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Sermon Outline
- Introduction
- Our Assurance as Believers (1Jn 5:13, 18-21)
- Reason for Letter (1Jn 1:4, 5:13)
- Encourage the Faithful (1Jn 2:1, 7, 12-14, 20, 26, 3:1)
- A Summary of the Things He has written
- We possess Eternal Life (1Jn 1:2, 5:13, 5:20)
- We don’t persist in sinful living (1Jn 5:18)
- God is Preserving us (1Jn 5:18)
- The Battle lines are drawn between God and Evil one (1Jn 5:19)
- Christ himself has drawn us into the sheepfold (1Jn 5:20)
- Reason for Letter (1Jn 1:4, 5:13)
- Our Calling to Pray for One Another (1Jn 5:14-17)
- God hears our Prayers when they align with His will (1Jn 5:14)
- So what is God’s will? (Jn 6:29, 1Jn 3:23, 5:3)
- God answers our Prayers (1Jn 5:15)
- Praying for one another (1Jn 5:16)
- Sin that leads to death (1Jn 5:16-17)
- Mortal & Venial Sins
- Catholic theologians do have some helpful test for defining mortal sins: all of the following conditions must be met:[1]
- Its subject matter must be grave.
- It must be committed with full knowledge (and awareness) of the sinful action and the gravity of the offense.
- It must be committed with deliberate and complete consent
- In fact, this seems to be derived from the distinction that the OT makes between 2 kinds of sin – [2]
- unconscious or unwitting sins which the Day of Atonement expunged from the nation of Israel each year
- And Sins which were done with full intent like murder, rape, blasphemy. These sins required the one committing them to die immediately at the hands of the people.
- NT example of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11 who lie to the HS and are stricken dead.
- Other passages that can inform our discussion are
- 1Cor 11:29-30
- Blasphemy (1Tim 1:20)
- Catholic theologians do have some helpful test for defining mortal sins: all of the following conditions must be met:[1]
- Mortal & Venial Sins
- God hears our Prayers when they align with His will (1Jn 5:14)
- Conclusion (1Jn 5:21)
[1] https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P6C.HTM
[2] I. Howard Marshall, The Epistles of John, NICNT; Accordance electronic ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978), 247.
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