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Verse 22a: Who Is The Liar? Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. “The liar” is one of the central themes that runs through John’s first apostolic letter: 1st John 1:6 (CSB) If we say, “We have fellowship …
Verse 21: No Lie From The Truth I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. The Holy One’s anointing is John’s confidence in writing this epistle, because he knows they have been taught the truth by …
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Verse 20c: You Know the Truth But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. The object of the anointing that we have received from the Holy One is our “knowledge of the truth”; the Spirit of Truth enlightens every believer’s understanding to the truth that has already …
Verse 20b: From the Holy One But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. The Church has received the anointing of the Holy Spirit from the Holy One so that all of us may know and live in the truth as those who bear the fruit of …
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Verse 20a: An Anointing But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. John writes a series of encouragements to reassure his spiritual children of God’s redemptive work in Christ from “their sins have been forgiven” (v.12), to “they will remain forever if they do the will of …
Verse 19a: The Antichrists Within They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. To wrap our heads around this verse requires us to see the Church …
Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. The paternal note in John’s voice continues as he tenderly shepherds his beloved children in the faith through the many trials they …
NET: 2:12 I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name. 2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one. 2:14 I have written to you, children, …
The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. The second reason Christians should not love this world is because the realm of darkness and its evil desires are passing away and only those who do the will of God will remain forever. The world and its desires: …
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. John cannot possibly have the creation or blessings of God in view when he speaks of “the world” because he says here that nothing in the world comes …
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