The Sin You Are Doing and the Sin You Are Believing

Scripture: 1 John 5:16-17

Title: The Sin You Are Doing and the Sin You Are Believing

 

1.       Wouldn't life be needed by those who sin unto death rather that sin not unto death?

2.       What does the asking/petitioning accomplish?  Salvation or comfort?

3.       Is the word death used here by John to describe mortality or severance from Christ?

4.       How do these two sins nest into the message of John's letter?

a.       Ch 1: Fellowship with God

b.      Ch 2: One who comes along side us; warning of the anti-Christ

c.       Ch 3: The love of God is greater than the hearts of His Children

d.      Ch 4: The Gospel from God but the anti-gospel from the world

e.      Ch 5: The testimony from the Spirit

5.       For what do we ask in consideration of the brother who sins a sin not leading to death?  For what do we desire in consideration of a brother who sins a sin leading to death?

a.       Paul and the unrepentant brother

b.      Peter sifted like wheat

c.       Paul's words on tribulation and endurance

d.      Christ's words about falling upon the rock

6.       What do the two sins say about the two laws at work?  The Law of Sin and the Law of Life?  The Law of Man and the Law of God?

a.       Paul's words comparing Hagar and Sarah

b.      The Law of Sinai and the Promise to Abraham

7.       What do the two sins say about the will of man and the will of God?

8.       What do these two sins say about the work of man and the work of God?

9.       What do these two sins reveal about Lucifer's delusion and Christ's Gospel?

a.       Satan's expectation of Job

b.      Christ at Gethsemane