Topic:Becoming Pure A daily devotion for May 15th Read the Scripture: 1 John 3:2-3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure. (1 John 3:3) What a powerful motivation this is to become like Him now; to accept your circumstances, to stop quarreling with what God sends to you, and begin in everything to …
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Topic:The Most Astonishing Thing A daily devotion for May 14th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:28-3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. (1 John 3:1a KJV) Here is an astonishing thing. It is not the fact that God loves, but how God loves. What manner of …
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Topic:The Teaching Spirit A daily devotion for May 13th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:26-27 …just as it has taught you, remain in him. (1 John 2:27b) The emphasis in these verses is on the words as it has taught you. What the Spirit has taught you, not what He has taught the other fellow. After the resurrection, Jesus said …
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Topic:The Living Word A daily devotion for May 12th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:24-25 And this is what he promised us — even eternal life. (1 John 2:25) Most of us read the words eternal life as though they only apply to heaven in the future. Everlasting life, we call it, life that never ends. That is not inaccurate. Eternal life …
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Topic:No Son, No Father A daily devotion for May 11th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:22-23 No one who denies the Son has the Father… (1 John 2:22a) To deny that Jesus is the Christ is to deny the Father and the Son. Here we are confronting something of the mystery of the nature of God. I grant immediately that …
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Topic:No Gray Areas A daily devotion for May 10th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:20-21 …no lie comes from the truth. (1 John 2:21b) Have you learned yet that no lie is of the truth, that there is no possible harmony between a lie and the truth? In other words, that there are no gray areas in life; that a …
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Topic:On Heresy A daily devotion for May 9th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:18-19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. (1 John 2:19a) Notice that the mark of an antichrist is finally breaking away from New Testament Christianity. All such …
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Topic:The Enemy Around A daily devotion for May 8th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:15-17 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. (1 John 2:16 RSV) The specific areas mentioned in this verse are …
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Topic:The Maturing Process A daily devotion for May 7th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:12-14 I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one. (1 John 2:14b) I believe John placed this purpose last for a very important reason. He has already described these …
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Topic:Visible Christianity A daily devotion for May 6th Read the Scripture: 1 John 2:7-11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him. (1 John 2:11) John says that he who hates his brother is not a Christian. He is …
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