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Verse 24: What You’ve Heard From the Beginning As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. Twenty-four times John uses the verb to “let it remain” in this letter as he exhorts his beloved …
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Verse 23: Whoever Has the Son Has the Father No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. Foreseeing the confusion and deceptions that his disciples would face, John speaks plainly to ensure that we understand that whoever denies the Son of God also denies the Father. …
Verse 22c: Such a Person is the Antichrist 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. John warns his beloved children that many antichrists have risen up from among their ranks in these last hours (2:18) and admonished them …
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Verse 22b: Who Denies the Christ? 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. “Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ”: this pronouncement reveals those in whom the spirit of the antichrist operates, specifically, in those who refuse the …
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 …
CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD Genesis 1:27 (CSB) So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female. True Biblical womanhood begins with understanding how the feminine expression of human nature displays the glory and image of God. The first and greatest …
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 …
Imagine for a moment what life would be like without the many little things we do that give life extra meaning and value. No birthday parties, no weddings, no holidays, no receptions, no anniversaries, no handshakes, no honorific greetings. Nothing to demonstrate and understand “specialness”. N.T. Wright asked, “Why do we do all this? Different …
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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