How A Disciple Faces The Future
M arch 6, 2026
HOW A DISCIPLE FACES THE FUTURE
1 John 5:1-5
((10:30AM))Good morning:
INTRODUCTION:
John 15:5 (NIV) Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
Deuteronomy 6:5 (NIV) Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Matthew 22:37 (NIV) “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
John 14:15 (NIV) Jesus said, "If you love me, you will obey what I command."
1 Samuel 15:22 (NIV) God says, …to obey is better than sacrifice…
TEXT:
1 John 5:1-5 (NIV) 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. 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.
Background:
1 John 5:1b (NIV) says, …everyone who loves the father loves His child as well.
1 John 5:2-3 (NIV) This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. This is love for God: to obey his commands.
1 John 5:3 (NIV And his commands are not burdensome…
1 John 5:4 (NIV) …everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:5 (NIV) Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
APPLICATION:
HOW A DISCIPLE FACES THE FUTURE, FOUR THINGS TO EMBRACE:
1.
1 John 5:1 (NIV) Everyone who believes…
1 John 5:1 (NIV) Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.
1 John 5:5 (NIV) Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
Matthew 16:24-26 (NIV) Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and and . For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
2.
1 John 5:1b (NIV) …everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
1 John 5:2 (NIV)This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.
3.
1 John 2:4 (NIV) Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.
1 John 2:29 (NIV) If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.
1 John 3:7 (NIV) Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
1 John 3:24 (NIV) The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
4.
1 John 5:4 (NIV) …for everyone born of God the world. This is the victory that has the world, even our faith.
Matthew 17:20 (NIV) Jesus said, Truly I tell you, if you have faith , you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Mark 6:5-6 (NIV) says, He could not do any miracles there... He was amazed at their lack of faith.
Conclusion:
1 John 4:19 (NIV) We love because he first loved us.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV) says, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Matthew 25:23 (NIV)“Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!”
Hebrews 11:13-16 (NIV) says, All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Revelation 3:21 (Berean Study Bible)To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
Prayer:
Altar:
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