Commentary on First JohnSovereign Grace Publishers,, 2002 - 268 pages |
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... fear , wrath , and hatred . Such are we to whom the eternal life which was with the Father is to be manifested . We are thus dead ; sentenced by a righteous doom , as transgressors , to this death ; already and hopelessly involved in ...
... fear , wrath , and hatred . Such are we to whom the eternal life which was with the Father is to be manifested . We are thus dead ; sentenced by a righteous doom , as transgressors , to this death ; already and hopelessly involved in ...
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... fear crouches ; where foul corruption festers ; He penetrates . He even makes the darkness His own . He takes it upon Himself . Its power , " the power of darkness , " is upon Him ; its power to wrap the sin - laden spirit in a horror ...
... fear crouches ; where foul corruption festers ; He penetrates . He even makes the darkness His own . He takes it upon Himself . Its power , " the power of darkness , " is upon Him ; its power to wrap the sin - laden spirit in a horror ...
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... fears . That is the mere emptying of the foul stomach , that it may be filled anew with the vile stuff for which its diseased appetite and corrupt taste continue as keen as ever . This , again , is the laying bare always of the whole ...
... fears . That is the mere emptying of the foul stomach , that it may be filled anew with the vile stuff for which its diseased appetite and corrupt taste continue as keen as ever . This , again , is the laying bare always of the whole ...
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... fear , in which sin is strong . It places us in the region of peace and joy in which grace is stronger . Sanctification is not now a mere painful process of extirpation and extermination of weeds . It will no doubt be that still ; but ...
... fear , in which sin is strong . It places us in the region of peace and joy in which grace is stronger . Sanctification is not now a mere painful process of extirpation and extermination of weeds . It will no doubt be that still ; but ...
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... fear ? Jesus knows our frame , in its worst and in its best state . He knows what to us , with such a frame as ours at best is , our really " walking in the light as God is in the light " must be . He knows how at every step — in spite ...
... fear ? Jesus knows our frame , in its worst and in its best state . He knows what to us , with such a frame as ours at best is , our really " walking in the light as God is in the light " must be . He knows how at every step — in spite ...
Contents
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The Guileless Spirit Amid Antichristian Defections Established by a Messianic | 73 |
Ground or Reason of this Condition in the Righteous Nature of God | 96 |
1012 | 129 |
Brotherly Love the Fruit and Test of Passing from Death Unto Life | 135 |
22 23 | 146 |
Our Righteousness Attested by Obedience as Implying Our Abiding in God | 152 |
710 | 167 |
1719 | 183 |
45 | 199 |
11 12 | 217 |
1617 | 230 |
20 | 245 |
Common terms and phrases
Abba Father abiding anointing antichrist apostle appear apprehend assurance bearing begotten believe blessed born born of God brother brotherly love character children of God condemn confess conscience consciousness consider darkness is passing day of judgment devil divine dwelling earth eternal everlasting evermore evil faith fear feel fellowship filial flesh give glory Gnostic God the Father God's commandments God's love gospel grace grievous guilt hate hear heard heart heaven Holy Ghost human implies Jesus Christ John keeping His commandments little children living look Lord lust manifested means merely mind mutual indwelling nature obedience object otherwise ourselves overcomes the world peace perfect prayer propitiation pure realized righteous Father seen sense shining sinless sinners sins Son Jesus Christ sonship sort soul speak Spirit sure teaching testifying testimony thought true light truly truth unto death verse walk whole wicked witness word
Popular passages
Page 122 - As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Page 8 - All things are delivered to me of my Father : and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father ; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
Page 14 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Page 59 - Such an improvement of the doctrine of the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent...
Page 231 - If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death : I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Page 8 - Ah, Lord God' behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child." But the Lord said unto me, "Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page 167 - 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.
Page 14 - If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth : but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Page 59 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.