Three elements that make up a full assurance of faith:
• assurance
• assurance
• assurance
Since obedience helps contribute to our assurance, we need to know that…
1. Believers are obedience
2. is the reason for obedience
3. is the standard for obedience
4. is the context of obedience
NOTES:
QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY
• Share about a time you faked either knowing something or being
someone. How did you feel? Was it easy or hard for you to do?
Read 1 John 2:3-6 and discuss:
• How does John tie obedience to assurance of salvation?
• Tim Keller defined obedience as “a willingness to have your will
crossed.” In your own walk, what’s an example of when God’s will
crossed your will? How did you respond?
• What’s the difference between “I’m accepted because I obey” and “I
obey because I’m accepted”? Which one best describes your current
mindset?
• Can you think of a time you did something purely to please someone
you love? How does that translate into our relationship with God?
• In 1 John 2:3, 5, and 6, John gives three ways to describe the
standard for obedience. What are they, and how are they connected?
• 1 John 5:3 says God’s commands are “not burdensome.” How does
love make obedience lighter?
• How does knowing we have “an advocate with the Father” (1 John
2:1) affect our response when we sin?
• What impacted you most from the message?
PERSONAL REFLECTION AND APPLICATION
• In what ways do you see obedience producing assurance in your own
life? Thank God for the assurance you have toward Him.
• Ask God to reveal one area this week where His will crosses your will.
Write it down, pray over it, and take one concrete step of obedience.
• If you fail, immediately come back to 1 John 2:1-2, confess to God,
and thank Him for Jesus’ advocacy. Then take one immediate step
back into obedience.