The Moral Test

We can have assurance that we know God and are saved by God by looking at our faithful obedience to God. 1. Our obedience to God reveals if our faith in Jesus is genuine or not (verse 3-4). “Knowledge of God is a robust concept that covers not only what you know about...

Jesus Christ Is Our Advocate

1. We are never encouraged to sin. “The knowledge of such a great love and of such undeserved forgiveness makes the Christian earnestly desirous not to sin.” —James Montgomery Boice “This may be illustrated with a blank sheet of paper, a pencil, and dot marks on the...

God Is Light

“The Nature of God: There is only one true and living God, who is infinite in being, power, and perfections. God is eternal, independent, and self-sufficient, having life in himself with no need for anyone or anything. He is spirit, transcendent and invisible, with no...

Jesus: God in Human Flesh

Since Jesus is God in the flesh, we must keep him at the center of our lives. 1. Jesus is the Word of Life. “This is the stumbling block of the incarnation—when God becomes a man, he strips away every pretense of man to be God. We can no longer do our own thing; we...