True Fellowship: Reassurance for the Fearful Believer

Main idea: If you are living in obedience, be reassured that you are in true fellowship with God.

1. If you live according to God’s commandments: You are of the truth (1 John 3:19-20)
2. If you live according to God’s commandments: You can confidently approach God (1 John 3:21-23)
3. If you live according to God’s commandments: You abide in God and God in you (1 John 3:24)

Application:

• In what ways are you fearful about your relationship with God?
• How does this passage address those fears?
• What is the ultimate source of our confidence before God?
• Think of another person you could encourage with the truths
  of this passage.

Ian Rush

Ian is the Youth Pastor of Faith Bible Church. He and his wife, Claire, have six children and previously spent a few years serving in a small church in England.

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