Continuing
the indexing for May 8th
1John
2:7-11 (8-10) “I
write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had
from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have
heard from the beginning. Again,
a
new commandment I write to you, which thing is true In Him and in
you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines. He
that said he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness
even until now. He that loves his brother abides in the light, and
there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness,
and knows not where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his
eyes.”
Then
lastly we have this; “By
this shall all
know
that you are My disciples, if you have love one to another.” (John
15:13, 17:21, 1John 4:7-11, 20-21)
John
15:12-14
“This
is My commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater
love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends.
You
are My friends, if you do whatever I command you.”
I
will pick up the flow at verse 17 which reads;
John 17:17-19, 20-24
“Sanctify
them through Your truth: Your word is truth.
As You have sent Me into the
world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify Myself,
that they also might be sanctified through the Truth.
Neither
pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe Me
through their word; That
they all may be one; as You, Father,
art
in
Me, and I in You, that they also may be One in us: that the world may
believe that You have sent Me.
And
the glory which You gave Me I have given them; that they may be One,
even as We are One:
I
in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and
that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them,
as You have loved Me.
Father,
I will that they also, whom You hast given Me, be with Me where I am;
that they may behold My glory, which You have given Me: for You loved
Me before the foundation of the world.”
Then
in 1John 4:7-14, 15-21 we find this;
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every
one that loves is born of God, and knows God. He
that loves not knows not God; for God is love. In this was manifested
the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten
Son into the world, that we might Live through Him. Herein is love,
not that we loved God, but that He loves us, and sent His Son to
be
the propitiation (to
mollify, make less intense, sooth the temper, to placate, win back,
to acquire a auspicious outcome)
for our sins. Beloved, if God so loves us, we ought also to love one
another. No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we
dwell In Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to
be
the Savior (Salvation) of the world.
Whoever
shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he
in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.
God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in
him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in
the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world. There
is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has
torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love. We love him,
because he first loved us. If
a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he
that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God Whom
he has not seen? And this commandment have we from Him, That he who
loves God loves his brother also.”
God's charity and goodness in Truth resides within him, is the
meaning of the parable of the fig-tree.
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