The marks of true children of God are a correct view of Christ's person, love to God and one another, obedience to God's commandment, and faith, this being the victorious principle by which the world is overcome in its efforts to tempt us not to obey God. 1 JOHN 5:1_ a_. See 1 John 4:2 *. The full... [ Continue Reading ]
Reference to the faith held by the Church concerning Christ leads John to specify in symbolic terms what that faith was and the witness by which it was sustained. The truth belongs to the sphere of revelation and so has its source in God, but it is confirmed by the spiritual experience which it crea... [ Continue Reading ]
CONCLUSION. A reminder of the writer's purpose, an assertion of the value and also the limitations of intercessory prayer, and a summary of the teaching of the epistle. 1 JOHN 5:13. THAT. LIFE: John wishes his readers to have no misgiving as to the reality of their religious experience, though the... [ Continue Reading ]