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In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:10-11 Most people understand that they can choose a different physician if they feel…
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Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:7-8 Long ago, while moving out of college at the end of one year, I was on the…
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Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4 In the disastrous consequences of my addiction, I felt as if my life was never going to turn around. I had no one to blame but myself,…
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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God . . . By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.…
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Whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 1 John 3:22 While addicted to my pills, I prayed many times for God to simply take away my hunger. My plan for sobriety was that God would miraculously change my appetite and then my behavior would follow.…
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By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 1 John 3:19-20 In the disastrous consequences of my addiction, I had a tremendous amount of self-loathing. As my life fell apart,…
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Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. . . Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 1 John 3:13-15 My wife and I recently watched one of those classic underdog movies in which the protagonist was an eccentric, awkward,…
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By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not…
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No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. . . By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil. . .  1 John 3:6-10 There are those times in life when…
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See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. 1 John 3:1 As a child, I found my parents to be terribly unfair and I chaffed at all their rules. I was envious of my friends who grew up without the…
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