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Verse 1 John 1:9. _IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS_] If, from a deep sense of
our guilt, impurity, and helplessness, we humble ourselves before God,
acknowledging our iniquity, his holiness, and our own utter...
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IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS - Pardon in the Scriptures, always supposes
that there is confession, and there is no promise that it will be
imparted unless a full acknowledgment has been made. Compare Psalms...
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II. LIGHT AND DARKNESS AND THE TESTS
Chapter S 1:5-2:17
_ 1. God is light; walking in darkness and in light (1 John 1:5)_
2. What the light manifests (1 John 1:8)
3. The advocacy of Christ to main...
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1 JOHN 1:5 TO 1 JOHN 2:2. FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD REQUIRES A RIGHT VIEW OF
SIN.
1 John 1:5. Spiritual fellowship depends on moral affinity. Hence
since Jesus has declared the holy perfection of God, we ca...
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IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, ETC.
The publican who went up into the temple to pray, and made full
confession, was heard rather than the Pharisee. He who does not
confess his sins thereby declares he is no...
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THE PASTOR'S AIM (1 John 1:1-4)...
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FAITHFUL. App-150.
JUST. App-191.
TO. Greek. _hina,_ as in 1 John 1:3. Literally in order that He might
forgive.
FORGIVE. App-174.
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. App-128....
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. God is Light
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. What Walking in the Light involves
This section is largely directed against the Gnostic doctrine that to
the man of enlightenment a...
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. WHAT WALKING IN THE LIGHT INVOLVES
This section is largely directed against the Gnostic doctrine that to
the man of enlightenment al...
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ΌΜΟΛΟΓΏΜΕΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΌΜΟΛΟΓΈΩ (G3670)
соглашаться, говорить то же, уступать,
признавать, допускать, исповедовать
(ЕСС, 13-20; TDNT; EDNT; GELTS, 332). Итеративный
_praes._, указывает на п...
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DISCOURSE: 2432
CONFESSION NECESSARY TO FORGIVENESS
1 John 1:8. _If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and
the truth is not in us: if we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just to fo...
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IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, &C.— "If, on the other hand, we, under a
humbling sense of our imperfections and many disallowed failures,
acknowledge our
transgressionstotheLord,andconfessthemwithfaithinChri...
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HEREBY WE KNOW
PART II
1 John 1:8-10; 1 John 2:1-29
God Is Light. To Walk In The Light
Is To Have Fellowship With Him
Fellowship Is Tested By Our Sharing
of God's Attitude Toward:
1.
Personal Guil...
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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
CONFESS - with the lips, from a contrite heart; involving confession
to our fell...
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1 The ministry of John is based upon his personal acquaintance with
the Lord in the flesh.
Indeed, this was the prime qualification of all the twelve apostles
(Act_1:21). They were to bear witness to...
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1:9 confess (e-3) In all these cases the verb is in the subjunctive,
and puts the case of so doing. I should have translated them 'if we
should say,' &c., but that it is the case in ver. 9 also, where...
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FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD IN LIGHT
1. Observe the grammatical form of 1 John 1:1. In 1 John 1:1 a
sentence is begun which, interrupted by the parenthesis in 1 John 1:2,
is continued in 1 John 1:3. The sense...
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HOW CAN I BE SURE?
1 JOHN
_IAN MACKERVOY_
ABOUT THIS LETTER
1. THE WRITER
The letter does not tell us who wrote it. The tradition is that John
is the author. John was an *apostle. He was one of...
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[2.
First Half. God is Light (1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28).
(1)
STATEMENT OF THE LEADING THOUGHT (1 John 1:5).
(2)
FIRST INFERENCE: The true fellowship (1 John 1:6); the Christian must
not sin.
(3...
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The Message of the Incarnation and the Duty which it brings. “And
this is the message which we have heard from Him and are announcing to
you, that God is light, and darkness in Him there is none. If w...
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FELLOWSHIP IN THE LIGHT
1 John 1:1
As the aged Apostle began to write he was living over again his first
happy experiences with the Savior. He heard the voice, saw the person,
touched the very body i...
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This is possibly the last apostolic message to the whole Church. It is
complementary to the Gospel of John. Its subject is fellowship with
God, into which believers are introduced through their union...
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THE CHRISTIAN AND SIN
Some evidently claimed to be above sin. They may have said, "We are
spiritual and cannot sin." Today, some teach the doctrine of salvation
by faith only, which likewise implies...
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(6) If we confess our sins, he is (g) faithful and just to (h) forgive
us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(6) Therefore the beginning of salvation is to acknowledge our
wicked...
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This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto
you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (6) If we
say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we...
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_CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS_
‘If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse u...
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9_If we confess _He again promises to the faithful that God will be
propitious to them, provided they acknowledge themselves _to be
sinners_. It is of great moment to be fully persuaded, that when we...
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The Epistle of John has a peculiar character. It is eternal life
manifested in Jesus, and imparted to us the life which was with the
Father, and which is in the Son. It is in this life that believers...
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IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS,.... Not to one other; for though it is our
duty to confess our faults to our fellow creatures and fellow
Christians which are committed against them, yet are under no
obligatio...
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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us _our_
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Ver. 9. _If we confess_] _Homo agnoscit, Deus ignoscit._ Man
acknowledges, God fo...
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_If we say_ Before Christ's blood has cleansed us; _that we have no
sin_ To be cleansed from; or if, even after we have experienced the
cleansing virtue of his blood, and are acquitted through the mer...
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CONFESS OUR SINS; to God, and forsake them. Proverbs 28:13.
FAITHFUL; to his promises of forgiveness to the penitent. Proverbs
28:13.
JUST; to himself and all the great interests of his kingdom.
CL...
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Sin and its forgiveness:...
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Unlike his second and third epistles, this first from John's pen waits
for no salutation, but more like Paul's to the Hebrews, immediately
begins with a precious declaration of the glory of the Person...
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5-10 A message from the Lord Jesus, the Word of life, the eternal
Word, we should all gladly receive. The great God should be
represented to this dark world, as pure and perfect light. As this is
the...
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But on the contrary, IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, if we apply ourselves to
him suitably to the condition of sinners, confessing ourselves such,
with that self-abasing sense of sin which may dispose us to a...
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Tertullian On Modesty
For see yet again: "If we say," he says, "that we have not sinned, we
make Him a liar, and His word is not in us."[244]...
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1 John 1:9 If G1437 confess G3670 (G5725) our G2257 sins G266 is G2076
(G5748) faithful G4103 and G2532 just G1342 to G2443 forgive G863
(G5632) us G2254 sins G266 and G2532 cleanse G2511 (G5661) us G...
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‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.'
The way to deal with sin is not by denying it or hiding from it, but
by bein...
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First the apostle announces his message that God is light and only
light (1 John 1:5). Then follows (down to chap. 1 John 2:2) a
universal statement of the evangelical conditions of fellowship with
Hi...
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IF WE CONFESS
(εαν ομολογωμεν). Third-class condition again with εαν
and present active subjunctive of ομολογεω, "if we keep on
confessing." Confession of sin to God and to one another (James 5:16)...
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1 John 1:8
Divine Justice and Pardon Reconciled.
There are two extreme tendencies in human sentiment respecting God
from which a devout and thoughtful heart shrinks with equal
repugnance: a religion...
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May that Divine Spirit, who inspired every word of this wonderful
letter, bless it to all our hearts as we read it!
1 John 1:1. _That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have...
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CONTENTS: Fellowship with God made possible through the incarnation.
Conditions of perpetual fellowship walking in the light and confessing
sins.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John.
CONCLUSION: Fellowshi...
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1 John 1:1. _That which was from the beginning._ We have before
observed that the neuter gender is often preferred by the Greeks, and
with great propriety, when speaking of the Divinity. _L'ETRE Suprê...
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BUT IF WE. The forgiveness which the blood of Jesus offers to
Christians, requires a human response to_ reach out to seize it!_
CONFESS. God will forgive the Christian every sin which is confessed
to...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 1:5 “God is light” (v. 1 John 1:5)
reflects the OT, where “light” symbolizes both knowledge and
purity (see notes on John 1:4–5; 8:12).
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THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF
S. JOHN..
CHAPTER 1 VER. 1. _That which was from the beginning_, &c. The
beginning of this Epistle corresponds with the beginning of St. John's
Gospel. Both here and the...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 John 1:5.—The first part of the epistle begins here. It is
directed against the Gnostic teaching, that to a man of enlightenment
all conduct is morally indifferent....
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EXPOSITION
1 JOHN 1:1
1. THE INTRODUCTION. It declares the writer's authority, based on
personal experience; announces the subject-matter of his Gospel, to
which this Epistle forms a companion; and...
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Shall we turn to 1 John.
Why did John write this epistle? In chapter one, verse four, he tells
us, "These things write we unto that your joy may full." So that you
might have the fullness of joy. Do...
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1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 John 1:7; 1 Kings 8:47; 1
Timothy 1:15; 2 Chronicles 6:37; 2 Chronicles 6:38; Acts 19:18; Daniel
9:4;...
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THE CHRIST CHAPTER
1 John 1:2; 1 John 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There is a striking similarity between the opening verses of the first
chapter of the Gospel of John and the first chapter of the First...
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But if with a penitent and believing heart, we confess our sins, he is
faithful — Because he had promised this blessing, by the unanimous
voice of all his prophets. Just — Surely then he will punish:...
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Behold here, 1. double blessing promised and insured, namely,
justification and sanctification, forgiveness of sin, and cleansing
from it, yea, from all iniquity; when God pardons sin, no sin is left...