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1 John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
Verse 14. _AND WE HAVE SEEN_] Jesus Christ manifested in the flesh; see 1 John 1:1, c. _and do testify_-bear witness, in consequence of having the fullest conviction, _that the Father sent the son to...
AND WE HAVE SEEN - Notes on 1 John 1:1. AND DO TESTIFY - Notes, 1 John 1:3. That is, we who are apostles bear witness to you of this great truth, that God has sent his Son to be a Saviour. Compare the...
V. HEREBY WE KNOW Chapter S 3:19-5:13 _ 1. Hereby we know that we are of the truth (1 John 3:19)_ 2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God (1 John 4:1) 3. Hereby know we the Spirit of truth and of error...
John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence for our Divine sonship is that the love manifested by God in...
THE PERILS OF THE SURGING LIFE OF THE SPIRIT (1 John 3:24 B- 1 John 4:1) _ 4:1 This is how we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he gave to us. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but t...
Beloved, let us love one another, because love has its source in God, and everyone who loves has God as the source of his birth and knows God. He who does not love has not come to know God. In this Go...
TESTIFY. bear witness. Greek. _martureo._ See p. 1511. FATHER. App-98....
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. God is Love There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). T...
Love is the Mark of the Children of the God who is Love 7. _Beloved, let us love one another_ See on 1 John 3:2. The transition seems abrupt, as if the Apostle had summarily dismissed an unwelcome sub...
_And we have seen and do testify_ Better, as R. V., _And we have_ BEHELD _and_ BEAR WITNESS: see on 1 John 4:12 and 1 John 1:2. -We" is emphatic, and, as in the Prologue, means S. John and the other A...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
7–21. LOVE IS THE MARK OF THE CHILDREN OF THE GOD WHO IS LOVE...
14. ΤΕΘΕΆΜΕΘΑ ΚΑῚ ΜΑΡΤ. As R.V., _we have_ BEHELD _and_ BEAR WITNESS: see on 1 John 4:12 and 1 John 1:2. ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ is emphatic, and as in the Prologue and in 1 John 4:6, means S. John and the other Apost...
ΤΕΘΕΆΜΕΘΑ _perf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΘΕΆΟΜΑΙ (G2300) видеть (_см._ 1 John 4:12). ΜΑΡΤΥΡΟΎΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΤΡΥΡΈΩ (G3140) свидетельствовать, ΆΠΈΣΤΑΛΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G64...
DISCOURSE: 2456 CHRIST THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD 1 John 4:14. _We have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world_. WERE it announced to us, in a time of war, that...
AND WE HAVE SEEN, &C.— "And animated and sealed by this Spirit, as we have seen and known by undoubted evidence ourselves, so we courageously testify to others, how hazardous soever the bearing that t...
CHAPTER XIII _FAITHTHE GROUND OF LOVE_ 1 John 4:13-16 A. _The Text_ Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. (14) And we have beheld and bear witne...
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. AND WE - primarily, we apostles, Christ's appointed eye-witnesses to testify to the facts concerning Him...
VERSE 14. AND WE HAVE SEEN AND DO TESTIFY. This is certainly personal. By the "we" John means himself and fellow apostles. They saw the Son when he was here on earth saw his miracles; heard his teachi...
3 The spirit of antichrist is the spirit of the world. It does not want the Christ of the Scriptures, but prefers some substitute more suited to its taste. This spirit has come to pervade, not only th...
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD IN LOVE 1. Try the spirits] RV 'Prove the spirits.' The verb is used of testing metals. 2, 3. See on 2 John 1:7....
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 TEST THE *SPIRITS TO SEE IF THEY ARE TRUE (1 JOHN 4:1-6) V1 My friends, do not believe every *spirit. First, make sure where they are from. Se...
THE PERFECT LOVE THE SUREST TEST (1 John 4:7). (_a_) _Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God, because God is love_ (1 John 4:7). (_b_) _The grand recent historical exhibi...
The apostolic testimony (_cf._ 1 John 1:1-3). ἡμεῖς, either the editorial “we” or “I and the rest of the Apostles who were eye-witnesses”. ἀπέσταλκεν, see note on 1 John 4:9....
The Blessedness of Love. “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and every one that loveth of God hath been begotten and is getting to know God. He that loveth not did not get to kn...
THE TEST OF OUR LOVE 1 John 4:12 If we are willing to be channels through which God's love flows to others, there need be no limit to the fullness of that holy current. In humility, selflessness, an...
Two closely related perils threaten our fellowship with God as love, false prophets and the spirit which actuates them. Teaching is to be tested by the indwelling Spirit. All who refuse to confess tha...
LOVE, A MEANS OF SEEING GOD No man has ever seen God in the fullness of His nature (John 1:18). However, Jesus came to declare the nature of God to man. While man has not seen God in all His glory, wh...
(11) And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world. (11) He underlays this charity with another foundation, that is, faith in Jesus, which joins us ind...
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (8) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (9) In this was manifested the...
14_And we have seen _He now explains the other part of the knowledge of God, which we have referred to, that he communicates himself to us in his Son, and offers himself to be enjoyed in him. It hence...
Now, to make use of this last proof, caution was required, for many false prophets would assume, and even in the time of the apostle had already assumed, the semblance of having received communication...
AND WE HAVE SEEN, AND DO TESTIFY,.... This seems to be particularly said of the apostles, who had a clear discerning of the love and grace of God, manifested in the mission of Christ into the world; f...
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son _to be_ the Saviour of the world. Ver. 14. _And we have seen_] _sc._ By special privilege (that which natural eye never saw, 1Jn 4:12), th...
_Hereby_ Εν τουτω, _by this, we know_ Have full proof; _that we dwell_, μενομεν, _we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit_ In the enlightening, quickening, renewing, and...
WE HAVE SEEN; JOHN 1:14....
But there must be guards as to the operation of the Spirit of God, that is, the child of God must be guarded against all that would imitate the operation of the Spirit. Satan is extremely cunning, and...
14-21 The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. The apostle attests this. And whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. This confe...
He here signifies we are not left at any uncertainties, touching that matter of fact, wherein lies this mighty argument for the exercise of mutual love among Christians, God's having SENT THE SON TO B...
1 John 4:14 And G2532 we G2249 seen G2300 (G5766) and G2532 testify G3140 (G5719) that G3754 Father...
‘No man has beheld God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit,...
1 John 4:13-16. Remembering that this whole section has to do with faith in Jesus as the root of brotherly love, we need not be surprised that the apostle goes back to the introductory words of it. Th...
The ruling idea of the third part is Faith in the Spirit's testimony concerning the Son of God incarnate. The close of chap. 3 introduces the theme by the first explicit mention of faith and the Spiri...
WE HAVE BEHELD (τεθεαμεθα). Perfect middle of θεαομα as in verse 1 John 4:12, though the aorist in 1 John 1:1; John 1:14 (εθεασαμεθα). John is qualified to bear witness (μαρτυρουμεν as in...
SAVIOUR (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _ WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
1 John 4:9. _In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him._ There is love in our creation; there is lov...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit,_ A simpleton believes every word that he hears, but «the wise man's eyes are in his head,» so he examines what he sees and hears, and does not blindly...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ It was so in John's day: it is so in these days....
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirit whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ This is an unction of which there is great need i...
1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world._ If John had need to say that in the early mornin...
CONTENTS: Christians warned of false doctrines concerning Christ's person and work. Tests of the true. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, anti-christ, John. CONCLUSION: God's people must be ever c...
1 John 4:1. _Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God._ Whether those teachers believe that Christ is come in the flesh, which to the present hour the unbelieving jews den...
THAT THE FATHER SENT HIS SON. John speaks as an eye-witness! See John 15:27; 1 John 1:1-4....
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 4:14 WE HAVE SEEN AND TESTIFY. See note on 1:1. ⇐...
1 JOHN 4:7 The Assurance of God through the Love of God. John’s teaching in these verses is like the apostle Paul’s “love chapter,” 1 Corinthians 13:1.1 JOHN—NOTE ON
Would someone please check the Psalm number in sentence formatted in blue in the 3rd note of ver. 18. CHAPTER 4 1. _Most dearly beloved_, &c. By the word _spirit_ he means suggestion, inspiration, im...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 4:7.—The previous verses are in some sense an “aside.” The apostle now resumes his proper theme. His main truth is this—Love is the mark of the children of God,...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 4:1 - 1 JOHN 5:12 (2) _The source of son-ship. _Possession of the Spirit. 1 JOHN 4:1 Confession of the Incarnation is
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 4. As we go back to verse 1 John 4:24 of chapter 3, the later portion, "Hereby we know that He abides in us by the Spirit which He has given us." I kn...
1 John 1:1; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 5:9;...
We have seen [π ε θ ε α μ ε θ α]. Have deliberately and steadfastly contemplated. Compare 1 John 1:1, and see on John 1:14. Do testify [μ α ρ τ υ ρ ο υ μ ε ν]. Rev., bear witness. See on John 1:7. Se...
TESTING THE TRUE AND THE FALSE 1 John 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have in our opening verses some important admonitions, and also some important instructions. 1. IMPORTANT ADMONITIONS. (1) "Believe...
THE LOVE OF GOD CHAPTER 1 John 4:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have always thought of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians as the Love Chapter. However, we have in the Word of God another chapter whic...
And in consequence of this we have seen and testify that the Father sent the Son — These are the foundation and the criteria of our abiding in God and God in us, the communion of the Spirit, and the c...
As if the apostle had said, "Though no man hath seen God at any time, yet the apostles, who preach the doctrine of faith unto you, and press the duty of love upon you, have seen with our bodily eyes t...