When I was a teen, we got my mum a vegetable slicing press. TV ads claimed it would slice fresh tomatoes or make potato chips in one press. We discovered that it was a false claim. It squashed the tomatoes and the potatoes stuck in the knives. They falsely advertised that product. Claims are not always true. This is also the
case in the Christian life. It is easy for us to think we are better Christians than we really are.

Transition

In our text, John identifies three claims of Christians, and then gives us a condition that must be true for the claim to be true.