There are many challenging passages in I John. He saves a real doozy for the end. That is: “There is a sin unto death” and “there is a sin not unto death”. It doesn’t really matter where your starting point is, these verses can throw you for a loop. First, how is there a sin not unto death? Doesn’t Paul and James…
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
I John
If you understand what the parable of the wheat and the tares means, it helps you to see what John is teaching ‘the little children’ in I John. There is going to be infiltrators into the remnant church in the last days. Peter and Jude describe what these children of Satan will be like on the inside. John is teaching the newly…
1 John 3:8-9 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.…
One of the main themes of I john is loving each other and loving your brethren. But when he begins to introduce this topic, it seems confusing because first he says that he’s not giving a new commandment, then in the next verse he says he is giving a new commandment. The new commandment he is giving isn’t to love your brother,…
The sin that needs to be confessed in I John is not only the sins of the fathers, but the sin of the nation in rejecting their Messiah. This confession is for national blessing, not for personal salvation. The commandments mentioned again and again in I John are not the commandments of the law. They are “his” commandments – the commandments that…
The mis-understanding of I John 1:8-10 has caused many bad doctrines and even confusion about how one obtains eternal life in any dispensation. Jesus Christ is eternal life and the only way to receive eternal life is by the gift of God placing one into Christ. There are never any works involved. The confession in I John has nothing to do with…
John is writing to those that he doesn’t know. He is making known to them that he is an eyewitness of those things done and said by Jesus Christ. Throughout this book, he will repeatedly go back to what Christ said to the disciples and put it in this letter. It is almost as though this letter were sent as a forward…
When you read through I John, you constantly see what seems to be contradictions. He exhorts them not to sin, then says that they cannot sin. He commands them to love their brother, then tells them that those who walk in light (believers that he is writing to) do love their brother. He tells them that they need no man to teach…