“Your whole life ought to be disciplined (i.e., structured, set up, organized, and running day by day) toward the goal of godliness. Everything that happens and everything that you do should contribute something toward reaching that goal. Monday through Saturday, not only Sunday, you must move toward the goal, one step, or two steps or […]
Tonight we start a new letter written by John to a Christian lady. In it we will have many of the truths we learned in 1 John repeated and demonstrated. “This epistle is more remarkable for the spirit of Christian love which it breathes than for anything else. It contains scarcely anything that is not […]
Last week we talked about four birthmarks identifying the children of God. The children of God are marked by: A belief that Jesus is the Christ. (John 5:1) A love for God the Father. (John 5:1) A love for all those born of God. (John 5:1) A love for God the Father (1 John 5:2) […]
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.” – Blaise Pascal I ran across this quote by Blaise Pascal while I was trying to remember something else he had once said that I had read and it made me laugh because this is so true. I […]
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, […]
19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and […]
11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12 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. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, […]
And now little children… Once again, John refers to those he is writing to tenderly as little children, teknia, is once again the Greek word used here, meaning infants, darlings (Christian converts). John moves from speaking about those who have fallen away to those he is sure know the truth. “I write to you not […]
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. […]
Remember What You Already Heard When we started this bible study in the introduction we talked about our great need to be reminded of truths we have already heard. I shared with you a quote from a book I read during our Christmas break that I am about to share with you again because […]
