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Knowing Where We Stand: The Message of John’s Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

“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...

with liberal ‘Christians’, as John Stott seems to think.3 Evangelical Christians must seek first to be used of God to lead their liberal friends into a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and the Word of God. Luke tells us that the early Christians ‘continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers’ (Acts 2:42). All four things mentioned there are important, but the order is equally important. Christians may have non-Christian friends, they may
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