Copyright © 2021, Bible Study Tools. The Spirit poured on Christ, the Head, is by Him diffused through all the members. are forgiven--"have been, and are forgiven you": ALL God's sons and daughters alike enjoy this privilege. Oral teaching prepared these youths for the profitable use of the word when written. The Father, by raising Him from the dead, and setting Him at His own right, has once for all accepted Christ's claim for us. The sense therefore is, "in that He is righteous"; in contrast to our sin ("if any man sin"). Compare Luke 7:47 Luke 7:50 : Her much love evinced that her sins were already forgiven; not, were the condition of her sins being forgiven. have continued--implying the indefectibility of grace in the elect. For "were" some of the oldest manuscripts read "are." He did his graduate work at Moody Theological Seminary. no new commandment--namely, love, the main principle of walking as Christ walked ( 1 John 2:6 ), and that commandment, of which one exemplification is presently given, 1 John 2:9 1 John 2:10 , the love of brethren. Abiding in love is abiding in the light; for the Gospel light not only illumines the understanding, but warms the heart into love. By the lust of the eyes David ( 2 Samuel 11:2 ) and Achan fell ( Joshua 7:21 ). So the Church, though having the Spirit in her, is not infallible (for many fallible members can never make an infallible whole), but is kept from ever wholly losing the saving truth. 1 John 1:5-6.— παράγεται) He does not say παράγει, passes by, but παράγεται, is caused to pass, is changed, so that at length it is absorbed. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. It is beautiful to see how the fathers are characterized as reverting back to the first great truths of spiritual childhood, and the sum and ripest fruit of advanced experience, the knowledge of Him that was from the beginning (twice repeated, 1 John 2:13 1 John 2:14 ). The first thing that the little children realize is that God is their Father; answering in the parallel clause to "little sons . “not love the world or the things in the world. First John 2:1–6 both encourages and warns Christians about sin. . My purpose in writing what I have just written is not that you should abuse them as giving a license to sin but, on the contrary, "in order that ye may not sin at all" (the Greek aorist, implying the absence not only of the habit, but of single acts of sin [ALFORD]). John does not want believers to sin (1 John 2:1). Therefore the accuser's charges against God's children are vain. 25. this is the promise--Eternal life shall be the permanent consummation of thus abiding in the Son and in the Father ( 1 John 2:24 ). It sounds as if Gaius, to whom John addressed this little letter, was a dearly beloved disciple of the Lord Jesus. What does 1 John chapter 2 mean? The heading of the second division of the Epistle: "God is righteous; therefore, every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him." and, &c.--the secret of the young men's strength: the Gospel word, clothed with living power by the Spirit who abideth permanently in them; this is "the sword of the Spirit" wielded in prayerful waiting on God. The world's awful antitrinity, the "lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," similarly is presented in Satan's temptation of Eve: "When she saw that the tree was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise," Genesis 3:6 (one manifestation of "the pride of life," the desire to know above what God has revealed, Colossians 2:8 , the pride of unsanctified knowledge). have I written--resumed from 1 John 2:21 and 1 John 2:14 . love of--that is, towards "the Father." For right (a straight line) is the index of itself and of what is crooked [ESTIUS]. In the notes on 1 John 2:18 it has been pointed out that the term ‘Antichrist’ is in N. T. peculiar to the Epistles of S. John (1 John 2:18; 1 John 2:22; 1 John 4:3; 2 John 1:7), and that in meaning it seems to combine the ideas of a mock Christ and an opponent of Christ, but that the latter idea is the prominent one. Little children--same Greek as 1 John 2:13 ; children in age. "The world" here means "man, and man's world" [ALFORD], in his and its state as fallen from God. passeth away--Greek, "is passing away" even now. "Mutual communication is not set aside, but approved of, in the case of those who are partakers of the anointing in one body" [BENGEL]. "Even as He walked" when on earth, especially in respect to love. Christ's advocacy is inseparable from the Holy Spirit's comfort and working in us, as the spirit of intercessory prayer. ye discern or apprehend also that," &c. Ye are already aware that God ("He" includes both "the Father," of whom the believer is born (end of this verse, and 1 John 3:1 ), and "the Son," 1 John 2:1 1 John 2:23 ) is righteous, ye must necessarily, thereby, perceive also the consequence of that truth, namely, "that everyone that doeth righteousness (and he alone; literally, the righteousness such as the righteous God approves) is born of Him." Read the Scripture: John 2:1-11 In the second chapter of John's gospel we have the account of the first miracle of our Lord. lust of the flesh--that is, the lust which has its seat and source in our lower animal nature. Jesus gave the new commandment and John is simply repeating it here. the anointing," &c. (resumed from 1 John 2:20 ). But ye have an unction from the Holy One Meaning the Spirit, and his graces, with which Christ, the head, is anointed without measure, and his members in measure; from whence he is called Christ, and they Christians. 22. a liar--Greek, "Who is the liar?" Still, it is no fatal necessity, but a "voluntary necessity" [DIDYMUS], which causes men to remain, or else go from the body of Christ. He that saith . This is not my personal opinion but what the Word of God says. 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