A lack of love for the children of God is evidence of spiritual death. Everyone who hates, whether an active display of hostility or a passive withholding of affection, is likened to a murderer who cannot have eternal life abiding in him.

There is more in the death of Christ on the cross than simply our salvation from judgment, as wonderful as that is. Through His death, Christ broke the power of the sin principle in our lives. Christ not only died for me, but I died with Christ! Now I...

God’s love for us is unique. First John 3:1 may be translated, “Behold, what peculiar, out-of-this-world kind of love the Father has bestowed on us.” While we were His enemies God loved us and sent His Son to die for us! The whole wonderful plan of...

When we abide in the Christian doctrine, we give proof of the reality of our faith. And the promise of that faith is eternal life. When we accept the Lord Jesus, we receive His own life, namely, eternal life, and this life enables us to test all new...

Just as coming events cast their shadow before them, so prior to the rise of the Antichrist, many antichrists appear.

The world here is not the planet on which we live, or the natural creation about us. Rather, it is the system that man has built up in an effort to make himself happy without Christ.

If an individual professes to be right with God, yet lives in consistent disobedience, denies the reality of sin, is repulsed by believers, and does not believe in the incarnation, all these factors together indicate that one has not embraced the...

Eternal life is fully guaranteed to those who have trusted Jesus for it. However, the consequences of a believer’s failure, his restoration, and future usefulness are all urgent matters that Jesus takes up with God when sin occurs.

John’s First Epistle is like a family photograph album. It describes those who are members of the family of God. Just as children resemble their parents, so God’s children have His likeness too.

I am glad that my knowledge of eternal life is not built on the speculations of philosophers or even theologians but on the unimpeachable testimony of those who heard, saw, gazed at, and handled Him in whom it was incarnate. It is not merely a...