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Jesus had spent three years with His group of disciples. One betrayed Him and then committed suicide. One betrayed Him and had severe guilt. All left Him the day He was arrested. They were men with a heavy call they did not comprehend or fully understand.

Peter decided he was going back to his old profession (fishing) because he did not have a clear path forward from God.

God did not allow Peter to have success in his occupation. God caused even the fish to hurry away from Peter’s nets.

Jesus appeared to Peter on a Sea of Galilee beach. Through a miracle, Jesus helped Peter and His disciples experience His power over Creation.

Jesus knew they did not catch any fish, but He asked them anyway if they had fish. Peter had to humble himself and openly state that he did not catch any fish.

Jesus called out and commanded the fishermen to cast their nets on the starboard side of the boat, so they did and took in a heavy haul of 153 large fish.

After the miracle catch of fish, Peter recognized Jesus on the beach. He jumped into the water to hurry to Jesus. Peter knew deep down he needed a fresh encounter with Christ.

Peter had fished all night. Jesus knew he was physically hungry, so He had bread and fish for them cooking on the beach.

After breakfast Jesus appealed to Peter’s heart before He revealed His will. Jesus knew he was spiritually hurting from his past sins.

Jesus’ words spoke deeply to Peter’s soul. He challenged Peter’s head knowledge and pushed Him to hold on to his faith.

Jesus revealed Peter’s hazardous future and commanded him to stay the course as a Jesus follower.

Are you willing to know and do the will of God?

What are you asking God for?

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6/9/24

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6/2/24

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Abiding in the love of God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ gives the Believer holy boldness to walk in faith.

When we abide in the love of God, our hunger for His Word grows. As our knowledge of God grows our faith grows. The closer we are to God, the more we receive revelation from Him, the more our faith increases. John 15; Romans 10:17

In this direct relationship and fellowship with Jesus, we find God’s love being completed and perfected in us. This is an everlasting relationship. 2 Peter 1:1-11

God’s perfect love gives every born-again Believer confidence to face God (our Judge) in the future day of judgment because Jesus’ atonement, the Judge sees our righteousness the same as He sees Jesus’ righteousness. Hebrews 9:24-28

As we mature in Christ, the fear fades because of His love. Perfect (complete, full-grown) love drives out fear. Philippians 3:8-16

Fear involves the expectation of divine punishment, so the one who is afraid of God’s judgment is not perfected in love and has not fully grown into a sufficient understanding of His love.

We love because He first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and works against his Christian brother is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he can see, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. Loving the Faith Family is not just a spiritual suggestion, it is a spiritual command.

Father God commands His followers to obey and practice love for Him and also unselfishly love his brother and seek the best for him. Obedience reflects love.

Believing and confessing with a real trust in the fact that Jesus is the Christ, and that God has raised Him from the dead, makes one born of God. Romans 10:9-13

True love of God is this: that we habitually keep His commandments and remain focused on His precepts. With the Holy Spirit’s leading, God’s commandments and His precepts are not difficult to obey.

Amid the storms of life in a dark and fallen world, we are overcomers in Christ!

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The Apostle John wrote on the Origin of love for the Christian’s benefit. He issued a command for Christians to unselfishly demonstrate God’s love to one another.

Many people on Earth recognize love. Unbelievers do not acknowledge that love is from God.

Everyone who loves others is born of God and knows God through personal experience. This love is expressed when an unregenerate person trusts in Jesus Christ alone for salvation and is converted. The regenerate person loves God, loves others, as they love themselves. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; 1 John 3:16-19

The universal truth is a person who does not love does not know God. That one does not and never did know God.

God is love. God’s love is unlimited, it knows no boundaries, measurements, or exceptions. It is inherent to His nature; since He is infinite, His love is also infinite.

God’s love was manifested toward us, in that God sent His One and only begotten Son, Jesus, into the world so that we might live through Him. Salvation is the complete and unified work of all three Persons of the Trinity. John 3:16-18

The incarnation represents God’s ultimate expression of love, therefore, anyone who denies that Jesus came in the flesh, rejects God’s love. Galatians 4:4-7

God loved us first. God took the initiative to invite us into a personal love relationship with Him. He made the way to know and love Him. Romans 5:8

We, like John, must have unwavering faith in and to Jesus Christ our Savior.

Understanding and experiencing God’s love inspires Believer’s to live life with holy boldness. Knowing Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross reflects not only God’s love but also His holiness and justice. Jesus demonstrated how seriously God views sin. His just penalty for sin was poured out on Christ while, in His boundless love, offered His Son for our transgressions. What an amazing God we serve!

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The world is full of spiritual wanna-be’s, tell-you-what’s, and experts of every flavor. The gullibility and ignorance of people in general is growing wildly by the day. Christians are commanded to be a spiritual bulwark of stability as the waves of deception pass over humanity.

The Apostle John addressed the Beloved. The Beloved are those who have their faith firmly planted in Jesus Christ.

John admonished Christians not to trust, but test, every spirit. Why? Because many false prophets and teachers have gone out into the world.

By this you know and recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges and confesses the fact that Jesus Christ has actually come in the flesh as a man is from God. These beliefs are for the righteous ones of God. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4

False, errant teachers break with truths of Scripture and lead people to false hopes of salvation and religion. People who are deceived into believing false teachers, are convinced that their false teachers doctrine is good, and therefore believable and reproducible.

The basic reason for testing the spirits and therefore for testing all religious teaching, is to see if it is truly from God or if it is a lie from Satan and his servants.

The Bible alone is the Word of God; it alone is inspired and inerrant. Therefore, the way to test the spirits is to see if what is being taught is in line with the clear teaching of Scripture. The Bible is The Authoritative Source.

Those who are of God can boldly say, “Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world.” The contrast here is between the Holy Spirit and the spirit of antichrist; in short, God is greater than Satan. Revelation 20:10

Believers have no need to fear Satan; rather, we trust in the Lord and obey Him. By the living Spirit of God within us, we can overcome the lies and temptations of the powers of darkness. We know God and are gifted to recognize the spirit of truth, motivated by God, and the spirit of error, motivated by Satan.

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Rejoice means to feel or show great joy or delight. This is the idea John wants the Church to express when they understand God’s love toward us.

God’s love is supreme!

The good news is God gifts every person who truly receives Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior with His love and He grants us the privilege of being called children of the Most High God. This is our spiritual adoption. John1:12,13; Romans 8:14-17

The sad news is for the unbeliever. Those in the world who reject Jesus do not know us because they do not know God. They have no eternal hope.

For those of us who have surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, we really are the children of God! In our present state of existence we cannot fully grasp what it means to be a child of God.

One day we will stand before Jesus and our spiritual eyes will be opened. We will see the Son in all His magnificent glory, and, at last, we will fully comprehend what it means to be a child of God.

Supernatural hope for Christians is brought into being through the presence of the promised Holy Spirit. While everyone who has this hope confidently placed in Jesus is purified just as He is pure. 1 Peter 3:15-22

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness. Sin is ignoring God’s law by action or neglect or by tolerating wrongdoing. A sinner is unrestrained by God’s commands and God’s will.

Jesus appeared in visible form as a man in order to take away sins; and in Him there is absolutely no sin for He has neither the sin nature nor has He committed sin or acts worthy of blame. No one who remains united in fellowship with Him deliberately, knowingly, or habitually practices sin.

Righteous people act righteously. Unrighteous people act unrighteously. Jesus appeared to destroy the works of Satan.

Children of God and the children of the devil are clearly known. Your identity is not secret. Who’s your daddy?

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God has a prophetic clock He has been keeping for humanity. All throughout our existence, when He blesses humans, humans curse Him. When He has loved perfectly, we have not. Time is running out for this life so what do we do in the last hour?

1. It is time to be wise, know what time it is. Days are evil and God is good. Ephesians 5:15-18; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; James 4:13-17

Are you keeping your eye open for Christ’s return?

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