True knowledge is not intellectual; it is personal; it is a form of love because true knowledge is an attribute of the interaction of God abiding in us and our abiding in God, which is the essence of love. That’s the point of 1 John 4:1-10 (considered in the previous essay). In that passage, John …
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit …
I focused on 1 John 3:4-10 in a separate essay so we could understand the implications of that series of present active participles that stretch across two paragraphs, but that group of verses includes parts of two paragraphs, and thus, two separate thoughts. The paragraph break is between vv 6 & 7 (in the middle …
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Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive …
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