Greater Friendship Baptist Church FFF
Rev. Dr. Derrick L. Miles, Pastor
I John 5 “The Victorious Life”
Vs 1 1. The term “____________________”, conveys the idea of continuing faith, making the point that the mark of genuine believers is that they continue in faith throughout their life.
2. The new birth brings us into a permanent faith “____________________ with God and Christ.
3. The “____________________not only believes in God, but loves both God and fellow believers.
v2-3 4.Obedience is a characteristic of an overcomer.
5. “His commandments are not grievous. In contrast to the “____________________man-made religious traditions of the Jewish leaders (Matt. 23:4), the yoke of Jesus is easy and the burden light (Matt. 11:30).
v4-5 6. The word for “overcomes” or “____________________” comes from a Greek word meaning “to conquer,” or “to have victory,” or “to have superiority” or “conquering power.”
7. The word reflects a“____________________ superiority that leads to over-whelming success.
8. The victory is demonstrable, as it involves overthrowing an “____________________ so that the victory is then seen by all.
9. If I have received Jesus, then Jesus in me has “____________________ the world and Satan.
10. I am no “____________________in a battle against Satan. I am living in the victory of Jesus.
v6-12 11. The passage concerns the witness or “____________________of God and the Spirit to the world regarding the great truth of the deity of Jesus Christ.
12. He gives two kinds o“____________________: external (verses 6-9), and internal (verses 10-12).
13. Water and the blood constitute “____________________ objective witnesses to who Jesus Christ is. They refer to Jesus' baptism (water), and death (blood).
14. Both the verb “testifies” and the noun “____________________”, come from the same Greek word and are used a total of 9 times in this section.The basic meaning is “someone who has personal and immediate knowledge of something.”
15. By the“____________________, our souls are washed and purified for heaven and the habitation of saints in light.By the blood, we are justified, reconciled, and presented righteous to God.By the blood, the curse of the law being satisfied, the purifying Spirit is obtained for the internal cleansing of our natures.
16. The water, as well as the blood, came out of the side of the sacrificed
“____________________. John 19:34 "But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.”
17. “Three that bear record”:The Old Testament Law required “the “____________________of two or three witnesses:” to establish the truth of a matter
18. The “____________________of that One Spirit are Father, Word, and Holy Ghost.
19.An egg is a good way to look at the existence of the “____________________ Really that egg consists of shell, white (albumen) and yellow (yolk), but they all three are an egg.
20. At the baptism of Jesus, the Father and the Spirit “____________________ to the Son, the unity is in their agreement. (see Matthew 3:16-17)
21. Jesus is actually man's only “____________________ with the reality of God.
22. If someone refuses the “____________________ of God regarding His Son, such rejection is the ultimate form of blasphemy for it is tantamount to calling God a liar (Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18).
23. To have Jesus, means you possess “____________________life.
24. To“____________________ Jesus brings death.
v13-17 25. Eternal life is a “____________________ with the person of Jesus Christ and possessing His nature.
26. ““____________________”: Christians can know with absolute confidence that God answers prayer when they approach the throne of grace.
27. To pray according to God's “____________________ is to pray in accord with what He would want, not what we would desire or insist that He do for us.
28. Genuine believers know God's “____________________ (i.e., His will), and practice those things that are pleasing to Him, they never insist on their own will, but supremely seek God's desires.
29. The word “heareth” signifies that God always“____________________the prayers of His children (Psalm 34:15- 17), but not always in the manner they were presented.
30. Prayer has great “____________________when coupled with faith.
31. To know means that we have faith in it “____________________.
32. It is very“____________________to believe that you receive the thing you are praying for.
33. God will not “____________________ the will of the person being prayed for.
34. The prayer of intercession is a powerful prayer. It is an “____________________prayer for others.
35. “____________________will be forgiven.The only one that will not, is the sin against the Holy Ghost, which I believe is dying not believing in Jesus Christ. Matthew 12:31 "Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy [against] the [Holy] Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.”
v18-21 36. The ““____________________” in the verse above is John and all believers in Christ.
37. ““____________________himself”: This refers to the fact that God protects the believer.
38. ““____________________ one”:This is a reference to Satan.
39. “____________________ “him not”: The word suggests “to lay hold of” or “to grasp” in order to harm.
40. Only “____________________ types of people exist in the world according to John: and that is the children of God and children of Satan.
41. The world around us is more “____________________today than it has ever been before in history.
42. “True”:The word means ““____________________” as opposed to what is false.
43. “Keep yourselves from “____________________”:John contrasts the term “idols” with “the true God” (of verse 20).He has reference here to the false teachers who withdrew from the brotherhood with which they had been formerly associated .
44. John once again highlights the “____________________ of adherence to all of the fundamentals of the faith.