Homerton Baptist Church
Evening Service (251012)

      • 1 John 5:16–21ESV

  • Hymn 195 - PRAISE THE LORD, YOU HEAVENS, ADORE HIM

      • 1 John 5:16-17ESV

      • 1 John 5:18-19ESV

      • 1 John 5:20-21ESV

  • Hymn 866 - To Him we come

      • Acts 2:44–47ESV

      • Deuteronomy 33ESV

      • 1 John 5:16–21ESV

      • 1 John 5:16-17ESV

      • 1 John 5:18-19ESV

      • 1 John 5:20-21ESV

  • 1 John 5:16–21 ESV
    16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death. 18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
    Introduction
    As john comes to the end of his letter he speaks of a very important pastoral matter. How do we deal with professing believers who fall into sin? We need much grace and discernment coupled with a deep desire that the Lord will be glorified.
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    1. Sin v16-17

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    1 John 5:16–17 ESV
    16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.
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    a. Sin Not Leading to Death v16

    1 John 5:16 ESV
    16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
    Whenever a member of the Christian community notices that a brother is falling into sin, he should pray to God on his behalf (compare James 5:20). Kistemaker, S.
    James 5:19–20 (ESV) — 19 My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, 20 let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
    1 John 1:7–9 (ESV) — 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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    b. Sin Leading to Death v16

    1 John 5:16 ESV
    16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
    John distinguishes between “a sin that does not lead to death” and “a sin that leads to death.” In this passage he mentions the first kind three times and the second only once. He clearly implies that praying for the sinner who commits “a sin that does not lead to death” is the intent of his writing. Kistemaker, S.
    John is not thinking of physical death. Rather, he is referring to spiritual death. He contrasts death with eternal life (3:15) to set apart the believer, who possesses this life, from the person who denies that Jesus is the Son of God (2:22–23) and who hates the believer (3:13). Kistemaker, S. J.
    1 John 3:15 (ESV) — 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
    1 John 2:22–23 (ESV) — 22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
    Who, then, commits the sin that leads to death? The person who rejects Jesus as the Christ and who does not love the believer commits this sin. He does not share in the fellowship of the Father and the Son (1:3), and is excluded from eternal life (4:12). He left the Christian community because he did not really belong to it (2:19). He had been a pretender. Kistemaker, S.
    1 John 1:3 (ESV) — 3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
    1 John 2:19 (ESV) — 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
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    b. Prayer v16

    1 John 5:16 ESV
    16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
    Although a believer commits sin (2:1), he does not practice the sin that leads to death. If a brother sins, John counsels, the community ought to ask God to “give him life.” That is, God will forgive his sin and restore him to fellowship. John knows that in the Christian community many believers fall into sin. He uses the plural and writes, “I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death.” Kistemaker, S.
    Should the Christian community pray for the person who commits “a sin that leads to death”? John does not call this person a “brother.” Writes John, “I am not saying that [the believer] should pray about that.” In these words we hear the echo of Jesus’ voice when he prayed for his followers, “I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours” (John 17:9). Kistemaker, S.
    John 17:9 (ESV) — 9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
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    c. Comfort v17

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    1 John 5:17 ESV
    17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.
    When a believer transgresses God’s law, he does not deny the sonship of Christ and hate the church. Moreover, God stands ready to forgive his sin. John teaches that “if we confess our sins, [God] is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1:9). God forgives sin when the sinner confesses and fellow Christians pray for him, for “God will give him life.” Kistemaker, S
    1 John 1:9 (ESV) — 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
    Hebrews 10:28–29 (ESV) — 28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
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    2. Born of God v18-19

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    1 John 5:18–19 ESV
    18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
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    a. Protection v18

    1 John 5:18 ESV
    18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
    Christ protects the true believer.
    Satan is kept at bay.
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    b. Children of God v19

    1 John 5:19 ESV
    19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
    Once again John uses the words we know to reassure us of the knowledge we have. He actually repeats the thought he expressed earlier: “Dear friends, now we are children of God” (3:1). We have our origin in God and belong to him. But the whole world, says John, “is under the control of the evil one.” He does not say that the world belongs to Satan, for Satan cannot lay claim to creating it. Jesus calls Satan “the prince of this world” Kistemaker, S. J.,
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    3. The Son of God v20-21

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    1 John 5:20–21 ESV
    20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
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    a. We Know v20

    1 John 5:20 ESV
    20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

    i. Certain Knowledge

    For the last time, John writes “we know” (3:2, 14; 5:18, 19, 20). This time, however, he reminds us of the coming of the Son of God and our understanding of Jesus. Even though we see corruption in every sphere and sector of the world, we know that Jesus Christ has come to give us insight into his true nature. In a world of deceit and falsehood, God has revealed himself in the Son of God as the one who is true. God has not forsaken us to the powers of darkness, but has endowed us with the ability to discern truth from error. Kistemaker, S.

    ii. Truth

    God sent his Son “so that we may know him who is true.” The verb to know in this clause denotes knowledge we acquire by close association. In the fellowship we have with God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ (1:3), we come to know his truth. We learn to know what belongs to God and what comes from Satan. God is true. “By true God [John] does not mean one who tells the truth, but him who is really God. Kistemaker, S.
    John 14:6 ESV
    6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
    And last, having woven the golden thread of Jesus’ divinity and sonship through the cloth of his epistle, John completes this verse with the following words: “Even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.” The Gnostic teachers denied that Jesus was the Christ, Son of God. Therefore, in this last verse John summarizes the basic teaching of the Christian faith: Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is truly divine, and is eternal life. Kistemaker, S. J
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    b. An Admonition v21

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    1 John 5:21 ESV
    21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
    James and the Epistles of John 4. An Admonition (5:21)

    Guard yourselves, says John, from idols. He urges the believers to abstain from any form of worship that draws them away from Jesus Christ. “He is the true God and eternal life.” Kistemaker

    Conclusion
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    1 John 1:7 ESV
    7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

      • 1 John 5:16–21ESV

      • 1 John 5:16–17ESV

      • 1 John 5:17ESV

      • 1 John 5:18–19ESV

      • 1 John 5:20–21ESV

      • 1 John 5:21ESV

      • 1 John 1:7ESV

  • Hymn 811 - O FOR A CLOSER WALK WITH GOD
  • Hymn 812 - O for a heart to praise my God
  • Doxology 223 v1

      • Romans 1:7ESV

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