• Daily Bible Lesson.
    THE USA IN BIBLE PROPHECY! Rev 13:11

    At the height of the papacy's power, its "iron teeth" fell upon Protestant Reformers. WHO PROTESTED THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES UNBIBLICAL TEACHINGS....

    Many of those who were not martyred, however, found a means of escape to the New World.

    Revelation prophesied this exodus in the symbol of a faithful woman, who represents God's true church. This woman, "persecuted" (12:13) by the dragon through papal Rome, fled "into the wilderness" during "a time and times and half a time" (v.14), the same 1,260 years of papal supremacy. Thus, the prey escaped the predator, and the most notable republic in the world was born.

    In 1776, the United States declared its independence. It established its own rule of law, the Constitution (1787) and the Bill of Rights (1791).

    By 1798, simultaneous with the head wound to the Roman Church, the nations of Europe recognized the United States as an independent world power, one built on TWO UNIQUE PRINCIPLES REPRESENTED BY the earth beast's two-lamb-like horns:
    (Rev. 13:11) ...
    REPUBLICANISM, a government without a king, and
    PROTESTANTISM, a church without a pope.

    ( The two lamb like horns in verse 13:11 represented the 2 principles America was founded on..)

    1) We were a republican Nation ~
    we had a constitution
    had, had had....
    and 2) we were blessed by God for being a
    Protestant nation)

    The United States became the standard bearer of freedom of conscience and embodiment of the separation of church and state--all that the Roman Catholic Church was not.

    THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST!!!

    But the Bible makes a surprising prediction: AMERICA WILL FALL AWAY FROM ITS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES and advocate for the sea beast,
    (Papacy) the very power the Founding Fathers resisted. Revelation 13:12-15 has a few key take aways:

    A. The United States forms "an image to the beast"
    (Rome)
    This is not a statue; rather,
    "an image"is a "representation" or "RESEMBLANCE."
    Hence, an "image of the beast"(v.15) will be a religiopolitical power that look, speaks, and AND ACTS LIKE THE PAPACY!!!

    B. The image of the beast will use a combination of deception (v.14) and coercion (v.15) to achieve universal worship of the papacy (vv.12,15).

    C. The ultimate power behind the transformation of the United States is the dragon, Satan, who extends his "authority" (v.12) from the sea beast to the earth beast (v.4).
    According to the Bible, the United States will one day LOOK, SPEAK, AND ACT LIKE THE PAPACY.

    FACT: During the 1,260 years, the little horn "[persecuted] the saints of the Most High" (Daniel 7:25). During this period of papal supremacy, dubbed the Dark Ages, the Catholic Church labeled as heretics those who followed the Word of God over its own doctrines and, sources state, it condemned more than 50 million people to death.
    Daily Bible Lesson. THE USA IN BIBLE PROPHECY! Rev 13:11 At the height of the papacy's power, its "iron teeth" fell upon Protestant Reformers. WHO PROTESTED THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES UNBIBLICAL TEACHINGS.... Many of those who were not martyred, however, found a means of escape to the New World. Revelation prophesied this exodus in the symbol of a faithful woman, who represents God's true church. This woman, "persecuted" (12:13) by the dragon through papal Rome, fled "into the wilderness" during "a time and times and half a time" (v.14), the same 1,260 years of papal supremacy. Thus, the prey escaped the predator, and the most notable republic in the world was born. In 1776, the United States declared its independence. It established its own rule of law, the Constitution (1787) and the Bill of Rights (1791). By 1798, simultaneous with the head wound to the Roman Church, the nations of Europe recognized the United States as an independent world power, one built on TWO UNIQUE PRINCIPLES REPRESENTED BY the earth beast's two-lamb-like horns: (Rev. 13:11) ... REPUBLICANISM, a government without a king, and PROTESTANTISM, a church without a pope. ( The two lamb like horns in verse 13:11 represented the 2 principles America was founded on..) 1) We were a republican Nation ~ we had a constitution had, had had.... and 2) we were blessed by God for being a Protestant nation) The United States became the standard bearer of freedom of conscience and embodiment of the separation of church and state--all that the Roman Catholic Church was not. THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST!!! But the Bible makes a surprising prediction: AMERICA WILL FALL AWAY FROM ITS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES and advocate for the sea beast, (Papacy) the very power the Founding Fathers resisted. Revelation 13:12-15 has a few key take aways: A. The United States forms "an image to the beast" (Rome) This is not a statue; rather, "an image"is a "representation" or "RESEMBLANCE." Hence, an "image of the beast"(v.15) will be a religiopolitical power that look, speaks, and AND ACTS LIKE THE PAPACY!!! B. The image of the beast will use a combination of deception (v.14) and coercion (v.15) to achieve universal worship of the papacy (vv.12,15). C. The ultimate power behind the transformation of the United States is the dragon, Satan, who extends his "authority" (v.12) from the sea beast to the earth beast (v.4). According to the Bible, the United States will one day LOOK, SPEAK, AND ACT LIKE THE PAPACY. FACT: During the 1,260 years, the little horn "[persecuted] the saints of the Most High" (Daniel 7:25). During this period of papal supremacy, dubbed the Dark Ages, the Catholic Church labeled as heretics those who followed the Word of God over its own doctrines and, sources state, it condemned more than 50 million people to death.
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  • Daily Bible Lesson.
    THE USA IN BIBLE PROPHECY! Rev 13:11

    At the height of the papacy's power, its "iron teeth" fell upon Protestant Reformers. WHO PROTESTED THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES UNBIBLICAL TEACHINGS....

    Many of those who were not martyred, however, found a means of escape to the New World.

    Revelation prophesied this exodus in the symbol of a faithful woman, who represents God's true church. This woman, "persecuted" (12:13) by the dragon through papal Rome, fled "into the wilderness" during "a time and times and half a time" (v.14), the same 1,260 years of papal supremacy. Thus, the prey escaped the predator, and the most notable republic in the world was born.

    In 1776, the United States declared its independence. It established its own rule of law, the Constitution (1787) and the Bill of Rights (1791).

    By 1798, simultaneous with the head wound to the Roman Church, the nations of Europe recognized the United States as an independent world power, one built on TWO UNIQUE PRINCIPLES REPRESENTED BY the earth beast's two-lamb-like horns:
    (Rev. 13:11) ...
    REPUBLICANISM, a government without a king, and
    PROTESTANTISM, a church without a pope.

    ( The two lamb like horns in verse 13:11 represented the 2 principles America was founded on..)

    1) We were a republican Nation ~
    we had a constitution
    had, had had....
    and 2) we were blessed by God for being a
    Protestant nation)

    The United States became the standard bearer of freedom of conscience and embodiment of the separation of church and state--all that the Roman Catholic Church was not.

    THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST!!!

    But the Bible makes a surprising prediction: AMERICA WILL FALL AWAY FROM ITS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES and advocate for the sea beast,
    (Papacy) the very power the Founding Fathers resisted. Revelation 13:12-15 has a few key take aways:

    A. The United States forms "an image to the beast"
    (Rome)
    This is not a statue; rather,
    "an image"is a "representation" or "RESEMBLANCE."
    Hence, an "image of the beast"(v.15) will be a religiopolitical power that look, speaks, and AND ACTS LIKE THE PAPACY!!!

    B. The image of the beast will use a combination of deception (v.14) and coercion (v.15) to achieve universal worship of the papacy (vv.12,15).

    C. The ultimate power behind the transformation of the United States is the dragon, Satan, who extends his "authority" (v.12) from the sea beast to the earth beast (v.4).
    According to the Bible, the United States will one day LOOK, SPEAK, AND ACT LIKE THE PAPACY.

    FACT: During the 1,260 years, the little horn "[persecuted] the saints of the Most High" (Daniel 7:25). During this period of papal supremacy, dubbed the Dark Ages, the Catholic Church labeled as heretics those who followed the Word of God over its own doctrines and, sources state, it condemned more than 50 million people to death.
    Daily Bible Lesson. THE USA IN BIBLE PROPHECY! Rev 13:11 At the height of the papacy's power, its "iron teeth" fell upon Protestant Reformers. WHO PROTESTED THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES UNBIBLICAL TEACHINGS.... Many of those who were not martyred, however, found a means of escape to the New World. Revelation prophesied this exodus in the symbol of a faithful woman, who represents God's true church. This woman, "persecuted" (12:13) by the dragon through papal Rome, fled "into the wilderness" during "a time and times and half a time" (v.14), the same 1,260 years of papal supremacy. Thus, the prey escaped the predator, and the most notable republic in the world was born. In 1776, the United States declared its independence. It established its own rule of law, the Constitution (1787) and the Bill of Rights (1791). By 1798, simultaneous with the head wound to the Roman Church, the nations of Europe recognized the United States as an independent world power, one built on TWO UNIQUE PRINCIPLES REPRESENTED BY the earth beast's two-lamb-like horns: (Rev. 13:11) ... REPUBLICANISM, a government without a king, and PROTESTANTISM, a church without a pope. ( The two lamb like horns in verse 13:11 represented the 2 principles America was founded on..) 1) We were a republican Nation ~ we had a constitution had, had had.... and 2) we were blessed by God for being a Protestant nation) The United States became the standard bearer of freedom of conscience and embodiment of the separation of church and state--all that the Roman Catholic Church was not. THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST!!! But the Bible makes a surprising prediction: AMERICA WILL FALL AWAY FROM ITS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES and advocate for the sea beast, (Papacy) the very power the Founding Fathers resisted. Revelation 13:12-15 has a few key take aways: A. The United States forms "an image to the beast" (Rome) This is not a statue; rather, "an image"is a "representation" or "RESEMBLANCE." Hence, an "image of the beast"(v.15) will be a religiopolitical power that look, speaks, and AND ACTS LIKE THE PAPACY!!! B. The image of the beast will use a combination of deception (v.14) and coercion (v.15) to achieve universal worship of the papacy (vv.12,15). C. The ultimate power behind the transformation of the United States is the dragon, Satan, who extends his "authority" (v.12) from the sea beast to the earth beast (v.4). According to the Bible, the United States will one day LOOK, SPEAK, AND ACT LIKE THE PAPACY. FACT: During the 1,260 years, the little horn "[persecuted] the saints of the Most High" (Daniel 7:25). During this period of papal supremacy, dubbed the Dark Ages, the Catholic Church labeled as heretics those who followed the Word of God over its own doctrines and, sources state, it condemned more than 50 million people to death.
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  • Canadian officials proceeded with lethal injection after an 83-year-old grandmother stayed silent
    An 83-year-old Christian grandmother who had already rejected assisted suicide was euthanized under Canada’s MAiD program after her family says she never gave the required final verbal consent.
    Brigitte Stegemann, known to her family as GG, lived at The Pearl long-term care facility in Belleville, Ontario, and had been diagnosed with untreatable Stage IV stomach cancer five months earlier.
    Two months before her death she clearly told staff she did not want Medical Assistance in Dying because it violated her Christian faith and she wanted to die naturally.
    While her granddaughter, who held legal power of attorney and had advocated for her for more than 12 years, was away on a 10-day vacation, facility staff reopened the conversation privately without informing the family.
    Stegemann was completely deaf in one ear and could hear only minimally in the other, and she was frequently lethargic and unresponsive.
    During formal assessments on July 6th and 7th she gave incorrect answers to basic questions, saying she had no siblings even though she was the second-youngest of 14 children, and claiming none of her siblings were still alive when some were and she had spoken with one the previous week.
    She became disoriented, cried, and confused her surviving siblings with her great-grandchildren.
    The family corrected most of her answers and challenged the physician on how she could be declared capable.
    The doctor still ruled her capable of consenting, ordered the family out of the room, and scheduled the procedure for July 10th.
    Staff later admitted the death date had been set before the official paperwork was finished, and facility employees completed and witnessed the forms themselves.
    Officials even tried to move the injection forward by a full day to fit the physician’s schedule.
    On the morning of July 10th, the family took Stegemann outside for fresh air and gave her a scoop of her favorite strawberry ice cream while waiting for her pastor, as she had requested.
    After staff inserted an intravenous line that left blood on her bedding and surroundings, the physician arrived.
    The family had been assured she would have to give explicit verbal confirmation immediately beforehand, yet Stegemann remained silent with her hands held in a prayer position.
    The clinical team administered the lethal injection anyway.
    Her relatives say they were left alarmed and horrified.
    They accuse the system of clinical arrogance, secrecy, and a total lack of transparency, describing her death in their public statement as a systemic failure driven by a blatant disregard for the safeguards meant to protect vulnerable patients.
    They point out that she had already said no because of her faith, yet staff reopened the subject while her longtime advocate was away, excluded her power of attorney from critical discussions, and proceeded despite her silence at the final moment.
    The family is now demanding accountability and asking how an elderly, hearing-impaired woman who could not correctly identify her own family was deemed capable of consenting to her own death.
    By April 2026 more than 100,000 Canadians had already died under the MAiD system.
    This case shows how protections can collapse for the elderly, hearing-impaired, and cognitively fragile.
    Canada’s MAiD program has grown increasingly predatory, expanding far beyond its original limits and routinely placing pressure on the most vulnerable.
    🚨 Canadian officials proceeded with lethal injection after an 83-year-old grandmother stayed silent An 83-year-old Christian grandmother who had already rejected assisted suicide was euthanized under Canada’s MAiD program after her family says she never gave the required final verbal consent. Brigitte Stegemann, known to her family as GG, lived at The Pearl long-term care facility in Belleville, Ontario, and had been diagnosed with untreatable Stage IV stomach cancer five months earlier. Two months before her death she clearly told staff she did not want Medical Assistance in Dying because it violated her Christian faith and she wanted to die naturally. While her granddaughter, who held legal power of attorney and had advocated for her for more than 12 years, was away on a 10-day vacation, facility staff reopened the conversation privately without informing the family. Stegemann was completely deaf in one ear and could hear only minimally in the other, and she was frequently lethargic and unresponsive. During formal assessments on July 6th and 7th she gave incorrect answers to basic questions, saying she had no siblings even though she was the second-youngest of 14 children, and claiming none of her siblings were still alive when some were and she had spoken with one the previous week. She became disoriented, cried, and confused her surviving siblings with her great-grandchildren. The family corrected most of her answers and challenged the physician on how she could be declared capable. The doctor still ruled her capable of consenting, ordered the family out of the room, and scheduled the procedure for July 10th. Staff later admitted the death date had been set before the official paperwork was finished, and facility employees completed and witnessed the forms themselves. Officials even tried to move the injection forward by a full day to fit the physician’s schedule. On the morning of July 10th, the family took Stegemann outside for fresh air and gave her a scoop of her favorite strawberry ice cream while waiting for her pastor, as she had requested. After staff inserted an intravenous line that left blood on her bedding and surroundings, the physician arrived. The family had been assured she would have to give explicit verbal confirmation immediately beforehand, yet Stegemann remained silent with her hands held in a prayer position. The clinical team administered the lethal injection anyway. Her relatives say they were left alarmed and horrified. They accuse the system of clinical arrogance, secrecy, and a total lack of transparency, describing her death in their public statement as a systemic failure driven by a blatant disregard for the safeguards meant to protect vulnerable patients. They point out that she had already said no because of her faith, yet staff reopened the subject while her longtime advocate was away, excluded her power of attorney from critical discussions, and proceeded despite her silence at the final moment. The family is now demanding accountability and asking how an elderly, hearing-impaired woman who could not correctly identify her own family was deemed capable of consenting to her own death. By April 2026 more than 100,000 Canadians had already died under the MAiD system. This case shows how protections can collapse for the elderly, hearing-impaired, and cognitively fragile. Canada’s MAiD program has grown increasingly predatory, expanding far beyond its original limits and routinely placing pressure on the most vulnerable.
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  • HERE'S WHAT KASIBANTE STANDS FOR

    Caring for Those Who Need Us Most

    The strength of a community is measured by how it cares for its most vulnerable members.

    Our senior citizens, persons living with disabilities, widows, orphans, and struggling families deserve dignity, compassion, and opportunities to thrive.

    As your LC1 Chairperson, I will advocate for programs that ensure every resident feels valued and supported.

    Together, we can build a more caring Nkumba.

    www.KasibanteLC1.com

    #KasibanteLC1 #Compassion #CommunityCare #NkumbaCentral #ServingEveryone #Leadership
    HERE'S WHAT KASIBANTE STANDS FOR 🇺🇬 ❤️ Caring for Those Who Need Us Most The strength of a community is measured by how it cares for its most vulnerable members. Our senior citizens, persons living with disabilities, widows, orphans, and struggling families deserve dignity, compassion, and opportunities to thrive. As your LC1 Chairperson, I will advocate for programs that ensure every resident feels valued and supported. Together, we can build a more caring Nkumba. 🌐 www.KasibanteLC1.com #KasibanteLC1 #Compassion #CommunityCare #NkumbaCentral #ServingEveryone #Leadership
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  • Our Identity in Christ

    In the midst of our journey toward holiness, it is essential to embrace the assurance that our identity is in Christ. Abba, our Father, lovingly declares in 1 John 3:1 (NIV),

    “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!”

    This truth shifts our perspective, allowing us to respond to life’s challenges with a sense of belonging and purpose. We are not solitary travelers; our prayers resound in the halls of heaven, accompanied by the intercession of Christ and the Holy Spirit, who fervently advocate on our behalf.

    Romans 8:26 (NIV) beautifully encapsulates this: “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.”

    See for the video teaching https://youtube.com/watch?v=LM9jqr_PJlo&is=gU4f6JZzh0NEOWX4
    Our Identity in Christ In the midst of our journey toward holiness, it is essential to embrace the assurance that our identity is in Christ. Abba, our Father, lovingly declares in 1 John 3:1 (NIV), “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” This truth shifts our perspective, allowing us to respond to life’s challenges with a sense of belonging and purpose. We are not solitary travelers; our prayers resound in the halls of heaven, accompanied by the intercession of Christ and the Holy Spirit, who fervently advocate on our behalf. Romans 8:26 (NIV) beautifully encapsulates this: “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” See for the video teaching https://youtube.com/watch?v=LM9jqr_PJlo&is=gU4f6JZzh0NEOWX4
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  • The Story Behind the Hymns.
    THE STORY BEHIND "AMAZING GRACE"

    Few hymns have touched as many hearts across the world as "Amazing Grace." Its timeless message of forgiveness, redemption, and hope has made it one of the most beloved Christian hymns ever written.

    The words were penned in 1772 by John Newton (1725–1807), an English Anglican clergyman. Before becoming a minister, Newton had lived a turbulent life at sea and worked in the transatlantic slave trade. During a violent storm in the Atlantic in 1748, he cried out to God for mercy, believing the ship would sink. The vessel survived, and that experience marked the beginning of his spiritual transformation.

    Although Newton did not immediately abandon the slave trade, his faith continued to deepen over the years. He eventually left the sea, became an Anglican minister, and later became a strong advocate for the abolition of slavery. Looking back on his life, he was overwhelmed by God's undeserved mercy, which inspired him to write Amazing Grace.

    The hymn first appeared in 1779 in the hymn collection Olney Hymns, compiled by John Newton and the poet William Cowper. It was originally written to accompany a New Year's Day sermon based on 1 Chronicles 17:16–17, reflecting on God's grace toward those who feel unworthy.

    The familiar tune most people sing today, "New Britain," was paired with Newton's words in the United States in the early 19th century. This simple yet deeply moving melody helped spread the hymn throughout churches, revival meetings, and eventually around the world.

    Over the centuries, Amazing Grace has become a symbol of faith, hope, repentance, and freedom. It has been sung in churches, at state occasions, during times of national tragedy, and at countless funerals and memorial services. Its enduring appeal lies in its powerful reminder that no one is beyond the reach of God's grace.
    The Story Behind the Hymns. THE STORY BEHIND "AMAZING GRACE" 🎶 Few hymns have touched as many hearts across the world as "Amazing Grace." Its timeless message of forgiveness, redemption, and hope has made it one of the most beloved Christian hymns ever written. The words were penned in 1772 by John Newton (1725–1807), an English Anglican clergyman. Before becoming a minister, Newton had lived a turbulent life at sea and worked in the transatlantic slave trade. During a violent storm in the Atlantic in 1748, he cried out to God for mercy, believing the ship would sink. The vessel survived, and that experience marked the beginning of his spiritual transformation. Although Newton did not immediately abandon the slave trade, his faith continued to deepen over the years. He eventually left the sea, became an Anglican minister, and later became a strong advocate for the abolition of slavery. Looking back on his life, he was overwhelmed by God's undeserved mercy, which inspired him to write Amazing Grace. The hymn first appeared in 1779 in the hymn collection Olney Hymns, compiled by John Newton and the poet William Cowper. It was originally written to accompany a New Year's Day sermon based on 1 Chronicles 17:16–17, reflecting on God's grace toward those who feel unworthy. The familiar tune most people sing today, "New Britain," was paired with Newton's words in the United States in the early 19th century. This simple yet deeply moving melody helped spread the hymn throughout churches, revival meetings, and eventually around the world. Over the centuries, Amazing Grace has become a symbol of faith, hope, repentance, and freedom. It has been sung in churches, at state occasions, during times of national tragedy, and at countless funerals and memorial services. Its enduring appeal lies in its powerful reminder that no one is beyond the reach of God's grace.
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  • Holy Wit – Reflections

    #7 Children of God
    (Walking in the Light: Studies Through 1 John)

    Scripture References: 1 John 2:28–3:10
    At the edge of a busy market stood a repair shop owned by a man named Elias. He repaired clocks, lamps, radios, and nearly anything else that could be persuaded to work again. His son Daniel grew up among drawers of screws and coils of wire, listening to his father say, “Do it properly. Someone is trusting us.”

    When Daniel became old enough to work beside him, people began bringing smaller jobs directly to the boy. One afternoon an elderly woman collected a repaired lamp and handed him far more money than the work had cost. She left before he noticed. No one else had seen, and the shop needed new tools. The extra money could have disappeared quietly.

    Daniel ran after her and returned what she had overpaid. The woman smiled. “I thought you would come,” she said. “You are Elias’s son.”

    That sentence pleased him, but it also carried weight. He had not become Elias’s son by returning the money. He was already his son. Yet because he bore his father’s name, people expected to see something of his father’s character in him. His conduct did not create the relationship, but it revealed the family likeness.

    A week later Daniel damaged a customer’s radio and tried to hide it. His father discovered the truth. Daniel did not cease to be his son, but his deceit contradicted the name he bore. Elias corrected him, made him confess, and then stood beside him while the damage was repaired. Sonship was a gift; it was not permission to behave as though he belonged to another household.

    John asks believers to pause before the astonishing words, “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!” Human beings do not climb into God’s family by moral effort. The Father bestows this love. Sinners are brought into a real relationship with Him through Christ. They are born of God, welcomed by the Father, and given a future that ends in likeness to the Son.

    This order matters. Righteous living is not the price of becoming a child of God. It is the fruit of having been born of Him. We are accepted through Christ, not through an impressive record of obedience. Yet the Christ who saves also transforms. Grace does not leave a person untouched, as though forgiveness were a covering placed over a life still content to serve sin.

    Much modern thinking treats identity as something that may be claimed without moral consequence. John refuses that idea. “Everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.” He is not teaching salvation by works, but he is teaching that the new birth produces a new direction. The Father does not make us His children because we resemble Him; He makes us His children and then begins to form His likeness in us.

    That likeness is not sinless perfection in this life. John has already said that anyone claiming to have no sin deceives himself, and he has directed believers to confess their sins and trust Christ their Advocate. The difference is not between people who have never sinned and people who have. It is between those who excuse sin as their settled way of life and those in whom sin has become an enemy.

    A child of God may fall, sometimes badly, but he cannot make peace with the fall. God’s seed remains in him. The new birth creates a holy conflict where there was once surrender. Sin brings grief, confession, repentance, and a return to obedience. The believer does not defend lawlessness as freedom or demand that God bless what His Word condemns.

    John also turns our eyes towards Christ’s appearing. “When He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” Redeemed creatures do not become divine. God completes His work of glorification: sin no longer clings to us, and the family resemblance is no longer partial. We shall be fitted for the presence of the pure and righteous Christ.

    That future hope reaches into the present: “Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” Christian hope is not dreaming about heaven while remaining comfortable with corruption. The certainty of seeing Christ produces a desire to please Him now. We confess what is unclean, turn from what feeds sinful desire, obey what God has spoken, and measure holiness by Christ rather than the lowered standards around us.

    John finally speaks of two families: the children of God and the children of the devil. The devil is not God’s equal; he is a created rebel whose works the Son came to destroy. Yet those who persist in lawlessness display his likeness, while those born of God increasingly display righteousness and love. The test includes both our conduct before God and our treatment of fellow believers. Claimed love for the Father that produces neither righteousness nor love for His children is not the faith John recognizes.

    This passage gives assurance, but not false comfort. The question is not, “Have I reached perfection?” No Christian has. The question is, “Whose likeness is being formed in me? When I sin, do I defend it or confess it? Do I desire righteousness? Do I love the brethren? Does the hope of seeing Christ make purity precious to me?”

    The Father’s love gives His children both a name and a destination. We are His children now, and what we shall be has not yet been fully revealed. Until that day, He keeps correcting, cleansing, and restoring us. Like Daniel in the repair shop, we do not behave well in order to earn a father. We learn to live differently because, by an astonishing manner of love, the Father has made us His own.

    #HolyWitReflections #GordonMcGinnis #WalkingInTheLight #1John2_28To3_10
    Holy Wit – Reflections #7 Children of God (Walking in the Light: Studies Through 1 John) Scripture References: 1 John 2:28–3:10 At the edge of a busy market stood a repair shop owned by a man named Elias. He repaired clocks, lamps, radios, and nearly anything else that could be persuaded to work again. His son Daniel grew up among drawers of screws and coils of wire, listening to his father say, “Do it properly. Someone is trusting us.” When Daniel became old enough to work beside him, people began bringing smaller jobs directly to the boy. One afternoon an elderly woman collected a repaired lamp and handed him far more money than the work had cost. She left before he noticed. No one else had seen, and the shop needed new tools. The extra money could have disappeared quietly. Daniel ran after her and returned what she had overpaid. The woman smiled. “I thought you would come,” she said. “You are Elias’s son.” That sentence pleased him, but it also carried weight. He had not become Elias’s son by returning the money. He was already his son. Yet because he bore his father’s name, people expected to see something of his father’s character in him. His conduct did not create the relationship, but it revealed the family likeness. A week later Daniel damaged a customer’s radio and tried to hide it. His father discovered the truth. Daniel did not cease to be his son, but his deceit contradicted the name he bore. Elias corrected him, made him confess, and then stood beside him while the damage was repaired. Sonship was a gift; it was not permission to behave as though he belonged to another household. John asks believers to pause before the astonishing words, “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!” Human beings do not climb into God’s family by moral effort. The Father bestows this love. Sinners are brought into a real relationship with Him through Christ. They are born of God, welcomed by the Father, and given a future that ends in likeness to the Son. This order matters. Righteous living is not the price of becoming a child of God. It is the fruit of having been born of Him. We are accepted through Christ, not through an impressive record of obedience. Yet the Christ who saves also transforms. Grace does not leave a person untouched, as though forgiveness were a covering placed over a life still content to serve sin. Much modern thinking treats identity as something that may be claimed without moral consequence. John refuses that idea. “Everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.” He is not teaching salvation by works, but he is teaching that the new birth produces a new direction. The Father does not make us His children because we resemble Him; He makes us His children and then begins to form His likeness in us. That likeness is not sinless perfection in this life. John has already said that anyone claiming to have no sin deceives himself, and he has directed believers to confess their sins and trust Christ their Advocate. The difference is not between people who have never sinned and people who have. It is between those who excuse sin as their settled way of life and those in whom sin has become an enemy. A child of God may fall, sometimes badly, but he cannot make peace with the fall. God’s seed remains in him. The new birth creates a holy conflict where there was once surrender. Sin brings grief, confession, repentance, and a return to obedience. The believer does not defend lawlessness as freedom or demand that God bless what His Word condemns. John also turns our eyes towards Christ’s appearing. “When He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” Redeemed creatures do not become divine. God completes His work of glorification: sin no longer clings to us, and the family resemblance is no longer partial. We shall be fitted for the presence of the pure and righteous Christ. That future hope reaches into the present: “Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” Christian hope is not dreaming about heaven while remaining comfortable with corruption. The certainty of seeing Christ produces a desire to please Him now. We confess what is unclean, turn from what feeds sinful desire, obey what God has spoken, and measure holiness by Christ rather than the lowered standards around us. John finally speaks of two families: the children of God and the children of the devil. The devil is not God’s equal; he is a created rebel whose works the Son came to destroy. Yet those who persist in lawlessness display his likeness, while those born of God increasingly display righteousness and love. The test includes both our conduct before God and our treatment of fellow believers. Claimed love for the Father that produces neither righteousness nor love for His children is not the faith John recognizes. This passage gives assurance, but not false comfort. The question is not, “Have I reached perfection?” No Christian has. The question is, “Whose likeness is being formed in me? When I sin, do I defend it or confess it? Do I desire righteousness? Do I love the brethren? Does the hope of seeing Christ make purity precious to me?” The Father’s love gives His children both a name and a destination. We are His children now, and what we shall be has not yet been fully revealed. Until that day, He keeps correcting, cleansing, and restoring us. Like Daniel in the repair shop, we do not behave well in order to earn a father. We learn to live differently because, by an astonishing manner of love, the Father has made us His own. #HolyWitReflections #GordonMcGinnis #WalkingInTheLight #1John2_28To3_10
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  • Holy Wit – Bible Study

    #7 Children of God
    (Walking in the Light: Studies Through 1 John – 1 John 2:28–3:10)

    Scripture Reading (NKJV):
    1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

    1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

    1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

    1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

    1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

    1 John 3:4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

    1 John 3:5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

    1 John 3:6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

    1 John 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

    1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

    1 John 3:9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

    1 John 3:10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

    1 John 2:28–3:10 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A28-3%3A10&version=NKJV

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    1. Abide in Him Until He Appears
    John begins this section by returning to the command that closed the previous one: “abide in Him.” Abiding is not a vague spiritual feeling or a momentary experience. In the setting of 1 John, it means continuing in the apostolic truth about Christ, remaining in fellowship with Him, and refusing the deception of those who deny the Son. The Christian life is sustained by the same Christ in whom it began. John also places this perseverance under the light of Christ’s appearing. The return of Christ is not an ornament attached to Christian doctrine; it gives urgency and direction to Christian living. Those who remain in Christ may face His coming with confidence rather than shame. This confidence is not self-confidence built upon a flawless record. It rests upon Christ our Advocate and is confirmed by a life that continues in Him. A profession of faith that abandons Christ cannot provide biblical assurance. John therefore joins perseverance, assurance, and the second coming: the believer keeps abiding because Christ will appear, and because fellowship with Him makes that appearing a hope rather than a terror.

    1 John 2:28 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A28&version=NKJV
    John 15:4–5 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+15%3A4-5&version=NKJV

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    2. Born of Him: Righteousness as Fruit, Not Root
    John’s reasoning in verse 29 is carefully ordered. He does not say that people become children of God by performing enough righteous deeds. He says that the practice of righteousness reveals that a person “is born of Him.” The new birth is the source; righteous conduct is its fruit. This protects the gospel from two opposite errors. Legalism treats obedience as the price of acceptance with God. Lawlessness treats grace as permission to remain unchanged. John allows neither. The righteousness of Christ is the believer’s only ground of acceptance, yet the Christ who justifies also transforms. Justification and sanctification must be distinguished, but they must never be separated. Good works do not create new life, but new life creates good works. John speaks of “practicing” righteousness because he is describing the settled direction of a life, not claiming that Christians reach sinless perfection. The question is not whether a believer ever sins; John has already said that believers must confess their sins. The question is whether righteousness has become the governing allegiance of the life. Obedience is not the purchase price of sonship. It is family resemblance.

    1 John 2:29 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A29&version=NKJV
    Ephesians 2:8–10 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A8-10&version=NKJV

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    3. “What Manner of Love”: Children Now, Glory Yet to Come
    John does not merely tell believers that God loves them. He calls them to stop and consider what kind of love this is: the Father has bestowed a love that makes rebels His children. This status is not earned, imagined, or merely honorary. “Now we are children of God.” What Paul commonly describes as adoption, John often describes as being born of God. Both truths declare that salvation brings believers into a real filial relationship with the Father. The world does not recognise this identity because it did not recognise Christ. Rejection by the world is therefore not proof that God has abandoned His people; it may reflect the same spiritual blindness that rejected the Son. Yet Christian identity contains both an “already” and a “not yet.” Believers are truly God’s children now, while the fullness of what they shall be has not yet been revealed. At Christ’s appearing, they will be like Him because they will see Him as He is. John is not teaching that creatures become divine in essence. He is speaking of glorification: complete conformity to Christ in holiness, freedom from sin, and life suited to His presence. The Father’s love gives both a present name and a future destiny.

    1 John 3:1–2 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A1-2&version=NKJV
    Romans 8:15–17, 29–30 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A15-17%2C29-30&version=NKJV

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    4. Purifying Hope
    The hope of seeing Christ is not meant to produce speculation without obedience. “Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” Biblical hope is not uncertain wishing. It is confident expectation grounded in God’s promise. Because believers know where salvation is going, they begin to live now in a manner consistent with that destination. The future likeness to Christ exerts a sanctifying pressure upon the present. John’s wording also shows that sanctification involves real Christian effort. The believer purifies himself, yet he does so only because God has made him His child, given him hope, and is transforming him. Grace does not remove human responsibility; it creates and empowers it. This purification includes confession of sin, the rejection of corrupt desires, obedience to God’s Word, and a deliberate refusal to make peace with what Christ came to remove. The standard is not the surrounding culture, nor comparison with other Christians, but Christ Himself: “just as He is pure.” John gives no support to perfectionism, but neither does he leave room for comfortable stagnation. The person who expects to see the pure Christ must desire purity now.

    1 John 3:3 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A3&version=NKJV
    Titus 2:11–14 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Titus+2%3A11-14&version=NKJV

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    5. Sin, Lawlessness, and the Mission of the Son
    John now defines sin with a severity that modern thought often avoids: “sin is lawlessness.” Sin is more than weakness, poor judgment, or emotional brokenness. Those things may accompany it, but at its heart sin is resistance to the authority of God. His law reveals His holy character and rightful rule; to sin is to act as though the creature may dismiss the Creator’s command. Against this lawlessness John sets the sinless Son. Christ was manifested “to take away our sins,” and “in Him there is no sin.” Only the sinless One could bear the sins of others, and His saving purpose cannot be separated from the destruction of sin’s rule. John therefore says that the one who abides in Christ “does not sin” and that the one who sins has neither seen nor known Him. Read alone, those words might appear to teach that a Christian never commits a sin. But John has already denied sinless claims and instructed believers to confess their sins, resting in Christ their Advocate. His concern here is the continuing practice and dominion of sin. A believer may fall into sin, but cannot settle into it as an accepted way of life. Christ did not come merely to reduce sin’s consequences while leaving its authority untouched. He came to take sins away and to destroy the works of the devil.

    1 John 3:4–8 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A4-8&version=NKJV
    1 John 1:8–2:2 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+1%3A8-2%3A2&version=NKJV

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    6. God’s Seed and the Two Families
    Verse 9 presses the doctrine of regeneration to its moral conclusion. Whoever has been born of God does not continue in sin because God’s “seed” remains in him. John does not fully explain the image here, but its force is plain: the new birth is not a religious costume placed over an unchanged nature. God gives an enduring principle of spiritual life. The statement that the believer “cannot sin” does not mean a physical inability to commit an individual sinful act; John’s own earlier teaching rules that out. It means that the person born of God cannot live under sin as an unbroken, unrepentant, defining pattern. New birth creates a holy contradiction between the believer and the sin that still remains. John then speaks with startling clarity of two families: the children of God and the children of the devil. This is moral and spiritual lineage, not physical descent, and it does not make the devil a rival god. He is a creature and a rebel. Yet his children bear his resemblance through lawlessness, while God’s children increasingly bear the Father’s resemblance through righteousness and love. There is no morally empty Christian identity in this passage. Claims, labels, experiences, and religious language are tested by a life that practises righteousness and loves the brethren. John does not ask whether a person has achieved perfection. He asks whose character the person’s life increasingly displays.

    1 John 3:9–10 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A9-10&version=NKJV
    John 8:42–44 (NKJV):
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A42-44&version=NKJV

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    Reflection Questions
    1. How does abiding in Christ produce confidence concerning His appearing (1 John 2:28)?
    2. Why must the practice of righteousness be understood as evidence of the new birth rather than the cause of it (1 John 2:29)?
    3. What does it mean to be a child of God now, and what remains future about that identity (1 John 3:1–2)?
    4. In what practical ways should the hope of seeing Christ purify a believer’s present life (1 John 3:3)?
    5. How do 1 John 1:8–2:2 help us understand the statements that the person born of God “does not sin” and “cannot sin” (1 John 3:6, 9)?

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    Prayer Points
    1. Thank the Father for the love by which He has made believers His children.
    2. Ask for grace to abide in Christ and to await His appearing with confidence.
    3. Pray that the hope of seeing Christ will produce deeper purity and obedience.
    4. Ask God to expose settled patterns of sin and to strengthen righteousness and love for fellow believers.

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    For further study (NKJV):
    John 1:12–13
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A12-13&version=NKJV
    Romans 6:1–14
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6%3A1-14&version=NKJV
    2 Corinthians 3:18
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+3%3A18&version=NKJV

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    #HolyWitBibleStudy #GordonMcGinnis #WalkingInTheLight #1John2_28To3_10
    Holy Wit – Bible Study #7 Children of God (Walking in the Light: Studies Through 1 John – 1 John 2:28–3:10) Scripture Reading (NKJV): 1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. 1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him. 1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 1 John 3:4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 1 John 3:5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 1 John 3:6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. 1 John 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 1 John 3:10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 1 John 2:28–3:10 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A28-3%3A10&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 1. Abide in Him Until He Appears John begins this section by returning to the command that closed the previous one: “abide in Him.” Abiding is not a vague spiritual feeling or a momentary experience. In the setting of 1 John, it means continuing in the apostolic truth about Christ, remaining in fellowship with Him, and refusing the deception of those who deny the Son. The Christian life is sustained by the same Christ in whom it began. John also places this perseverance under the light of Christ’s appearing. The return of Christ is not an ornament attached to Christian doctrine; it gives urgency and direction to Christian living. Those who remain in Christ may face His coming with confidence rather than shame. This confidence is not self-confidence built upon a flawless record. It rests upon Christ our Advocate and is confirmed by a life that continues in Him. A profession of faith that abandons Christ cannot provide biblical assurance. John therefore joins perseverance, assurance, and the second coming: the believer keeps abiding because Christ will appear, and because fellowship with Him makes that appearing a hope rather than a terror. 1 John 2:28 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A28&version=NKJV John 15:4–5 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+15%3A4-5&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 2. Born of Him: Righteousness as Fruit, Not Root John’s reasoning in verse 29 is carefully ordered. He does not say that people become children of God by performing enough righteous deeds. He says that the practice of righteousness reveals that a person “is born of Him.” The new birth is the source; righteous conduct is its fruit. This protects the gospel from two opposite errors. Legalism treats obedience as the price of acceptance with God. Lawlessness treats grace as permission to remain unchanged. John allows neither. The righteousness of Christ is the believer’s only ground of acceptance, yet the Christ who justifies also transforms. Justification and sanctification must be distinguished, but they must never be separated. Good works do not create new life, but new life creates good works. John speaks of “practicing” righteousness because he is describing the settled direction of a life, not claiming that Christians reach sinless perfection. The question is not whether a believer ever sins; John has already said that believers must confess their sins. The question is whether righteousness has become the governing allegiance of the life. Obedience is not the purchase price of sonship. It is family resemblance. 1 John 2:29 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A29&version=NKJV Ephesians 2:8–10 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A8-10&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 3. “What Manner of Love”: Children Now, Glory Yet to Come John does not merely tell believers that God loves them. He calls them to stop and consider what kind of love this is: the Father has bestowed a love that makes rebels His children. This status is not earned, imagined, or merely honorary. “Now we are children of God.” What Paul commonly describes as adoption, John often describes as being born of God. Both truths declare that salvation brings believers into a real filial relationship with the Father. The world does not recognise this identity because it did not recognise Christ. Rejection by the world is therefore not proof that God has abandoned His people; it may reflect the same spiritual blindness that rejected the Son. Yet Christian identity contains both an “already” and a “not yet.” Believers are truly God’s children now, while the fullness of what they shall be has not yet been revealed. At Christ’s appearing, they will be like Him because they will see Him as He is. John is not teaching that creatures become divine in essence. He is speaking of glorification: complete conformity to Christ in holiness, freedom from sin, and life suited to His presence. The Father’s love gives both a present name and a future destiny. 1 John 3:1–2 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A1-2&version=NKJV Romans 8:15–17, 29–30 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A15-17%2C29-30&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 4. Purifying Hope The hope of seeing Christ is not meant to produce speculation without obedience. “Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” Biblical hope is not uncertain wishing. It is confident expectation grounded in God’s promise. Because believers know where salvation is going, they begin to live now in a manner consistent with that destination. The future likeness to Christ exerts a sanctifying pressure upon the present. John’s wording also shows that sanctification involves real Christian effort. The believer purifies himself, yet he does so only because God has made him His child, given him hope, and is transforming him. Grace does not remove human responsibility; it creates and empowers it. This purification includes confession of sin, the rejection of corrupt desires, obedience to God’s Word, and a deliberate refusal to make peace with what Christ came to remove. The standard is not the surrounding culture, nor comparison with other Christians, but Christ Himself: “just as He is pure.” John gives no support to perfectionism, but neither does he leave room for comfortable stagnation. The person who expects to see the pure Christ must desire purity now. 1 John 3:3 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A3&version=NKJV Titus 2:11–14 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Titus+2%3A11-14&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 5. Sin, Lawlessness, and the Mission of the Son John now defines sin with a severity that modern thought often avoids: “sin is lawlessness.” Sin is more than weakness, poor judgment, or emotional brokenness. Those things may accompany it, but at its heart sin is resistance to the authority of God. His law reveals His holy character and rightful rule; to sin is to act as though the creature may dismiss the Creator’s command. Against this lawlessness John sets the sinless Son. Christ was manifested “to take away our sins,” and “in Him there is no sin.” Only the sinless One could bear the sins of others, and His saving purpose cannot be separated from the destruction of sin’s rule. John therefore says that the one who abides in Christ “does not sin” and that the one who sins has neither seen nor known Him. Read alone, those words might appear to teach that a Christian never commits a sin. But John has already denied sinless claims and instructed believers to confess their sins, resting in Christ their Advocate. His concern here is the continuing practice and dominion of sin. A believer may fall into sin, but cannot settle into it as an accepted way of life. Christ did not come merely to reduce sin’s consequences while leaving its authority untouched. He came to take sins away and to destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:4–8 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A4-8&version=NKJV 1 John 1:8–2:2 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+1%3A8-2%3A2&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 6. God’s Seed and the Two Families Verse 9 presses the doctrine of regeneration to its moral conclusion. Whoever has been born of God does not continue in sin because God’s “seed” remains in him. John does not fully explain the image here, but its force is plain: the new birth is not a religious costume placed over an unchanged nature. God gives an enduring principle of spiritual life. The statement that the believer “cannot sin” does not mean a physical inability to commit an individual sinful act; John’s own earlier teaching rules that out. It means that the person born of God cannot live under sin as an unbroken, unrepentant, defining pattern. New birth creates a holy contradiction between the believer and the sin that still remains. John then speaks with startling clarity of two families: the children of God and the children of the devil. This is moral and spiritual lineage, not physical descent, and it does not make the devil a rival god. He is a creature and a rebel. Yet his children bear his resemblance through lawlessness, while God’s children increasingly bear the Father’s resemblance through righteousness and love. There is no morally empty Christian identity in this passage. Claims, labels, experiences, and religious language are tested by a life that practises righteousness and loves the brethren. John does not ask whether a person has achieved perfection. He asks whose character the person’s life increasingly displays. 1 John 3:9–10 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A9-10&version=NKJV John 8:42–44 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A42-44&version=NKJV ________________________________________ Reflection Questions 1. How does abiding in Christ produce confidence concerning His appearing (1 John 2:28)? 2. Why must the practice of righteousness be understood as evidence of the new birth rather than the cause of it (1 John 2:29)? 3. What does it mean to be a child of God now, and what remains future about that identity (1 John 3:1–2)? 4. In what practical ways should the hope of seeing Christ purify a believer’s present life (1 John 3:3)? 5. How do 1 John 1:8–2:2 help us understand the statements that the person born of God “does not sin” and “cannot sin” (1 John 3:6, 9)? ________________________________________ Prayer Points 1. Thank the Father for the love by which He has made believers His children. 2. Ask for grace to abide in Christ and to await His appearing with confidence. 3. Pray that the hope of seeing Christ will produce deeper purity and obedience. 4. Ask God to expose settled patterns of sin and to strengthen righteousness and love for fellow believers. ________________________________________ For further study (NKJV): John 1:12–13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A12-13&version=NKJV Romans 6:1–14 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6%3A1-14&version=NKJV 2 Corinthians 3:18 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+3%3A18&version=NKJV ________________________________________ #HolyWitBibleStudy #GordonMcGinnis #WalkingInTheLight #1John2_28To3_10
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  • GOLDEN TICKET BABIES: HOW SURROGACY PUT AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP UP FOR SALE
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  • Subject: Something you should know about Leanna Nicole Griffis
    You don’t know me, and I’d like to keep it that way.
    Leanna Nicole Griffis (born August 18, 1997), the 28-year-old living at 827 Walden Shores Lane in Brunswick, GA, is not who she claims to be.
    She shares that address with a 56-year-old man named Christian David Moreland — a Mattress Firm sales manager listed in public records as both a past resident and close associate. A young woman and a much older man in that kind of setup raises serious questions.
    Even more troubling: she was arrested in August 2023 in Baxley for a felony probation violation. The original charges are buried in court records, but these kinds of violations in Georgia usually trace back to drugs or theft. Yet she goes around calling herself a domestic violence victim advocate who worked at The Refuge shelter. The hypocrisy is hard to ignore.
    She is not a licensed attorney. I checked the State Bar of Georgia and every other database — nothing matches her name or birthdate. If she’s told you otherwise, that’s a lie.
    She has a school-age child and has been posting in local groups about needing to move because her situation is “unsafe.” With her record and living arrangements, one has to wonder exactly who or what is making it unsafe — and what that means for the child.
    Be very careful if you’re dealing with her. There’s more going on here than meets the eye.
    Watch your back.
    — Someone who looked deeper
    Subject: Something you should know about Leanna Nicole Griffis You don’t know me, and I’d like to keep it that way. Leanna Nicole Griffis (born August 18, 1997), the 28-year-old living at 827 Walden Shores Lane in Brunswick, GA, is not who she claims to be. She shares that address with a 56-year-old man named Christian David Moreland — a Mattress Firm sales manager listed in public records as both a past resident and close associate. A young woman and a much older man in that kind of setup raises serious questions. Even more troubling: she was arrested in August 2023 in Baxley for a felony probation violation. The original charges are buried in court records, but these kinds of violations in Georgia usually trace back to drugs or theft. Yet she goes around calling herself a domestic violence victim advocate who worked at The Refuge shelter. The hypocrisy is hard to ignore. She is not a licensed attorney. I checked the State Bar of Georgia and every other database — nothing matches her name or birthdate. If she’s told you otherwise, that’s a lie. She has a school-age child and has been posting in local groups about needing to move because her situation is “unsafe.” With her record and living arrangements, one has to wonder exactly who or what is making it unsafe — and what that means for the child. Be very careful if you’re dealing with her. There’s more going on here than meets the eye. Watch your back. — Someone who looked deeper
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