“Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about His Son. 11. And this is the testimony, God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12.He who has the Son has life, he who does not have the Son does not have life.”
One of John’s purposes for writing 1John was to warn people about false teachers who were going from church to church trying to convince people that Jesus is not the way to salvation. When we say this, an incredulous world accuses us of religious bigotry. We just have to decide whether we are going to believe the world or the New Testament. We can disagree with each other about a lot of things, and we probably will, but we are not to disagree with God. God has sent the message to the world that He sent His Son into the world to save the world. To disagree at this point is to call God a liar.(That is what John plainly wrote.) We have ample evidence through all of the books of the New Testament that Jesus came to save sinners, and that after He died on the cross,and rose from the grave He ascended to the Father and intercedes for us even today. The message of Jesus is an affront to the world system, which is under the control of Satan. If there is any name that Satan hates, it is the name of Jesus. We are told that Jesus “was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.” The message of the Bible is that Jesus defeated Satan for us and that when we put our faith and trust in Him, we are saved and have overcome the world through that faith. To those of us who believe, the name of Jesus is the most precious name in the world. We believe that Philippians 2:8-11 is eternally true: “And being found in fashion as a man, (Jesus) humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9. Wherefore God also has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name. 10. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. 11. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” The world can deny that this is true, but that does not make it untrue. It is my prayer that you will not deny the name of Jesus, because to do so is to is to refuse God's word about His Son. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to stand in judgment having accused God of lying. Bro. Joe
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