To walk in fellowship with God, the believer needs continual cleansing from sin’s defilement John 13:10 “Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.” The Lord told Peter that an all-over bath (Greek word: luo – symbolizing the one-time “washing of regeneration”) is needed only once (John 3:5; Titus 3:5; I John 2:2, 12). However, the believer needs daily cleansing (Greek word: nipto -- referri

APPARENTLY, FALSE TEACHERS HAD HAD SOME DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE ON THE ASSEMBLIES TO WHICH JOHN WAS WRITING. False Teaching especially seems to show itself in two main areas: Ethics – How we live; our morals Doctrine of Christ The false teachings John was confronting seem to be early forms of GNOSTICISM (from the Greek word gnosis – “knowledge”) Scholars say full blown Gnosticism did not arrive on the scene until about 200 A.D.However, the ROOTS of Gnosticism go back further –