“Confidence at His Coming”

“Confidence at His Coming” (1 John 2:28–3:3)

Pastor Cameron Jungels

Eastside Baptist Church

Sunday AM, July 3, 2016

28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.  29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.  1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.  3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.  (1 John 2:28-3:3, NIV)

1. Confidence for the day of Christ comes by abiding in Christ now (2:28).

2. Confidence for the day of Christ comes by the righteous character that is produced in us by the regenerating and indwelling Holy Spirit (2:29).

3. Confidence for the day of Christ does not ultimately rest in us, but rests in God’s love for us that has made us his children (3:1).

4. Confidence for the day of Christ comes through the development of Christlikeness that will one day be perfected at his coming (3:2).

5. In light of Christ’s coming we have a responsibility to purify ourselves and in so doing nurture a confident expectation for his return (3:3).

Big Idea: Christians can have confidence that they are in Christ now, which will lead to confidence and not shame at the future coming of Jesus Christ.

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