1 John 3:4-10 • If you're saved and still sinning, you're not failing — you're in a war. Here's what's actually happening inside you, and why that war is proof you're born again.

⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • April 16, 2026.

📚 Part of our verse-by-verse expository series through 1 John

Every believer has asked it: Why do I keep doing what I hate? Paul screamed it in Romans 7. The answer isn't that you're not saved — it's that you have two seeds at war inside you. This sermon walks through 1 John 3:4-10 to show you what drives sin, why the flesh will never be reformed by religion, and what the incorruptible seed planted in you at regeneration actually guarantees.

This is not a guilt trip. It's a map. Understanding the war of two seeds — traced all the way back to Genesis 3:15 — gives you the framework to understand every spiritual struggle you've ever had. The sin you hate is evidence of something. The discomfort you feel in the hog pen is evidence of something. John wrote this chapter so you'd know what it is.

Lordship salvation says your sin calls your salvation into question. This sermon answers that directly from Scripture — and shows why Paul's testimony in Romans 7 destroys that argument entirely.

This verse-by-verse exposition walks through 1 John 3:4-10, explaining:

• What sin actually is — and why transgression is never an accident

• Why the law is a mirror that reveals but cannot cleanse

• What "whosoever abideth in him sinneth not" actually means (and does NOT mean sinless perfection)

• Why lordship salvation's performance-review approach to assurance is unbiblical

• The three-part nature of man (spirit, soul, body — 1 Thessalonians 5:23) and which part can and cannot sin

• The war of two seeds traced back to the oldest prophecy in Scripture: Genesis 3:15

• What "his seed remaineth in him" (1 Peter 1:23) means for the born again believer

• How to identify which family you belong to — not by profession, but by practice

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