18. READ: 1 JOHN 2:28-29 AND 1 JOHN 3:1-3
[1 John 2:28] "And now, dear children, continue in Him [Jesus Christ], so that when He appears we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.
[29] "If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of Him."
[1 John 3:1] "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. [2] Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears [or, "when it is made known], we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. [3] Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as He is pure."
a. When Jesus comes, what may we be "before Him"?
b. Everyone who does what is right has been what?
c. How great is the love the Father has lavished on us?
d. What has not yet been made known?
e. What hope should we have?
f. Everyone who has this hope should do what?
