Living a Confident Life-1 John 5:6-21

“We treat our political leaders as heroes and demigods: they carry our dreams, our fantasies of how things should be. When we find that they are only human after all, we turn on them, blaming them for the intractable problems that they, like their predecessors, haven’t been able to solve. So why did people think Jesus might be any different?” —N.T. Wright, Simply Jesus

1. Place your confidence in . (vv. 6-12)

• The testimony of “water”
  • His ______________
• The testimony of “blood”
  • His
• The testimony of “The Spirit”
  • His

2. Place your confidence in having (v. 13) 

3. Place your confidence in . (vv. 14-16) 

4. Don’t place your confidence in . (vv.17-21)

• We are prone to .
• We are prone to .

Read for next week: 1 Peter 1: 3-5