The You're going to do you.

Do you do you do you do you do

do you your talk does the way you live affirm the beliefs you profess or do you say one thing

and then do something else? Today on Truth for Life we'll find out what it looks

like to model Christianity with integrity.

Alistair Begg is teaching from second John.

We're looking at verses 7 through 13. We last time noted the challenge of David Wells's words when he said if the

Evangelical Church doesn't want to lose its voice then at this point in history it must remember two points in particular.

Number one, that Christianity is about truth, and number two, that those who say they are Christians must model this truth by their integrity.

And of course, this is the very essence of this little letter, because John is interweaving truth and love a truth that

prevents our love from becoming sentimentalism and a love which prevents our

truth from becoming brittle and unkind in its presentation of itself.

Now what John has done, first of all, is issue, if you like, an indictment on what we refer to as counterfeit Christianity.

And in verse 7, he makes it quite clear that deceivers have gone out into these communities.

So there are deceptive people abroad in the time, in the first century, to which John is writing,

in which he is writing, and amongst the communities to which he is writing.

Now it is in direct contrast to that counterfeit stuff that the disciples of Jesus make an honest confession.

And the earliest Christian creed is simply three words,

Jesus is Lord.

And in the saying of that, the early Christians were not making a statement

concerning their personal devotional life. They were actually making a statement

concerning the identity of Jesus, so that the word in the Old Testament

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