_OUR ADVOCATE_ ‘If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.’ 1 John 2:1 In the great Arbitration between God and man, Jesus, being God, lays His hand on God, and Jesus, being Man, lays His hand on every believing man, and brings them together in peace. I. CH... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE ATONEMENT_ ‘My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And 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.’ 1 John 2:1 We are no... [ Continue Reading ]
_COMFORTABLE WORDS_ ‘If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous: and He is the propitiation for our sins.’ 1 John 2:1 ‘Hear also what St. John saith.’ So our text is introduced to us as one of the Comfortable Words of our Communion service. It brings to our mi... [ Continue Reading ]
_PROPITIATION_ ‘He is the propitiation for our sins.’ 1 John 2:2 The propitiation made by our Lord Jesus Christ lies at the foundation of the whole system of Christianity, so that a weakness there involves a weakness everywhere, and if there is any undermining of this great foundation fact it is... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHAT IS ‘THE WORLD’?_ ‘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.’ 1 John 2:15 The ‘world’ here is some kind of moral order which corresponds to the ‘far country’ described in the parable of the Prodigal Son—that... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE ANOINTING_ ‘Ye have an unction from the Holy One.’ ‘But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.’... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE ANOINTING_ ‘Ye have an unction from the Holy One.’ ‘But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.’... [ Continue Reading ]