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Monthly Archives: August 2018
1 John, Part 9 – Error
One of the purposes that John wrote the First Epistle of John to the early Christians was to confirm the truth of who Jesus is and that He is the source of our salvation. 1 John 5:13 says, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the…..
So That Happened…
This week I am taking a break from the 1 John series in order to talk about something that happened on Tuesday. We were involved in an auto accident in which a big pickup truck veered into our lane, side-swiped one car, hit another head-on sending it flying to fall to the valley floor some twenty feet beyond and eight feet below the road bed, rolled and slid for 150 feet, hit us head-on, and then bounced…..
1 John, Part 8 – The Love of God
1 Corinthians 5:17 tells us that “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” God uses humans to accomplish His work on earth, but not human character. The character of Christ in us is both exhibited in and poured out through His children to a dying world. As new creatures in Christ we live His character to…..
1 John, Part 7 – The Character of God
The past two weeks I have submitted to you lists from 1 John of how God calls us to live in terms of assurance of salvation and how the lack of those things in our lives point to a lack of salvation or a true relationship with God. These might appear to some as an exercise in legalism, but they are not. While the Old Testament commandments still stand as the…..
1 John, Part 6 – The Precepts of True Christianity
When I was a teenager, the cars that I learned to drive had something in the center of the hoods by which I could line up securely with the edge of the shoulder to ensure that I was properly placed in my lane and would not drift into the way of oncoming cars. The 1953 Willies had a crease down the middle of the hood with a hood ornament pointing…..