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  • Watch & listen to the sermons, teachings & evangelism of ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church in El Paso, Texas: Where the Word of God alone reigns—the Word of God for all our faith & life. We strive to be Biblical, reformed, historic, confessional, loving, prayerful, discerning Christians who evangelize, stand firm in & earnestly contend for, the Christian faith & the Gospel, the power of God unto salvation from sin & wrath (Rom 1:16, 5:9) by God’s grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to the glory of God alone, based on the ultimate authority of Scripture alone, “looking for the blessed hope & glorious appearing of our great God & Savior Jesus Christ” through the “grace of the Lord Jesus, the love of God the Father, & the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.” Join us on Sundays at 10am: 4712 Montana, El Paso, TX 79903. https://thorncrowncovenant.church
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  • Discerning God’s Children & the Devil’s Own | 1 John 3:9-11

    Discerning God’s Children & the Devil’s Own | 1 John 3:9-11
    Mar 16 2025
    Lord's Day: March 16, 2025 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: The Christian Life Scripture: 1 John 3:9–11, 1 Peter 1:23, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 John 4:8, Psalm 5:5, Psalm 7:11, Romans 13:8–10, Romans 5:8, Romans 6:1 I. The beloved apostle continues expounding for us the black and white, good and evil, light and darkness, God and devil, Cain and Abel contrasts 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. 1 John 3:7–12 God’s Seed and Purpose (Providence) and the Devil’s Seed and Schemes ("works")The threefold sense of God's SeedWe are regenerated by God, adopted by His fatherly love II. By counterfeited contrast, the devil and his own, his seed, are diametrically opposed to God and His seed, and all that is true, good, and beautiful; pure, lovely, and excellent (Php 4:8) 3. The devil’s seed and works are, in sum: The devil’s anointing, a false anointing of lies and disobedience, sin and shame/guilt, and of overexposure (perversion, corruption) III. Although these verses contain serious warnings against living in continual, unrepentant sin… W.G.T. Shedd: “Holy inclination is inability to sin…. The [holy inclination] originates in the operation of the Holy Spirit upon [the believer’s will], while the [unbeliever’s sinful inclination] is self-determination [self-will] pure and simple [flesh], without any internal efficiency [power] of the Holy Ghost…. There is, consequently, a “slavery to righteousness,” as well as a “slavery to sin.” A [believer’s] will which, by regeneration, has been “powerfully determined” (Westminster L. C., 67) and inclined to holiness, is unable to sin, in the sense in which Christ intends, when he says that “a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit” (Mat. vii. 18); and in which St. John intends, when he asserts that the regenerate [believer] “cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John iii. 9). This does not mean, that the regenerate, while here upon earth, is sinlessly perfect, committing no actual transgression, and having no remainders of sinful inclination. See 1 John i. 8. But it means that the regenerate [believer’s] will is unable to sin in the manner of the unregenerate [unbeliever’s] will: i.e., impenitently and totally.”[1] IV. In verses 10-11, another explicit connection between “doing righteousness” and love—loving your brother, by contrasting the opposite Remember, to do righteousness is first and foremost to believe and apply the truth of God, and it means to love, love God and neighbor [even personal enemies, cf. the gospels, Matt 22:36-40], but loving God and neighbor also means to love and obey God’s lawPSA: It is fatal, destructive heresy to divorce love from the Law of God—Antinomianism V. No such thing as lawless love, that has no repentance, because God’s love is not unjust God is love (1 John 4:8), and His love, like His law—and like Himself—is holy, just/righteous, and goodMany today, within and without the church, agree with movements like “He Gets Us,” who claim that Jesus is “the world’s most radical love activist”[2] who “created a radical love movement,” who “‍touched lepers. Welcomed outcasts. and loved without condition.”[3] Their favorite words…radical and love“We’re challenging our own assumptions and preconceived notions about who he is and creating space to doubt, question, and learn from the authentic Jesus,” outside of the church, because “He Gets Us is not a back to church campaign”This Jesus is only about unconditional love, not hate, not repentance, not even about church—but about love divorced from truth, justice, holiness, and the churchLiberals like Gary Wills, a leftist Roman Catholic scholar who wrote What Jesus Meant, but, what Gary thinks Jesus meant is that the Father's "love is undiscriminating and inclusive, not graduated and exclusive" (29).[4]“What are the tests for entry into the reign [of Heaven] or exclusion from it? They are very simple. One will not be asked whether one voted, whether one was a good citizen, or even whether one dealt justly. That is not enough.... The simple test is ...
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  • God’s Seed & the Devil’s Schemes | 1 John 3:7-8

    God’s Seed & the Devil’s Schemes | 1 John 3:7-8
    Mar 9 2025
    Lord's Day: March 9, 2025 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Spiritual Warfare Scripture: 1 John 3:7–8, 2 Timothy 2:15, Galatians 3:11, Habakkuk 2:4, John 8:44, Genesis 3:4–7, 1 John 4:3, Acts 10:34–43, Romans 16:19–20 I. Biblical commentators often disagree on how to outline this chapter, and most of this letter, because the letter has no linear progression/flow The New Testament manuscripts generally do not contain punctuation or paragraphsTry to read them yourself and make sense of them, even if you know Greek![1] II. The best way to understand the flow of John’s first letter: to note the recurring patterns, themes, categories and contrasts that he emphasizes 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. 1 John 3:7–12 Continues to draw out the recurring contrasts of sin and righteousness, holiness and unrighteousness, law and gospel, love and disobedience, God and the devil, God’s Seed and Purpose and the Devil’s Seed and SchemesThis passage, and this entire letter, makes constant use of the Analogies of Scripture/Faith—because the New Testament in general (later writings) makes use of all the earlier Old Testament writings, as well as contemporary NT writingsProgressive Revelation: later revelation cumulatively explains and accounts for earlier revelation III. 1 John 3:8: The Devil, His Schemes, His Children We do not become righteous by doing righteous things, which is both impossible and backwards, confusion of law and gospel IV. The Devil himself has his own anointing and incarnation The Devil’s anointing stems all the way back to “Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden” (John Milton, Paradise Lost)It is a false anointing of lies and disobedience, sin and shame/guilt.The Antichrist is the Devil’s false incarnation of Christ, the false head of the churchAs our confession says (2LBCF 26.4): “The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of the church. In him is vested, by the appointment of the Father in a supreme and sovereign manner, all authority for the calling, institution, order and government of the church.1 The Pope of Rome cannot in any sense be the head of the church, but he is the antichrist, that 'man of lawlessness', and 'son of destruction', who exalts himself in the church against Christ and all that is called God, whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.”2 (1) Col 1:18; Eph 4:11-16; 1:20-23; 5:23-32; 1Co 12:27-28; Joh 17:1-3; Mat 28:18-20; Act 5:31; Joh 10:14-16; (2) 2Th 2:2-9The “many antichrists that have appeared” are the devil’s childrenEvery “spirit of Antichrist” that does not confess Jesus is not from God (1 John 4:3)—it is a false Holy Spirit, unholy spirit IV. How then shall we deal with this sinning, imposturous, copycat devil who tempts us to sin? Have no fear—Jesus Christ the Righteous is here! The end of verse 8 points us to gospel-saturated promises of glorious victory and encouragement that overcomes the world, the flesh, the devil: “The Son of God was manifested [incarnated, ἐφανερώθη ephanerōthē] for this purpose, to destroy [“to loose,” λύσῃ lusē] [all] the [false] works of the devil”“If now we dare to be pleasantly pictorial, we may imagine that the devil has tied us into knots, and Christ has come to untie them. Still pictorial, we can say that we are bound by sin and that Christ strikes off our fetters. Of course, Christ had a complex of purposes, but this one affects us most directly.”[2]The God of peace gives us true peace, external/objective peace, not a false hope that is merely internal/subjective, not based on reality, but based on God’s promises and providence We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am: ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church4712 Montana AveEl Paso, Texas 79903 Contact us at: web: ThornCrownCovenant.Churchcall/text: (915) 843-8088email: ThornCrownCovenantBChurch@gmail.com Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights ...
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  • Do Righteousness, Not Sin, Just as He Is Righteous | 1 John 3:6-8

    Do Righteousness, Not Sin, Just as He Is Righteous | 1 John 3:6-8
    Mar 2 2025
    Lord's Day: March 2, 2025 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: The Christian Life Scripture: 1 John 3:4–8, Romans 7:7, Romans 6:1–2, Hebrews 12:2, Romans 13:8–10, John 14:21–24, Matthew 24:36–40, Galatians 5:14, James 2:8, 1 Corinthians 13:6, 1 Corinthians 2:16 I. Today’s sermon will build on the foundation that was laid last Sunday 6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or has come to know Him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:6–8 Understanding sin—knowing what sin is in general, our sins in particular, how we relate to and deal with sin, before and after our conversion, is an integral, indispensable part of the very gospel that saves us, and of our sanctification II. Last time we started to unpack verse 6. How do we make proper sense of it? Romans 6:1–2:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin [living in] so that grace may increase [abound]? 2 May it never be! [Why?] How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Sinners will continue in sin, believers will notImportant and necessary for us to grasp the big picture—the whole counsel of God, Analogies of Scripture and Faith, because there are several other doctrines that are prerequisite for understanding this verse properly: of salvation in general, of regeneration, of the flesh, of sanctification, etc.The gospel deals with and resolves our sin in a complete, final, ultimate, eschatological, it-is-finished sense, once and for all senseWe nevertheless understand that, in a not-yet sense, we still war against sin and our fleshYou do war against sin, right? Romans 7? Galatians 5?Sin no longer rules over us! We now strive to not sin, and we repent when we sin, we mortify sin, put sin to deathWe cannot deny that true believers may still “fall into serious [grievous] sins,” as Scripture teaches us and our 1689 Baptist Confession summarizes for us, “through the temptations of Satan and the world, the power of the corruption remaining in them, and neglect of the means for their preservation [and deliverance], and may even continue in them for a time. In this they incur God's displeasure, grieve his Holy Spirit, have their graces and comforts impaired, have their hearts hardened and their consciences wounded, and hurt and offend others, and bring present chastisement [discipline] upon themselves. Yet [nevertheless] they will [in time] renew their repentance and be preserved through faith in Christ Jesus to the end." (17.3)We must balance all of these bookend doctrines III. What does “doing righteousness” look like? What is Righteousness?[1] 1. The answer lies in the latter part of verse 7: “...just as He is righteous.” Jesus Christ the RighteousErrol Hulse, Catechism for Boys & Girls: Q.35. What is righteousness? It is God’s goodness.Catechism for Young Children: Baptist Revision, Q. 45. What did Christ undertake in the [New] Covenant of Grace? A. To keep the whole law for His people, and to suffer the punishment due to their sins. IV. Now, if we could summarize “doing righteousness” in one word, what would it be? Biblical love is a summary and fulfillment of the Law of God—which defines and determines, not just what sin is, but what righteousness is and doesIf you don’t know and accept God’s law, then you don’t know what righteousness or love is, because both righteousness and love cannot be divorced either from God’s law, or from obedience to itLove and Righteousness and Law and Truth go hand in hand, and cannot be divorced from each otherThe Greatest Commandment, the Greatest, most Perfect Righteousness, is to Love—Love God and neighborLove and righteousness are all-encompassing Matthew 22:36–40: 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He [Jesus] said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 “This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 “And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 “On these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.” We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am: ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church4712 Montana AveEl Paso, Texas 79903 Contact us at: web: ThornCrownCovenant.Churchcall/text: (915) 843-8088email: ThornCrownCovenantBChurch@gmail.com Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org and 316publishing.com [1] See ‘The Gospel According to Righteousnesses | 1 John 2:1’, ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church: El Paso, TX, 18 December ...
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