The overall theme of 2 John closely parallels 1 John's theme of a "recall to the fundamentals of the faith" or "back to the basics of Christianity" (vv. Will you not turn the eye of faith that way, and trust him who was nailed to the tree on your behalf? Poetical Books LSB NET RSV ASV YLT DBY WEB HNV. Look to Jesus, and to him alone. From Spurgeon's Autobiography. Hear me!" Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. A new creature is essential to likeness to Christ: it is not possible that the carnal mind should wear the image of Jesus. Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name. 9. O child of God, as thou wouldst fear to drink poison, as thou wouldst flee from a serpent, dread sin! 1 John 2:28-29. NO. 1 John 2:5. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. God help you to do so. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Here is a wide subject. The "Clergy/Laity" Distinction: A Hindrance to the Church? Let me add to all this, that he who says that Christ is in him ought also to live as Christ lived in secret. Do not love the world nor the things in the world. Hell Under Fire - CIANZ Annual Conference Address, Jesus' Teaching on Hell - Samuel G. Dawson, The Nature of Hell - Evangelical Alliance, The Origin of Hell-Fire in Christian Teaching, The Bible Verses the Traditional View of Hell - Babu G. Ranganathan, Applying the Resurrection It is you preaching in your shops, in your kitchens, in your nurseries, in your parlours, in the streets, which will tell on the masses. Major Prophets The Gospels You are chosen of God to this end, that you should be "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, zealous of good works," and what is this but that you should walk even as he walked? He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. 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He was, it is true, "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief"; but still there was a deep spring of wondrous happiness in the midst of his heart, which made him always blessed; for he said to his Father, "I delight to do thy will, O my God! When we read the word "ought," if we are honest men, we begin to look about us and to make enquiries as to the reason and the measure of this obligation. Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness, Election No Discouragement to Seeking Souls, Alas For Us, If Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth, Children Brought to Christ, and Not to the Font. "Oh," say you, "we are regular in our pews, hearing the gospel." This volume collects his thoughts on 1 John in a commentary format, with illustrations and applications culled from his sermons and writings. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. but he always said "Come!" Our schoolmasters were not quite so wise then as schoolmasters are now. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. Scripture: 1 John 2:18-27. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I can never think of his life as an unhappy one. The New Testament 3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Spurgeon said he wrote it in "self-defense." Exposition: 1 John 3:1-10. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point "Oh," say you, "we endorse the confession." Never mind me: never mind your friend: never mind the old doctor that you have been hearing so long. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today? But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. (3-10) Love to the brethren is the character of real Christians. When did the Saviour thus behave himself? Oh, brethren, let us find our pleasure, our treasure, our heaven, our all, in the Lord our God, even as our Lord Jesus did. Revelation 2. Not, he that doeth some great thing to be seen of men, not, he that builds a row of almshouses, or leaves a great mass of money to charity when he dies, because he could not possibly carry it away with him, not, he that sounds a trumpet before him to let everybody know what a good man he is; not, he that must needs outdistance everybody else; but, he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honour and everlasting joy. And so it is with unholy Christians, too. You cannot give out sweet waters so long as the fountains are impure. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. At times he was incapable of activity by reason of the weakness which he had incurred through fasting, and colds and exposure, There is no need to inflict useless torture upon the body. D, The Duration And Nature Of Future Punishment - Henry Constable. You must get to commune with Jesus. And if any man sin, . Wisdom Literature Their Worm Does Not Die: Annihilation and Mark 9:48, Evidence for the Resurrection - William Lane Craig -Text and Audio, The Evidence for Jesus - William Lane Craig - Text and Video. For this we ought to watch and strive, that we sin not. But, listen. 1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. Scriptures Relating to the Second Coming, Apocalypse of the Gospels - Milton S. Terry, Commentary on Matthew 24 - J. Articles Messages Books Podcasts Filter Resources By . Benefit from the incredible wisdom of Charles Spurgeon, passage by passage. Those love-visits, those near and dear communings which his holy heart had with the Father were his secret meat and drink. Scriptural Evidence for the Necessity of Obedience in Salvation, The Doctrine of Immortality in the Early Church - John H. Roller, Luther's views on soul sleep and the after life, Make Good Use of Your Servitude - Observations on Biblical Slavery, The Consensus of Current Scholarship: The Soul is Not Immortal, Killing the Canaanites - A Response to the New Atheism's "Divine Genocide" Claims. Understanding, heart, life, lip, everything, is now to enter into the service of God, even the Father, and it is to be ours to say, "Lord, show me what thou wouldest have me to do." Think of that. Presented here is a verse by verse exposition of the New . In the gospel these two are disjoined, and he is called first the Word, Jn. A quaint collection of lectures about great preachers with unusual characteristics. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. Jul 20, 1980. Prophets Minor Prophets many of the antichrists came out of the church; they sprang up from among the followers of Christ: They went out from us, . Take care that you do not in all things copy any but Christ; for if I set my watch by the watch of one of my friends, and be sets his watch by that of another friend, we may all be wrong together. Johannine Writings She is full of love, and of a naturally kind, sympathetic disposition. 1 John 2:13. General Epistles Set the wandering stars in their spheres, and rule them by the majestic sway of the sun, and then they will keep their happy estate, but not else. B. Lightfoot, Consummation of the pre-Messianic Age and the Parousia, Destruction of Jerusalem vs. The New Testament In the days of your strength, you have won the victory which no human power can ever win unaided. Ours is no transient union; while he lives as our Head we shall remain his members. "And truly our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3. From the time when Christ first began to preach, or when the gospel was first preached in your ears.. Poetical Books - Curtis Dickinson, Do we have an immortal soul? By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. Pauline Epistles The Whole Bible It is child's work, certainly; but assuredly it is not child's play. He would have us wash one another's feet; and this is the argument "Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well; for so I am. The Gospels 1 John 2:1. Eternal Torment or Complete Annihilation? But we are in him vitally, and therefore we dare ask the question, "Who shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord?" Presented here is a verse by verse exposition of the New . "A person has written to me this morning to say that he has painted my portrait, but that he cannot finish it until he sees me. Is Hell eternal torment or eternal death. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. It is this that make us bold to preach the Gospel to every creature, since we know there is no limit in the value of the atonement, though still we know that the design of it is for the chosen people of God alone. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. This is the preaching the best preaching in the world, for it is seen as well as heard. Twice, you see, John says the same thing about the fathers, and he says nothing more concerning them; but truly to have known him that is from the beginning is practically to know all that even the fathers need to know or can know, for this knowledge includes all other that is worth knowing. It is so much dung and sweepings of the street to them, and so it ought to be. A Protest - Joseph Agar Beet D.D. If, then, the Spirit of God dwell in you (and if it do not, you are not in Christ), it must work in you conformity to Christ that you should walk even as he walked. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Be ye imitators; of Christ as good soldiers, who cannot have a better model for their soldierly life than their Captain and Lord. If we refuse to obey Christs commandments it is clear that we do not really know the Saviour at all, we are not even beginners in the school of Christ. No, the highest, deepest, most heaven-inspired love is that which searches and tries the heart felt there should be any deception there. The Lord's Supper - A Historical Overview, Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church - Paul Washer - Video, The Bible Without Comment - William E. Cox, Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman, Everybody Loves Jesus: The Culture Cherishes a Counterfeit Christ, Historian David Barton on Jon Stewart Show, Hollywood's War on Traditional Values - Video, Homosexuals Brainwashing Our Children in Elementary Schools, The Homosexual Propaganda Campaign in America, The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (Hays Code), The New England Primer - First Elementary School Textbook - 1777, What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts, Why Does Socialism Always Fail? But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. What value should we put upon gospel truth! 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And what obedience that dear Son of God rendered to the Father! He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. - The complete King James Version with Charles Spurgeon's commentaries. - Bullinger, Rise Of The Theory Of Universal Restoration - Henry Constable, Universal Restoration Substituted for Eternal Torment, Absent From The BodyPresent With The Lord, Cross Purposes: Atonement, Death and the Fate of the Wicked. it is very likely you would not obtain the desire that is now in your heart if you did that; for he that delights himself in God rises above the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and comes to desire that which God desires, and therefore it is that he wins the desire of his heart. To make a Judas, you must make him out of an apostle. God help us to get there. - Hal Licino, Why Modern Liberalism is Contrary to Christianity, Matthew 24 The End of the Holy City - Morrison Lee, Scripture Charts As Relates to the Second Coming, The Beast of Revelation Revealed - Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry, The Destruction of Jerusalem - Proof of Christianity, The Last Days According to Jesus - R. C. Sproul, All the N.T. He is altogether without spot or trace of sin, and so shall we be when the Spirit's work is done. Cookie Notice: John Piper Feb 7, 1988. And that is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. Would you have the Lord miss his purpose? He delighted in God. (1,2) The purifying influence of the hope of seeing Christ, and the danger of pretending to this, and living in sin. Prophets Let those that want them have these novelties, these constant changes we who believe in Jesus have something far better, even the promise of eternal life. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. And now, I think, even more than when John wrote, is this the fact for antichrists are multiplying on all sides, and there are even worse evils to come than we have seen as yet; and it therefore behooves Christians to be upon the watch and to let this truth comfort them, that it is the last time. Once get through this dispensation, and the battle is ended; even though the dispensation should be protracted beyond our hope and desire, yet, still, once get through it, and it is over. If we shall, each one, take his time from the sun, we shall all be right. 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GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Do you blame them that it is so? 1 John 2:11-13. 1 John 2:3. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. What can we do to glorify Christ if we do not walk even as he walked? John vi. Solid Joys. Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings, The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness, The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith, Confession of SinA Sermon with Seven Texts, The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of His Saints, Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church, The Wicked Man's Life, Funeral, and Epitaph, The Ceremony of Laying the First Stone of the New Tabernacle, A Blast of the Trumpet Against False Peace, The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life, The High Priest Standing Between the Dead and the Living. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection? Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. Ought the Church to Pray for Revival? What does it mean to take the Lord's name in vain? Amen. Oh, Holy Spirit, work us to this sacred pattern! Note how love and life and light are most blessedly linked to one another. So one man copies Christ, perhaps; a friend who hears him preach copies him, and his wife at home copies the hearer, and somebody copies her; and so it goes on all down the line, till we all miss that glorious hand-writing which Jesus has come to teach us. This is the aim of election; this is the object of redemption; this is the fruit of calling; this is the concomitant of justification; this is the evidence of adoption; this is the earnest of glory; that we should be holy, even as Christ is holy, and in this respect should wear the lineaments of the Son of God. Examine Yourselves as to Whether You Are in the Faith - updated, The Christian's Craving for God's Word - MacArthur, Sproul, Piper, Washer, Chan. We each one sing, and our heart goes with the words, "Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. Some of the most powerful evidence that proves Jesus to be Whom he claimed to be is found in the historical fulfillment of the prophsies He foretold in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 a.d. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. Your partnership makes all we do possible. Yea, thy law is within heart." Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. The New Testament Of Alexander, also, it was noted that in weary marches he was sure to be on foot with his warriors, and in fierce attack's he always was in the van. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Can you not even now give one look to him who died for you? Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But, oh, the pleasure, the joy, the bliss of delighting in God! 1 John 2:8. Pentateuch If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. And now, little children, abide in him;-How John continues to urge us to stand fast in Christ. I seek not myself, but Christ. The Meat and Drink of the New Nature "For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.". - Oscar Cullmann, Immortality of the Soul - by Kaufmann Kohler, Technical Terms and Usages Preclude Innate Immortality - Froom, The Development of the Doctrine of Immortality from the Apostolic Fathers to Augustine, The Doctrine of Immortality in the Early Church. For John, the basics of Christianity are summarized by adherence to the truth (v. 4), love (v. 5), and obedience (v.6). And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.. Life and Immortality - Basil Atkinson, M.A., PhD. It is the Lord's will that in his house his word should be the supreme law, for so only can our fallen natures be restored to their original glory. When every word of his is precious to us and when we strive to live according to his precepts, then we know that we are in him. This is even more than knowing that we know him, for it is the assurance that we are united to him by a living connection which can never be broken. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from . Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. 59 pages, Kindle Edition. Why I Don't Have a Television - John Piper, Why People Find the Bible Difficult - A. W. Tozer, Your Life is Like the Morning Fog - James P. Shelly, A Challenge to Unscriptural Traditions and Practice - Video, Are Seminaries Legitimate? No testimony excels that which is borne in ordinary life. Is it a hopeless case then? Spurgeon's writings on the Bible fill dozens of volumes; his thoughts on particular passages are scattered across numerous books and sermons. So walk as he did who made himself of no reputation, but took upon himself the form of a servant. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. Preaching! I dare say there was a good deal of slander and scandal in what they said; but I am also afraid that, if it were said today, there would be a vast deal of sorrowful truth in it. He cannot be a Christian unless this be true of him, and be cannot fully enjoy his religion unless he assuredly knows that he is in Christ, and can boldly say as much. The Old Testament "Ye must be born again." God sent his Son to lay down his life for his sheep. 1 John 3:1-2. 1 John 2:1. Next, we ought to walk as Christ did in the matter of self-denial. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. He will so instruct you that you shall know all that is for your souls good, and for his own glory. Historical Books Message. It cannot be supposed that the Spirit of God in any case produces unholiness: the thought were blasphemy. 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