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2 John 1-13

Sunday, May 16th, 2010
 
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[1] The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth —and not I only, but also all who know the truth —

[2] because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:

[3] Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.

[4] It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

[5] And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.

[6] And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

[7] Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

[8] Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.

[9] Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

[10] If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.

[11] Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.

[12] I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

[13] The children of your chosen sister send their greetings.

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1 John 4:1-21

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
 
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[1] Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

[2] This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

[3] but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

[4] You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

[5] They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

[6] We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

[7] Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

[8] Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

[9] This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son [into the world that we might live through him.}

[10] This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

[11] Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

[12] No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

[13] We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

[14] And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

[15] If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

[16] And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

[17] In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.

[18] There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

[19] We love because he first loved us.

[20] If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

[21] And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

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1 John 3:11-24

Sunday, April 25th, 2010
 
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[11] This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

[12] Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

[13] Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

[14] We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

[15] Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

[16] This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

[17] If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

[18] Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

[19] This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence

[20] whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

[21] Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God

[22] and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

[23] And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

[24] Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

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1 Peter 4:1-11

Sunday, February 14th, 2010
 
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[1] Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

[2] As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.

[3] For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.

[4] They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you.

[5] But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

[6] For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to men in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit.

[7] The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray.

[8] Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

[9] Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.

[10] Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.

[11] If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

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1 Peter 2:13 to 3:7

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
 
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[13]  Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority,

[14]  or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.

[15]  For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.

[16]  Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

[17]  Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

[18]  Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.

[19]  For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God.

[20]  But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

[21]  To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

[22]  “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”

[23]  When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.

[24]  He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

[25]  For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

1 Peter 3

[3:1]  Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives,

[2]  when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

[3]  Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes.

[4]  Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.

[5]  For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands,

[6]  like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

[7]  Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

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1 Peter 1:10-25

Sunday, January 17th, 2010
 
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[10] Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care,

[11] trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

[12] It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

[13] Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

[14] As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

[15] But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;

[16] for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

[17] Since you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear.

[18] For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers,

[19] but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

[20] He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

[21] Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.

[22] Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.

[23] For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

[24] For, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

[25] but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you.

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