John´s Call For Christ Like Living

The call runs throughout his epistles
Our text gives powerful incentives for such living
These make up John´s purifying hope

Three Things Helped To Keep John´s Life Pure

He was amazed at the love of God

Behold what manner of love.

John couldn´t find words to explain God´s love.

God so loved the world.  John 3:16
Behold, what manner of love.  John 3:1

Lessons in love for John.

He had been with Jesus in the upper room.
Jesus had washed his feet.  John 13:1-17
He had stood at the cross.  John 19:25-30

John wanted to please the One who loved him.

He appreciated his position as a child of God

That we should be called the sons of God.

Sinners are made into sons.
Another amazing thought to John.

A simple fisherman could be a son of God.

This son ship causes conflict with the world.

Therefore the world knoweth us not.
Christians must prepare to be misunderstood.
Our Lord was misunderstood and rejected.  John 15:18-27

Son ship begins now.

Now are we the sons of God.
Eternal life begins at the moment of new birth.

He anticipated Christ´s return when he would be like Him

John knew the failures of this life.

Like all of us, he had some regrets.
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves.  1 John 1:8

Paul wrote of this daily struggle.  Romans 7:14-21

John looked forward to a better day.

When the mysteries will be cleared up.
When we shall all be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
When we shall be like Him.
We shall see Him as He is.

John wanted to be like Jesus now.

Conclusion

Reviewing John´s Reasons For A Pure Life.

He knew God loved him.
He knew he was a child of God.
He knew at his Lord´s return he would be like Him.

What Moves You To Holy Living?

Bible Studies Home

1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
² Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
³ And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
²⁰ Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
²¹ But all these things will they do unto you for my name&acte;s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
²² If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
²³ He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
²⁵ But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
²⁷ And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
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John 3:16 For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
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1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
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John 13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.
² So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon´s son, to be false to him,
³ Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,
⁴ Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.
⁵ Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.
⁶ So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you?
⁷ And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come.
⁸ Peter said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer, If I do not make you clean you have no part with me.
⁹ Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.
¹⁰ Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.
¹¹ He had knowledge who was false to him; that is why he said, You are not all clean.
¹² Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe again, he took his seat and said to them, Do you see what I have done to you?
¹³ You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am.
¹⁴ If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another´s feet clean.
¹⁵ I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.
¹⁶ Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.
¹⁷ If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.
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John 19:25 Now by the side of the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother´s sister Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.
²⁶ So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple who was dear to him, he said to his mother, Mother, there is your son!
²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, There is your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his house.
²⁸ After this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings might come true, Jesus said, Give me water.
²⁹ Now there was a vessel ready, full of bitter wine, and they put a sponge full of it on a stick and put it to his mouth.
³⁰ So when Jesus had taken the wine he said, All is done. And with his head bent he gave up his spirit.
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Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
¹⁵ For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
¹⁶ If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
¹⁷ Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
¹⁸ For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
¹⁹ For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
²⁰ Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
²¹ I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
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1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
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1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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Last updated on October 22, 2005