DISCOURSE: 2433
THE ADVOCACY AND ATONEMENT OF CHRIST
1 John 2:1. _If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins:
and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world_.
THERE are two extremes to which men are apt t... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2434
THE TRUE TEST OF LOVE TO GOD
1 John 2:3. _Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his
commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso
keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: her... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2435
CHRIST AN EXAMPLE TO HIS FOLLOWERS
1 John 2:6. _He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to
walk, even as he walked_.
AMONG the various excellencies which distinguish Christianity from all
other religions, one of very considerable importance is, that the
Author of it co... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2436
THE TRUE LIGHT
1 John 2:8. _The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth_.
OUR blessed Lord is supposed by many to have enlarged the demands of
the moral law. That he speaks of giving a new commandment is certain:
“A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another:... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2437
THE DIFFERENT GROWTH AND PRIVILEGES OF GOD’S CHILDREN
1 John 2:12. _I write unto you, little children, because your sins are
forgiven you for his name’s sake. I write unto you, fathers, because
ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young
men, because ye hav... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2438
LOVE OF THE WORLD FORBIDDEN
1 John 2:15. _Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust
of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of th... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2439
THE TRUE GROUNDS OF A CHRISTIAN’S STABILITY
1 John 2:19. _They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if
they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but
they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all
of us_.
THERE have been many a... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2440
THE UNCTION OF THE HOLY ONE
1 John 2:20. _Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all
things_.
IT is a melancholy fact, that, in every age of the Church, persons
have arisen from the bosom of the Church herself, not only to “speak
perverse things, and draw away disciples a... [ Continue Reading ]