John's poetic style defines God's love and grace. 1 John 4:7-10 (NIV) 7 Dear friends, let us love one Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 17: The Recovery of Fallen Man We Summary It often seems like John writes in big loops, like he's repeating the same thing over and over In the case of this passage, the primary message that John wishes to convey is that God is love, and Dig Deeper Ironically, it's the final line in John's passage that attracts our attention today.

John 1:9-14 (NIV) 9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was John’s wording regarding Jesus speaks to the nature of who he is. Throughout the Gospel of John, the language of “truth” or “true” is used to distinguish something as The Gospel of John opens with “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word What John is attesting to with these descriptions of Jesus is God becoming man.

John 6:35-40 (NIV) 35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.

1 John 5:19-20 (ESV) 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil Summary The way John put it doesn't sound right, does it. or anything in the world (1 John 2:15)." The big idea that John tells you here is that "we know that we are from God." John here explains exactly what it means to have your heart/mind regenerated.

Find true forgiveness through true confession. 1 John 1:8-10 (NIV) 8 If we claim to be without sin, we The Apostle John is quite clear in what we need to do to receive God’s grace.

John 20:26–31 (NIV) CONTEXT: After Jesus rose from the dead, He appeared to His disciples, but Thomas (John 20:28). It is after this that John pauses to say, “this is why I wrote this book — so that you may believe and The purpose of the book of John is the same as all of the books in the Bible: so that “you may believe (John 21:25, “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did.

Scripture is the sufficient source for knowing and testing what is true. 1 John 4:1–6 (NIV) Dear friends Summary The first letter of John is an excellent overview of the basics of the faith. Many false teachers were causing confusion on these foundational truths, and John wrote this letter to The apostle John has the same goal as his gospel account in this letter, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5

You might be surprised to hear the real reason Christ appeared. 1 John 3:7-10 (ESV) 7  Little children John writes, "Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he [Christ] is righteous. John is speaking in very general terms here. style ), John explains in no uncertain terms why Jesus came. "The reason the Son of God appeared," John explains, "was to destroy the works of the devil."

John 10:22–30 (NIV) 22 Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. This wasn't even their first attempt; John writes "Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones..."

Summary In this letter John is writing to a church during a time of struggle to encourage them after John reaffirms what the false teachers tried to deny: the full divinity and humanity of Christ. In the third chapter of this letter, John addresses how to respond to what had occurred. John gives a means of testing to see where one’s allegiance lies, writing that “anyone who does not do Dig Deeper John lays out the difference between those whom he labels the children of God and the children