We May Not Sin (1 John 2:1-2)

“My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.” (1 John 2:1-2 NKJV)

What a tender word of ‘little children’ John called the saints! That’s how our heavenly Father sees us as little children. He already knows that we are going to fail and stumble down the road. However, instead of condemning us, he tenderly and kindly offers his helping and gracious hands for us to hold on tight again and again. If we accept His hands, then the righteous Christ Jesus, the eternal Advocate with the Father, becomes the propitiation for our sins, not for ours only but also for the world. But this eternal Advocate will not defend us until we stop defending ourselves.

Jesus Christ is the Lord of all peoples on earth. There is no partiality on people in Him. There is no us and them in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Lord of the Jews and the Gentiles. Anyone who comes to Him must come in the same manner as the prodigal son came to the father in the parable Jesus spoke in the Gospel of Luke Chapter 15. Rich or poor, educated or less, white, yellow or black, intelligent or less, young or old, all comes to God only through the One who died with blood on the cross in Calvary.

Do not miss that John wrote these things, so that we may not sin. It implies that we may sin and in fact we do sin. It also means that we don’t have to sin any longer in Jesus Christ. The secret is the fact that we have been belonged to the family of God and thereafter we have fellowship with God the Father and the Son Jesus Christ. We are no longer in Adam as the children of darkness but in Jesus Christ as the children of light. We have been delivered and liberated from the dark power of evil through the faith in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

A whole new life has begun in our hearts through the most gracious gift of faith in the Son Jesus Christ whom God sent for the world. That’s the life of resurrection. Those who believe in the Son Jesus Christ are forgiven their sins without any blemish. Not only that, but also they are given a new life in Him, overflowing from rivers of living water. Remember that we have fellowship with God and His Son Jesus Christ. Fellowship is experiencing the reality of the resurrection life in our midst right now.

As Apostle Paul says, we are possessed by Him and we possess Him, so that all His is ours. That is what we are and what we have since we have been purchased with the blood of Christ Jesus the Lord of glory.

“Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”; and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.” (1 Corinthians 3:18-23 NKJV)

“All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1 Corinthians 6:12-20 NKJV)