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Some things YOU KNOW..
Some things YOU KNOW..
It is fascinating that John uses the word ‘know’ over 40 times in this little book of 1 John. We all know that we know some things. Not just ‘think’ or ‘hope’, but know. Know by experience. Know with enough certainty to base not only our life upon such things but our eternal life. Yes, there were relativists in John’s day just as there are now. Yet, for John there were thing that God’s people KNOW. For example: We can know -
2:29 - that HE is righteous…
3:5 - that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
5:18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
3:14 - that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers…
3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
5:19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
5:15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
3:2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Do you know those things? For an exercise in bible study, read 1 John and make your own list of things that you are to know as a child of God.
Hugh DeLong
