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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
1 John 2:1-11
On the subject of sin, these verses bring together several truths of the utmost importance:1. Throughout our lives we will have sin within us (1 John 1:8); this is the flesh or the old nature.2. Until we are converted it produces in us the only fruits we might expect: we have sinned (1 John 1:10).3. The blood of Christ cleanses us from all the acts we have committed (1 John 1:7).4. We are able to sin no more by the power of the life which has been given us (1 John 2:1).5. If we happen to sin — and sadly we know that happens all too often in our daily lives — the Lord Jesus comes in again. No longer as a Saviour whose blood was shed, but as an Advocate with the Father, He re-establishes communion.
Obedience (vv. 3-6) and brotherly love (vv. 7-11) are the two things which prove that we have divine life in us. Moreover brotherly love flows from obedience (John 13:34). However if we love the Lord we will never find His commandments grievous (1 John 5:3). In v. 6 God sets us an even higher standard. To walk as He walked means more than obeying orders. In John’s Gospel we find what is true in Christ, and in his Epistle what is true in us (v. 8). The life is the same and it should be seen in the same way (1 John 4:57).
