This Sunday evening we consider the closing verses of 1 John. John summarizes some of the topics and themes that he has visited throughout the letter, including coming before God in prayer with confidence, our relationship to sin now as God’s children, and the way of Jesus in contrast to the way of the world. A phrase that appears frequently in these last verses is “eternal life.” At the end of this letter, John wants to assure his readers of what they have in Jesus. All followers of Jesus can know that we have been given eternal life in him.