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How God’s Love Is Perfected in You – Agree With God About How Love Works
(1 John 4:19–21)
First, we must recognize all our love is a response to His. We love because He first loved us (19). So God's love comes first to us before it goes anywhere else. He is the great initiator. (5 Minutes/1400 Words)
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The Test of a True Believer -- The Results
(1 John 2:9-11)
Here, we have the final claim of this section. This man says he is in the light, where God is, but hates his brother (in Christ). The reality, John says, is that he is still in darkness. (5 Minutes/1400 Words)
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The Near Neighbor
Archival Post
In our modern age, people rarely live close to their biological family. Increasingly, we grow up and ship out, returning to our hometowns only here and there, if at all. This is why the new humanity, the family of God, the body of Christ is so important these days.
Read moreIn our last study in the Book of Exodus, we saw God begin the process of calling Moses to be the figurehead who would be the deliverer, the prophet, the instrument that God would use to deliver the people of Israel from their slavery in Egypt. They of course had grown in Egypt over a number of years, over 400 years and had gone there originally as a small family with favor from pharaoh because of Joseph and the good success and ministry that he had executed as the right-hand man of pharaoh, but Exodus tells us that a day came when a pharaoh arose who did not know Joseph.
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The Near Neighbor
(Proverbs 27:10)
In our modern age, people rarely live close to their biological family. Increasingly, we grow up and ship out, returning to our hometowns only here and there, if at all. Often, our parents divorce and move away. Soon, there's no reason to go home at all. (1 Minute/200 Words)
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