"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God" 1 John 3:1

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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

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"His Commandments

Although Christians have been freed from the yoke of the law which, as Peter said, "neither our fathers nor we were able to bear" (Acts 15:10), the righteous requirements of the law are fulfilled in true believers of the Lord Jesus Christ, "who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (Rom. 8:4). Christians do not have the ten commandments, given to Israel, as their rule of life [Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the Law, through the body of Christ, that ye should be joined to Another,—to Him who was raised from among the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God, Romans 7:4]. We have Christ as our example, a divine nature that has the capacity for pleasing God, and the Holy Spirit as the power to enable us to walk for God's pleasure in this world. The Gospels show us what Christ was for God in the world, and His commandments were but the formal expression of what was livingly expressed in Himself, for He never asked others to do anything but what He perfectly expressed in His own life before them.

What are the Lord's Commandments?

We have already seen that what the Lord commanded He expressed in His own life, but He gave the commandments that what was seen in Him might be manifested in His disciples. The Gospels contain many of the Lord's commandments. In the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 5, we read, "Let your light so shine before men" (Matt. 5:16); "Resist not evil" (Matt. 5:39); "Give to him that asketh thee" (Matt. 5:42); "Love your enemies" (Matt. 5:44); and "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father . . . is perfect" (Matt. 5:48). These are but a few of the commandments given by the Lord in the Synoptic Gospels, every one of which was expressed in His own life, and that He desires to see in the lives of His own as making Him known before men, and as giving pleasure to Him and to His God and Father.

In John's Gospel the Lord commanded His disciples, "Abide in me" and "Abide in my love" (John 15:4,10 following these with "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). To Simon Peter the Lord gave commandments for his personal service, "Feed my sheep" and "Feed my lambs" (John 21:15-17); and when Peter desired to know what John was to do, the Lord said to him, "What is that to thee? follow thou Me" (John 21:22). We are to abide in the Son of God, in dependence upon Him, and in communion with Him, ever dwelling in the sense of His great love for us, and manifesting divine love to our brethren, seeking to do His will and following Him.

In the Epistles we have many of the Lord's commandments both for the individual saint and for the maintenance of that which is due to God in His assembly. We are to bless them that persecute us, not to avenge ourselves for evil done to us, but to overcome evil with good (Rom. 12:14-21). We are to be subject to the powers that be and not to owe any man anything (Rom. 13:1, 8). No corrupt word is to proceed out of our mouths and we are not to grieve the Holy Spirit (Eph. 4:29, 30). Quite a list of divine commandments, or exhortations, are found in 1 Thessalonians 5:15-22, and many others are found in the other epistles. After having written many things in relation to God's order in the assembly, the Spirit of God through the Apostle Paul added, "If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord" (1 Cor. 14:37).

Obedience the Proof of Love

Those who love the Lord Jesus find delight in all that He has spoken and surely desire to know and to do His will. Of this the Lord said in John 14:21, "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me". When we think of who the Lord Jesus is, and what He has done for us, there is surely responsive affection in our hearts to Him, and the evidence of that love is our seeking to know what He desires us to be and to do for Him. His desires are expressed in His commandments, and these the true disciple values and seeks to do. The Lord then tells of the blessing that comes to those who value and do His commandments, "he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him".

Our love to the children of God is also expressed by obedience to the commandments of God, even as it is written, "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments" (1 John 5:2, 3). It is not love to the children of God to encourage them in a wrong course, either by going along with them in it, or by supporting them in any way in what is not according to God's will. True love is expressed by showing them what God desires, and that by walking ourselves in the path of His will and refusing to do anything contrary to that which He has commanded."

Excerpt from An Outline of Sound Words: Volumes 81 - 90 



"1. What is sin? 

(a) "Sin is lawlessness" (_anomia). This is a state of refusal to be controlled by God. The Authorized Version...(1 John 3:4), "Sin is transgression of the Law," is inadequate and misleading. The Greek word _anomia means lawlessness. Transgression of the Law would be _parabasis _nomou, an action, but _anomia, lawlessness, is a state. Again, the translation is misleading, because it puts all the race under the Ten Commandments, which were given to Israel only (Ps. 147:19, 20; Mal. 4:4; Rom. 9:4): and for life on earth. "Do not commit adultery, steal, kill ... covet" do not pertain to life in heaven! The translation is inadequate--utterly so! For when God said, "Sin is _anomia--lawlessness," He spake of the creature's inner refusal to Divine control. Sin is that departure from the Creator which follows a will of its own. So it was with Satan (Ezek. 28). The end of such a course is seen in Isaiah 14:12 ff., in the Antichrist's (figured by the king of Babylon) saying, "I will be like the Most High" (Isa. 14:14).

*The Ten Commandments, "holy, just and good," were fitted to the life of an earthly nation. Paul could get on with them till he came to the tenth--"Thou shalt not covet" (lit., desire). This slew him; or rather, indwelling sin, obtaining this means, "beguiled" him. "Through the commandment," as he says, "sin became exceedingly sinful." This was God's object: "The Law was given that the trespass might abound." 

Mr. Darby well says:
     
"Sin is equivalent to the spirit of self-will and unrestrainedness, whether man's will or not. When there was Law, its acts were actual transgressions; but without this, sin was there, though there were no such actual transgressions till Law entered ... There can be no transgressions when there is no law. What is there to transgress? But self-will and lust, lawlessness, there may be. It is the state of fallen man: only the Law made it 'exceedingly sinful.'"

When Adam willed to eat the fruit, he departed from God into what is called sin.
     Scripture says:
     
(b) "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." 
     
(c) "The thought of foolishness is sin." 
     
(d) "All unrighteousness is sin."
     
Sin is an entity, a power! It is a thing, having energy!


2. How does sin "deceive"? Sin deceives in many ways. It has every advantage. 

(a) It has "pleasures." It invites with charms, false glamor. 

(b) Sin is a great promiser--of all earthly successes. It blinds the eyes, stifles the conscience, hardens the heart, and says all shall be well. Its prophets keep promising sinners liberty--"promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption" (2 Peter 2:19--a solemn chapter, which please read). Most of the People you meet are hardened and blinded by some form of sin--terrible thought!

(c) The creature is most forgetful of unpleasant warnings. 

(d) The creature has self-confidence--unlimited! "I can quit" (some habit) is in his heart, and how often in his mouth! But our Lord warned, "Everyone that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin" (John 8:34).
     

3. How does the deceitfulness of sin harden? 

(a) Because of delayed judgment. "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil" (Eccl. 8:11). God's long suffering is therefore despised. Thousands around about the sinner keep sinning and are not immediately stricken: thus comes false peace!

(b) Sin deceives by appearing harmless, promising good or enjoyment; by the fact that its victims think, "Others are doing it"; by taking advantage of ignorance of the Word of God: so that the victim listens to the voice of false teachers, who say, "You are all right if you are sincere!" Millions are thus being sincerely lost, like those who sailed sincerely on the Lusitania, and sailed to their death. Sin looks so fair--before it is committed! And after one has committed it, it so deceives and hardens that at the worst, like Adam and Eve, we try to shield ourselves from the consequences of our nakedness till GOD comes upon the scene. 

(c) Conscience unheeded is Slowly stupefied--finally "seared as with a hot iron." Unless God sends immediate poignant conviction, it is more easy to sin the second time than the first. 

At last comes the fearful state described to Moses by Jehovah:
     
"Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry" (Deut. 29:18, 19). No wonder we read after this last state, "Then the anger of Jehovah, and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him"! (vs.20)." William R. Newell



1 John 3:6a - "Whoever abides in Him does not sin"

Sinneth not [KJV] (oux amartanei). Linear present (linear menwn, keeps on abiding) active indicative of amartanw, "does not keep on sinning." For menw (abide) see 2:6; John 15:4-10.

1 John 3:6b "Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him."

Whosoever sinneth [KJV] (o amartanwn). Present (linear) active articular participle like menwn above, "the one who keeps on sinning" (lives a life of sin, not mere occasional acts of sin as amarthsav, aorist active participle, would mean)."

From Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament



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