1 John 2:1-6 9 (3 of 14)
Series: 1 John: Jesus Our Light and Life
Wyman Richardson
1 John 2:1-6
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says ''I know him'' but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
Let me show you an interesting image.
To understand what is depicted in this image, we need a little bit of background information. In the second century there was a great Christian leader named Irenaeus. He was born in the year 130 and died in the year 202. He wrote some amazing works, his most famous being a work entitled Against Heresies that was about the gnostic heresies of a man named Valentinus. In this book, Irenaeus considers a number of false teachers. One he mentions was a man named Cerinthus. Here is Irenaeus' description of Certinthus' teachings:
Cerinthus, again, a man who was educated in the wisdom of the Egyptians, taught that the world was not made by the primary God, but by a certain Power far separated from him, and at a distance from that Principality who is supreme over the universe, and ignorant of him who is above all. He represented Jesus as having not been born of a virgin, but as being the son of Joseph and Mary according to the ordinary course of human generation, while he nevertheless was more righteous, prudent, and wise than other men. Moreover, after his baptism, Christ descended upon him in the form of a dove from the Supreme Ruler, and that then he proclaimed the unknown Father, ...
Series: 1 John: Jesus Our Light and Life
Wyman Richardson
1 John 2:1-6
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says ''I know him'' but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
Let me show you an interesting image.
To understand what is depicted in this image, we need a little bit of background information. In the second century there was a great Christian leader named Irenaeus. He was born in the year 130 and died in the year 202. He wrote some amazing works, his most famous being a work entitled Against Heresies that was about the gnostic heresies of a man named Valentinus. In this book, Irenaeus considers a number of false teachers. One he mentions was a man named Cerinthus. Here is Irenaeus' description of Certinthus' teachings:
Cerinthus, again, a man who was educated in the wisdom of the Egyptians, taught that the world was not made by the primary God, but by a certain Power far separated from him, and at a distance from that Principality who is supreme over the universe, and ignorant of him who is above all. He represented Jesus as having not been born of a virgin, but as being the son of Joseph and Mary according to the ordinary course of human generation, while he nevertheless was more righteous, prudent, and wise than other men. Moreover, after his baptism, Christ descended upon him in the form of a dove from the Supreme Ruler, and that then he proclaimed the unknown Father, ...
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