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Passage: 1 John 2:28 – 3:10; Romans 8:12-17
Identity is Everything
1. Don’t be discouraged: Five confirmations that you are God’s child!
Confirmation 1: you take after your Father
Confirmation 2: you are growing yourself in purity
Confirmation 3: you have a new relationship to sin
Confirmation 4: you have the indwelling Holy Spirit
Confirmation 5: you practise costly love
Implications
2. Don’t be deceived! Three marks of a child of the devil
Mark 1: the practice of sin
Mark 2: the practice of lawlessness
Mark 3: the absence of costly love
Implications…
3. The Son of God appeared…
To take away the guilt of sins
To take away the practice of sins
To destroy the works of the devil
Implications…
Conclusion: The gospel call