1 John 3:5 Commentary

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1 John 3:5

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To seek sin’s pleasures and to discard the pursuit of purity not only makes us lawbreakers, but it thwarts the very purpose for which the Son of God came into the world. Every true child of God understands that the Son was manifested to take away sin, and he aligns himself with that purpose. If anyone continues to serve his lusts, he says that he wishes Christ had not appeared, for Christ came to stop him doing the very thing he wants to do. But our Saviour will not alter his mission for the sake of apostates; he knows what he is going to achieve through his incarnation and no one can change his mind. Any thought that Christ can be made to serve our lusts ignores his implacable hatred of sin.

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Before anyone can turn the gospel into a servant of his lusts, arguing that he can continue in sin that grace may abound, he has got to alter the purpose for which Christ came into the world.

So great is Christ’s opposition to sin that even though he was faced with the hardest choices that anyone has ever faced, he would not even for a moment ease his situation by resorting to sin.

Our salvation requires us not only to be forgiven but to be utterly changed. We cannot come for pardon unless we also come to be made holy. He came to take sin away both from our account and from our hearts.

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1 John 3:5 Commentary and Bible Study