DOES NOT DO WHAT HE COMMANDS / 1 JOHN 2:4

(KJV) 1 John 2:4

 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

John was contending against those who were abusing the foundational teaching of God’s grace (His unearned, undeserved favor and love) as it relates to spiritual salvation. They claimed that since salvation came by God’s grace and not our efforts (which is true; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5) that Christians were in no way obligated to any fixed set of rules, including the commands of God’s moral law (which is not true; (Romans 2:13; 3:31; 8:4). John opposed these antinomian (against the law) teachers, who taught that abandoning a sinful life and following the moral principles of God’s law was a choice that believers could make for themselves. 

1. These misguided individuals believed that it did not matter what they did, particularly with their physical bodies, as long as they had the right spiritual knowledge. 
2. They claimed that people could “know” God and be in a saving relationship with Him and at the same time ignore God’s standards and disobey His commands (John 17:3).
3. John states boldly that those who make such a claim are liars and do not have God’s truth in them. Attempting to be justified (made right with God) through faith in Christ without a commitment to actively follow Him is doomed to failure.

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1. MUST WALK AS JESUS DID / 1 JOHN 2:6
2. WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE COME TO KNOW HIM / 1 JOHN 2:3
3. ANTONING SACRIFICE / 1 JOHN 2:2
4. SO THAT YOU WILL NOT SIN / 1 JOHN 2:1
5. CLAIM WE HAVE NOT SINNED / 1 JOHN 1:10
6. CONFESS OUR SINS / 1 JOHN 1:9
7. IF WE CLAIM TO BE WITHOUT SIN / 1 JOHN 1:8
8. WALK IN THE LIGHT / 1 JOHN 1:7
9. FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM / 1 JOHN 1:6
10. FELLOWSHIP WITH US / 1 JOHN 1:3
11. ETERNAL LIFE / 1 JOHN 1:2
12. THAT WHICH WAS FROM THE BEGINNING – SEEN WITH OUR EYS OUR HAND HAVE TOUCHED / 1 JOHN 1:1
13. UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE EVIL ONE / 1 JOHN 5:19
14. SIN THAT DOES NOT LEAD TO DEATH / 1 JOHN 5:17
15. HE SHOULD PRAY AND GOD WILL GIVE HIM LIFE; 1 JOHN 5:16
16. THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE / 1 JOHN5:13
17. HE WHO HAS THE SON HAS LIFE / 1 JOHN 5:12
18. ETERNAL LIFE / 1 JOHN 5:11
19. THERE ARE THREE THAT TESTIFY / 1 JOHN 5:7-9
20. BY WATER AND BLOOD / 1 JOHN 5:6
21. OVERCOME THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH / 1 JOHN 5:4
22. HIS COMMANDS ARE NOT BURDENSOME / 1 JOHN 5:3
23. THIS IS HOW WE KNOW / 1 JOHN 5:2
24. BELIEVES … LOVES / 1 JOHN 5:1
25. BECAUSE WE OBEY HIS COMMANDS / 1 JOHN 3:22
26. THE DEVIL / 1 JOHN 3:8
27. ASK ANYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL / 1 JOHN 5:14
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DOES NOT DO WHAT HE COMMANDS / 1 JOHN 2:4

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John was contending against those who were abusing the foundational teaching of God’s grace (His unearned, undeserved favor and love) as it relates to spiritual salvation.

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Margarita Crews

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