Topic: Born Of God
Text: I 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 commit a crime, would the 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 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 prefect as He Himself is. God expects us to be spotless. And 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. I John 3:9 says: “Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous” (I 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 is his real father, I 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 sinners, who are children of the devil. The offspring of a lion must be a 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?

Memory Verse: I John 3:9 - “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”