The Occasion and Purpose of 1 John

"Although John started here during the wrong teaching, the author's main purpose is not to confront the heretics, but to ensure that they truly understand Jesus' truth and therefore have eternal life It is to guarantee the people left for it. " That letter keeps believers in faith and maintains the values ​​they have until division occurs in the church. According to Mr. Thomson, believers are living in times of confusion. " "With the confusion in the congregation, there is no doubt that many people have raised questions about their beliefs and actions.

On Sunday in four advents, I would like to bring four messages from John 1: 1-18. The purpose of Christian in the advent season is to focus our attention on the great reality mentioned in verses 1 and 14. At the end of the first quarter, John said. "The Word is a God." At the beginning of verse 14, he said, "The Word was flesh in us and dwelled." It is a god, and Jesus is a human being. It is completely God, it is totally human. Everything depends on this. So, Christmas as a Christian holiday may not be taught in the Bible, but the meaning of Christmas Christianity is also the foundation of the Bible.

At the beginning of the Gospel according to John, it is declared 1: 1-18, "The Word is a God". John regards Jesus as an eternal word. John was the only writer who called Jesus "the Lord", showing the God of Jesus and filling the gap between God and the world. The Gospel in John 1: 14 knows that the Bible points to Jesus Christ as "the Word is fleshed out and lives in us". "Tao" represents his divinity, but his "female body" reflects his human nature, Jesus is a man with real meat and blood like everything else Think.

This gospel begins in Genesis 1: 1 "Before the beginning". John 1: 1 started before creation. When God alone was there, God is the Word of God, the Word is God (1: 1-2), and the Word, and Jesus Christ becomes flesh (Wu 1: 14), but not from human beings ... It is meat and blood (1: 13). Cults teach people to be God, but the Bible teaches God to be Jesus Christ. The gospel is both an apology and the gospel. John aims to convince the reader that Jesus Christ is sacred, with a sense of purpose and intention.

1 In John 3: 8 it is said that the purpose of the Son of God is "to destroy the work of the devil". But if Jesus' cross-line work is to satisfy the requirements of the Lord mainly, to substitute for punishment for humanity, and to suffer from the wrath of God instead of us, then Jesus will bring It is not obvious to "destroy". In fact, for God? Strictly speaking, in any case, because God is asked for payment, what does the devil have to do with the cross? On the contrary, if Jesus' behavior is to understand the devil 's plan rather than the father' s wrath, is poetry such as John 3: 8 more meaningful? !