Beyond the Message

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Beyond the Message episodes

March 16 1 John 3: 4-10
What makes it obvious that someone truly belongs to God? In this message from 1 John 3:4–10, we are confronted with John’s sobering claim that it is evident who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil. That raises an uncomfortable but necessary question: if we say we belong to Christ, does our life make that clear? John does not teach sinless perfection, but he does insist that genuine new birth produces a new pattern of life. Jesus came not only to forgive our sins, but also to destroy our sinning. The cross does more than remove guilt—it gives us promises and hope that weaken sin’s appeal. As we fix our eyes on the love of the Father shown in Christ, we are moved away from complacency and despair and toward a life that increasingly reflects the reality that we have been born of God.
Message Highlights:John says it is obvious who belongs to God and who does not.
The issue is not whether Christians ever sin, but whether they make a settled practice of sinning.
John is confronting a deceptive attitude toward sin: that it is no big deal or that grace gives permission to live however we want.
Jesus appeared to take away sins and to destroy the works of the devil.
Genuine believers still struggle with sin, but they cannot live in ongoing, unchallenged, embraced rebellion.
John warns against both extremes: complacency toward sin and despair over sin
The difference-maker is new birth: God’s seed abides in the believer.
A key sign of spiritual life is the effectiveness of God’s Word in a person’s heart.
The real issue behind our sinning problem is often a seeing problem—we are not seeing the beauty of Christ clearly enough.
Main Point: New life in Christ will be evident in new lifestyles.
Practical application:
Take sin seriously: Refuse the lie that sin is harmless or that grace makes holiness optional.
Run from despair: When you fail, don’t spiral into hopelessness—remember that Christ is your advocate and forgiver.
Ask how God’s Word affects you: Does it convict you, comfort you, and move you to repentance and faith?
Look at the cross often: The cross does not just forgive sin; it weakens sin’s appeal by showing us a better love and a better promise.
Fight your seeing problem: When sin looks attractive, deliberately “see” again the love of the Father in Christ until your heart is stirred toward obedience.
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Heart
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
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19 min
March 09 1 John 3:1-3
What helps Christians pursue holiness in a world full of distraction? In 1 John 3:1–3, we are called to “see” two life-changing realities: the Father’s love and the Son’s return. John reminds believers that we are not just forgiven sinners—we are beloved children of God right now. And though what we will be is not yet fully visible, one day Christ will appear, and we will be made like Him. That future hope is not meant to stay abstract or theological; it is meant to shape present holiness. As we fix our eyes on the Father’s love and the Son’s return, we are strengthened to practice righteousness, resist distraction, and pursue purity in the present.
Message Highlights:John begins with a command to “see” or behold the Father’s love.
The Father’s love is both great in magnitude and foreign in quality—a kind of love the world does not understand.The result of that love is astonishing: we are called children of God—and so we are.Believers are not merely labeled as God’s children; this is their present identity.The world does not know believers because it did not know Christ.Two major distractions that wreck purity:1) The world’s acceptance 2) The world’s affliction
John shifts our attention from who we are now to what we will be when Christ appears.
At Christ’s return, believers will see Him as He is and become like Him.
Present holiness is fueled by future hope: “everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as He is pure.”
Purity is not earned righteousness, but the practice of those who have already been born of Him.
Main Point: Pursue purity by focusing on the Father’s love and the Son’s return.
Practical application:
Fix your gaze on the Father’s love: When you feel overlooked, rejected, or unimpressive, remember you are already loved and chosen by God.
Fight for purity with hope: Don’t merely focus on saying no to sin; focus on the coming Christ and the glory still ahead.
Identify your distractions: Ask honestly whether you are more controlled by the world’s approval or by the pain of this present life.
Use your future to strengthen your present: Let the certainty of Christ’s return reshape how you respond to temptation, suffering, and discouragement.Invite others into the fight: Be the kind of church member who reminds others, “You are loved now, and Jesus is coming back.”
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Heart
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
Do you have a question you want us to address? Submit it now!
32 min
March 02 1 John 2:28-29
Ian, Jake, and Sam discuss the sermon on 1 John 2:28-29, which causes us to ask ourselves a powerful question: When Jesus returns, will you have confidence—or shrink back in shame? John reminds us that Christ’s return is not hypothetical; it is promised. The issue isn’t if He’s coming back, but whether we are ready. Real confidence doesn’t come from comparative morality, religious activity, or presuming on God’s kindness. It comes from abiding in Christ—a life of union with Him, shaped by His Word, and marked by growing obedience. As we abide, we don’t just endure the last hour—we begin to anticipate His appearing with joy.
Main Point: Abide in Jesus to live for Jesus to be ready for the return of Jesus.
Message Highlights:
We are in the “last hour” — living in the final chapter of redemptive history.
Christ’s return is certain (John 14; Mark 8; Titus 2). The question is readiness.
Two responses at His appearing (1 John 2:28): Confidence (eager expectation, longing). Shrinking back in shame (fear, regret, exposure).
John’s warning fits his larger theme: make real believers confident, make false confidence uncomfortable.
Misplaced confidence shows up in: Comparative morality. Presuming on God’s kindness without repentance. Religious activity without love for Christ.
True confidence comes from abiding.
Abiding defined (John 15): Begins with union with Christ (you must belong to abide). Requires His Word abiding in you (not just reading it, but dwelling in it).Is expressed through obedience (not perfection, but trajectory).
Knowing Christ as righteous produces practicing righteousness (1 John 2:29).
Abiding produces not just readiness—but anticipation.
Practical application:
Examine your confidence: Is it rooted in Christ—or in comparison, habit, or assumption?
Strengthen union before activity: Don’t try to “abide better” without first resting in belonging to Christ by faith.
Move from recharge to connection: Treat your soul less like a battery and more like a branch—stay connected throughout the day.
Let the Word dwell richly: Build rhythms of meditation, memorization, and application—not just consumption.
Practice visible obedience: Ask, “Does my knowing of Christ produce a growing righteousness in my life?”
Cultivate anticipation: Regularly reflect on Christ’s return (Matthew 24–25; Revelation 19). Let hope shape daily choices.
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Heart
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
Do you have a question you want us to address? Submit it now!
34 min
February 23 1 John 2 18-27
Ian, Jake, and Sam discuss the sermon on 1 John 2:18-27 where the alarm bell is ringing: deception isn’t accidental—it’s intentional. John says plainly, “I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you,” and that reality should wake us up. In the “last hour,” false teachers and spiritual opposition work with strategy to pull believers away from Christ, distort the truth about Jesus, and normalize compromise. But John doesn’t leave the church afraid—he points them to their comfort and protection: believers have been anointed by the Holy One (the Spirit of truth), and God preserves his own. The call is not just to feel comforted by the gospel, but to take refuge in it—by letting the apostolic word abide in us so we abide in the Son and the Father. In a world of lies, safety is found in closeness to God through his Word.
Main Point: The Word of God is the way the people of God take refuge in God.
Message Highlights:
The punch-in-the-face verse (v.26): there are people (and spiritual opposition) trying—with effort and strategy—to deceive you.
“Last hour” urgency: the coming of Christ inaugurated the last days; we’re living in the final chapter of God’s redemptive story.
Antichrist (singular) and antichrists (plural): a climactic deceiver is coming, but many deceivers already operate—deception is their game.
False teachers came from within (v.19): “They went out from us… but they were not of us.” Their departure clarified truth and exposed error.
A needed warning: don’t idolize unity if it requires compromising truth; real unity gathers around truth.
Comfort for believers (v.20): “You have been anointed by the Holy One” — the Spirit’s presence gives real knowledge.
What the “knowledge” is: not mere facts about Jesus, but truth about who Jesus really is—and the Spirit opens eyes to Jesus as precious, worthy, and central.
The core lie exposed (v.22–23): distort or deny the Son, and you lose the Father; true confession of the Son means true fellowship with the Father.
Key directive (v.24–27): abide—let what you heard “from the beginning” (apostolic truth) abide in you.
A major principle: don’t pit Spirit against Word—the Spirit works through the Word, not around it.
A strong pastoral turn: don’t only take comfort in the gospel; take refuge in the gospel—daily dependence, not complacency.
Practical application:
Adopt “game time” urgency: stop assuming you’re neutral; you’re being targeted by lies. Live with alertness, not drift.
Test the Jesus being preached: not “do you believe in Jesus?” but “which Jesus?”—distortions are often subtle, not outright denials.
Measure your dependence: do you think you needed God (past tense) or you need God (present tense)? That posture reveals spiritual health.
Make Word-abiding normal: build daily patterns where Scripture is not a backup plan but the main refuge—because protection against lies comes by knowing truth.
Stay in the church with truth: separation can clarify, but isolation makes deception easier. Pursue truth and fellowship together.
Refuse “comfort-only Christianity”: if “I’m forgiven” produces disengagement, you’ve turned comfort into complacency. Let comfort fuel refuge—run to Christ.
Can I lose my salvation? The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints
Rescuing the Gospel - Erwin Lutzer
What it Means to be Protestant - Gavin Ortlund
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Heart
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
Do you have a question you want us to address? Submit it now!
39 min
February 161 John 2:15-17
This sermon lands on 1 John’s first explicit imperative: “Do not love the world.” John isn’t condemning God’s creation or people, but warning against worldliness—the seductive system of values that makes sin feel normal and holiness feel strange. This text presses a personal question: if the world feels more worldly, is it possible we’ve become more worldly too? John confronts the fantasy that we can “have both”—love God and love the world—showing that divided loyalties create spiritual compromise, foolish investment in what’s passing away, and even a quiet loneliness inside the church. The call is to “break up with the world” so we can recover fellowship with God and the sweet fellowship that grows among believers who share the narrow road together.
Main Point: To profess Christ and love the world is unacceptable and foolish.
Message Highlights:
The first clear command in 1 John: “Do not love the world or the things in the world.”
Clarifying “world”: not creation/people (God loves the world), but worldliness—an anti-God value system shaped by the “ruler of this world.”
A working definition of worldliness: anything that makes sin seem normal and holiness seem weird.
Why not love the world? Three incentives in the text (1 John 2:15–17):
Loving the world is incompatible with the Father’s love (“the love of the Father is not in him”).
The world and its desires are passing away—it’s a bad investment.
Doing God’s will abides forever—eternal durability beats temporary payoff.
John confronts “you can have both”: you can’t serve two masters; a profession without a matching practice exposes a disconnect.
Three categories diagnosing worldliness (v.16):
Desires of the flesh (sinful cravings)
Desires of the eyes (coveting what you see)
Pride of life (status/possessions/livelihood identity)
Three signs you may love the world:
Craving its approval
Chasing its rewards
Fearing its end
A key tension-point: holiness talk triggers “legalism” defenses, but John insists you can have good things with God—just not over God.
A striking connection: spiritual “affairs” (trying to love God and the world) produce double loneliness—and weak church fellowship often correlates with weak shared resistance to worldliness.
The narrow road implication: the path is narrow, so true travelers are close together—shared pursuit deepens bond.
Practical application:
Audit your loves: Where are your strongest cravings—approval, comfort, image, money, ease, experiences? Identify what you “need” to feel secure or significant.
Name your “over-God” risks: Not “can I have this?” but “has this become over God?” (calendar, sports, money, entertainment, reputation).
Break up patterns, not just behaviors: worldliness begins in the heart—repent at the level of desire, not only the level of actions.
Choose visible “different”: take one concrete area where you’ve drifted into normalizing sin or treating holiness as weird, and re-align your practice with your profession.
Pursue fellowship through shared holiness: don’t wait for community to happen accidentally—bond forms as you walk the narrow road together, resisting the same pressures with the same hope.
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Heart
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
Do you have a question you want us to address? Submit it now!
42 min
February 091 John 2:12-14
In this episode, Michael, Jake, and Sam revisit yesterday’s message on 1 John 2:12-14, as Michael called it John’s “halftime speech”. After several weeks of weighty “tests” found in 1 John 1:1-2:11, (holiness, obedience, love), John pauses to strengthen weary saints who are tempted to quit, negotiate with sin, or spiral into insecurity. Instead of giving more commands, he gives identity-shaping realities—forgiveness, fellowship, and victory—so believers keep fighting for joy and against sin with confidence in Christ, not confidence in self.
Highlights from the message:
John’s stated purposes so far: “That our joy may be complete” (1 John 1:4) and “So that you may not sin” (1 John 2:1)
The tests can feel unsettling—on purpose: Unsettling can be God’s kindness exposing false security. But genuine believers can also feel discouraged or shaken by the weight.
A shift from commands to reminders: John repeats realities rather than issuing new imperatives. Repetition builds confidence for the fight.
Three audiences (children / fathers / young men): likely spiritual maturity emphases, but the truths apply to all genuine believers.
Little children: “Your sins are forgiven” and “you know the Father.” Forgiveness is “sent away” and rests on account of Jesus, not personal performance.
Fathers: “You know him who is from the beginning” → deep, experiential knowing of Jesus. Maturity is not just information; it’s a life marked by having “been with Jesus.”
Young men: “You have overcome the evil one” (repeated) You are strong because the Spirit is in you and the Word abides in you (weapon for the fight).
Motivation isn’t “try harder” or “earn grace,” but forgiveness, fellowship, and overcoming in Christ—confidence in Jesus’ victory fuels perseverance.
Main Point: Motivation for the battle comes from confidence in the victory of Jesus.
Practical application:
When you sin: don’t spiral into earning-mode—run to Christ with confidence; keep fighting from forgiveness, not for forgiveness.
When you feel alone: anchor in the reality that you know the Father—fellowship with God sustains perseverance.
When evil feels overwhelming: remember the victory is settled—“you have overcome” because Christ has overcome.
When you’re tired: don’t rely on natural grit—lean into the Spirit’s strength and pick up the Word as your weapon.
Church culture aim: become a people who remind each other—especially the struggling—“we don’t live as defeated people; we fight from Christ’s victory.”
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Heart
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
Do you have a question you want us to address? Submit it now!
32 min
February 011 John 2:7-11
In this episode Jake, Matt, and Sam dig deeper into 1 John 2:7-11 and the love test: the claim to “walk in the light” must be matched by a real, Christ-shaped love for others. But the tension is that both the Bible and the world talk about love—often with very different definitions. This episode helps clarify what Christian love actually is, why it’s inseparable from truth, and how love isn’t something believers merely try harder to produce—it’s something we reflect because we’ve first been loved by Christ.
Highlights from the message:
Main Point: Receive the love of Christ to reflect the love of Christ.
The love test: Claiming to be “in the light” while hating a brother exposes a disconnect—“still in darkness.”
Old commandment / new commandment: Not new in existence (“love one another”), but new in quality—love as Jesus loved (John 13:34).
Love and truth belong together: The world often defines love as affirmation or feeling, but biblical love “rejoices with the truth.”
Jesus’ motive in love (John 11): Even painful delays can be love when the goal is deeper belief and greater joy in Christ (“so that you may believe”).
A working definition: Love is the sacrificial work of helping others find satisfaction in God through Christ.
Light produces love: As the “true light” shines (God revealed in Christ), believers are changed—we love because he first loved us.
Love is reflective: Like the moon reflecting the sun—when love dims, something is blocking the light.
Practical application:
Check your definition of love: Don’t start with cultural assumptions and fit Jesus under them—start with Christ and let him define love.
Measure love by eternity, not comfort: Christian love aims at eternal good, not merely temporary approval or peace.
Fight “eclipse” blockers: Competition, resentment, slander, jealousy, and bitterness often reveal we’ve lost sight of what we have in Christ.
Re-anchor in the gospel daily: The fastest way to grow love is not willpower, but being freshly overwhelmed by Christ’s patience, mercy, forgiveness, and inheritance given to you.
Let love validate discipleship: John 13:35—how we love each other is meant to make Jesus visible.
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Heart
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
Do you have a question you want us to address? Submit it now!
18 min
January 261 John 2:3-6
In this episode, Danny, Jake, and Sam dig deeper into 1 John 2:3-6 and how we can know we’re truly in Christ without slipping into pride, fear, or complacency. It is essential to know that there is a tension between confidence and humility in the Christian life. John calls believers toward assurance, not shallow comfort or spiritual guesswork. We explore how Christ’s finished work and the Spirit’s ongoing work together produce a faith that is both secure and deeply joyful—and why obedience doesn’t earn salvation, but powerfully confirms it.
Highlights from the message:
Main Points: 1) Genuine believers are both dependent on Christ and obedient to Christ. 2) Assurance comes from believing in the justifying work of God and experiencing the sanctifying work of God.
Assurance, not insurance: John wants believers to know they belong to Christ, not merely rely on a past decision.
Don’t remove the supernatural from conversion: Salvation is more than forgiveness—it includes real, internal transformation by the Spirit.
Propitiation is Christ alone: Jesus fully satisfied God’s wrath; our obedience adds nothing to that finished work.
Justification and sanctification belong together: A past, completed work and a present, ongoing work are both part of God’s saving plan.
Obedience doesn’t save—but it reveals: A growing love for God expressed in obedience fuels confidence that God has truly changed us.
Security vs. assurance: Believers can be eternally secure and yet lack the joy and comfort that come from living in close fellowship with God.
Practical application:
Examine fruit, not perfection: Look for growing love for God, not sinless performance.
Rest in Christ’s work: Let confidence flow first from what Jesus has done, not what you’ve done.
Pursue obedience as response, not leverage: Obedience grows from a changed heart, not fear of losing salvation.
Confess sin quickly: Sin doesn’t cancel security, but it does erode joy and intimacy with God.
Cultivate assurance intentionally: Assurance grows as we depend on Christ’s grace and walk in step with the Spirit.
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Heart
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
Do you have a question you want us to address? Submit it now!
41 min
January 191 John 1:5-2:2
In this episode, Jake, Matthew, and Sam dig deeper into 1 John 1:5–2:1 and the uncomfortable-but-loving reality John addresses: there can be real Christians and self-deceived professing Christians sitting in the same room. John writes to strengthen true believers with confidence—and to unsettle false confidence where a “faith” exists without repentance. We talk through what it means that God is light, why walking in the light is a pursuit of holiness (not pretending to be sinless), and how the gospel gives believers both a battle plan against sin and a safety net when they fail—because we have an Advocate: Jesus Christ the righteous.
Highlights from the message:
Big Idea: Genuine believers both seek to avoid sin and confess sin in the pursuit of fellowship.
God is light—morally perfect, with no darkness at all (1 John 1:5).
John addresses an internal church issue: people who claim fellowship with God while walking in darkness (1 John 1:6).
Two ditches to avoid: Embracing sin while claiming Christ (false confidence). Denying sin entirely (self-deception) (1 John 1:8–10).
A key mark of a genuine believer: pursuing holiness + practicing confession (1 John 1:7, 9).
The gospel doesn’t give permission to sin—it gives power to fight sin and grace to confess sin.
The aim isn’t behavior modification—it’s fellowship with God, which produces real joy.
When we fail, we aren’t left to despair: we have an Advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the righteous (1 John 2:1).
Practical application:
Conduct a “sin response” audit: When you sin, do you hide, minimize, justify—or confess and fight?
Confess to God specifically (not vague): name it, agree with God about it, turn from it.
Bring sin into the light with trusted believers (James 5:16): not to be forgiven, but to be helped and healed.
Make a real plan to fight sin: cut off access, set boundaries, replace patterns, seek accountability—don’t be passive.
Pursue God, not just “sin management”: aim for closeness with God—because fellowship is the engine of holiness and joy.
Preach the gospel to yourself: when you fall, run to Christ—not away from Him.
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Hear
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
Do you have a question you want us to address? Submit it now!
45 min
January 121 John 1:1-4
This week on Beyond the Message, Jake, Ian, and Sam recap the kickoff to our 1 John series with verses 1-4 in chapter 1. John’s opening aim is surprisingly clear: joy. Writing as an aging apostle and “father” to the churches, John addresses real threats inside the church—false teaching, growing worldliness, and a drift in devotion. But he’s not swinging for behavior modification. He’s aiming for something deeper: fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the kind of shared life in Christ that makes joy full.
John validates the real, embodied Jesus (“heard…seen…looked upon…touched”) and then calls the church into true koinonia—partnership, shared devotion, shared truth—not merely religious socializing. The warning is sober: lowering the bar of doctrine and discipleship doesn’t create a healthier church; it creates weaker fellowship and diminished joy. The invitation is better: real Christian fellowship is the pathway to real, lasting joy.
Highlights from the message:
1 John is written with a fatherly, pastoral tone - John’s boldness flows from deep love—“my little children”—and his concern for the church’s future.
Bad doctrine is the “scenic route” to bad living - John addresses false teaching not as an abstract debate, but because wrong beliefs eventually shape real behavior.
John opens by punching holes in false teaching about Jesus - He insists Jesus is both eternal (“from the beginning…with the Father”) and incarnate (“heard…seen…touched”).
Worldliness is a live threat to the church- Sin is normalized; holiness feels strange. This drift doesn’t just break rules—it kills joy.
John states his motive plainly: complete joy (1 John 1:4) - The letter isn’t “shape up” moralism; it’s an invitation into deeper joy through deeper fellowship.
Fellowship is not primarily social - Koinonia is shared partnership in truth and devotion, not merely being friendly, attending events, or hanging out.
Joy is communal and contagious - John says “our joy,” not just “your joy”—a devoted church strengthens one another’s joy; lukewarmness weakens it.
Lowering the bar of fellowship weakens the church and confuses the world - At best it dilutes the sweetness of true fellowship; at worst it deceives people about being right with God.
A devoted church is not anti-evangelistic—it’s evangelistic - Like Acts 2, deep devotion + deep fellowship becomes a platform for gospel credibility and real spiritual fruit.
Practical application:
Audit your “fellowship” expectations
Do you think fellowship = social time, good vibes, and niceness?
Or fellowship = shared truth + shared devotion + shared life in Christ?
Move your relationships toward koinonia
Ask in CG / friendships: “What’s the target we’re aiming at together?”
Then take one step: pray together, confess sin, open Scripture, pursue obedience together.
Treat “lukewarmness” as a joy issue, not just a discipline issue
When you feel dull toward God, don’t only ask “What should I stop doing?”
Ask: “What am I seeking joy from that isn’t Jesus?”
Let doctrine do its intended work
Don’t treat theology as trivia; John ties doctrine to discipleship.
Read 1 John slowly, asking: What is true about Jesus? What does that require of my life?
Choose one “worldliness” pressure point and name it
What makes sin feel normal for you right now (media, habits, spending, bitterness, secret sin)?
Name it, confess it, and bring another believer into the fight.
Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:
1 John - The Gospel-Centered Life in the Bible
1-3 John - Knowing The Bible 12 Week Study
1,2, & 3 John For You - God’s Word For You
Don’t Follow You Heart
1-3 John ESV Scripture Journal
Do you have a question you want us to address? Submit it now!
23 min

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