BLESSED BY INTIMATELY KNOWING GOD

My Dear Precious Child, The apostle and disciple of Jesus Christ called John, the Divine, had such a complete and endearing knowledge of My love, so he professed two truths in the beginning of his letter to the churches. One was that the followers of Jesus Christ must fellowship with Him and with Me; and two was that I am Light and in Me there is no darkness. He then proceeded to write about the ministry of Jesus Christ for the payment of sins for all people, their sins and the sins of the whole world. (I John 1:3-5) He then wrote that it's best if people don't sin, but if they do sin he wanted them to know that they have an Advocate in Jesus Christ, the righteous, who was the complete payment for the sins of the whole world. He wrote that the way that they could discern whether they knew Him or not was if they kept His commandments. He even wrote that a person was a liar who professed to know Jesus Christ and does not keep His commandments. (I John 2:4-5) He wrote that a person who keeps all of His commandments, that in that person My love has been perfected. He repeated that truth by saying that the way to know that someone is truly living in Christ is if the person observes His commandments. In fact, he wrote that anyone who lives in Christ will walk and conduct himself or herself in the identical way that Jesus Christ conducted Himself.(I John 2:6) Then John made it clear that he was not writing a new commandment but that he was emphasizing an old commandment that they had heard from the beginning, the doctrine of salvation through Christ. (I John 2:7) Yet, he wrote that he really was writing to them a new commandment because darkness in their minds was clearing away and the true Light of God in Christ was already shining in them. (chapter 2; verse 8) Because John was so perfectly acquainted with My Love through Jesus Christ, he could discern good from evil. He wrote in his first letter to the churches that whoever says that he or she is in the Light and hates his brother, that person is still in darkness; but the person who loves his brother, in him or her there is no occasion for stumbling or sinning. John wrote that whoever hates his brother is walking in darkness and he or she is straying because darkness has blinded his or her eyes. John explained in his first letter that he was writing the letter to the people who had experientially come to know My Love and so their sins had been forgiven and they had received their full pardon by having their sins forgiven. (I John 2:11-12) John wanted the people to know that he was also writing to the elderly Christian followers who had come to completely know Christ from the beginning, but he was also writing to the young men who were strong and vigorous in whom My words lived inside of them and it was shown by how they had been victorious against the devil. (chapter 2: verses 13-14) He narrowed down the numbers of people whom He said loved Me. He said that if someone loves and cherishes things in the world that My love is not in that person. John identified the things that come between Me and My children, naming them as, one, the lust of the flesh by craving sensual gratification; and two, the lust of the eyes which are greedy longings of the mind; and three, the pride of one's own resources or his finding stability in earthly things because those lusts do not come from Me but instead are from the world itself as given by the devil. (I John 2: 16; Genesis 3:1-7 ) John reminded the church people to whom he wrote his first letter that things of the world pass away and with it are the cravings and desires of the world, but the person who does My will in the earth will carry out my purposes in life and those things will endure forever. Concerning the lusts of the flesh, John emphasized to the young believers that the antichrist spirit was already in the world which emphasized that the old covenant was over and the new covenant of the Holy Spirit was in operation. He identified the antichrist spirits by saying that the people with that spirit were not with the believers in Jesus Christ or they would have remained with them instead of scattering.(chapter 2, verses 17-19) John also identifed the true believers by saying that they had a divine unction, that they had been anointed by the Holy Spirit and that they all knew the Truth. John also identified that anyone who denies that Jesus is the Christ is of the antichrist spirit. He is an antagonist of Christ by denying that Jesus is the Christ. (chapter 2; verse 21-22) In John's letter he wrote Truth when he wrote that anyone who disowns My Son also disowns Me, even if they call themselves by My name. He wrote that believers must keep in their hearts what they heard from the beginning and that those doctrines are Truths that prove that they will live with the Son and Me always because My Son has promised life eternal. He emphasized this Truth in order to protect people from the false prophets. (I John 2:23-26) John was intent upon making sure that the believers were secure in their foundation of faith so that they would not be deceived. He identified the antichrist spirit and the love of things of the world as belonging to the deceiver and his deceiving spirits. Your Father of Truth and Knowledge