Roger Roberts

The Empty Tomb: The Transforming Power of the Resurrection

John 20:1-18
In today’s message, from John 20:1-18, we see that the disciples’ discovery of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus transformed them from despair to devotion.

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A Heart at Rest: from Condemnation to Confidence

1 John 3:19-24
John encourages us to seek a heart that’s confident of God’s love and complete forgiveness through the cross of Christ, and leave behind a heart condemned by unforgiven sin or a needlessly guilty conscience.

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Love Is Essential

1 John 3:11-18
In today’s Scripture text from 1 John 3:11-18, we learn that agape love is essential to the believer. Christ displays this love, and our conversion to Christ enables our love, and God demands our love expressed in practical action, and not just in words.

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Standing Firm in Confusing Times

1 John 2:18-27
To stand firm in the truth of God’s Word in these confusing times requires an awareness of antichrists (with their false teaching), an anointing of the Spirit of Truth, and a constant abiding with the Father and Son.

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Godly Living in and Ungodly World

1 John 2:12-17
(Note: Only the first 17 minutes of the sermon were recorded.) John reminds us of our identity as God’s children, with our various stages of spiritual growth; and warns us against the downward pull of the fallen world, in which we live as God’s faithful witnesses, living godly lives in an ungodly world.

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Being Sure We Know God

1 John 2:3-6
Knowing God personally is critically different from knowledge about God, and knowing God personally gives the evidence of the indwelling life of God in the believer.

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What to Do When You Sin

1 John 2:1-2
(Sermon audio is unavailable for this message.) When we as believers sin (whether in thought, word, action, or omission), we must realize the reality of sin (what it is and does), and our relationship with Christ, who is our Helper and has solved our sin problem, and has transformed us from habitual sinners to God’s dear children, his saints who desire to overcome sin’s power.

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