10.9.22 The Benchmark and the Benefit John 8:31-38

The Benchmark and the Benefit
John 8:31-38
Sunday, 10/9/22

1.  The benchmark: To continue and remain steadfast in loving obedience to God’s word v.31
2 John 9, “Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.”
2.  The benefit: What I come to know from abiding in God’s word
1.  I will know absolute truth v.32
2.  I know I am free v.32-34
Ephesians 2:1-3, “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath.”
3.  I know my identity and inheritance v.35
4.  I know my heavenly father v. 37-38