DARKNESS

The Test of Knowing Him

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.1^stJohn 2:1 NKJV

³Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.⁴He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.1^stJohn 2:3-4 NKJV

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness until now.¹⁰He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.¹¹But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 1^stJohn 2:9-11 NKJV

The Test of Loving

¹⁵Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.¹⁶For all thatisin the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 1^stJohn 2:15-16 NKJV

The test of discernment

¹⁸Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the^[d]Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.¹⁹They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; butthey went outthat they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

²⁰But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you^[e]know all things. 1^stJohn 2:18-20 NKJV

God Tests us, He does not tempt us. For Character is crucial in our walk with him. For Character Produces hope and hope does not disappoint

(paraphrased Romans 5:4 & 5a NKJV)