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LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 56
1 John 2:1-29 - Part 2
Christ came the first time, but the Nation of Israel rejected Him, but in the near future, we feel, as did John, that He is going to return and yet give the kingdom to Israel. Now, just as surely as when John and Peter and James were writing these little Jewish epistles, Israel was in the land, the city of Jerusalem was their capital. So let’s start at verse 19.
I John 2:19
I John 2:20
"But (John writes) ye have an unction (or you have a directive) from the Holy One, and ye know all things." As God reveals it. And again the Apostle Paul makes the same point that it’s our indwelling Holy Spirit who makes the difference. Come back with me to Romans chapter 7, and verses 4, 5, 6 – these key verses that we need to compare with.
Romans 7:4a
"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also (Paul writes) are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; (by His crucifixion) that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead,.…" Now Paul is always emphasizing the resurrection. It’s not enough to believe that Christ died; it’s not enough to believe that He was the Messiah; we have to believe that the Messiah, the Son of God, the Christ that died for our sins, rose from the dead. Otherwise Paul’s Gospel of salvation is not complete. "…that we should bring forth fruit unto God. "Thou shalt not covet. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery" etc. Romans 7:5
Now verse 6.
Romans 7:6a
All right, so we were dead when the Law was constantly condemning us, but now:
Romans 7:6a
What Spirit? Romans 7:6b
All right, come back with me to I John, chapter 2. I John 2:21-22
"I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is anti-christ, that denieth the Father and the Son."
When I say that this is Kingdom ground, and that these are Kingdom believers, remember now that John is talking about recognizing Who Jesus really is, for salvation. Nobody had said, forget the Law. "…Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? Now does Jesus upbraid him? Does Jesus scold him? Matthew 16:17
"And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." Does a person become a believer and then the Holy Spirit enlightens?" "Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias (Isaiah), and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? That told him all about Isaiah 53, and how that was Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Acts 8:35
"Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus." However Philip knows nothing about faith in the death, burial or resurrection for salvation. So he just preached Jesus. Along with the preaching that Jesus was the Christ, what did John the Baptist begin with? Lets back up to Acts chapter 3, and here Peter has just healed the lame man. So here these Jewish people are all uptight – how did Peter and John perform such a miracle, and they couldn’t remember eight weeks back? Peter is explaining to these Jews by what power they healed this man.
The Anointed One. The Christ. The Son of God. Let’s come back now to I John chapter 2. All right, but now verse 23.
I John 2:23
That Jew who could embrace Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ became in God’s eyes a righteous individual. Now verse 25.
I John 2:25-26
I John 2:27
Now does that sound like Paul? Hebrews 5:11-12
12. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat." Now Paul says to these Corinthian believers, up there in Corinth (Gentiles primarily):
Paul says I have to write to you) even as unto babes in Christ,. 3. For ye are yet carnal:.…" I Corinthians 3:3
are ye not carnal, and walk as men?" All right, come back with me again to I John. Now verse 28.
I John 2:28a
Now remember we went back to the vine and the branches – how that the believers in Christ’s earthly ministry were already abiding in Him and God was in them but in a different way than when Christ indwells a believer in the Church Age.
I John 2:28b
All right, Acts chapter 1, verse 10, and this is at the ascension off the Mount of Olives.
Acts 1:10
Not in some invisible spirit. Which also said, ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? All right, now let’s go back to the Old Testament prophecies – Zechariah chapter 14, and verse 4. And this is exactly what John is preparing his fellow believers for.
All right this is what John is preparing them for.

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