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  John the apostle is well into his years. It has been close to sixty years that he has been walking in fellowship with God at the point he writes First John. There are more than likely many memories that he has about when he was physically with Jesus. There are likely many things that he remembers Jesus saying, and yet he recalls one of the most known ideas in all of his time with Jesus – simply to love God and love one another. He writes it this way in First John chapter two verse seven... Read More

  John the apostle has been sharing with us about how to know there is fellowship with God or not. A person must follow the commandments. Now John helps us to know exactly what he means when he says our talk must match our walk. He shares in verse seven of chapter two of First John:
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
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  What was it like to physically walk with Jesus when He was on the Earth? It must have been wonderful to watch Him with people, healing the sick, opening the eyes of the blind, opening deaf ears, making the lame to walk again, raising the dead, walking on water and feeding five thousand people. How was it to see Him die not only physically but also to Himself as He came to sacrifice His life for others rather than Himself. Today John gives us all a challenge in the second chapter of First... Read More

  John has been sharing the way to determine whether a person really knows God or not – he or she keeps His commandments. (To Love God and Love your Neighbor as yourself.) To say that one knows God and not keep His commandments makes that person a liar, and they are without the truth. However, John continues his words with verse five of chapter two of First John:
But whoever keeps his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
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  John the apostle has been giving instruction on how to have fellowship with God. He has noted that we must confess our own sin, and when we do this God will not only forgive our sin but will cleanse us from all unrighteousness. However, if we say that we do not have any sin, we make God a liar and God's word is not in us. John notes that it is important that we live without sin, and he gives provision through the advocacy of Jesus should we fail. The way to know if we are in fellowship wi... Read More

  Talking about God and knowing about God is one thing, but having fellowship and relationship with Him is quite another. Many people “talk the talk”, but there are very few who actually “walk the walk”. So, how is a person to know whether they really know God or not? What if they think they believe, but they are really deceived? What if all the religious practices, methods, and ways of a person are false or misdirected? How is one to know whether he or she is actually a person who... Read More

  What if you were on trial for the wrongdoing of another person? You didn't commit the crime. You were not even close to the crime, and you certainly didn't have anything to do with any part of the crime. Yet, you were on trial for the crimedoer. Could you pay their penalty? Would you pay their penalty? Now, what if it were the crimes, the sins, of the whole world? Would you, could you pay for them? Here is some good news. Someone already has.
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  In discovering that God desires fellowship with people, we have seen where sin separates a person from God. Jesus came to remove that separating factor so that everyone could have a relationship with their Creator. Yesterday John as a spiritual father let us know one of the reasons he was writing this book “that you sin not”, and he informed us that if we do sin, we have an advocate, an attorney – Jesus Christ the righteous – interceding for us before the Heavenly Father. Today we... Read More

  John the apostle has been sharing with us the idea that God wants to have fellowship with people, and that by confession of our sins that keep us separated from that fellowship, Jesus' blood brings forgiveness and cleansing to all who will do so. In chapter two of this awesome letter John writes in verse one:
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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  John the apostle has been sharing with us how to have fellowship with God. He writes that we can have fellowship with God as long as our sin problem that separates us from God is removed. God has made provision for that removal by His Son Jesus Christ, and everyone who confesses his or her sins can now establish a relationship with the Heavenly Father. Beginning in chapter two verse one John now writes:
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any... Read More

  In the last several days we have been looking at the book of First John chapter one. We have realized that God desires fellowship with people, and that sin separates a person from God. This is a problem, however, God has given the provision of the blood of His Son Jesus to forgive and to cleanse all unrighteousness that anyone has committed if they will simply confess and turn from those sins. We discovered that there is a sin nature within every person, and without the redemption of that... Read More

  We have been enjoying the Apostle John's words in First John chapter one where he has been sharing with us how to have fellowship with God. God desires to have a relationship with people, and He has made provision for that to be so. Sin, missing the mark, is the deterrent to this relationship because it separates a person from God. However, God has provided the solution to the separation problem by having His Son Jesus pay the price for sin. Jesus paid the penalty for every sin a person c... Read More

  Yesterday we learned that God is willing and able to forgive and to cleanse a person from all unrighteousness. He so desires fellowship with people that He will remove the very barrier that keeps them from having a relationship with Him – sin. Before we leave this wonderful verse, there is one more emphasis that John the Apostle makes for us here. He wrote:
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  The Apostle John has been sharing about the love of God that is so strong that He desires to have fellowship with every person. However, since man has a sinful nature and God is a holy and righteous God, there is separation from from God until something is done about the sinful nature. God has a plan to remove that sinful nature, as John declares in First John one verse nine:
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrig... Read More

  Yesterday we learned the importance of confessing our sins, and without the admission of sins a person cannot have fellowship with God. To deny that there is a sin nature within, and somehow believe that a person has never done anything wrong is to deny a relationship with God. However, if a person confesses, turns from and repents of the sins he or she has done, there is a promise that John makes that accompanies that decision. John writes:
If we confess our sins, he is faithful a... Read More

  We have been learning that God desires relationship and fellowship with people. However, there is a natural tendency toward sin (walking in darkness) in every person. Without the removal of that sin nature, man cannot walk with God. Isaiah the prophet said it this way in chapter fifty nine verses one and two in his book,:
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your... Read More

  The little boy looked over at his sister and said, “I have never done anything wrong ever in my life.” The sister asked, “what about that time when you took the cookie out of the cookie jar when mom wasn't looking?” “Oh,” the boy answered, “that wasn't me, that was the product of me.” “What?” asked the sister incredulously. The boy determined boy said, “In my head, if everyone else before me did wrong, and did a sin like the preacher said, then it is their fault that... Read More

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