~ Jesus Christ Is The Word of Life and
Our Advocate ~
The Bible is about Jesus Christ
~ “Jesus
said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that
the prophets have spoken! Did not the
Christ have to suffer these things
and then enter His glory?’ And beginning
with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the
Scriptures concerning Himself” (Luke 24:25-27).
Jesus Christ in John’s Three Letters
~ He is everlasting love in all
three epistles. He is the Great Lover
coming for His Bride (His true Church).
But also note that the Apostle John wrote many familiar words in his
account of the life of Jesus Christ. One
of the more familiar verses is amplified in these three epistles. “Jesus said to him
[Thomas], ‘I am the way [3 John], the truth [2 John], and the life [1
John]. No one comes to the Father except
through Me’” (John 14:6).
Jesus Christ in the
Epistle of 1 John ~ He is The Messiah, the Word of Life, our
Propitiator, and our Advocate. This
little letter explains how we can grow to be more like Him. “But you
have an anointing [remember that Messiah mean “Anointed One”] from the Holy One,
and you know all things. I have not written to you because
you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the
truth. Who is a liar but he who denies
that Jesus is the Christ? He is
antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who
acknowledges the Son has the Father also” (1 John
2:20-23).
Fellowship With God ~ As
children of God we become members of God’s family and therefore have fellowship
(meaningful intimate communion) with God.
“That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may
have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with
His Son Jesus Christ” (1 John 1:3).
“This is the
message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and
in Him is no darkness at all. If we say
that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not
practice the truth. But if we walk in
the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:5-7).
Comment
~ We have only touched the
surface of Christ in 1 John. The Apostle
Paul told us the Scriptures present many shadows of things to come but the
reality is found in Jesus Christ (Colossians 2:17).
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