Sermons on 1 John

1 John 3:1-3; Revelation 7:9-17 Sunday, November 5, 2023 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa I recently read an article about purity, and that the many ceremonial works in the Old Testament had powerful symbolic meaning.  The author wrote this:  “Israel had an elaborate purification and cleansing system in the Old Testament. Under the Mosaic Law the holiness of Israel was from the first recognized as moral separation from sin, but it was expressed outwardly by separation from…