Friday Dec 10, 2021

Episode 61: 1 John 5

Today's meditation is based on 1st John Chapter 5 from the Passion Translation

I believe that Jesus is the Messiah and that I am God’s spiritual child. I have been fathered by God himself. And because I love Father God, I love his children as well. I have a passionate love for God and obey his commands because true love for God means obeying his commands. His commands don’t weigh me down as heavy burdens. As a child of God, I have overcome the world, for my faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the world. The world conquerors, the ones who defeat its power, are those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

Jesus Christ was revealed as God’s Son by his water baptism and by the blood of the cross — not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit, who is truth, confirms this with his testimony. So I have these three constant witnesses giving their evidence: the Spirit, the water, and the blood. And these three are in agreement. I accept the more authoritative testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son over the testimony of men.

Because I believe in the Son of God, I have the living testimony in my heart. Those who don’t believe have made God out to be a liar by not believing the testimony God has confirmed about his Son. This is the true testimony: God has given me eternal life, and this life has its source in his Son. Whoever has the Son has eternal life; whoever does not have the Son does not possess eternal life.

I am assured and know without a doubt that I have eternal life.

And because I have this confidence, I can also have great boldness before him, for I know that if I ask anything agreeable to his will, he will hear me. And I know that if he hears me in whatever I ask, that I have already obtained the requests I ask of him.

I intercede for my fellow believers -- especially those who habitually sin in a way that doesn’t lead to death, praying that God will give that person life.

I am convinced that everyone fathered by God does not make sinning a way of life, and the Evil One cannot touch him. I know that I am a child of God and although the whole world lies under the misery and influence of the Evil One, the Son of God protects me because I am the child of God. He has made my understanding come alive so that I can know by experience the One who is true. And I am in him who is true, God’s Son, Jesus Christ — the true God and eternal life!

Episode 61: 1 John 5

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