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| Essential 100 -- Simplicity itself | | Date Created: May 20, 2005, 06:50 AM |
95 — Friday May 20 — 1 John 3:11 - 4:21
The dualisms in this passage are so stark, it's frightening. Anyone who does or doesn't do this is not from God.... It sounds so simple. Check out 4:5-6 -- The bad people are of the world and speak from the viewpoint of the world and get noticed and appreciated by the world; but those who speak from the viewpoint of God are not listened to by those who are not of God and that's how we recognise and distinguish truth from falsehood.
And that kind of stuff has gone on all through the book.
I guess the point is that the whole Christianity thing isn't rocket science. It really is quite a simple matter at its root. Its about loving or not loving; about being God's or Not God's. In the end, whatever God has prepared for those two groups, there are only those two groups. Jesus could be like this too: "Anyone who is not for me is against me." God's word needs to be clear about that simplicity, but I'm glad we also glimpse in other books, something of the complexities as well. |
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