The Word of God that we're looking at today is 1 John 3, the latter part of what is designated verse 24, through the first six verses of what's designated as chapter 4.
Today's topic, talking back to God. I want to direct your attention to probably the last words written in the first Testament, that is the Hebrew scriptures.
Here in December in our Christian churches we have just celebrated the incarnation of the Son of God into human history as he took upon himself our human nature in the womb of the virgin Mary.
Today's topic, faith under trial. One of my favorite Psalms, because of the message that it brought to my heart when I was a student in college years ago, is Psalm 73.
Love is the greatest commandment. Remember that one day, someone asked Jesus, what is the greatest of all the commandments? There were some of them in 613 in the Old Testament.
1 John chapter 2. We'll begin at verse 18. We'll read through verse 27. Children, or little children, it is the last hour. And as you've heard that Antichrist is coming, so now many Antichrists have come. Therefore, we know that it is the last hour.
In my several trips to India I would occasionally stroll through the fabric shops where I would admire the bolts of beautiful cloth that were being sold so that women in particular could make their lovely traditional sarees.
I'm recording this podcast to you on the eve of a brand new designated year. It's around 1159 on December the 31st. but in about two minutes it will be, magically, January 1st of the year 2026. So Happy New Year.
Recently I read something that Martyn Lloyd-Jones had said in one of his sermons about a particular passage in 1 John and he was reluctant for some time to preach on it because he wasn’t sure he could do it justice and bring out its meaning clearly to God’s people.
