John’s Testimony of Light
READ 1 John 1:1-3 (including JST)
What is the testimony of John, and the others
with him, to us?
Why do they bear this testimony to us?
READ 1 John 1:4-7
Whose message is this?
What is the message directly from God?
Why is that God’s message to us?
READ D&C 50:23-25 and 3 Nephi
13:22-23
What chases darkness from you?
How do we “walk in the light”?
Why do we have fellowship with each other
if we (all) walk in the light?
The Advocate and the Accuser
READ 1 John 2:1 (including JST)
What is an advocate?
What is the opposite of an advocate?
Is the Accuser wrong in accusing you?
Is the Advocate right in recommending
you?
The Holy Anointing
READ 1 John 2:20, 25, 27-28
What is the “unction” or anointing from
the Holy One (Christ)?
What is the promise the Holy One/Christ
promises us when He anoints us?
Who is to teach you after you have
received this anointing?
Sons of God
READ 1 John 3:1-9 (including JSTs) and 1
John 5:18 (JST)
What is the Father doing when He calls us
“sons of God”?
Why does following Christ’s commandments
allow us to see what He is like?
How much easier is it to know someone you
are like than someone you are completely different from – in capability, mindset,
values, culture, attributes, thoughts, feelings, talents, interests, actions,
and experiences?
Why does it not yet appear (clear) to us
what we shall be as Sons of God?
If the definition of sin is something
that transgresses the Law, what Law is being referred to here?
What does it mean to “continue in sin”?
Why do those who have been born of God,
abide in that covenant, have seen Christ and received the Holy Spirit of
Promise not continue in sin?
What happens if they do continue in sin?
READ 1 John 4:1
Why would John tell the Saints to “try”
or test the Spirits?
God Is Love
READ 1 John 3:10-11, 14
How can you tell the children of God from
the children of the Devil?
How would you describe true love
demonstrated?
What behaviors do you see in the children
of the Devil?
READ 1 John 4:7-8, 11-12, 16
What kind of love is John talking about?
What does it imply that “God is love”?
READ 1 John 3:16-24
What does it mean to love your brother?
Belief is to faith, as love is to…?
What gives us confidence in the presence
of God?
READ 1 John 5:2-3
This scripture implies that we don’t
truly love each other unless we first love God and walk in His ways – is this
true?
READ 1 John 4:19
How did God show us that He first loved
us?
READ 1 John 4:18
What is the relationship between perfect
love and fear?
