“The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.” 1 John 3:8b (NIV) Some of you are still fighting a war Christ won. You brace yourself daily for a fight that has already ended. John’s church…
“Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.” 1 John 3:12 (NIV) A quiet comparison can…
“All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.” 1 John 3:3 (NIV) Real hope was never meant to make you lazy. John’s church had recently been shaken by teachers who convinced some to leave.…
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” 1 John 3:1a (NIV) Some of us still audition for love we already have. We check…
“As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.” 1 John 2:24 (NIV) You feel like everyone else is further…
“Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist, denying the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the…
“They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.” 1 John 2:19…
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the…
“Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning.” 1 John 2:7 (NIV) You keep waiting for God to say something new. Maybe you scroll for a fresh…
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 (NIV) Many of us think confession…