10-3-2016
Illuminated 1 John 2:12-17
The Great
Trade
I. The Reason for Writing
Question 1: What's the Reason for the Passage?
Question 2: Who are the Children, the Fathers, and the
Young Men?
Question 3: What is the sequence of responses?
II. The Resulting Trade
Question 4: What is the Connection?
Question 5: What is the Contrast?
Father
World
Forgiveness and
Healing
Guilt and Shame
Healthy
Relationships
Broken and Dysfunctional Relationships
Victory and Progressive
Sanctification
Self Improvement without Sustained Capacity
Satisfaction and
Fulfillment
Self Absorption without Satisfaction
Permanent
Temporary
Conclusion:
Question 6: What are the Implications?
1. There is a baseline of grace and mercy resulting in
forgiveness and relationship.
2. We know God through His Word and we experience Him in
our daily walk.
3. We walk in strength through increasing our knowledge
of His Word.
4. Movement toward the Father moves you away from the
world.
5. A Growing love for the Father displaces in your heart
a love for the world.
6. Though you remain in the world, the pull of the world
diminishes as you grow stronger in the Lord and in His Word.
