Our faith is to be in Christ, and John points us to the external and internal witnesses of Christ to increase our faith.

Our confidence in Christ is rooted in God's sovereign work for His children and the evidences that flow from life in Christ.

What does Scripture mean when it says "God is love?"

Through John, God commands all His children to test the spirits, and encourages us that He will lead His children to truth.

What does the New Testament mean when it says Jesus is the Son of God? Is there more to the meaning than Him being deity? Does it reveal God's grand plan?

What if Jesus never came to earth? What if God's light had never burst through the darkness?

Is there peace and rest for man? What can we see from creation to the Exodus to the Sabbath, to Christ that will help us understand what the angels meant when they proclaim, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom He is pleased?"

What do the Garden of Eden and the Tabernacle have in common? What does it mean for God to be with us?

John truly expects God's children, those in His covenant family to obey His commandments. Listen to understand how God's grace, covenant, and commandments work alongside one another in God's grand purpose and why John is able to point us to our actions as evidence of God's work in us.

Following his repeated pattern of emphasizing truth, obedience, and love, John urges us to consider our loving actions for our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ as evidence of being in fellowship with God.