Christians are shown to be Christians by their righteous lives. They live righteous lives and thereby show themselves children of God, not children of the devil, because they are:

1. Motivated towards righteousness
2. Hoped towards righteousness
3. Enabled towards righteousness

I pray this passage spurs believers to live righteously in all they do.

MP: Christians do not fall away from the true gospel. And because that is true, they should remain in it!

What a comfort that while many around us and from among us depart from the faith, we know that we Christians are different! We don't need to fear falling away because we've received the Holy Spirit who seals us eternally. We rehearse the gospel truths we know, and that keeps us in it. And while the Spirit keeps us, we also actively keep ourselves in the Spirit and in the gospel.

MP: The person who genuinely loves God WILL hate the world.

True Christians despise this world seeped in sin by hating their sin. True Christians "hate" the things in this world in comparison to the worth of our Lord Jesus. But let's focus most not on negative: "hate the world" but on "love God!" Fix your eyes on Jesus, trust in Him, and use your life to serve him.

Preacher: Liam McAlexander (JH guys leader)

What is a true Christian? John says that a Christian is someone who loves other Christians. Oh how we should be a community that displays the gospel by our love for one another. Christians also have confidence of God's work in their lives--do you?

John continues to de-mystify how we can know that we know God in a saving way. If we understand and live out the fundamentals. Sin is not fitting for a Christian. Jesus has dealt with our sin. And obedience shows that you know God. I pray this strengthens your confidence that you do know God.

John wants Christians to have greater assurance of their salvation (5:13), and he does so in 1:5-10 by laying out plan and simple what a Christian is: someone who walks like God and talks like God.

Are you finding ultimate satisfaction in God? Or are you trying to fill up your own leaky cups with other things? Let's meditate on Jeremiah 2:13 together.

Let's meditate on Psalm 131 together--because in God's Word we will behold God in all His glory so that we can be men and women who are so satisfied in Jesus that we are ready to serve him faithfully today.

My prayer is that these few minutes would increase your love for Jesus, increase your love for others in Jesus' name, and equip you to go make disciples who love Jesus.

Let's meditate on Psalm 127 together--because in God's Word we will behold God in all His glory so that we can be men and women who are so satisfied in Jesus that we are ready to serve him faithfully today.

My prayer is that these few minutes would increase your love for Jesus, increase your love for others in Jesus' name, and equip you to go make disciples who love Jesus.

Let's meditate on Psalm 121:3-7 together--because in God's Word we will behold God in all His glory so that we can be men and women who are so satisfied in Jesus that we are ready to serve him faithfully today.

My prayer is that these few minutes would increase your love for Jesus, increase your love for others in Jesus' name, and equip you to go make disciples who love Jesus.