1
JOHN CHAPTER TWO
OBSERVATION
STAGE
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
The purpose
of the observation stage is to maintain focus
on the text at hand in accordance with the framework in which it was
written: a framework which is defined by the normative rules of language,
context and logic and without imposing undue, unintended meanings to it
.which largely limits the observer to the
content offered by the books of 1st John and the Gospel of John. Other
passages must have a relationship with the context at hand, such as a
Scriptural quotation or reference in the passage at hand. This will serve
to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it
will provide the framework for a proper and objective comparison with
passages located elsewhere in Scripture.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in
view.
Chapter one was
a message about how to have fellowship with God wherein author John
strongly indicated that all believers were sinful and they needed to
remedy that situation via confession in order to be restored to temporal
fellowship with God.
****** EXCERPTS
FROM FIRST JOHN CHAPTER ONE ******
OR
MOVE TO FIRST VERSE OF CHAPTER TWO 
(1
Jn 1:7) BUT IF WE BELIEVERS - APOSTLES INCLUDED - WALK IN THE LIGHT -
NOT ACCORDING TO IT IN SINLESS PERFECTION; BUT IN THE SENSE OF (1)
ACKNOWLEDGING THAT GOD IS PERFECT LIGHT / ABSOLUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND
(2) ACKNOWLEDGING OUR SINFUL SHORTCOMINGS BEFORE A HOLY GOD, THEN WE
BELIEVERS WHILE WE ARE WALKING IN THE LIGHT HAVE (TEMPORAL) FELLOWSHIP,
ONE [GOD] WITH ANOTHER [WITH EACH OF WE BELIEVERS WHO ARE WALKING IN THE
LIGHT]; AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS, GOD'S SON, CLEANSES US FROM THE TEMPORAL
SIN WE ARE ACKNOWLEDGING AND FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
(1
Jn 1:8) IF WE BELIEVERS INCLUDING APOSTLES SAY THAT WE HAVE NO SIN - IN
THE SENSE OF HAVING NOT COMMITTED A SINGLE SIN WITH A PARTICULAR
TIMEFRAME IN VIEW, WE DECEIVE OURSELVES AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN US - AND
NEITHER FOR THE MOMENT IS FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
(1
Jn 1:9) IF WE BELIEVERS -APOSTLES INCLUDED - SHOULD CONFESS OUR SINS -
IN THE SENSE OF SHOULD WE CONSTANTLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE PARTICULAR ACTS OF
SIN WE BELIEVERS INEVITABLY, CONSTANTLY COMMIT THAT ARE BROUGHT TO OUR
MINDS BY GOD WITH A VIEW TO HIS PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS; THEN GOD IS
FAITHFUL - ABSOLUTELY TRUSTWORTHY AND RIGHTEOUS / JUSTIFIED IN FORGIVING
OUR SINS WHICH WE CONSTANTLY CONFESS. AND HE IS JUSTIFIED IN CONTINUALLY
PURIFYING US FROM ALL OF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO TEMPORAL FELLOWSHIP
ONCE MORE WITH HIMSELF; FORENSICALLY JUSTIFIED BECAUSE THE BLOOD OF
JESUS CHRIST, HIS SON PAID FOR THE SINS OF ALL MANKIND
If
We Believers - Apostles Included - Should Confess Our Sins, Our Acts Of
Sin (Plural) Which We Inevitably And Constantly Commit Which Are Brought
To Our Minds By God
And
As We Believers Confess Our Particular Acts Of Sin, The Character Of God
Being Absolutely Trustworthy And Absolutely Righteous, He Will Forgive
Us Our Sins That We Have Confessed And Purify Us From All
Unrighteousness Unto Temporal Fellowship Once More With Him. For God's
Forgiveness And Cleansing Is Forensically Justified Because The Blood Of
His Son, Jesus Was Shed For Us And For All Mankind To Pay For The Sins
Of Mankind
(1
Jn 1:10) IF WE SHOULD SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED - CLAIMING PERIODS OF
SINLESS PERFECTION - WE MAKE GOD OUT TO BE A LIAR AND HIS WORD IS NOT IN
US RELATIVE TO THIS MATTER
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OF EXCERPTS FROM JN CHAPTER ONE ******
I)
[1 Jn 2:1-29]:
A)
(1 Jn 2:1a) THE PHRASE "MY LITTLE CHILDREN" INDICATES THAT
ONLY BELIEVERS ARE IN VIEW IN CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO
1)
[Jn 1:12-13]:
2)
[Compare 1 Jn 3:1-2]:
3)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:12]:
4)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:1b]:
B)
(1 Jn 2:1b) AUTHOR JOHN IS WRITING HIS EPISTLE TO HIS LITTLE CHILDREN -
TO BELIEVERS SO THAT THEY MAY NOT SIN, SO THAT THEY MIGHT DIRECT THEIR
LIVES TOWARD NOT COMMITTING SINS
**1)
[Compare 1 Jn 5:9-13]:
C)
(1 Jn 2:1c) AND IF ANYONE SINS WE BELIEVERS HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE
FATHER, JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS ONE - IN THE SENSE THAT AS A RESULT
OF HIS PROPITIATION FOR THE SINS OF BELIEVERS AND ALL MANKIND , (1 JN
2:2), HE INTERCEDES ON BEHALF OF THE CONFESSING BELIEVER TO PROVIDE
TEMPORAL FORGIVENESS AND CLEANSING FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
FURTHERMORE, JESUS CHRIST WILL INTERCEDE FOR THE BELIEVER TOWARD
RESTORING THE FAITH OF THE BELIEVER - MOVING HIM FORWARD IN SPIRITUAL
GROWTH
1)
[Compare Lk 22:31-32]:
D)
(1 Jn 2:1c) ALTHOUGH JESUS IS DECLARED AS AN ADVOCATE TO THE BELIEVER
WHO SINS, HIS ADVOCACY IS NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRESERVING THE ETERNAL
SALVATION OF THE BELIEVER, AS SOME CONTEND. FOR THROUGHOUT THIS EPISTLE
AS WELL AS ALL OF SCRIPTURE, THERE IS NEVER ONCE EXPRESSED A DOUBT THAT
THOSE WHO BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR ETERNAL LIFE - WERE
GENUINE BELIEVERS; NOR WAS THERE A SUGGESTION THAT A BELIEVER COULD LOSE
HIS ETERNAL SALVATION AND BECOME LOST. INSTEAD, SCRIPTURE POSITIVELY
REINFORCES THE BELIEVER'S SALVATION:
1)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:12-14]:
2)
[Compare Jn 5:24]:
3)
Compare Jn 6:37-40]:
E)
(1 Jn 2:2) THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF IS THE PROPITIATION - THE
PERSON WHO MADE SATISFACTORY PAYMENT FOR OUR (BELIEVERS') SINS - AND NOT
FOR OURS ONLY BUT FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD, I.E., ALL HUMANITY -
ELECT AND NONELECT]:
****** EXCERPT
FROM STUDY OF UNLIMITED ATONEMENT .
******
OR
MOVE TO NEXT POINT
[1
Jn 2:2]:
[Compare
John 15:18-19]:
[Compare
John 17:16]:
[Compare
1 John 5:19]:
[Compare
Col 2:13-14]:
[Compare
2 Cor 5:18-19]:
[1
Jn 2:2 cont.]:
THE
WORLD HERE IN THIS PASSAGE MUST MEAN THE WHOLE WORLD - ELECT AND
NONELECT
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OF EXCERPT FROM STUDY OF UNLIMITED ATONEMENT ******
FINAL
COMMENTS ON UNLIMITED ATONEMENT IN 1 JN 2:2
1)
[Compare Heb 1:3]:
F)
(1 Jn 2:3) SINCE SALVATION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE IS RECEIVED ONLY BY A
MOMENT OF FAITH ALONE IN JESUS CHRIST ALONE WHEREIN THE ONE BELIEVING IN
HIM MAY KNOW OF CHRIST AS ONES SAVIOR; AND SINCE 1 JN 2:3 HAS IN VIEW AN
ALREADY SAVED INDIVIDUAL HAVING KNOWN GOD AT THOSE TIMES WHEN HE IS
KEEPING GOD'S COMMANDMENTS; THEN 1 JN 2:3 DOES NOT HAVE IN VIEW WHAT ONE
MUST DO IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE OR MAINTAIN ETERNAL LIFE - WHICH HE HAS
ALREADY ACQUIRED. FURTHERMORE, SINCE 1 JN 2:3 HAS IN VIEW A BELIEVER
HAVING A CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AS A RESULT OF KEEPING GOD'S
COMMANDMENTS, THEN THAT WHICH IS IN VIEW IN 1 JN 2:3 IS A FURTHER
KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE ONE HAS OF GOD WHEN ONE HAS
BELIEVED IN JESUS CHRIST FOR ETERNAL LIFE
THE
PHRASE IN 1 JN 2:3 RENDERED "IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS"
CANNOT BE CONVEYING IN THE ABSOLUTE SENSE THE BELIEVER LEADING A SINLESS
LIFE OF ABSOLUTELY PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS. THIS WOULD CONTRADICT 1 JN 8,
10. BUT 1 JN 2:3 IS CONVEYING A BELIEVER LIVING IN A REMARKABLY
CONSISTENT PATTERN OF BEING IN FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD BY WALKING IN THE
LIGHT OF HIS ABSOLUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS, CONSTANTLY CONFESSING HIS SINS TO
GOD AND OBEYING HIS COMMANDMENTS
1)
[Compare John 14:6-9]:
G)
(1 Jn 2:3) 1 JN 2:3 CANNOT BE TAKEN AS A MEANS OF ATTAINING OR A WAY OF
KNOWING WHETHER OR NOT ONE IS REALLY SAVED UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY KEEPING
GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. IT DOES ADDRESS WHETHER A BELIEVER
HAS A CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AS A RESULT OF KEEPING GOD'S COMMANDMENTS
- A KNOWLEDGE BEYOND THE SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND JESUS CHRIST WHICH
ONE ACQUIRES WHEN ONE HAS TRUSTED IN JESUS CHRIST FOR ETERNAL LIFE
H)
(1 Jn 2:4-6) ANYONE WHO IS SAYING, 'I HAVE KNOWN HIM' AND IS NOT KEEPING
GOD'S COMMANDMENTS IS A LIAR, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM. AND WHOEVER
MAY KEEP HIS WORD, TRULY IN HIM THE LOVE OF GOD [HAS] BEEN PERFECTED /
MADE COMPLETE; IN THIS WE KNOW THAT IN HIM WE ARE. THE ONE WHO SAYS HE
ABIDES IN HIM OUGHT HIMSELF TO WALK IN THE SAME MANNER AS HE JESUS
CHRIST WALKED
1)
[Compare Lev 19:18]:
2)
[Compare Jn 14:21, 23 with 1 Jn 2:3, 5]:
3)
[Compare Jn 15:10]:
4)
[Compare Jn 15:8]:
5)
[Compare Jn 15:15]:
'I')
(1 Jn 2:7) AUTHOR JOHN ADDRESSES HIS "BELOVED" REFERRING TO
FELLOW BELIEVERS AS HIS READERS. HE WRITES "I AM NOT WRITING A NEW
COMMANDMENT TO YOU, BUT AN OLD COMMANDMENT WHICH YOU HAD FROM THE
BEGINNING" REFERRING TO THE TIME WHEN EACH BECAME A BELIEVER AND
BEGAN STUDYING / HEARING THE WORD OF GOD EVIDENTLY WITH THE APOSTLE(S)
WITHIN WHICH IS CONTAINED THE OLD COMMANDMENT - TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER WITH
A GODLY, "AGAPE" LOVE - A SIGN / TEST OF ONES DISCIPLESHIP AND
OF AN INTIMATE FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
1)
[Compare Jn 13:34-35]:
2)
[Compare Jn 15:10-12]:
3)
[Compare 1 Jn 3:22-23]:
4)
[Compare 2 Jn 1:1-6]:
5)
[Compare Ro 13:8-10]:
J)
(1 Jn 2:8) AUTHOR JOHN WRITES OF A NEW COMMANDMENT WHICH IS THE OLD
COMMANDMENT WHICH HE DECLARES IS TRUE IN CHRIST AND IN FAITHFUL
BELIEVERS - THOSE WHO ARE ABIDING IN CHRIST. IT IS NEW BECAUSE IT IS
RELEVANT TO THE NEW AGE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. THE AGE OF DARKNESS / EVIL HAS
BEGUN TO PASS AWAY; AND THE TRUE LIGHT OF CHRIST - THE AGE OF GOD'S
ABSOLUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS IS ALREADY SHINING - IT HAS BEGUN TO DAWN. ALL
THINGS WILL BECOME NEW AND ABSOLUTELY RIGHTEOUS AS CHRIST IS RIGHTEOUS
1)
[Compare 2 Pet 13]:
2)
[Compare Jn 1:7 with 1:9]:
3)
[Compare Jn 12:35-36]:
4)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:15-17]:
K)
(1 Jn 2:9) THE BELIEVER WHO SAYS HE IS WALKING IN THE LIGHT OF THE
ABSOLUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD (VIA CONFESSION, KEEPING
GOD'SCOMMANDMENTS, ETC.) AND YET HATES HIS BROTHER IN CHRIST HAS BEEN
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS HATRED, IN DARKNESS, UNTRUTHFUL AND EVIL EVEN
UP UNTIL NOW
1)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:12]:
L)
(1 Jn 2:10-11) THE BELIEVER WHO LOVES HIS BROTHER WITH A GODLY, "AGAPE"
LOVE ABIDES IN THE LIGHT OF GOD'S ABSOLUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND WHILE THIS
IS SO, THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR STUMBLING IN HIM - NO CAUSE FOR HIM TO FALL
INTO SIN NOR WALK IN DARKNESS / EVIL. BUT THE BELIEVER WHO HATES HIS
BROTHER IN CHRIST WALKS / LIVES IN THE DARKNESS - THE EVIL OF THIS
PRESENT AGE. HE DOES NOT KNOW WHERE HE IS GOING BECAUSE THE DARKNESS
CAUSED BY HIS HATRED HAS BLINDED HIS EYES. HIS IS A LIFE WITHOUT
DIRECTION - A LIFE OUTSIDE OF ABIDING IN THE LIGHT OF THE ABSOLUTE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
M)
(1 Jn 2:12-14) AUTHOR JOHN WRITES TO HIS LITTLE CHILDREN BECAUSE THEIR
SINS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN FOR CHRIST'S NAME SAKE. SO AUTHOR JOHN'S
INTENDED READERS ARE BELIEVERS - SAVED UNTO ETERNAL LIFE AND UNDER HIS
INSTRUCTION. AND OF THIS GROUP OF HIS CHILDREN, JOHN ADDRESSES AS "FATHERS"
WHOM HE DECLARED TO HAVE KNOWN HIM WHO IS FROM THE BEGINNING, IN THE
SENSE OF HAVING A MORE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BEYOND THEIR
SALVATION EXPERIENCE. LIKEWISE JOHN ADDRESSES "YOUNG MEN" OF
THIS GROUP WHOM HE DECLARED TO HAVE OVERCOME THE EVIL ONE - THE DEVIL.
SCRIPTURE INDICATES THAT THIS IS DONE THROUGH A MOMENT OF FAITH IN
CHRIST WHEN ONE BECOMES A BELIEVER - BY THE GRACE OF GOD THROUGH HIS
SON. FINALLY, JOHN ONCE MORE ADDRESSES "LITTLE CHILDREN" OF
THIS GROUP WHOM HE DECLARED TO COME TO HAVE KNOWN GOD. SO THEY TOO HAVE
EXPERIENCED A MORE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BEYOND THEIR SALVATION
EXPERIENCE. THE WORDS "CHILDREN," "YOUNG MEN," AND "FATHERS"
EVIDENTLY IMPLY THAT AT TIMES CHILDREN OF GOD, BORN OF GOD MAY BE
CHILDREN, YOUNG MEN OR FATHERS DEPENDING UPON THE MOMENT RELATIVE TO
THEIR FAITHFULNESS TO THE DOCTRINES OF THE FAITH IN THE WORD OF GOD
1)
[Review of 1 Jn 2:3-11]:
2)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:14]:
3)
[Compare Jn 16:33]:
4)
[Compare 1 Jn 3:8]:
5)
[Compare 1 Jn 5:1-5]:
6)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:14]:
7)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:14a]:
8)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:14b]:
N)
(1 Jn 2:15-17) BELIEVERS ARE NOT TO LOVE THE WORLD NOR THE THINGS IN THE
WORLD IMPLYING THAT THE WORLD DOES NOT REFLECT THE HOLINESS OF GOD AS IT
DID WHEN HE FIRST CREATED IT. AND WHILE ANYONE LOVES THIS WORLD WHICH IS
CONTAMINATED WITH EVIL, THEIR AGAPE LOVE FOR GOD THE FATHER IS NOT IN
THEM. FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD, THE LUST OF THE FLESH, AND THE LUST
OF THE EYES AND THE BOASTFUL PRIDE OF LIFE IS NOT FROM THE FATHER. IT IS
FROM THE WORLD. THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY, AND ALSO ITS LUSTS - ITS
UNGODLINESS; BUT THE ONE WHO DOES THE WILL OF GOD, I.E, THE ONE WHO
BELIEVES IN THE NAME OF GOD'S SON FOR ETERNAL LIFE WILL RECEIVE
FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND BE RESURRECTED UNTO ETERNAL LIFE, AND DO GOD'S
WILL AND LIVE FOREVER
1)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:4-5]:
2)
[Compare James 4:4]:
Possibilities
to consider:
»
The man who in his experience lives his entire life as holy as God
is, thus he will live forever with God having earned eternal life all by
himself - without God's help. This requires absolutely perfect, holy
living which is not possible with man «
3)
[Compare 1 Jn 1:5-10]:
4)
[Compare Ro 2:7]:
5)
[Compare Ro 3:10-12, (cf. Ps 14:1-3; 53:1-3)]:
»
A general but imperfect pattern of doing the will of God will result
in one living forever is not in view and not biblical«
»
The one who believes in Jesus Christ's atonement for ones sins unto
eternal life, which according to Scripture, is the will of the Father in
order for one to receive eternal life, lives forever with Him.
Furthermore, as part of God's plan for those who believe in His Son, one
will be resurrected unto eternal life and will only have the capacity to
live strictly in accordance with God's will corroborating that all who
believe in God's Son for eternal life are destined to live perfectly in
accordance with God's will forever with God «
6)
[Compare Jn 6:27-29 (cf. 1 Jn 2:12; 5:9-13; Jn 1:12-13; 3:16,
)]:
7)
[Phil 3:20-21 (cf. Ro 8:22-23; 1 Cor 15:42-44; 51-54)]:
O)
(1 Jn 2:18-19) JOHN ADDRESSES HIS READERSHIP AS HIS "LITTLE
CHILDREN," I.E., BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST WHO LOOK TO JOHN AS
APOSTLE AND TEACHER. IT IS A LAST HOUR IN THE SENSE OF THE END OF THE
EVER INCREASING UNGODLY CHARACTER OF AN AGE OF A WORLD OF UNGODLINESS
AND MORAL DEPRAVITY SINCE ADAM AND EVE: AN AGE AT A TIME WHEN THE
ANTICHRIST IS COMING. AND EVEN NOW, JOHN WRITES, MANY ANTICHRISTS HAVE
ALREADY APPEARED - MANY OF WHOM WERE PRESENT IN THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM:
UNBELIEVERS WHO DENIED CHRIST'S HUMANITY AND SECRETLY TAUGHT HERESY.
THEY DEPARTED SO THAT IT WOULD BE SHOWN THAT THEY WERE NOT OF US - THE
TRUTH WAS NOT IN THEM
1)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:18 Interlinear]:
2)
[Compare Ro 5:12 ]:
3)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:17]:
4)
[Compare 1 Jn 4:1-5]:
5)
[Compare Mt 24:3-11]:
6)
[Compare Rev 13:1-8]:
7)
[Compare 2 Thess 2:1-4]:
8)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:22]:
9)
[Compare 1 Jn 5:1]:
10)
[Compare Gal 2:1-5]:
11)
[Compare 1 Jn 4:1-6]:
12)
[Compare Acts 15:1, 5, 24-26]:
P)
(1 Jn 2:20) UNLIKE UNBELIEVERS - ESPECIALLY ANTICHRISTS - WHO DO NOT
HAVE THE TRUTH, BELIEVERS IN THE JERUSALEM CHURCH AND ALL BELIEVERS HAVE
THE ANOINTING - THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM - THROUGH WHOM THEY
ALL KNOW THE TRUTH OF WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED AND TAUGHT FROM THE WORD OF
GOD AS CONFIRMED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN THEM
1)
[Compare 2 Cor 1:21-22]:
2)
[Compare Jn 14:26; 16:13]:
Q)
(1 Jn 2:21) JOHN DID NOT WRITE TO HIS READERS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT
KNOWN THE TRUTH, BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE KNOWN IT! AND
BECAUSE NO LIE IS OF THE TRUTH. FOR IF WHAT HIS READERS AND ALL
BELIEVERS HAVE LEARNED FROM THE WORD OF GOD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
FRAMEWORK IN WHICH IT WAS WRITTEN: A FRAMEWORK WHICH IS DEFINED BY THE
NORMATIVE RULES OF LANGUAGE, CONTEXT AND LOGIC AND WITHOUT IMPOSING
UNDUE, UNINTENDED MEANINGS TO IT; THEN A DEPARTURE FROM THAT TRUTH, EVEN
IF IN PARTIAL AGREEMENT, IS STILL A LIE AND NOT THE TRUTH ESPECIALLY
SINCE IN VIEW ARE ABSOLUTE TRUTHS FROM GOD AS COMPARED TO THE LIES OF
THE ANTICHRISTS WHO DENIED CHRIST HIMSELF - ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT
ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH GOD'S WORD
R)
(1 Jn 2:22-23) IN VERSE 21 JOHN REMINDED HIS READERS OF HOLDING TO THE
TRUTHS FROM THE WORD OF GOD THAT THEY HAVE KNOWN AND TO BE DISCERNING OF
THE LIES THAT WERE PREVALENT AROUND THEM FROM THE ANTICHRISTS. WHEREIN
IN VERSES 22 AND 23, HE SPECIFICALLY REFERRED TO THOSE WHO DENY THAT
JESUS IS THE CHRIST, DEFINING THEM AS THE ANTICHRIST. JOHN WROTE THAT
THE ONE WHO DENIES THE FATHER AND THE SON; STATING THAT WHOEVER DENIES
THE SON DOES NOT HAVE THE FATHER EITHER: THIS IS THE ONE WHO DOES NOT
BELIEVE IN WHO GOD IS AND HAS NEITHER HIM NOR HIS SON NOR ETERNAL LIFE.
BUT HE WHO ACKNOWLEDGES THE SON OF GOD IN THE SENSE OF BELIEVES IN HIM
AS THE CHRIST - IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORD OF GOD FOR SALVATION, HAS
THE FATHER ALSO AND ETERNAL LIFE
1)
[Review 1 Jn 2:1-2, 12, 20; 5:1]:
2)
[Compare Jn 1:18]:
S)
(1 Jn 2:24-26) THEREFORE, BELIEVERS IN THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM - AND ALL
BELIEVERS - ARE TO ABIDE IN, I.E., REMAIN FAITHFUL TO THEIR TEACHING
FROM GOD'S WORD THAT THEY HAVE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING OF THEIR
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. IF THEY DO THIS, THEY WILL ALSO ABIDE IN THE SON
AND IN THE FATHER, I.E., REMAIN IN FELLOWSHIP WITH THEM. AND THEY ARE TO
KEEP IN MIND THAT GOD HAS PROMISED THEM ETERNAL LIFE FROM THE BEGINNING
OF THEIR CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. AUTHOR JOHN'S ASSURANCE OF ETERNAL LIFE
IN THE MIDST OF HIS DISCUSSION / WARNINGS AGAINST THE ANTICHRISTS WHO
HAD INVADED THE JERUSALEM CHURCH WHO WERE TRYING TO TEACH HERETICAL
DOCTRINES AGAINST THE GOSPEL THAT HIS READERS WERE TAUGHT IMPLIES THAT
THE ANTICHRISTS WERE TEACHING AGAINST SUCH ASSURANCE BY FAITH ALONE.
HENCE VERSE 26 INDICATES THAT HE WROTE THESE THINGS CONCERNING THOSE WHO
ARE TRYING TO DECEIVE HIS READERS
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1)
[Review 1 Jn 1:7, 9; 2:3, 5-6, 10, 15, 23b, 24]:
2)
[Compare 1 Jn 5:9-13]:
3)
[Compare Jn 11:25-27]:
4)
[Compare Jn 17:1-3]:
T)
(1 Jn 2:27) JOHN REMINDS HIS READERS / BELIEVERS, (ALL BELIEVERS ARE IN
VIEW), OF THE ANOINTING WHICH THEY HAVE RECEIVED FROM GOD - THE HOLY
SPIRIT WHO ABIDES IN THEM. SO THEY HAVE NO NEED FOR ANYONE TO TEACH THEM
IN THE SENSE OF LEADING THEM TO THE TRUTHS THEY ARE TAUGHT IN GOD'S WORD
BY PERSONAL STUDY AND HUMAN TEACHERS - GOD'S SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTING
BELIEVERS IN THIS AGE. THUS BELIEVERS DO NOT NEED OTHERS SUCH AS THE
ANTICHRISTS TO IMPOSE UPON THEM UNBIBLICAL IDEAS AS TRUE. THEY HAVE THE
HOLY SPIRIT TO TEACH THEM THE TRUTH OF ALL THINGS LEARNED. AND JUST AS
THE HOLY SPIRIT TEACHES THE BELIEVER, IF THE BELIEVER ABIDES IN THAT
TEACHING SO THE BELIEVER ABIDES IN GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT. BELIEVERS ARE TO
CONTINUE TO LEARN TRUTHS FROM GOD'S WORD FROM HUMAN TEACHERS AND
PERSONAL STUDY WITH GREATER AND GREATER DISCERNMENT OF WHAT IS TRUE AND
WHAT IS NOT - AS LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE BELIEVER
MIGHT CHOOSE TO FOLLOW UNBIBLICAL DOCTRINES DESPITE THE LEADING OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT - THE REASON WHY JOHN WROTE HIS EPISTLE TO WARN, INSTRUCT,
CORRECT, REPROVE, (ETC.) HIS ENTIRE CONGREGATION IN THE JERUSALEM CHURCH
AND ALL BELIEVERS THROUGHOUT THE AGE
1)
(1 Jn 2:27a) 1 Jn 2:27a Cannot Be Interpreted As Limited To Mature
Believers Or To Leaders In The Congregation Not Needing Human Teachers
To Teach Them Anything, As Some Contend. It is God's System For Everyone
In The Church Age, Day By Day, To Be Taught / Review / Be Corrected By /
Be Reproved By, (etc.) His Word Through Human Teachers And Personal
Study Via The Normative Rules Of Language, Context and Logic, And As
Verified As True By The Indwelling Holy Spirit
a)
[Compare Acts 21:1-14]:
i)
Paul Ignores The Leading of The Holy Spirit, Hence The Holy Spirit Used
Faithful Disciples To Warn Paul Not To Go To Jerusalem
b)
[Compare Gal 2:11-12ff ]:
i)
Peter Is Rebuked By Paul For Holding Himself Aloof From Gentiles
2)
(1 Jn 2:27b) It Is God's System That Believers Are To Choose To Continue
To Learn Truths From God's Word In Accordance With The Framework In
Which It Was Written: A Framework Which Is Defined By The Normative
Rules Of Language, Context And Logic And Without Imposing Undue,
Unintended Meanings To It.
From Human Teachers And From Personal Study With Greater And Greater
Discernment Of The Truths That They Learn As Taught / Led By The Holy
Spirit As They Choose To Progress In The Knowledge Of Truths From God's
Word
a)
[Compare Jn 14:26; 16:13]:
b)
[Compare 1 Cor 12:12-15]:
c)
[Compare Dt 8:3]:
d)
[Compare Jos 1:8]:
e)
[Compare Jn 6:37, 39-40, 44, 47, 65 ]:
U)
(1 Jn 2:28) NOW, LITTLE CHILDREN - BELIEVERS OF THE JERUSALEM CHURCH,
AND ALL BELIEVERS - ABIDE IN JESUS CHRIST, I.E., ABIDE IN WHAT YOU HAVE
HEARD FROM GOD'S WORD FROM THE BEGINNING OF YOUR CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE SO
THAT WHEN HE APPEARS (TO TAKE YOU FROM THE EARTH TO BE WITH HIM
FOREVER), WE MAY HAVE BOLD ASSURANCE AND NOT SHRINK AWAY FROM HIM IN
SHAME
1)
[Compare Mt 25:31a Interlinear]:
2)
[2 Cor 5:10]:
3)
[1 Cor 3:11-15]:
V)
(1 Jn 2:29) WHILE BELIEVERS CONTINUE TO ENDEAVOR TO KNOW THAT GOD IS
ABSOLUTELY RIGHTEOUS AS THEY HAVE KNOWN FROM THE BEGINNNING OF THEIR
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE - STANDING FIRM IN THE FAITH THAT BEGAN THEIR
SALVATION THAT THERE IS NOTHING IN GOD THAT IS EVIL - CORROBORATING THAT
THEY ARE ABIDING IN THE WORD OF GOD AND IN THE FATHER AND IN HIS SON;
THEN WHILE THEY CONTINUE TO KNOW THAT GOD IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHTEOUS, THEY
CAN DISCERN SUCH RIGHTEOUSNESS IN ANOTHER WHEN ANOTHER DOES IT IN AN
OBSERVABLE MANNER. AND THEY CAN KNOW THAT EVERYONE ALSO WHO DOES SUCH
OBSERVABLE RIGHTOUSNESS IS BORN OF GOD AS WELL, ALBEIT IMPERFECTLY
1)
Ref 1 JN 2:25
2)
[Review of 1 Jn 1:7, 9; 2:3, 5-6, 10, 15, 23b, 24]:
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JN CHAPTER THREE
