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Open the Bible UK Daily

3 minute daily Bible reflections from Open the Bible UK, authored by Colin Smith, read by Sue McLeish.

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02:58

Assurance Grows as You Love God’s People

Open the Bible UK Daily ·

2025/10/17

Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.1 John 2:10One way assurance grows is by loving God’s people. Here are two kinds of evidence that show whether a person actually loves God’s people:Hatred is evidence of darkness and death“Whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness... the darkness has blinded his eyes” (2:11). Hatred blinds people to the truth. A person who hates will not be able to see reality or find the path of

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02:47

Finding the Freedom that Leads to Assurance

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2025/10/16

Whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.1 John 2:5John has been talking the language of law. Now, he is talking the language of love, and the two are joined together. “Whoever keeps his word [his commandments], in him truly the love of God is perfected.”The love of God has a purpose: to reproduce itself in us, that we may love as He first loved us. And the evidence that God’s love has fulfilled its purpose in us is that we keep God’s Word.The obedience John is describing

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02:57

Charting the Course Toward Assurance

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2025/10/15

By this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments... Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.1 John 2:3, 6The way we know that we know God and that we are in Christ is to keep His commandments, or to say it another way, to walk as Jesus walked. Walk in obedience to God’s commands and you will grow in assurance. Walk as Jesus walked and you will know that you are in Him.The way Jesus walked was to obey the commandments. He said, “I do as

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02:56

A Perfect Description of Assurance

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2025/10/14

By this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.1 John 2:3To know God is the reason and purpose for which we were made. Jesus said, “This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (Jn. 17:3).But John goes even further. It’s not only that we should know God, but that we should know that we know Him. “By this we know that we have come to know him” (1 Jn. 2:3).That’s assurance: To know that you know God. To know that you are

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03:06

What Happened at the Cross

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2025/10/13

I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you.Ezekiel 7:8The wrath of God toward sin can be poured out, and when it is poured out it will be spent.This takes us to the heart of what happened at the cross. The divine wrath toward sin was poured out on Jesus. He became the propitiation for our sins. All that was due to sinners was poured out on Jesus at the cross.Now, truths often get abused when they are isolated from other truths that belong beside them. John makes it clear

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03:02

What Is Propitiation?

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2025/10/12

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.1 John 2:2A propitiation is a gift or payment to placate the anger of an offended person. The best way to explain this is through an illustration.Meet Neil and Sally. They met at the office and quickly began dating. One night they went to a party. Neil had too much to drink, and while he was driving Sally home, his car crashed into a tree.When Neil came around in the hospital, he immediately asked,

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02:40

God’s Provision for the Times When We Sin

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2025/10/11

If anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.1 John 2:1An advocate is one who is called alongside to help. The word is used for a lawyer defending a client in court. Jesus is our advocate. He speaks in our defence. He advocates for us.What could our defence be?Jesus cannot plead that we have not sinned—clearly, we have. He cannot plead mitigating circumstances. God calls us to confess our sins, and a large part of confession is to admit that we are without

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02:54

Two Dangerous Approaches to Sin

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2025/10/10

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.1 John 1:9John presents us with twin truths: Sin remains in us, and God forgives our sin. How are we to respond to these truths? Here are two dangers.1. We acquiesce in our sin.We say to ourselves, “Everybody sins. And God loves me as I am. He forgives the sins of everyone who believes in Jesus.” We hear the truth that God forgives, and we acquiesce in our remaining sin.But Jesus did not

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03:19

How to Make Progress Against Remaining Sin

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2025/10/09

Let not sin... reign in your mortal body.Romans 6:12Notice, Paul does not say, “Don’t let sin remain in your body.” He says, “Don’t let sin reign in your body.” Sin’s power over you is broken, but its presence in you remains.And we are called to engage in a battle with the sin that remains, so that it does not reign. The garden will always produce weeds. The gardener’s job is to pull them out by the roots so that they do not spread and take over.None of us will be completely free from sin this side

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02:48

Sin Hides in Our Hearts Even as We Walk in the Light

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2025/10/08

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.1 John 1:8Notice that John includes himself: “If we say we have no sin...” Even the apostles could not say that they were wholly free from sin. The impulse to sin remains within every Christian, even while we walk in the light.Writing to believers, Paul is also quite clear that while we truly love Jesus, and truly desire to do His will, there remains within us an impulse toward what displeases Him: “The desires of the flesh

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02:26

One Danger for Us as We Walk in the Light

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2025/10/07

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.1 John 1:8Perhaps you have come out of the darkness. You may have been at one time like the prodigal son, but you have renounced works of darkness. You have forsaken evil ways. You have returned to the Father, and you have no interest in going back.Perhaps you are seeking to walk with the Lord in the light of His Word. Your great desire is to enjoy fellowship with God and with other believers, and to be cleansed from all sin

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02:28

How to Respond If You Are Walking in Darkness

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2025/10/06

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practise the truth.1 John 1:6John presents us with two appropriate responses if we are walking in darkness.1. Renounce the lie“If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie...” (1 Jn. 1:6). The lie is that sin doesn’t matter—that we can walk in darkness and have fellowship with God at the same time.The blood of Jesus does not cleanse those who remain in the darkness. It cannot reach you

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03:07

What It Means to Walk in the Light

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2025/10/05

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.Psalm 119:105What does it mean to walk in the light? It means:1. Submitting yourself to the light of God’s Word“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (119:105). If you want to know what pleases or offends God, you have to let Him tell you. The way He does that is through the Bible.2. Confessing your sin in the light of God’s Word“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins” (1 Jn. 1:9). When you submit

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02:35

Two Misconceptions about Walking in the Light

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2025/10/04

If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another.1 John 1:7Walking in the light is often misunderstood, so let’s clear away two misunderstandings:1. Walking in the light is not perfection.This is good news because if it meant being completely free from sin, no one would ever have fellowship with God. The Bible never teaches that we must be free from all sin to have fellowship with God. John states quite clearly that “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,

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02:36

The Lie That Our Sin Does Not Matter

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2025/10/03

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practise the truth.1 John 1:6Here is a person who claims to have fellowship with God. He will give you the clearest testimony. He will tell you that he is reading his Bible. He will say he wants to honour the Lord in all that he does.But notice the word “while.” This person claims to have fellowship with God while he is walking in darkness. These two things are happening at the same time.What does it mean to walk in

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02:57

Assurance Grows as You Gain Clarity about the Gospel

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2025/10/02

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.1 John 1:5Where does the Christian message begin? What is the first thing that people need to know about God?Many would say the gospel begins with the love of God. “God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son” (Jn. 3:16). But the first thing John tells us is not that God is love, but that God is light. “This is the message... that God is light” (1:5).Martyn Lloyd-Jones says that

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02:48

How Can You Be Sure That You Have Eternal Life?

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2025/10/01

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.1 John 5:13How can I be sure? This may be the number one question that believers ask. And it is rightly asked by thoughtful believers. The question of assurance is pressed on us for several reasons.1. Many people are abandoning a faith they once professedA thinking person might reason, If others who once professed faith have walked away, how can I be sure that this will not happen to

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03:06

Three Things God Does for You When You Are “in Christ”

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2025/09/30

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.2 Corinthians 5:21This is what God does for every person who is in Christ:1. God doesn’t count your sins against you“In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them” (5:19). The reason a Christian is reconciled to God and has peace with Him is not that he or she is without sin, but rather that “in Christ” God does not count our sins against us

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03:21

Why Jesus Is Uniquely Qualified to Deal With Our Sins

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2025/09/29

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin.2 Corinthians 5:21In the Gospels, we find three witnesses—an angel, a devil, and God the Father—testifying that Jesus is without sin.The witness of the angels: When the angel came to Mary, he said, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy” (Luke 1:35).The witness of the devils: When Jesus came into a synagogue in Capernaum, a man with an unclean spirit

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03:33

God’s Medicine for Your Condemning Heart

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2025/09/28

Whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.1 John 3:20John writes to Christian believers, and he says, “Whenever our heart condemns us...” He does not say “if,” he says “when” because every Christian has a new heart.If you are a Christian today, your new heart is sensitive to sin, hates its presence, discerns its subtlety, and longs for the day when it will be gone completely. This means that your own heart will condemn you, and you need to know how to

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