Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.My little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:
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… 1 John 3, 7, little children, make sure no one deceives you. The one who practices righteousness is righteous. Not hard, is it? The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. His righteousness is like God's righteousness because He's been created in Christ Jesus. He's been created in the likeness of God. been created in the image of the One who created everything. On the other hand, verse 8 says, the one who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of God practices sin because his seed abides in him, God's seed, and he He cannot sin because he is born of God. The old is dead. The new has come. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious. Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother. …
… has either seen him or known him. And he says, little children, let no one deceive you. Let no one deceive you. Because some of you are going, wait, but that's not what I was told. And he says, little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous as he is righteous. You're going, wait, but I was taught that if I prayed this prayer, and I was taught if I got baptized, and I was... Let no one deceive you. You can look in your life, read it for yourself. There's something that's supposed to happen inside of you. It's not an external thing. That's why later on, the verse I've preached here before, he goes in verse 16, he says, By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. If anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? …
Man, that's intense. You see what the Bible says? He says, if God's seed abides in you, you cannot keep sinning. See, just like when the Holy Spirit comes into you, you have this affection for Jesus. Like, inside of you, you don't need someone to talk you into prayer. Please, please, just pray for two minutes a day. Just try it. Just read the Bible for three minutes a day. Come on, just do it. You don't need that inside of you. You're screaming, Abba Father, I've got to have more of you. I've got to have more of you. This is the one thing I want is just to be with you. And in the same way, He says if the seed abides in you, you can't keep sinning. Like you don't have to, someone doesn't have to beg you, please, please, End that sexual relationship. Stop that pornography. Why? Because God's Spirit is already saying that to you. And he says it so clearly. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil. …