DISCOURSE: 2433 THE ADVOCACY AND ATONEMENT OF CHRIST 1 John 2:1. _If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world_. THERE are two extremes to which men are apt t... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2434 THE TRUE TEST OF LOVE TO GOD 1 John 2:3. _Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: her... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2435 CHRIST AN EXAMPLE TO HIS FOLLOWERS 1 John 2:6. _He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked_. AMONG the various excellencies which distinguish Christianity from all other religions, one of very considerable importance is, that the Author of it co... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2436 THE TRUE LIGHT 1 John 2:8. _The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth_. OUR blessed Lord is supposed by many to have enlarged the demands of the moral law. That he speaks of giving a new commandment is certain: “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another:... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2437 THE DIFFERENT GROWTH AND PRIVILEGES OF GOD’S CHILDREN 1 John 2:12. _I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye hav... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2438 LOVE OF THE WORLD FORBIDDEN 1 John 2:15. _Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of th... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2439 THE TRUE GROUNDS OF A CHRISTIAN’S STABILITY 1 John 2:19. _They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us_. THERE have been many a... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2440 THE UNCTION OF THE HOLY ONE 1 John 2:20. _Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things_. IT is a melancholy fact, that, in every age of the Church, persons have arisen from the bosom of the Church herself, not only to “speak perverse things, and draw away disciples a... [ Continue Reading ]