12.04.2014 New Testament: 1Jo 3.10–12

To read the Bible in a year, read First John 3 on December 4, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

It seems many people believe that knowing the truth and telling others that they are wrong is all there is to Christianity. However, listen to the word of God,

In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous (1 John 3.10–12). 

John made it so plain that you have to have help to misunderstand it. If you do not practice righteousness and if you do not love your brother, you are not of God. Do not imitate Cain, who hated his brother and killed him.