YE HAVE KNOWN THE FATHER

Sunday Morning: January 24, 1999

Text: 1 John 2:12-14 "I write [present active] unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH

1 John 2:21 "I have not written unto you because ye know [oida, certain knowledge] not the truth, but because ye know [oida, certain knowledge] it [the truth], and that no lie is of the truth."

THINGS TO COME

THE LIFE, AGELASTING

THE FATHERS KNOW HIM

1 John 2:13-14 "I write unto you [to have fellowship with us], fathers, because ye have known him (Jesus Christ) that is from the beginning. I write unto you [to have fellowship with us], young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. ...

WE KNOW HIM

1 John 2:3-4 "And hereby we do know [present active] that we know [perfect active] him (Jesus Christ), if we keep his (Jesus Christ) commandments. 4. He that saith, I know him (Jesus Christ), and keepeth not his (Jesus Christ) commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

TO KNOW

HOW WILL THEY KNOW?

LITTLE CHILDREN KNOW THE FATHER

1 John 2:13 "... I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father."

THE FATHER IS REVEALED

Luke 10:21-22 "In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. 22. All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him."

FATHER HIDDEN

REVEALED TO THE LITTLE CHILDREN

John 13:33 "Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you."

THE FATHER REVEALED

John 14:7-9 "If ye had known me (the parables did not help them), ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him [the Father], and have seen him [the Father]. 8. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 ... he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?"

PRAYING FOR THE LITTLE CHILDREN

John 17:1 "... Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:"

TO KNOW THE FATHER

THE FATHER MANIFESTED

GREAT IN THE KINGDOM

CONTINUE IN FATHER

1 John 2:24 "Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard (agelasting life) from the beginning. If that which ye have heard (agelasting life) from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father."