Christmas morning with the kids of Norris Ferry.

We come to our final passage in 1 John 5:13-21. In these verses John gives us three assurances we have as believer in Christ. John wants authentic believers to have strong assurance about Jesus - today we will look at three assurances we have in Christ.

What does John mean when he says authentic believers have faith. That is what we will look at today and in this passage we are going to see that the authentic faith is all about having faith in the testimony of God concerning Jesus Christ.

In our passage today, 1 John 5:1-5, John again tells us that we, as born again believers, are both obligated to love and forgive like this and we are able to love and forgive like this.

In our passage John begins and ends with an exhortation for believers to love one another. In 4:7, Beloved, let us love one another. Again in v21, 21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also...

After an orphan becomes a member of your family, legally, he still must come to the point where he feels like a member of the family. God causes this to happen to us in his family by the presence of the Holy Spirit in our hearts..

Deut. 13: 1-5, Moses warns, “If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you, and that sign or wonder he has promised you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods,” which you have not known...

Is your heart condemning you? Maybe it is because you’ve heard the signs of authentic salvation and it has caused you to doubt. Maybe it is because you are participating in secret sin and your heart is condemning you. Maybe it is because your...

Today John does something similar on the subject of love as he contrasts Cain with Christ. So in this passage we will see the hatred of Cain is evidence of spiritual death and love of Christ is evidence of spiritual life. In particular view here is...

Today, John wants to make it perfectly clear that the authentic Christian practices righteousness and no authentic Christian will practice sin. If you want to know which team you are on - Jesus’ or the Devil’s - look at your practice. You’ve heard...