1. Test of having partnership or fellowship with Christ and the Father: 1:3. Do you?
Test of joy: 1:4. Are you joyful?
Test of confessing our sins: 1:9. When is the last time you confessed your sins?
Test of broken pattern of sinning: 2:1; 3:4-6; 3:8 9; 5:18. Are you practicing any known sin today?
Test of obedience: 2:3-5; 3:22-24; 5:2, 3. Are you obeying God’s commandments-all of them?
Test of walking as Christ walked: 2:6. Do you?
Test of loving the brethren: 2:9-11; 3:10-18; 3:23; 4:7-12; 4:20-5:2. Do you love ALL the brethren?
Test of overcoming the wicked one: 2:13, 14; 5:4, 18. Does Satan have any rule in your heart today?
Test of not loving the world: 2:15-17; 4:5. Are there any forms of worldliness in your life?
Test of preserving to the end: 2:19, 24. Is your life as zealous for the Lord today as last year?
Test of the indwelling Holy Spirit: 2:20, 27; 3:24; 4:13. Do you sense the Spirit’s leading, convicting, empowering in your life?
Test of belief: 2:23; 3:23; 4:2, 15; 5:1, 2, 5,10,13,20. Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ? Really?
Test of abiding in Him: 2:27, 28; 4:16. Are you abiding/remaining in the Father?
Test of holy living: 2:29; 3:3, 7. Are you striving to be perfect as He is perfect?
Test of hatred from the world: 3:13. When is the last time you received persecution from the world?
Test of answered prayer: 3:22; 5:14, 15. When is the last time God answered your prayer?
Test of overcoming false teachers: 4:4. Can you discern a false teacher?
Test of no fear in judgment: 2:28; 4:17, 18. Are you fearful of the rapture, the judgment to come?
Test of loving God: 4:19-5:2. Do you love God? Does it show itself in your actions and love to others?
Test of keeping ourselves from idols: 5:21. Do you have any idols in your life?
