1 jn 3

KEYS FROM THE BIBLE TONIGHT''

3 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. ² Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. ³ And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

Jesus is pure (without sin). So if we place hope in Jesus he makes us like pure and holy. But in practice we still sin but we do not need o sin Our sins are gone and we r made right in Jesus as he forgives. However do I still sin?

⁴ Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. ⁵ And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. ⁶ Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

We do not sin. One day this is going to be the truth as sin will be gone. We are not to sin. Christians are not sinners as we r found in the Lord. If we struggle we need to look at Jesus and him on the cross. Note our life is dead and our new life is given and we ought to walk out the new life in Jesus.

⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. ⁸ He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. ⁹ Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Note we cannot sin because if we r in Jesus the works of the devil are gone on the cross. Wee ought look at this truth when we want to look to our life. A man who does not know Jesus is going to sin and not feel bad or see what is done to take sin away but if anyone be in Jesus they are going to work not to sin and know God has done work to take our sins out of our life.

¹⁰ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. ¹

1 The New King James Version. (1982). (1 Jn 3:1–10). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.