John shows us that Jesus is the only way to God the Father. To remain in God’s love is to be in relationship with Jesus.

Most Christians know about the Holy Spirit, but do we really believe the Holy Spirit is God living in us? What does that mean and look like? John is going to show how the Holy Spirit living in us is vital to experiencing God’s love daily in our lives.

John is going to show in this passage that, yes God does love us, but He wants so much more. God wants us to know Him, He wants to dwell with us in a way that causes us to know Him and others see Him in us. That’s what this podcast will discuss today.

Taking the passages from 1st John 4:7-11, where John has told us to love and show love like Jesus has loved us, this podcast will discuss and look at the question of do I love like Jesus in my life toward others?

John dives into God’s love for us in these verses. The starting point for all of us is the Cross. But do we really understand the Cross, the love God showed for us there, and how God loved us at our worst? That’s what this podcast will discuss.

In our culture today, love is a word that has so many meanings that it’s open to the person stating it to define it. However, in this passage from 1st John 4:7-8, we see love is defined clearly. So what is that definition? That’s what this podcast will discuss.

As we close this passage on false teaching, one of the biggest problems Christ followers face today is this word and idea: tolerance. Tolerance is engrained in false teaching. This podcast will discuss the difference in showing compassion verses tolerance.

In this podcast we move from testing and judging in the lives of ourselves and others to what false teaching is, how we recognize it, and what is our role and responsibility in that.

John begins chapter 4 with the topic of testing the spirits and false teaching and false prophets. This is something the young believers struggled with in John’s day and we still do today. So what does it look like to test the spirits? That’s what this podcast will discuss.

Looking at the last few verses of 1st John 3, we will see how John shows that daily deepening in the understanding of learning how much Jesus loves us brings reassurance in our lives.