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...

Do you live in expectation of the return of Christ?So let me ask you this - do you really believe that Jesus Christ is coming back to this earth and that it could happen at any moment? The Bible is very clear that Jesus is coming again.

John has been explaining what authentic faith is by providing the Church (children) with contrasts. John has used the contrast of light and dark as a clear picture of God’s perfect righteousness and sin’s complete sinfulness. Next he made clear the...

I want to ask you a series of questions about your life this last week. Don’t answer me aloud but really try to honestly answer these questions about yourself as you look back on last week. What motivated you to get out of bed or why did you find it...

God is invisible and almost everyone claims to believe in God. How do you know if you really know God? Have you ever had someone describe their spiritual experience and when you heard it you began to question your own?

With all this talk about grace covering our sin, one might be afraid that John’s teaching would lead to more sin. I mean as soon as a person hears that God’s grace in Jesus covers all their sin won’t they sin all the more. Answer: No, in fact in 2:1...