1 John 2:28-29

v28-29: When Jesus comes again, “those who have remained faithful to him… will have confidence, assurance, and joy.” However, those who deserted him will be ashamed, “ashamed of themselves, ashamed of their unbelief, cowardice, ingratitude, and foolishness in abandoning such a glorious Redeemer”; they will be “ashamed of all the ways of unrighteousness by which they were motivated to abandon him”; and Christ “will abandon them to darkness, demons, and endless despair, by professing before human beings and angels that he is ashamed of them.”

1 John 3:1-10

v1: “It is because of the wonderful condescending love of the eternal Father that people like us are made and called his children - we who by nature are children of corruption, disobedience, and ingratitude! How wonderful that God in his holiness is not ashamed to call himself our Father and to call us his children!”

v2-3: When Jesus appears, we shall be like him “in honour, power, and glory,” and our “corrupt bodies will be made like his glorious body,” being “filled with life, light, and happiness from him.”

v4-6: Sin “is the rejecting of God’s law” and by rejecting God’s law, we are rejecting not only His authority, but God Himself. The reason the Son of God came was to take away sins by upholding and exalting “God’s law by obeying the commands and by submitting to and suffering under its penalty and curse.”

v7-10: “Those who remain in Christ do not keep on sinning.” This doesn’t mean that we will not sin. Rather, it means that we cannot sin like we did before and like “others do who are not the children of God.” Why? Because we have “a light in [our] mind that shows [us] the evil of sin”; “a bias in [our] heart that inclines [us] to hate sin”; and “an inclination toward humiliation and repentance for sin when it has been committed.”