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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...

(see 1 John 2:19). The people that were left were no doubt feeling a little discouraged and in need of some reassurance. They must have thought to themselves: ‘How do we know we are on the right track? Perhaps the ones who left are right after all.’ The problem was that those who left did not walk out because they did not get their way over the colour of the pews, or because the church up the road had a louder band. The people who left were Docetists, or had adopted an early form of Gnosticism. (To
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