Galena Bible Church

1 John: The Testimony Never Ends

1 John 5:6-121John 5:11-12  And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.Your testimony (the story of Jesus' work in the Gospel in you) contains your salvation experience, but no more ends there than your marriage does at "I do". In fact a billion years from now you'll still be sharing your testimony of Christ's goodness toward you. But have your ever heard that Jesus has a testimony? What is it and what does it say about Him? In this sermon Pastor Chris Kopp takes us through 1 John 5:6-12 and we'll see that:1. Jesus has a testimony, 2. We have a testimony, and 3.The world needs our witness.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday December 7th, 2014.

1 John: It takes faith to love

1 John 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith.A Chiasm (>

1 John: Abiding Love

1John 4:16  So we have come to know
and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever
abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.When
Jesus tells us to "abide in my love" what does he mean? Just hang out
with Jesus? Feel "funny" about Jesus? No, abiding love is holistic and
love DOES more than it it ever FEELS like doing. The Apostle Jon describes a
vertical (God Man) abiding love, and a horizontal abiding
love (man his fellow man) and in this sermon Pastor Chris
describes what we do in abiding love.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday November 23rd, 2014.

1 John: Here is Love

1 John 4:10 "In this is love, not that we
have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins."The world offers a paint by
numbers cheap imitation of the masterpiece called God's Love. Love has
become so misunderstood that the fundamental questions about it have to
be re-answered and not assumed. Where does love come from? What is love?
What are we to do with love? If you take away one lesson from this, let
it be this: God loves you. If that does not boggle your mind you have no
earthly idea what love is.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday November 16th, 2014.

1 John: Not everything is Christian

1 John 4:1-6The Apostle John gives a strong warning that not everyone who says they're teaching a Christian message actually is. That's why he warns us to "test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world." In this sermon Pastor Chris shows what John says we aught to do to test what is being said.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday November 9th, 2014.

Practical Humble Saving Love

1 John 3:11-26What does it mean for a disciple of Jesus to "Love one another"? Does it give life or take it? Does it meet practical needs, or is all talk? Is love self serving, or does it operate in humility? And finally does it make us look more like Jesus. In this sermon Pastor Chris Kopp shares what Christian love looks like. Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday November 2nd, 2014.

Prayer is a powerful weapon...are we using it

Jon Casey reminds us of the truth that prayer is powerful. Are we using it to accomplish what God intends it for?Delivered to Galena Bible Church, Sunday October 26th, 2014.

1 John Children of God

1John 3:1  See what kind of love the
Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so
we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not
know him.When
we understand the "kind of love" (this is the Gospel) that God has
"given to us" (this is grace) and are adopted as Children of God, our
lives look different. We no longer live a life practicing sin, but
rather practicing righteousness. In this sermon Pastor Chris walks
through 1 John 3:1-11 and unpacks this easily misunderstood concept.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday October 19th, 2014.

The End is Near...and has been for 2000 years

1John 2:26I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.There are WAY too many books and movies on end times theology. I say there are too many because they are 99.9% in existence for profit. The other 0.1% are actually looking at what scripture has to say about how we are to live in these last days. 2000 years we've been waiting in the last days, and still Jesus is faithful. The spirit of the antichrist is active as well. You've been confronted with it. In this sermon Pastor Chris Kopp walks through the Apostle John's warnings about who the antichrist is and how we are to respond to the deceit that he brings.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday October 12th, 2014.

1 John 2:15-17 What Holds Your Love

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1John 2:15)Idolatry is alive and well in the world today. Although we think we are civilized beyond this ancient form of worship we simply substitute pride, position, relationships, and religion for the little statues of old. This is because we have within us deep longings that God made and called good, and since the fall we have been trying to fill those longings with anything other than what God intends: Himself. When deep longings turn to depraved lusts we have lost the essence of love, and this is far too easy to do.In this sermon Pastor Chris Kopp looks at 1 John 2:15-17 and asks the question "What holds your love?" Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday October 5th, 2014.