1 John 2:13a

Speaker: Rusty Kennedy
​Series: 1 John

Rusty's Notes

1 JOHN 2:12-14
12 I am writing to you, little children,
since your sins have been forgiven
on account of his name. ak
13 I am writing to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the one who is from the beginning. al
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have conquered the evil one. am
14 I have written to you, children,
because you have come to know the Father.
I have written to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the one who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
because you are strong,
God’s word an remains in you,
and you have conquered the evil one.[1]
 
Sabbath Rest – Comes with true spiritual maturity; the abundant life associated with knowing the Creator intimately.
         1) Failed to enter – Hebrews 3:16–19 - For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses? y 17 With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? z 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. [2]
         2) Failed to enter – Hebrews 4:8 - For if Joshua e had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.[3]
 
Spiritual Rest – Hebrew Christians & Redeemed of all time.
         1) Believers in Hebrews
         2) All believers of all time
Redemption Rest – Rest from spiritual bondage to sin
         1) Entered – Hebrews 3:1 - Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. n[4]
         2) Entered – Hebrews 11:6 - Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. [5]


Canaan Rest – Rest that comes with trusting God to overcome the enemy.
         1) Had begun to enter but had failed to fully enter – Hebrews 10:32-35 -  Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.t 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way. u 34 For you sympathized with the prisoners J and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession. K,v 35 So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. w[6]
         2) Encouraged to enter – 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 - For although we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh, 4 since the weapons of our warfare j are not of the flesh, but are powerful k through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments 5 and every proud thing that is raised up against the knowledge l of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ.[7]


Sabbath Rest – Comes with true spiritual maturity; the abundant life associated with knowing the Creator intimately.
         1) Encouraged to enter – Hebrews 4:9-11 - Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for God’s people. 10 For the person who has entered his rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from his. f 11 Let us, then, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience. [8]
         2) – Encouraged to enter – Psalm 95:7-11 - For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
the sheep under his care. B,z
Today, if you hear his voice: aa
8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness ab
9 where your ancestors tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did. ac
10 For forty years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know my ways.” ad
11 So I swore in my anger,
“They will not enter my rest.” ae [9]
 
John 5:16-23 - Therefore, the Jews began persecuting b Jesus A because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. c
17 Jesus responded to them, “My Father d is still working, and I am working also.” 18 This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: e Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
19 Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, the Son is not able to do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father B does, the Son likewise does these things. f 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him greater works g than these so that you will be amazed. 21 And just as the Father raises h the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants. i 22 The Father, j in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son, 23 so that all people may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. k Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. l [10]
 
John 14:7-11 - If you know me, you will also know A my Father. d From now on you do know him e and have seen him.”

• They think alike
• Their answers and responses will always be the same
• Distinct but one
• Unbroken fellowship between them

8 “Lord,” said Philip, f “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

• They just didn’t get it

9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father. g How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? h The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. i The Father who lives in me does his works. j

• Jesus did no works, it was His Father in Him that did the works

11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe B because of the works themselves. k[11]
 
Envelopes
 
Philippians 2:13 - For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose. [12]
John 15

• Passover meal/Lord’s Supper had just been completed and they had left the upper room to head for the Garden of Gethsemane via the Kidron Valley.

1 “I am as the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, at and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.

• (takes away / NAS;),
• Greek – to raise from the ground, to raise upward, elevate, lift up or draw up.
• Picture of Olive tree
• He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
• Pruning is painful but necessary

3 You are already clean au because of the word I have spoken to you.

• John 13:10 – You don’t need to bathe.
• They already had his words as information.
• The Holy Spirit was about to reveal it to them.

4 Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me. av

• To live by His life
• Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

5 I am the vine; aw you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, ax because you can do nothing without me.

• No self-effort will produce such fruit.

6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside ay like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, az and they are burned. ba

• Jesus in context is speaking of how the fruit is borne.

1 Corinthians 3:11-15 - For no one can lay any foundation other af than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, ag costly stones, ah wood, hay, or straw, 13 each one’s work will become obvious. For the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; ai the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. aj 14 If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will experience O loss, but he himself will be saved ak—but only as through fire. al [13]

• Judgment Seat of Christ – 2 Corinthians 5:10 - For we must all appear before the judgment seat ab of Christ, ac so that each may be repaid ad for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.[14]
• Made Blameless - Jude 24 -  Now to him ar who is able to protect you from stumbling as and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish at and with great joy,[15]
• Works done in our own strength are sinful  Romans 14:23 - whatever is not from faith is sin.[16] (NAS)

Romans 8:1 - Therefore, there is now no condemnation ak for those in al Christ Jesus, K,am[17]

• There is no condemnation for the believer so this judgment is concerning the quality of our works,

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. a

• Abiding in Jesus lines our desires up with the Father.

8 My Father is glorified b by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be A my disciples. [18]
 
1 John 2:12-13
I am writing to you, little children,
since your sins have been forgiven
on account of his name. ak
13 I am writing to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the one who is from the beginning. al
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have conquered the evil one. am[19]
 
We traveled from the simplest of things of our faith (forgiveness) to one of the least understood issues of the Scripture (being victorious over the evil one) and to the desirable relationship that we continually pursue (knowing the Father).
 
FEDEx

ak Ps 25:11; Lk 24:47; Ac 2:38; 10:43
al 1Jn 1:1
am Jn 16:33; 17:15; Eph 6:10; 1Jn 2:14; 4:4; 5:4–5; Rv 2:7
an 1Jn 1:10
[1] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
y Nm 14:2; Dt 1:35–38
z Nm 14:29; Ps 106:26
[2] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
e Jos 22:4
[3] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers
n Rm 15:8; Php 3:14; Heb 2:11,17; 4:14–15
[4] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
t Php 1:29–30; Heb 6:4
u 1Co 4:9; Php 4:14; 1Th 2:14
J Other mss read sympathized with my imprisonment
K Other mss add in heaven
v Mt 5:12; 1Pt 1:4–5
w Heb 2:2; 11:26
[6] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
j 1Tm 1:18
k Ac 25:5
l Jn 17:3; 1Jn 4:8
[7] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
f Heb 4:4; Rv 14:13
[8] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
B Lit sheep of his hand
z Ps 79:13
aa Heb 3:7–11,15; 4:7
ab Ex 17:7; Dt 6:16
ac Nm 14:22; Ps 78:18
ad Dt 9:7; Ac 13:18; Heb 3:10,17
ae Nm 14:23,28–30; Dt 12:9
[9] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
b Lk 6:28; 2Tm 3:12
A Other mss add and trying to kill him
c Lk 13:10
d Mt 5:16; 11:27; Jn 8:42
e Mt 12:14; 26:4; 27:1; Mk 3:6; 14:1; Lk 6:11; Jn 7:1,19; 10:33; 11:53
B Lit whatever that one
f Jn 3:35; 6:38; 7:16,28; 8:26–42; 10:18,30,36–38; 12:49–50; 14:9,24,31; 15:9–10; 16:15; 17:9–10
g Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3
h Mk 9:27; Jn 2:19
i Jn 11:25–26
j Mt 11:27
k Jn 15:23
l Lk 10:16
[10] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
A Other mss read If you had known me, you would have known
d Mt 11:27; 1Jn 2:23
e Jn 17:3; 1Jn 4:8
f Mk 3:18
g Jn 5:19,37; 12:45
h Jn 10:30; 14:11,20; 1Jn 2:24; 4:17
i Jn 5:30
j Jn 5:36; 6:28; Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3
B Other mss read believe me
k Jn 10:38
[11] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[12] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
as Ex 3:14; Jn 8:24,58
at Mt 3:10; 7:19; 15:13; Lk 3:9; 13:6–9; Jn 15:6; Rm 11:17,22
au Ps 24:4; Ti 1:15
av Jn 6:56; 8:28; 1Jn 2:5
aw Jms 3:12
ax Mk 4:8
ay Jn 15:2
az 2Th 1:8
ba 1Th 1:8; 2Pt 3:7
af Is 28:16; Rm 15:20; 2Co 10:16; 11:4; Gl 1:6–9
ag Jms 5:3
ah Rv 17:4
ai 2Th 1:8; 1Pt 1:7
aj Ps 62:12; Pr 24:12; Mt 16:27; 2Co 5:10; 1Pt 1:17
O Or suffer
ak Mt 9:22; Ac 16:30; Eph 2:8
al Jd 23
[13] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
ab Jn 5:22–3
ac Mt 25:31–46; Php 1:6; Heb 10:31
ad Mt 16:27
[14] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
ar Rm 16:25; Eph 3:20
as Jn 17:12
at Eph 1:4; 5:27; Php 2:15; Col 1:22
[15] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[16] New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update. 1995. La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
ak Rm 5:16; 8:34
al Rm 8:9–10
K Other mss add who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit
am Rm 8:11,39; 16:3
[17] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
a Jn 14:14
b Jn 11:4; 17:1; 1Pt 2:12
A Or and become
[18] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
ak Ps 25:11; Lk 24:47; Ac 2:38; 10:43
al 1Jn 1:1
am Jn 16:33; 17:15; Eph 6:10; 1Jn 2:14; 4:4; 5:4–5; Rv 2:7
[19] Christian Standard Bible. 2020. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.