BY THIS WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM 2:1-2: JESUS IS OUR ADVOCATE The Propitiation For the Whole World 2:3-6: WE “KNOW” … IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS 1 Jn.5:3; John 14:15; 15:14 2:7-11: BUT IF ONE HATES HIS BROTHER …IS IN DARKNESS He who loves his brother abides in the light 1 Jn. 3:11-18; 4:11, 20-21; 5:1-2 2:12-14: BE ASSURED YOU HAVE OVERCOME THE EVIL ONE “Little Children, Fathers, Young Men” 2:15-17: LOVE NOT THE WORLD Because of what the world is, Jn. 12:31 Because of what the world does to us, Gal.5:19-21 Because of where the world is going, 1 Jn. 2:17

HOW TO DEAL WITH FALSE TEACHING 1 John 2:18-29 v.18 – “IT IS THE LAST HOUR” This is different from “last days” Acts 2:17; Heb. 1:2 Different from “last day” John 6:39,40,44,54, 11:24; 12:48 Could he mean “the last hour” of unity and consistent fellowship as foretold in Acts 20:28-30; 1 Tim. 4:1? What caused this division? Antichrists 2 John7; 1 John 4:2-3; 1 Jn. 2:22-23 (John 5:23) v.19 –”THEY WENT OUT FROM US … WERE NOT OF US” “They went out” necessitates they had been part of us “They would have continued” infers they had begun Heb. 3:12-14; 4:1, 11; 2 Pet. 2:20-22

HOW TO DEAL WITH FALSE TEACHING 1 John 2:18-29 v.20 – “YOU HAVE AN ANOINTING … YOU KNOW ALL THINGS” v.21 – Not written because you don’t know, because you do know v.24 – Let that abide which you heard from the beginning v.27 – You do not need that anyone teach you (John 16:13) Eph. 3:3-5; 1 Cor. 2:10-13; 2 Tim.3:16-17; Jude 3 vv.28-29 – ABIDE IN HIM … HAVE CONFIDENCE Are Those who “Have an Anointing” the same as the “Spiritual” in 1 Cor. 2:14-16 ? Calvinism – “only the elect can really understand …” “Natural” man – “foolishness” 1 Cor. 1:18, 21 “Spiritual” – judges all things, 1 Cor. 2:6 Rom. 8:5-8