1 John 5

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1. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

   Christian Perfection cites 1 John 5:18

   …m: And he cannot sin because he is born of God.” [1 John 3:8, 9] And those in the fifth: (1 John 5:18:) “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keep…

2. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

   Faith, Prayer, and the Life of Dependence cites 1 John 5:14

   …. John provides the guardrail: “if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us” (1 John 5:14, ASV). Prayer in Jesus' name therefore submits desire to Jesus' lordship. This protects f…

3. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

   Dealing with Those Who Lack Assurance and with Backsliders cites 1 John v. 13

   …urance may be divided into two classes. 1. Those who lack assurance because of ignorance. 1 John v. 13, will show all such that we may know that we have eternal life. Often times when you ask …

4. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

   The Marks of the New Birth cites 1 John 5:1

   …n in his General epistle, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.” (1 John 5:1.) 2. But it is not a barely notional or speculative faith that is here spoken of by the A…

5. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

   Spiritual Worship cites 1 John 5:18–20

   … and recapitulating the marks of our communion with God, by, “we know,” thrice repeated. (1 John 5:18–20.) 4. The tract itself treats, First, severally, of communion with the Father; (1 John 1:5…

6. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

   The New Birth cites 1 John 5:1

   … and comes to its perfect manifestation. 4. The fourth result of the New Birth we find in 1 John 5:1, "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God." The fourth result of …

7. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

   XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites 1 John 5:3

   …ommandments;" that is (as we must understand it), this is the proper evidence of love. So 1 John 5:3, "This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments." So the Apostle James, speaking…

8. How to Succeed in the Christian Life · R. A. Torrey

   Assurance of Salvation cites 1 John 5: 13

   …ernal life. It is the believer’s privilege to know that he has eternal life. John says in 1 John 5: 13, R. V., “These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life…

9. Men of Prayer · Ochorus Originals

   Bill Bright (1921 – 2003) cites 1 John 5:14 – 15

   … be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 1 John 5:14 – 15 — “This is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to H…

10. Baptism with the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    How the Baptism with the Holy Spirit can be obtained cites 1 John 5:14-15

    …now then that the prayer is heard and that I have the request which I have asked of him. (1 John 5:14-15) That is, I have the Baptism with the Holy Spirit. I have then the right to arise from my…

11. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The tests of love to God cites 1 John v. 1

    …ng in the saints. “He that loves Him that begat, loves him also that is begotten of him” (1 John v. 1). It is possible to love a saint, yet not to love him as a saint; we may love him for som…

12. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    Obedience cites 1 John 5: 3

    …nsideration. Consider, God’s commands are not grievous: he commands nothing unreasonable. 1 John 5: 3. It is easier to obey the commands of God than sin. The commands of sin are burdensome — …

13. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Salvation by Faith cites 1 John 5:18

    …t; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not” (1 John 5:18). 6. he that is, by faith, born of God sinneth not (1.) by any habitual sin; for all habi…

14. Talks to the Farmer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Spiritual Gleaning cites 1 John 5:1

    …es the parched corn when the Spirit gives the internal witness that we are “born of God” (1 John 5:1 ESV). A believer may know their salvation beyond all doubt. Just as Philip de Morny said …

15. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    Thoughtfulness of the excellency of the majesty of God cites 1 John v. 20

    …n of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true,’ 1 John v. 20. The illumination of ‘the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God,’ shineth up…

16. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with Those Who Entertain False Hopes cites 1 John v. 4

    …use is 1 Cor. vi. 9‒10. 1 John ii. 29 will also in many cases sweep away this false hope. 1 John v. 4‒5 is useful as showing that one who is really born of God overcomes the world and the fac…

17. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites 1 John 5.1

    …n’s wisdom, and of that which comes by a man’s being born thereto of God (Matt. 16.15-17; 1 John 5.1). 119. But, oh! now, how was my soul led from truth to truth by God! even from the birth …

18. The Life of Trust · George Müller

    Walking in Darkness cites 1 John v. 1

    … the word of God, and believe what God says in those passages which settle these matters (1 John v. 1; Gal. iii. 26; Acts x. 43; Romans x. 9, 10; John iii. 16, etc.). Further, at the time whe…

19. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites 1 John 5: 19

    …e be which go in thereat.’ Matt 7: 13. The greatest part of the world lies in wickedness. 1 John 5: 19. Divide the world, says Brerewood, into thirty-one parts, nineteen parts of it are posses…

20. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Scriptural Christianity cites 1 John 5:10

    …. And that filial love of God was continually increased by the witness he had in himself (1 John 5:10) of God’s pardoning love to him; by “beholding what manner of love it was which the Fathe…

21. A Plain Account of Christian Perfection · John Wesley

    Section 25 cites 1 John 5:19

    … answer hold, if any affirm, that it belongs only to the lowest class? “Consider likewise 1 John 5:19: ‘We know that we are of God.’ How? ’By the Spirit that he hath given us.’ Nay, ‘hereby w…

22. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Way to the Kingdom cites 1 John 5:11

    …s Son. he that hath the Son” (reigning in his heart) “hath life,” even life everlasting. (1 John 5:11, 12.) For “this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom …

23. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life · William Law

    Showing how difficult the practice of humility is made, by the general spirit and temper of the world. How Christianity requireth us to live contrary to the world cites 1 John v. 4

    … on the earth; for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." [Rom. viii. 9.; 1 John v. 4.; Col. iii. 2, 3] This is the language of the whole New Testament: this is the mark of Ch…

24. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Discourse I cites 1 John 5:3

    …each, “This is the love of God,” the sure mark thereof, “that we keep his commandments.” (1 John 5:3.) And our Lord himself saith, “He that keepeth my commandments, he it is that loveth me.”…

25. The Unselfishness of God · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Second Epoch in My Religious Life (restoration of Belief) cites 1 John 5:1

    …There seemed to be nothing more to be said about it. Three passages especially struck me: 1 John 5:1: “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.” John 5:24: “Verily, veril…

26. The Unselfishness of God · Hannah Whitall Smith

    The Way of Escape cites 1 John 5:14 – 15

    … Him, we too may speak, and it shall be done. A brilliant new light shone on the words in 1 John 5:14 – 15: “This is the confidence we have in Him: that if we ask anything according to His will, H…

27. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On the Trinity cites 1 John 5:7

    …ear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: And these three are one.” 1 John 5:7. 1. Whatsoever the generality of people may think, it is certain that opinion is not reli…

28. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Spiritual Idolatry cites 1 John 5:21

    Sermon 78 Spiritual Idolatry “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” 1 John 5:21. 1. There are two words that occur several times in this Epistle, — paidia and teknia, bo…

29. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On Friendship with the World cites 1 John 5:19

    …er, verse 19, “We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the wicked one.” [1 John 5:19] Here “the world” plainly means, those that are not of God, and who, consequently “Lie in…

30. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    A Call to Backsliders cites 1 John 5:16

    …re. One of the strongest of these is that which occurs in the First Epistle of St. John: (1 John 5:16.) “If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and God sh…

31. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with the Willful and the Deluded cites 1 John v. 13

    …we have eternal life, it will awaken in a great many of them a desire for this assurance. 1 John v. 13, shows that it is the believer’s privilege to know. Acts xiii. 38, 39; x. 43, John iii. 3…

32. Women Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    Evelyn Christenson — What Happens When Women Pray cites 1 John 5:14–15

    … we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14–15, NIV). Praying according to His will required first knowing His will — and knowing His wi…

33. Men of Prayer · Ochorus Originals

    A. R. Torrey (1856 – 1928) cites 1 John 5:14

    …as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” 1 John 5:14 — “This is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to H…

34. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Discourse II cites 1 John 5:11

    …or less ambiguously, the testimony, or the record: So it is rendered in our translation, (1 John 5:11, ) This is the record, the testimony, the sum of what God testifies in all the inspired w…

35. The Ministry of Intercession · Andrew Murray

    My God Will Hear Me cites 1 John v. 16

    …e powers of the heavenly world for them too. The power of life and death is in our hands (1 John v. 16). In answer to prayer the Spirit can be poured out, souls can be converted, believers can…

36. Women Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: Prayers in God’s Word cites 1 John 5:14–15

    … by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” 1 John 5:14–15 — “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according t…

37. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.10 The Tenth Commandment cites 1 John 5: 4

    …ovetousness?’ (1) Faith. ‘This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.’ 1 John 5: 4. The root of covetousness is distrust of God’s providence. Faith believes that God will p…

38. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    V. Truly gracious affections are attended with a reasonable and spiritual conviction of the judgment, of the reality and certainty of divine things cites 1 John 5:10

    …a: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." 1 John 5:10, "He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself." Gal. 1:14, 16, 16, "…

39. The Inner Chamber · Andrew Murray

    The Daily Renewal — Its Cost cites 1 John 5: 20

    … deciding. The fleshly mind gives place to a "spiritual understanding'' (Colossians 1: 9, 1 John 5: 20). This transformation is not obtained but at the cost of giving up all that is of nature.…

40. He Holds My Tomorrows · Gareth Evans

    Three Kinds of Faith cites 1 John 5:13

    … eternal life, and that you may believe (with the heart?) on the name of the son of God” (1 John 5:13). Throughout his letter he is constantly reaffirming the experiencing of our faith. He wr…

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