My brethren, there are some among us tonight who are in the utmost danger; in a most emphatic sense they are lost already, for they are without God, and without Christ, strangers to the commonwealth of Israel. It is child's work, certainly; but assuredly it is not child's play. 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From Spurgeon's Autobiography. Today we remain in Christ, and hope for ever to remain in him, as our Head. In every one of us the Father desires to see Christ, that so Christ may be glorified in every one of us. "He hath chosen us in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." The Old Testament The Gospels Email / username or password was incorrect! And then, again, there must be in us a strong resolve that we will walk as Christ walked; for our Lord himself did not lead in that holy life without stern resolution. 2905. When weary and worn, still to be busy; to deny, yourself things which may be allowable, but which if allowable to you would be dangerous to others this also is like the Lord. 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 Christ was really in the flesh, that he was no phantom, no shadow mocking the eyes that looked upon him, is exceedingly important, and hence . And he is the way all people can have their sins taken away too. The Whole Bible conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy At times he was incapable of activity by reason of the weakness which he had incurred through fasting, and colds and exposure, There is no need to inflict useless torture upon the body. What then? Prophets Our schoolmasters were not quite so wise then as schoolmasters are now. A Christian man in a discussion attempted to defend the truth, but his opponent grew angry, and cried out vehemently again and again, "Hear me! You certainly have not had the purpose of God fulfilled in you, dear friend, unless you have been conformed to the image of his dear Son. John 2:1-11. Can you not even now give one look to him who died for you? 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. I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his names sake. May God purify his professing church since even in her own loins she breeds adversaries of the faith. Major Prophets Minor Prophets You have overcome that wicked one who would easily have overcome you if you had been left to fight him by yourselves. 1 John 2. Amen and Amen. 9. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." Spurgeon's Bible Commentary 1 John 2. Scriptures Relating to the Second Coming, Apocalypse of the Gospels - Milton S. Terry, Commentary on Matthew 24 - J. Not, he that doeth some great thing to be seen of men, not, he that builds a row of almshouses, or leaves a great mass of money to charity when he dies, because he could not possibly carry it away with him, not, he that sounds a trumpet before him to let everybody know what a good man he is; not, he that must needs outdistance everybody else; but, he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honour and everlasting joy. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. But, listen. 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The first thing about a Christian is initiation, initiation into Christ: the next thing is imitation, the imitation of Christ. As a finger is nothing without the head, as the whole body is nothing without the head, so should we be nothing without our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace looks towards holiness, that there should be a people called forth to whom Christ should be the elder brother, the firstborn among many brethren. Why, it becomes to them a thing of contempt. Here again John repeats his former statement concerning the young men, but he adds to it because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you. There is a purpose in the repetition of each case, it is to emphasize the importance of the apostolic declarations. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Does not that text draw a very sharp distinction between those who love the Lord, and those who love him not? The Immortality of the Soul:
And you and I also must delight in God. He will so instruct you that you shall know all that is for your souls good, and for his own glory. but he always said "Come!" Do you blame them that it is so? John 2:1-11. O child of God, as thou wouldst fear to drink poison, as thou wouldst flee from a serpent, dread sin! Can True Christians Commit Apostasy? When we read the word "ought," if we are honest men, we begin to look about us and to make enquiries as to the reason and the measure of this obligation. If Jesus bids us do anything, he first does it himself. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ He is anxious that they should not sin, he knows they do, and that if they say they do not, they lie. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.. - Hal Licino, Why Modern Liberalism is Contrary to Christianity, Matthew 24 The End of the Holy City - Morrison Lee, Scripture Charts As Relates to the Second Coming, The Beast of Revelation Revealed - Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry, The Destruction of Jerusalem - Proof of Christianity, The Last Days According to Jesus - R. C. Sproul, All the N.T. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed ", You must enable JavaScript to view all available content on this page, Counterfeit Cross updated - We Walk by Faith Pt II - Taking Up Our Cross. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. The Nature of Man - Dualistic or Holistic? This is a terrible condition for anyone to be in, to say that he knows Christ, and yet to have the Holy Spirit calling him a liar because he is not keeping Christs commandments. At last the good man answered, "No, I shall not hear you, nor shall you hear me; but let us both sit down and hear the word of the Lord." Now, secondly, CONSIDER WHEREIN THIS WALKING WITH CHRIST AS HE WALKED CONSISTS. And so it is with unholy Christians, too. Gender Revolution - What are they teaching your kids? Listen to this text, "Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." There is a "needs be" to every godly man that he should do what he ought. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible Take comfort, believer, from that declaration. January 30, 1887. The Old Testament Let those that want them have these novelties, these constant changes we who believe in Jesus have something far better, even the promise of eternal life. He hath given his own Son to die for us, that we may die to sin; he has given him to live that we may live like him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:6-13. of Scripture. The Christian & Politics: Has the Contemporary Church Become Obsessed With Political Solutions? General Epistles - Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. The Spirit of God has anointed all the chosen of God who are regenerated, and he dwelleth with them and in them. Poor souls, abiding under the wrath of God! 2 My dear children, I write this letter to you so that you will not sin. In Him: Like Him. ", Counterfeit Cross - Bear or Burn: The Fruit of Obedience in the Parables of Christ - updated, Counterfeit Cross - What is a "Carnal Christian"? But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and in truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, we shall abide in him. Are not actions far more forcible than words? 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. Pentateuch Why, it was that which prepared him for the agony of his bloody sweat, and for the "Why hast thou forsaken me?" And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 1 John 2 Commentary; ANONYMOUS. Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. Poetical Books 1 John 2:3-6. The Whole Bible Commentary on 1 John 2:24-29. Christ does not teach us a Jesuitical system in which error and falsehood are mixed up with truth; the gospel is all truth, and to those who believe it we may say, Ye know the truth, and ye also know that no lie is of the truth., 1 John 2:22-23. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? 1 John 2:18. 1 John 2:7-9. If I, then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet." My little children, these things I write unto you, that ye sin not. Twice, you see, John says the same thing about the fathers, and he says nothing more concerning them; but truly to have known him that is from the beginning is practically to know all that even the fathers need to know or can know, for this knowledge includes all other that is worth knowing. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. There is nothing about God but what is delightful to a saint. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. A SERMON PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 1904, DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, SEP. 3RD, 1876. WE know that the Saviour spoke of spiritual, not of carnal things, and he spoke of himself not as being in any sense meat for our bodies that could not be but as . 1 John 2:15. We have fled for refuge to him who is the hope set before us in the gospel; even as David and his men sheltered themselves in the eaves of En-gedi, so we hide ourselves in Christ. 1 John 2:17. By his person and personal names. We preach here in the pulpit; but what can we do, unless you preach yonder at home? 1 John 2:1. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Prophets 2. 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. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. The Spirit of God will teach you as you need to know. Message. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Observe, And this, beloved, again, must all be the fruit of the one Spirit that is in Christ and in us. It is not possible for us to understand the rest of truth if we do not believe in Christ, who is the Truth. For every curse he gave a blessing,,. 1 John 2:1,2. Such self-denial as may be helpful to the weak you ought to practise. Rich men glory in wealth, famous men in valour, great men in honour, and I in "mine own God." C.H. Will you not turn the eye of faith that way, and trust him who was nailed to the tree on your behalf? 1 John 3:1-2. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. It is this that make us bold to preach the Gospel to every creature, since we know there is no limit in the value of the atonement, though still we know that the design of it is for the chosen people of God alone. Those love-visits, those near and dear communings which his holy heart had with the Father were his secret meat and drink. The Gospels I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. He yielded himself up to come under law to God, and to do the Fathers will. Is Sovereign the Best Descriptor for God? 1 John 2:15. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandment, is a liar and the truth is not in him. - James P. Shelly, Genesis Week - Refuting Evolution - 100 Videos, The Enormity of the Error of Perverting the Gospel. 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If he were not perfectly able to meet all our other wants, if he were an expiation and nothing else, we should glory in him as our atoning sacrifice, for we always put that to the front, and magnify the virtue of his precious blood beyond everything: but at the same time we need an example, and it is delightful to find it where we find our pardon and justification. B. Lightfoot, Consummation of the pre-Messianic Age and the Parousia, Destruction of Jerusalem vs. Our Saviour had lived on the earth for thirty years, and had worked no miracle. Major Prophets And manifested His glory: According to John 2:1, this miracle happened on the third day. Our Saviour had lived on the earth for thirty years, and had worked no miracle. LSB NET RSV ASV YLT DBY WEB HNV. Yet the Church, for the most part, has allowed it to go unnoticed. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. It is you preaching in your shops, in your kitchens, in your nurseries, in your parlours, in the streets, which will tell on the masses. - Charles Spurgeon was the most extraordinary preacher of his day. If, then, the Spirit of God dwell in you (and if it do not, you are not in Christ), it must work in you conformity to Christ that you should walk even as he walked. There is no room in us for two loves. A loving spirit, kind, generous, forgiving, unselfish, seeking the good of others,-this is one of the best proofs that our natural darkness has gone, and that true spiritual light is within us. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. The Apostle John warns the church and by extension he warns us that the hour has already come that there are many antichrist's in the world. Prophets The self-denials which we practise should be such as he prescribes us. 1 John 2:6. It is the nature of children to imitate their parents. Miscellaneous or unknown texts: . A complete set of Spurgeon's sermons is available in e-text format from Ages Software. 1 John 2:5. Sermon. and another said, "We heard of these people that they love their Christ, and love other men so that they would even die for love of their brethren; but many of them do not love as well as the heathen whom they despise." Christian love is by no means so plentiful as it might be, nor holy living, either. : A Closer Look At A Popular Tradition, Audio of "Church Leaders and the Use of Honorific Titles", The Nativity Story - Download A 16min Edited Version for Christmas, Binding and Loosing (Matthew 16:19) - w/audio, What does "God blesses those who bless Israel really mean? Your partnership makes all we do possible. Do Not Love the World. He has left his footprints that we may set our feet in them.Will we not joyfully fix our feet upon this royal road? What does the phrase "gnashing of teeth" mean? He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. The Nature Of The Death Threatened As The Penalty Of Sin - Edward White, The Penalty of Death for Disobedience - Froom, Traditionalism and the (Not So) Second Death - Chris Date, Biblical Examples of Everlasting Destruction, Destroyed For Ever: An Examination of the Debates Concerning Annihilation and Conditional Immortality, Eternal Destruction Is Decreed Doom of Wicked - Leroy Edwin Froom, Further Biblical Support for Everlasting Destruction, The Destruction of the Finally Impenitent - Clark H. Pinnock, Biblical Analysis of Claimed Support Texts for Eternal Torture, Challenge to the Doctrine of Eternal Torment, Future Punishment is Eternal - Henry Constable - 1875, MAJOR Problems for the Eternal Torment Position, The Doctrine Of Future Rewards And Punishments In The Old Testament - Edward White, The Final End of the Wicked - Edward Fudge - Audio Interview, The Nature of the Future Punishment of the Wicked - C. F. Hudson, Thirty Questions For Teachers Of Eternal Torment, Universal Restoration Substituted for Eternal Torment - Froom. Ought we not to be very grateful to Christ that he deigns to be our example? For John, the basics of Christianity are summarized by adherence to the truth (v. 4), love (v. 5), and obedience (v.6). As it was the truth that was revealed to them at the first, there was no need of a later revelation to correct the mistakes of the first, as some foolishly and falsely teach nowadays. John:6:55. 1:4. Their commentaries will help you understand, enjoy and apply what God's word says to you. He cannot be a Christian unless this be true of him, and be cannot fully enjoy his religion unless he assuredly knows that he is in Christ, and can boldly say as much. "Be ye imitators of God, as dear children." Set the wandering stars in their spheres, and rule them by the majestic sway of the sun, and then they will keep their happy estate, but not else. Now he has broken through the obscurity, and he begins his public ministry by working a miracle. Do not love the world nor the things in the world. See to it, dear friends, that your nature is renewed that the Holy Ghost has wrought in you a resurrection from among the dead; for, if not, your walk and conversation will savour of death and corruption. He always did what was right, so he is able to defend us before God the Father. I do not care even about that; for unless you are made meek and lowly in heart you will not find rest unto your souls. How many times have I sung to myself that last dear stanza of the psalm, wherein the inspired poet sings, "For yet I know I shall him praise, Who graciously to me, The health is of my countenance, Yea, mine own God is he.". This charming duty is far too much neglected. The Hebrew Word Nephesh (Soul) - E. W. Bullinger. of the Traditional "Sermon" Concept, A Biblical Defense of Conditional Immortality, Biblically Dispelling the Myth of Eternal Torture. In the early ages some of the worst opponents of Christianity used to wing their shafts with the inconsistencies of Christian professors, and they were wise in their generation. You know what we did when we went to school. (16-21) The advantage of faith, love, and obedience. The mercy is that you are not past hope. John, with love in . Is My Church Really A New Testament Church? Mere head knowledge is all in vain, and all in vain our fears, unless we render a practical obedience to the commandments of Christ. 1 John 2:1. 2 Jesus is the way our sins are taken away. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. What a heart-searching test this is! For John, the basics of Christianity are summarized by adherence to the truth (v. 4), love (v. 5), and obedience (v.6). To find love, you had need send a lover; one whose soul is full of love is the most likely to discover it. You know what men say to unholy preachers: they bid them be silent or be consistent. In him was life, and that life was (efficiently and objectively) the light of men, Jn. He was born in Kelvedon, Essex in 1834, to a family of clerics. Still the Christian's object is sinless perfection, and though he will never have it till he gets to heaven . Whoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: , They who deny the Deity of Christ practically deny the Divine Fatherhood of God. And the third day there was a marriage in . 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. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 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. Johannine Writings They sniff at it. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Would you have the Lord miss his purpose? I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. May our lives be a mosaic of perfect obedience, and our deaths the completion of the fair design. Never mind me: never mind your friend: never mind the old doctor that you have been hearing so long. The glory of Jesus is found in His compassion, and this was a miracle full of compassion. Amen. 1 John 2:1-2. But I stop a minute. Eternal Torment or Complete Annihilation? Obedience is the law of every spiritual nature. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point
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