Delving into the Treasures in the First Epistle of John (1 John)

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Episode 020 - Do You Have Indoor Plumbing?

Water Pump and Bucket

Is this your experience of the Christian life, or do you have indoor plumbing?

Review of last week’s episode, What We Don’t Know About the ‘Anointing, the second installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.

Abiding

  • What is the significance of what we learned about ‘the anointing’ last week?
  • Do you have indoor plumbing?
  • Most Christians don’t have indoor plumbing, and find it hard to believe or even conceive that other people do!
  • Living water (John 4:1-42)
    • What does “living” mean?
    • The water becomes a “well springing up to eternal life” (v. 14)
    • An insignificant fact?
    • Left her waterpot (v. 28) — why is this small fact important?
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    Episode 019 - What We Don’t Know about “The Anointing”

    Strong's Concordance entry

    Part of a 'Strong's Concordance' entry on the word 'anointed'

    Review of last week’s episode, An Unhappy Heresy, the first installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.

    Study on the words anoint and anointing

    • No one in the New Testament ever prayed for “the anointing,” so why are so many Christians praying this way?
    • If orthodoxy is right belief, what the early Christians taught and believed, then..
    • Orthopraxy is right practice, that is, how the early Christians lived out what they believed.
    • In all the prayers we read in the Book of Acts, in Paul’s epistles, etc.—in other words, in any passage that would give us insight into New Testament orthopraxy—nobody ever “prayed for the anointing.” What was it that New Testament Christians understood that we don’t? [click to continue…]
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    Episode 018 – An Unhappy Heresy

    Review of Last Week — Loving the World = Spiritual Adultery

    Street-Corner Heretic

    If only all the heretics were this easy to spot!

    Historical setting of 1 John and 1 John 2:18-29

    • Response to heresy? What is heresy?
    • A belief or teaching that denies an accepted fundamental truth of the Christian faith, usually falling into certain categories:
    • Beliefs about God, e.g.,
    • The Holy Spirit is not a person, but an “it” or an “influence”;
    • The Persons of the Godhead are not co-equal and co-eternal;
    • There are many gods;
    • Human beings can become god.
  • Beliefs about salvation – basically that something else (works, for example) must be added to the work of Christ to gain heaven.
  • Beliefs about Christ – usually the major category.
  • Can’t study early church history without studying theology, and vice versa.
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    Episode 017 – Why the Impossible Is Impossible

    Sign that reads "impossible"

    Not a "sign from God" (but just as obvious)

    Review of Last Week’s “Worldly” Word Study

    The Command in 1 John 2:15-17 and the Reason for It:

    • Don’t love the world-order or its things
    • If you love the world-order and its things, the love of God isn’t in you.

    All that is in the world-order” – what’s included in “all”?

    • The word for lust – Greek = epithumeia (noun) and epithumeo (verb)
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    Episode 016 – If ‘God So Loved the World,’ Why Am I Not Allowed To?

    Picture of a confused man with questions.

    "Come again?"

    Review and Tie-Up of Last Week: 1 John 2:12-14

    A “Worldly” Word Study—A First Look at 1 John 2:15-17

    Different Uses of the Word World in the New Testament

    • κοσμέω (kos MEH oh, kosmeo –> cosmetics)
    • Pre-New Testament Greek:
    • setting troops in order
    • women “putting themselves in order”— clothing, make-up, etc.; adorn
    • regulating
  • New Testament Usage:
    • Put in order
    • (in the sense of trim): Matthew 25:7—Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
    • Matthew 12:44—Then [the unclean spirit]  [click to continue…]
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    Episode 015 – Walking into Maturity

    The feet of a walking toddler are shown.

    Walking into Maturity

    Review and Tie-Up of Last Week: 1 John 2:8-11

    Three Levels of Maturity: 1 John 2:12-14

    • Little children (vv. 12,13)
    • “Because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake”
    • “Because you have known the Father”
  • Fathers (vv. 13,14)
    • “Because you have known Him Who is from the beginning” (twice)
  • Young men (vv. 13,14)
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    Episode 014 – A New Gift from Jesus

    Reminder:

    Little boy looking into an opened gift box.

    A New Gift from Jesus

    1. Read through the First Epistle of John once a week
    2. Remember to substitute the phrase “the Anointed One” for Christ or Messiah for the next few weeks, to get in practice.

    This Week’s Passage: 1 John 2:6-11–The New Commandment, the New Gift

    • A Christian is someone who abides in Christ, and, thus, ought to walk in the same manner as He walked.  Your walk looks more and more like the walk and life and person of Jesus.
    • What is the New Commandment?
    • “Love one another as I have loved you.”
    • First mentioned in John 13:30-35 (specifically v. 34)
    • “I give to you”—anything given is a GIFT. [click to continue…]
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    Episode 013—The Love Meter

    Review

    The Love Meter

    How do you rate on God's Love Meter?

    • God’s desire: “That you also may have fellowship with us” (1 John 1:3) — intimate communion with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
    • The reason the Holy Spirit comes within — to draw us into that fellowship and to make us godly, Christlike
    • Abiding in that fellowship is the foundation of freedom from sin and sinning
    • “I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.” (1 John 2:1)

    1 John 2:1-2

    • If anyone sins,” not when.  For a Christian who is walking in the Light, living in the profferred communion with God, sin is a rarity, rather than a perpetual inevitability.
    • Jesus is presented as:
    • Our Parakletos, that is, our legal Advocate for when we offend.
    • Same word used of the Holy Spirit in John 14:16,26; 15:26; 16:7
  • Our hilasmos, that is, [click to continue…]
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    Episode 012—Are You Fulfilling Bible Prophecy?

    A dust-covered Bible

    Are you helping to fulfill Bible prophecy by not reading the Scriptures regularly?

    Prophecies You Don’t Want to Fulfill!

    • Some Christians will fall away from the faith, drawn away by deceitful spirits, teaching of demons, and conscience-less liars — 1 Timothy 4:1-3
    • The time will come [has come!] when some Christians won’t endure sound teaching, will want their “ears tickled,” and will turn their ears away from the truth — 2 Timothy 3:13–4:8.
    • False Christs and false prophets will be bent on deceiving God’s people — Mark 13:21-23.
    • The most sobering prophecy — the day when Jesus says to many of those who thought they were serving Him, “I never knew you; depart from Me.” — Matthew 7:21-23
    Side note: The Adversary knows the Scriptures well, and can use them against you if you don’t know them well.  He had the audacity to attempt, unsuccessfully, to deceive Jesus in this way (Matthew 4:3-11); what makes you think [click to continue…]
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    Episode 011 - The Original Aromas of Christmas

    The Original Aromas of Christmas

    There's a reason why nobody talks about the 'aromas' of the first Christmas!

    The Aromas of Modern Christmas — Modern Luxuries

    In North American culture, we associate various aromas and fragrances with Christmas — pine boughs, “chestnuts roasting on an open fire,” pumpkin pie, roasted turkey, baked ham, yams, apple pie, hot chocolate, and egg nog.

    The Original “Aromas” of Christmas–Dung and Urine

    Luke 2:1-20–The story of the shepherds, the angels, and the stable

    • Confusing a stable with a manger. (French: mange = eat; thus, a manger = a feeding trough)
    • Children sing about the [click to continue…]
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    010 Kernels of Wheat – That Uncomfortable Word, Part 2

    November 10, 2011

    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast Episode 010 – That Uncomfortable Word – Part 2 Reviewing the Article So Far Most of the “notes” for this week can be found in the online article entitled That Uncomfortable Word–Conviction! What is sin?  Sin is anomia–lawlessness, to be outside of God’s revealed Law (1 John 3:4). [...]

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    009 Kernels of Wheat – That Uncomfortable Word

    October 29, 2011

    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast Episode 009 – That Uncomfortable Word Introduction “Sinning Christians” (an oxymoron) aren’t entirely responsible for being careless about continuing in sin, since they came in under a “gutted Gospel,” one that omits not only taking up one’s cross to follow Jesus, but also omitting the [...]

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    008 Kernels of Wheat – Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

    October 17, 2011

    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast Episode 008 – Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! (1 John 1:6-2:6) To get the most out of this ongoing Bible study: Read through 1 John once a week. National Prayer Chapel I mentioned work on the National Prayer Chapel’s site.  Visit NationalPrayerChapel.com to see what [...]

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    007 Kernels of Wheat – Walking in Freedom

    October 7, 2011

    Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Episode 007 – Walking in Freedom (1 John 1:6-7) Teaching and Bible study notes by Jim Kerwin Verse: 1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; Lying about fellowship with God; poor [...]

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