by admin | Feb 4, 2024 | Christian Perfection, Discipleship, Faith, Following Christ, Holiness, Love, Obedience, Salvation
1 John 4:7-21 is all about love – the love God has for the world in sending Christ to be the propitiation for sin and the love we can have for God through Christ. We have previously dealt quite a bit with love in 1 John, so the focus of this post will be 1 John 4:18,...
by admin | Jan 14, 2024 | Christian Perfection, Discipleship, Faith, Following Christ, Holiness, Love, Obedience, Salvation
There are false teachers in the world, and unfortunately, there are people in the world who inflict damage upon others. However, this is no excuse for not following Christ and committing our lives to Christ in obedience and righteousness. R.A. Torrey wrote along these...
by admin | Dec 31, 2023 | Christian Perfection, Discipleship, Faith, Following Christ, Holiness, Love, Obedience, Salvation
Love of others and obedience to God are central in the remaining verses of 1 John 3. They are presented as proofs of our abiding in Christ. In verse 11, John recites the second greatest commandment, that we should love each other. Matthew 22:39 He also says “from the...
by admin | Dec 25, 2023 | Christian Perfection, Faith, Grace, Justification by Faith, Salvation, Sin
The people who walk in darkness will see a great light; those who live in a dark land, the light will shine on them. Isaiah 9:2 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on...
by admin | Dec 24, 2023 | Christian Perfection, Discipleship, Faith, Following Christ, Holiness, Love, Obedience, Salvation
John now shifts his message toward false teaching and truth. We will see this again in 1 John 4:1, where he makes it our obligation to weed out the false from the true. I believe it is safe to say that 1 John 2:18-29 was written as an obligation. We are to know the...