The second chapter of 1 John tells us, "Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before. 8 Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. For the darkness is disappearing, and the true light is already shining.
"If anyone claims, “I am living in the light,” but hates a Christian brother or sister,[a] that person is still living in darkness. 10 Anyone who loves another brother or sister[b] is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. 11 But anyone who hates another brother or sister is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness."
Let's concentrate on the middle of the passage, "10 Anyone who loves another brother or sister[b] is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble."
That's our role. That's our mission, whether we accept it or not. We should be serving God in such a way that the master of mischief will not be able to steal one of the little ones from his miseery. No, sir. No, way. No, how.
Our mission is to simply tell someone who is probing gently, trying to discoverwhat it means to believe that Jesus is fully God. Jesus is God the Father. Tell someone about Jesus is God, God is Jesus and the Spirit is the other two. Simply put, we have an obligation to everyone to allow everyone to hear the gospel
1 John 2:15 reads: "Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. 17 And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever."
1 John 2: "26 I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray. 27 But you have received the Holy Spirit,[h] and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit[i] teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ." John is explaining how we make a difference, and in that making of a difference, well, the Spirit is there teaching us.
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