JESUS CHRIST FIRST LOVED US!

John has warned us in the previous chapter (1 Jn 3) that ‘the stakes are high – life and death’ and this is what Jesus said…

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”

We know that Jesus was a real person in history but what does the name ‘Jesus Christ come in flesh’ really mean?                                              

A very public event!

‘Jehovah saves - the anointed One incarnate’.  WOW!!

Only God’s Spirit in us can help us decide whether people are fakes or really confess that ‘Jesus Christ is come in flesh’.                                                 

How did John remember his Master?...the One who loved him: “the disciple whom Jesus loved”.

So at last we’ve come to the crux of John’s letter:

Okay…‘We love Him, because He first loved us’ ….but do I love my brother?                    

Do I now have boldness for the future?... or fear?

Why, who is coming?                                                                                

Antichrist, who rejects ‘Jesus Christ come in flesh’ – the one thing most Jews and Muslims agree on by labelling Him as ‘just a prophet’ while they look for their messiah.