669 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 56 - Love Not The World

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 56 Love Not The World I John 3:1-24 Well, if you’re one of those, just remember we’re just a simple Bible study. Well, what if their denomination is wrong? What if your denomination isn’t exactly on the truth? Hey, you’re out of luck because I think God is absolute. Okay, that’s enough for introductions, and now let’s get right into our Bible study here in I John. chapter 3 and we’ll start right at verse 1. I John 3:1a "Behold,.…" Well the very first word, what does that word "behold" really tell you? I John 3:1a "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,.…" (as believers) Now again I always have to keep reminding people, these little epistles of James and Peter and John and Jude and on into Revelation are written primarily to what people? The Jews! The Nation of Israel. So even though John is addressing Jews here, you and I can revel in this just as much, that God has loved us so much: I John 3:1b "…that we should be called the sons (or the children) of God:.…" Paul says that "we’re the children of God." I John 3:1c All right, so the world doesn’t know who we really are, they don’t understand us, but they didn’t understand the Lord either. Now verse 2. John 3:2a Because Israel has nothing to do with the Rapture of the Church. All right, so John now is talking about the Second Coming. I John 3:2b Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? Zechariah chapter 14. Zechariah 14:3 Now verse 4, to culminate that reappearance from Heaven. Zechariah 14:4a Zechariah 14:9a "And the LORD shall be king over (what?) Not just Israel. He’s going to be King of Kings and Lord of Lords over all the earth. I guess I might as well stop at I Thessalonians, chapter 4, on our way back to I John. The speaker couldn’t discern the Rapture (when the Church will silently be removed before the Tribulation begins) from the Second Coming at the end of the Tribulation. I Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 16, and watch the difference in language. "For the Lord himself (same Lord as Zechariah spoke of, but in a different time element) shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (that’s the resurrection of the Church Age believers remember) 17. See, at the Rapture, we’re not going to meet Him on the Mount of Olives, we’re going to be "caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air." Not on the Mount of Olives. I can never separate that from our picture of the Rapture. You remember the servant went to find the bride. Just like Isaac left to meet his bride, we’re going to leave to meet the Lord in the air. Because, after all, He’s the God of love and we’re going to be part and parcel of that agape love. All right, now then verse 3, just as appropriate for us today as it was for the Jews to whom John is writing. I John 3:3a I John 3:3b Well now, that’s how we’re to treat the Lord’s coming. Is your spiritual house clean? If not, you’d better be. You don’t want to be caught in some place that’s dishonoring to the Lord. Now we come to the sin situation as John’s going to deal with it. Now sin has been sin ever since the Garden of Eden, hasn’t it? Verse 4. I John 3:4 "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: (now he’s talking about the Mosaic Law of course) for sin is the transgression of the law." Come back to Romans chapter 3 where Paul deals with that aspect of the Law and here’s how he puts it. Let’s just come in at verse 19. Whether it’s Paul or whether it’s John, doesn’t make any difference. Not in this case because, you see, the Law is God’s standard for the human race and any transgression of it, God calls sin. Romans 3:19 Only Israel was under the religious system of Law. But, the holiness of the Law, the omnipotence of the Law, if I may call it that because it’s God-given, didn’t stop at the borders of Israel, it went to the whole world. Go on in the verse: guilty before God." Because all the world is breaking God’s Law. All right, verse 20. Romans 3:20 The Ten Commandments are God’s moral law, not just for Christians but for the whole human race. It’s the Law of the Sovereign God. The only place where the church comes in is that we can bring law-breaking sinners to a knowledge of salvation, but that’s not the Law’s role. The Law is just simply to show mankind God’s moral compass. All right, let’s come back again to I John. Chapter 3 verse 5. I John 3:5 "And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin." All right, back to our text, "he was manifested to take away man’s sin." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible