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NOVENA A NOSSA SENHORA DOS ANJOS Sétimo dia ● Não há mulher nascida no mundo semelhante a Vós Introdução para todos os dias Em nome do Pai, do Filho e do Espírito Santo. Amém Honório III, o vigário de Cristo E imediatamente, São Francisco se apresentou ao Pontífice Honório III que, naqueles dias encontrava-se em Perusia e com candura lhe narrou a visão que teve. O Papa o escutou com atenção e, depois de alguns esclarecimentos, deu a sua aprovação e disse: “Por quantos anos queres esta indulgência”? Francisco, destacadamente respondeu-lhe: “Pai santo, não peço por anos, mas por almas”. Oração Inicial Oração de São Francisco a Nossa Senhora Santa Virgem Maria, não há mulher nascida no mundo semelhante a Vós. Filha e serva do altíssimo Rei e Pai celestial. Mãe de nosso santíssimo Senhor Jesus Cristo, esposa do Espírito Santo. Rogai por nós com são Miguel arcanjo e todas as Virtudes do céu e todos os santos junto a vosso santíssimo e dileto filho, nosso Senhor e Mestre. Amém. Intercedei por nós, Santíssima Virgem. A Igreja inteira se prostra aos vossos pés, esperando o vosso auxílio. Defendei-a de todos os perigos e das forças malignas. Fortalecei o nosso Papa, o Vigário de Cristo, para conduzir na unidade o seu rebanho. Sede nossa Rainha, o “auxílio dos cristãos”, a “consoladora dos aflitos”. Vós sois a nossa segurança, o nosso estímulo e o nosso exemplo. Fazei que o Evangelho seja anunciado até os confins da terra e todos se disponham a aceitar aa salvação trazida por vosso filho. Por isso, com todos os anjos do céu, vos saudamos: Ave-Maria... (Faça agora seu pedido a Nossa Senhora dos Anjos) Oremos Lembrai-Vos, ó piíssima Virgem Maria, que nunca se ouviu dizer que algum daqueles que tem recorrido à vossa proteção, implorado a vossa assistência e reclamado o vosso socorro, fosse por Vós desamparado. Animado eu, pois, com igual confiança, a Vós, ó Virgem entre todas singular, como a Mãe recorro, de Vós me valho, e, gemendo sob os pesos dos meus pecados, me prostro a Vossos pés. Não desprezeis as minhas súplicas, ó Mãe do Filho de Deus humanado, mas dignai-Vos de as ouvir propícia e de me alcançar o que Vos peço. Amém Oração Final Oração de Nossa Senhora dos Anjos Ó Nossa Senhora dos Anjos, na pequena Igreja da Porciúncula, São Francisco recebeu as vossas bençãos generosas juntamente com sua Ordem. Ele depositara na vossa presença materna uma grande confiança e devoção, sendo atendido em seus pedidos. Continuai a dispensar os vossos favores sobre nós e sobre nossas necessidades particulares. Nós vos suplicamos, dai-nos a graça da penitência dos pecados, a correção de nossas más inclinações e fortalecimento nos momentos de fraqueza. Quantos recusam a salvação e preferem caminhar nas trevas do erro! Tudo é possível para aquele que crer, para aquele que se arrepender! Vós, ó Mãe, manifestastes a São Francisco o grande desejo de reconciliar os pecadores com Jesus, que se entregou em uma cruz para nos salvar. Rogai por nós, agora e na hora de nossa morte. Amém Salve-Rainha …

Dialogamos con el doctor Jesús Perusia, director de la Clínica Comunal Santa Juana de nuestra localidad, quien explicó la importancia y los beneficios del la nueva adquisición: un desfibrilador, que llegó a través de Clara García, y el presidente de la Cámara de Diputados Farías. Escuchalo junto a Mónica Barceló en Comunicándonos en https://radiomariajuana.com/nuevo-desfibrilador-para-la.../

El Doctor Jesús Perusia compartió con la audiencia consejos útiles para evitar contagios de Covid 19. Escuchalo en la mañana de Comunicándonos con Mónica Barceló.

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Audio Transcript:You're listening to audio for Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.comHeavenly father, we thank you that you are our father, and Lord, we do not take that for granted. And for those of us who do, Lord, I pray today, reignite in us desire and affections for a relationship with you where we understand that you are father. We don't take that for granted. We understand that we were children of wrath. We understand that we are under your judgment. and still Lord, you came and you poured out your love on us by giving your son. To give your love, to give your forgiveness, to give your grace, you had to first give your son. And you have so loved the world, you have so loved us that you gave your son.Jesus, we thank you that you came and died on the cross for our sin to save us from the condemnation in order to reconcile us with the father. I pray, Holy spirit, show us that if we are your children, born again, regenerated by the spirit, that we are to grow in resemblance with the father, we are to grow in your likeness, in your image, growing, giving, and serving and sacrificing in the same way that you give, serve and sacrifice. Lord, we pray that you bless our time in the Holy scriptures and we pray all this in Christ's name. Amen.We're in a sermon series that we are calling menó. And menó comes from the original Greek, Koine Greek. It means to remain, to abide in, to strengthen a relationship by walking in step with the spirit of God. And why are we using this term? Because 24 times in the Epistle of first John, the book we're in, he uses this word, this is a big theme of his book, that what it means to be a Christian isn't just intellectually saying that we believe in God, it's actually to be with God, to live with God, have God abide in you and you and him. And today, the Apostle John focuses our attention on the first person of the Trinity, God the Father, that God is father, son and Holy Spirit, equal in essence and still three individual persons.And one of the things that John wants us to know is that God loves us with a fatherly love. My wife and I, we have four daughters, and I've been a father now for 11 plus years. I tell people I've got a PhD and a half in raising daughters. I'm pretty good at it, not the best, I'm okay, growing at it. We had our first baby when I was 26, when we had Sophia. And Sophia is 11, Elizabeth is eight, Ekaterina just turned five, and Milana is two. I love being a dad, I love it so much. Obviously, it's hard, there's always challenges.Will Ferrell has three sons and he recently was talking about that and he's like, "Actually, raising kids is like operating a mini correctional facility." I'm like, "That's good." He was talking about water cannons. I was like, "Not going to go that far, maybe water pistols." Yes, there's challenges, but there's so many blessings, so many benefits. I made a list of all my favorite stuff about being a dad. Number one, and this list isn't in order of importance, but maybe it is. Number one is I love providing, I love to provide, in particular food. I love watching them eat food that I bought, food that I cooked, that I cut. I love it so much. I don't know what it is, it brings so much joy to my heart.We were cooking steak the other night, Friday night, that's what we do. And I cut up a steak and I put it on a big plate and my daughter Milana, who's two and a half, she didn't point to the little plate that I gave her, she said, "No," pushed the little plate away, pointed to the big plate. Obviously she got the big plate and devoured most of it. It brought joy to my heart. I love that. I love discipling. I love watching them grow. I love teaching them to read. I love caring and nurturing and snuggling. My daughter's very affectionate. My five year old just spontaneously comes out and she says, "Dad, I love you so much. I love you 1,040." Same number every time, I don't know why.And my response is always, "I love you 1040 plus one," and she's like, "Ooh, that's a lot." Same response, we have the same conversation every day. My two year old, I ask her, "How much do you love your dad?" She says two, because that's the only number she knows. I'll take it. I love being a dad. And one of the things that I've noticed is, people come up to us, and my girls are really beautiful and whenever they say, "Oh, your daughters are so beautiful," I always say, "They take after their mom, praise God."But there's a clear physical resemblance of me in them. I look at them I'm like, "Yeah, you're mine," especially my youngest, that is mini me. And one of the things as we raise kids is you do see that they don't just physically resemble you, they begin to resemble you in speech patterns, in humor, they begin to resemble you in character, in self-control, in all the most important things, but in particular the begin to take on or emulate your relationship with the Lord. We want them to emulate us in all the most important things, but in particular in having a relationship with God the Father.And this is what Saint John talks about today, is that we as Christians are made children of God through heart surgery, that God takes out our heart of stone and replaces it with a heart of flesh, a heart that's numbed her toward God is replaced with a heart that beats for God. Now we have a spiritual DNA, the God's seed is in us and we begin to grow in resemblance of God, and that's what we're talking about today. That's the title of this sermon is Growing in Resemblance of the Father. That God is Father, Jesus is our older brother. One of the things I will mention is, this is what happens to many people. When we hear about God the Father, we begin to measure God the Father through our earthly fathers.And lots of work has been done about the father wound and father issues, and here's the thing, every single one of us has been raised by a fallen father. And I got to be careful here because my dad is actually here in the crowd. What's up pop? If you see the guy who looks like Sean Connery right there, he's right there. Great, great dad, phenomenal dad. But every one of us, we're fallen and we're raised by fallen parents. So there's all these some kinds of dysfunctions. So here's what I ask you to do, despite the pain, do not measure God the Father by your earthly father.Instead, measure your earthly fathers by God the Father. And by the way, the reason why the father wound is so deep for so many people is because in our heart of hearts, we know what a good father should be like. How do we know that? God has planted that in our hearts, he's written that on our hearts so that we don't seek that completely fully in our earthly parents, but in God the Father. And today we're going to look at 1 John 2:28 through 1 John 3:10, so please look at the texts with me. 1 John 2:28. "And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.""If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that every one who practices righteousness ha been born of him." See what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared. But we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.""You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning. No one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you, whoever practices righteousness is righteous as he is righteous. Whoever makes the practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sitting from the beginning. The reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning for God's seed abides in him and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.""By this, it is evident who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother." This is the reading of God's Holy, inerrant, infallible, authoritative word. May he write these eternal truths upon our hearts. One big idea in three points, born again to abide, behold the father's love, and three, resemble the father. Here in 0.1, born again to abide. John begins by calling the Christians children. He's not talking to little children per se, he's talking about Christians, who from God's perspective are his kids. And he says, "Abide in him."At the end of verse 29, he says, "Whoever practices righteousness has been born of him." Here he's giving us the doctrine of regeneration. The doctrine is what I mentioned in the beginning that you are born again, you are born to new life, you have a new identity and new responsibilities. Now, when it comes to the term born again Christian, it has all kinds of political undertones. So one of the things I want to do here is just reclaim it from all of that baggage. I was at a lunch yesterday visiting a dear sister who's in a nursing home, she had a pizza party.And whenever I get invited to social events, I'm always seated at the table with the non-believers, be it baby showers or weddings or dinner party, anything. So I'm at the table with the non-Christians because I'm a professional Christian, so that's what I do. So I'm at that table and a lady from the Christian table looks at me and she says, "Oh, you're a pastor?" I said, "Yeah." She said, "Oh, that's great. I'm a born again Christian." And I felt the unease immediately from everyone at my table, and I was like, "Yeah, I'm a little uneasy too." And usually when you think of a born again Christian, there's all kinds of things that come to mind in a flag-waving and etc.What I want to do is I want to show you that from John's perspective, saying born again Christian is like saying Christian, Christian. For John it's the same reality. If you're born again, you are a child of God, you are a Christian. For John, this is what happens when a person becomes a Christian, they are reborn. And that leads to growing resemblance of God the Father. That's why he says whoever has been born again, perfect tense, that person practices righteousness. What comes first? It's being born again. So you practice righteousness, which is what it means to grow in resemblance of the father because you have been born again.The righteous life is evidence of the new life. It's not cause, it's not a condition, it's the effect like begets like, God The Father begets children who are like God the Father. The son of a fish is a fish, the son of a duck is a duck, the son of God is a godly son or daughter, that's what he's saying. And he points out, what does he say? What's the main verb here? What's the imperative? He says, "Little children, abide in him." And this is really important because a lot of people are overwhelmed when they come to Christianity or they're trying to explore Christianity, and they're overwhelmed by all the theology, they're overwhelmed by scripture, which is 1,189 pages in my Bible.Just overwhelmed by all of this, and you feel like you need a graduate degree in Christianity to be a Christian. And he says, "No, you're a child of God. Revel in that." Now what do you do? Just spend time with God, that's what it means to abide in him. You have everything you need for growth in the Lord, and scripture is part of it, you spend in scripture, you spend time in prayer. Just spend time with God. How do children grow in their relationship with their parents? They have conversations, they spend time together. There's the gift of presence where you're present with one another. So as a child of God, abide in him.And he says, "Abiding in God prepares you to meet Christ." And here he starts talking about second coming in verse 28. "Now, little children, abide in him so that when he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming, Jesus has come once, he will come again, he will come suddenly, unexpectedly, without warning. Jesus said, "Be prepared for you don't know the hour or day that he comes." New Testament talks about the second coming all the time. One in every 25 verses in the New Testament talks about the second coming. In 260 chapters in the New Testament, it's mentioned 318 times.And every single book of the New Testament except for the particular epistles of Galatians second, third John and Philemon, and he says, "Be prepared. That's how you get prepared, is by abiding in him so that you have confidence so that when he appears," meaning he's already here, that's why he uses that phrase, so that when he appears, meaning he's here, God is omnipresent, but he will physically appear and is coming. As the word Perusia, which in that context meant the coming of an emperor or a King, or Caesar is an event of a lifetime. And he says, People will have two reactions when Christ returns. Either they will be confident, a fearlessness. You're glad that he's here, you're rejoicing that he is here as judge and King because your sins have been judged on the cross because of repentance.And he is your Lord, he is your King and you have been attempting to follow him all of your life, or he says you will shrink back from him in shame. Shrink back from him and shame, meaning there's something to be ashamed of. And he says, "Which one will it be?" Well, are you abiding? And this idea of shrinking back in shame, you've probably experienced this, it's when you haven't been doing what you should be doing. I remember at my first job out of college, I got yelled at by a CEO of the company who was in a meeting. I didn't know that he was the CEO, I know he was in a meeting, and I was buying a car on Craigslist. He saw that on my screen and he yelled at me in front of everybody. So that job didn't work out.And so I learned my lesson. And then my second job, I applied for a job with the government and had to take a polygraph. And it was a four hour pilot polygraph, and by that point I was like, "You guys know everything." I told them everything I had ever done that I thought was wrong, and I was ready for this exam. And I was like, "They can throw nothing at me because I've already told them everything." So it was at peace and I passed the polygraph. That's kind of what repentance is. You come to the Lord Jesus Christ, you confess of all your sins, and you're in confidence because you're abiding in him, so there's transparency.In Proverbs, it says that the righteous are bold as lions, they've got nothing to fear. So faithfulness leads to fearlessness, that's what he's talking about. So are you ready? Are you confident in seeing Christ? And John uses this word confidence four times in this text, twice is the confidence at the second coming, twice is the confidence we have when we pray. The way you prepare for the confidence in the second coming is you're with confidence come to the Lord in daily prayer of confession and adoration and just spending time with the Lord. So abide in the Father, abide in his love. That's what happens when you're born again.The question arises here is, how do I become a child of God? How am I sure that I'm a child of God? And this is 0.2; Behold the father's love. In verse one of chapter three he says, "See what love the father has given us." "Behold," the King James version says, which I think is a word with more gravitas, it's not just the look in, it's the stare at, direct attention, reflect and ruminate upon this amazing love. And he says, "Behold, what kind of love." It's an incredible word that has to do with be amazed It's a sense of wonder he's trying to evoke, "Be in awe." It's only used seven times in the New Testament. Mark 13:1 the disciples with Jesus are walking out of the temple, and as they came out, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, teacher, what wonderful stones. What wonderful buildings, this is all incredible."When Mary heard from the angel that she was going to give birth to the son of God, she said, "What kind of greeting is this?" Another definition of this word is, what kind of world is this message from? It's so unearthly, it's coming from a different planet. And why is John so amazed by this? He's so amazed because we get to call God Father. In all of the Old Testament, not one individual person calls God Father, directs a prayer to God as father, not one. Collectively as Israel they said you are our father, not individually. They called God judge or protector or provider or sustainer or ruler or creator, never father.Jesus Christ comes, revolutionizes our relationship with God, and how does he teach us to pray? Our God in heaven? No. Jesus also doesn't pray to Jesus. Jesus prays to whom? Our father. Our father who art in heaven. Revolutionizes our relationship with God. And he says later, "God doesn't just call us his children. And so we are," he says. He makes his children not just entitled but actually in nature, we become the children of God. And we should be amazed by this, this should be... If John were texting us, if we are in a text chain with John and the Apostle Paul, and John were texting us, he would say, "Behold, the love of God that we are his children. This is how he loves us. Behold, his love."And then you would send us the Paul Rudd meme. I don't know if you've seen the meme or the GIF, whatever, I always mix those up, where he's sitting with someone and he's opening a drink and he says, "Look at us. Look at us." You know that one? I love that one. "Look at us. Who would have thought? Not me." That's the reaction that Christian should have, "Not me. Why? I can't believe that I am a child of God." Now, here's why we don't have that reaction. We don't have that reaction. If I tell you that you're a child of God, you're like, "Yeah, okay." If I tell you that Jesus loves you, you're like, "Yeah, I know. Everyone loves me."It's not shocking to us because we feel like we've earned it, we feel like we deserve it. "God exists, he made me, therefore I'm his kid." And one of the reasons why we believe this is because we have swallowed wholesale liberal theology that came to us in the 18th century, 19th century after the enlightenment and it went like this, it was the universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of humanity. And it goes like this, that every single person who's alive, just by virtue of being alive is a child of God. And every single one of us we're brothers and sisters, we're all together, universal brotherhood. And that theology is nowhere to be found in scripture. Why? Because that theology, it jumps over the fall. Yes, God creates us, and Adam and Eve are children of God and then we sinned.Now, scripture says, because of our sin, there's something in between us and God, there's a chasm between us. Therefore, this chasm is the chasm of God's wrath that we deserve for our sin. So God goes from being father to judge. Now, how do we go back to having a relationship with God, the father? And this is what makes Christianity so incredible, that because of Jesus Christ, because God gave his son to bridge that chasm, to absorb the wrath that we deserve for our sin, and by grace through faith in that sacrifice, you can be a child of God, you can be born again.In John 1:12-13 says, "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." Nor of the will of a man. It's not because you chose to be a child of God, it's because God chose to make you his child. That's what it means to be born again, that we were dead in our sins, meaning we don't deserve any of this. That's why we should marvel. We don't behold, and we don't marvel getting a paycheck. Like if you get paid biweekly or at the end of the month, it gets deposited into your account, you don't look at the deposits like, "Behold, I got paid."You don't do that, because you earned it. And if you are beholding, you're probably stealing from the company. No, you behold at grace, "I did not deserve this." 2 Peter 1:4 says, "By which he has granted to us the precious and very great promises so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature. Having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire." Holy scripture teaches that in our flesh we are not children of God because in us there's a corrupt DNA. And actually in this text, he talks about being children of God and children of Satan, that there's godly, divine DNA and there's ungodly, satanic, demonic DNA in each one of us.And before you check out, I know exactly how we react because I preached through this text when we just launched the church. We were like two months in 2011, I preached these texts and I had a guy send me an email. I was reading the email recently and he's like, "I liked everything except for the part where you call the Satan spawn." And I was like, "I just read the Bible verse." Let me just do a little explaining. Who is Satan? Satan was an angel. Satan was the premier being, he was the number two in all of God's army, of all the beings in the universe. He was number two. So what made him Satan? What caused the fall?In Isaiah 14, I can't get into this text now, but go home and read it. In Isaiah 14, we see the progression. He got to the point where he got puffed up with pride and he says, "I will ascend to the throne of God. I will make my throne with the most high. I will be God. I am my own." And in that text you see, I, I, I, I. What made Satan Satan wasn't that he just broke God's law. What made Satan Satan is that he got, attempted God... Get rid of God. He wanted God to worship him instead of worshiping God. And that's the temptation with which he tempted Jesus in the desert. Remember, Jesus is fasting, Satan comes to him and he says, "Fall down and worship me." That's what makes Satan Satan.It isn't just breaking God's law, is trying to get rid of God and putting yourself at the center of the universe, putting yourself on the throne of God. So when you understand that that's the DNA, the DNA of satanic, DNA as John talks about, that it's a selfishness. It's living as if you are God and there is no God as if you are the giver of your own life and sustainer of your own life, that every single good gift that you have is from yourself. Who made you to differ? Scripture says, was it you yourself? No. It was God.And that's what makes this DNA so insidious, there's DNA of spiritual darkness and then you compare it with the DNA of Christ, spiritual DNA, godly DNA, where Jesus Christ in Philippians two it says, "Though he was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God, a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing." Satan said, "I will ascend." Jesus said, "I will descend." Taking the form of a servant and coming to serve us and ultimately going to the cross and paying the penalty for our sin to save us. He didn't say, "God serve me." He said, "Father, I'll serve you. I'll worship you, command me."This is like, when you become a Christian, you get this godly DNA in you, but then you got to grow this DNA, so this DNA overpowers the corrupt nature. Then this is the battle between the flesh and the spirit. And I shared this illustration in my newsletter, but one detail I didn't share, if you read the newsletter you... This gentleman Chris long had, he was suffering from leukemia, had a bone marrow transplant, and he was working in as a criminologist in a crime lab. And one of his colleagues said, "Hey, you had a bone marrow transplant, let's test your DNA and see what happened."So they test his DNA and they find, there was his strand of DNA, but then there was the donor strain of DNA, a German gentleman for 5,000 miles away, and that DNA was overpowering his own, so that in many facets in his body, his own wasn't even visible. This idea is called chimera where you have two kinds of DNA. And this is an illustration of what happens, and this is what John is saying. You have this new seed that has been planted in you through the preaching of God's word. Now, you need to grow it by abiding in Christ. In verse one he says, "Look at the love that the father has given us."God loves and he proves his love by giving. Remember John 3:16 the small famous verse in all of scripture, "For God so loved the world that he gave his son." And he says, God gave his son to give us his love, and against the perfect tense of the word, he has given us, and that means it's perfect. You didn't earn it and it can't be withdrawn, when God makes you a child of God, you are a child forever. And he says, "Look, he calls us his children and makes us as children of privilege that he didn't even give to the angels." God could have just forgiven us as judge and that would have been great, but he doesn't just forgive us as judge, he loves us as a father, which is so much greater.Now the reason why John is also very amazed here is because he's writing to a culture where parenthood and fatherhood and motherhood were not honored because children were not treasured. Now, in the Greco Roman world, fathers were aloof, not affectionate, and never equitable, not fair, and a lot of the time children were abused and often left unwanted. The church, father Tertullian talking about... he was writing under the proconsul ship of Tiberius in North Africa. He said, "A lot of children were left to die in the woods or killed through drowning or exposure to cold and hunger and the dogs."In that culture, John is saying, "Look how shocking is, the God is a father who gives and he loves and he's with you always and loves you as a child." And by the way, it's as shocking in our culture where parenthood is diminished and fatherhood is diminished and we live in a culture of abortion are on demand. And as shocking it was to know then that God is father, it's also shocking that God is a great father. Dear Christian, do you understand the fatherhood of God? J. I. Packer wrote this book called Knowing God, which every Christian should read and reread and he's got a chapter on what makes Christianity Christianity.And he says, "I know that a person understands the depth of Christianity by how they pray. Do they pray just to God in general or do they pray to the father, as a child coming and pleading and conversing and just enjoying the relationship with God." And the other thing before I move on to point three, why is John bringing this up now? Why focus the attention on the father's love, that God is loving and that we are children? Well, he says this in the second part of 1 John 3:1, says, "The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him." The reason why the world doesn't know us is that it did not know him. And the reason why he mentions that is because they don't feel like God is with them, they don't feel that God is present. They don't feel like they were in God's hands because they're suffering at the hands of the world.They're asking question, if God is a good father, why is there suffering? Why is there schism in the church? Why is the world so sinister and hostile? And he said, "Look, if the world is being hostile to you as his children, is because are first hostile to God the Father. They don't know him. Like you love God the Father so much and you can't believe that other people don't love this great God. That's how we feel. But he says, "You need to understand that they're on the other side and they don't see this. They don't understand this relationship." And that's why we share the gospel with them and show them how great the father's love is.A former member of the church texted me recently and he texted me a meme of a pie chart. And the pie chart had three parts. And the first part it said 1%... It's a football metaphor by the way, sorry. 1% is San Francisco fans who are going to root for San Francisco in the Super Bowl. 2% is the chiefs fans who are going to root for Kansas city in the Super Bowl. And then said 98%, the rest of the country who's just glad that the Patriots aren't in the Superbowl. And he said that to me as a jab. And I was like, "I just don't understand. I'm on the right team. How can you not love the right team? Sorry for equating the Patriots with God the father, from all metaphor's breakdown.But that's what he's saying, the world doesn't understand. So we love them and we pray for them, and we ask for the Holy spirit to regenerate them, but we still keep shining God's light and we keep spreading God's love because that's what the father does. And the more that we resemble the father, and this is point three, the more that the people around us will long to know the father. So verses two of chapter three he says, "Beloved, we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet appeared, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him because we shall see him as he is." And this is incredible. That DNA, that seed of God in you, that divine nature that's in you, he's saying, ultimately it will be brought to completion or combination and we will be like him.We will not just be called children of God, we will be like him, not just act like him, but be like him in nature. And that hope of one day having a sinless body and this is the doctrine of glorification in heaven, that hope of being with the Lord in a sinless body gives us strength in verse three, to purify ourselves, "And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure." In 1 John chapter one he said, "Whoever confesses their sin, you can be sure that God is faithful and just to cleanse you from all sin." To forgive you and cleanse you, to purify you. And now he says that, "Because you've been purified by Christ, we are to purify ourselves." It sounds like a contradiction in terms, it is not.And you know the adage, God helps those who help themselves? I'm sure you've heard that. It's false. It's a false theology. And this idea that God shows up when you've done everything you possibly can. That's not how the world works. That's not how Christianity works. It begins with God helps you, God purifies you, God gives you a new birth and then he equips you to purify yourself. So if I could change that, I would say God helps you to help yourself. Not God helps those who help themselves. It begins with God doing 99.99% and then the other 0.09% he equips you to do. But we are to purify ourselves. Can we be absolutely pure of sin in this world? No.But, the sign that we actually have a new life is the fact that we want to grow in grace. The more intimate your relationship with God, the more you're exposed to his light, the more the light exposes your darkness. The closer you get to the light, the more darkness that you see. So he's purified you, so now you have access to the light. You abide in him, and then you see more and more darkness. So, you thought the sins that you were dealing with were bad and God gives you strength to overcome and you purify yourself because he's purified you more, and then you go deeper and deeper and deeper. And this tension is always here.On the one hand, we understand we're fallen sinners. On the other hand, we understand we're children of God and we are to grow in resemblance. And we do that every single day by grace, through faith and repentance. But this is really important because some traditions of Christianity focus all the attention on you purifying yourself. How's your week? Were you perfect? Did you sin? Oh, if you sinned, you lost your salvation, that's terrible. And John says, "But you're a child of God. God doesn't lose children. He doesn't divorce children, he's adopted you for eternity. That's the rule. Other traditions are all about you're saved by grace through faith and Jesus died for all of your sins on the cross so you can live any way you want. God loves to forgive, you love to sin. You get to do what you want, he gets to do what he wants.And John says, "No. If you've become a child of God, you hate sin and you grow in hating sin and you want to purify yourself." How? You do that through practicing, and that's the phrase that he uses in verse seven, and he says, "Little children, no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous as he is righteous." It's a matter of practicing that the more we practice a thing, the easier it becomes. The more I practice not working out, the easier it is to not work out. The same thing with food, the same thing with anything. But once you get in a routine, it gets easier and easier because your willpower isn't used because it become a part of your character. And he says that the people of lawlessness or the people of the satanic DNA, they practice lawlessness, it becomes easier and easier and easier. And he said, we got to do the opposite.In verse eight he says, "Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil. For the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil, of the evil one." And again, it gets back to this idea of lawlessness and he separates sitting and lawlessness. Sinning is transgressing God's law. Lawlessness is getting rid of God and getting rid of his law. And if you're like, "I don't know about sin, I don't know about transgressing commandments." Well, the question that John will put before you is, what are you living for? Like what is the ultimate purpose of your life? What do you find more worthy of your time, of your money, of your talents than anything else?Well, whatever the thing is that you're living for, whatever you find more worthy than anything. That is what you're worshiping. And it's not necessarily a bad thing, it could be a good thing. And you take the good thing and you put it in place of God and now it becomes a bad thing. Worship is building your life or meaning on anything other than God. The other thing before we close, I just want to deal with this, verse six and verse nine he says, "No one who abides in him keeps on sinning. " Verse nine, "No one born of God makes a practice of sinning." And a lot of Christians read that and they're like, "What does that mean about my faith? Like I have sinned."And again, the emphasis is on the practice, it's on the personality. It's on what's progressive on the life pattern, on the character. What are you practicing? What is the habit of your life? What is the culture of your life, the ethos of your life? Is it the same as the ethos of the father's family? Is your life resembling the father. And I'll close it with this illustration from F. F. Bruce. Every family has rules, every organization has a culture. And my family, I tell my girls, there's only two real rules. Rule number one, no screaming, rule number two, no complaining. The screaming one, you can make, we live in Boston and we have neighbors on three sides of us, so don't scream and I don't like it either.Complaining biblically speaking, God punished Israel for 40 years and made them walk around in the desert in circles because they complained. So don't do that. No screaming, no complaining. We don't do that here. Now, I use that phrase all the time with my daughters, we don't do that here. And in response you could say, "I just did that here." And that's kind of what John is getting at. And so F. F. Bruce, I'll close with this illustration and then we'll pray. F.F. Bruce was a New Testament scholar in the 20th century, probably the greatest in the 20th century. And he went to this private school that was founded in the year 1224. 1224 school of tradition.And in his commentary in first John, he talks about, in the school, whenever a student would act out or disobey or misbehave, what the teachers would say is, "We don't do that here." And F. F. Bruce was like, "I just did that. I was just saying, I just did that." And then he concludes and he says this, "But the literalist might reply, "But obviously it is done. This boy has just done it, but he would be deliberately missing the point of the rebuke. The point of the rebuke is such that this conduct is disapproved of in this school, so anyone who practices it can normally be assumed not to belong to the school."Fellowship with the sinless one and indulgence in sin are a contradiction in terms. We don't do that here. As part of this family. We don't, we don't abide in sin, we abide in the savior. So for the Christian, we're born again to abide. And how do we abide? We behold the father's love, and that's what allows us to resemble the father. If you're not a Christian, today, look to the father, look to Christ, look to the Holy Spirit, beg God to forgive you of your sins and turn to him in faith. And at that moment, and when you do a wholeheartedly, he will pour out his love into your heart, you will be regenerated and you become a child of God. So as we pray now, you're welcome to do that and we ask you to do that. Let's pray.Heavenly father, we thank you for grace and we thank you for the gospel. We thank you father, that to give us your love, gave your son for us. We thank you Jesus, that you were willing to give your life for us to make us children of the father. And we thank you that you are our older brother and you are your brother's keeper. And we thank you Holy Spirit, that you are here with us now, and I pray that you grow us, each one of us, in our obedience to you, in our abiding in you, so that we continue to resemble the father. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.

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Slingshot bullet from the seige of Perusia, 41/40 BC. Dr Jane Masséglia and Dr Hannah Cornwell discuss the messages and insults flung (literally!) between opposing sides during the Roman civil war of Perusia (41/40 BC), on display in the Rome Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum.

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