That Is What We Are!

1 John 2:28-3:10

Key verse 3:1

“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”

Read 2:28-29.  What does the author encourage children of God to do? (28a) What happens when they continue in him? (28b) Who is born of Jesus? (29) 

Read 3:1-3. What does the phrase, “lavished on us,” show about God’s love to us? (1) Why does the author emphasize the identity of the children of God by saying, “And that is what we are!”? Why does the world not know who the children of God are? (1b) What will we become when the Christ appears? (2)  What does everyone who has the hope in Jesus do? (3)

Read 3:4-6. What is sin? What are people doing when they sin? (4) What did the Christ do when he appeared? (5) Why can’t anyone who is in Jesus continue to sin? (5b-6)

Read 3:7-10. What does the author warn us to not do? (7a)  Who is righteous? (7b) Who is of the devil? (8)  Why did the Son of God appear?  (8b)  Why can’t anyone who is born of God continue to sin? (9) How can we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are? (10)