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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 -
rules which do not impose undue, unintended meanings to the text
,
and which largely limit the observer to the content offered by the books
of 1st John and the Gospel of John. In order for any passage from
elsewhere to be considered, it must have a relationship with the context
at hand, such as a Scriptural quotation or a specific cross reference in
the passage at hand by the author. 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.
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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 CHILDREN OF GOD, BORN OF GOD 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.
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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) NOW BY THIS CHILDREN OF GOD KNOW THAT THEY HAVE KNOWN GOD IF
THEY ARE CAREFUL TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS - NOT AS A MEANS TO GAIN /
PROVE TO THEMSELVES OR TO OTHERS THAT THEY ARE SAVED UNTO ETERNAL LIFE,
BUT TO ACQUIRE A CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IN A GREATER SENSE THAN WHEN
THEY WERE FIRST SAVED
G)
(1 Jn 2:4-6) A CHILD OF GOD, BORN OF GOD WHO SAYS, 'I HAVE KNOWN HIM'
AND DOES NOT CAREFULLY KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS IS A LIAR, AND THE TRUTH
IS NOT IN HIM. AND A CHILD OF GOD, BORN OF GOD, WHO MAY BE CAREFUL TO
KEEP GOD'S WORD, TRULY IN HIM THE LOVE OF GOD [HAS] BEEN PERFECTED /
MADE COMPLETE - IN THIS CHILDREN OF GOD, BORN OF GOD MAY KNOW THAT IN
GOD THEY ARE. THE CHILD OF GOD, BORN OF GOD WHO SAYS HE ABIDES IN GOD
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]:
H)
(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]:
I)
(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]:
J)
(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]:
K)
(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
L)
(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]:
M)
(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)]:
N)
(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 4:1-5]:
4)
[Compare Mt 24:3-11]:
5)
[Compare Rev 13:1-8]:
6)
[Compare 2 Thess 2:1-4]:
7)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:22]:
8)
[Compare 1 Jn 5:1]:
9)
[Compare Gal 2:1-5]:
10)
[Compare 1 Jn 4:1-6]:
11)
[Compare Acts 15:1, 5, 24-26]:
O)
(1 Jn 2:20) UNLIKE UNBELIEVERS - ESPECIALLY ANTICHRISTS - WHO DO NOT
HAVE THE TRUTH, BELIEVERS IN THE JERUSALEM CHURCH AND ALL BELIEVERS -
CHILDREN OF GOD, BORN OF GOD, HAVE THE ANOINTING - THE INDWELLING HOLY
SPIRIT IN THEM - THROUGH WHOM THEY ALL KNOW THE TRUTH OF WHAT THEY HAVE
LEARNED AND BEEN 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]:
P)
(1 Jn 2:21) (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
CHILDREN OF GOD, BORN OF GOD 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
Q)
(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]:
R)
(1 Jn 2:24-26) IN VIEW OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE ANTICHRISTS WHO ARE
TRYING TO DECEIVE THEM, CHILDREN OF GOD, BORN OF GOD IN THE CHURCH IN
JERUSALEM - AND ALL CHILDREN OF GOD, BORN OF GOD - ARE TO ABIDE IN,
I.E., REMAIN FAITHFUL TO THEIR TEACHING FROM GOD'S WORD THAT THEY HAVE
HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING OF THEIR SALVATION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
EXPERIENCE. IF THEY DO THIS, THEY WILL 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
SALVATION 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]:
S)
(1 Jn 2:27) AS FOR JOHN'S READERSHIP, AND ALL CHILDREN OF GOD,
BORN OF GOD, THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT REMAINS IN THEM. THEY HAVE
NO NEED FOR OTHERS TO TEACH THEM IN THE SENSE OF CONFIRMING THE TRUTH OR
FALSEHOOD OF WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED FROM ABIDING IN, I.E., FROM PERSONAL
STUDY OF GOD'S WORD AND FROM WHAT THEY HEARD FROM THE APOSTLES AND FROM
OTHERS SUCH AS THE ANTICHRISTS. AS THE SPIRIT OF GOD TEACHES THEM ABOUT
ALL THINGS AND SINCE WHAT HE TEACHES IS TRUE AND IS NOT A LIE, THEN AS
THEY REMAIN IN HIS TEACHING THEY ABIDE IN HIM
1)
(1 Jn 2:27a) 1 Jn 2:27a Can Neither Be Referring To All Children of God,
Born Of God, Nor Limited To Mature Believers, Nor Limited To Leaders In
The Congregation: As Not Needing Human Teachers To Teach Them Anything -
That They Only Need The Holy Spirit To Teach Them, As Some Contend. It
is God's System For Everyone In This Age, Day By Day, To Be Taught /
Abide In / Be Corrected By / Be Reproved By, (etc.) God's Word Through
Human Teachers And Personal Study Via The Normative Rules Of Language,
Context and Logic - Each Point 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 ]:
T)
(1 Jn 2:28) NOW, LITTLE CHILDREN - AND ALL CHILDREN OF GOD, BORN OF GOD
- ABIDE IN JESUS CHRIST, I.E., ABIDE IN WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD FROM GOD'S
WORD FROM THE BEGINNING OF YOUR SALVATION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE EXPERIENCE
SO THAT WHEN HE APPEARS (TO TAKE YOU FROM THE EARTH TO BE WITH HIM
FOREVER), YOU MAY HAVE BOLD ASSURANCE AT HIS JUDGMENT OF YOUR
FAITHFULNESS, AND NOT SHRINK AWAY FROM HIM IN SHAME
1)
[Compare Mt 25:31a Interlinear]:
2)
[Compare 2 Cor 5:10]:
3)
[Compare 1 Cor 3:11-15]:
U)
(1 Jn 2:29) WHILE CHILDREN OF GOD, BORN OF GOD CONTINUE TO KNOW, I.E.,
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT GOD IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHTEOUS; THEY CAN THEMSELVES DO
RIGHTEOUS ACTS AND DISCERN RIGHTEOUS ACTS BEING DONE BY OTHERS AND KNOW
THAT THOSE OTHERS ARE ALSO BORN OF GOD
1)
[Ref 1 Jn 2:25]:
2)
[Review of First John relative to 1 Jn 2:29]:
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JN CHAPTER THREE
