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This is the victory that has overcome the world; our faith: Since believing on Him is the key to being born of God ( 1 John 5:1 ), the key to victory is faith, not only an initial, “come-to-the-altar-and-get-saved” faith, but a consistently abiding faith, an ongoing reliance and trust upon Jesus Christ. i.
- (1-3) The suddenness of Jesus’ coming. But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
- (4-5) The basis for Paul’s exhortations. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day.
- (6-8) Paul’s exhortations: be awake, sober, and watchful. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
- (9-10) The security of our future. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
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May 3, 2021 · Verse 1 literally means, “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God.” Yet “born of God” is in Greek past tense ( gegennetai ). This at least suggests that Christian faith is not the cause of believers’ new birth. Christian faith is, instead, the result of new birth.
Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. a. Your adversary the devil walks about : Peter exhorts us to remain clear-headed ( sober ) and watchful ( vigilant ), because Satan has not yet been bound and restrained for 1,000 years as Revelation 20:1-2 says he will be.
CHAPTER 5. 1Jo 5:1-21. Who Are the Brethren Especially to Be Loved (1Jo 4:21); Obedience, the Test of Love, Easy through Faith, which Overcomes the World. Last Portion of the Epistle. The Spirit's Witness to the Believer's Spiritual Life. Truths Repeated at the Close: Farewell Warning. 1.
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 Fo...
It was the faith of these people that Satan aimed at; if he could overturn their faith, and draw them into apostasy, then he knew he should gain his point, and ruin their souls; therefore, to destroy their faith, he raises bitter persecutions, and sets the grand potentates of the world against them.
