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Verse 1 John 5:3. _FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD_] This the love of God
necessarily produces. It is vain to pretend love to God while we live
in opposition to his will.
_HIS COMMANDMENTS_] To love him...
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FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS - This
constitutes true love; this furnishes the evidence of it.
AND HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT GRIEVOUS - Greek, “heavy” -
βαρεῖαι bareiai; t...
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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...
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The marks of true children of God are a correct view of Christ's
person, love to God and one another, obedience to God's commandment,
and faith, this being the victorious principle by which the world...
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LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
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a For this is the love of God, that we should keep his commandments;
and his commandments are not heavy, because everything that is born of
God conquers the world.
John reverts to an idea which is ne...
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LOVE. App-135.
THAT. Greek. _hina._ Keeping His commandments is. result of His love
being shed abroad in our hearts (Romans 5:5). Compare Psalms 119:97;
Psalms 119:119;...
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Faith is the Source of Love, the Victory over the World and the
Possession of Life
1. _Whosoever believeth_ Or, _Every one that believeth_: the
construction is identical with that in 1Jn 2:29, 1 John...
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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...
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_For this is the love of God_ Or, _For the love of God is this_, i.e.
consists in this: see on 1 John 1:5. The truth implied in 1 John 5:2,
that love involves obedience, is here explicitly stated. Com...
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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...
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3. ΑὝΤΗ ΓΆΡ ἘΣΤΙΝ. ‘_This_ is what it tends towards;
_this_ is its outcome’: see on 1 John 1:5. Love implies obedience.
Comp. John 14:15; John 14:21; J
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THE COMMANDMENTS NOT GRIEVOUS
1 John 5:3. _His commandments are not grievous_.
IT is a painful office which I have to discharge at this time. I must
vindicate religion from an aspersi...
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FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD,— The love of God is a principle in the
heart of a regenerated man, which leads him to keep the commandments
of God; and which cannot be visibly manifested any other way; f...
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CHAPTER XIV
_RIGHTEOUSNESSDEMONSTRATION OF LOVE_
1 John 4:17-21; 1 John 5:1-3
A.
_The Text_
Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the
day of judgement; because as he is...
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For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his
commandments are not grievous.
THIS IS - the love of God consists in this.
NOT GRIEVOUS - as many think them. It is 'the way of...
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VERSE 3. FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD.
The natural expression of our love of God that is to say, its outward
expression is in obedience. We obey the commands; this shows our love.
By this standard we...
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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...
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THE LOVE, OBEDIENCE, AND ASSURANCE OF BELIEVERS
1. The reason for brotherly love.
2. This is the converse of 1 John 4:19. Love to God and love to the
brethren being inseparable, each is the test of...
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HOW CAN I BE SURE?
1 JOHN
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 5
*FAITH OVERCOMES THE *WORLD (1 JOHN 5:1-5)
V1 Jesus is the *Christ. Everyone who believes this has been born of
God. Everyone who loves the fa...
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V.
(8.)
FAITH THE TEST OF LOVE (1 John 5:1).
(_a_)
_Its power_ (1 John 5:1).
(_b_)
_The evidence on which it rests_ (1 John 5:6).
(_c_)
_What it contains_ ...
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CHAPTER 15
BIRTH AND VICTORY
1 John 5:3
ST. JOHN here connects the Christian Birth with Victory. He tells us
that of the supernatural life the destined and (so to speak) natural
end is Conquest.
No...
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What makes the Commandments of God easy. “Every one that hath faith
that Jesus is the Christ hath been begotten of God; and every one that
loveth Him that begat loveth him that hath been begotten of H...
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ἡ ἀγ. τ. Θεοῦ, here objective genitive; contrast 1 John
2:5. ἴνα ecbatic (see Moulton's _Gram_. of _N.T. Gk._, i. pp. 206
9), where the classical idiom would require τὸ ἡμᾶς
τηρεῖν. _Cf._ John 17:3; L...
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THE VICTORIOUS LIFE
1 John 5:1
The “begotten” children of God are constantly referred to in this
Epistle. The word indicates the communication, in regeneration, of the
divine nature, of which the fi...
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The final subject is our fellowship with God in life. This is
fundamental, and is shown to be so. The relationship between the life
of God and the love of God is self-evident, and that is equally true...
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KEEPING ON KEEPING GOD'S COMMANDMENTS
If anyone really loves God, he will keep on keeping His commandments
(1 John 5:3; John 14:15; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8). John explained that
those commandments are n...
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(3) For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: (4)
and his commandments are not (d) grievous.
(3) The reason: to love God, is to keep his commandments, which being
so, and seeing that...
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And his commandments are not heavy; not burdensome. Not but that they
comprehend what seems hard to human frailty, and especially to men
carried away with the love of vanities in this world, who thin...
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Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and
everyone that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten
of him. (2) By this we know that we love the children of God, when...
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_THE TEST OF LOVE_
‘For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.’
1 John 5:3
There are presented to us in these few words two salient features of
our Christian life.
I. ITS LOFTIEST...
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_THE EASY YOKE_
‘His commandments are not grievous.’
1 John 5:3
Here we see the restfulness of the Christian life. There is no real
burden in Christ’s commandments, for, as He said, His yoke is eas...
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3_His commandments are not grievous _This has been added, lest
difficulties, as it is usually the case, should damp or lessen our
zeal. For they who with a cheerful mind and great ardor have pursued a...
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But a danger exists on the other side. It may be, that we love the
brethren because they are pleasant to us; they furnish us with
agreeable society, in which our conscience is not wounded. A
counter-p...
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FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS,....
Keeping of the commandments of God is an evidence of love to God; this
shows that love is not in word and tongue, in profession only, bu...
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For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his
commandments are not grievous.
Ver. 3. _For this is, &c._] _See Trapp on "_ Joh 14:15 _"_
His commandments are not] _See Trapp on...
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_Whosoever_, &c. The apostle having discoursed in the preceding
Chapter s, on the privileges of the children of God, now adds a
further illustration of the great essential parts of their character,
in...
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NOT GRIEVOUS; not burdensome and oppressive. Compare Matthew 11:30....
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FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS; AND HIS
COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT GRIEVOUS....
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THE POWER, TESTIMONY, AND SUBSTANCE OF FAITH.
The wonderful power of faith:...
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“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and
everyone that loveth Him that begat loveth him also that is begotten
of Him.” The faith that Jesus is the Christ is here seen to
corre...
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1-5 True love for the people of God, may be distinguished from
natural kindness or party attachments, by its being united with the
love of God, and obedience to his commands. The same Holy Spirit tha...
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FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, i.e. this is the most lively, certain
expression and effect of our love to God, our keeping his
commandments, which are so little grievous, that true love can make no
diff...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III
For the love meant is the love of God. "And this is the love of God,"
says John, "that we keep His commandments; "[157]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata B...
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1 John 5:3 For G1063 this G3778 is G2076 (G5748) love G26 God G2316
that G2443 keep G5083 ...
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‘Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God
and do his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments. And his commandments are not grievous.'
And how...
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1 John 5:3. FOR, THE LOVE OF GOD IS THIS IT IS IN US FOR THIS END,
THAT WE SHOULD KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. Here, as constantly, some truths
are suppressed. The apostle had seemed to assert that the love...
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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...
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THIS
(αυτη)--THAT
(ινα). Explanatory use of ινα with αυτη, as in John 17:3, to
show what "the love of God" (1 John 4:9; 1 John 4:12) in the objective
sense is, not mere declamatory boasting ...
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1 John 5:3
Love for God's Commands.
I. People talk of "going to heaven" as if admission to future
happiness had nothing to do with the bent and tone of their minds and
their inward being here on eart...
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1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of
God._
Take comfort, believer, from that declaration. You have accepted Jesus
as the Christ the anointed of God, so the apostle aff...
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1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of
God:_
These are very simple words, but they contain a great depth of
meaning. The teaching conveyed by this Epistle is very profou...
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CONTENTS: Faith the overcoming principle. The advantages of faith in
salvation, prayer, preservation from sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan, John.
CONCLUSION: He who has been born agai...
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1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of
God._ The faith which embraces him as the Lord of glory, has a
regenerating influence on the heart. The immediate fruit is love to...
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MEANS THAT WE OBEY. See John 14:23 and note. We cannot divorce _faith_
from _action_ (James 2:22). ARE NOT TOO HARD. _MacKnight_ says: "To a
good man in ordinary circumstances, the keeping of God's co...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:1 Faith in the Son as the Way to Life. So
far, John has written much about love and obedience, but not so much
about faith. He now shifts to the importance of believing in the...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:3 NOT BURDENSOME. God’s love existing in
his people gives them the desire to love and please him. Rightly
understood and followed, God’s COMMANDMENTS bring believers great
joy...
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FAITH THE SOURCE OF LOVE, AND LOVE THE FRUIT OF FAITH
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
GENUINE faith in Christ is the sure sign of the new life—faith in
the sense of living, daily trust. The faith whi...
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EXPOSITION
1 JOHN 5:1
Faith is the source of love.
1 JOHN 5:1
The verse is a sorites. To believe in the Incarnation involves birth
from God. To be born of God involves loving God. To love God invol...
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Chuck Smith
Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God: and every
one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him
(1 John 5:1).
So I say, "I love Jesus. He is...
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2 John 1:6; Daniel 9:4; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 10:13;...
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Grievous [β α ρ ε ι α ι]. Lit., heavy. The word occurs six
times in the New Testament. Acts 20:29, violent, rapacious; "grievous
wolves" : 2 Corinthians 10:10, weighty, impressive, of Paul's letters
:...
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SOME THINGS WE MAY KNOW
1 John 5:1, _1 John 5:11_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There may be some places where uncertainties lend enchantment to the
view, but in matters of life and death we want full assuranc...
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SALVATION MADE SURE
1 John 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Taking stock is a very important thing with the business man. Laying a
good foundation is a very important task with the builder, Feeling
the. pulse...
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For this is the love of God — The only sure proof of it. That we
keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous — To
any that are born of God....
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Our apostle in these words gives. threefold description of. sincere
Christian. He describes him,
1. By his inward affection to God and Christ, and that is love; this
is shed abroad in his heart.
2....