Today’s Word
Redefining the Word
Every one who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 1 John 3:4 NASB Lawlessness – The Greek word for “lawlessness” is anomos. We have English derivatives from this Greek word like antinomian. But it isn’t the Greek background of the word that matters most when we want to understand what John is…
Like Father, Like Son, Like Me
If you know that He is righteous, you know that every one also who practices righteousness is born of Him. 1 John 2:29 NASB Righteous – This is about as close as John comes to describing “born again.” But John’s focus is not on the experience of forgiveness. He focuses on the practice of righteousness. …
Commentary on “Born Again”
And the world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides forever. 1 John 2:17 NASB Will – By now we all realize that John did not use the words “born again” in his report of the conversation between Yeshua and Nicodemus (John 3). He used…
Fifty Years Too Late
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days. Proverbs 19:20 NASB Be wise – I have recently been reading the early speeches of Abraham Heschel. Fifty years ago his prophetic insight into our culture sounded the warning. Fifty years later it seems as though we didn’t listen…
What You Can’t Have
Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous, the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. 1 John 3:7-8a NASB Practices – Rudolph Bultmann was one of the most important Christian theologians of the last…
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