Category Archives: 1 John

John affirms the purpose for his letter, and that purpose is to reassure the Christians to whom it is destined of the surety of their faith. This reassurance is helpful, but it is also a warning. Continue reading →

What is this love that John- really every writer of the New Testament because of Jesus Himself- constantly refers to? In our modern society and sometimes ambiguous understanding of our own language, we fail to understand what the love Jesus and John talk about. Continue reading →

In the past few studies from 1 John, we have discussed the notion of how our actions reveal us as Christians, especially how we are supposed to resist sin and do what is God. Such an idea, however, appears difficult to our sin-tainted mind. How can we possibly resist sin, the world, and the devil, if we ourselves are part of the problem? Continue reading →

John already told us in 1 John 1:8 that we are deceiving ourselves if we say we have no sin. Yet, just a few verses later, here he is telling us that if we sin, we are not of God. How can that be? Continue reading →

“You know a book by its cover.”

That statement is one among many colloquialisms our society has produced to remind us that everyone ultimately reflects what they believe by what they do. John makes the same point in the passages for this study. If we have faith, yet we continue to do as the sinful world does, what evidence is there of our faith? Continue reading →