Study Desk

Many people will follow their wrong ways. Because of what they do, people will speak bad things against the way of truth.

Lot was taken away from Sodom because he was right with God. He had been troubled by the sins that bad men did in wild living.

He saw and heard how the people around him broke the Law. Everyday his own soul which was right with God was troubled because of their sinful ways.

Their eyes are full of sex sins. They never have enough sin. They get weak people to go along with them. Their hearts are always wanting something. They are people who will end up in hell because

But whoever loves his brother is in the light. And there will be no reason to sin because of him.

Whoever hates his brother is not in the light but lives in darkness. He does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

I am writing to you, my children, for your sins have been forgiven because of Christ's name.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him Who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have power over the devil. I have written to you, young boys and girls, because you have learned to know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him Who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong. You have kept God's Word in your hearts. You have power over the devil.

These left us. But they never belonged to us. If they had been a part of us, they would have stayed with us. Because they left, it is known they did not belong to us.

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth. I have written because you do know the truth and you know that no lie comes from the truth.

See what great love the Father has for us that He would call us His children. And that is what we are. For this reason the people of the world do not know who we are because they did not know Him.

Dear friends, we are God's children now. But it has not yet been shown to us what we are going to be. We know that when He comes again, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.

The person who is looking for this to happen will keep himself pure because Christ is pure.

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.

Do not be like Cain. He was a child of the devil and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? It was because he did what was sinful and his brother did what was right.

We know we have passed from death into life. We know this because we love the Christians. The person who does not love has not passed from death into life.

We know what love is because Christ gave His life for us. We should give our lives for our brothers.

My children, you are a part of God's family. You have stood against these false preachers and had power over them. You had power over them because the One Who lives in you is stronger than the one who is in the world.

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