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1, 2 and 3 John: Redemption’s Certainty is unavailable, but you can change that!

John is known as “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” He was under our Savior’s teaching and care for three years. He leaned against Christ’s chest at the last supper and witnessed the crucifixion. Who better then to write about the love of Jesus than the one who had such first-hand experience of it? In these three letters, John is passing on the impact of these experiences to people he loves,...

thought as bookends. The phrase in verse 6 is not a false claim, but is a moral directive. While the secessionists may claim to be in the light, walking in conformity with Jesus, they are not. To walk in the ‘light’ (to know God, to fellowship with God, to abide in God) is evidenced by a walk in love (1:6). Their actions betray the falsity of their claim. It is interesting that John has, to this point, argued that the essence of a believing heart manifests itself in love for God expressed in moral
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