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1 John 5:1-6
Good News Translation (GNT)
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1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah
is a child of God; and whoever loves a father
loves his child also.
2 This is how we know that we love God's
children: it is by loving God and obeying his
commands.
3 For our love for God means that we obey his
commands. And his commands are not too
hard for us,
4 because every child of God is able to defeat
the world. And we win the victory over the
world by means of our faith.
5 Who can defeat the world?
Only the person who believes that Jesus is the
Son of God.
The Witness about Jesus Christ
6 Jesus Christ is the one who came with the
water of his baptism and the blood of his
death. He came not only with the water, but
with both the water and the blood.
And the Spirit himself testifies that this is true,
because the Spirit is truth.
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Commentary taken from
'The Applied New Testament Commentary'
(Kingsway)
Victory Over the World
1 John Chapter 5:1-6
Every believer in Jesus
is born of God; that is,
every believer is God's child.
If we love the Father,
we must also love His children.
By loving God,
we prove that we love our brother.
In fact, love for God
and love for our brother is the same love.
One love can't exist without the other.
Love for God is to obey His commands.
To love one's neighbour and one's brother.
God's commands are not burdensome,
because He gives us the power
to obey them.
Men possess a natural human love,
such as the love between family members
and between close friends.
This love is also pleasing to God.
But this is not the kind of love that
John is talking about in this section.
John is talking about a totally
unselfish spiritual love;
only those who have the Holy Spirit
will have this kind of love.
We have the power to overcome
the world - that is, overcome Satan,
through our faith in Jesus.
Only those who believe in Jesus
can overcome the world.
Testimony to Christ (5:6)
Jesus came by water and blood -
that is, He was manifested through
water and blood.
He was manifested as the Son of God by water -
that is, at His baptism,
and was manifested as our Saviour
and atoning sacrifice by blood -
His own blood -
shed for us on the cross.
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