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Category Archives: 1 John
What Happens Here Doesn’t Stay Here
15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 John 2:15-17, boastful pride of life, Colossians 1:13-14, love, lust, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, will of God, world
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You Gotta Love the One You’re With
The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. 1 John 2:9 It’s incredibly easy to hate your brother these days. Not as much a flesh and blood person … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 John 2:9, brother, Colossians 4:6, darkness, hate, light, love, Luke 23:24
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Know that You Know
3 By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5 but whoever keeps His word, in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 John 1:9, 1 John 2:3-6, abides, assurance, commandments, his word, liar, Psalm 103:12, truth
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All Lawyered Up
And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2 and He Himself is the propitiation (satisfaction) for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 John 2:1-2, advocate, attorney, Jesus Christ, lawyer, proitiation, righteous, Romans 3:10, sin
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The Impossible Dream
There was a popular song in the 1960s called The impossible Dream, taken from the Broadway play Man from La Mancha, a story about Don Quixote’s quest for glory. We fight a similar uphill battle against sin. As much as … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 John 1:9, confess, confession, darkness, fellowship, liar, lie, light, sin, The Impossible Dream
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Fellowship of the King
3 what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 These things we write, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 John 1:3-4, complete, fellowship, inner circle, Joy
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The Power to Love
7 Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. 8 On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which … Continue reading →