If we say we have not sinned, etc.
If we turn away from God's plan of redemption we charge him with untruth. He has sent Christ because all are included under sin. We deny it when we affirm that we are righteous of ourselves.
IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED - In times that are past. Some perhaps might be disposed to say this; and as the apostle is careful to guard every point, he here states that if a man should take the...
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 maint...
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...
THE PASTOR'S AIM (1 John 1:1-4)...
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, we can rely on him in his righteousness to forgive us our sins and to make us clean from all unr...
SINNED. App-128. LIAR. See 1 John 5:10; John 8:44. WORD. App-121....
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 do
Consciousness and Confession of Sin 8 10. Walking in the light involves the great blessings just stated, fellowship with God and with our brethren, and a share in the purifying blood of Jesus. But it...
_that we have not sinned_ This is not the same as -that we have no sin" (1 John 1:8), and therefore we have once more not repetition, but expansion and strengthening of what precedes. -Have no sin" re...
ΟΥ̓Χ ἩΜΑΡΤΉΚΑΜΕΝ. This is the third false profession. It is not equivalent to ἁμαρτίαν οὐκ ἔχομεν (1 John 1:8), which refers to the sinful state, the inward principle: whereas this indicates the _resu...
8–10. CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONFESSION OF SIN 8–10. Walking in the light involves the great blessings just stated,—fellowship with God and with our brethren, and a share in the purifying blood of Jesus....
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 doct
ΕΪΠΩΜΕΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить; здесь в значении "претендовать". ΉΜΑΡΤΉΚΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΆΜΑΡΤΆΝΩ (G264) грешить. _Perf._ указывает на непреходящий результат действия в пр...
IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED, &C.— "If, after all, we assert that we have not transgressed the law of God, so as to need pardon through the Blood, and sanctification by the Spirit of Christ, we,...
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...
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Parallel to . WE HAVE NOT SINNED - commission of actual sins, even after regeneration and conversion; whereas in ,...
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...
1:10 say (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 it...
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...
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...
[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 ...
The heresy of Perfectionism. Some might not say, with the Antinomians, that they were absolved from the obligation of the moral law, but they maintained that they were done with sin, had no more sinfu...
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...
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...
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...
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 o...
(7) If we say that we have not sinned, we make him (i) a liar, and his (k) word is not in us. (7) A repeat of the former verse, in which he condemned all of sin without exception: so much so that if...
REFLECTIONS Reader! You and I may well enter upon this blessed portion of God with prayer. And surely, under divine teaching, we shall end it in praise. Oh! who can contemplate Him whom John saw, hea...
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...
10_We make him a liar _He goes still further, that they who claim purity for themselves blaspheme God. For we see that he everywhere represents the whole race of man as guilty of sin. Whosoever then t...
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...
IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED,.... Have never sinned, in time past as well as now; deny original sin, and that men are born in sin, but affirm they come into the world pure and holy; and assert th...
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Ver. 10. _We make him a liar_] For the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, Romans 11:32. _See Trapp on "_ Rom 11:...
_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...
WE MAKE HIM A LIAR; treat him as a liar, for he says all have sinned; and the facts that all die, and that all who are saved must be saved through the death of Christ, prove this. Romans 3:23; Romans...
Sin and its forgiveness:...
IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED, WE MAKE HIM A LIAR, AND HIS WORD IS NOT IN US. What St. John here discusses is the heresy of perfectionism, the idea which is held by many people to this day, namely...
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...
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...
IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED: see 1 JOHN 1:8,9. WE MAKE HIM A LIAR; which they make him that believe not his word, 1 JOHN 5:10, expressly charging all men with sin, ROMANS 3:19,23. AND, con
1 John 1:10 If G1437 say G2036 (G5632) that G3754 have G264 not G3756 sinned G264 (G5758) make...
‘If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.' John once again returns to the question of those who declare themselves in no need of forgiveness. They, he says, ar...
1 John 1:10. In a third use of the universal. IF WE SAY, the great anti-christian lie is once more repeated, but as usual in a strengthened form, THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED that we are not in fact sinne...
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...
IF WE SAY (εαν ειπωμεν). As in verses 1 John 1:6; 1 John 1:8.WE HAVE NOT SINNED (ουχ αμαρτηκαμεν). Perfect active indicative of αμαρτανω. This is a denial of any specific acts of sin, while in ver...
1 John 1:8 I. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." It is not deliberate falseness that we are here warned against, but a far more subtle form of falsehood...
1 John 1:1. _That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;_ The fact that Chris...
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: Fellowship...
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...
IF WE SAY. If we refuse to confess our sin to God, we are by our _refusal_ saying that we have not sinned. Since God says we have sinned (Romans 3:23; James 1:13-15), we call Him a liar when we deny i...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 1:10 HAVE NOT SINNED. See note on 3:9–10. HIS WORD IS NOT IN US. Until a person recognizes sin and the need for salvation, the gospel has not changed him....
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;...
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...
CHAPTER 5 Ver. 1. _Every one that believeth_, with a living faith, which extends itself to charity, and worketh by love, _that Jesus is the Christ_, i.e., the Messiah, the Saviour and Redeemer of the...
_He_ _that believeth in the Son of God hath the witness in himself._ 1st Because he hath in him the thing attested by God, namely this truth, that Christ is the Son of God. 2d. Because he hath in him...
_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. I...
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...
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 y...
1 John 1:8; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 4:4; 1 John 5:10; 2 John 1:2;...
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 E...
Yet still we are to retain, even to our lives' end, a deep sense of our past sins. Still if we say, we have not sinned, we make him a liar — Who saith, all have sinned. And his word is not in us — We...
Note here, The impiety and blasphemy of those who affirm themselves to be in. state of sinless perfection: they do not only lie themselves, but intepretatively, and as much as in them is, they make Go...