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Sermons Preached at First Baptist Mulvane, KS - Jason Velotta

  1. 2d ago

    1 John 4:13-16 Knowing God Abides In Us

    A significant portion of 1 John focuses on the believers’ love for the body of Christ, so we are spending a lot of time talking about love. We are working our way through 1 John 4:7-21, which is a large section showing us that this love for one another is evidence of being born again. Last week, we examined verses 7-12, and this Sunday we will focus on verses 13-16. Although we are working through this passage in sections, it is important for us to remember that verses 7-21 are all one unit, bookended by the command to love one another. Last Sunday, we learned why this love for one another is an evidence of salvation: because God is love (v. 7-8), because God has loved us (v. 9-11), and because loving one another brings His love to its goal (v. 12). Verse 12 showed us two amazing realities. When we love one another, “God’s love abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.” In verses 13-16, John will show us how we know God abides in us, and (Next Sunday) in verses 17-21, he explains how his love is perfected in us. As we focus on verses 13-16 this Sunday, John repeatedly emphasizes how we know we abide in God and He in us. John uses the term “abide” for both union with God in salvation and communion with Him, but the primary sense in these verses is our saving relationship with God. We can have assurance of our saving union being real not by a special feeling, secret knowledge, or climbing a ladder of righteousness, but because: I. God has given us His Spirit (v. 13) II. We confess and trust in the true Jesus (v. 14-15) III. We have received and now show God’s love (v. 16) (also 17a)

  2. 5d ago

    Ecclesiastes 7:15-29 Wisdom When Things Don’t Make Sense

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  3. Aug 23

    1 John 4:7-12 Why Love Is An Evidence Of Salvation

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  4. Aug 20

    Ecclesiastes 7:1-14 The Better Life

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  5. Aug 16

    1 John 4:1-6 Test Every Spirit

    Only two chapters are left in our study of 1 John. John wrote this letter to give believers the God-ordained evidences of salvation in response to professed believers who left the churches and now claimed they had the “true” Jesus and salvation. We have noted several times that this book circles around three tests we are to examine. Doctrine, obedience, and love. All of chapter three showed us that a lifestyle of keeping God’s commands and loving the brothers and sisters are evidence of a heart transformed by the Spirit. Likewise, John told us that a lifestyle that has no concern with God’s commands and the body of Christ should not be assured of any salvation before God. (1 John 3:9-10; 14). He ended chapter 3 by reminding us that God has given us His Spirit, who transforms our hearts when we are born again. Now he turns back to the first test—right doctrine—and warns that many other spirits compete for our allegiance. John commands his readers not to believe every spirit but to test them to see whether they are from God. By “spirits” in v. 1, John is speaking of what is behind the teaching of false prophets and any truth claims or ideas that do not come from God. John also gives us the criteria with which we are to test every teaching and shows that our confidence is not in our knowledge or discernment, but in the one within us who is more powerful than the one who is in the world (4:4). Ultimately, it is God’s word given through his apostles (the “we” of verses 5-6) by which we are to test all things. Today, that word is in our hands and on our lips as we study the scriptures. I. Our Command: Test Every Spirit (1) II. Our Criteria: Confessing The True Jesus (2-3) III. Our Confidence: Power Of God’s Spirit (4) IV. Our Confirmation: Who’s Voice Has Authority (5-6)

  6. Aug 13

    Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 When Having It All Isn’t Enough

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  7. Aug 9

    1 John 3:19-24 When Your Heart Condemns You

    Sunday, John concludes the argument he began in chapter three. 1 John 3:4-18 was a very difficult section to work through. John told us that the evidence we have been born of God is the transformed life that strives to keep His commandments (3:4-10). Then, he continued with the evidence of loving the brethren. He said, “We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death” (3:14). Last Sunday, we ended in v. 18 which admonished us to love not in word only but in deed and truth. However, throughout the exposition of chapter 3, we have seen that the grammar and verb tenses illustrated a pattern of life, not perfection. Those born of God have not yet been made perfect, but if there is no pattern of life that strives to obey His commandments and invest oneself in loving the body of Christ, scripture gives no assurance of salvation regardless of what we profess. That being said, all believers fail and sin in this life. How do we balance the examination of evidence and the reality of life in this fallen world? When we see our failures and sins, there are times when our hearts condemn us. This condemnation is NOT the same as conviction from the Holy Spirit, and we will define the difference Sunday. In 1 John 3:19-24, the apostle shows us how to respond when our hearts condemn us: not by looking inward for enough goodness to outweigh our sins, but outward to the God who is greater than our hearts and knows everything. We reassure our hearts before Him through the real (though imperfect) evidence of His transforming work, resting in the confidence that comes from a settled trust in Christ’s finished work, as we rely on the Spirit’s ongoing presence: the proof that we abide in God and He in us. I. Reassuring the Condemning Heart (19-20) II. Resting In An Uncondemning Heart (21-23) III. Relying On The Spirit’s Evidence (v. 24)

  8. Aug 6

    Ecclesiastes 5:8-20 The Vanity Of Pursuing Wealth

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