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Ikthus Daily Word | November 14, 2023 | Tuesday 1 John 4:12 “ No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. ” Why does God say, “No man hath seen God at any time”? Why does John suddenly introduce this idea of the invisibility of God? John does not say that we cannot love God except through loving our brethren; that is not his argume...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 13, 2023 | Monday Romans 7:24 “ O wretched man that I am! ” Self-sufficiency, self-consciousness—oh, to get away from the self! “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24). How can I get away from this wretched, ugly self I am always thinking about? Isn’t that the cry of every man and woman convicted of sin by the Holy Gh...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 12, 2023 | Sunday 1 John 4:11 “ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ” The question is, what do you do about those people who seem to irritate you and are a problem to you and who really make things rather difficult? Here is John’s answer: “If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” This means something like this: Instead of givi...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 11, 2023 | Saturday 1 John 4:9-10 “ In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ” The apostle is anxious to remind us that God is actually manifesting that es...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 10, 2023 | Friday 1 John 4:7-8 “ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. ” “God is love.” No one can answer against that; one trembles even to handle it; it cannot be analyzed. I simply want to point out that John does not say merely that God lo...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 9, 2023 | Thursday 1 John 4:7 “ . . . let us love one another . . . ” I do not hesitate to say that the ultimate test of our profession of the Christian faith is this whole question of our loving one another. Indeed, I do not hesitate to aver that it is a more vital test than our orthodoxy. I am the last man in the world to say anything against orthodoxy, but I am here...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 8, 2023 | Wednesday  1 John 4:2 “ . . . Jesus Christ is come in the flesh . . . ” What is the apostolic teaching concerning Christ? Now in a phrase in our text John gives us the perfect answer. John does not use words like this haphazardly. Listen to the way in which he puts it: “Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come i...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 7, 2023 | Tuesday Ephesians 2:20 “ . . . built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. ” John’s whole purpose in writing his first epistle was to say to the early Christians, “Hold on to what I and the other apostles have told you.”You remember how he began. “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we ha...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 2, 2023 | Thursday 1 Corinthians 2:12 “ Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. ” An important reason for testing and trying the spirits is the evidence provided by the long history of the Church of the havoc that has often been wrought in the Church because peo...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 1, 2023 | Wednesday  1 John 4:1 “ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. ” The position of the Scripture is one that faces two extremes: The Spirit is essential, and experience is vital; however, truth and definition and doctrine and dogma are equally vital and essential....

Ikthus Daily Word | November 3, 2023 | Friday 1 John 4:1 “ . . . try the spirits . . . ” How is this testing to be done? How are we to know whether certain spirits are true or false? There are those who claim that the gifts of the Spirit are absolutely essential, and that unless men and women are able to manifest certain gifts of the Spirit, they have not received the Spirit. They say, for example...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 4, 2023 | Saturday 1 John 4:2 “ Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. ” The most important test is conformity to scriptural teaching. “Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.” How do I know that this is a spiritual test? Al...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 5, 2023 | Sunday 2 Timothy 1:7 “ For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. ” The greatest test is that the true Spirit always glorifies Christ. Christ is always in the center; He is always given the preeminence. And the true prophet is not the man who talks about experiences and visions and what he has done and seen,...

Ikthus Daily Word | November 6, 2023 | Monday 1 John 4:2-3 “ Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. ” What is th...

October 31, 2023 | Tuesday | A Christian Is a Spiritual Person 1 Corinthians 2:12 “ Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 30, 2023 | Monday | Assurance in Prayer 1 John 3:21-22 “ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 29, 2023  | Sunday | Confidence in Prayer 1 John 3:21 “ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 28, 2023 | Saturday | What is Prayer? 1 John 3:19 “ And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 27, 2023 | Friday | Hated by the World 1 John 3:13 “ Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 26, 2023 | Thursday | The Divine Seed 1 John 3:9 “ Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 25, 2023 | Wednesday | Sinless Perfection 1 John 3:8-9 “ He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. . . . Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 24, 2023 | Tuesday | Look Forward in Anticipation 1 John 3:8 “ For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 23, 2023 | Monday | Our Adversary 1 John 3:8 “ He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 22,2023 | Sunday | A Mighty Battle 1 John 3:8 “ He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 21, 2023 | Saturday | Delivered 1 John 3:5 “ And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. ” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete