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When a Spiritual Sibling Sins

1 John 5:16-17

The church is a family full of brothers and sisters who are all equally related to their heavenly Father, through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Although we will all be perfect when we see Jesus, we are not yet sinless.  We sin more often than we like to think … and yet, when we do think, we are right to be deeply ashamed and turn to the Lord in confession, asking to be forgiven (1 John 1:8-10).

Three Characteristics of Born-Again People

1 John 5:18

God is the Father of everybody who has put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.  They are His children (John 1:12-13).  He has not only brought them to birth but He nurtures them, and a relationship develops between them – a bond of love and trust (John 10:14-15).  The Lord loves us and we trust Him with a child's love which wants to please its parent.  So we do not want to continue to grieve our Father by our selfish rebellion, or presume on His grace while choosing to sin (Romans 6:1-4).  We desire to please Him.  But when some people do not care about offending Father God, it makes us w

We are Different from the World

1 John 5:19

This bold statement immediately explains why the Christian life, if it is to be lived properly, is not easy.  The good news is that we belong to God - if we have repented of our sin and believed in Jesus the Saviour.  We are God's children.  We are born-again into His family.  He loves us and desires only the best for us.  It is a privilege to be loved by somebody as special as God … and we should never minimise the preciousness of our secure position in Him.

Christian Confidence

1 John 5:20

The confidence of youth depends on what we imagine we can do, and the confidence of maturity often rests on living within our limits.  But the Christian's confidence is totally based on Jesus Christ: who He is, what He has done and where He is leading us (John 8:14).  As John comes towards the end of this little letter to Christians who had been unsettled by false teachers, he reminds them of the key truths about the Lord Jesus – so that they might have confidence in a hostile world.

Beware Idols

1 John 5:21

This may seem to be an unusual sign-off line as John completes his first letter, but it summarises the pastoral warnings of the epistle.  The churches had been infiltrated by false teachers seeking to pull the believers into idolatry (an idol is anything which is worshipped, but is not God).  As far as we know, the false teachers did not present physical objects to worship, although their culture was full of such statues.  Instead, they wanted Christians to worship their religious philosophy rather than the Lord Jesus Christ.  And they degraded Jesus – saying that He was not God who had com

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