Time in God's Word with David Carns

Pastor David Carns begins a look into the prologue of the gospel of John. And in our time together we are going to see how John the Apostle goes about proving that Jesus is God.

In this final message from the series "Items of assurance for the true believer", David brings out the truth that Jesus is God.

We continue to look at this series entitled "Items of assurance for the true believer". Item number four is "The true believer belongs to God".

With the assurance of victory over sin, the true believer is one that will live a life of habitual righteousness, but perfection, but consistent holiness. David at this point in the series is answering the question, "How can the true believer live such a life?" And in today's podcast the final answer is given and the answer is the protection of Jesus.

The true believer in Jesus is assured of victory of sin. And when this happens there is a habitual life of righteousness that takes place in the life of the Christian. At this point in the series David is addressing the question "How can the Christian live a consistent life of holiness?" In this episode we discover the place that the Holy Spirit of God has in this answer.

David continues to bring out from scripture how the true believer can live out a life of continual righteousness.

Victory over sin is a guarantee for the Christian and as a result the life of the Christian will be lived out with consistent righteousness. Yet there is a question and that is "How can the believer in Jesus live out such a life"? David begins to bring out the answer to that question from scripture in this episode of today's podcast.

In this introduction to verse 18 out of 1st John 5, David brings out the truth that the true believer is no longer in bondage to sin but is now in bondage to righteousness and as a result the true believers life will be consistently lived out in righteousness.

David closes out this look regarding answered prayer by looking at a prayer that God will not answer.

David brings out the truth that God has promised every believer that He will answer prayer.

God promises that answered prayer is assured for every believer. In this episode of the podcast David begins this part of the series by first pointing out from the text that the Christian can pray with confidence.

Eternal life has a very specific definition and this is what David brings out in this edition of "Time in God's Word".

For the true believer in Jesus there is the assurance of eternal life. And as David brings this point out he focuses on the tests that prove that salvation is real in the true believer in Jesus.

In this series from the final section of 1st John, we find that the apostle lays out 5 items that the true believer in Jesus can always be assured of. The first item of assurance is eternal life.

The runner in a race is not to give up. The same is true for the Christian as the Christian life if lived out. No matter how hard the race may get, no matter how difficult the Christian life might become, the Christian continues to live the life out. In this final edition of this series David brings out this truth and the benefits of continuing to run, or to live out the Christian life.

Every race has results that await the runner and in the race called the Christian life there are results that await as well. In this edition of "Time in God's Word" David brings out the results that await every Christian.

A runner in a race will never be successful if he is looking all around the stadium as he runs. The successful runner will keep his eyes focused ahead. The same is true in the race that is called the Christian life. The Christian will have a disciplined focus and that focus will be on Jesus.

A key element to running the Christian life effectively is the dropping of sin from our lives. What enables the Christian to do this is the growing of your relationship with God. David brings this out in this edition of today's podcast.

David continues to walk through this series of messages that we are calling "The race called the Christian life". And in this podcast David brings out the point that in order to run this race effectively the Christian has to run light.

David takes just a moment to update you on his recovery from open heart surgery and in the process speaks about what the bible has to say about a new heart.

One key to running the race that is the Christian life is being able to look back at Christians who have run this race before us.

The author of Hebrews writes that the Christian life can be compared to a race.  David begins a series called "The race that is the Christian life".  In section one of this series David brings out the points that the Christian life is a marathon, that the Christian can experience victory, and that there must be great commitment made to run the race called the Christian life.

In his final look into this series called "Principles of God's love", David brings out that one other incentive to live out God's love is by God's command.

The one that loves with the love of God is the one that will not fear the judgement.  This is the point that John makes in this part of his letter and this is the point that David focuses on today.

David continues to look at the principles of God's love.  And in this episode of the podcast David brings out an incentive to live out God's love and that is, God's salvation.