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Explore the primary theme of fellowship in 1 John and the concept of sinlessness in relation to abiding in Christ. Understand the connection between identifying with Christ and exhibiting the nature of our Father.
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Eternal Security • Aging and Death • Suffering • Liberty and Separation • 1 John and the One Who Cannot Sin • Discipleship OR Present! YIELD!
Eternal Security • Aging and Death • Suffering • Liberty and Separation • 1 John and the One Who Cannot Sin OR Present! YIELD!
1 John and the One Who Cannot Sin Review • Primary theme of the letter is fellowship of the believer with God. • The broader basis of cleansing from sin is walking in the light. Confession as it relates to fellowship is not contemplated in independent of this. • Yet though we have access to walking in the light, we remain in our persons sinners. If we’re going to understand what it means to be one who cannot sin, it has to be in some way other than in reference to our whole person. • We saw several important terms associated with fellowship that may be seen as various facets of a whole diamond that represents fellowship: knowing God, abiding in God, seeing God, walking with God, walking in the light, abiding in God. These expressions are not valid if they are not connected with identification with Christ. • In the concept of the one born of Him (2:29), we see the emphasis not on proof of our standing, but that our righteousness is simply a reflection of sharing our Father’s nature. From The Nelson Study Bible: “This verse does not say that everyone who is born of God practices righteousness. Believers can walk in darkness and sin (1:6, 8; 2:1). The point here is that when a child exhibits the nature of his or her father, he or she is perceived as the child of the father.”
Notes on 1 John 2017 Edition Dr. Thomas L. Constable pg 51 “I believe John was claiming that while a Christian is walking in close fellowship with God, he does not sin. The abiding believer never repudiates God's authority over him by doing anything that resists God's law or will—while he is abiding in Christ. If he does, his fellowship with God suffers; He no longer ‘knows’ God in that intimate sense. He no longer ‘sees’ God because he has moved out of the light into darkness. [Stephen S. Smalley, 1, 2, 3 John, pp. 158-159.] ‘John is thus saying that (translating the Gr. literally) “everyone who lives in him (Jesus) does not sin”; and by this he means that an intimate and ongoing relationship with Christ (ho en auto menon, “the one who lives in him,” using the present tense) precludes the practice of sin . . .’ “…There was no sin whatsoever in Jesus Christ (v. 5). He consistently abode in (obeyed) the Father (cf. John 14:9). The Christian who consistently ‘abides’ in a sinless Person does not sin (v. 6). If we could abide in Christ without interruption, we would be sinless. Unfortunately we cannot do that.”
Notes on 1 John 2017 Edition Dr. Thomas L. Constable pg 55 “Again, if we were able to abide in Christ without interruption, we would never sin (cf. v. 6). The sinless nature of Christ controls the abiding Christian, whereas the sinful human nature controls the non-abiding Christian (cf. Rom. 6:16).”
1 John 3:6, 9 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin… 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin…
