Bible Stories for the Young
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In John’s letters to Christians, you’ve learned that John was crystal clear that there are only two sides in this unseen war. There is God who is Light, Life and Love... and there is satan who is darkness, death and hate
Since we are made in God’s image, there is a part of us that cries out for the Life, Light and Love that GOD is. But we are also mammal flesh, and that selfish mammal flesh wants to side with satan.
So John is very specific about how not to be tricked about who is on whose side. John tells them of how Jesus brought to us Life—supernatural, boundless anointed life connected to His unseen world. And Light—lighting up the truth and all that God’s message came to bring us... And now John tells us another clue about how to know who is on whose side:
John said: Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.
Anyone who loves their brother and sister (with that supernatural God kind of Love) lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them trip into sin. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is walking around in the darkness. They don’t know where they’re going, because the darkness has blinded them.
While John was talking to Christians about loving God’s Family with God’s love, you can still apply these things to your own young life.
For example....
Do NOT ever let satan trick you into thinking, “Well, I love my sister, but she did something that upset me, so it’s okay that I am mad at her right now.” No, no, no. Do not believe that lie. There is only love and hate. And if you are selfishly mad or bothered or anything like that, and you feel that lack of love, that hate... then in that moment you are putting yourself on satan’s side.
John said that hate, darkness, is blinding... It takes away your ability to see with Heaven eyes. So, when you notice that hate—say you’re sorry, run into the light and get back on God’s side of Love as fast as you can!
And do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. The world is the “I want, I want, I want” of the flesh and the things you see, and the pumped up, feel good pride of life—that junk doesn’t come from the Father and it’s going away.
This is the final chapter of God’s plan. You’ve heard that the one opposed to the Anointed is coming, and many not-anointeds have been seen for what they are. These people have gone away from us because they were never truly part of us. If they had been part of us, they would have stayed. Their going away shows they didn’t really belong to us. (And that’s okay. They don’t have anything we want, and can’t take away anything we need.)
Those who have the Anointing, Christ inside... know the truth.
When you hear “Christ,” remember that Christ is not Jesus’ last name. Christ was the Greek word meaning Anointed, chosen and empowered by God. Jesus came not only to wash our sins so that we can “go to Heaven when we die,” but Jesus came to offer us a whole new supernaturally powerful life right now.
And it is this supernaturally anointed and empowered life that John has been talking about in all his letters. Why? Well, he tells them why... because there were a lot of tricksters and false teachers around. John said,
“I’m writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you off the narrow road. But if you have His anointing oil, it stays in you. And you know what you know what you know because the anointing teaches you how to know what you know what you know because anointing is real, not fake. And anointing teaches us to stay in Him.”
“Christian” means little anointed one. It doesn’t ever or shouldn’t ever mean anything else. And as the apostle John said, if you want to know who or what to believe, it’s all about anointing. Don’t believe anyone opposed to the Anointed, and watch out for the not-anointeds. Notice who stays in Him. Notice who loves light and truth. And notice who loves.
When Christ appears, we’ll be like Him, we’ll see Him as He is. All who have this hope in Him purify themselves, just as He is pure. No one who lives in Him keeps on sinning. If they do, they’ve neither seen Him nor known Him.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s works. No one who is born of God will keep sinning on and on and on... because a part of Heaven is on their insides.
When someone becomes a true Christian, then their reason for living changes... right then and there. Every true truster in God who dies to their self, receives access to a whole new life through God’s Spirit that He places inside them.
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right by yielding to God’s will and way is not God’s child, nor is anyone who doesn’t love their brother and sister.
And what is love? Love gives up stuff for others, just like Jesus did for us. Love with actions and in truth, not with just words or talk.
John said a lot of awesome stuff, but we had better stop for now. But you should know that John wrote three letters where he again and again told them to watch out for religious looters and liars and false teachers teaching a false gospel. And to know that:
God is Love. God is Love. God is Love. That’s how you know who is born of God, with His Spirit, His Anointing, on the inside: Love and the light-walking obedience to love.
And for you? Remember even if you don’t yet have the Spirit of God inside but you hope to some day... then learn to speak His language—Truth and Love. And any time you find yourself not on the side of Love? Run to the side of Love as fast as you can.