Life, light, and love

Friday, July 25, 2014

In the epistle of 1 John there are three keywords. These three keywords are life, light, and love. John uses the words over and over again. John's use of the word life refers to the eternal life that God has given to us through faith in Jesus Christ. In 1 John 5:11 -- 12 John writes, "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." Eternal life speaks not only of the quantity of that life (it is eternal) but to the quality of that life. It is life that makes possible true fellowship with God.

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