This love came from outside this world and is the agape love that only God can provide.My dad answered, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). My dad went on to say that when you ask Christ into your heart, the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit enters into the ‘real you’. He cleanses you of your sin, indwells you, and makes you His child.” This time the surgeon got it. He prayed with understanding and became a child of God. There is no sitting on the fence: to confess Christ as God come in the flesh is life eternal. Not to confess Christ is death eternal. You are either for Jesus or against Him. The word “antichrist” is made up of the prefix “anti” meaning “against” or “in place of Christ.” No one takes the place of the “God Man” Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Neither is there salvation in any other… (Acts 4:12). Some things we will not know until we see Jesus face to face. …We shall be like Him … (1 John 3:2). No more sin, death and pain. In new bodies we will experience perfect fellowship with God. Our mind on highest tip-toe cannot imagine what God has prepared for those who love Him.
Not to confess Christ is death eternal. You are either for Jesus or against Him.Jesus shall appear and us being like him ties to the Rapture (Harpazo) of 1 Thessalonians 4. Paul was in Thessalonica three weeks. Among the very first things that new Christians were taught was that Jesus shall descend from heaven with a shout, that the dead in Christ would rise first and that one generation of Christians shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. The appearing is also tied to I Corinthians 15:51-58 where Paul uses the word “allasso” – changed to talk about the transformation that occurs to our bodies when we see Jesus. The Rapture is motivation for you to purify yourself (vs. 3). There is no room on the throne of your heart for Jesus and you. We must die to self and yield to the indwelling Christ. John describes sin as lawlessness (vs. 4). The emphasis is on sin (singular). Sins (plural) are the fruits that come from sin that is the root. Because God loves us, He has rules and disciplines us. John is not contradicting himself when he emphasizes that those born of God do not sin. (vs. 9) In 1:8 John says, “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” John never says that a Christian is without sin. Rather John uses the present continuous verb tense; “Whoever is born of God does not continuously practice sin,” while those who are not born of God continuously sin. A lost man and a saved man can commit the same sin. However, the believer cannot stay in sin and be happy. The reason is the Holy Spirit, (heavenly seed) that indwells us will discipline us and make us miserable so that we cannot continue in sin. Norman Geisler says, “If a pig and a lamb fall into the mud, the pig wants to stay there, but the lamb wants to get out. Both a believer and an unbeliever can fall into the same sin, but a believer cannot stay in it and feel comfortable.”
True Christians love each other (vs. 10).