Beloved, You Are from God & Have Overcome | 1 John 4:4
ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church · Carlos Montijo
July 6, 2025
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> July 6<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025 </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/assurance">Assurance</a> </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 4:2–5; Romans 1:25; 1 John 5:19; John 12:31; Ephesians 2:2; Mark 3:28–30; James 4:4; 2 Corinthians 4:2–4; Romans 8:37; John 15:17–21; Matthew 16:15–19; John 8:32; Matthew 18:18; 28:18–20; Hebrews 2:14–17; 1 John 2:19–20<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong><sup>4</sup></strong>You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4</p> <ul> <li>Those who are not from God deny Him instead, and “exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” (Rom. 1:25) — Either/Or</li> </ul> <h4><strong>I. </strong>Conquerors & Overcomers</h4> <ul> <li>1 John 4:4 2—Law or Gospel? <ul> <li>The apostle showers God’s people, “my little children,” with gospel indicatives</li> </ul> </li> <li>What does <em>the world</em> mean in this passage? <ul> <li>Unregenerate society as a whole, which is influenced by the spirit of the antichrist that “is already in the world” (1 John 4:3) and lies under the power of the evil one (1 John 5:19)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Who is “he who is in the world”? <ul> <li>Satan</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4><strong>II. Haven’t the Antichrist and the antichrists overcome the world?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>John 16:33</li> <li>2 Corinthians 4:2–4</li> <li>There is no cosmic, dualistic struggle between God and the devil, Christ and Antichrist</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Haven’t the Antichrist and the antichrists overcome the church?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Matthew 16:15–19</li> <li>What is the church? <em>taen ekklesian</em>, the called-out ones chosen by God</li> <li>Roman Catholic Church-State claims to the papacy, Peter as the 1st pope</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. Amazing promise: No one and no thing—not Death, not the Devil, not any other power, nor anything else can ever prevail against us—God’s church, nor separate us from His greater love (Romans 8)</strong></h4> <ul> <li>1689 LBCF 26.3: “The purest churches under heaven are subject to mixture and error,1 [though] some have degenerated so much that they have ceased to be churches of Christ and have [instead] become 'synagogues of Satan'.2 Nevertheless, Christ has always had, and always will have to the end of time a kingdom in this world, made up of those who believe in him and profess his name.3” (1) 1Co 1:11; 5:1; 6:6; 11:17-19; 3Jo 1:9-10; Rev 2:1-3:22 (2) Rev 2:5, 1:20; 1Ti 3:14-15; Rev 18:2 (3) Mat 16:18; 24:14; 28:20; Mar 4:30-32; Psa 72:16-18; 102:28; Isa 9:6-7; Rev 12:17; 20:7-9</li> <li>The churches and people who fall away and become apostate do not belong to Christ, Christ did not “lose” them</li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>