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 know God and the power of His love is impossible without practical observance of His Word, which means that we must seek to walk as Christ walked, in love toward our fellowmen and in separation from the things of the world. To profess to know God and yet deny Jesus as the Christ is to brand oneself as given up to the delusions of the devil.

Key Word: Knowing Him, 1 John 2:3.

Strong Verses: 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 2:6; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:17; 1 John 2:22; 1 John 2:23.

Striking Facts: 1 John 2:1. Even the most advanced believers have their sins, but there is a distinction between them and the sinners of the world, for the former have an Advocate in heaven. As they have had Christ's blood applied to them upon their acceptance of Him, so they have an Advocate to procure their continued forgiveness as they confess their sins.

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