Berean Bible Church

Text – 1 John 3:1-3

Lesson I

Sons of God Now

May 4, 2008

There are six statements in our texts

1 Now are we the sons of God (sons by birth)

It doth not appear what we shall be (Philippians 1:6 - God is at work in us)

3 We know He shall appear (we are not guessing)

4 We shall be like Him (this the purpose of our salvation)

5.We shall see Him as He is ( as at the Transfiguration, as after resurrection)

6.Having this hope we purify ourselves

I All are not sons or children of God

2 Thessalonians 3:2 all have not faith

The old teaching of “The universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man” is not correct. But most claim God as their father and themselves as God’s children in our part of the world. But this is not Scriptural teaching.

II All born into this world, are born sinners, the offspring of sinful parents.

Ephesians 2:3 all are born as children of wrath

2 Corinthians 4:3 all are born lost sinners

2 Corinthians 4:4 all are born spiritually blind

Psalm 51:5 all are shapen in iniquity

Psalm 14:3 none are good

2 Chronicles 6:36 there is not one that sinneth not

Romans 3:23 all have sinned- both Jew and Gentile

III We become sons, children of God, when we believe

John 1:11-13 receive , believe, and become

1 John 5:1 believe- born of God

Romans 8:17 children, then heirs of God

IV Believers are the “beloved” of God

The word ‘beloved” is found five times in John’s Epistles, three times in Jude.

Now are ye the sons of God. Believe it!

Romans 5:8-9 now justified

Romans 6:22 now made free from sin (cf Romans 6:14)

Romans 7:6 now delivered from the law

Romans 8:1 now no condemnation

Ephesians 2:13 now made nigh

Ephesians 2:19 now fellow-citizens

Ephesians 4:8 now in the light cf. Philippians 2:15 , 1 Thessalonians 5:5

Colossians 1:21 now reconciled to God

1 Peter 2:10 now the people of God

V Conclude

Romans 12:2 what do the words: “and be not conformed to this world” mean to you?