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Verse 1 John 2:3. _AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM_] If we
keep the commandments of God, loving him with all our heart, and our
neighbour as ourselves, we have the fullest proof that we have t...
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AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM - To wit, by that which
follows, we have evidence that we are truly acquainted with him, and
with the requirements of his religion; that is, that we are truly hi...
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II. LIGHT AND DARKNESS AND THE TESTS
Chapter S 1:5-2:17
_ 1. God is light; walking in darkness and in light (1 John 1:5)_
2. What the light manifests (1 John 1:8)
3. The advocacy of Christ to maint...
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OBEDIENCE THE PROOF OF FELLOWSHIP. Here John repeats in a positive way
the teaching of the previous section. Conduct cannot be, as the false
teachers claimed, a matter of indifference, for true knowle...
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HEREBY WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM.
What we need is knowledge. It is very, unsatisfactory to only think
that Christ is the Son of God and our Savior. We want to _know_ upon
whom we have believed. To _kn...
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And it is by this that we know that we have come to know him--if we
keep his commandments. He who says, "I have come to know him" and who
does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not...
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A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
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HEREBY. in (App-104.) this.
KNOW. App-132. The second "know" is in perf. tense, as in 1 John 2:4
also....
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_hereby we do know that we know Him_ Or, HEREIN _we_ COME TO KNOW
_that we know Him_: in the Greek we have the present and perfect of
the verb which means -to come to know, perceive, recognise"
(γινώσ...
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. God is Light
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. What Walking in the Light involves
This section is largely directed against the Gnostic do
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1 John 2:1-6. Obedience to God by Imitation of Christ
1 6. The Apostle is still treating of the condition and conduct of the
believer as determined by his walking in the light; there is no break
betwe...
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1 John 2:1-6. OBEDIENCE TO GOD BY IMITATION OF CHRIST
1–6. The Apostle is still treating of the condition and conduct of
the believer as determined by his walking in the light; there is no
break betwe...
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. WHAT WALKING IN THE LIGHT INVOLVES
This section is largely directed against the Gnostic doctrine that to
the man of enlightenment all conduct is morally indifferent. Against...
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
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ἘΝ ΤΟΎΤΩΙ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΟΜΕΝ ὍΤΙ ἘΓΝΏΚΑΜΕΝ
ΑΥ̓ΤΌΝ. HEREIN _we_ COME TO KNOW _that we know Him_; or, _we
perceive that we have come to know Him_. The difference between
ἔγνωκα (‘I have come to know’ = ‘I know’...
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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...
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HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM— To _know_ Christ, to _love him,_
to _have him,_ and to _be in him,_ are in this epistle used as
synonymous terms, or very nearly so. St. John had in the former
chap...
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HEREBY WE KNOW
PART II
1 John 1:8-10; 1 John 2:1-29
God Is Light. To Walk In The Light
Is To Have Fellowship With Him
Fellowship Is Tested By Our Sharing
of God's Attitude Toward:
1.
Personal Guil...
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And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
HEREBY, [ en (G1722) touto (G5124)] - 'in this.' 'It is herein only
that we know (present) that we have knowledge of (perfect:
o...
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VERSE 3. AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW.
To gather the thought here intended, just take the last clause first,
thus: "If we keep his commandments?' We by that means know that is our
evidence that we know him....
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1 The ministry of John is based upon his personal acquaintance with
the Lord in the flesh.
Indeed, this was the prime qualification of all the twelve apostles
(Act_1:21). They were to bear witness to...
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2:3 know (a-7) _ Ginosko_ . and so throughout chapter, except vers.
11,20,21,29 (first), _ oida_ . Perfect tense here. 'have come to know
him, and continue so to do;' and so vers. 4,13,14....
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THE ADVOCACY OF CHRIST AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF BELIEVERS
1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which
the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. ADVOCATE] The word thus
translate...
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HOW CAN I BE SURE?
1 JOHN
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 2
CHRIST SPEAKS FOR US AND WE SHOULD OBEY GOD (1 JOHN 2:1-6)
V1 My *children, I write these things to you so that you will not
*sin. But if you...
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The fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyses more
accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7, _walking in the
light._ If Christ is, as in 1 John 2:1, the Paraclete and Propit...
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The Proof of our Interest in Christ's Propitiation and Advocacy.
“And herein we get to know that we know Him if we observe His
commandments. He that saith ‘I know Him,' and observeth not His
commandme...
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The principle is that it is not enough to understand the theory; we
must put it into practice. _E.g._, what makes an artist? Not merely
learning the rules of perspective and mixture of colours, but ac...
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KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENT OF LOVE
1 John 2:1
It is clearly possible to be kept from known and presumptuous sin. We
shall be tempted, for that is an inevitable experience of life in this
world; but we m...
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Affirming that the purpose of his writing is that we sin not, the
writer declared that even if we sin, provision is made by which it may
be put away. The tests whereby we may know our relation to ligh...
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FEELINGS ARE NOT A VALID TEST
There are those who answer the question, "Do you know God?", by
saying, "Yes, I can feel His presence in my heart." While it may help
one to feel he has God's presence wi...
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(2) And hereby we do know that we (e) know him, (e) if we keep his
commandments.
(2) He returns to the testimony of our union with God, that is, to
sanctification, declaring what it is to walk in the...
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_We have known him, if we keep his commandments. He speaks of that
practical knowledge by love and affection, which can be only proved by
our keeping his commandments; and without which we cannot be s...
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And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
(4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him. (5) But whoso keepeth his...
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_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 te...
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3_And hereby_, or _by this_. After having treated of the doctrine
respecting the gratuitous remission of sins, he comes to the
exhortations which belong to it, and which depend on it. And first
indeed...
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If, on the other hand, we have even committed sin and all, being
judged according to the light, is confessed (so that the will no
longer takes part in it, the pride of that will being broken down), He...
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AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM,.... Either the Father, with
whom Christ is an advocate; not as the God of nature, and by the light
of it, nor as the lawgiver and Judge of the whole earth, and...
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And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Ver. 3. _We know that we know him_] By a reflex act of the soul; hence
the assurance of faith, the fruit of fruitfulness, 1 Corint...
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_Hereby we do know that we_, truly and savingly, _know him_ As he is
the Advocate, the righteous One, the Propitiation; _if we keep his
commandments_ Particularly those of faith and love. _He that sai...
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THAT WE KNOW HIM; to know God, in the scriptural sense of the words,
is to have experimental acquaintance and communion with him as our
Father and Friend. Such knowledge and fellowship are always conn...
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AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM, IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS....
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Keeping Christ's commandments:...
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“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not
sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ
the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive...
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3-11 What knowledge of Christ can that be, which sees not that he is
most worthy of our entire obedience? And a disobedient life shows
there is neither religion nor honesty in the professor. The love...
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OLBGrk;
This faith is often in the Holy Scripture signified by the name of
knowledge, ISAIAH 53:11 1 THESSALONIANS 17:3, viz. an appropriative,
transformative knowledge, by which we own and accept God...
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Cyprian Epistle XXIV
He that saith he knoweth Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him."[3]...
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1 John 2:3 Now G2532 by G1722 this G5129 know G1097 (G5719) that G3754
know G1097 (G5758) Him...
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HOW THEN CAN WE KNOW THAT WE TRULY KNOW CHRIST? (1 JOHN 2:3).
Many were claiming that they knew God, that they had special knowledge
of Him, that through their own particular religious ordinances they...
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1 John 2:1-3. MY LITTLE CHILDREN: instead of giving the antithesis to
the third ‘if any man say,' St. John, the father of the churches of
that time, directly addresses those whose character formed tha...
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First the apostle announces his message that God is light and only
light (1 John 1:5). Then follows (down to chap. 1 John 2:2) a
universal statement of the evangelical conditions of fellowship with
Hi...
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_Fellowship in the knowledge of God: obedience, love, and union, 1
John 2:3_.
The best account that can be given of this section- more aphoristic
than any other is that it lays down certain principle...
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HEREBY
(εν τουτω). See this phrase also in 1 John 2:5; 1 John 3:16; 1
John 3:19; 1 John 3:24;...
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COMMANDMENTS
John uses "commandments"
(1) in the general sense of the divine will, however revealed, "his
word"; (1 John 2:5); and
(2) especially of the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2); (2 John 1:5)...
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1 John 2:3
Saving Knowledge.
I. The whole duty and work of a Christian is made up of these two
parts: faith and obedience; "looking unto Jesus," the Divine object as
well as Author of our faith, and...
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1 John 2:1
The True Idea of Man.
I. St. John had a special reason for using this tender phrase, "my
little children," in this place. All sin is connected by the Apostle
with the loss of fellowship. A...
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1 John 2:3
Doing and Knowing.
I. St. John assumes that the knowledge of God is as possible, is as
real, for human beings as any knowledge they can have of each other.
Nay, he goes further than this....
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1 John 2:1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that
ye sin not._
For this we ought to watch and strive, that we sin not.
1 John 2:1. _And if any man sin-_
What then? Is it a hopele...
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1 John 2:1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that
ye sin not._
That you may abstain from it, and abhor it, and not indulge in
anything that would lead you towards it.
1 John 2:1....
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1 John 2:1. 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...
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CONTENTS: Christ's advocacy for the believer. Tests of fellowship,
obedience and love. Warning against worldliness and apostates.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, Satan, anti-christ.
CONCLUSION: To kno...
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1 John 2:2. _He is the propitiation for our sin:_ ιλασμος, a
ram, or other victim offered as an atoning sacrifice for sin. On
Genesis 15:9, the rabbins make a distinction between the heifer, the
she g...
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IF WE OBEY. Some said as soon as you _knew_ there was a True God, you
had eternal life, regardless of how you lived. John is saying that the
only way to _identify_ one who does _know God,_ is by THEIR...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:3 BY THIS WE KNOW. Assurance of salvation is
possible (see note on 2 Pet. 1:10). 1 John 1:1 mentions several tests
that gi
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CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _My little children, these things write I unto you,
that ye sin not._ At the end of the last chapter it was said that all
who were grown up had sinned, either mortally as heathens, o...
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PROVISION FOR THE SINNING OF BELIEVERS
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
FIRMLY does St. John declare that the Christian should not sin, and
must not sin. But he clearly recognises that Christians do...
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EXPOSITION
1 JOHN 2:1, 1 JOHN 2:2
Moreover, walking in the light involves accepting the propitiation
wrought through Jesus Christ the Righteous.
The connexion with the preceding is close. We have ju...
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My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not (1
John 2:1).
Now, he is talking about the purpose of writing is to bring you into
fellowship with God, but the thing that breaks fel...
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1 John 2:4; 1 John 3:14; 1 John 3:19; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 3:23;...
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Hereby [ε ν τ ο υ τ ω]. Lit., in this. Characteristic of John.
See John 8:35; John 14:8; John 16:30; 1 John 2:5;...
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And hereby we know that we truly and savingly know him — As he is
the advocate, the righteous, the propitiation. If we keep his
commandments — Particularly those of faith and love....
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Observe here, 1. That. Christian may be assured of his salvation; to
know that we know, is to be assured that we know; not only to have the
vital, but the fiducial act of faith. Some Christians can sa...