Merry Christmas! I painted this mural in the hallway in my church in 2008.
Peter intended his second letter to provoke us to examine our lives honestly to find where we can do better in our walk with Christ. In the last days people will want to believe it IS all about them. They will think the Lord isn't coming back because it hasn't happened. What they fail to realize is that God's perspective of time is vastly different from ours. We should honor God by the way we live. God is patient because He wants people to be saved. Some people twist the scriptures to suit themselves. Believers praise Jesus now and forever!
1John
John wrote to counter the false teachings being heard in his day with truth. The Word was real, they heard it, saw it and touched it themselves. They announced this to let people know that the fellowship they had with the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ was true. God is light. The blood of Christ purifies us from our sins. If we don't think we have any sin we are fooling ourselves. We need to confess that we aren't perfect, and seek God's forgiveness.
Try not to sin, but if you do, remember that we have Jesus Christ who will plead to the Father on our behalf and take our sin away. Whoever is living in union with God should live just like Jesus Christ did. If you love your fellow man, you walk in the light. If not, then you walk in darkness. Either you love the world or you love the God. If you do God's will, you will live forever. Anyone who says Jesus was not the Christ or Messiah rejects not only Jesus, but God as well. Through the Spirit you will be taught everything God wants you to know. Everyone who does what is right is God's child.
God loves us so much that he calls us His children. The world does not know God. When we sin, we fail to obey God's Law. When we live in union with Christ we seek a different life. Christ came to destroy what the devil had done. The message we heard from the beginning is to love one another.
Tomorrow read 1John3:13-end; 2&3John; Jude 1:1-16
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