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MATTHEW 11:28-30 IF LIFE IS BEATING YOU DOWN, THERE’S HOPE

MATTHEW 11:28 "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
What is life sending your way that is beating you down and leaving you without any hope or feeling helpless in light of all that is going on. Jesus Christ can save you and give you a new way of dealing with the problems and difficulties in your life.  Trust in Him today. Paul said in Philippians 4:6-9 to not be anxious about anything but take it all to God and the peace that passes all understanding will guard your hearts and minds.  He also said not to think on and fill your mind with the bad things but to dwell on what is good.  That is the cure for all the craziness going on.
“Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built." (Luke 6:47-48)
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
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MATTHEW 5:17-18 GOD SAID IT AND HE MEANT IT, DO YOU BELIEVE IT?

The phrase "For assuredly, I say to you”, "truly I say to you", "I tell you the truth" or “Amen, Amen” depending on your translation means what Jesus is about to say is very important. Jesus says that even the smallest letter or piece of the Old Testament writings will not go away until He has fulfilled all that He plans to do in the future. Jesus was implying by this that all Scripture is inspired of God (God Breathed) and are His very words written down for us to live by. When He says inspired He means down to the very letters used, not just the words.  Jesus quoted the Old Testament frequently and so confirmed the truth written there. When God says something, you can be sure He meant it and He says every word of Scripture is there for our benefit.  Read it every day to be given wisdom and understanding.
Matthew 5:17-18 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
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MATTHEW 5:13-16 HOW OUR LIVES ARE TO INFLUENCE OTHERS

The Distinctiveness of being a Kingdom Citizen…Salt and Light v13-16
Salt
Gives flavor..live differently…do not be conformed, but be ye transformed
Preserves….Stops the corruption of society or decaying
Stings… the truth hurts…Heb 4:12
It Heals
Causes Thirst
Light
Shows the truth, uncovers sin….stands for holiness, purity, righteousness
A godly life gives convincing testimony of the saving power of the Gospel
Brings glory to God
 Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
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The world is trying to solve earthly problems that can only be solved with heavenly solutions

LUKE 11:2 PRAY FOR OUR NATION

Hi, I ‘m Marty McKenzie with His Love Ministries. In Luke 11:2 Jesus said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. I would like to ask you to pray every time you hear this devotional or think about it to please pray for our world, our nation, it’s leaders, and for us to come back to God.  That God would be glorified because of the way we live for Him, that people will be saved, and that we would live in obedience to God’s Word so that He is pleased with our lives. That is His will being done.  Will you do that with me?
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
   John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
 
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
 
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
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The world is trying to solve earthly problems that can only be solved with heavenly solutions

Matthew 12:1-14 How Is Your Heart?

This is a milestone chapter in the Gospel of Matthew; it focuses on the rejection of the Messiah. In many ways, this chapter is a turning point; the mounting, growing unbelief of Israel crystallizes in this chapter with rejection. Just like Israel many today believe that it is something that we do or can do that will get us into heaven, but we can never get to heaven without Jesus shed blood on the cross and His grace that allows us to be forgiven if we ask Him to forgive us and save us. Is your relationship to God rules, laws, or do you realize that those are only things to assist us? They can never stand in the way of meeting needs, serving God, and showing mercy, because they violate the heart of God. Where is your heart toward God? Are you trapped in a bunch of rules, or do you know an easy yoke and a light burden?
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
hisloveministries.podbean.com #HLMSocial hisloveministries.net https://www.instagram.com/hisloveministries1/?hl=en His Love Ministries on Itunes Don’t go for all the gusto you can get, go for all the God (Jesus Christ) you can get. The gusto will get you, Jesus can save you. https://www.facebook.com/His-Love-Ministries-246606668725869/?tn-str=k*F
 
The world is trying to solve earthly problems that can only be solved with heavenly solutions

1 JOHN SUMMARY

Written to combat Gnosticism. A Preoccupation with deliverance from the flesh dualistic view of man [matter was evil and spirit was good].  · Matter is inherently evil.
It was Peter’s task to talk about the kingdom of God, Paul about the church of God, but John is concerned with the family of God, to bring them back to the basics of truth.  He was a net mender
In Chapter 5, Verse 13, he gives us the main reason he writes this book: “I write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.”… I am writing this to assure you” – that you might find security,
At the close of this letter John tells us, “He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life,” {1 Jn 5:12 RSV}.
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
hisloveministries.podbean.com #HLMSocial hisloveministries.net https://www.instagram.com/hisloveministries1/?hl=en His Love Ministries on Itunes Don’t go for all the gusto you can get, go for all the God (Jesus Christ) you can get. The gusto will get you, Jesus can save you. https://www.facebook.com/His-Love-Ministries-246606668725869/?tn-str=k*F
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30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL MATTHEW 16 WHAT IT MEANS TO FOLLOW JESUS

In Matthew 16 Jesus said, "If any man follow Me, let him take up his cross and follow Me." This is talking about the suffering sacrificial side of following Jesus. What does it mean to take up your cross and bear your cross? Jesus is saying here that we should sacrifice ourselves for His cause. And Jesus is saying the same thing today, are you willing to sacrifice everything you hold dear, everything you love, all the stupid little things that occupy your time, all your dreams and all your ambitions to be obedient to His cause? That's the real issue. Will you make that pledge today?
Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.28 “Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
hisloveministries.podbean.com #HLMSocial hisloveministries.net https://www.instagram.com/hisloveministries1/?hl=en Don’t go for all the gusto you can get, go for all the God (Jesus Christ) you can get. The gusto will get you, Jesus can save you. https://www.facebook.com/His-Love-Ministries-246606668725869/?tn-str=k*F
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1 JOHN 5:19-21 FINAL ASSURANCES FOR THE CHRISTIAN

1 John 5:19 - We are Of God
1 John 5:20 - Son of God has come and given us understanding  Heb 1 – Son has spoken to us in these last days.
This is the secret of the life that is real. Because we have met the true God, through His Son Jesus Christ, we are in contact with reality. Our fellowship is with a God who is genuine. As we have seen, the word “real” means “the original as opposed to a copy” and “the authentic as opposed to an imitation.” Jesus Christ is the true Light (John 1:9), and true Bread (John 6:32), and true Vine (John 15:1), and Truth itself (John 14:6). He is the Original; everything else is a copy. He is authentic; everything else is only an imitation.
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
hisloveministries.podbean.com #HLMSocial hisloveministries.net https://www.instagram.com/hisloveministries1/?hl=en Don’t go for all the gusto you can get, go for all the God (Jesus Christ) you can get. The gusto will get you, Jesus can save you. https://www.facebook.com/His-Love-Ministries-246606668725869/?tn-str=k*F
 
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JOHN 12:26 BEING WHERE JESUS HAS LED YOU 30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL

Following Jesus means being where He is. Jesus said in John 12:26 that, "If any man serve Me, let him follow Me that where I am, there will My servant be also." In other words, Jesus wants His servants to go where He goes. That's the first thing about following. You go where He goes. Real simple. And in all the days of your life, in all the circumstances of your life, in all the places of your life, in all the relationships of your life, you should be able to say when asked, "Why are you here?" I'm here because I'm following Jesus and this is where He's led me today. How about you, can you say this is true in your life?
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
hisloveministries.podbean.com #HLMSocial hisloveministries.net https://www.instagram.com/hisloveministries1/?hl=en Don’t go for all the gusto you can get, go for all the God (Jesus Christ) you can get. The gusto will get you, Jesus can save you. https://www.facebook.com/His-Love-Ministries-246606668725869/?tn-str=k*F
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1 JOHN 5:14-18 CHRISTIAN CERTAINTIES

1John 5:14
1) Confidence of freedom from shame at the rapture, 2:28,
2) Confidence of a clear conscience in prayer, 3:21-22, and
3) Confidence at the judgment seat of Christ because our love resembles God’s love, 4:17.
Principle: God is accessible to the believer.
Confidence in prayer is for those who are born again yet many experience frustration in prayer. They can trust God for eternal life but they cannot trust Him for this life. We trust God for a life without end but we do not trust Him to meet our financial needs.
We have a general faith in God but very little confidence in Him. We know that we place confidence in God if we have an effective prayer life.
Matt. 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
Eph 3:20 “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
Application: Our right of asking God for petitions and intercessions is unconditional. Our right rests on the person and work of Christ. That is why we come in Jesus’ name.
John 14:24 “Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”
 
The Christian today has access to the God of the universe because Jesus broke the barrier between God and the Christian. The Christian has uninhibited boldness in prayer because of the work of Jesus Christ.
Heb. 4:14” Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
that if we ask anything
“If we ask” presumes expectation. Since the Christian is certain that he possesses eternal life (5:13), he can be confident that God answers prayer.
Principle: We must know the will of God to have confidence in prayer.
because God did not answer their prayer. They assume that prayer fails to meet their needs.
Some Christians use prayer as a genie that persuades God to do what they want. If they rub the genie the right way, they get what they want. This is a parody of prayer. By this they make outlandish demands on God that they believe is their right. God promises to meet our needs, not our “greed”. This is praying “according to our lusts,”
James 4:3 “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Genuine prayer prays in God’s will and according to God’s nature. Prayer outside God’s will is an insult to His integrity. There is a wide range wherein we can pray. We pray for what God requires, not what we desire.
Prayer is not an endeavor to move God to see things our way. It is not an attempt to change God’s values or standards. God is not willing to give His child something that is not good for him. God wants to give what is in the best interest of the child of God. God does not pander to self-gratification.
Phil. 4:19” And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
Our prayers must align themselves with the will of God and be consistent with the character and plan of God for the universe. Jesus said, “Not my will but Yours be done”.
according to His will,
God always answers prayer that is asked “according to His will.” God reveals His will in the Word of God. God answers prayer according to certain standards. For example, we must ask in Jesus name (John 14:13; 15:16) and be in fellowship (John 15:7; 1 John 3:22) for God to answer prayer. Another condition is to have confidence that God hears and responds to prayer.
there are many prayers God never hears.
Psalm 66:8 “If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear.”
1 Peter 3:7 “Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.”
1 John 5:15 “And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”
When a child of God believes God’s promises in prayer, God moves His hand for that believer.
Application: God has certain ground rules for answered prayer. Here are a number of qualifications to answered prayer:
Praying in Jesus name (prayer that is consistent with His person and work and based on that authority), John 14:13-14; 16:23-24
Abiding in fellowship (the Spirit-filled life), John 15:7; Ps 66:18; James 4:3
Ask in faith, James 1:5-8; Je 33:33
Ask according to God’s will, 1 John 5:14
God never violates Himself to answer our prayers. He will not contradict His holiness to answer prayer.
Matt. 7:11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”
Prov. 15:8, “The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.”
Prov. 15:29 “The Lord is far from the wicked, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.”
Luke 11:1 “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”
Luke 18:1 “Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart…”
Acts 6:4 “…but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
1 John 5:16 “If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death
John continues his discussion on prayer in this verse but he extends the issue to praying for those in spiritual need.
The object of prayer in this verse is a believer out of fellowship. The word “brother” clearly indicates that the person in need is a Christian (2:9-11; 3:14-15; 5:1). The words “a sin” indicate that the issue at hand is a specific sin or an identifiable sin.
The person who prays about this situation must “see” the sin for himself.
which does not lead to death,
The idea of “death” here is not spiritual death but physical death. Some Christians die prematurely because of protracted unconfessed sin (1 Cor. 5:5; 11:30).
Principle: Some Christians die physically before their time.
Application: Christians begin eternal life at the point of salvation and can never lose that salvation at any future point.
John 10:28 “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.”
John 17:11 “Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.”
However, Christians can lose the experience of abundant living.  John 10:10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
There are a number of occasions of the “sin unto death” in the Word of God. Ananias and Sapphira are cases in point (Acts 5:1-11). God sentenced them to death for misrepresentation of the facts. Paul assigned a Christian living in incest to death should he not repent (1 Cor. 5:1-5).
Moses committed the sin unto death by striking the rock (Nu 20:8, 12). Achan committed the sin unto death by hiding condemned garments in the book of Joshua. He and his family were put to death for this.
Many Christians do not die in bed. God does not allow them to live out their full amount of years. God jerks them up short and takes them home to be with Him. He takes them home with a dishonorable discharge. That is a miserable way to go home to meet God. God saves their soul so as by fire. He saves some people by the skin of their teeth.
1 Cor. 3:15 “If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.”
James 5:14 “Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. James 5:16 “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”\
1 Tim. 5:24 “Some men’s sins are clearly evident, preceding them to judgment, but those of some men follow later. 25 Likewise, the good works of some are clearly evident, and those that are otherwise cannot be hidden.”
1 John 5:17
“All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.”
All unrighteousness is sin,
“All unrighteousness” is an occasion for intercessory prayer except for the sin unto death (5:16).
5:18-20 Final Assurances
1 John 5:18 No one born of God Sins
“We know Principle: Once it was natural to sin but now it is unnatural.
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
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GOD HAS GIVEN US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON 1 JOHN 5:6-13

The witness of God concerning His Son, says verse 9 It is our faith in Him that overcomes the world.  We must believe in the true Son of God, the true Christ, the eternal one. 
 in chapter 2 verse 22, "Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ, this is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son...that is the equality between God the Father and God the Son.  Whoever denies the Son doesn't have the Father, the one who confesses the Son has the Father also."  One's Christology is critical, the right view of Christ is essential to salvation.  Again in chapter 3 John affirms this.  Verse 23, "This is His commandment that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ."  Chapter 4 again, verses 1 and 2, "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, tests the spirits to see whether they're from God because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  By this you know the Spirit of God.  Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God and this is the spirit of antichrist." 
chapter 4 to verses 9 and 10 we read: "By this the love of God was manifested in us that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.  In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins."  Understanding and believing the truth about Christ and His redemptive work is absolutely critical.  Chapter 5 verse 1, "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God."  And what is our faith?  Verse 5, "Believing that Jesus is the Son of God." his is the witness of God concerning His Son.  This is the testimony of God.  Down in verse 10, "The one who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself." That is if you believe Jesus Christ to be who the Father says He is, you have received God's testimony.  The one who does not believe that Jesus is who God said He is, makes God into a liar.  And so we have in this text this most important theme of the witness of God.  God here summarizes His testimony concerning His Son.  John here is elaborating on a single statement that he made in his gospel, John 20:31, "These are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that believing you might have life through His name."  That was the purpose for which he wrote the whole of the gospel of John the great "I Am" titles that compose so much of that gospel.  And, of course, the gospel of John starts with the great statement that” In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 
If you want to know the testimony of God, don't listen to the Jehovah's Witnesses, listen to God's true witness recorded through the gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and most notably John, whose purpose is to write things that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and believing have life through His name.
What does "water and blood" mean?
That is not any divine statement, that's a very physical, very human affirmation that this person was dead.
Then there's a second view that has gained some popularity that this refers to the two ordinances of the church.  Water, referring to baptism; and blood, referring to the communion service...baptism and the Lord's table. that doesn't give any divine witness either because that's a function of the church.  That's not a God-given witness, that's a church witness, isn't it? 
And I would say something else, as well.  In the baptism of Christ He identified with sinners, didn't He?  He identified with sinners.  You see, baptism was baptism of repentance.  It was baptism of repentance.  He didn't have anything to repent of.  But there in that most unique way He told John, "You have to baptize Me."  John said no, the reverse is true.  And He said, "No, you have to baptize Me.  I need to fulfill all righteousness."  And there He was in His baptism identifying with sinners and defining the reason He came.  And the Father gave witness, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."
And the second divine testimony was given at His blood, as it were, or at His death, that at the end of His ministry.  That too defined His ministry because as He had identified with sinners in going into the waters of a baptism of repentance, He fully identified with sinners at the cross by taking their punishment.  Those are tremendously defining events, two monumental experiences bracketing His ministry of redemption.  And so the Father says, "I gave testimony at His baptism, testimony at His death."
Some time after 90 A.D., a serious heresy had already developed which said that Jesus was God's Son at His baptism, but not at the cross. This is part of the developing of Gnosticism. We've seen how they believe that spirit was good and matter was evil, and so they denied the full doctrine of the incarnation that God, the good Spirit, could ever take up permanent residence in a human being, was unacceptable to the dualism of their thinking.  They did allow the Christ's Spirit to come down at the baptism, stay awhile and then go away.  They could not involve God in flesh in any permanent way and certainly not in the sufferings of death. 
Verse 7, "And it is the Spirit who bears witness because the Spirit is the truth," or, "Because He is the Spirit of Truth."  The third member of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, gives witness from the Father of the Son because He's the Spirit of Truth.  He always speaks what is true.  Doesn't just mean that but it does mean that. 
verse 8 then says, "For there are three that bear witness, the Spirit and the water and the blood and the three are in agreement."
we find the very same thing here in chapter 5 verse 13, to know you're saved you have to know you believe in the Son of God.  The name of the Son of God means all that He is...all that He's done.  And so belonging to Jesus Christ, belonging to God starts with believing in Jesus Christ Anything else is antichrist and cuts one off from salvation and eternal life.
Now the question is, what is it that brings us to this conviction?  What is it that brings us to this faith?  What is it that brings us to this believing?  And the answer is, the witness of God.  verse 17 of Matthew 3, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."  The Father is perfectly pleased with the Son.   bore witness saying, 'I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven and He remained on Him.'"
Matthew chapter 27, verse 45. "From the sixth hour, darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour."  Supernatural darkness verse 51, "Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom."  That cannot be done by men, far too high, far too heavy. And the earth shook."  God literally shook the planet.  "And the rocks were split and the tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised and coming out of the tombs.  After His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many." 
 verse 54 says, "Now the centurion and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became frightened and said...what?... 'Truly this was the Son of God.'" Not only did the centurion say it but those who were with him said it.  There's no other conclusion.  This was the Son of God.  Here was God's testimony at the cross. And you could also say that the Father's testimony was given at the cross by the fulfillment on the cross of the Old Testament pictures.  For example, Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 He was smitten of God and afflicted, that's why He said, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"  
God then gave His testimony.  Why did He give it? 
Verse 11, The purpose for God's testimony. Here's the reason for the witness.  "The witness is this, that God has given us eternal life." the reason that God gives this witness is because God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son.  So if you don't have the witness of God that brings you to believe in His Son, you don't have eternal life.  Eternal life, is life in God's Kingdom, the next life, eternal life. 
It's always about eternal life.
Our response to God's witness.  And with this we'll back up to verse 10. What should be our response?
Verse 10, "The one who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself.  The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar because he has not believed in the witness that God has borne concerning His Son." You who believe have received an eternal life and you have a lifelong grip on Jesus Christ, you will never let go.  "Those who went out from us went out from us because they never were of us, but you hold on to life through faith in Jesus Christ."
verse 12.  "He who has the Son has the life.  He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life." 
Is that simple enough?  If you don't have Christ, you don't have life. 
John 1:12 is a good place to end.  "As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name."  If you haven't received Jesus Christ, believed in His name, you have not been saved. All of that the Father's testimony through these three great confirming categories of evidence.  And the end result is if you believe, you embrace the truth and you are saved and you are given eternal life.  If you don't, you make God a liar because you will not believe.  It's as simple as this.  If you have the Son, you have eternal life.  If you don't, you have no eternal life.
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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JOB SAID IN CHAPTER 19:23 “OH THAT MY WORDS WERE WRITTEN

Job said in Chapter 19:23 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! God did write Job's words down forever in His Word for those of us who know Christ and need a deeper walk with the Him and also to give us hope when are going through tough times and don’t always know why.  We need to remember no matter what we are going through God means for it to bring glory to Him by making us more like Him, also to show a watching world how we respond to trials, and to show us and them that He is faithful to us no matter how tough life gets.  Look at these 3 verses in Romans 8. Verse 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Verse 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  Song Through it all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO5Qt2VQn4k
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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1 JOHN 4.20- 5.1-5 LOVE THE BRETHREN AND FAITH THAT GIVES US THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMES THE WORLD

1 John 4:20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
1 John 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
 
And then in verse 20, for the seventh time in 1 John, "If someone says..."  Seven times John deals with claims and every time he gives a warning.  "If someone says," in this case, "I love God, I'm a Christian, I'm a believer, but is characterized by hate toward his brother, he's a liar.  He doesn't love his brother whom he's seen, he can't love God whom he's not seen."  You can't claim to love the invisible God and not love the God that's in His people.  You can't claim to love the invisible Christ and not love Christ in His people.  It's absurd.  So it's only reasonable then to say true believers are characterized by loving the way God loves, sacrificial, selfless love.
And then John closes this section with a command, just as he began it, "This commandment we have from Him," John is saying it's not mine, it's His, "that the one who loves God should love his brother also."  With an unreturned love, you might say, wanting nothing in return, an unconditional love that accepts and forgives, a vicarious love that bears the pain of others, a self-giving love that practices sacrifice and a righteous love that tolerates no sin.
There is the wonderful love that a husband and a wife share, that a family shares, that children share with parents, friend with friend.  We're not talking about any of those human loves which are enhanced and enriched by the love of Christ in the heart of believers.  We're talking about this kind of love that extends toward anybody that has a need, particularly those in the family of God.  It is a perfect kind of love, a different love than the world's kind of love.  It is a whole, complete love and it is the essence of God manifest in Christ.  It is our testimony, it is the assurance of our salvation.  It is our confidence in judgment and it is only reasonable because you could never truly have the love of God in you and not love others with that love.  Perfect love is the mark of the true believer. 
Conclusion
At the beginning of this chapter the question was asked, Which is the most important of John’s three tests: righteousness, love, or truth? We answered that love was the most important, but at this point we have several additional insights for knowing why.
The first reason is obviously that we need love most, particularly in the so-called evangelical churches. These have sound doctrine, at least to a point. There is a measure of righteousness. But often, sadly, there is very little love. Without it, however, there is no true demonstration of the life of Christ within or true worship of the Father. The second reason is that Jesus himself made love the first and second of the commandments. The first commandment is love for God (Deut. 6:4). The second is love for one another (Lev. 19:18). The two properly belong together. As Jesus said, “All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matt. 22:40). The third reason is that it was the realization of this double love in us for both God and man that was the object of Christ’s coming. This is what John seems to speak about in the opening verses of the letter when he says, “We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ” (1:3). That is, the coming of Christ is proclaimed so that those who hear of his incarnation and death might believe in him and thereby learn to love both God and one another.
The devil is the one who disrupts. The Lord Jesus Christ is the one who draws together. Moreover, in the drawing together into fellowship, love is the key factor. Little surprise then that we have this commandment from him: “Whoever loves God must also love his brother.”[1]
it is by practicing a real and self-sacrificing love for one another that we learn to love the one who sacrificed himself for us.[2]
V1,4,5 - Faith.  The first test to give evidence or proof that you're an overcomer is your faith.  Here is again the definition of somebody who is an overcomer, "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God."  That's simple enough, isn't it?  Overcomers are those born of God. 
That is to say the reason we are overcomers is because we have been given new life.  We have been begotten by God.  We now possess the life of God.  And the only people who are born of God, the only people who received the new birth who are regenerate are those who believe that Jesus is the Christ.  Overcomers then are those who believe that Jesus is the Messiah, God in human flesh.  And, of course, that's an abbreviated statement.  Jesus is Christ and you can fill it with the whole thing, all that's true about Jesus is implied there.  Overcomers believe in Jesus.  If you don't believe in Jesus, you're not an overcomer. 
 
if you haven't been begotten of God you are not an overcomer, you are still under the power of Satan, under the power of death, under the power of sin and the law, under the power of the world, and under the influence of the false teachers who move through the world.
John 1:12 it says, "As many as received Him, as received Christ, to them He gave the right to become the children of God, even to those who believe in His name."  You believe in the name of Jesus Christ, God makes you His child. 
Once a person is regenerated, once they have become a believer in Jesus Christ and been born again and justified and adopted into the family of God, once they have been delivered from sin and death and hell, once they have been converted, adopted and sanctified, Christians are invincible in the ultimate sense.  This, of course, means that our salvation is eternal.  We are eternally secure.  We will persevere to the very end.  Nothing can remove us from the Savior's grasp.  We sin, we fail, we struggle but we never ever lose any battle ultimately, finally, with the world, with the flesh, or with the devil.  Our faith, our salvation are indestructible.
 
Our victory then starts at the moment of our salvation and we are given a permanent faith that never ever runs out.  Moments of questioning, moments of doubt...sure.  And the Lord is gracious to us in our time of doubt.  Doubt is a temptation.  Doubt is a sin.  But if you are a true Christian, doubt will always be a wrong response, a sinful response because if you are God's, your salvation is forever and so is the faith that He gave you.  He has defeated every enemy.  He has triumphed over Satan, demons, the kingdom of darkness, death, hell, sin, the Law, the world, false teaching and you are a super-conqueror cause you've been given a permanent faith.  And that faith, the one who is believing, is because you have been begotten of God.  And having been born of God, as verse 4 says, you are an overcomer and your victory was gained by our faith.  And who is the one, verse 5, who has overcome the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
The word is used by our Lord Jesus Himself in John 16:33, He uses the verb form when He says, "In this world you shall have tribulation, be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." 
Romans chapter 8.  At the close of that great eighth chapter where Paul is speaking about the unconquerable position of Christians in Christ, he says, verse 37, "In all these things we are more than conquerors
"We're super-conquerors.  invincible, unconquerable.  So much that, "Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, or any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."  There is nothing that can conquer us, not tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword.  We are super-conquerors.  We are the unconquerable.  We are the overcomers.
Revelation 12:11, "They overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb."  They overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. 
Revelation 21, verse 7 says, "He that overcomes shall inherit these things."  Overcomes get not only triumph over Satan, but a triumph over Satan that results in an eternal heaven.  And all that heaven is becomes ours.  We are the true victors.
John certainly affirmed this idea earlier in his epistle if you go back to chapter 2, for a moment.  And verse 13, "I'm writing to you young men," and he's not talking about chronological age, but those who spiritually are growing up.  "Because you have overcome the evil one."  How so?  Verse 14, end of the verse, "The Word of God abides in you and you have overcome the evil one." 
Not only have we become overcomes of Satan as powerful as he is, but we have become overcomers in the realm of life as well.  That is, we have overcome death.  I think the most notable portion of Scripture that speaks to that is 1 Corinthians 15 and just a reminder, it says at the end of verse 54 in this great fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians, "Death is swallowed up in victory.  O, death, where is your sting."  The sting of death is sin, the power of sin is the law but thanks be to God that gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Victory over death because victory over sin, victory over law.  That is to say we triumph over what sin wants to do to us.  We triumph over what the law wants to do, the perfect, holy, righteous Law of God crushes us because we break it.  It sentences us to damnation for our sins.  But in Christ we triumph over the Law, over sin, over death which is the penalty the Law imposes.
We go from believing in right doctrine, the doctrinal test, to the moral or ethical test and the second of John's three tests presented here to verify overcomers is love.  Go back to verse 1.  "Whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him."  Verse 2, "By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God."  Verse 2 - Love , "By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God
You can tell an overcomer very simply.  He or she loves God and loves whom God loves, the children born of Him
If you love God, you long more than anything else to be in His presence, to hear Him speak, to praise Him and worship Him. And if you love His people, you long to be with them and to be the source of their needs being met as much as you can.  You pray for them.  You nurture them.  You counsel them.  You speak to them kindly.  You exhort them.  You encourage them.  You confront them.  Do whatever you need to do, all those one-anothers of the New Testament for their spiritual benefit because you care. 
Look at the end of verse 2-3.  "We know that we love the children of God when we love God...and here it comes...and observe His commandments.  For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments are His commandments are not burdensome."
The third characteristic that marks those who are overcomers, is obedience
Now let's put this together.  We believe in God.  We believe in Christ who is God.  And that faith produces love and that love produces obedience.  If I believe that Christ is who He is.  I believe Christ is exactly who the New Testament says He is.  If I believe God is who the Scripture reveals Him to be, then He is going to draw out of my heart all my love and all my praise and all my adoration and all my interest and all my attention.  And I'm going to be consumed with Him as the priority of my life.  And as a second priority I'm going to be consumed with the people He loves because whoever He loves I love.  It's just how it works.  And if I truly love Him that way, the expression of that love is going to come in keeping His commandments, and considering His commandments as not burdensome...not burdensome.  If you love somebody, and they ask you to do something, you can't do it fast enough, right?  True love always issues in obedience, always rushes to the will of the person who asks, always longs to meet the need.
At this point, we can review and understand the practical meaning of “maturing love” in our daily lives. As our love for the Father matures, we have confidence and are no longer afraid of His will. We also are honest toward others and lose our fear of being rejected. And we have a new attitude toward the Word of God: it is the expression of God’s love, and we enjoy obeying it. Confidence toward God, honesty toward others, and joyful obedience are the marks of perfecting love and the ingredients that make up a happy Christian life.[3]
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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[1] Boice, J. M. (2004). The Epistles of John: an expositional commentary (pp. 121–122). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
[2] Boice, J. M. (2004). The Epistles of John: an expositional commentary (p. 121). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
[3] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 2, p. 524). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.

1 TIMOTHY 6:11 BUT YOU, O MAN OF GOD

1 TiMOTHY 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. Do you have a plan to pursue Godliness in your life? I bet you and I have planned all kinds of other things that we would like to do that don‘t include this. If you don’t have a plan, you are missing out on the most important thing you can ever do for now and eternity. 1 John 2:17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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1 JOHN 4:13-19 BY THIS WE KNOW THAT WE BELONG TO HIM

1 John 4:13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. 17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.
Love and Sound Doctrine (vv. 13–16)
In the last verse of the preceding section, John has concluded that if we love one another, two things may be said to follow: first, that God abides in us, and second, that God’s love is perfected in us. These two conclusions give the outline for the next two sections of this chapter. In the first section (vv. 13–16) God’s indwelling of the Christian is discussed in greater detail; in the second (vv. 17–21) the perfection of love is analyzed. That the indwelling of the Christian by God is the theme of the first section is evident from the threefold repetition of the idea: once in verse 13 (“we live in him and he in us”), once in verse 15 (“God lives in him and he in God”), and once in verse 16 (“whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him”).
It is not easy to give a simple outline to this section of the chapter, however, as it was, for instance, for verses 7–12 on the basis of the threefold repetition of the phrase “love one another.” Still, the major ideas are obvious. First, we know that we dwell in God and God in us because of the Spirit, whom he has given to us (v. 13). Then, second, we know that he has given us the Spirit because we have come to believe in Christ and love the brethren (vv. 14–16).[1]
v13-16 But fourthly, we are to love one another because love is the assurance of our salvation
Here's how we know we're saved.  Here's how we know we abide in Him and He in us, again emphasizing He is in us.  How do we know we're in Him and He's in us?  One, because He's given us His Spirit. You say, "I can't see the Holy Spirit.  I can't feel the Holy Spirit.  I don't know that I can say for sure I've received the Holy Spirit.  How can I say that I'm sure I'm saved because He's given us the Spirit? 
John’s first point is that believers know that they dwell in God and God in them because of the Holy Spirit whom God has given to them. By this John emphasizes that God is always first in spiritual things and that apart from his gracious activity by the Holy Spirit to open blind eyes to perceive the truth and move rebellious wills to turn from sin to the Savior, no one would believe in Christ or love the brethren. In the next few verses John is going to talk of belief in Christ and love of the brethren, but we must not think, as some commentators have, that these are conditions by which we are enabled to dwell in God or remain in him. To believe in Christ and to love the brethren are not conditions by which we may dwell in God but rather are evidences of the fact that God has already taken possession of our lives to make this possible.[1]
V14 Here is how you know that you've been given the Spirit.  "Because you believe the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world and you confess Jesus is the Son of God."  In other words, it is your belief in the gospel that is evidence of the ministry and presence of the Holy Spirit, right?  Because you couldn't know that apart from the Spirit, is that not so?  Sinners are dead in trespasses and sin, they are blind, you have no capacity, it's not of him who wills or him who runs, it's not according to the will of man or the will of the flesh, you can't know God, God is not known by human wisdom.  He's not known by human intelligence.  "Natural man understands not the things of God, they are foolishness to him.
4:14. The apostle now reached a climactic point in his argument. He had just written that “if we love each other,” then the God whom no one has seen abides “in us and His love is made complete in us.” The result of this experience is that we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. Since the first person plural in verses 7–13 is clearly meant to include the readers, the “we” of this verse includes them as well. The indwelling God, whose presence is manifested in the midst of a loving Christian community, thus becomes in a sense truly visible to the eye of faith. Though no one “has seen” (tetheatai, “beheld”) God (v. 12), believers who abide in Him (v. 13) “have seen” (tetheametha, “behold”) the Son as He is manifested among loving Christians. Christians who behold this manifestation have in fact “seen” and can “testify” to the fundamental truth that “the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.” This great truth can be put on display through the instrumentality of Christian love. With these words, John reached the goal he had announced in the prologue (1:1–4), namely, that his readers might share the apostles’ experience. The apostles had “seen” (heōrakamen) the “life which was with the Father and … appeared to us” (1:2). In a loving Christian community, the believers can see that too. The term “Life” in 1:2, though it refers to Christ incarnate, nevertheless was carefully chosen by the writer. What his readers could witness is the renewed manifestation of that Life in their fellow Christians. But, as he had argued ever since 2:29, the “life” which Christians possess by new birth is inherently sinless and can only be manifested through righteousness and Christlike love. But when that occurs, Christ whom the apostles saw in the flesh is, in a real but spiritual sense, “seen” again (4:14).[1]
The Holy Spirit’s Gifts
This leads directly to John’s next point, for, having said that it is always God who is first in spiritual things, the question with which he next wants to deal is this: Is God thus at work spiritually in me? In answer to this question he therefore now argues that if God is at work, the evidences for it will be seen in a combination of love and sound doctrine. In other words, we may know that we have the Spirit because we have come to confess Christ and dwell in love.[1]
The confession of Christ is mentioned first because it is at the point of confession that the Christian life may properly be said to begin. “And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God” (vv. 14–15). Once again, as in numerous spots throughout the letter, John phrases his confession of Christ in words that would be especially challenging to those faced with the Gnostic heresies. He emphasizes that God the Father sent the eternal Son to be the Savior and that the historical Jesus is that eternal Son.
This should not obscure the fact that there are additional theological riches in the verses, however. For one thing, there is the doctrine of a lost world that needs a Savior. This “world,” as was pointed out in the earlier discussion of 2:15–17, means the world of men as it is in rebellion against God. A second doctrine is the full deity of Jesus Christ. A third is the focal point of his mission, which was to be the “Savior of the world.” It was for this that God “sent” him, says John. A fourth is the matter of God’s own motivation in the work of salvation, which is “the love God has for us” (v. 16).[1]
He comes to the point in verse 16.  "And we have come to know and believed the love which God has for us."  This is just really the conclusion of this flow here.  How do I know I'm a Christian?  Because God gave me His Spirit.  And He only gives His Spirit to those that are His.  He only takes up residency in those that are His.  How do I know He gave me His Spirit?  Because I believe the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.  And I confess that Jesus is the Son of God.  In other words, I believe the gospel which I can't believe apart from the work of the Spirit.
Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
You look at your life, is that what you see?  If it is, if you love Christ even though you're not always faithful as you should be, if you love God the Father, and you love to worship Him, and you love to honor Him, and you cherish His glory, and if you find yourself drawn to the brethren and the fellowship, sacrificially serving one another, and even compassionately, lovingly caring for those outside the gospel so that you give them the saving truth of Jesus Christ, this is evidence that God is in you, the God of love because of the work of the Holy Spirit.
The second evidence of the Spirit’s activity is love for God and one another, for John concludes by saying, “God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.” In other words, the love to which Christians were exhorted in verses 7–12 is now said not only to be a most solemn duty but also to be a striking evidence of the Spirit’s activity.
Here certainly, in a combination of the ideas of the internal work of the Holy Spirit, belief in Christ as the Son of God and Savior, and the supreme point of Christian ethics which is a two-pronged love both for God and man, is a high point of the epistle. John is dealing with the subject of assurance (as he has been throughout) and has expressed it under several aspects. There is a subjective side, but it is without those unreliable, so-called spiritual experiences on which so many depend: tongues, miracles, feelings, and so forth. There is also an objective side, but this is not without those tender expressions of love that temper mere orthodoxy and validate it. Dodd writes of these verses:
This closely knit statement therefore places the reality of the Christian experience of God beyond question, guarding against the dangers of subjectivism on the one hand, and of mere traditionalism on the other; placing equal and co-ordinate stress on love to God, which is the heart of religion, and love to man, which is the foundation of morality, without allowing religion to sink to the level of mere moralism, or morality to be dissolved in mysticism. The passage is the high-water mark of the thought of the epistle.[1]
Love’s Perfection (vv. 17–21)
17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
If people are afraid, it is because of something in the past that haunts them, or something in the present that upsets them, or something in the future that they feel threatens them. Or it may be a combination of all three. A believer in Jesus Christ does not have to fear the past, present, or future, for he has experienced the love of God and this love is being perfected in him day by day.
“It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:27). But a Christian does not fear future judgment, because Christ has suffered his judgment for him on the cross. “Truly, truly I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life” (John 5:24, nasb). “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1, nasb). For a Christian, judgment is not future; it is past. His sins have been judged already at the cross, and they will never be brought against him again.
V17 because as He is, so are we in this world. This means that the Father deals with us as He deals with His own beloved Son. How, then, can we ever be afraid? We do not have to be afraid of the future, because our sins were judged in Christ when He died on the cross. The Father cannot judge our sins again without judging His Son, for “as He is, so are we in this world.”[1]
In verses 13–16 John has developed the first of two ideas introduced for the first time in verse 12, the indwelling of the Christian by God. Now he returns to the second of those two ideas, the perfection of love, and explains what he means practically. Earlier, when he had said, “If we love each other, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us,” the reader might well have been left with the question of how such a thing could be possible. God’s attributes are perfection; he is perfection. Consequently, we might wonder how God’s love could be perfected in us, or anywhere else for that matter. Now John explains his meaning, showing that his emphasis was not so much upon that love that God has in himself (which obviously is already perfect) but rather upon our love both for God and one another. This has its source in God and is brought to completion by him. “Made complete” here does not mean totally without flaw in a moral or any other sense. It means “whole” or “mature,” and it refers to that state of mind and activity in which the Christian is to find himself when the love of God within him, expressing itself in the believer’s own love, has accomplished that which God fully intends it to accomplish.
No doubt there are many aspects of love’s perfection, but from this greater number John singles out two. First, there is confidence in view of God’s coming judgment (vv. 17–18). Second, there is love of the brethren (vv. 19–21).[1]
Confidence
This is the third time in the letter that the word “confidence” (parrēsia) occurs, and it will occur once more. In two of the four instances it refers to confidence before God in reference to prayer (3:21; 5:14). In the other two instances, one of which is this text, it refers to confidence before God in view of Christ’s return and the execution of his righteous judgment against sin (2:28; 4:17).
The idea of God’s judgment is an unpopular one today, but it is not necessarily less popular than it was in John’s time. The problem is simply that men and women do not like the idea of having to account to God for their actions. So they tend to discount the idea, hoping that the day of judgment might just go away. But judgment is the only logical idea of the three ideas usually associated with the end times. In most systems of theology the end events focus around three things: the return of Christ, the resurrection, and the judgment.[1]
V17-18 Number five, we are commanded to love because love is our confidence in judgment. 
I look ahead at judgment and I would...I might say to myself, "Well I don't have any fear of judgment, after all, I believe in Jesus."  Some people would say that.  You hear people say that all the time.  "Oh, I'm not worried about death, I'm a good guy and I believe in Jesus, God certainly will let me into His heaven."
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
 It's not just the theology that is the issue.  Confidence in the anticipation of the day of judgment comes from perfect love being your experience.  The day of judgment simply looks at the final reckoning, the final in the broadest sense.  In chapter 2 verse 28 it says, "Now, little children, abide in Him so that when He appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming."  It just looks at the end and says you can live your life with no fear, never fearing the coming of Jesus Christ, never fearing standing before the throne of God, before the judgment.  In fact, it says here in verse 17, "You may have confidence," it actually means, boldness.
Go back to chapter 3 verse 21, "If our heart does not condemn us, we have...same word...boldness before God," the kind of boldness that whatever we ask we receive from Him.  If you know you're God's, if your heart assures you by this love and obedience that characterizes your life, you can go into the presence of God with boldness and confidence and ask what you will and receive it.  That's chapter 3.  Here in chapter 4 you can look ahead at judgment without fear.  How wonderful is that?  You can live without fear. 
1 John chapter 3, you remember this, verse 2?  "Beloved, now are we children of God."  He's the Son of God, and we're children of God.  "It has not appeared yet what we shall be," you can't tell right now what we are, "we know that when He appears we shall be like Him."  We can be confident in looking ahead at the judgment because when we get to that place, we're going to be made like Jesus Christ.   And so, we can live this life with that absolute confidence
verse 18 explains it further.  "So there is no fear in love."  If you love like this, if you love in this perfect love, this mature, this whole love, there's no fear.  You don't fear judgment.  You don't fear the return of Christ, you long for it.  You say with John, "Even so, come Lord Jesus, come quickly."  We have no fear of judgment. 
Fear connects with punishment.  And if you're afraid of that day, and you're afraid of the coming of Christ, and you're afraid of the Rapture, then you are not perfected in love because where this love is shed abroad in your heart, this love exists, there's no fear...there's no fear.
Heb 2:15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
 Luke 1:74 To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear,
Ro 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
2Ti 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
a disobedient Christian, a Christian who is sinful and fallen into some kind of pattern of sin, even though it goes against the grain of his nature, even though it's contrary to what he longs for and desires in his truest and purest self, it's a sort of Romans 7 battle and he's losing it, that Christian can lose that confidence
Moreover, the day of judgment is as fixed in God’s eternal timetable as any other day in world history. This is the significance of the word “day.” Technically speaking, the day of judgment is not necessarily a twenty-four-hour period. At all events, it certainly includes a series of judgments upon the earth (Revelation 6–16), the beast and the false prophet (Rev. 19:20), the gentile nations (Joel 3:14; Matt. 25:31–46), Israel (Ezek. 20:33–44), and all individuals at the judgment of the great white throne (Rev. 20:11–15). The reason it is called a “day” is that it is fixed in God’s timetable and will surely come.
In view of this logical and unalterable day in which the thoughts and deeds of men and women are to be judged, an individual might well fear. But John says that in the case of Christians perfect love casts out terror. This does not mean that love for God is the ground of our acceptance before him. The only possible ground is the death of Christ for us and faith in him. It means rather that by love for God any unreasonable fears are quieted and we come to rest in the fact that the one who was for us in Christ will allow nothing to destroy the eternal relationship that the death of Christ established (Rom. 8:31–39).[1]
The sinner must begin by fearing the God against whom he has sinned; but, having believed in Christ who has atoned for sin, he may put away fear and grow in confidence before him
19 We love Him because He first loved us.
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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PROVERBS 6 SAYS GOD HATES PRIDE

It is so sad that we live in a world so obsessed with image. someone recently said, I love cocky, but God hates pride as He says in Proverbs 6. That is what is being taught to children and adults in all areas of life. There is nothing wrong with looking good and doing your best, but not when it is only about that. Everywhere you look it is talked about and promoted over and over again.  Christians build themselves up too and make their lives look like they are perfect and they have it all together.  It is sad to look around and realize that everyone is obsessed with looking like they are the best.  But that is not what God likes, He does hate it.  What do people see when they look at us?  Proverbs 6 says God hates Pride. Here are just a few verses Proverbs 3:34 Surely He scorns the scornful, But gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 6:16 These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood,
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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1 JOHN 4:7-12 EVERYONE WHO LOVES IS BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
First, love is the proof that we're in the fellowship. 
First time he's saying it means you belong to the community of believers. 
 Second, love is the evidence of our sonship. 
Second time it means you belong to the family of God Himself
 This time he identifies it as that perfect love which is not just a proof of fellowship, not just an evidence of sonship, but a manifestation of the presence of God in us. .  Third time it means God dwells in you. 
 And so, typical of John in this epistle, cycling back through the same great moral proofs and doctrinal proofs of salvation, but always with a richer and deeper purpose. 
And so John comes for the last time to this theme, with greater depth, greater breadth, greater insight.  The chapter 2 section was a few verses, the chapter 3 a little more, and the chapter 4, more yet.
If you love, you obey.  If you obey, you demonstrate love.
 
These are the three reasons Christians are to love one another: first, because God is love and we are of God; second, because God loved us in Christ and so revealed his love to us; and third, because God is at work in us by his Spirit to bring that love to completion.[1]
V7-8 It's a love basically that is granted to someone who needs to be loved, not to someone who somehow is attracting that love.  It is love that chooses to love because there is a need to be loved, no matter how unattractive the person might be.  Who chooses out of that love sacrificial service because there is a need for that service and an opportunity for that sacrifice.
Here it is a demonstration of the life of God in us. 
Reason number one, because love is the fundamental nature of God
God is light(truth demonstrated in our life) and God is life.  And here we find out God is also love.  If we then know God, if the life of God is in us and the light of God is in us, then the love of God is in us. If you're going to call yourself a Christian, if you're going to say you are God's and you belong to God and you truly are His, then conduct yourself as He would, with love.
Love does not define God, God defines love. Eph 4:15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ—
 If God was only Law, He would leave me to the consequence of their sin.  The moral law would operate, the soul would die, eternal justice would damn the soul. 
God defines what love is.  He defines it by His kindness, His generosity, His goodness and His redemptive grace.  All that those difficulties tell us is what sin has done and they provide a background for us to understand the greatness of God's love. 
there's a sense in which He shows love even to the unregenerate, even to those who ultimately will go out of His presence forever. 
 How is that love manifest?  Common grace.  The world is a beautiful place.  The sun shines on the just and the unjust, the rain falls on the just and the unjust.  God's goodness pervades the world in which we live. 
There's another way God manifests His love on a temporal, physical level and that is compassion.  God expresses throughout history pity and compassion and tender-heartedness toward man that causes Him to withhold judgment.  Every sinner should die at the strike of the first sin, right?  "The wages of sin is death."
A third way in which it's expressed is the myriad of warnings that are given to sinners.  The Bible is filled with them..filled with them, warning about what is coming.  All the warnings of the Bible are evidences of the compassion of God.  God finds no pleasure in the death of the wicked. 
And fourthly, by extending the gospel offered to the ends of the earth.  The light that lights every man that comes into the world, the truth of God which can be known by every man so that if they don't live up to the truth that they've been given, they're without excuse, Romans 1.  And then He sends His ministers over the face of the earth to tell the story of the gospel to every creature. 
There's another kind of love in which God loves His own, this is a marvelous love.  John 13:1, "Before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He should depart out of this world to the Father.  the next part of verse 1, He loved them perfectly He loved us, literally, into perfection.
V9-10 Second reason, we are to love with this perfect love not only because it is the nature of God to love, but because this love was manifest by Christ. 
Isaiah chapter 53 "He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities, the chastening for our well being fell upon Him and by His scourging we are healed."  Verse 6 then, this wonderful verse, "All of us like sheep have gone astray, each one of us is turned to his own way, but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him."  Second Corinthians 5:21, "He who knew no sin became sin for us."  Galatians 3:13, "He was made a curse for us." 1Peter 3:18 the just for the unjust
V11 We ought a command, talks about we must, should, a debt we owe, Paul Rom 1 a debtor to the
Go back to chapter 3 verse 16.  "We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." That's it.  No one who has truly been to the cross, no one who has really stood there and seen God's love displayed in which God would take His holy, beloved Son and slaughter Him, as it were, under the fury of His wrath under the weight and the guilt of all the sins of all who had ever believed, no one has ever stood there and comprehended that kind of sacrifice and truly possessed the life of God and then gone back to a life of selfishness.  If you have, you don't know God.  You are not begotten of Him.  Our ability to love comes from the life of God in us.  Our duty to love is demanded by the immensity of the sacrifice of the Father in the giving of His Son.  That love is our standard and we understand the cross because we couldn't experience salvation without understanding it.
V12 Third reason.  We are also to love because love is our testimony "No one has beheld God at any time.  If we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us."  No one has beheld God at any time.  No one has ever seen God.  Why is he saying that here?  Why is he bringing that up.  He's simply pointing up the fact that nobody can see God, so how are people going to know of His power and His glory if we love one another?  God abides in us, He's perfecting His love in us and thus He's putting Himself on display.  That's the point.  If we love one another, God is on display.  By this, Jesus said in John 13:34 and 35, shall men know that you're My disciples if you have love for one another. 
God didn't just give us love, He gave us an example of love.  And then He made love the way in which He discloses Himself to those who could never see Him.  You, if you are a true Christian, have the capacity to love, you have the example to love, and you have the responsibility to love, cause that's how you prove you belong to God.  That's how you express His love in sacrificial service to others and that's how you witness to the watching world.  Love then becomes core to our Christian experience.
 
At this point it would be good for us to review what John has been saying about the basic truth that “God is love.”
This truth is revealed to us in the Word, but it was also revealed on the cross, where Christ died for us. “God is love” is not simply a doctrine in the Bible; it is an eternal fact clearly demonstrated at Calvary. God has said something to us, and God has done something for us.
But all this is preparation for the third great fact: God does something in us! We are not merely students reading a book, or spectators watching a deeply moving event. We are participants in the great drama of God’s love! Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 2, p. 518). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
When you read 1 John 4:12–16, you feel like saying, “So that’s what it’s all about!” Because here we discover what God had in mind when He devised His great plan of salvation.
To begin with, God’s desire is to live in us. He is not satisfied simply to tell us that He loves us, or even show us that He loves us.
It is interesting to trace God’s dwelling places as recorded in the Bible. In the beginning, God had fellowship with man in a personal, direct way (Gen. 3:8), but sin broke that fellowship. It was necessary for God to shed the blood of animals to cover the sins of Adam and Eve so that they might come back into His fellowship.[1]
One of the key words in the Book of Genesis is walked. God walked with men, and men walked with God. Enoch.  But by the time of the events recorded in Exodus, a change had taken place: God did not simply walk with men, He lived, or dwelt, with them. God’s commandment to Israel was, “And let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them” (Ex. 25:8). The first of those sanctuaries was the tabernacle. When Moses dedicated it, the glory of God came down and moved into the tent (Ex. 40:33–35). Did the glory ever return? Yes—in the Person of God’s Son, Jesus Christ! “And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us, and we beheld His glory” (John 1:14, lit.). The glory of God dwelt on earth in the body of Jesus Christ, for His body was the temple of God (John 2:18–22). But wicked men nailed His body to a cross. They crucified “the Lord of glory” (1 Cor. 2:8). All this was part of God’s thrilling plan, and Christ arose from the dead, returned to heaven, and sent His Holy Spirit to dwell in men.
The glory of God now lives in the bodies of God’s children. “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” (6:19, nasb) The glory of God departed from the tabernacle and the temple when Israel disobeyed God, but Jesus has promised that the Spirit will abide in us forever (John 14:16).[1]
That important little word abide (or dwell, kjv) is used six times in 1 John 4:12–16. It refers to our personal fellowship with Jesus Christ. To abide in Christ means to remain in spiritual oneness with Him, so that no sin comes between us. Because we are “born of God,” we have union with Christ; but it is only as we trust Him and obey His commandments that we have communion with Him. Much as a faithful husband and wife “abide in love” though they may be separated by miles, so a believer abides in God’s love. This abiding is made possible by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (1 John 4:13). If a man love Me, he will keep My words; and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him” (John 14:23).
Three different witnesses are suggested in these verses: 1. The witness of the believer that Jesus Christ is God’s Son (1 John 4:15); 2. the witness in the believer by the Spirit (1 John 4:13); and 3. the witness through the believer that God is love and that He sent His Son to die for the world (1 John 4:14).
These witnesses cannot be separated. The world will not believe that God loves sinners until they see His love at work in His children’s lives.[1]
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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HAVE YOU BEEN ALONE ON THE MOUNTAIN WITH HIM?

The disciples were alone with Jesus on the mountain of transfiguration in Mark 9 and Matthew 17 and they got a glimpse of who He truly is and heard the Father speak of how He was pleased with Him. They were able to hear a word from God and see a glimpse of His true glory only because they were alone with Him on the mountain.  Have you seen Jesus for who He truly is and realized that in Him alone we are to look to for our salvation, comfort, strength, and joy? Have you been alone on the mountain with Him that you might hear from Him today?
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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1 JOHN 4:1-6 TEST THE SPIRITS

1John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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REACTIONS TO GOD’S WORD 1 JOHN 5:3

Jesus tells us in this passage that the true believer will keep the commandments of God.  1 John 5:3 says For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. In other words if we really are saved then we will keep His commands and they will be a joy not something we dislike or hate to do.  The Psalmist said in 119:97 how I love thy law.  Coming to us and making us His home is what God does when we are saved and the Holy Spirit comes and lives in us forever. The unbeliever will dislike doing what is right and cannot do it because God has not given him the power.  If you tell an unbeliever to do something they will say you can’t tell me what to do and that is the attitude they have towards the Bible also. How do you feel and react when the Word of God tells you to do something?
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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1 JOHN 3:18-24 THE CHRISTIANS CONFIDENCE

We have confidence in our relationship with Christ because of our love for others.
We have the confidence of answered prayer.
We have confidence in our abiding in Him and bearing fruit unto Him
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
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WHAT IS THE BIBLE?

What is the Bible, It's the truth about life, death, time, eternity. The truth about heaven and hell, the truth about right and wrong, the truth about people old and young, the truth about society, the truth about every relationship between God and man, every relationship between man and man and every relationship between man and creation. The truth about everything that's needful. So who do we go to get our truth and how do we grow, it is by God’s word.  Let’s be faithful to read and study it.
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 
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1 JOHN 3:10B–18 THE TEST OF LOVING THE BRETHREN

3:10b he who does not love his brother. This phrase introduces the readers to the second aspect of the moral test, i.e., the test of love (as in 2:7–11). John develops this thought through vv. 11–24. The false teachers not only had an erroneous view of Christ’s nature and displayed disobedience to God’s commands, but they also displayed a distinct lack of love for true believers, who rejected their heretical teaching.[i]
 
The primary aim of this section is to combat false teachers who are corrupting the fundamentals of the faith. These verses further amplify, reiterate and emphasize the moral test already presented by John (see 2:3–6,7–11). Verses 4–10 convey that genuine believers practice righteousness, while vv. 11–24 relate that genuine believers practice love toward fellow believers. John was very concerned that Christians know how to tell the true from the false; the genuine from the artificial; true believers from false ones. He presents tests here and throughout this letter to help determine the validity of anybody’s claims to be a Christian.[ii]
1Jo 3:11 ¶ For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
that will be grace and glory. But to live below the saints we know, Well, that’s another story.”
 
Someone has said, “I love mankind, it is just people I can’t stand.” No, loving fellow Christians in the face of irritation is a true test of love from the divine nature. Christians should love one another because they have a common origin – the family of God.
As Nelson drew his ship to battle against the Dutch fleet, two of his English officers were quarrelling. He flung himself between them and pointing to the ships of Holland said, “Gentlemen, there are your enemies!”
Our enemies are not fellow Christians.
 
12 not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.
 
John in this verse sets forth two representatives of two different spiritual families: the family of God and the family of Satan. Cain represents the family of Satan and Abel represents the family of God. These families stand in stark contrast to one another.
 
not as Cain
John says what love is not before he says what love is. It is not the attitude and action that Cain had toward Abel (Ge 4:8), it is Cain’s jealous resentment toward his brother’s more acceptable sacrifice that drove him to kill Abel (Ge 4:1-7). Cain was religious but lost. He was lost because his sacrifice was not acceptable to God.
 
who was of the wicked one
The origin of Cain’s sin came from Satan; it came out of his spiritual relationship with Satan. The word “of” means origin, source. The source of Cain’s behavior is in the Devil. Cain did not become a child of the Devil by murdering his brother. He murdered his brother because he was a child of the Devil. His spiritual birth was of the Devil (John 3:8).
Cain’s murderous attitude came out of his sense of failure before God. He viewed Abel as a rival in spiritual things. All this finds its source in Satan. As Cain came out of the family of Satan so he demonstrates that relationship by his act of rejecting God’s system of payment for sin – a blood sacrifice.
and murdered his brother.
 
Cain was a physical brother to Abel but not a spiritual brother. They came from two different spiritual families. Cain murdered his brother for spiritual reasons.
Principle: Actions always arise out of either the sin nature or the divine nature, either from Satan or from God.
 
 
Application: What is the origin of spiritual rebellion? It does not begin in man. Love springs from God and hate originates in the Devil. If you are in the grip of hate, it has a satanic source
 
The unregenerate person remains under the influence of Satan. This was our course of life before we became Christians. We rejected salvation by grace. Most non-Christians do not have a clue that this is the case with them.
Eph. 2:1 “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.”
 
And why did he murder him?
Cain did not kill his brother because he was a bad person. He killed him because of the nature of his sacrifice to God. Abel’s sacrifice was a sacrifice of grace while Cain’s sacrifice was a sacrifice of works. Cain hated the grace concept.
Cain did more than murder his brother – he slaughtered him. The Greek often uses the word “murder” for ritual slaying. Literally, it means to cut the throat. Sometimes the Greek uses this term for slaughtering a goat. This is a grisly picture of holding Abel’s head back to cut his throat and jugular vein. Cain butchered his brother. It is a violent term for putting to death by violence.
 
Cain said to God in effect, “You want a blood sacrifice, do you? I will give you one – I’ll shed the blood of my brother as a ritual sacrifice. There, how do like your bloody sacrifice now?” Cain hated God’s system of blood sacrifice because it rests on salvation by grace. He wanted to bring the work of his own hands, the fruit of the field. 1 John 97
He believed in salvation by personal merit and good works.
Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous
 
Cain hated what Abel represented. Abel’s sacrifice represented grace. Cain’s sacrifice represented works. Cain believed that a person could work his way into acceptance with God by merit. These two brothers came from the same physical family and the same environment but ended in two different outcomes.
Cain is a picture of John’s enemies who seceded from the assembly of believers. They belonged to the evil one. They attacked genuine believers because as members of Satan’s family they were committed to salvation by works. This was the same with the crowd that attacked Jesus Himself. Jesus called those religious leaders children of the Devil (John 8:39-44; 13:2,27).
Principle: Christians will pay a price for taking a stand on grace.
Application: As Cain hated Abel because of his stand on grace, so non-Christians hate Christians because of their belief in salvation by grace. Grace flies in the face of human achievement and self-help. Man wants to come to God his way, not God’s way, “I’ll find God my way, I don’t need any help”. The world loves religion but hates grace. God received Abel’s sacrifice of grace but not Cain’s sacrifice of works.
Heb. 11:4 “By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.”
 
13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.
The Greek indicates that John’s readers were already in the process of marveling over the reaction against their message, “Stop marveling over the world’s hatred of grace.
 
my brethren,
John takes up a new mode of address with the words “my brethren.” This is the only place where John calls his readers “brethren”. John identifies himself as a brother with them in being attacked for his stand on grace found only in Jesus Christ.
if the world hates you
The world always hates the grace means of salvation and sanctification (He 11:36-40). Salvation by grace is inherently inimical to the non-Christian. Those spiritually dead always hate those spiritually alive.
Principle: The world hates the message of grace because it shows them that they are sinners and need salvation.
 
Rom. 11:6 “And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.”
 
 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
 
We know that we have passed from death to life,
The Christian transitions from death to life at the point of his salvation. The words “have passed” denote to change place, to pass over from one place to another. The Christian changed his place of residence from eternal death to eternal life. The only other occurrence of this term is in John 5:24.
The Greek tense for “we have passed” means that we permanently passed from death to life at one point with the results continuing on [perfect tense]. The transfer from eternal death to eternal life took place at a point in the past; eternal life began at salvation and continues forever.
 
A Christian does not receive eternal life in the future. He received it at a point in the past. Eternal life began for him at the point of salvation (John 5:24). That was a permanent event. It will never change. He received eternal life and eternal life is eternal life, not temporal life.
John 5:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”
 
because we love the brethren.
Love for fellow Christians is verification that we passed into the sphere of eternal life at the point of salvation.
John 13:35 “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
He who does not love his brother abides in death
We do not earn eternal life by love but we evidence eternal life by love. Lack of love for Christians is an indication of spiritual death. Part and parcel of spiritual death is lack of love.
Eph. 2:1 “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins…”
Love, on the other hand, indicates that the reality of spiritual life abides in the believer. Loving Christians is an evidence of faith in Christ.
Principle: Loving Christians gives assurance that we possess eternal life.
Application: It is evident that we have come to know Christ if we love Christians. It is also apparent that God gave us the capacity to love. This is convincing, conclusive evidence of having passed into eternal life. When we fall in love with the Son of God we automatically fall in love with the child of God.
True love begins at conversion because we love with the love of God. This kind of love is a sign of new birth and the divine nature. God’s very nature is love (1 John 4:8). This love enables us to love the unlovely, to love those who irritate us. We can love those who mistreat us. This is the mark of the new nature in Christ.
Some Christians hate other Christians. They resent and are bitter toward people in their church. They may even hate people in their own family. It is clear that these Christians are carnal believers.
 
 
 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
 16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Loving some member of the family of God is not easy but God wants us to love unloving Christians. You may have heard the following jingle that reveals the true state of love among some believers today,
“To dwell above with the saints we love, Oh, that will be glory, but to dwell below with the saints we know now that's another story.
[i]MacArthur, John Jr: The MacArthur Study Bible. electronic ed. Nashville : Word Pub., 1997, c1997, S. 1 Jn 3:7
[ii]MacArthur, John Jr: The MacArthur Study Bible. electronic ed. Nashville : Word Pub., 1997, c1997, S. 1 Jn 3:4
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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OBEYING THE WORD OF GOD

Mark 4:23 says If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” What is it that God is saying to you and me today that we need to hear and obey?  Has He asked us to do something or quit something?  We need to always be attentive to hear that still small voice of God that speaks and obey immediately when we hear it. 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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1 JOHN 3:4–10 - 4 REASONS WHY TRUE CHRISTIANS CANNOT HABITUALLY PRACTICE SIN

The primary aim of this section is to combat false teachers who are corrupting the fundamentals of the faith. These verses further amplify, reiterate and emphasize the moral test already presented by John (see 2:3–6,7–11). Verses 4–10 convey that genuine believers practice righteousness, while vv. 11–24 relate that genuine believers practice love toward fellow believers. John was very concerned that Christians know how to tell the true from the false; the genuine from the artificial; true believers from false ones. He presents tests here and throughout this letter to help determine the validity of anybody’s claims to be a Christian.
These verses deal with the Christian’s incompatibility with sin. The false teachers that John combated, because of their gnostic-like concepts discounted the significance of sin and the need for obedience. Because of their philosophical dualism, they viewed matter as inherently bad, and as a result, any sins committed in the physical realm as inconsequential.
John 8:31,34–36; Rom. 6:11; 2 John 9
v4 The first reason why Christians cannot practice sin is because sin is incompatible with the law of God which they love ( 119:34,77,97; Rom. 7:12,22).
3:4 commits sin. The verb, “commits,” in the Greek. conveys the idea of making sin a habitual practice. Although genuine Christians have a sin nature (1:8), and do commit and need to confess sin (1:9; 2:1), that is not the unbroken pattern of their lives. A genuinely born again believer has a built-in check or guard against habitual sinning due to a new nature (“born of God”—v. 9; Rom. 6:12)
sin is lawlessness. The term “lawlessness” conveys more than transgressing God’s law. It conveys the ultimate sense of rebellion, i.e., living as if there was no law or ignoring what laws exist (James 4:17).
V5-7 A second reason why Christians cannot practice sin is because it is incompatible with the work of Christ.
3:5 He was manifested to take away our sins
Christ died to sanctify (i.e., make holy) the believer (2 Cor. 5:21; Eph. 5:25–27). To sin is contrary to Christ’s work of breaking the dominion of sin in the believer’s life (Rom. 6:1–15).
3:6 does not sin Like the phrase “commits sin” of verse 4, the sense conveyed here is the idea of habitual, constant sinning.
Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. If no check against habitual sin exists in someone who professes to be a Christian, John’s pronouncement is absolutely clear—salvation never took place.
3:7 let no one deceive you. The word “deceive” means “to be lead astray.” Since false teachers were attempting to pervert the fundamentals of the faith, the possibility existed that some Christians might be fooled into accepting what they were advocating. To prevent this deception from occurring, John repeatedly emphasized the basics of Christianity, e.g., the need for obedience, the need for love, and the need for a proper view of Christ
practices righteousness. The genuine believer’s habitual lifestyle of righteousness stands in sharp contrast to those false teachers who practiced sin (cf. vv. 4,6). Since Christ died on the cross to transform sinners, those truly born again have replaced the habit of sin with the habit of righteous living (Rom. 6:13,14).
just as He is righteous. Those who are truly born again reflect the divine nature of the Son. They behave like Him, manifesting the power of His life in them (Gal. 2:20).
v8 A third reason why Christians cannot practice sin is because Christ came to destroy the works of the arch-sinner, Satan
3:8 He who sins. This phrase means “who habitually practice sin” (see notes on vv. 4,6).
of the devil. The phrase gives the source of the false teachers’ actions. The term “devil” means “accuser” or “slanderer.” Not only does Satan (“adversary”) oppose God and his plan, but is the originator and instigator of sin and rebellion against God and His law (v. 4; see notes on Eph. 6:10–17). Therefore, all the unsaved are under the diabolic influence of Satan. Their sinful lifestyle reflects their satanic origin (see note on Eph. 2:1). John contrasts the children of God with the children of Satan in terms of their actions. While those who are truly born again reflect the habit of righteousness, Satan’s children practice sin.
from the beginning. Since Satan was originally created as perfect and only later rebelled against God (Is. 14:12–14; Ezek. 28:12–17), John probably means the moment of his rebellion against God, the beginning of his rebellious career. Since sin characterizes him completely, so everyone characterized by sin must derive from him (cf. John 8:44).
For this purpose … that He might destroy. The devil is still operating, but he has been defeated and in Christ we escape his tyranny. The day will come when all of Satan’s activity will cease in the universe and he will be sent to hell forever (Rev. 20:10).
works of the devil. This summarizes a variety of the devil’s activities: sin, rebellion, temptation, ruling the world, persecution and accusation of saints, instigation of false teachers, power of death (e.g., Luke 8:12; John 8:44; Acts 5:3; 1 Cor. 7:5; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph. 6:11,12; 1 Thess. 2:18; Heb. 2:14; Rev. 12:10).
v9-10 The fourth reason why Christians cannot practice sin is because it is incompatible with the ministry of the Holy Spirit, who has imparted a new nature to the believer
3:9 (John 3:5–8). born of God. John wrote here of the new birth (John 3:7). When people become Christians, God makes them new creatures with new natures (2 Cor. 5:17). Believers have God’s characteristics because they have been born into God’s family. This new nature exhibits the habitual character of righteousness produced by the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22–24). John repeats this phrase twice for emphasis.
His seed. The new birth involves the acquisition of a seed, which refers to the principle of life of God imparted to the believer at salvation’s new birth. John uses this image of a planted seed to picture the divine element involved in being born again. See notes on 1 Peter 1:23–25.
1 Peter 1:23 not of corruptible seed. The spiritual life implanted by the Holy Spirit to produce the new birth is unfailing and permanent. through the word of God. The Spirit uses the Word to produce life. It is the truth of the gospel that saves. See note on Rom. 10:17.
1 Peter 1:24,25 Peter enforces his point about the power of the Word to regenerate by quoting from Is. 40:6–8
Is 40:6–8 All flesh … flower fades. Isaiah elaborated on how transitory humanity is: here today, gone tomorrow. People pass away like plants under the hot breath of the withering E wind. James used this illustration to teach the folly of trusting in material wealth (James 1:10,11). Peter used it to illustrate the passing nature of everything related to humanity (1 Pet. 1:24,25).
Is 40:8 the word of our God stands forever. The permanence of God’s word guarantees against any deviation from the divine plan (55:11). He has promised Jerusalem’s deliverance (v. 2) through His coming (vv. 3–5), so it must happen that way (cf. Matt. 5:18; Luke 16:17).
remains. The word conveys the idea of the permanence of the new birth which cannot be reversed, for those who are truly born again are permanently transformed into a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15; Eph. 2:10).
He cannot sin. This phrase once again conveys the idea of habitual sinning (see vv. 4,6).
3:10 This summary verse is the key to vv. 4–10. Only two kinds of children exist in the world: children of God and children of Satan. No one can belong to both families simultaneously. Either one belongs to God’s family and exhibits His righteous character or one belongs to Satan’s family and exhibits his sinful nature.
3:10b he who does not love his brother. This phrase introduces the readers to the second aspect of the moral test, i.e., the test of love (as in 2:7–11). John develops this thought through vv. 11–24. The false teachers not only had an erroneous view of Christ’s nature and displayed disobedience to God’s commands, but they also displayed a distinct lack of love for true believers, who rejected their heretical teaching.[1]
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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LET THE REEDEMED SAY SO

If we are Christians we have been redeemed (saved) and can praise God because He has forgiven all our sin and blessed us in ways that we could not even begin to understand. In churches we they used to have a time where they would say let the redeemed of the Lord say so and people would stand up and give a testimony of how good God was and how He had worked in their life. Would you do that here today or somewhere and let others know how Good God IS.
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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1 JOHN 3:1-3:3 THE BELIEVER’S HOPE PART 2

Therefore the world does not know us,
The word “know” means to know by experience of observation. Unbelievers did not understand Christ when He was among them. Neither can the world understand Christians when they observe them. The believer’s worldview is so distinct from the world that non-Christians cannot recognize their quality of life.
John 1:10 “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.”
John 14:16-17, 1 Cor. 2:14, 1 Cor. 1:18
3:2 We will be like Him and will see Him as He is
The hope of Christ’s return is that when Christ returns He shall conform every believer to His image
1Tim 6:13-16
John 5:24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
Immediately we are his children
We will be like Him - Phil. 3:20, 1Co 15:42-43
1 Cor. 15:49, 1 Cor. 15:51 “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
2 Cor. 3:18 “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
Rom. 8:29
3:3 We will purify ourselves as He is pure, This proves our salvation
Living in the reality of Christ’s return makes a difference in a Christian’s behavior
1Peter 1:22
Rom. 15:12 “And again, Isaiah says: ‘There shall be a root of Jesse; And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, In Him the Gentiles shall hope.’”
1 Tim. 4:10 “For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.”
1 Tim. 5:5 “Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.”
Phil. 3:12 “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
just as He is pure
The word “He” is emphatic – “Just as He Himself is pure.” How pure is Jesus? He is perfect purity. Jesus is free from any contamination of sin. Christ was infinitely and permanently holy in Himself as God but he maintained freedom from sin in His humanity.
Principle: Cleansing of sin is crucial for fellowship
2Cor. 7:1, 2Peter 3:18

1 JOHN 2:28-3:1 THE BELIEVER’S HOPE PART 1

1 John 2:28-3:1 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him. 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
John 2:28-3:3 deal with the motivation for righteousness – the Rapture. Those who anticipate the Rapture will meet the Lord with an attitude of courage. The reason for this courage is their walk with Him in time. They are confident of their fellowship with Him.
Righteousness - Love that satisfies Justice
Marked by; the birth they have experienced
2:28 We abide in Him, He keeps us from falling from grace  
The hope of Christ’s return sustains our faith.
Abiding in Him means that we believe the Lord’s promises, we apply His principles and we love Him and serve Him. You abide in Christ by believing the truth, obeying the truth, and loving other Christians[1] We allow the Holy Spirit to fill and control us. We trust Him in everything.
Abiding means that we willingly do God’s will. It may mean that we must deal radically with some sin or injury. If we abide in Him, we are prepared to do what He asks of us. It means we accept our present situation. We may not like it but we believe in His sovereign hand on our lives. We accept His design for our lives. Abiding in Him may mean that we may have to deal with a broken relationship.
that when He appears,
1Thess. 4:16-18
Appear. This is the first mention in this epistle of the promised return of Christ. The Book of Revelation deals in detail with future events. The epistle (1 John 2:28–3:3; 4:17) merely mentions the return of Christ and a coming day of judgment.[2]ought to be an incentive for us to live in fellowship with Him and be obedient to His Word. [i]
2 Tim. 4:8
Anticipation of the Rapture purifies our heart. It keeps us in a state of expectancy.
Christians agree that Christ is returning for His church (1 Thes. 4:13–18). Though Christians will not then be judged for their sins, they will be judged on the basis of their faithfulness in serving Christ (1 Cor. 3:10–15). Those who have been faithful will receive rewards (1 Cor. 4:5); and those who have not been faithful will lose rewards. This event is called “the Judgment Seat of Christ” (Rom. 14:10; 2 Cor. 5:10); do not confuse it with the “Great White Throne Judgment” of unsaved people at the end of time (Rev. 20:11–15).[ii]
There is nothing like the hope of the coming of Christ in a situation in bleak circumstances. The fact that Jesus Christ may return at any moment
We may have confidence It comes to mean fearless confidence when Jesus comes. This means a person with nothing between his soul and the Savior can meet Him when He returns with open arms.
and not be ashamed before Him at His coming
2 Cor. 5:9, Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
No matter in which direction a Christian looks, he finds reason to obey God. If he looks back, he sees Calvary, where Christ died for him. If he looks within, he sees the Holy Spirit who lives within and teaches him the truth. If he looks around, he sees his Christian brethren whom he loves; he also sees a world lost in sin, desperately needing his godly witness. And if he looks ahead, he sees the return of Christ! “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure” (1 John 3:3). The return of Christ is a great inspiration for godly living.4
 
Co 1:22, Ph 2:12, John 6:37-38, 8:31-32,
1Co 3:12-15, 1Co 4:5
2:29 We habitually practice righteousness, because He lives in us
The hope of Christ’s return makes righteousness a habit
A life characterized by sin is not compatible with a God of absolute righteousness.
Note the emphasis on the two words for “know” in this verse: “If you know…you know.” These are two different Greek words for know. The first word for “know” means to know inherently, “If you know inherently or are aware that He is righteous.”
The second Greek word means perceive, experientially know, “You discern or perceive that….” That is, “If you clearly understand that the Lord is absolutely righteous, you will know by experience that those who reflect His righteousness are spiritually born of Him.”  I.E. Doing righteousness is proof of salvation. “If you know how God behaves, then you will know that whoever behaves like God is born of him.”
Is born of Him John 3:3-8
Rom. 3:21-22
John has written about light and darkness, love and hatred, and truth and error; and in 1 John 2:29 he sums up the whole matter of Christian living in one phrase—“doing righteousness.” The life that is real is a life of doing, not simply talking (“If we say,” 1 John 1:8–2:9) or giving mental assent that a doctrine is correct. “Not every one that saith unto Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven” (Matt. 7:21, italics added). Christians do not simply believe the truth; they do it (1 John 1:6).[3]
2 Cor. 13:5 Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you cfail the test?
3:1 We are greatly loved and are called the children of God (Behold - an unveiling)
The believer’s hope is strengthened by the fact that God’s love initiated his salvation
Behold-
What manner of love – Rom 5:1-11 without strength, sinners, enemies
Eph 1:3-6
Take note of the amazing, pure, undying love of God for us.”
of a mother for her child.
Jer. 31:3 “The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: ‘Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.’”
Rom. 8:38 “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Eph. 2:4 “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us…”
2 Thess. 3:5 “Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.”
Special uses of the word “behold” in Scripture:
Jer. 23:5 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.”
John 1:29 “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!’”
1 Cor. 15:51 “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
2 Cor. 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
Jude 14 “Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 “to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
Rev. 1:7 “Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.”
Rev. 1:18 “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.”
Principle: God wants us to take special note of His unique love for us.
Application: God wants us to take special note of His unconditional love. He wants us to concentrate on the nature of His love. John calls attention to the wonderful exhibition of God’s love for us.
What manner of persons - burned up.
 2 Peter 3:11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
the Father has bestowed on us,
2 Cor. 9:15 “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”
God’s love is a donation to us. We do not earn it nor deserve it. It is of pure grace.
Rom. 8:32 “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”
that we should be called children of God! - John 1:12, Ro 8:15
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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1 JOHN 2:22–27 THE DOCTRINAL TEST OF TRUTH PART 2

False Believers Deny the Faith v20-25
Second, he defines the heresy of the antichrists, which is the chief heresy of all (vv. 22–23).[1]
V22- V23
1Jo 2:22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
The mention of lies versus truth in verse 21 leads John naturally to an analysis of the Gnostics’ errors. It is not their errors in general that he seizes upon but rather the fundamental error of their denial that Jesus is the Christ. Indeed, as he states it, this is not only the Gnostics’ error but also the most fundamental error that can be made by anyone. Therefore, it also has the most serious consequences. In writing about this denial of Jesus as the Christ, John calls it the lie, and the one who embraces it the liar. The kjv weakens this greatly by its mistaken translation, “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?”[2]
John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”
John 20:30 “And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.”
Col. 2:9 “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”
In John's day... a. They denied that Jesus is the Christ - cf. 1 Jn 2:22a
Many Gnostics alleged that Jesus and Christ were two different persons
That Christ merely appeared to have flesh, but in reality did not
b) Or that the Christ descended upon Jesus at His baptism and departed at the time of His suffering 2) It is this denial that Jesus Christ came in the flesh that John identifies as the spirit of the antichrist - 1Jo 4:3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
They denied the Father and the Son - cf. 1 Jn 2:22b-23
By denying that Jesus is the Christ, they were denying the Son (i.e., He who was "begotten of the Father" and who became flesh)! - cf. Jn 1:14
By denying the Son, they were in essence also denying the Father! - cf. John 13:20 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."
Today, an "antichrist" would be one...
Who denies Jesus to be the Messiah
Who denies the nature of Jesus (that He was fully God and fully man)
Acts 4:12 “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? --unless indeed you are disqualified.
To gain the full force of John’s statement, one must recognize that the confession “Jesus is the Christ” does not mean merely that Jesus is the Messiah of the Old Testament expectation.In other words, it becomes clear from the context that John is thinking of a confession of Christ’s full divinity. It is the belief that God became incarnate in Jesus as the Christ.[3]
 
We now see that Christ is denied whenever the things that belong to him are taken from him. And as Christ is the end of the Law and the Gospel and has within himself all the treasures of wisdom and understanding, so also is he the mark at which all heretics aim and direct their arrows. Therefore, the apostle has good reason to make those who fight against Christ the leading liars, since the full truth is exhibited to us in him.
According to Calvin, to confess that Jesus is the Christ is to confess the Christ of the Scriptures. To deny that Christ, by whatever means, is the heresy.[4]
John uses the phrase “has the Father.” In biblical language this is the equivalent of saying that the one who will not confess Jesus as the Christ remains unregenerate and therefore under God’s just condemnation. On the other hand, the one who finds Christ finds the Father also and both possesses and is possessed by him.[5]
 
Defense Against Heresy (vv. 24–27)
Third, he encourages those who are Christians to make use of their two most valuable defenses against heresy, namely, the truth of the gospel and the Holy Spirit (vv. 24–27).[6]
Twice in this section John has identified the denial of Jesus by the false teachers as the work of antichrist, that is, as the work of a terrifying demonic influence upon the congregations to whom he is writing. But if that is so, then the Christians might well ask, But what can we do against it? How can we guard ourselves against this adversary? John’s answer is that Christians are to make use of the two main weapons of defense that have been given to them.[7]
V24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
 The Word of God
The first of the Christians’ weapons is the word which they had heard from the beginning. Clearly, this refers to the gospel or basic apostolic teaching which they had heard at the beginning and which they had believed. In its fullest sense, however, it refers to the entire teaching of the Word of God. They are to let this Word abide in them and therefore guide and form them. By contrast, they are not to neglect it or minimize it while running off in a search for some new thing. For their part, Christians are to do as Paul advised Timothy:
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:14–17).[8]
Do not be carried away by the newfangled (modern, present day, current, up to date) Gnostic teaching.
By itself the apostolic teaching is not enough to keep Christians in the truth, however important and indispensable it may be, for the Gnostics had also heard the truth and yet had departed from it. The other element, which John’s readers have and the false teachers do not have, is the Holy Spirit who indeed teaches the Christian by making the Word come alive for him. John refers to the Holy Spirit by the phrases “the anointing” and “his anointing” (cf. v. 20). In these verses John touches on one aspect of that which became known at the time of the Reformation as the priesthood of all believers or, from the other side, the perspicuity (clarity, clearness) of the Word. It is the truth that the believer in Christ is not dependent on a higher order of churchman, whether priest or Gnostic, to interpret the Word of God for him. Rather, through the indwelling Spirit he has the means of understanding the Word for himself and of using what he finds there to combat heresy.[9]
V25 And this is the promise that He has promised us--eternal life.
False Believers Deceive the Faithful v26-28
V26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.
2 Peter 2:1 “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction”
1Jo 2:27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
 
The divine annointing does not replace ministerial teaching, but goes beyond it.
2Pe 1:3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,
When John says that the Christians of his day “do not need anyone to teach” them, the statement must be understood in its context. It does not mean, for instance, that there is no value at all in teaching or that there is no such thing as a teaching ministry in the church. In fact, as Bruce observes, “What is John himself doing in this letter if he is not ‘teaching’ his readers?” It only means that any valid and therefore useful teaching of the Lord’s people must be done by those who are themselves among the Lord’s people and that if Christians are confronted by the false teaching of unbelievers, they have within themselves the means of exploring the Scriptures and thus dividing truth from error. In knowing the truth they can remain firm.[10]
Job 36:22 "Behold, God is exalted by His power; Who teaches like Him?
John 16:12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 “He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 “All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.”
 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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JOHN 17:17 ARE WE GROWING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH

 
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32
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