David Journal

Tag: 1 John

  • Evangelical perspective

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    I would be very interested to hear the evangelical perspective on 1 John because of how it describes the role of works in our salvation. (They are evidence of our standing with God and his gospel.)

  • Love and Christ

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    The story of Sharem reminds us that those who are antichrist are not necessarily nonreligious. I scripture study with the older kids I noticed that the first general epistle of John makes clear that keeping the commandments or being righteous was primarily about loving Christ and showing love to other people. We had a great…

  • The premortal Messiah

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    How critical is it to our faith that Christ was preeminent before mortality and not simply when He came to earth?

  • Our great advocate

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    Jesus is able to save “to the uttermost” any who seek to come to God through Him because he knows perfectly how to succor those who experience temptation. Those who are tempted and respond by turning to Him for aid so that they might be worthy to return to heaven will receive the perfect succor…

  • Take the name of Christ

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    The first covenant that we make is to take the name of Christ upon us. While the act of baptism formalizes it, those who truly seek to take his name will be accepted even if they were not properly baptized in mortality for they will gratefully accept the proxy baptisms which will be performed for…

  • No hidden truth

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    There is nothing about the plan of salvation which was done in the dark. While no man may know the hour of His coming, yet He was openly declared before, during, and after his mortal mission.

  • Christ always pleased His Father

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    Jesus testifies that he always did that which was pleasing to Heavenly Father. That fits with the testimony of Heavenly Father that He was well pleased with Christ.

  • He came to serve and not to be served

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    While it is appropriate that people should sell to serve the Savior – that is about us and our recognition of our place relative to Him, not about what His purpose and expectation were. The same hold true for our current leaders. They sell not to be served even though we should sell to serve…

  • Celestial apprenticeship

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    It occurs to me that one of the reasons that Christ was so central to the creation and everything else that His Father did was so that he would have an intimate knowledge of everything to assist Him in His mission on Earth as well as in eternity.

  • 2 December 2013

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    1 John 4 – 5 If we don’t love our brethren we don’t love God regardless of what we profess. Love of God is demonstrated by keeping the commandments of God. John declares that the Father, the Son, and the Hooky Ghost are one. He then says that the spirit of Christ, the body of…