that which we have seen and listened to we now announce to you also, in order that you also may have fellowship in it with us, and this fellowship with us is fellowship with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

This is the Message which we have heard from the Lord Jesus and now deliver to you--God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness.

And by this we may know that we know Him--if we obey His commands.

But whoever obeys His Message, in him love for God has in very deed reached perfection. By this we can know that we are in Him.

Dear children, the last hour has come; and as you once heard that there was to be an anti-Christ, so even now many anti-Christs have appeared. By this we may know that the last hour has come.

And this is the promise which He Himself has given us--the Life of the Ages.

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us--that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us--because it has not known Him.

And every man who has this hope fixed on Him, purifies himself so as to be as pure as He is.

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--that we are to love one another.

But if any one has this world's wealth and sees that his brother man is in need, and yet hardens his heart against him--how can such a one continue to love God?

And in this way we shall come to know that we are loyal to the truth, and shall satisfy our consciences in His presence

And this is His command--that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do.

and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge this about Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ; of whose coming you have heard, and it is already in the world.

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

And that testimony is to the effect that God has given us the Life of the Ages, and that this Life is in His Son.

I write all this to you in order that you who believe in the Son of God may know for certain that you already have the Life of the Ages.