1 Jn 5:19

You Are NOT On the Fence
(We Know Whose We Are)
1 John 5:19

Introductory Thoughts

· Fence Sitters?
· Take a stand, please—

Ø Moral Issues
Ø For your faith
Ø On your job
Ø In your school
Ø In your family

1. The World Serves Satan—1 John 5:19 "We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one."

a. Context—

(1) Five certainties: salvation, answered prayer, victory, whose we are, and Who Jesus is!
(2) Absolute and settled knowledge—innate knowledge—we just know this!

b. Satan has a kingdom—The Present world system is his kingdom

(1) Lk 4:5-7
(2) John 12:31/14:30/16:11

c. Every lost person is a member of Satan’s kingdom and must be won from that kingdom to the kingdom of God
(1) Acts 26:18
(2) 2 Cor 4:3-4
(3) Eph 2:2
d. Many people in the churches are part of the world system

(1) Phil 3:17-19
(2) Mat 13:24-30

e. The kinds of people in the world system

(1) The abject reprobate—Barabbas
(2) The civic reprobate—Pilate
(3) The nominally religious person
(4) The religious hypocrite
(5) The Pharisee

2. We Belong to God—1 John 5:19 "We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one."

a. Again, absolute and settled knowledge

b. Christ has a kingdom too—His Kingdom is the Kingdom of God

(1) John 18:33-38—not of this present world system!
(2) Lk 22:24-30
(3) Kingdom of God—70 times
(4) Kingdom of Heaven—32 times.
(5) The consummation of the kingdom—Rev 11:15

c. All who are His have been bought and transferred from the kingdom of Satan to the Kingdom of God

(1) Col 1:13-19
(2) 1 Cor 6:18-20


d. The children of the kingdom are different from the children of the world—1 John 3:10 "In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother."

3. There is a Struggle between the two kingdoms, and you cannot be neutral.

a. There is a struggle in your own life—1 Pet 2:11, Gal 5:16-25

b. There is a struggle in your family—Mat 10:32-39

c. There is a struggle in the community—Mat 5:13-16

d. There are often struggles in the church

(1) Petty struggles
(2) Personality conflicts
(3) False doctrine
(4) False practice
(5) False brethren