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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links 2016 December 15
The Adoration of the Trinity (1511)
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
German Renaissance Style
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: In 1 John 2, John tells us that we should not sin. If we do, however, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. His sacrifice appeases and satisfies God. It is a propitiation for "the whole world." This means the world collectively, not distributively: the world as a whole, not every single individual in the world. This is clear from verse 17 which states that the world and its lusts pass away, but he who does God's will abides forever. In other words, some individuals pass away. Others abide forever (1-2).
Those who know God keep his commandments. Those who claim to know God but don't keep his commandments are liars, and the truth is not in them. When someone obeys God, it is because the love of God is perfected in him. Those who say they abide in him should walk as he walked (3-6).
John is not writing a new commandment. It is the old commandment, to love, which came down from the beginning of the world. Someone who hates his brother is in darkness, but he who loves his brother abides in the light. Those who hate stumble and wander in darkness (7-11).
He encourages fathers, young men, and little children to recognize that their sins are forgiven, that they know him who has been from the beginning, that they are strong, that the word of God abides in them, and they have overcome the wicked one (12-14).
He admonishes us to love not the world and he things in it. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world, who live in accord with the lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The world passes away, and so do it's lusts. But he who does the will of God abides forever (15-17).
The last time has come. Many antichrists have arisen. These antichrists left the company of the believers, showing that they were not of the number of the believers. Believers have an unction (anointing or endowment) to discern the truth. A liar denies that Jesus is the Christ. He who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist. He who denies the Son does not have the Father. He, therefore, exhorts them to keep the message they heard within them and to continue in the Son and the Father. The reward is eternal life (18-25).
John has written these things concerning those who seduce this readers. But, as he said in verse 20, they have an anointing or endowment which helps them discern the truth so that they abide in Christ (26-27).
So John encourages his readers to abide in Christ so that they may not be ashamed when Christ returns. He is righteous, and everyone who does righteousness is born of him (28-29).]
[Sermons: John Macarthur. Various. ]
[Illustration: In today's painting, The Father presents the Son in his atoning role as the crucified savior. Today's chapter, with its multiple references to the Father, the Son, and cleansing from sin, has a similar theme to today's painting. ]
RESOURCES
[THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: 1 John 2: Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 45:17; Romans 9:33.
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[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
*** For Additional word studies use one of the Greek Interlinear Bibles below. ***
Book Outline:
1 JOHN (COVENANT LIVING: Fellowship)
1. The Foundation for True Spiritual Fellowship With God & Believers (1 John 1:1 - 1 John 2:14) - 90 A.D. Israel
2. Practicing the Well-Founded Life (1 John 2:15 - 1 John 5:21) - 90 A.D. Israel
1 John 2
1. The Foundation for True Spiritual Fellowship With God & Believers (1 John 1:1 - 1 John 2:14) - 90 A.D. Israel
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
2. Practicing the Well-Founded Life (1 John 2:15 - 1 John 5:21) - 90 A.D. Israel
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.
16 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 the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever [into the eons].
18 Little children, it is the last time [lit., "hour"]: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time [lit., "hour"].
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.
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also..
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need [have need] not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
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