WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.860 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.988 --> 00:00:03.858 Day 73 00:00:04.283 --> 00:00:06.083 Immersed in First John. 00:00:08.813 --> 00:00:13.463 The letter known as First John was written to a group of believers in crisis. 00:00:14.153 --> 00:00:18.653 False teachers had begun preaching that Jesus was not the Messiah and 00:00:18.653 --> 00:00:22.283 claimed their teaching was based on a revelation from the spirit of God. 00:00:23.063 --> 00:00:26.183 Many followers of Jesus began believing these teachers. 00:00:26.483 --> 00:00:28.913 And the community was being torn apart. 00:00:29.993 --> 00:00:33.443 In response, John wrote a letter to all of the churches in the 00:00:33.443 --> 00:00:36.053 community, as in the gospel of John. 00:00:36.233 --> 00:00:40.103 The author doesn't state his name in this letter, but tradition ascribes 00:00:40.103 --> 00:00:43.703 it to the Apostle John, and much evidence in the letter supports it. 00:00:45.473 --> 00:00:49.343 John urges the remaining believers to stay faithful to what they had 00:00:49.343 --> 00:00:50.813 been taught from the beginning. 00:00:51.863 --> 00:00:56.123 He combats the claims that the false teachers were making, showing how their 00:00:56.123 --> 00:00:58.253 lives discredited their own message. 00:00:59.153 --> 00:01:03.623 John reassures the faithful believers, the holy one has given you his 00:01:03.623 --> 00:01:06.143 spirit and all of you know the truth. 00:01:07.343 --> 00:01:12.203 One thing the false teachers denied was that Jesus Christ came in a real body, 00:01:12.953 --> 00:01:16.943 like many people in the first century who were influenced by Greek philosophy. 00:01:17.363 --> 00:01:21.323 They thought that spiritual things were good, but physical things were bad. 00:01:22.523 --> 00:01:26.663 They believed that if Jesus had really been the son of God, he could never 00:01:26.663 --> 00:01:28.793 have come to earth in a physical body. 00:01:29.753 --> 00:01:34.073 But John offers eyewitness testimony that Jesus was both genuinely 00:01:34.073 --> 00:01:37.043 human and the Messiah sent by God. 00:01:38.003 --> 00:01:41.393 John warns the recipients of his letters who test all those who claim 00:01:41.393 --> 00:01:45.923 to speak by the spirit if they deny these basic truths about Jesus. 00:01:46.193 --> 00:01:49.403 Then they are false prophets and are following the spirit of the 00:01:49.403 --> 00:01:53.603 antichrist, which John says is already present in the world. 00:01:54.803 --> 00:01:58.373 John adds that the people who are leaving the community of faith are 00:01:58.373 --> 00:02:00.683 also discredited by the way they live. 00:02:01.373 --> 00:02:05.663 For one thing, they are living impure lives, possibly because they 00:02:05.663 --> 00:02:08.783 now believe that whatever they do in their physical bodies doesn't 00:02:08.783 --> 00:02:10.703 affect their spiritual condition. 00:02:11.798 --> 00:02:15.158 The false teachers and their followers also lacked Christ-like 00:02:15.158 --> 00:02:17.048 compassion for the poor and suffering. 00:02:17.708 --> 00:02:20.018 They didn't care about the practical needs of others. 00:02:20.678 --> 00:02:23.858 The true path had been taught and shown by Jesus. 00:02:24.548 --> 00:02:27.938 Those who claim to know and love God will obey his commands. 00:02:28.268 --> 00:02:32.018 They will faithfully live in the light and love of the Messiah's way. 00:02:33.908 --> 00:02:36.998 It can be somewhat difficult to track John's pattern of thought 00:02:36.998 --> 00:02:40.688 in this letter as he seems to move back and forth between ideas. 00:02:41.708 --> 00:02:46.328 He sometimes raises a topic briefly, then shifts to another thought followed 00:02:46.328 --> 00:02:48.128 by a return to the previous topic. 00:02:48.878 --> 00:02:53.768 However, both his desire to maintain the integrity of the gospel message 00:02:54.038 --> 00:02:58.238 and his attentiveness to living in the light permeate the entire letter. 00:02:59.558 --> 00:03:02.858 He summarizes his entire message at the end of the letter This way. 00:03:04.298 --> 00:03:09.428 And we know that the son of God has come and he has given us understanding 00:03:09.698 --> 00:03:11.468 so that we can know the true God. 00:03:12.308 --> 00:03:16.328 And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in 00:03:16.333 --> 00:03:19.568 fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ. 00:03:24.968 --> 00:03:30.458 The letter of First John, we proclaimed to you the one who 00:03:30.458 --> 00:03:31.928 existed from the beginning. 00:03:32.768 --> 00:03:34.298 Whom we have heard and seen. 00:03:35.168 --> 00:03:39.098 We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. 00:03:39.818 --> 00:03:41.858 He is the word of life. 00:03:42.938 --> 00:03:48.638 This one who is life itself was revealed to us and we have seen him and now 00:03:48.643 --> 00:03:53.708 we testify and proclaimed to you that he is the one who is eternal life. 00:03:54.458 --> 00:03:58.208 He was with the father and then he was revealed to us. 00:03:59.108 --> 00:04:03.638 We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard, so 00:04:03.638 --> 00:04:09.038 that you may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship is with the 00:04:09.038 --> 00:04:12.698 father and with his son, Jesus Christ. 00:04:14.348 --> 00:04:18.248 We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy. 00:04:20.588 --> 00:04:26.108 This is the message we heard from Jesus, and now declare to you God is light. 00:04:26.558 --> 00:04:28.748 And there is no darkness in him at all. 00:04:29.648 --> 00:04:33.518 So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God, but go on 00:04:33.518 --> 00:04:37.808 living in spiritual darkness, we are not practicing the truth. 00:04:39.098 --> 00:04:43.928 But if we are living in the light as God is in the light, then we have fellowship 00:04:43.933 --> 00:04:49.538 with each other and the blood of Jesus, his son cleanses us from all sin. 00:04:50.498 --> 00:04:53.738 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves 00:04:53.948 --> 00:04:55.358 and not living in the truth. 00:04:56.273 --> 00:05:02.363 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 00:05:02.693 --> 00:05:04.583 and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 00:05:05.603 --> 00:05:11.183 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that 00:05:11.183 --> 00:05:13.173 his word has no place in our hearts. 00:05:14.543 --> 00:05:19.973 My dear children, I'm writing this to you so that you will not sin, but if 00:05:19.973 --> 00:05:25.583 anyone does sin, We have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. 00:05:26.183 --> 00:05:30.863 He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. 00:05:31.733 --> 00:05:36.773 He himself is the sacrifice that atone for our sins and not only our 00:05:36.773 --> 00:05:39.773 sins, but the sins of all the world. 00:05:40.703 --> 00:05:44.753 And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. 00:05:45.563 --> 00:05:47.873 If someone claims, I know God. 00:05:48.443 --> 00:05:50.213 But doesn't obey God's commandments. 00:05:50.543 --> 00:05:53.723 That person is a liar and is not living in the truth. 00:05:54.923 --> 00:05:59.633 But those who obey God's word truly show how completely they love him. 00:06:00.593 --> 00:06:03.023 That is how we know we are living in him. 00:06:03.923 --> 00:06:08.123 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. 00:06:09.293 --> 00:06:13.643 Dear friends, I'm not writing a new commandment for you, rather. 00:06:13.643 --> 00:06:16.703 It is an old one you have had from the very beginning. 00:06:17.603 --> 00:06:22.523 This old commandment to love one another is the same message you 00:06:22.523 --> 00:06:25.553 heard before, yet it is also new. 00:06:26.453 --> 00:06:31.013 Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. 00:06:31.703 --> 00:06:36.473 For the darkness is disappearing and the true light is already shining. 00:06:38.003 --> 00:06:42.953 If anyone claims I am living in the light, but hates a fellow believer, 00:06:43.763 --> 00:06:45.953 that person is still living in darkness. 00:06:47.018 --> 00:06:51.068 Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light and does 00:06:51.068 --> 00:06:52.628 not cause others to stumble. 00:06:53.198 --> 00:06:58.508 But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. 00:06:59.318 --> 00:07:03.698 Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the 00:07:03.703 --> 00:07:09.698 darkness I'm writing to you who are God's children because your sins 00:07:09.698 --> 00:07:11.408 have been forgiven through Jesus. 00:07:12.188 --> 00:07:14.708 I'm writing to you who are mature in the faith. 00:07:15.173 --> 00:07:18.503 Because you know Christ who existed from the beginning. 00:07:19.223 --> 00:07:23.393 I am writing to you who are young in the faith because you have won your battle 00:07:23.393 --> 00:07:28.583 with the evil one I have written to you who are God's children because you know 00:07:28.583 --> 00:07:33.533 the Father I have written to you who are mature in the faith because you know 00:07:33.533 --> 00:07:36.023 Christ who existed from the beginning. 00:07:36.743 --> 00:07:40.673 I have written to you who are young in the faith because you are strong. 00:07:41.783 --> 00:07:46.913 God's word lives in your hearts and you have won your battle with the evil one. 00:07:48.353 --> 00:07:52.463 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you for. 00:07:52.463 --> 00:07:56.243 When you love the world, you do not have the love of the father in you. 00:07:57.113 --> 00:08:01.133 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving 00:08:01.133 --> 00:08:06.023 for everything we see and pride in our achievements and possessions. 00:08:06.953 --> 00:08:10.043 These are not from the father, but are from this world. 00:08:10.643 --> 00:08:14.543 And this world is fading away along with everything that people 00:08:14.543 --> 00:08:20.183 crave, but anyone who does what pleases God will live forever. 00:08:22.433 --> 00:08:25.553 Dear children, the last hour is here. 00:08:26.573 --> 00:08:30.653 You have heard that the antichrist is coming and already many such 00:08:30.653 --> 00:08:33.353 antichrist have appeared from this. 00:08:33.353 --> 00:08:35.543 We know that the last hour has come. 00:08:36.323 --> 00:08:40.043 These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us. 00:08:40.823 --> 00:08:42.563 Otherwise they would've stayed with us. 00:08:43.253 --> 00:08:46.883 When they left, it proved that they did not belong with us. 00:08:47.873 --> 00:08:52.433 But you are not like that for the holy one has given you his spirit 00:08:53.033 --> 00:08:54.503 and all of you know the truth. 00:08:55.253 --> 00:08:59.243 So I'm writing to you, not because you don't know the truth, but because 00:08:59.243 --> 00:09:04.043 you know the difference between truth and lies and who is a liar? 00:09:05.213 --> 00:09:08.063 Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. 00:09:08.768 --> 00:09:13.058 Anyone who denies the father and the son is an antichrist. 00:09:13.778 --> 00:09:18.908 Anyone who denies the son doesn't have the father either, but anyone who 00:09:18.908 --> 00:09:22.178 acknowledges the son has the father also. 00:09:23.498 --> 00:09:26.978 So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. 00:09:27.428 --> 00:09:31.928 If you do, you'll remain in fellowship with the son and with the father. 00:09:32.678 --> 00:09:37.268 And in this fellowship, we enjoy the eternal life he promised us. 00:09:38.648 --> 00:09:43.148 I'm writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray, but 00:09:43.148 --> 00:09:47.768 you have received the Holy Spirit and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone 00:09:47.773 --> 00:09:50.768 to teach you what is true for the Spirit. 00:09:50.773 --> 00:09:55.658 Teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true. 00:09:56.378 --> 00:09:57.338 It is not a lie. 00:09:58.388 --> 00:10:03.038 So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ. 00:10:05.273 --> 00:10:09.593 And now dear children remain in fellowship with Christ so that when 00:10:09.593 --> 00:10:14.843 he returns, you'll be full of courage and not shrink back from him in shame. 00:10:15.923 --> 00:10:19.643 Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who 00:10:19.643 --> 00:10:21.953 do what is right are God's children. 00:10:23.003 --> 00:10:25.763 See how very much our father loves us for. 00:10:25.763 --> 00:10:29.213 He calls us his children and that is what we are. 00:10:30.443 --> 00:10:34.523 But the people who belong to this world don't recognize that we are God's 00:10:34.523 --> 00:10:36.533 children because they don't know him. 00:10:37.643 --> 00:10:42.443 Dear friends, we are already God's children, but he has not yet shown us 00:10:42.443 --> 00:10:47.993 what we will be like when Christ appears, but we do know that we will be like him, 00:10:48.533 --> 00:10:54.773 for we will see him as he really is, and all who have this eager expectation will 00:10:54.773 --> 00:10:57.893 keep themselves pure just as he is pure. 00:10:59.183 --> 00:11:04.973 Everyone whose sins is breaking God's law for all sin is contrary to the law of God. 00:11:05.663 --> 00:11:10.763 And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins and there is no sin in him. 00:11:11.753 --> 00:11:17.963 Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin, but anyone who keeps on sinning 00:11:18.323 --> 00:11:21.443 does not know him or understand who he is. 00:11:22.913 --> 00:11:26.273 Dear children, don't let anyone deceive you about this. 00:11:27.203 --> 00:11:30.923 When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, 00:11:31.223 --> 00:11:32.843 even as Christ is righteous. 00:11:33.683 --> 00:11:36.833 But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the 00:11:36.833 --> 00:11:42.023 devil who has been sinning since the beginning, but the Son of God came 00:11:42.023 --> 00:11:43.733 to destroy the works of the devil. 00:11:44.393 --> 00:11:47.843 Those who have been born into God's family do not make a practice of 00:11:47.848 --> 00:11:53.513 sinning because God's life is in them, so they can't keep on sinning 00:11:54.083 --> 00:11:55.793 because they're children of God. 00:11:57.338 --> 00:12:02.288 So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil. 00:12:03.308 --> 00:12:07.118 Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other 00:12:07.123 --> 00:12:09.848 believers, does not belong to God. 00:12:11.888 --> 00:12:13.838 This is the message you have heard from the beginning. 00:12:14.408 --> 00:12:16.148 We should love one another. 00:12:17.048 --> 00:12:21.188 We must not be like Kane who belonged to the evil one and killed his 00:12:21.188 --> 00:12:23.348 brother, and why did he kill him? 00:12:24.653 --> 00:12:29.393 Kane had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous. 00:12:30.473 --> 00:12:31.793 So don't be surprised. 00:12:31.793 --> 00:12:37.433 Dear brothers and sisters, if the world hates you, if we love our brothers and 00:12:37.433 --> 00:12:42.053 sisters who are believers, it proves that we have passed from death to life. 00:12:42.923 --> 00:12:45.953 But a person who has no love is still dead. 00:12:46.853 --> 00:12:50.993 Anyone who hates another brother or sister is really a murderer at heart. 00:12:52.478 --> 00:12:55.958 And you know that murderers don't have eternal life within them. 00:12:57.188 --> 00:13:02.408 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us, 00:13:03.308 --> 00:13:07.448 so we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. 00:13:08.408 --> 00:13:12.158 If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in 00:13:12.158 --> 00:13:17.168 need, but chose no compassion, how can God's love be in that person? 00:13:18.728 --> 00:13:22.088 Dear children, let's not merely say that we love each other. 00:13:22.748 --> 00:13:24.968 Let us show the truth by our actions. 00:13:25.718 --> 00:13:31.208 Our actions will show that we belong to the truth, so we will be confident when we 00:13:31.208 --> 00:13:35.108 stand before God, even if we feel guilty. 00:13:35.948 --> 00:13:39.818 God is greater than our feelings and he knows everything. 00:13:41.348 --> 00:13:46.658 Dear friends, if we don't feel guilty, we can come to God with bold confidence. 00:13:47.078 --> 00:13:52.598 And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him 00:13:52.928 --> 00:13:54.788 and do the things that please him. 00:13:55.898 --> 00:13:57.668 And this is his commandment. 00:13:58.628 --> 00:14:03.488 We must believe in the name of his son, Jesus Christ, and love one 00:14:03.488 --> 00:14:05.798 another just as he commanded us. 00:14:07.028 --> 00:14:11.468 Those who obey God's commandments remain in fellowship with him, and he 00:14:11.468 --> 00:14:14.138 with them, and we know he lives in us. 00:14:15.293 --> 00:14:17.843 The spirit he gave us lives in us. 00:14:19.793 --> 00:14:24.473 Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the spirit. 00:14:25.103 --> 00:14:30.143 You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God for there 00:14:30.143 --> 00:14:31.793 are many false prophets in the world. 00:14:32.903 --> 00:14:34.943 This is how we know if they have the spirit of God. 00:14:35.603 --> 00:14:39.443 If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus 00:14:39.443 --> 00:14:41.213 Christ came in a real body. 00:14:42.188 --> 00:14:44.438 That person has the spirit of God. 00:14:45.578 --> 00:14:49.388 But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about 00:14:49.388 --> 00:14:52.088 Jesus, that person is not from God. 00:14:52.898 --> 00:14:57.638 Such a person has the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard is coming 00:14:57.643 --> 00:15:04.448 into the world and indeed is already here, but you belong to God my dear children. 00:15:04.868 --> 00:15:08.378 You have already won a victory over those people because 00:15:08.378 --> 00:15:09.878 the spirit who lives in you. 00:15:10.508 --> 00:15:12.758 Is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. 00:15:13.658 --> 00:15:18.878 Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world's viewpoint and the 00:15:18.878 --> 00:15:25.748 world listens to them, but we belong to God and those who know God, listen to us. 00:15:26.498 --> 00:15:29.588 If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. 00:15:30.458 --> 00:15:33.578 That is how we know if someone has the spirit of truth or 00:15:33.578 --> 00:15:34.748 the spirit of deception. 00:15:36.068 --> 00:15:39.398 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another. 00:15:39.983 --> 00:15:41.633 For love comes from God. 00:15:42.413 --> 00:15:47.093 Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God, but anyone who 00:15:47.093 --> 00:15:49.463 does not love does not know God. 00:15:49.973 --> 00:15:51.443 For God is love. 00:15:53.033 --> 00:15:57.323 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only son 00:15:57.328 --> 00:16:01.073 in into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 00:16:01.973 --> 00:16:03.233 This is real love. 00:16:03.893 --> 00:16:05.273 Not that we loved God. 00:16:05.918 --> 00:16:11.468 But that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 00:16:12.788 --> 00:16:17.768 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. 00:16:18.878 --> 00:16:25.958 No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his 00:16:25.958 --> 00:16:31.598 love is brought to full expression in us, and God has given us His spirit as 00:16:31.598 --> 00:16:34.178 proof that we live in Him and he and us. 00:16:34.913 --> 00:16:40.673 Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the father sent 00:16:40.673 --> 00:16:43.103 his son to be the savior of the world. 00:16:43.883 --> 00:16:48.293 All who declare that Jesus is the son of God, have God living 00:16:48.293 --> 00:16:50.843 in them, and they live in God. 00:16:51.803 --> 00:16:56.633 We know how much God loves us and we have put our trust in His love. 00:16:57.833 --> 00:17:02.423 God is love and all who live in love, live in God. 00:17:03.128 --> 00:17:04.358 And God lives in them. 00:17:05.348 --> 00:17:08.558 And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. 00:17:09.278 --> 00:17:12.698 So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face 00:17:12.698 --> 00:17:17.168 him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. 00:17:18.218 --> 00:17:23.438 Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear. 00:17:24.428 --> 00:17:29.108 If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have 00:17:29.108 --> 00:17:31.538 not fully experienced his perfect love. 00:17:32.513 --> 00:17:35.723 We love each other because he loved us first. 00:17:37.043 --> 00:17:43.403 If someone says, I love God, but hates a fellow believer, that person is a 00:17:43.403 --> 00:17:49.463 liar for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God whom we cannot 00:17:49.463 --> 00:17:52.973 see, and he has given us this command. 00:17:53.723 --> 00:17:57.803 Those who love God must also love their fellow believers. 00:17:59.678 --> 00:18:04.028 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. 00:18:04.688 --> 00:18:08.318 And everyone who loves the Father loves his children too. 00:18:09.248 --> 00:18:13.658 We know we love God's children if we love God and obey his commandments. 00:18:14.468 --> 00:18:18.548 Loving God means keeping His commandments and his commandments are not burdensome. 00:18:19.298 --> 00:18:23.108 For every child of God defeats this evil world and we achieve 00:18:23.108 --> 00:18:24.578 this victory through our faith. 00:18:25.688 --> 00:18:27.998 And who can win this battle against the world? 00:18:29.108 --> 00:18:33.068 Only those who believe that Jesus is the son of God. 00:18:34.238 --> 00:18:40.148 And Jesus Christ was revealed as God's son by his baptism in water and by shedding 00:18:40.148 --> 00:18:47.738 his blood on the cross, not by water only, but by water and blood, and the Spirit who 00:18:47.738 --> 00:18:50.588 is truth confirms it with his testimony. 00:18:51.458 --> 00:18:54.188 So we have these three witnesses, the spirit. 00:18:54.563 --> 00:19:00.863 The water and the blood and all three agree since we believe human testimony. 00:19:01.013 --> 00:19:04.463 Surely we can believe the greater testimony that comes from God. 00:19:05.183 --> 00:19:11.243 And God has testified about his son, all who believe in the Son of God, know in 00:19:11.243 --> 00:19:13.853 their hearts that this testimony is true. 00:19:14.843 --> 00:19:18.623 Those who don't believe this are actually calling God a liar 00:19:19.223 --> 00:19:22.253 because they don't believe what God has testified about his son. 00:19:23.363 --> 00:19:25.433 And this is what God has testified. 00:19:26.093 --> 00:19:31.253 He has given us eternal life and this life is in his son. 00:19:31.973 --> 00:19:38.813 Whoever has the son has life, whoever does not have God's son, does not have life. 00:19:40.673 --> 00:19:44.513 I have written this to you who believe in the name of the son of God, so that 00:19:44.513 --> 00:19:47.153 you may know you have eternal life. 00:19:48.008 --> 00:19:51.068 And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for 00:19:51.068 --> 00:19:52.388 anything that pleases him. 00:19:53.048 --> 00:19:57.728 And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know 00:19:57.728 --> 00:19:59.498 that he will give us what we ask for. 00:20:00.848 --> 00:20:04.088 If you see a fellow believer sinning in a way that does not 00:20:04.093 --> 00:20:08.888 lead to death, you should pray and God will give that person life. 00:20:10.088 --> 00:20:13.898 But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you 00:20:13.898 --> 00:20:15.368 should pray for those who commit it. 00:20:16.388 --> 00:20:20.228 All wicked actions are sin, but not every sin leads to death. 00:20:21.188 --> 00:20:25.658 We know that God's children do not make a practice of sinning for 00:20:25.658 --> 00:20:30.938 God's son, holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them. 00:20:31.278 --> 00:20:36.128 We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is 00:20:36.128 --> 00:20:37.748 under the control of the evil one. 00:20:39.143 --> 00:20:43.853 We know that the son of God has come and he has given us understanding 00:20:44.183 --> 00:20:46.013 so that we can know the true God. 00:20:47.063 --> 00:20:50.843 And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in 00:20:50.843 --> 00:20:53.543 fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ. 00:20:54.293 --> 00:20:59.243 He is the only true God and he is eternal life. 00:21:00.293 --> 00:21:04.583 Dear children, keep away from anything that might take 00:21:04.588 --> 00:21:06.083 God's place in your hearts. 00:21:07.898 --> 00:21:10.778 This concludes today's Immer Reading experience. 00:21:10.898 --> 00:21:12.128 Thank you for joining us.