READ: 1
JOHN 3:3-9
God will
never lower His standard in order to accommodate what He has condemned
out-rightly in His word. You must be holy through and through and constantly
lead a lifestyle of holiness in order to obtain a pass mark which will qualify
you for the heavenly Kingdom. Suppose a man lived an upright life for heavenly
Kingdom seventy years, and then suddenly commits a crime, would government not
condemn him to prison even though he had been a law-abiding citizen for seven
decades? All his good deeds would be forgotten and he would only be remembered
as a criminal. A Christian is not a criminal. We are children of God. God wants
us to live lives free of sin and shame. He wants us to be pure and holy. He
expects us to be perfect, even as He is perfect. God is not saying we should be
as perfect as our pastor, or as our Sunday school teacher. He wants us to be as
perfect as He Himself is. God expects us to be spotless. Anyone who claims to
be a child of God must be exactly like his Holy Heavenly Father. God has no
illegitimate children. It is either a person is a child of the devil or he is a
child of the true and living God; the Creator of heaven and Earth. Therefore,
as His child, you must be like Him: pure, holy, perfect and sinless. “Whoever
abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is
righteous, just as He is righteous.”(1 John 3:6-7). If a person is not
free from sin, then he is not a child of God. In that case, you know who his
real father is. 1 John 3:9 tells us that a child of God cannot sin. Just as a
dog does not reproduce a cat, or a sheep reproduce a goat, so the Spirit of God
does not reproduce sinner, who are children of the devil. The offspring of a
lion must be lion. A lion produces lion cubs and not goat kids. Lions eat meat
and not grass. It is either a lion feeds on meat or it starves to death. The
lion cannot survive on grass. In the same manner, the offspring of God feeds on
the “meat” of the word of God, not on the fleshpots of Egypt. Are you a true
child of God?
MEMORIZE:
1 JOHN 3:9 –Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in
him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
