Faith & Love Begotten of God | 1 John 5:1-2
ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church · Carlos Montijo
October 19, 2025
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> October 19<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/doctrines-of-grace" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Doctrines of Grace</a> </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 5:1–2; Isaiah 61:1–2; Matthew 22:14; John 1:12–13; Romans 8:28–30; 1 John 4:7–8, 16; John 3:21; 1 John 4:19</p> <p><sup>1</sup>Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the One who gives <em>new</em> birth loves also the one who has been born of Him. <sup>2</sup>By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do His commandments. 1 John 5:1–2</p> <h4><strong>I. </strong>The <em>Source</em> of Our Faith</h4> <ul> <li>What does it mean to be “born of God”?</li> <li>See sermon “Know Your Enemy: The Flesh Examined | 2 Corinthians 5:16-18”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></li> <li>“Has been born of God” (γεγέννηται ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ) is in the perfect passive indicative—past tense, which point to a gospel indicative, <em>not</em> a law imperative (command), a completed action by God Himself—“born of God/Him.”</li> <li>The Word of God consistently teaches the same doctrines all throughout.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II. The <em>Order</em> of Our Faith</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Faith is the result, not the cause, of regeneration.</li> <li><em>ordo salutis</em> (order of salvation): external call, internal/effectual call, regeneration, [adoption,] then repentance (change of mind) and faith (conversion), justification, adoption, sanctification, perseverance, glorification</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. The <em>Fruit</em> of Our Faith</strong></h4> <ul> <li><em>Both</em> faith <em>and</em> love are begotten of God—not only faith, but our love is also born of God and comes from God, who is love (1 John 4:8, 16).</li> <li>Note the universals: God saves every believer in the same basic way.</li> <li><strong>John 3:21</strong>: “But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been done by [Greek <em>en</em>] God.”</li> </ul> <p><strong>Join us 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> <p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> Carlos E. Montijo, <em>Know Your Enemy: The Flesh Examined | 2 Corinthians 5:16-18</em>, Know Your Enemy: The World, the Flesh, the Devil (ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church, 2024) <<a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/sermon/2024-07-14/know-your-enemy:-the-flesh-examined-2-corinthians-5:16-18" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/sermon/2024-07-14/know-your-enemy:-the-flesh-examined-2-corinthians-5:16-18</a>> [accessed 18 October 2025].</p>