Knowing Where We Stand: The Message of John’s Epistles (Biblia.com)

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“Assurance is not essential to salvation, but it is essential to the joy of salvation,” as Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said. John, who was by this time probably the last surviving apostle, wrote his first epistle to those who believed in the name of the Son of God in order that they might know that they possessed eternal life. In these days of spiritual and moral decline we stand in particular need...

John begins with vital words. He tells us that the Son was from the beginning, but that he revealed himself in human history, and that the apostles had heard, seen and touched him. The Christian faith is not just about ideas. It does not matter too much when Confucius or Buddha lived, nor how they died; what matters is their teaching; not so with Christianity. When the apostle Paul reminded the Corinthians of what he had delivered

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