1 John 5:11-12

3. The results of faith are eternal life, with present answered prayer, 1 John 5:11-17.

11, 12. Of this testimony, so divinely sure, we now are to have, through the rest of the chapter, the result. It is summed up in the word life; life in Christ and Christ in us, so that in us is the life. In the background, death, 1 John 5:16, and the wicked one, 18, and the world, 19, shadow a dark contrast. So we have the great antithesis, the battle-array, in which faith is the sure conqueror, 1 John 5:4, and life, present and future, the sure prize.