Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. Father thank you for letting us gather together.

Thank you for these men who join with me.

And I pray greatest blessing would come to them as a result of the study of your word.

And for everyone who's watching over live stream or on podcast, however they'll be watching

this, may you do a truly eternal work in their soul. So meet with us now,

teach us we are your disciples in Christ's name. Amen.

Okay, first John chapter 3. First John chapter 3,

first John chapter 3, verses 9 and 10 is our focus.

There's so much meat in these verses that it's just virtually

impossible just to race through this and I don't want us to miss any of this.

So that's why we're at a deliberate pace,

not because I'm trying to drag this out, but because I'm trying to take us down deep into what is here.

So I want to begin by reading these verses and the title of this lesson

is I think a good title. It is who is really born again?

Who really is born again?

I don't know that there's more important question that we could put on the table.

So let me begin reading.

verse 9 and will include verse 10.

No one who is born of God practices sin because his seed abides in him and he cannot

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