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I JOHN – LESSON 3

I. KNOWING GOD BY PROPER ACTION (2:1-17)

A. We know God if we keep His commandments (2:1-6) .

1. Jesus’ sufficient sacrifice makes saving relationship with God possible (v.1-2).

2. Keeping commandments is essential to knowing God (v. 3-4).

3. Love for God is perfected and the relationship with God is conditioned upon keeping His word (v. 5).

4. If we say that we abide in Him, we ought to walk as He walked (v. 6).

B. We abide in the light if we love our brother (2:7-11).

1. Old commandment – had been taught by the Lord and had not changed (v.7)

2. New commandment – its character manifested in the unique self-sacrifice of Christ (v. 8).

3. In darkness if one hates brother – regardless of what one professes (v. 9).

4. Abides in light if one loves brother (v. 10)

5. In darkness subjects one to many pitfalls (v. 11).

C. We know that to love the world means that we do not love the Father (2:12-17)

1. Readers are at different stages of spiritual development (v. 12-14).

2. Cannot give oneself over to the principles that motivate the world and still love the Father (v. 15-17).

a. The world: no higher goal than to satisfy one’s fleshly desires.

b. Doing God’s will key to abiding forever while the world passes away.

3. Speak with God that one has sinned.

QUESTIONS:

`1. Give one purpose for John writing this letter:  

 

  2.  What two facts about Jesus make Him the only Savior will ever need?  

3. What two wonderful assurances do we have when we keep God’s commandments and His word?

  4. What ought we do if we say that we abide in the light?  

  5. What commandment is both new and old?                  Explain:  

  6. By walking in the light, what consequence is avoided?  

  7. What is suffered if we walk in darkness?

  8. Name two characteristics of the “little children”?

  9. What characterizes the “fathers”?

10. How can we overcome the evil one?

11. How do we “love the world”?

12. What two facts should strengthen you against loving the world?

I JOHN – LESSON 4

I. KNOWING THE LAST HOUR AND THE ANTI-CHRIST (2:18-28)

A. It is the last hour for anti-christs have come (v. 18)

B. Anti-christs went out from Christians proving that they were not of them (v. 19).

C. Avoid being led astray by following the miraculous infallible knowledge that they possessed (v. 20-21, 24, 27-28)

1. Will not be ashamed before the Lord’s coming

D. Identifying characteristics of anti-christ (v. 22-23a)

1. Liar

2. Denies Jesus is the Christ

a. Therefore, denies the Father

E. He that confesses the Son has both the father and the Son along with promise of eternal life (v. 23b; 25).

QUESTIONS:

`1. What two characteristics of the anti-christ does John reveal contradicting the modern religious belief of “The Antichrist”?   

 

  2.  What is the meaning of “anti-christ”?   

3. How could John say it was the “last hour” in his day?

  4. What “anointing” of the Holy One had John’s readers received?

  5. How would this anointing continue to benefit John’s readers?

  6. What are two characteristics of one who denies the truth about the Son?

  7. Why is it important to abide in the Father and Son?

 

  8. What can we do to avoid being ashamed at the coming of the Lord?