Author: Matthew Jones

• First John 4:19-21: God is Love

  

  Mature Love is Expressed through Love for One Another 4:19 We love because He first loved us. 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his fellow believer, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his fellow believer whom he has seen, cannot love the God whom he has not…

  Matthew Jones

  October 4, 2024

  1 John, God is Love

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• First John 4:13-18: God is Love

  

  The Presence of Mature Loves Provides Assurance of Fellowship 4:13 This is how we know that we abide in Him and He abides in us, by virtue of His Spirit whom He has given to us. 4:14 We have seen and we testify that the Father sent the Son as the world’s Savior. 4:15 Whoever…

  Matthew Jones

  September 27, 2024

  1 John, God is Love

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• First John 4:9-12: God is Love

  

  God’s Love was Revealed in Jesus Christ and is Expressed Through Us 4:9 And this is how the love of God was revealed among us: God has sent His one and only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 4:10 This is love: Not that we have loved God, but that…

  Matthew Jones

  September 20, 2024

  1 John, God is Love

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• First John 4:7-8 / Overview: God is Love

  

  Third Proclamation Section: God is Love. 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God because God is love. 4:9 And this is how the love of God was revealed…

  Matthew Jones

  September 13, 2024

  1 John, God is Love

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• First John 4:4-6: God is Righteous

  

  Testing the Spirits of Truth and Falsehood 4:1 Beloved, do not trust every spirit, but test the spirits to determine whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 4:2 This is how you know God’s Spirit: Every spirit that acknowledges, “Jesus is the Christ who has come in…

  Matthew Jones

  September 6, 2024

  1 John, God is righteous

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• First John 4:1-3: God is Righteous

  

  Testing the Spirits of Truth and Falsehood 4:1 Beloved, do not trust every spirit, but test the spirits to determine whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 4:2 This is how you know God’s Spirit: Every spirit that acknowledges, “Jesus is the Christ who has come in…

  Matthew Jones

  August 30, 2024

  1 John, God is righteous

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• First John 3:16-18: God is Righteous

  

  Righteousness is Expressed in Loving Others 3:11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 3:12 We should not love like Cain. He was an offspring of the Evil One, and violently killed his brother. Why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were…

  Matthew Jones

  August 16, 2024

  1 John, God is righteous

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• First John 3:19-24: God is Righteous

  

  Practicing Righteousness Provides Assurance of Fellowship 3:19 So this is how we will know that we belong to the truth and will be able to persuade our heart in ˹God’s˺ presence, 3:20 because if our heart condemns us, we know that God is greater than our heart and He knows all things. 3:21 Beloved, when…

  Matthew Jones

  August 16, 2024

  1 John, God is righteous

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• First John 3:11-15: God is Righteous

  

  Righteousness is Expressed in Loving Others 3:11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 3:12 We should not love like Cain. He was an offspring of the Evil One, and violently killed his brother. Why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were…

  Matthew Jones

  August 8, 2024

  1 John, God is righteous

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• First John 3:9-10: God is Righteous

  

  Practicing Righteousness or Sin is a Result of Paternity 3:1 Look at the kind of love the Father has given to us, that we are called God’s children. And we really are! Because of this the world does not know us. And it is no wonder, because it did not know Him. 3:2 Beloved, right…

  Matthew Jones

  August 2, 2024

  1 John, God is righteous

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