Showing posts with label 1 John 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1 John 3. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Teaching Notes Book of FIRST JOHN Chapters 3

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Teaching Notes Book of FIRST JOHN Chapters 3

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Hugh Wood, Atlanta, Georgia



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The first Quarantine in the USA since 1918 continues.  It is Day 45.

Took wife to the ZOOM Doctor today.  Still very strange.  Phone calls.  ZOOM Meetings.  Heard of the first ZOOM Trial in Georgia.  Walked the dog in the deep woods listening to 8th Century Gregorian Chants. 432Hz. Quite and amazing experience actually.  

Having to learn to just turn it all over to the TriPartate God and ask for Him to work out His will in my life.  

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"The grass withers and the flower [fades], but the word of [the Lord] endures forever."  Isaiah 40:8; 1 Peter 1:24-25.

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Chapter 3:1-12. Righteousness

Here are some very strong statements about Sin. Whoever
Sins Knows Not Christ, 6. He that does Sin is of the Devil, 8.
Whoever is Begotten of God Cannot Sin. 9. Yet, John had just
said, If we say that we have No Sin we deceive ourselves. 1:8.
If we say that we have Not Sìnned we make God a Liar, 1:10.

How explain these paradoxical statements? There is a difference
between Sins of Weakness and Wilfull Habitual Sin. It is largely a
matter of the Inner Nature. An Eagle may dip its wings in the
mud, and yet be an Eagle. A Righteous man may have Sins of
Weakness. and yet Be a Righteous Man. John may have had in
mind certain heretic teachers, like Jezebel, Rev 2:20, who. while
claiming superior Fellowship with God, were at the same time
wallowing in the Filth of Immorality.

Chapter 3:13-24. love

The dominant note of this Epistle is Love. We should Love
One Another, 3:11. He that Loves Not his Brother is Not of
God, 3:10. We know that we have passed out of Death into Life
because we Love the Brethren, 3:14. He that Loves Not abides
in Death, 3:14. Whoever Hates his Brother is a Murderer, 3:15.
Let us Love One Another, 4:7. Every one that Loves “is begotten
of God, and Knows God, 4:7. Love is of God. 4:7. We ought to
Love One Another, 4:11. God is Love, 4:16. He that Abides in
Love Abides in God, 4:17. If we Love One Another God Abides
in us, 4:12. Perfect Love Casts Out Fear. 4:18. We Love because
He first Loved Us, 4:19. If a man say, I Love God, and Hates his
Brother, He Is a Liar, 4:20. He that Loves Not his Brother whom

he has seen, How can he Love God Whom he has Not Seen? 4:20. 

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The Bible Project 
The Books of First, Second and Third JOHN

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1 John 3 New International Version (NIV)




3 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

More on Love and Hatred
11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters,[b] if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

Footnotes:
1 John 3:2 Or when it is made known

1 John 3:13 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in verse 16.

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New International Version (NIV)

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Some content adapted from Halley, Henry H., Bible Handbook, Grayson Publishing, Minneapolis, MN.  © 1927 - 1959, 1964

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Hugh C. Wood, Atlanta, Georgia

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