1/15/23 Worship Service and Sermon: Children Born of God - John 1:12-13

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1/15/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: John 1:12-13
Title: Children Born of God
Worship Leader: Mike Culbert
Speaker: Steve Estes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Notes:

1. People became children of God by believing in his Son

2. Believing is more than a feeling
A. To describe becoming a child of God, John uses an action word
B. (With fellow apostles) John coins a new expression to describe the activeness of faith in Christ
C. J.C. Ryle on the need to believe

3. Believing means trusting in a person, not just acknowledging a set of doctrines
A. John shows the personal nature of believing by the phrase "believed in his name"
B. John shows the personal nature of believing by adding a parallel word
C. Illustration: Steve the summer youth director

4. How people do not become children of God
A. Natural descent
B. Human decision
C. Husband's will

5. How people do become children of God

Benediction: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28)

May the saving grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

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