It’s Unbelievable!

A Series on the letter of 1 John
(Click on the link below to read the verses.)
1 John 1:1-2:2 

[The author of this letter is John. Prior to being a disciple of Jesus, he was a fisherman. He had a reputation for his bad temper. In fact, he and his brother were called the “Sons of Thunder”. But he was also known as “the one whom Jesus loved”. In this letter, John shares that same love with us.]

  

For the past six months, my daughter’s been planning a trip to Disney World for her family, as well as Grandpa and Nonna. But she didn’t tell her kids until about a week before when she surprised them with a scavenger hunt. At the end of the hunt, there was a gift bag for each child. They were going to Disney World!

 

Watching them open their bags and their reaction of pure excitement, was amazing! Each one responded in their own unique way, but the oldest couldn’t believe it. She kept repeating over and over in disbelief, “We’re not going to Disney World”.

 

There’s something else that’s unbelievable. That God sent his only son into our world, not just the world, but our world. John wrote about this in his letter.

 

^1-2 From the very first day, we were there, taking it all in—we heard it with our own ears, saw it with our own eyes, verified it with our own hands. The Word of Life appeared right before our eyes; we saw it happen! And now we’re telling you in most sober prose that what we witnessed was, incredibly, this: The infinite Life of God himself took shape before us.       MSG

 

Isn’t that amazing! “The infinite Life of God himself took shape before us”. It’s unbelievable! And even more unbelievable than that is why he did it.

 

^3-4 We saw it, we heard it, and now we’re telling you so you can experience it along with us, this experience of communion with the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ.     MSG

 

To know personally the Father and his Son is… well, it’s unbelievable. But, like the Disney reveal when my grandkids got so excited, the best part is yet to come.

 

⁵ This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all.                     NLT

 

Darkness can’t exist if there’s light. If you’ve ever toured Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, there’s a point where the guide turns off all the lights. You can’t see your hand right in front of your face. Then the guide lights a small match. All of a sudden… the darkness is gone.

In a world that has so much darkness in it, we can live in the light of Jesus Christ. This is only possible because he not only forgives us, but also purifies us from all our wrongdoing.

  

² When he served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good—not only ours, but the whole world’s.          MSG

 

It is unbelievable!

 

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