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Weekly Guide：2022-2023 Week 101
December 10, 2023
Week 101 Day 1: The New Commandment ⇧ ⇩
Question
What is God’s new commandment?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Anyone who obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in Him.
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Darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.
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For everything in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - Anyone who knows God must do what His commands and loves God. They do not love the world and anything in the world. How much do I know God? Am I willing to love Him even more?
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Community - Abstain from the lust of flesh, the lust of eyes, and the pride of life. These are from the world and are temporary. In these tricks of the devil, which temps me the most?
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Integrity - Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness, walks around in the darkness and do not know where they are going. Do I have any hatred toward any brother or sister? Let me pray and ask the Lord for forgiveness.
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 101 Day 2: Children of God ⇧ ⇩
Question
What kind of life should the children of God live?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
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And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - We are children of God and we know that when the Lord appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. How am I living a life as children of God and be more like Jesus every day?
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Integrity - We shall not continue to sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. How am I doing what is right and not being led astray?
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Community - We should love one another with actions and in truth because this is what God has commanded. How am I loving my Christian brothers and sisters even more?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 101 Day 3: Love One Another ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why if we love one another then God lives in us?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
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This is love: God sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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We love because He first loved us.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - We are of God and have won over every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus, because the one who is in us is greater than the one who is in the world. What difficulties am I facing? Let the one who is in me be my only reliance and true help so that by Him I’d be able to celebrate in victory.
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Community - We love one another, for love comes from God. We love because He first loved us. Let me understand and experience God’s love, then try to love someone who is unlovable with God’s love.
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Integrity - Love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. What faith and hope does this give me?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 101 Day 4: Beware False Teaching ⇧ ⇩
Question
How do we overcome the world?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them.
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The Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - The One gives us victory over the world is our faith. Do I have the faith to overcome the world today?
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Identity - We have eternal life when we have the Son of God; we have no eternal life without the Son of God. Let me thank and praise Jesus with my prayer in the knowledge that He has already given me eternal life!
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Fidelity - If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. How am I praying for those who are sinning?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 101 Day 5: Love and Truth ⇧ ⇩
Question
What is the relationship between love and truth?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Love and truth must go together as love is for truth.
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To love God is to walk in obedience of His commands and to love one another.
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To walk in the truth is the prerequisite of loving one another. Do not welcome those who do not follow Jesus’ teaching.
Meditation: My Story
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Walking with God - The common interpretation of love of this world is not God’s love. God’s love does not go against His truth. Let me contemplate on what God’s truth is, what His love is. Have I seen, heard, or experienced a kind of love being raised up high, even among Christians, but muddles the truth? When I face this kind of improper love, how may I speak the truth in love?
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Identity - Jesus gave us the command to love between the limbs, to one another. This is to love by following His example instead of human’s examples. So, the real love shall not cause conflicts. At the time of John, all ministers were travelling ministers, and they stayed in loving believers’ households and being supplied by them. This signified the accepting household’s acknowledgment of their ministry. Today, how shall I welcome them and acknowledge their ministry? What does John remind me of when he said do not welcome those deceivers?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 101 Day 6: Truth and Love ⇧ ⇩
Forward
This week we will complete the current segment of New Testament reading and go into the Old Testament.
May you all be renewed in God’s word each day!
Question
What is the proper attitude in receiving our brothers and sisters in Christ?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Children of God shall be faithful to the truth and walk in it.
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We ought to show hospitality and receive with love those brothers and sisters who go out in the name of the Lord so that we may work together for the truth.
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Do not imitate those who love to be first and the evil of their refusal to receive the Lord’s workers. Rather, imitate those who do good in truth and love.
Meditation: My Story
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Integrity - There’s a negative example in this passage, Diotrephes. What kind of person was he? Why did he refuse to receive the Lord’s workers? Please list out the descriptions in the passage. What was the reason of his evilness? Through the descriptions of Diotrephes, Gaius, and Demetrius, what shall our attitude be in simple matters such as receiving our brothers and sisters? Whom am I accountable to when I show hospitality to brothers and sisters? How may I serve in faith?
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Fidelity - When we receive and show hospitality to those who go out for the Lord, we are working with them together for the Lord. In the book of Second John, a simple greeting to those false teachers would become a support of their wickedness. What does the contrast between the two remind me of?