2. 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

3. 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

4. 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 – 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