1John 3:3
"And every man that hath this hope in him
purifieth himself, even as he is pure."
John has said that a Christian is on the way to seeing God and being like him. A Christians knows that someday he will stand before God, and he must keep himself ready for it. The man who knows that God is at the end of the road will make all life a preparation to meet him.
As we have seen Gnostic false teachers produce more than one way to justify sin. They say that the body was evil and that, therefore, there was no harm in desiring its lusts, because what happened to it was of no importance. They also say that the truly spiritual man was so armored with the Spirit that he could sin to his heart's content and take no harm from it. False!!!
He tells us what sin is! It is the deliberate breaking of a law which a man well knows. Sin is to obey oneself rather than to obey God. What sin does! It undoes the work of Christ. "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world," (John1:29). To sin is to bring back what he came into the world to abolish.
He tells us why sin is! It comes from the failure to abide in Christ. It simply means this, so long as we remember the continual presence of Jesus, we will not sin; it is when we forget that presence that we sin. We sin for the pleasure that we think it will bring to us; however, the devil sins as a matter of principle. The New Testament does not try to explain the devil and his origin; but it is quite convinced, and it is a fact of universal experience that in the world there is a power hostile to God; and to sin is to obey that power instead of God.
He tells us how sin is conquered. It is conquered because Jesus Christ destroyed the works of the devil. The New Testament often dwells on the Christ who faced and conquered the powers of evil . He has broken the power of evil, and by his help that same victory can be ours. My Friends, no one is superior to the moral law. The more Obedient one is, the more Disciplined they will become.
He tells us why sin is! It comes from the failure to abide in Christ. It simply means this, so long as we remember the continual presence of Jesus, we will not sin; it is when we forget that presence that we sin. We sin for the pleasure that we think it will bring to us; however, the devil sins as a matter of principle. The New Testament does not try to explain the devil and his origin; but it is quite convinced, and it is a fact of universal experience that in the world there is a power hostile to God; and to sin is to obey that power instead of God.
He tells us how sin is conquered. It is conquered because Jesus Christ destroyed the works of the devil. The New Testament often dwells on the Christ who faced and conquered the powers of evil . He has broken the power of evil, and by his help that same victory can be ours. My Friends, no one is superior to the moral law. The more Obedient one is, the more Disciplined they will become.
Amen!
Reading: (1John 3:3-8)
Ref: (HG SB, DSB)
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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