True Identity-Mark Of The True Christian
1 John 3:4-10
“…a true child of God, will manifest proper doctrine and proper behavior.
-John Macarthur
1. Does not live in a life of habitual sin
“If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us… If we say we have not sinned, we make God a liar, and we do not accept God's teaching.”
1 John 1:8, 10 (NCV)
“My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin.”
1 John 2:1
“Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.”
Deut 8:5
“…the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.”
Prov 3:12
"My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, 6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."
Heb 12:5-6
“Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret.”
2 Cor 7:10
2. Delights in God's word
“Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
v.4
“But the man who has doubts is condemned…”
Rom 14:23
“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.”
James 4:17
“All wrongdoing is sin…” 1 John 5:17
1 “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked … 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.”
Ps 1:1-2
“Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who finds great delight in his commands.”
Ps 112:1
I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.
Ps 119:16
“I delight in your commands because I love them.”
Ps 119:47
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.” Rom 7:15-18
3. Desire to fulfill God's word
“…the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.”
Rom 8:4
“…your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God's law.”
Rom 13:8-9
“The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Gal 5:14
“Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”
Gal 6:2-3
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness…”
1 Peter 2:24
“If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.”
1 John 2:29
4. DEPENDS ON GOD DAILY
“…live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.” Gal 5:16
“Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.”
Eph 5:18
