DAY 355 Read 1 John through 4.
Today's reading: It is believed that John wrote his three epistles in his old age, probably about A.D. 90 to 95. Although no destination is named, the letters may have been sent to Ephesus, where John labored for many years before his arrest and exile.
Memory gem: "Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin" (1 John 3:5).
Thought for today:
Today we hear few sermons about the perfection of Christ. Christ could not be perfect, holy, and sinless unless He were divine. All men are by nature imperfect; in fact, the Scripture declares plainly that all men have sinned.
Jesus is a man, but not a mere man. He is a true man, but not only a man.
Walter B. Knight reports the experience of Lakhan Singh, the street preacher in India. Before his conversion from Hinduism, he went on innumerable pilgrimages to the so-called holy shrines seeking peace of heart. He was asked by a missionary, "But how were you first drawn to Christ?"
He replied, "One day I stopped to listen to a street preacher in Shahjahanpur who declared that the Lord Jesus Christ was a sinless incarnation. There are many incarnations in the Hindu religion. Some of them are cruel, capricious, and murderous; but none of them are sinless. I was deeply impressed with this. I continued to think about it. But I had no peace of mind until I accepted the sinless Son of God as my Saviour. For forty years I have been joyously preaching Him!"
So it is indeed true, Among all the people born on earth, only of Christ can it be said, "In him is no sin."
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Difficult or obscure words:
1 John 3:9. "His seed"--The antecedent of "his" is obviously "God." God's "seed," or regenerating power, abides in the born-again Christian so that he no longer goes on sinning.
Today's reading: It is believed that John wrote his three epistles in his old age, probably about A.D. 90 to 95. Although no destination is named, the letters may have been sent to Ephesus, where John labored for many years before his arrest and exile.
Memory gem: "Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin" (1 John 3:5).
Thought for today:
Today we hear few sermons about the perfection of Christ. Christ could not be perfect, holy, and sinless unless He were divine. All men are by nature imperfect; in fact, the Scripture declares plainly that all men have sinned.
Jesus is a man, but not a mere man. He is a true man, but not only a man.
Walter B. Knight reports the experience of Lakhan Singh, the street preacher in India. Before his conversion from Hinduism, he went on innumerable pilgrimages to the so-called holy shrines seeking peace of heart. He was asked by a missionary, "But how were you first drawn to Christ?"
He replied, "One day I stopped to listen to a street preacher in Shahjahanpur who declared that the Lord Jesus Christ was a sinless incarnation. There are many incarnations in the Hindu religion. Some of them are cruel, capricious, and murderous; but none of them are sinless. I was deeply impressed with this. I continued to think about it. But I had no peace of mind until I accepted the sinless Son of God as my Saviour. For forty years I have been joyously preaching Him!"
So it is indeed true, Among all the people born on earth, only of Christ can it be said, "In him is no sin."
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Difficult or obscure words:
1 John 3:9. "His seed"--The antecedent of "his" is obviously "God." God's "seed," or regenerating power, abides in the born-again Christian so that he no longer goes on sinning.
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