Garwood Presbyterian Church

341 Spruce Avenue, Garwood, New Jersey 07027

Phone: 908-789-0360

Children of the World and of the Devil in I John

1:8, 10 "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." And "we make him [God] out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives."
2:4 "The man who says, 'I know him,' but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him."
2:9 "Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness."
2:11 "whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him."
2:15-16 "If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world [in us] - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world."
3:8 "He who does what is sinful is of the devil"
3:10 "This is how we know ... who the children of the devil are: anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; neither is anyone who does not love his brother."
3:12 "Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. ... because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous."
3:13 People of the world will hate Christians.
3:14 "Anyone who does not love remains in death."
3:15 "Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and ... no murderer has eternal life in him."
4:1 "many false prophets have gone out into the world."
4:5 "They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them."
4:6 "whoever is not from God does not listen to us [Christians]."
4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God"
4:20 "If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, ... cannot love God"
5:10 "Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son."
5:12 "he who does not have the Son of God does not have life."
5:19 "the whole world is under the control of the evil one."

"Antichrists" in I john

2:18 "many antichrists have come."
2:19 "if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us."
2:22 "the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist - he denies the father and the son."
2:26 "those who are trying to lead you astray."
4:1, 3 "do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from god, be-cause many false prophets have gone out into the world. ... every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from god. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which ... is already in the world."
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