Monday, 6 April 2020

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 1 John 2:23

John just noted that whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar. He then stated that the one who denies the Father and the Son is antichrist.… Read the rest

Sunday, 5 April 2020

Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 1 John 2:22

In the previous verse, John stated, “no lie is of the truth.” Now, moving from that abstract thought, he makes a concrete example, forming his words into an interrogative – “Who is a liar…?”… Read the rest

Saturday, 4 April 2020

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 1 John 2:21

The tense of the verb used here indicates that John is referring to this epistle and not the gospel he previously wrote.… Read the rest

Friday, 3 April 2020

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. 1 John 2:20

John has been speaking of “antichrists,” and their departure from the truth because they were not “of us.” He will again refer to them in verse 2:22. Between these verses, he now introduces this thought, saying, “But you have an anointing.”… Read the rest

Thursday, 2 April 2020

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. 1 John 2:19

John just said, “even now many antichrists have come.”… Read the rest