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Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 11:33 AM
1. Those who are born of God keep his commandments.
1 John 2:3–4: “By this we know that we have come to
know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says
‘I know him’ but does not keep his commandments is a liar,
and the truth is not in him.”
1 John 3:24: “Whoever keeps his commandments abides in
God, and God in him.”
2. Those who are born of God walk as Christ walked.
1 John 2:5–6: “By this we may know that we are in him:
whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same
way in which he walked.”
3. Those who are born of God don’t hate others but love them.
1 John 2:9: “Whoever says he is in the light and hates his
brother is still in darkness.”
1 John 3:14: “We know that we have passed out of death
into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not
love abides in death.”
1 John 4:7–8: “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is
from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and
knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know
God, because God is love.”
1 John 4:20: “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his
brother, he is a liar.”
4. Those who are born of God don’t love the world.
1 John 2:15: “If anyone loves the world, the love of the
Father is not in him.”
5. Those who are born of God confess the Son and receive (have) him.
1 John 2:23: “No one who denies the Son has the Father.
Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.”
1 John 4:15: “Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of
God, God abides in him, and he in God.”
1 John 5:12: “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does
not have the Son of God does not have life.”
6. Those who are born of God practice righteousness.
1 John 2:29: “If you know that he is righteous, you may be
sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been
born of him.”
7. Those who are born of God don’t make a practice of sinning.
1 John 3:6: “No one who abides in him keeps on sinning;
no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or
known him.”
1 John 3:9–10: “No one born of God makes a practice of
sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on
sinning because he has been born of God. By this it is evident
who are the children of God, and who are the children of
the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of
God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.”
1 John 5:18: “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.”
8. Those who are born of God possess the Spirit of God.
1 John 3:24: “By this we know that he abides in us, by the
Spirit whom he has given us.”
1 John 4:13: “By this we know that we abide in him and he
in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”
9. Those who are born of God listen submissively to the apostolic Word.
1 John 4:6: “We are from God. Whoever knows God
listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to
us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of
error.”
10. Those who are born of God believe that Jesus is the Christ.
1 John 5:1: “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ
has been born of God.”
11. Those who are born of God overcome the world.
1 John 5:4: “Everyone who has been born of God overcomes
the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the
world—our faith.”
Taken from Finally Alive, by John Piper (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 2009), 125-128.
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