Slides: 1 John: Children of God

Big questions

• Who is God? What has God done?
• Am I born of God, eternally alive?
• How can I commune with God?
• How should I relate to others?
• How do I know right and wrong?
• How can I detect and reject lies?
• Why is the world the way it is?

God’s children know

• “children of God” (6x)
• “born of God” (5x)
• “know” (29x)

I write … so that you may know that you have eternal life… We know that we are children of God. (5:13, 19)

Clear contrasts

• light or dark, sin or righteousness
• truth or lies, love or hate, life or death
• eyewitnesses or false prophets 
• Christ or antichrists, God or idols
• love God or love the world
• children of God or children of devil