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Verse 19. _WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD_] Have the fullest proof of the
truth of Christianity, and of our own reconciliation to God through
the death of his Son.
_THE WHOLE WORLD LIETH IN WICKEDNESS._...
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AND WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD - We who are Christians. The apostle
supposed that true Christians might have so clear evidence on that
subject as to leave no doubt on their own minds that they were th...
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VI. CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 5:14-21
The conclusion of this great Epistle mentions first the practical
confidence which a believer may have, the outcome of that relationship
and fellowship with the Father...
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CONCLUSION. A reminder of the writer's purpose, an assertion of the
value and also the limitations of intercessory prayer, and a summary
of the teaching of the epistle.
1 JOHN 5:13. THAT. LIFE: John...
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We know that he who has received his birth from God does not sin, but
he whose birth was from God keeps him, and the Evil One does not touch
him.
We know that it is from God that we draw our being, a...
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LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
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WICKEDNESS. the wicked one, as 1 John 5:18. He is the prince of this
world (John 14:30, &c), and the god of this age (2 Corinthians 4:4)....
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The Sum of the Christian's Knowledge
18 20. The Epistle now draws rapidly to a close. Having briefly, yet
with much new material, retouched some of the leading ideas of the
Epistle, eternal life, fait...
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_And we know_ The conjunction must be omitted on abundant authority.
This introduces the second great fact of which the believer has sure
knowledge. And, as so often, S. John's divisions are not sharp...
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Conclusion and Summary
Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the
conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14 21) being a postscript or
appendix, analogous to chap. 21. of the Gos...
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ΟἼΔΑΜΕΝ. The conjunction must be omitted on abundant
authority. This introduces the second great fact of which the believer
has sure knowledge. And, as so often, S. John’s divisions are not
sharp, but...
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13–21. CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY
Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the
conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14–21) being a postscript
or appendix, analogous to chap. 21 of t...
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18–20. THE SUM OF THE CHRISTIAN’S KNOWLEDGE
18–20. The Epistle now draws rapidly to a close. Having briefly, yet
with much new material, retouched some of the leading ideas of the
Epistle, eternal lif...
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Ο'ΊΔΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать.
Def. perf. со значением _praes._ ΌΛΟΣ (G3650)
целый, полный,
ΚΕΊΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΕΪΜΑΙ (G2749)
лежать (RWP)....
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AND WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD, &C.— "And we are well satisfied that
we are so born of God, as to be partakers of a divine nature, which is
a powerful and abiding principle of all holiness; and that w...
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CHAPTER XVI
_HEREBY WE KNOW_
1 John 5:13-21
A.
_The text_
These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have
eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of
God...
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And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
wickedness.
WORLD LIETH IN WICKEDNESS, [ en (G1722) too (G3588) poneeroo (G4190)]
- rather, 'lieth in the wicked one,' as...
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VERSE 19. AND WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD.
By keeping ourselves from sin, we know that we are of God, that we are
God's children, belong to his family, the church of Christ. While this
is true, the wo...
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6 It is a remarkable fact that the word _ testify _ is used concerning
the Lord's baptism in water (Joh_1:34), and concerning His crucifixion
(Joh_19:35), and here again of the spirit (6). This is con...
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5:19 wicked (h-15) Or 'in wickedness.' This word, which may mean both,
is also used for 'the wicked one,' as ch. 3.12....
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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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(3) SOME PRACTICAL POINTS RECAPITULATED (1 John 5:18).
(_a_)
_God’s sons do not sin_ (1 John 5:18).
St. John refers back to “that ye may know” in 1 John 5:13, and
sums up three points from former po...
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CHAPTER 4
THE IMAGE OF ST. JOHN'S SOUL IN HIS EPISTLE
1 John 5:18
Much has been said in the last few years of a series of subtle and
delicate experiments in sound. Means have been devised of doing f...
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Our Security in God's Embrace. ὁ κόσμος : “Non creatura sed
seculares nomines et secundum concupiscentias viventes” (Clem.
Alex.). See note on 1 John 2:15. τῷ πονηρῷ, masc. as in
previous verse κεῖται...
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The Certainties of Christian Faith. St. John has been speaking of a
dark mystery, and now he turns from it: “Do not brood over it. Think
rather of the splendid certainties and rejoice in them.”...
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The Epistle is finished, and the Apostle now speaks his closing words.
“These things I wrote to you that ye may know that ye have eternal
life, even to you that believe in the name of the Son of God....
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ASK ACCORDING TO HIS WILL
1 John 5:13
We know that we have eternal life. The rope is in our hand bearing us
onward, but its ends are hidden from view in the past and in the
future. We also know that...
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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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"SIN LEADING TO DEATH"
John next wrote about a "sin leading to death." Several other passages
in scripture appear to speak of that sin (Hebrews 6:4-6; Hebrews
10:26-27; 2 Peter 2:20-22;...
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(18) [And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
wickedness.
(18) Every man must particularly apply to himself the general
promises, that we may certainly persuade ourselves, that...
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_And the whole world is seated in wickedness; [6] i.e. a great part of
the world. It may also signify, is under the wicked one; meaning the
devil, who is elsewhere called the prince of this world, tha...
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And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask
anything according to his will, he heareth us: (15) And if we know
that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petition...
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19_We are of God _He deduces an exhortation from his previous
doctrine; for what he had declared in common as to the children of
God, he now applies to those he was writing to; and this he did, to
sti...
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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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[AND] WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD,.... The sons of God, and regenerated
by him; this is known by the Spirit of God, which witnesses to the
spirits of the saints that they are the children of God; and b...
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_And_ we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
wickedness.
Ver. 19. _Lieth in wickedness_] As a lubber in a lake, as a carcase
in its slime. _In fermento tota iacet uxor, _ My wife li...
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_We know_, &c. As if he had said, Yet this gives no encouragement to
sin. On the contrary, it is an indisputable truth, _that whosoever is
born of God_ That is, regenerated and made a new creature; se...
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LIETH IN WICKEDNESS; under the influences of the wicked one....
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The obligations of divine sonship:...
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AND WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD, AND THE WHOLE WORLD LIETH IN
WICKEDNESS....
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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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18-21 All mankind are divided into two parties or dominions; that
which belongs to God, and that which belongs to the wicked one. True
believers belong to God: they are of God, and from him, and to h...
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And this he doth not exclusively assume to himself, but expresses his
charitable confidence of them to whom he writes, that it was their
privilege, in common with him, to be thus _of God, _ or born of...
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Origen de Principiis Book I
, of an earthly habitation: for he exercised power over those who were
obedient to his wickedness, since "the whole of this world"-for I term
this place of earth, world-"l...
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1 John 5:19 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 are G2070 (G5748) of G1537
God G2316 and G2532 whole...
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THEY ARE TO LOOK TO THE ONE WHO HAS BEGOTTEN THEM TO ETERNAL LIFE
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND KEEP THEMSELVES FROM SIN AND FROM THE WORLD
(1 JOHN 5:18).
‘We know that whoever is begotten of God does not...
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CONCLUSION (1 JOHN 5:14).
John concludes his letter with four major points.
1) The certainty that Christians can have of victory through prayer.
In the face of all that confronts them they can be bo...
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The Epistle winds up with three summarizing declarations, each of
which repeats the watchword, ‘we know,' taken, but in a better
sense, from the Gnostic ‘we know:' the first, 1 John 5:18, asserts
the...
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OF GOD
(εκ του θεου). See 1 John 3:10; 1 John 4:6 for this
idiom.LIETH IN THE EVIL ONE
(εν τω πονηρω κειτα). Present middle indicative of the
defective verb κειμα, to lie, as in Luke 2:12. Πονηρω...
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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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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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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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WE KNOW. See Colossians 1:13 and note. "Even though the Evil One holds
the whole world in his grasp, we have escaped through Christ!!! We
know that we belong to God because we are now safe in the king...
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_We know that we are of God _
ALL TRUE BELIEVERS ARE OF GOD, AND SO SEPARATED FROM THE WORLD LYING
IN WICKEDNESS
I. How true believers are of God.
1. By creation; and so all things are of God (Roma...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:13 Final Call to Faith and Understanding.
“Know” occurs seven times in these verses. This indicates John’s
focus on the assurance of Christian faith and salvation....
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:19 WE ARE FROM GOD. Christians have been
spiritually reborn. In that sense they are children of God. THE WHOLE
WORLD. See note on 2:15....
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 John 5:13 may be treated as a summary and conclusion. They divide
into three parts:
1. Faith in the Son of God, eternal life, and love of the brethren
showing itsel...
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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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1 John 3:14; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:4; 1 John 4:4; 1 John 4:5;...
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We are of God [ε κ τ ο υ θ ε ο υ ε σ μ ε ν]. For the
phrase ei=nai ejk to be from, see on John 1:46. For ejsmen we are, see
on 3 1. John expresses the relation of believers to God by the
following phr...
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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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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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We know that we are children of God — By the witness and the fruit
of his Spirit, 1 John 3:24. But the whole world — All who have not
his Spirit, not only is "touched" by him, but by idolatry, fraud,...