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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...

Having written of fellowship and joy in Christ, John raises three false claims that have been made by the Docetists: that sin does not matter (1:6); that it is not a part of our nature (1:8) and that it is not a part of our conduct (1:10). To counter these claims, John begins by setting out the being of God, that ‘God is light and in him is no darkness at all’ (1:5). Many professing evangelicals today think that the first thing we need to tell
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