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Michael Eaton believes that John’s epistles were written to counteract false teachers who were influencing Christians in the church. An exposition of these epistles could not be timelier, as often people who come to Christ today have little or no church background—they can be easily influenced by false teaching. John showed in his letters that the most secure way to avoid being deceived was the...

Christians whose experiences of the Spirit are not so dramatic, find that their sincere strivings and prayers for eradication of sin results in awful bondage.7 The Methodists were building on 1 John, but John is more clear-cut than they were. ‘If we say we have no sin we are deceiving ourselves’ (1:8). ‘Perfected’ love is not sinlessness! Rather it is love made into the determined principle of one’s life. It is a habit of refusing to be judgmental. It is taking the initiative (as God in Jesus took
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