18 But the Lord told him, ‘You wanted to build the Temple to honor my name. Your intention is good, 19 but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.’
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