1 John 2:3-6 - Faith, Obedience, and Love

How do I know I am in the faith? How do I know if I am truly saved? In this chapter John is going to give some outward, visible, tangible things for us to look at (tests, if you will) which will help us to know that we are genuinely in Christ. They have to do with the fruit of God’s grace being manifested in our lives. When John does this, he is looking at Christ’s work of redemption from an eschatological perspective. In other words, what is the end game? What is the work which Christ came to do, what will it look like when it is finally accomplished, and how will the manifest itself in us at this time?

If redemption is God’s work alone, and it is, then how do we know we are a part of it? What are we to look for as reassurance that we truly belong to him? In these verses that we cover in this bible study John begins to answer that. And the first evidence he points us to is obedience.

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 

By contrast, those who genuinely keep his commandments can be reassured that this is only due to a work of grace being done in them. Obedience is the fruit of genuine faith and an evidence of God’s grace at work. And just as genuine faith always produces obedience, the converse is true. There is no such thing as genuine obedience apart from faith.

But there is one other thing that is missing from this formula, and that is love. True love produces obedience. Where there is no obedience there is no love.

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