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The Son of God in 1 John

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1John 3:8 Purpose
1John 4:15 Profession
1John 5:5 Power
1John 5:10 Proof
1John 5:12 Possession
1John 5:13 Promise
1John 5:20 Perception

New Family, Fellowship and Faculty

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1John 5:18 New Family - Relationship that Satan cannot break
1John 5:19 New Fellowship - Righteousness that the World cannot attain
1John 5:20 New Faculty - Revelation that keep away Idols

Pertaining to Prayer

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Liberty of Prayer -  "ask any thing" 1John 5:14
Liberality of Prayer -  "whatsoever we ask" 1John 5:15
Limitation of Prayer -  "I do not say that he shall pray for it" 1John 5:16

Darkness in 1 John

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1John 1:5 Truth of God
1John 1:6 Terms of Fellowship
1John 2:8 Triumph of Light
1John 2:9 Test of Hatred
1John 2:11 Tragedy of Blindness

Dear Children in 1 John Part 2

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1John 2:1 Redeemer
1John 2:12 Remission
1John 2:28 Rapture
1John 3:7 Righteousness
1John 3:18 Relationship
1John 4:4 Resistance
1John 5:21 Reality

Read Part 1.

Faith, Hope and Love Part 10

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1John 3:3 Hope that keeps us True
1John 4:17 Love that keeps us Trusting
1John 5:4 Faith that keeps us Triumphant

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9.

Reasons for Writing 1 John Part 2

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1John 1:3 Promote Harmony - Solidarised
1John 1:4 Produce Happiness - Satisfied
1John 2:1 Protect Holiness - Sanctified
1John 2:26 Prevent Heresy - Safe
1John 5:13 Provide Hope - Sure

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The Word Part 7

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The "Word" referring to the Lord Jesus Christ occurs seven times in the New Testament and only in the writings of John. 

John 1:1 - His Pre-existence Eternally (outline)
John 1:14 - His Presence Experientially (outline)
1John 1:1 - His Provision Evangelically (outline)
1John 5:7 - His Person Essentially (outline)
Rev 19:13 - His Power Eschatologically (outline)

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

The Word Part 6

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"For there are Three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these Three are One." 1 John 5:7

Trio in Unfolding - For there are Three
Testimony in Unison - that bear record in heaven
Triunity in Uniqueness - the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost
Totality in Unity - and these Three are One

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
 

Chiastic Outline of 1 John

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A The Word of Life with the Father, God is Light (1John 1:1-10)
Advocate with the Father, Propitiation for the World's Sins (1John 2:1-11)
B   As He walk, Love of God perfected when keeping His Word  (1John 2:5,6)
C    Victory over the Wicked One (1John 2:12-17)
C     Three Dear Parties of our Family & Three Weaknesses of the World (1John 2:16)
C       The Word of God and doing His Will (1John 2:14,17)
D         Anti-Christs – Denial of Christ Jesus (1John 2:18-27)
D          Unction to know all things – Acknowledgeth the Son (1John 2:20,23)
E            Believers' Confidence before the Son (1John 2:24-29)
E              The Anointing abideth in you (1John 2:27)
F                Love of the Father (1John 3:1-3)
G                  The Nature of Righteousness (1John 3:4-7)
X                    The Manifestation of the Son of God (1John 3:8-10)
G'                 The Nature of Evil (1John 3:11-15)
F'                Love of God (1John 3:16-18)
E'              The Spirit abideth in us (1John 3:24)
E'            Believers' Confidence before the Father (1John 3:19-24)
D'          Test every spirits – Confesseth that Jesus Christ (1John 4:1,3)
D'        False Prophets – Denial of Jesus Christ (1John 4:1-3)
C'       The Witness of God and keeping His commandments (1John 5:3,9)
C'     Three Divine Persons of our Faith & Three Witnesses in Earth (1John 5:7-8)
C'    Victory over the World (1John 5:1-9)
B'   As He is, Love of God Perfected when loving one another (1John 4:12,17)
B'  Saviour of the World, Propitiation for our sins (1John 4:7-21)
A' The Eternal Life in the Son, the True God (1John 5:10-21)

Christ, Only Begotten

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John 1:14 Glory of His Incarnation
John 1:18 Greatness of His Inscrutability
John 3:16 Grace of His Immolation
John 3:18 Goodness of His Illumination
1 John 4:9 Goal of His Image

Read Christ, First Begotten or Firstborn. 

Many Antichrists, False Prophets & Deceivers

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1 John 2:18 "Many Antichrists" - Their Opposition
1 John 4:1 "Many False Prophets" - Their Operation
2 John 7 "Many Deceivers" - Their Objective

Mediator, High Priest and Advocate

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The Lord Jesus Christ is the Mediator between God and men (1Tim 2:5), He is the High Priest to God (Heb 2:17) and Advocate with the Father (1John 2:1).

As Mediator, He made the link between God and men.
As High Priest, He maintains the link.
As Advocate, He mends the link.

The Word Part 4

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Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

The Word - Person of the Word (John 1:1)
The Word of Life - Provision of the Word (1 John 1:1)
The Word of God - Power of the Word (Rev 19:13)

Confidence and Boldness

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1John 2:28 Anticipation of His Coming
1John 3:21 Assurance of our Hearts
1John 4:17 Absolution in Judgement
1John 5:14 Answer to our Prayers

Witness of the Holy Spirit

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"Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that He had said before" Heb 10:15
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God" Rom 8:16
"He that believeth on the Son of God hath the Witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son." 1 John 5:10

Witness of the Holy Spirit
- to us (Heb 10:15)
- with us (Rom 8:16)
- in us (1 John 5:10)

Full confirmation of the Holy Spirit in the experience of believers.

Overcomes the World

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"For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" 1 John 5:4-5

Power - whatsoever is born of God
Principle - even our faith
Person - Jesus is the Son of God

Brief Outline of 1 John 5

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1John 5:1-5 Victory of Faith - We can be courageous
1John 5:6-12 Veracity of the Testimony - We can be certain
1John 5:13-17 Virtue of Prayers - We can be confident
1John 5:18-21 Verity of Eternal Life - We can be committed

As He is

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1 John 1:7 Partnership of His Light
1 John 2:6 Prototype of His Walk
1 John 3:2 Person of His Appearance
1 John 3:3 Purity of His Hope
1 John 3:7 Pattern of His Righteousness
1 John 3:23 Precept of His Commandment
1 John 4:17 Perfection of His Plan

The Liar in 1 John

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A Make God a Liar with regard to Sin (1John 1:10)
B   Know God and keep not His Commandments (1John 2:4)
X     Denial of Jesus Christ and the Anti-Christ (1John 2:22)
B'   Love God and loath his brother (1John 4:20)
A' Make God a Liar with regard to His Son (1John 5:10)