Having once for all, through faith, overcome the world ( 1 John 4:4 , 5:4 ), carry forward the conquest by not loving it. 20 Christian Quotes About Voting and Politics. Believers achieve the first grand conquest over him when they pass from darkness to light, but afterwards they need to maintain a continual keeping of themselves from his assaults, looking to God by whom alone they are kept safe. I had a Jewish man once tell me that Jesus has already arrived on the earth and another said that “the Messiah is yet to come” so whoever believes Jesus is not the fulfillment of the Messiah, foretold in dozens of Old Testament Scriptures is not a Christian but is set against Christ or an antichrist (small “a” and not the Antichrist). he--Greek, "Himself," Christ, "the Son" (compare 1 John 1:1 ). acknowledgeth--by open confession of Christ. In proportion as we love God, in that same proportion we know Him, and vice versa, until our love and knowledge shall attain their full maturity of perfection. no lie--as Antichristian teaching. John uses the singular of him. Little children--same Greek as 1 John 2:13 ; children in age. . 1 John chapter 2, This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. The fathers, too, have conquered; but now their active service is past, and they and the children alike are characterized by knowing (the fathers know Christ, "Him that was from the beginning"; the children know the Father). He did his graduate work at Moody Theological Seminary. Darkness not only surrounds, but blinds him, and that a blindness of long standing. BENGEL thinks John refers specially to the remarkable constancy exhibited by youths in Domitian's persecution. . But afterwards relying too much on baptismal grace, he joined evil associates, and fell from step to step down, till he became a captain of robbers. It is men's own evil will that chooses the way to hell; it is God's free and sovereign grace that draws any to Himself and to heaven. of have continued--implying the indefectibility of grace in the elect. Each successive age has had in it some of the signs of "the last time" which precedes Christ's coming, in order to keep the Church in continual waiting for the Lord. none occasion of stumbling--In contrast to, "He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes." from the beginning--from the time of your first hearing the Gospel. of--"concerning." keep--John's favorite word, instead of "do," literally, "watch," "guard," and "keep safe" as a precious thing; observing so as to keep. To God the latter shall ascribe wholly their salvation from first to last: the former shall reproach themselves alone, and not God's decree, with their condemnation ( 1 John 3:9 , 5:18 ). My little children--The diminutive expresses the tender affection of an aged pastor and spiritual father. The Gnostics, by the Spirit's prescient forewarning, are refuted, who boasted of knowledge, but set aside obedience. Full of love the aged father ran after him, called on him to take courage, and announced to him forgiveness of his sins in the name of Christ. "Antichrist cannot endanger you ( 1 John 2:18 ), nor Satan tear from you the word of God." It is of course God’s Spirit that reveals to us Who God is and precisely, Who Jesus Christ is and why we need Him as John writes, “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments” (1 John 2:3) so anyone claiming to know God and yet doesn’t keep His commandments, John says “is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. Thanks for stopping by! (15-23) They are encouraged to stand fast in faith and holiness.
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