Study Desk

My dear children, I am writing this to you so you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, there is One Who will go between him and the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the One Who is right with God.

But whoever obeys His Word has the love of God made perfect in him. This is the way to know if you belong to Christ.

The world and all its desires will pass away. But the man who obeys God and does what He wants done will live forever.

You know that Christ is right with God. Then you should know that everyone who is right with God is a child of His.

The person who keeps on sinning is guilty of not obeying the Law of God. For sin is breaking the Law of God.

My children, let no one lead you in the wrong way. The man who does what is right, is right with God in the same way as Christ is right with God.

The person who keeps on sinning belongs to the devil. The devil has sinned from the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil.

No person who has become a child of God keeps on sinning. This is because the Holy Spirit is in him. He cannot keep on sinning because God is his Father.

This is the way you can know who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil. The person who does not keep on doing what is right and does not love his brother does not belong to God.

What if a person has enough money to live on and sees his brother in need of food and clothing? If he does not help him, how can the love of God be in him?

Our heart may say that we have done wrong. But remember, God is greater than our heart. He knows everything.

The person who obeys Christ lives by the help of God and God lives in him. We know He lives in us by the Holy Spirit He has given us.

Dear Christian friends, do not believe every spirit. But test the spirits to see if they are from God for there are many false preachers in the world.

You can tell if the spirit is from God in this way: Every spirit that says Jesus Christ has come in a human body is from God.

And every spirit that does not say Jesus has come in a human body is not from God. It is the teaching of the false-christ. You have heard that this teaching is coming. It is already here in the world.

We are a part of God's family. The person who knows God will listen to us. The person who is not a part of God's family will not listen to us. In this way, we can tell what is the spirit of truth and what is the spirit of false teaching.

Dear friends, let us love each other, because love comes from God. Those who love are God's children and they know God.

Those who do not love do not know God because God is love.

God has shown His love to us by sending His only Son into the world. God did this so we might have life through Christ.

This is love! It is not that we loved God but that He loved us. For God sent His Son to pay for our sins with His own blood.