1 john 2 (2)

In 1 John which is 5 chapters, John uses the word remain or abide (same word in Greek) 24 times. Even though 1 John is a very small book compared to the rest of the NT it uses the word over 20% of the NT occurrences.

Notice in all the ways that abiding can happen

2:24 - The word can abide in you

2:24 - We can abide in the Son and Father

2:27 - Anointing can abide in you

Many times when we think of remaining somewhere we just think of standing around. This word means to stand fast to remain to fight to stay in the same spot.

ILLUSTRATION - Crowd stands in one place and person stays in same position, then the crowd tries to push that person further back and they have to fight to stay in the same position.

A great example of this is in

If we love the world we won't have:

- the father's love

- the right longing

- eternal life

It affects you on the inside (you don't have God's love), it affects you in your actions (right desires), it affects your destiny (eternal life).

If we love the world we can’t abide in God and his word and anointing can’t abide in us because we are stepping out of his abiding, we are choosing to unplug God from our life. It says this in v. 16, that we can’t abide in Christ and love the world because they are opposites, they are “not from the Father but from this world.”

But when we remain we are told that

are sins are forgiven (2:12)

and the word of God abides in us and we have overcome the evil one (2:14)