ISSL Reflections August 22, 2021 1 John 4:2-3, 13-17; 5:4-5 Post 3

VII.
By spending time with these passages from 1 John what have you come to know or to know more deeply?

VIII.
1 John 4:2-3

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming; and now it is already in the world.

1 John 4:13-17

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world.

1 John 5:4-5

… for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

IX.
What “world” do these passages invite you to live in?

What “world do these passages warn you of?

Take time to read the passages again and notice these three words, “confess,” “abide,” and “love.”

Do those words in any way describe the “world” you live in or hope to live in?

How does your understanding of those words help you see the world as Jesus saw the world?

charles
{ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est}


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