{"id":202,"date":"2021-01-19T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=202"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:03:37","slug":"assurance-in-first-john-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Assurance in First John: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a subject that can give Christians \u2013 and by that I mean followers of the Lord Jesus \u2013 a deal of trouble, from time to time.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>Can I be sure I know God?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>Can I be sure I am forgiven?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>Can I be sure I will go to heaven?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>If these three key areas are of no immediate concern to you, they may well be to other believing Christians in your orbit<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 people you know. So hopefully, even if you are not troubled by doubts, there is still a message for you here as you seek to be a member of the Christian family and \u2018look out\u2019 for your brothers and sisters, praying for them, encouraging them and (possibly) counselling them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a subject that can give Christians \u2013 and by that I mean followers of the Lord Jesus \u2013 a deal of trouble, from [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}