Final Encouragement and Exhortation

Final Encouragement and Exhortation (1 John 5:18–21) 

Introduction: 

Deuteronomy 4:1–2, 5–9; 15–20 

Three Joy-Giving Certainties and One Grief-Preventing Command:

1) Freedom from Sin (vs. 18) 

1 John 2:3; 5:13 

1 John 1:8; 2:2 

James 1:27; Jude 21

2) Freedom from Satan (vs. 19) 

1 John 4:4–6 

Ephesians 2:1–3 

Galatians 1:4

3) Freedom from Falsehood (vs. 20) 

1 John 5:5 

Hebrews 1:1–3 

Jeremiah 31:33–34 

1 John 5:6, 11–12 

John 1:1

4) Forsake False Gods (vs. 21) 

Colossians 3:5 

Jeremiah 17:9 

1 Thessalonians 1:9 

1 John 1:3–4