1 John 2:3-8: We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must lie as Jesus did. Dear friends, I am not writing you as a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

A person who claims to know God but is consistently disobedient is a liar.

Personal righteousness and obedience are an essential component of our faith but they do not form the basis of our salvation.

A desire to obey God is evidence we know him.

The transformed life of a believer provides infallible evidence of Jesus’ victory over sin and death.

Christians do not have a license to hate even if they are in the right.

Challenge: Read 4 chapters of the Gospel of Matthew a day for 7 days. Then imitate Jesus.