Everybody believes something. But not everyone believes the truth. The Apostle John has been giving us a polygraph, testing whether our profession of faith is the real thing. But what about the gospel message itself - is there is test for that? How do we know that Christianity isn't just one of many "world religions?" Today Pastor Jim takes us to the final chapter of 1 John, to talk about how we can know that both our faith, and its object, are valid. The message is called, He is Eternal Life, and Our Lives Show It.

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If you pass this test, you will be a confident Christian. We've been learning about the 7 tests of genuine faith found in 1 John, and today we turn our attention to the test of love. If divine love lives in us, it will prove to us and to outsiders that something supernatural has happened here. This isn't the kind of helping hand that expects something in return sooner or later; it's the selfless love springing from the nature of God. Here's Pastor Jim with a message called, He is a Lover and Our Lives Show It.

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"He came to empower us to be perfect." Wow! The minute any preacher starts talking about holiness the devil is going to tempt some Christians to despair, and scoffers are going to make a caricature of the message. But the truth is, we are called to purity - and - believers do sin. Pastor Jim will explain, in another Christmastime message from 1 John called He is Pure, and Our Lives Show It.

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Truth exists, and it is a Person! We're still poring over the letter of 1 John, thinking about Light and Love and Truth. There are many competitors for the truth these days - even one that claims there is no truth. Christians must be able to discern the real from the clever copy, and then "contend" for the truth. You may have noticed some Christmas references in this series, preached around that time of year. Pastor Jim begins this message in 1 John, chapter 2.

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Light reveals flaws...and fakes. If God is light, as we've said earlier this week in our investigation of 1 John, then His light will reveal any darkness in us. And there is darkness in us; no use pretending otherwise. Yet maybe you've known people who excuse or even deny their sin, rather than confess it - and that's one of John's tests we'll talk about in this series. Today we begin a new message from Pastor Jim: He is the Light, and Our Lives Show It.

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If you're concerned about counterfeit Christianity, you're in good company: that's why the Apostle John wrote his first letter! Maybe we can take some comfort in that fact that false Christs and false Christians are nothing new - they've have been a nuisance from the beginning. When the beloved disciple took up his pen to write the letter we call "First John," he gave us 7 tests of an authentic faith. Today we begin a new series based on that epistle. It's called Be Real.

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