Walking in the Way 1 John 5:13-21 - “Confidence" (Aug 10)

We Know that He Hears Us

Quotes:


Augustine, recalling his mother’s prayer about Rome:
“God regarded ‘the hinge’ of the petition.”


Rabbi Yohanan (Talmud):
“Beneath anyone who establishes a regular place for praying do that person’s enemies fall.”

We Know that We are Safe

Quote — Erasmus:
“The outcome of our struggle is not in doubt, because victory does not depend at all on chance but is entirely in the hands of God and through him also in our hands. No one fails to win in this battle except those who do not want to win.”

We Know that We are in Enemy Territory

We Know Truth

Quote — Eusebius (on the early church):
“For everything was conquered and subdued by the splendors of the truth and by the divine word itself …which was then flourishing upon earth, and dwelling in the apostles themselves.”