1 JOHN Class Schedule

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1 JOHN Class Schedule
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Spirit of truth vs. the Spirit of error part 11
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test
the spirits to see whether they are from God,
because many false prophets have gone out into
the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God
every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has
come in the flesh is from God 3 and every
spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from
God this is the spirit of the antichrist, of
which you have heard that it is coming, and now
it is already in the world.

• Since do not believe is in the present tense
  what would be
• an alternate translation ?
• 2. What is the reason for the testing of the
  spirits ?
• 3. What is the test you are to apply to the
  spirits ?
• 4. What is already in the world ?

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Spirit of truth vs. the Spirit of error part 24
You are from God, little children, and have
overcome them because greater is He who is in
you than he who is in the world. 5 They are from
the world therefore they speak as from the
world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are
from God he who knows God listens to us he who
is not from God does not listen to us. By this we
know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

1. What does it mean to be from from God ?
2. Who have we overcome ?
3. What is contrasted with the term from God ?

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John 1334 "A new commandment I give to you, that
you love one another, even as I have loved you,
that you also love one another. John 1512 "This
is My commandment, that you love one another,
just as I have loved you. John 1517 "This I
command you, that you love one another. 1 John
311 For this is the message which you have heard
from the beginning, that we should love one
another 1 John 323 This is His commandment,
that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus
Christ, and love one another, just as He
commanded us. 1 John 47 Beloved, let us love
one another, for love is from God and everyone
who loves is born of God and knows God. 1 John
411 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought
to love one another. 1 John 412 No one has seen
God at any time if we love one another, God
abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
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Let us love one another7 Beloved, let us love
one another, for love is from God and everyone
who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The
one who does not love does not know God, for God
is love. 9 By this the love of God was
manifested in us, that God has sent His only
begotten Son into the world so that we might live
through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we
loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son
to be the propitiation for our sins.

1. What are attributes of one who is loving one
   another (from verse 7) ?
2. What is the contrast between loving and not
   loving ?
3. What does it mean to say God is love ?
4. What did God do to manifest His love in us ?
5. What satisfied God about our sins ?

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Redeeming Love part 111 Beloved, if God so loved
us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one
has seen God at any time if we love one another,
God abides in us, and His love is perfected in
us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him and
He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

1. How is this verse different from verse 7 ?
2. How often should we love one another ?
3. How is Gods love to be seen if no one has seen
   God at any time ?
4. What single word describes we abiding in Him and
   He in us ?

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Redeeming Love part 214 We have seen and testify
that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior
of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is
the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16 We have come to know and have believed the
love which God has for us. God is love, and the
one who abides in love abides in God, and God
abides in him.

• What did John testify about in 1 John Chp. 1 that
  relates to this verse ?
• What does confessing (i.e. to say the same thing)
  that Jesus is
• the Son of God tell you about that person ?
• 3. What are some examples of the love which God
  has for us ?

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God is Love part 117 By this, love is perfected
with us, so that we may have confidence in the
day of judgment because as He is, so also are we
in this world. 18 There is no fear in love but
perfect love casts out fear, because fear
involves punishment, and the one who fears is not
perfected in love. 19 We love, because He first
loved us.

1. What is by this referring to in verse 17 ?
2. What does perfected mean ?
3. What are the characteristics of Gods love from
   verse 18 ?
4. What is needed for us to love (i.e. agapao) ?

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God is Love part 220 If someone says, "I love
God," and hates his brother, he is a liar for
the one who does not love his brother whom he has
seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21
And this commandment we have from Him, that the
one who loves God should love his brother also.
Is there a difference between loving his
brother and loving one another ?