How do we know what love is? How do we know we are loved? These questions haunt most people because we were made for love and long to experience it. The first Christians also wrestled with these questions, and Jesus was at the center of their confusion. He had promised to return, but when? It had been a long time since He told His first disciples that. They were passing away, along with other early eyewitnesses. Was Jesus real? Did they understand Him? Was their faith even real? John, the Beloved Disciple, wrote to them with an emphatic, “Yes.” He proceeds to tell them how they can recognize what love is, and he retells the best story of all — the one where Jesus comes in the flesh and lays down His life because He loves them.

Listen as Pastor Russell teases out relevant lessons for us from this rich passage.