1 João 2
Bob Utley · Citado em PreceptAustin
1 João 2:1-6
Utley - 1 John 2:3-25 lists several tests or evidences which reveal a true believer () Willingness to confess sin (initially and continually) (1 John 1:9) Lifestyle obedience (1 John 2:3-6) Lifestyle love (1 John 2:7-11) Victory over the evil (1 John 2:12-14) Forsaking the world (1 John 2:15-17) Perseverance (1 John 2:19) Correct doctrine (1 John 2:20-24; 4:1-3) 1 John 2:4 The one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; (NASB: Lockman) Greek: ho legon (PAP) hoti Egnoka (1SRAI) auton, kai tas entolas autou me teron (PAP), pseustes estin, (3SPAI) kai en touto e aletheia ouk estin; (3SPAI) Amplified: Whoever says, I know Him [I perceive, recognize, understand, and am acquainted with Him] but fails to keep and obey His commandments (teachings) is a liar, and the Truth [of the Gospel] is not in him. (Lockman) ESV: Whoever says “I know> him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, KJV: He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. NIV: The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. NLT: If someone says, "I belong to God," but doesn't obey God's commandments, that person is a liar and does not live in the truth.
1 João 2:1-6
Utley - John calls several religious people (teachers, preachers) liars (cf. 1 John 1:6; 2:4,22; 4:20). They are religious but not right with God (cf. Matt. 7:21-23)! From a funeral Sermon by Samuel Davies (April 22, 1758) - The willful and habitual practice of any known sin—and the willful and habitual neglect of any known duty, are repeatedly mentioned in the Scriptures, as the sure signs of a wicked man. "The man who says, 'I know Him,' but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him." 1 John 2:4. (The Certainty of Death) What is internal will eventually come to the surface. Daniel Akin notes that here John "explains that the one who claims to know God but is consistently disobedient is a liar. John implies that this individual will be exposed as a liar by his disobedience to God’s commands. What is internal will eventually come to the surface. The condemnation of this person is quite similar to what John says in 1Jn 1:6, 8. Not only is the claim of this individual false, but the truth is altogether absent from his life. As Schnackenburg writes: “He lacks the divine nature which alone makes possible the genuine knowledge of God."" (See 1,2,3 John: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition) Disobedience to Christ on the part of a professing Christian is tantamount to being a liar. J
1 João 2:1-6
Utley - The concept of our being in Him ("abiding," cf. 1 John 2:6) is a recurrent theme of John's writings (cf. John 14:20,23; 15:4-10; 17:21,23,26; 1 John 2:24-28; 3:6,24; 4:13,16). John Stott on the identification of in Him - John now states the same general principle in a slightly different form, and adds another and more positive illustration of it. The whole context, and especially 1Jn 2:6, suggests that the phrase in Him refers to Christ. To be ‘in Christ’ is Paul’s characteristic description of the Christian. But John uses it too. To be (or to ‘live’, 1Jn 2:6) ‘in’ Him is equivalent to the phrase to ‘know’ Him (1Jn 2:3, 4) and to ‘love’ him (1Jn 2:5). Being a Christian consists in essence of a personal relationship to God in Christ, knowing him, loving him, and living in him as the branch lives in the vine (John 15:1ff.). This is the meaning of ‘eternal life’ (John 17:3; 1 John 5:20). (Borrow The Letters of John or See The Letters of John: An Introduction and Commentary - Page 95) Vine observes that John "speaks of being “in Him.” This is one of the great central truths of the Christian faith. Introduced here in the Epistle it is taken up in various ways subsequently. It is also especially brought out in the Gospel; compare, e.g., Jn 14:20; 15:4; 17:10, 21, 23. The condition of being “in Him” is not a matter of absorption into deity, as Pantheism teaches, but of spiritual relationship and unity of life, which involves the removal of the alienation of man in his unregenerate state from God, and the enjoyment of fellowship with God and oneness with Him in His will and purpose." Steven Cole agrees with Vine writing "Although some take the last phrase of 1Jn 2:5 to point back, I understand it to point forward to 1Jn 2:6: “By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.” John equates being “in Him” with “abiding in Him.” “Abiding” is John’s term for fellow-ship or a close, intimate relationship. As with the phrases, “keeping His commandments” and “the love of God,” so also the term “abiding” goes back to the Upper Room Discourse, to Jesus’ words about the vine and the branches. There Jesus said (John 15:4), “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of it-self unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.” (How to Know that You Know Him 1 John 2:3-6) Jamieson - in our progressing towards this ideal of perfected love and obedience. There is a gradation: 1Jn 2:3, “know Him”; 1Jn 2:5, “we are in Him”; 1Jn 2:6, “abideth in Him”; respectively, knowledge, fellowship, abiding constancy. [Bengel]. J Ligon Duncan - Test #1 (See Duncan's comments under 1Jn 2:3) expressed differently here in verse 5 is this: “Do you manifest your love of God by keeping His word?” You see, true love for God is expressed not in sentimental language. True love for God is not expressed in some claim of mystical experience. True love for God is expressed in moral obedience. The proof of love is loyalty. What would a wife think of a husband who said, “Oh, honey, I love you,” but every week he engaged in an affair with another women? Well, that profession of love would ring hollow. True love is loyal. And, therefore, God says, “You truly love Me? You’ll be loyal to My word; you’ll be committed to My word.” You see, the truth of God does not exist in order to promote merely right notions about God; the truth exists to promote an active and experiential relationship with the Living God. And that relationship, that fellowship-knowledge, always expresses itself in love to God, in obedience to God, in love and obedience to His word. Love delights to do God's will. What is Jesus’ refrain in the gospels? John catches it so frequently. He says, “It is My meat--it is My food to do the will of the One who sent Me.” Jesus loved to do God's will. And so, if we're like Jesus, then we will love to do God's will as well. If we love God, we will keep His commands, and that obedience will in turn evidence our true love to God. Do you remember what Jesus said to His disciples on the night that He was betrayed in the upper room in John 14:15? “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” That's what He said. And so, the Christian who teaches that you can love Christ and not keep His commandments is contradicting the Master. Well, that's the second way He expresses this truth. (If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments ) David
1 João 2:16
Utley adds that "There are two reasons Christians must not love the world: (1) that love is not from the Father (cf. 1Jn 2:16) and (2) the world is passing away (cf. 1Jn 2:17, 2 Pet. 3:7,10,12). The daily challenge for every believer is how to be IN the world and yet not OF the world. I Howard Marshall on not from the Father - Not from God but from the world....expresses a sense of human self-sufficiency and independence from God and of human greed over against the needs of other people (1Jn 3:17).(Borrow The Epistles of John) Adam
1 João 2:24
Utley - SPECIAL TOPIC- Abiding in John's Writings - John's Gospel describes a special relationship between God the Father and Jesus the Son. It is a mutual intimacy based on Jesus' subjection and equality. Throughout the Gospel Jesus speaks what He hears the Father saying, does what He sees the Father doing. Jesus does not act on His own, but on the will of the Father. This intimate fellowship and servanthood sets the pattern for the relationship between Jesus and His followers. This intimate association was not the absorption of the individual (as in eastern mysticism), but an ethical, moral lifestyle of emulation (cf. John 13:15; 1Pet. 2:21). Fellowship was 1. cognitive (the worldview of the gospel as the Word of God) 2. relational (Jesus was God's promised Messiah to be trusted in and leaned on) 3. ethical (His character reproduced in godly believers) Jesus is the ideal man, the true Israelite, the standard of humanity. He reveals what Adam should have, and could have been (humanly speaking). Jesus is the ultimate "image of God." He restores the fallen divine image in mankind (cf. Gen. 1:26-27) by 1. revealing God 2. dying on our behalf (substitutionary atonement) 3. providing humans an example to follow The term "abiding" (menō) reflects the goal of Christlikeness (cf. Ro 8:28-30; 2 Cor. 3:18; Gal. 4:19; Eph. 1:4; 4:13; 1Th. 3:13; 4:3; 5:23; 2Th. 2:13; Titus 2:4; 1 Pet. 1:15), the restoration of the Fall (cf. Genesis 3). This reunion of God and His ultimate creation, mankind, for the purpose of fellowship is the Apostle Paul's "in Christ" and the Apostle John's "abide in Me." Notice John's usage: 1. Abiding between the Father and Son a. the Father in the Son (John 10:38; 14:10,11; 17:21,23) b. the Son in the Father (John10:38; 14:10,11; 17:21) 2. Abiding between Deity and the believer a. the Father in the believer (John 14:20,23; 1 John 3:24; 4:12-13,15) b. the believer in the Father (John 14:20,23; 17:21; 1 John 2:24,27; 4:13,16) c. the Son in the believer (John 6:56; 14:20,23; 15:4,5; 17:23) d. the believer in the Son (John 6:56; 14:20,23; 15:4,5,7; 1John 2:6,24,27,28) 3. Other abiding elements (positive) a. the word of God 1) negatively (John 5:38; 8:37; 1 John 1:10; 2 John 9) 2) positively (John 8:31; 15:2; 1 John 2:14,24; 2 John 9) b. the love of God (John 15:9-10; 17:26; 1 John 3:17; 4:16) c. the Spirit of God 1) on the Son (John 1:32) 2) in the believer (John 14:17) d. obedience is abiding (John 15:10; 1 John 3:24) e. love is abiding in light (1 John 2:10) f. doing the will of God is abiding (1 John 2:17) g. anointing abides (1 John 2:27) h. truth abides (2 John 2) i. the Son abides (John 8:35; 12:34) 4. Other abiding elements (negative) a. the wrath of God abides (John 3:36) b. abide in darkness (John 12:46) c. thrown away… burned (not abiding, John 15:6) d. sinning (not abiding, 1 John 3:6) e. not loving (not abiding, 1 John 3:14) f. not a murderer (not eternal life abiding, 1 John 3:15) g. he who does not live abides in death (1 John 3:14)