November 25

<p>I John 1-4 We are in the Church Stream reading from the New American Standard Bible. 7streamsmethod.com | @serenatravis | Donate Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote>Dear Lord Jesus:  We are so blessed to be your children, to be so dearly loved and to be able to love one another <em>and</em>  to be free to love the lost and unlovely. Thank you Lord. Amen.</blockquote> <div>In the Christ stream, we are reading John's account of our Savior; Jesus. In the Church Stream, we are reading also from John the Apostle. In his Gospel, he sounds like an endeared historian. In his letters he John sounds like a heart warming elder or favorite uncle who just wants to know that you are well, getting along in a fine manner and that your soul is healthy. In Revelation, he is the impassioned narrator giving a responsible account of a war-zone and a world-class theater production simultaneously.  John is quite old come these writings -it is about 90 A.D.- and he is simply doing his dutiful best to make sure that we all seek to understand Jesus too...like he knows Jesus. <div>1 - He gets right to it that Jesus is God's Son (stated 21 times in this book), God is our Father (stated 12 times). God sent Him to us and all this is <strong>real</strong>. I saw Him, I touched Him, He loves us, it's all the joy that you need to know. And God IS the realm of light and truth; reality, confession, forgiveness, and rich fellowship.</div> <div>2 - John wants all of us to not fall short of what God has for us by remaining in sin. Come to God now and know that Christ Jesus pleads our case for forgiveness.  There's forgiveness provided we confess, the Commandments are followed, God's Word is kept, and we love one another. John lays down the dividing line: we either love the world OR do the will of God. Those who preach that we are to do something instead of follow Christ alone are anti-Christ. [There were many trolling the Empire and teaching Jesus was to be mixed in with the religions of the day.] Shun all these people! And know that on