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We are continuing from last week's message on "Test the Spirits." How can we discern these spirits? John answers this question using different pronouns to explain. Text: 1 John 4:4-6 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 3/8/20

One of the countries hardest hit with the Coronavirus is South Korea. These past couple of weeks, those affected have doubled and then doubled again. The reason for the fast spread of the virus is because of a cult group called Sincheonji (“new heavens and new earth”). They are so secretive about their membership because one of their tactics is to actually go inside Christian churches and act like...

The guest speaker for this message is Justin Buzzard. Justin pastors Garden City Church in San Jose. Text: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 Speaker: Justin Buzzard Date: 2/23/2020

This week, Toby Kurth from Christ Church in San Francisco , spoke on the freedom of the Gospel of grace through Abraham. God saved him and loved not because of his righteous deeds, but instead, despite his sins. This is the same good news for us through Christ. Text: Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 17:1-5, Galatians 3:7-9 Speaker: Toby Kurth Date: 2/16/2020

This Sunday, Aurum Laguna who is the Associate Pastor at Sunset Church in San Francisco, spoke on 1 Corinthians 9:23-27. Speaker: Aurum Laguna Text: 1 Corinthians 9:23-27 Date: 2/9/2020

For John, loving one another is not merely a command to care for people. And it is not simply something Christians do in order to be “nice” to people. It is so much more. Christians love one another BECAUSE it is a part of who we are. Just as your eye color or type of nose or your stature or your face shape is a reflection of your mother and father, so too your love for one another is a reflection...

How do we love one another according to John (v. 11)? First, we are not to be like Cain. This message talks about the positive ways we love one another: 1) Sacrifice, 2) Generosity, 3) Action and Truth. Text: 1 John 3:16-18 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 1/26/2020

When a child is born in America, you have to fill out forms to obtain a birth certificate. This certificate is proof that that child belongs to the parents.  It’s no different as a child of God. According to 1 John in 3:10-15, there are three proofs that make certain we are children of God. We 1) love one another (v. 11-14), 2) are hated by the world (v. 12-15), and 3) pass from death to life (v....

Text: 1 John 3:4-10 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 1/12/2019 The word “devil” is a translation of the Greek word diabolos which means “one who separates” or “seducer”. He not only separated himself from God, but EVERYTHING he does is to keep you separated from God as well. He will use any means necessary to fulfill his work. As the apostle Paul said in Ephesians 6, “For we do not wrestle against flesh an...

Every new year it's the same thing. We come up with a list of resolutions: diet, exercise, Bible, prayer, serve, missions, less coffee, less TV, more reading. But what if you made a new year’s resolution to stop sinning? Maybe you’re thinking that resolution might the fastest broken resolution ever. But listen to 1 John 3:4-10 again and doesn’t it seem as though this is what a Christian is, someon...

This message from 1 John covers three more marks of God’s children according to 3:1-3: 1) Family (v. 1-2), 2) Identity (v. 2), and Destiny (v. 2-3). Text: 1 John 3:1-3 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 12/29/2019

These verses in John  set the stage for some of the most reassuring passages of Scripture. When we are God’s children, we bear two distinct “birthmarks,” if you will, that remind us that we are His children. The first is righteousness (2:29) and the second is love (3:1).  Text: 1 John 2:29-3:1 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 12/22/2019

There are specific people who are directly opposed to Jesus and His Gospel. In this message, we will look at THE Antichrist, antichrists, and THE Christ. Text: 1 John 2:18-27 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 12/15/2019

This is one of those passages of the Bible that is so often misunderstood. It’s what gives Christianity the reputation as the “Don’t Do” religion. Or it turns Christianity into a religion of communes and monks, where to follow Jesus means to run away from the evil, polluting world. But is this what John is saying in this passage? We will look carefully at this text and examine first, what world lo...

In John’s letter, this section just seems out of place. It comes in the middle of some pretty strong words by John.  But we cannot move away from the fact that at the core of John’s heart is the heart of a pastor. What he wants us to know without a shadow of a doubt, just like any loving parent, is that all of these warnings are not his way of showing his disappointment in the church. He doesn’t w...

Last time, we discusses how words like “sin” and “awesome” can be so overused. But is there any word in the human language that is more overused than the word “love”?  Jesus says, “JUST AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, you also are to love one another.” Jesus makes keeping this new commandment a possibility. It will not be from trying harder to love or being nicer or performing random acts of kindness. That w...

When we fail to have a wrong diagnosis, we can go about thinking life is perfectly fine, until the symptoms begin to show and we realize that we are walking on the edge of death. John tells us that spiritually speaking, some of us today are walking on that edge. We think we are fine, but deep in our hearts, there is a spiritual disease that is truly a ticking time bomb. We need an accurate test to...

We have been in John’s first letter and in it, John emphasizes that our fellowship with God and others is crucial for our Christian life. It is our utmost goal. But we know that sin can and far too easily disrupts that fellowship. Even when we are walking in the light, our fellowship can be disrupted. But John makes it clear from last week’s text in 1:5-10 as well as this week, from 2:1-2, that wh...

If fellowship with God is the goal of the Christian life, what happens when that fellowship is broken? Can it be restored? In this passage we will look at the restoration of this fellowship by examining the fact that 1) Fellowship cannot coexist with sin (v. 6, 8, 10) and 2) Jesus restores fellowship with God and others (v. 7-9). Text: 1 John 1:5-10 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 11/10/19

Last time we looked at John’s first letter, we looked at the goal of the Christian life: fellowship with one another and fellowship with the Father and Son. And as verse 4 makes clear, this is the ONLY way human beings can have complete, soul-satisfying joy. So we will continue to look at this fellowship journey by examining 2 points this week and 2 next week: 1) Fellowship begins with God (v. 3-4...

Speaker: Toby Kurth Text: Matthew 5:9 Date: 10/20/2019

We saw that John had two reasons to write this letter which were the two goals for the Christian life: 1) to proclaim the Gospel and 2) to have fellowship with us, the Father, and the Son. We are going to delve deeply into the last goal, “that our joy may be complete.” Text: 1 John 1:1-4 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 10/13/2019

In 1 John, John leaves us no room to hide as a Christian. We either believe AND live life as a believer at all costs or we never truly believed and such self-deception is a grave danger to our souls. It really is both a letter of affirmation of the eternal joys of following Christ and a warning for all of us, that we can fool others and most of all, ourselves into thinking we are followers of Jesu...