J Letters from John Part 9- The One Who Overcomes! 1 John 5:1-5 Part 9- The One Who Overcomes! 1 John 5:1-5

Joni Eareckson Tada

1 John 2:16 “…the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does.”

Holy Spirit Holy SpiritFaithLoveObedience 1 John 5:1-5

1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 1 John 5:1-5

3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

1 John 5:1a 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God…

“Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ.” 1 John 2:22 “See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us-even eternal life.” 1 John 2:24

1 Corinthians 12:3 Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

Regeneration/Faith

1 John 5:1 “ek tou theou gegennetai” “has been born of God”

1 John 5:1b “…everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.”

1 John 5:2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

1 John 5:3 This is love for God: to obey his commands.

23 Jesus said, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. John 14:23-24

His commands are not burdensome.

1 John 5:3-4 And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world.

This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4b Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.” 1 John 5:5

Colossians 2: When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death. To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it.

To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

You are that overcomer!