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I JOHN – LESSON 6

I. KNOWING THE CHARACTER OF LOVE (3:13-24)

A. Because of your righteous acts, you will be hated by the world (v. 13).

B. You have passed out of death into life if you love your brother (v. 14).

C. You are a murderer if you hate your brother (v. 15).

D. Christ’s manifestation of true love manifested in self-sacrifice for brethren’s well-being (v. 16-18).

E. Loving according to truth gives us assurance before an omniscient and personal God (v. 19-22).

F. Two-fold commandment for pleasing God: believe on the name of the Son, and love one another (v. 23-24).

1. Keeping God’s commandments objective standard for abiding in God

2. The source of the commandments is the Spirit.

QUESTIONS:

  1. Why should we not marvel if the world hates us?     

 

  2.  What are you before God if you hate your brother?    

3. What do we know for sure about the destiny of one who hates his brother?

  4. What specific example of love should we know and remember?  

  5. How can we apply Jesus’ example of love in our lives?  

6. “My little children, let us not love in ________________, neither with the _______________; but in _______________ and ________________________.”

  7. How does the above statement help us in having assurance before God?  

  8. What is an important condition for receiving our prayer requests?   

  9. How is God’s “commandment” made of “two” specific precepts?

I JOHN – LESSON 7

I. KNOWING THE TRUE SPIRIT (4:1-6)

A. False spirits are producing false teaching in the world – prove them (v. 1).

B. The true spirits confess the Christ has come in the flesh (v. 2-3).

C. Having the spirit of truth is key is overcoming the world (v. 4-6)

  

II. PERFECTING GOD’S LOVE (4:7-21)

A. God’s love manifested by the giving of His Son for the sins of all (v. 7-10).

      

B. Two demands for abiding in God (v. 11-16)

1. Initiate the same character of love toward our brother as God did toward us.

2. Confess Jesus to be the Son of God.

C. The blessing of manifesting God’s love toward others: confidence in judgment (v. 17-21)

QUESTIONS:

  1. God desires us to (a) readily accept all religious teaching; (b) prove all religious teaching; (c) don’t be too concerned about doctrinal error.

 

  2.  What is the objective standard for knowing the true spirit of God?

3. What spirit was already in the world in the first century?

  4. What fact lies behind the promise that the child of God has overcome the world?

5. “Herein is love, ___________ that we loved God, but that he ________________ us, and _____________ His Son to be the propitiation for ___________   _________________.”

 

6. What should we do because of such love from God?

  7. What two characteristics should we manifest if we are truly abiding in God?

 

  8. From verses 17-21, give the characteristics of “perfect love.”    

 9. What blessing is connected with manifesting “perfect love?”

10. IF you do not love your brother you _________________   ________________ God.