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How can we know that we possess eternal life? The apostle John lays out the answer in his three eponymous epistles. John answers that we must first believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that Christ came in the flesh. Second, we are to obey God’s commandments. Third, we must love others. In this illuminating and engaging commentary on John’s letters, pastor-scholar Douglas Sean O’Donnell...

the latter term—to pneuma tou theou—speaks of the Holy Spirit.4 Notably, in the Gospel of John, “the ‘Spirit of truth’ is the Holy Spirit [see John 14:17, 26; 15:26; 16:13–15], who proceeds from God and teaches the truth about Christ (cf. 1 John 2:20, 27).”5 What, then, is the content of the God-approved confession? There are two theological components, both centering on the person and work of Jesus. First, the true confession acknowledges Jesus as the “Christ” (1 John 4:2; cf. 2:22; 5:1), a title
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