{"id":103,"date":"2004-05-24T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"first-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/first-john\/","title":{"rendered":"First John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>reynaldo reynoso (admin) <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Purpose of the Letter <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So that you know the truth in opposition to the seducers (2:26), so that your joy may be full (1:4) in understanding that being a believer in the name of the Son of God assures your eternal life (5;13) thus securing your understanding so you stand unashamed before God (2:28). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Major Theme <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eternal Life, manifested in Us so that we are not ashamed before Him <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Movement of the Letter or Thought-flow <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Life was Manifested (1:1-3) <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the flesh <\/li>\n<li>we saw the Life <\/li>\n<li>we heard the Life <\/li>\n<li>we touched the Life <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Life being manifested should also be Manifested in us <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In Light <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God is Light and if we have fellowship with Him we must walk in the Light (1:5-7) <\/li>\n<li>Light manifests our sinful darkness (1:8-10) to deny this is to deny the Light <\/li>\n<li>The Light is on our side&#8230; Christ our Advocate (2:1) <\/li>\n<li>God is satisfied in Christ (2:2) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In Knowledge <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of His Commandments and effectively keeping it (2:3-4) <\/li>\n<li>Of His Word effectively keeping it therein the Love of God being perfected (2:5) <\/li>\n<li>Of His Walk effectively copying his walk (2:6) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In Loving not the World <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hating a brother embraces darkness (2:7-11) but believers are light and will love their brother. <\/li>\n<li>God Loves us and forgave our sins, (2:12) and therefore we have overcome the wicked one (2:13), we know the Father (2:13) and His Word abides in us (2:14) <\/li>\n<li>Loving not the world or the things thereof (2:15) because loving the things of the world is to not love the Father (2:15-16) for the things of the world pass away, unlike the eternal life of the Father (2:16-17) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In the Truth <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In not denying Christ (2:18) as it will be in the end days that these people who leave and deny prove that the Life is not manifested in them because a person who has the Holy Spirit AA can not deny Christ (2:20) <\/li>\n<li>As a believer you know the truth (2:22) <\/li>\n<li>To deny Christ is to be a liar manifesting no truth (2:23,24) <\/li>\n<li>To adhere to the things you&#8217;ve heard from the beginning (2:24) <\/li>\n<li>To not be seduced but to stay with the promise knowing we have eternal life (2:25,26) <\/li>\n<li>The Truth taught by the Spirit and not by seducers (2:27) <\/li>\n<li>The Truth exemplified in Life so that you are unashamed before Christ at his coming (2:28) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In Righteousness <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knowing that he is righteous, results in doing righteousness and is a sign of being his (2:29) <\/li>\n<li>God has enabled us (with such love) that we can be called Sons of God (3:1) <\/li>\n<li>We shall eventually be like him (3:2) <\/li>\n<li>The man with this hope in himself, purifies himself (3:3) <\/li>\n<li>Committing sin, breaks the law. He takes away sin for in him is no sin (3:4,5) <\/li>\n<li>Abiding in him, means abiding with no sin. Leading a life of sin speaks of not abiding in him (3:6) <\/li>\n<li>One must do righteousness to be righteous (3:7) <\/li>\n<li>One who embraces sin embraces the devil whose works are evil and Christ was manifested to destroy those works (3:8) <\/li>\n<li>Being born of God means to be free of having to sin (3:9) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In Righteous Love <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To Love in righteousness is to love your brother unlike Cain who did not love his brother (3:10-12) <\/li>\n<li>To hate is to be a murderer and embracer of death (3:13,15) <\/li>\n<li>A Righteous Love with perceptible compassion (3:16, 17) <\/li>\n<li>A Righteous Love of action and not just word (3:18) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In our hearts before God <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God is greater than our hearts (3:19,20) and knows all things <\/li>\n<li>God looks at our hearts in all things (3:21) <\/li>\n<li>And asks us that we do the things pleasing to him (3:22) <\/li>\n<li>Which is to keep his commandments (3:23) <\/li>\n<li>The Spirit who enables is the one who abides in us and by whom we know we abide in Him (3:24) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In the spirit of God <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Test every spirit against to see if they are of God (4:1) <\/li>\n<li>You can know the Spirit of God by the confession of Christ in the flesh is of God (4:2) <\/li>\n<li>Careful to the ones who don&#8217;t confess this and deny&#8230;that is anti-christ (4:3) <\/li>\n<li>The Spirit is in us and is greater than the world (4:4) <\/li>\n<li>The Spirit shows us the spirit of Truth and the spirit of error (4:5,6) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In Loving <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Love is of God (4:7) and God manifests love (4:8) <\/li>\n<li>The Son was sent by love so that we may live (4:9) <\/li>\n<li>The Son was sent as a propitiation (4:10) for our sins <\/li>\n<li>If God loved us, we should love one another (4:11) <\/li>\n<li>Love is perfected in us as being manifested in us by practicing it (4:12) so that we may bold in the Day of Judgment (4:17) <\/li>\n<li>In a fearless love (4:18) <\/li>\n<li>Without hypocrisy (loving your brother) (4:20,21) <\/li>\n<li>Loving God and keeping His commandments (5;1-3) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This Life overcame the World <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are born of this Life (5:4,5) <\/li>\n<li>by Water and by blood (5:6) <\/li>\n<li>By Jesus Christ (5:6) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Life bears witness of this truth of manifestation <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By the Spirit which bears witness in truth (5:6) <\/li>\n<li>By the witness of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost (5:7, 8) <\/li>\n<li>which is the Witness of God (5:9) <\/li>\n<li>The Witness in ourselves (5:10) <\/li>\n<li>The Witness being the record that God has given to us eternal life by the Son for He is eternal life (5:11) <\/li>\n<li>Who has the Son has life (5:12,13) <\/li>\n<li>Of Confidence that he hears us (5:14) our petitions (5:15) <\/li>\n<li>In Mercy with sins not unto death (5:16, 17) <\/li>\n<li>In contrast to the world and in truth (5:18, 19, 20) <\/li>\n<li>In contrast from the lie of idols (5:21) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If perchance you notice errors in this outline or wish to add insight, simply add to the comments section. 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