How to Fight:
- Explanation: Rather than just posting the verse, I am going to provide just a little bit of commentary to encourage your meditation on the truth of the scripture. The point of memorizing these verses is not to know the words and have them locked up in your mental RAM so you can spit them out again, but so that you can use them to fight off all manner of sins: Unbelief, anxiety, anger, lust, bitterness, depression, etc... I hope to encourage you in the way you lay hold of the verse. What truths are in it? What does it teach? What does it promise? What conditions are there? How should it make you joyous? Feel free to email me and share additional applications for each passage. Every passage has one defined meaning, but there can be many implications found in every truth of God's Word.
- Fighter Truths: 1 John 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
- The truths written in 1 John are written to those who believe in the name of Jesus. If you believe in Him, the promises and blessings and encouragements of 1 John are addressed to you. Believe them! Receive them! Live in them and let them embolden you!
- The letter is written for a purpose... "that." So that. John writes to give us certainty regarding the truths he is speaking about.
- The truths are given to give us assurance of our eternal life. Let there be no question in your heart or mind. Do not let your heart be anxious or discouraged. Do not listen to the voice of the devil, the self-defeating voice of the flesh, or the taunting discouragement of the world: If you believe in the gospel, if you are abiding in Christ, if you trust in the work of Christ on the cross, and that God will credit the righteousness of Christ to you if you trust in Christ's sacrifice, then you have eternal life.
For His glory and your joy,
Keith
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