The world that has become so good at creating something that's so close to authentic. We now carefully scan our emails for "The fake" before we click on it. We study images to see if we can detect AI, and now we have to think about the future with deepfakes.
We crave authenticity. John says authenticity is the only way to have relationship with God. Jesus is completely authentic.
John provides us with the ability to do a test, a litmus test on our lives. This test provides us with the ability to know if we have a relationship with God, or not. We find his test given to us in 1 John 2:3-11.
The results of the test either reassure us that we know God, or they convict us that we are talking "smoke and mirrors." The test is not complicated, but it is surely probing.
