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KEY THEMES of I John introduced in the Upper Room discourse (John 13 – 16):
To walk in fellowship with God, the believer needs continual cleansing from sin’s defilement John 13:10 “Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.” The Lord told Peter that an all-over bath (Greek word: luo – symbolizing the one-time “washing of regeneration”) is needed only once (John 3:5; Titus 3:5; I John 2:2, 12). However, the believer needs daily cleansing (Greek word: nipto -- referri
False Teaching behind John's Epistles
APPARENTLY, FALSE TEACHERS HAD HAD SOME DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE ON THE ASSEMBLIES TO WHICH JOHN WAS WRITING. False Teaching especially seems to show itself in two main areas: Ethics – How we live; our morals Doctrine of Christ The false teachings John was confronting seem to be early forms of GNOSTICISM (from the Greek word gnosis – “knowledge”) Scholars say full blown Gnosticism did not arrive on the scene until about 200 A.D.However, the ROOTS of Gnosticism go back further –
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