1 John Chapter 2 Part 1

 

1 John Chapter 2

Part 1 Vs 1-11

 

Introduction to John:

1:1-3 Personal testimony – John knew JESUS in the flesh as one of the 12 JESUS  called to be His disciples (Matthew 10:1-4). He also knew JESUS in the supernatural by his experience with Peter and James on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-9). Then John knew JESUS in the SPIRIT after His Resurrection (Mark 16:14-18), so when John talks about JESUS he knew JESUS more than most in His day and more than all of us since.

 

2:1 That you may not sin! (Proverbs 1 The call to not sin and the result of sinning; Hebrews 7:24-25, 9:27-28; JESUS said twice, “Go and sin no more!” John 5:1-15, 8:1-12)

 

:2 Verse 1 ends with the statement, “And if any one sins, we have an Advocate with The Father, JESUS CHRIST The Righteous!” John continues in verse 2, “And He Himself is the Propitiation* for our sins and not only ours but for the whole world!” That is the Gospel! (Romans 3:21-26; John 1:29, 3:16-17)

 

:3-6 These are critical statements to Believers, what you say has to match your lifestyle!

:3 “Now by this we know that we know Him, IF we keep His Commandments!” (John 8:31-32)

:4“He who says, ‘I know Him.’ and does not keep his Commandments is a Liar; and The Truth Is Not in him!” (John 3:18-21,30-36)

:5 “But whoever keeps His Word truly the Love of GOD is Perfected in him; by this we know that we are in Him.” (John 14:19-24; 1 John 5:20-21)

:6 “He who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk just as He Walked!” (John 15:1-8 JESUS tells us to abide in Him 4 times and if we do not abide in Him we will not produce fruit 3 times.)

 

:7-11 True Light and Love, do you have them in your Life?

:7 “…no new Commandment to you but an old Commandment which you have heard from the Beginning.” (The Law given by Moses; The Word spoken by JESUS; 1 John 3:10-11, 21-23, 5:20-21)

:8 “Again a New commandment…which thing is True in Him and in you (us).” (This comes out of abiding in JESUS, John 13:34-35, 15:9-14) “…because darkness is passing away and True Light is already Shining.” (John 1:6-9, 3:18-21; 1 John 1:5-7)

:9 “He who says he is in The Light and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.” (Matthew 5:21-22, 43-48; 1 Corinthians 13:1-3) “…is in darkness until now!” (The world’s love is nothing if you have the greatest expression of natural love but you do not abide in JESUS and He in you, your love is worthless.)

:10 “He who Loves his brother abides in Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.” (2 Peter 1:5-11)

:11 “But he who hates his brother is in darkness…because the darkness has blinded his eyes.” (Matthew 6:22-23; John 12:35-36)

 

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Matthew 6:24 Trusting GOD Above Money!

 

Matthew 6:24

Trusting GOD Above Money!

 

JESUS said, “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve GOD and mammon (Money)!”

 

Paul said in 1 Timothy 6:10, “ For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” (Proverbs 15:27; Ephesians 4:17-24)

 

JESUS said in Matthew 6:19-23, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is there your heart will be also! The lamp of the body is the eye, if therefore your eye is good (clear or healthy), your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is bad (evil or unhealthy), your whole body will be full of darkness, if therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness?”

 

JESUS said in Matthew 6:25-34, “…Seek first the Kingdom of GOD and His Righteousness  and all these things (shelter, drink & food and clothing) will be added to you; but do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about its own things, sufficient for the day is its own trouble!”

 

Does GOD want to make everyone prosperous and rich? No!

JESUS said in Luke 12:22-34 “…Therefore do not worry about your life… and do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink nor have an anxious mind; for all these things the nations of the world seek after and your Father knows that you need these things…Sell what you have and give alms, provide yourselves money bags that do not grow old, a treasure in Heaven that does not fail…” (Luke 12:12-21)

 

In Acts 20:35 Paul quoted JESUS as saying, “…It is more  Blessed to give than to receive!”

 

Does GOD want us to put our life’s desires before His Purpose for our life? No!

In Mark 8:34-38, JESUS said, “…Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. (JESUS’ cross was to die for our sins, our cross is to Obey GOD’s Plan for our life, Psalm 139:13-18)…for what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and losses his own soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”

 

One more example: JESUS was watching people give their offering at the Temple and noted a poor widow who put in two pennies, Luke 21:1-4, “…for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for GOD but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”

 

Romans 6:22-23, “But now having been freed from sin and having become slaves of GOD, you have your fruit to Holiness and The End, Everlasting Life; for the wages of sin is death, but the Gift of GOD is Eternal Life in CHRIST JESUS!”

 

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Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 Part 5

 

Ecclesiastes Chapter 7

Part 5 Vs 23-29

Complete Jewish Bible

 

When Solomon writes Ecclesiastes he seems disappointed and discouraged about the results of his life choices and how he sees the lives of others working out in the world.

Solomon knew the True and Living GOD JEHOVAH, he knew of the Promised Messiah but could not reconcile what he experienced and saw with the Promise. We have the Promised Messiah, JESUS CHRIST, we have no excuse for this kind of sorrow!

 

:23-24 All this I have put to the test of Wisdom (Isaiah 1:18; Proverbs 1:1-7), I said, “I will acquire Wisdom.”; but Wisdom remained far from me (Why?). That which exists is far away and deep, so deep that it cannot be discovered (Psalm 139:1-12; Proverbs 16:1-3; Matthew 10:26; 1Corinthians 2:6-11).

 

:25 So I turned myself and my thoughts to know, search out and seek Wisdom and the reasons behind things, also to know how foolish it is to be wicked and how stupid to act like a fool (Ecclesiastes 1:16-18; Isaiah 55:6, Jeremiah 26:11-14;  Matthew 6:33, 34).

[Solomon becomes king of Israel and prays to JEHOVAH for Wisdom to govern the people; and GOD Honors his prayer and gives him Wisdom beyond any man, wealth beyond any man, fame beyond any man; but Solomon added to himself (Not GOD) wives beyond any man and that was his downfall.]

 

:26 I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is a snare and whose hands are like prison chains (Proverbs 5, 7, 9:13-18). The man who Pleases GOD will escape her, but a sinner will be caught by her (Eve was deceived and talked Adam into sinning, Genesis 3:11-13; 1 Timothy 2:13-14).

 

:27-28 I have found this – says Kohelet (Preacher) – adding one thing to another to reach a conclusion, I searched a long time without finding it; one man in a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found (Ecclesiastes 1:1-2; Psalm 39:4-6).

 

:29 This is the only thing I have found that GOD made human beings upright, but they have devised many schemes (Genesis 1:26-28, 4:6-12, Proverbs 5:21-23; Ecclesiastes 12:9-14).

 

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Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 Part 4

 

Ecclesiastes Chapter 7

Part 4 Vs. 16-24

Complete Jewish Bible

 

When Solomon writes Ecclesiastes he seems disappointed and discouraged about the results of his life choices and how he sees the lives of others working out in the world.

Solomon knew the True and Living GOD JEHOVAH, he knew of the Promised Messiah but could not reconcile what he experienced and saw with the Promise. We have the Promised Messiah, JESUS CHRIST, we have no excuse for this kind of sorrow!

 

:16 So don’t be overly Righteous or overly Wise; why should you disappoint yourself (Proverbs 25:27; Jeremiah 9:23-24; Romans 12:3)?

:17 Don’t be overly wicked and don’t be foolish; why should you die before your time (Job 15:20, 30-32; Psalm 55:23; Proverbs 12:15; Titus 3:3)?

:18 Don’t grasp just one of these rules, take hold of the other as well; for he who is in Fear of GOD will live by both of them (Proverbs 3:7-8, 10:23, 26:12; 1 Corinthians 10:12).

 

:19 To a Wise man wisdom is better protection than ten rulers in a city (GOD’s Wisdom is better than all the city rulers combined Proverbs 21:22; Ecclesiastes 9:13-18).

 

:20 For there is not a Righteous person on the earth who does [only] good and never sins (1 Kings 8:46; Proverbs 20:9; Romans 3:23; 1 John 1:8-10).

 

:21-22 Also, don’t take seriously every word spoken, such as when you hear your servant speaking badly of you; because often, as you yourself know, you have spoken badly of others (Matthew 5:21-22, 7:1-2, 12:34-37; James 3:2; 1 John 3:1-15).

 

:23-24 All this I have put to the test of Wisdom (Isaiah 1:18; Proverbs 1:1-7), I said, “I will acquire Wisdom.”; but Wisdom remained far from me (Why?). That which exists is far away and deep, so deep that it cannot be discovered (Psalm 139:1-12; Proverbs 16:1-3; Matthew 10:26; 1Corinthians 2:6-11).

 

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Luke 10:22

 

Luke 10:22

NKJV

 

“All things have been delivered to Me by My Father and no one knows Who The Son is except The Father; and Who The Father is except The Son and the one to whom The Son wills to reveal Him.”

 

“All things have been delivered to Me by My Father and no one knows Who The Son is except The Father…”

John 3:30-35 John The Baptist speaking of JESUS says, “He must increase but I must decrease, He Who comes from Above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of he earth. He Who comes from Heaven is above all. What He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony. He who has received His testimony has certified that GOD is True! For He Whom GOD has sent speaks the Words of GOD, for GOD does not give The SPIRIT by measure. The Father Loves The Son and has given all things into His Hand.”

John 5:27 JESUS said, “For as The Father has Life in Himself so He has granted The Son to have Life in Himself, and has given Him authority to Execute Judgment also because He is The Son of Man.”

John 17:2 “JESUS spoke these Words, lifted up His eyes to Heaven and said: ‘Father the hour has come, Glorify Your Son that Your Son also may Glorify You, as You have given Him Authority over all flesh, that He shall give Eternal Life to as many as You have given Him.’”

 

“And no one knows Who The Father is except The Son and the one to whom The Son Wills to reveal Him.”

John 14:6, “JESUS said to him, I Am The Way, The Truth and The Life, no one comes to The Father except through Me!”

John 1:18, “No one has seen The Father at any time; The Only Begotten Son Who is in the Bossom of The Father, He has declared Him.”

John 6:43-47, “JESUS therefore answered and said to them, ‘Do not murmur among yourselves! No one can come to Me unless The Father Who sent Me draws him, and I Will Raise him up at The Last Day! It is written in the Prophets, “And they shall all be taught by GOD!” Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from The Father comes to Me! Not that anyone has seen The Father except He Who is from GOD; He has seen The Father. Most assuredly , I say to you, he who Believes in Me has Everlasting Life!’”

 

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Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 Part 3

 

Ecclesiastes Chapter 7

Complete Jewish Bible

Part 3 Vs. 11-17

 

When Soloman writes Ecclesiastes he seems disappointed and discouraged about the results of his life choices and how he sees the lives of others working out in the world.

Solomon knew the True and Living GOD JEHOVAH, he knew of the Promised Messiah but could not reconcile what he experienced and saw with the Promise. We have the Promised Messiah, JESUS CHRIST, we have no excuse for this kind of sorrow!

 

:11-12 Wisdom is good (Proverbs 9:10), along with possessions, an advantage to all who see the sun (Proverbs 4:18). For Wisdom is a shelter (Proverbs 9:1-6, 24:3-4) and money is a shelter (Proverbs 10:15, 18:11; Matthew 6:19-24, 19:23-24; Luke 12:16-21), but the advantage of Knowledge (Proverbs 1:6) is that Wisdom keeps the one who has it Alive (Proverbs 1:33, 3:13-18).

 

:13 Consider The Work of GOD (Psalm 90:1-2: Proverbs 8:25-26; Revelation 4:11); who can make straight what He has made crooked (Job 12:13-14; Isaiah 40:3-5; Matthew 3:1-3)?

 

:14 When things are going well enjoy yourself, but when things are going badly consider that GOD made the one alongside the other (Proverbs 5:21, 15:3; Matthew 5:45; Romans 8:28; James 1:2-3), so that people would learn nothing of their futures (Ecclesiastes 6:12).

 

:15 In my pointless life I have seen everything – from the righteous person perishing in his uprightness to the wicked one who lives a long life and keeps on doing wrong (Proverbs 8:10-15; when you do not understand, trust and wait John 16:12).

 

:16 So don’t be overly Righteous or overly Wise; why should you disappoint yourself (Proverbs 25:27; Jeremiah 9:23-24; Romans 12:3)?

 

:17 Don’t be overly wicked and don’t be foolish; why should you die before your time (Job 15:20, 30-32; Psalm 55:23; Proverbs 12:15; Titus 3:3)?

 

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Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 Part 2

 

Ecclesiastes Chapter 7

Complete Jewish Bible

Part 2 Vs. 4-10

 

When Solomon writes Ecclesiastes he seems disappointed and discouraged about the results of his life choices and how he sees the lives of others working out in the world.

Solomon knew the True and Living GOD JEHOVAH, he knew of the Promised Messiah but could not reconcile what he experienced and saw with the Promise. We have the Promised Messiah, JESUS CHRIST, we have no excuse for this kind of sorrow!

 

:4 The thoughts (heart) of the wise are in the house of mourning, but the thoughts (heart) of the fools are in the house of pleasure (Proverbs 6:24-27, 9:1-6).

 

:5-6 It is better to hear (listen too, not just hear) the rebukes of the wise (Psalm 141:5) than to listen to the songs of fools, for the laughter (Ecclesiastes 2:1-2) of fools is like the crackling (Lit. sound) of thorns burning under a pot; this too is pointless (thorns burn fast and produce no coals and the wisdom of fools is folly, Proverbs 23:9, 24:7).

 

:7 But oppression can make a wise man stupid (destroys a wise man’s reason, Exodus 23:9); also a gift (bribe) can destroy understanding (Exodus 23:8).

 

:8-9 The end of something is better tha its beginning (Matthew 19:28-30; Job 42:12), so the patient are better than the proud (Proverbs 14:29, 26:12; Galatians 5:22-24; Ephesians 4:1-3; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 2:20; Revelation 13:10, 14:6-12). Don’t be quick to get angry, for [only] fools nurse anger (Proverbs 15:1-2, 16:32, 17:14; Psalm 4:4; Ephesians 4:25-27).

 

:10 Don’t ask why the old days were better than now because that is a foolish question (there is no such thing as “The good old days.” Philippians 3:1-11)

 

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