Over the next three weeks we will look at three aspects of “Abiding in Christ.” Tonight we look at “the truth and the lie.” Next week it will be “righteousness and sin.” Then it will be “love and hate.”
We usually think in terms of the twin themes of “faith and practice.” Our own Shorter Catechism states that the Scriptures principally teach “what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.”
And certainly Paul's epistles support this sort of twofold approach. Paul regularly divides his epistles into two parts: the indicative – what we are to believe; and the imperative – what we are to do.
So I want to start by saying that a twofold way of putting it has good warrant from scripture!
But that is not the only way of talking about the Christian life! John provides us with a tripartite model: - what we are to believe (and know) - what we are to do (and practice) - and what we are to love (have communion with)
I want to start where we left off last week, as John pointed out that knowledge, practice, and communion can be idolatrous...
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