Gospel Assurances from God’s Silent Prophet | 1 John 3:10-12
ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church · Carlos Montijo
April 6, 2025
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> April 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 3:10–12, Isaiah 46:8–11, Genesis 4:4–14, Jude 1:10–13, Hebrews 11:4, Luke 11:49–50, 1 Kings 18:20–46, 2 Kings 2:11, Hebrews 12:24, 1 Timothy 2:2, Romans 12:1–3, Romans 15:4–6</p> <h4><strong>I. Concluding Cain and reprobation, then God’s powerful Object Lesson of Righteousness in Abel’s brief life and death</strong></h4> <p><sup>10</sup> By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who does not love his brother. <sup>11</sup> For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; <sup>12</sup> not as Cain, <em>who</em> was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. 1 John 3:10–12</p> <h4><strong>II. God’s Progressive Revelation of Scripture into the New Testament does not have anything good to say about Cain, while it does celebrate, honor, and praise Abel's life and death<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Be sensitive to your own sin. Repent and confess it, whenever your conscience accuses you, a friend confronts you, the Spirit convicts you</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Cain is a clear object lesson in what we should not be and do, while Abel is an object lesson in what we should be and do<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Abel was a righteous, God-believing, God-fearing man, who walked the straight path of the Lord in a quiet, humble, unspectacular way</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. Abel was not a radical, Lordship Salvation guy that threw himself into full-time ministry, sold everything he had, and left it all to follow after God<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Abel, his life and his death, continues to speak to us today</li> </ul> <h4><strong>V. Abel’s death—his blood—signifies death, condemnation, and vengeance for sin and its consequences</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Abel was a normal, godly unspectacular shepherd, living a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity (1 Tim 2:2), and Jesus called him “righteous Abel”</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>