Purified By Love and Truth

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January 29, 2006  A.D.


Purified By Love and Truth

In this lesson from our current study through the epistle of First John, Pastor Landis from the third chapter teaches us some of the properties of the love of God and how they affect those who embrace them by faith as a way of life, and what their effects tend to be in the lives of them who receive them. Listen to this fascinating teaching and come to know how we are adopted by the mercy of God through faith in His Son Jesus, to be changed by His magnificent love for us given to us to be shared with others as we are Purified By Love and Truth.

Old Testament Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 7:1 – 11  (NASB)
Deu 7:1  “When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and shall clear away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you,

Deu 7:2  and when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you, and you shall defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

Deu 7:3  “Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

Deu 7:4  “For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will quickly destroy you.

Deu 7:5  “But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

Deu 7:6  “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deu 7:7  “The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

Deu 7:8  but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deu 7:9  “Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

Deu 7:10  but repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them; He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face.

Deu 7:11  “Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.
New Testament Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:1 – 6  (NASB)
1 John 3:1  See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 John 3:2  Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.

1 John 3:3  And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

1 John 3:4  Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

1 John 3:5  And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.
Transforming Power Statements:
#1) The specific revelation of the Word of God, which He gave exclusively to the covenant people {the Jews}, provided them with the most radical advantage in the world over all the nations because it was the only antidote for the poison of sin that had been introduced by the devil and was running rampant through the Gentiles peoples, who were on an unanticipated course of self-destruction that is yet in progress to this very day. (From love comes truth)

#2) The persons who come to learn the true analysis of the human condition by the knowledge of the truth find correction for themselves and in this also develop compassion toward the others who are lost due to ignorance of the truth, and are therefore, destined to destruction by their own devices. (From truth comes mercy)

#3) The gospel of Jesus Christ, which was ratified at the cross of The Christ, is God’s defense from accusation in all eternity that He might be deemed “unjust” because it was there that His demand for justice against sin was accomplished, and His most loud and profound proclamation of His great love for man found perfect reconciliation. (From mercy comes joy) (From joy comes love)