7 Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love […]

7 Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love […]

5 They are from the world, therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit […]

1 John 4:4 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. The World What does John mean by the world?  In 1 John, the world refers to the organized system in rebellion against God; with it’s lust […]

Happy Father’s Day!   Over and over in the scripture, fathers are commanded to provide a good example for their Children.  Timothy 2:11-12 calls this to mind when he says “For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a […]

1st John 3b-4a:  “and this is the spirit of the antichrist.” So, the denial that Jesus came in the flesh, so that He could die for our sins and be the only Way to the Father is motivated by the spirit of the antichrist.   This results in the characteristic attitude of the world to deny […]

1 John 4:2-3 The churches of Asia Minor that John is writing to were unwisely leaving themselves open to believing false teachers and teachings, accepting and trusting in teachings without testing them, which caused a lot of confusion in the church, just as it does today. Every teaching, every doctrine claiming to be the Truth […]

John wants to address the confusion in the body of Christ that is caused by the working of false spirits, and false inspirations within the church. Beloved, do not believe every spirit. John is concerned for their spiritual welfare.  He begins with a command not to believe every spirit, every pneuma, every wind of new […]

23 This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. When we obey the Holy Spirit’s urging and Jesus’ command to love one another by fellowship with each other and meeting each other’s needs, then the practical effect is that […]

2 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived and gave birth to a son; Now, we learn that both of Moses’ parents, Amram and Jochebed, were from the tribe of Levi.  Since Aaron was 3 years older than Moses, Aaron was likely one of the boys saved […]