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11 1 John 5:13-21 Confidence in the Gospel

April 17, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

John concludes his letter saying believers can have confidence about three things:  1) that you have eternal life, 2) that your sin cannot jeopardize that life and 3) that this gospel message is true.

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

10 1 John 4:20-5:12 These 3 Testify: Water, Blood & Spirit

April 10, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

John tells us genuine believers will confess that Jesus is the Christ — the Jesus who was confirmed by three witnesses: “water”, “blood” and “the Spirit.”

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

09 1 John 4:7-19 Perfect Love

April 3, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

In 1 John 4:7-19, John explains why self-sacrificing love is a mark of a believer: this other-focused love is part of God’s holy character and God is in the process of giving us His character.

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

08 1 John 4:1-6 Marks of False Teachers

March 27, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

The Apostle John says we can identify false prophets two ways: by the content of what they say (4:2) and by the origin of what they say (4:6).

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

07 1 John 3:13-24 Love and Hate

March 20, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

How can John say that love is a mark of believers and hate is a mark of non-believers when we know believers who struggle with hate and non-believers who genuinely love others?

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

06 1 John 2:29-3:12 Practicing Righteousness

March 13, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

No true believer is committed to sin as a lifestyle because God plants in believers a longing for holiness and righteousness which opposes any tendency to rebel. Believers no longer remain committed to a lifestyle of sin.

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

05 1 John 2:18-28: Who is the liar?

March 6, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

1 John 2:18-28 tackles the question: how do you know what’s essential and what is non-essential?

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

04 1 John 2:12-17: Loving the World

February 27, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

John sets the world and the gospel in opposition to each other. You can’t serve them both. You have to choose and his first exhortation is don’t choose the world.

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

03 1 John 2:1-11: Abide in Christ

February 20, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

How should we handle theological disagreements among believers? What issues are so critically important that we should draw a line? And, on what issues should we agree to disagree? John gives us a place to draw the line.

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

02 1 John 1:5-10: God is Light

February 13, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

John begins his summary of the true gospel by saying God is the source of and all life, salvation and holiness. Therefore those who are trust Him will have lives marked by a concern for goodness and a pursuit of righteousness.

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John

1 John: Discerning the True Gospel

February 1, 2019 By Krisan Marotta

John wrote his first letter to clarify the differences between the genuine gospel as revealed by Jesus to the apostles and the heretical versions of the gospel spreading in the early church. He gives 2 guiding principles for recognizing genuine believers and false teachers.

Filed Under: John, New Testament, Series Tagged With: 1John

Drawing the Doctrinal Line

February 25, 2014 By Krisan Marotta

Which of our many doctrinal differences should Christians worry about? After all, one person’s heresy is another person’s minor difference of opinion.

Filed Under: Theology, Topics Tagged With: 1John, Ephesians, Gospel, Jesus Christ, sin

Love & Hate

October 30, 2013 By Krisan Marotta

How can the apostle John say love is a mark of believers and hate is a mark of non-believers? Even a cursory examination reveals that believers hate and non-believers love.

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John, hate, love, marks of faith

Do believers sin?

October 23, 2013 By Krisan Marotta

When I was a new Christian, I told another believer that I was struggling with controlling my temper. She told me that I was not a genuine Christian because if I was, I wouldn’t sin. If she is right, not only was I not a Christian then — I still am not a Christian now. When you discover two very different interpretations of the Bible, how do you decide who’s right?

Filed Under: John, Passages Tagged With: 1John, grace, justification, justification by faith, sin

5 Questions to Identify a Cult

October 16, 2013 By Krisan Marotta

How do you recognize a group which claims to represent genuine, apostolic Christianity but in reality does not? Here are 5 questions that separate “the sheep” from “the wolves.”

Filed Under: Theology, Topics Tagged With: 1John, cults, Gospel

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