1. Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard Sunday, September 20, 2009

2. 1 John 5:18 The necessity for residence inside God’s Power System (GPS); to guard your soul from sin.

3. Lasciviousness Strength Weakness Asceticism OldSinNature

4. Three parts to verse 18: 1) The Principle 2) The Precedent 3) The Protection

5. 1) The Principle: “We know that no one who is born of God sins.”

6. What “we know” is Bible doctrine in the believer’s right lobe by means of the Grace Apparatus for Perception (GAP), as a result of residence and function inside GPS.

7. PAS “all, every, everyone”, speaking about anyone who has believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.

8. GENNAO, Perfect, Passive, Participle, “has been born” = the believer being born again at the moment of salvation. EK THEOS “from God.” 1 John 4:6, “We are from God”.

9. OUX HAMARTANO “does not sin”. The moment the believer believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, there is one thing he cannot do at that moment - sin.

10. At the moment we are born again and regenerated, our sins are forgiven and we stand inside GPS.

11. We also are given a new divine nature through regeneration, (John 3:3, 7; 2 Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15), we are a new Spiritual Species.

12. That new nature in us cannot sin, because it is the nature of Christ. 1 John 3:9; 5:18

13. In addition, we receive the imputation of God’s perfect Righteousness (+R), 2 Cor 5:21. All combined it creates a sinless nature in us.

14. John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.””

15. 2 Cor 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

16. 2 Cor 5:21, “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin (as a substitute) on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

17. 1 John 3:9, “No one who is born of God practices sin because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin because he is born of God.”

18. Principles:

19. 1. At the moment of salvation through faith in Christ, the believer’s past sins are blotted out; he is regenerated and enters into God’s Power System.

20. Isa 43:25, “I, even I, am He who blots out your sins for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins.”

21. 2. Inside GPS the believer cannot sin. The moment he believes in Christ is a moment when he cannot sin.

22. 3. Immediately after salvation the believer may be tempted and he may sin.

23. 4. In order to sin after salvation the believer must leave GPS by making a decision to pass temptation into his soul where it becomes sin.

24. 5. When the believer sins after salvation he immediately enters the Cosmic System where his only hope for recovery is the rebound technique, 1 John 1:9.

25. 6. The believer cannot sin inside GPS, he must step outside and into the Cosmic System to make the decision.

26. Eph 2:10, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”

27. Grace Offering

28. 1 Tim 5:17-18, “The Pastors who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.””

29. 2 Cor 9:7, “Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

30. Grace Fellowship Church Grace Fellowship Church Sunday, September 20, 2009 Tape # 09S-038 Protection for our Souls from Sin 1 John Series 1 John 5:18; 3:9; John 3:3; 2 Cor 5:17, 21 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2009