Whose Child Are You?

4Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

5You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

6No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

7Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.

8Whoever 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.

9No 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.

10By 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.

I. Who are the children of the devil?
II. Who are the children of God?

I. Who are the children of the devil?

4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 6b …no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.  8a Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the

devil, for the devil has been sinning from the
beginning. 10 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.

(1 John 3:4, 6b, 8a, 10)

II. Who are the children of God?

5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6a No one who abides in him keeps on sinning 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is

righteous, as he is righteous. 9 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. (1 John 3:5, 6a, 7, 9)