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The book of 1 John

Chapter 3

1John3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

How shocked would Christian's be to learn that the world does not know them, because the world did not know Christ? Just be honest, think of all the constant effort in preaching, building, good works and all the rest Christian's do to be known by the world, so what indeed was the apostle John thinking in writing such contradictory words?

John. 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.
1:11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him. 1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

First, what is the context, the main point of the letter of first John? who was it written to, and for what reason that would help us explain Johns strange unpracticed words in today's world?

John.1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus was known by the world, everyone at Christ time was speaking of what he was doing, and there is no doubt that Christ lived because even secular history from his enemies wrote about the Christ and the uproar he was causing at his time! So its not a question of being known in the flesh from a set of parents, or the things he did in his flesh, but of something the world cannot know, and what is that?

John 7:24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Christ was not of this world, although, being born a man in the flesh was not his real birth which came from his Father, when anointed by him to do the works of God. In other words, Christ was born again, into God, as part of God being directly created into as spirit son of God, his world was no longer on earth but from above in a Spirit and truth, the Father indwelt Christ, and Christ was in the Father as part of him, the world, and/or the flesh cannot know the Spirit, or the truth of the Spirit.

John 1:32 John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

John 1:33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

John.17:22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
17:23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me. 17:24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

That operation and relationship the world knows nothing about, no one can intercede into a Father son relationship with God, not unless the Father allows it to happen for his further glory. What was Christ was Gods, and what was God is Christ and his life he had personally birthed into a son of God.

John 3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

John 5:19 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

John 5:20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

That is, the context of John's letter, nothing but the Christ and him alone as our salvation and our new birth. Thus, the world cannot know a son of God, they cannot hear their words correctly unless they themselves are anointed with the same Spirit of God to teach them the truth. Consequently, all the hard work of fleshly weed Christian's has no effect upon a son of God, it does not add to his or her new birth or teach them anything regarding their personal intimate relationship with God.

Luke 10:24 for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them."

Luke 11:28 But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."

Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice.

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

The power of the flesh exist in teaching, correcting, and educating others in building massive groups of power, so what they do as a group has recognition by others in the same world. Without the power of such an education and inculcation from the flesh, that is, the world, they are stripped of their power.

1 Peter 1:24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

These brothers and sisters at John's time anointed as God's children needed to get a handle on the truth, what they were anointed for and as, and forget about the world, because the world and its power was lost over the body of Christ when he was raised into the spirit world by his Father at his anointing. Christ death and resurrection confirmed what the Father has predestine in Christ before the founding of this world.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

Rom.8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}
8:30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Now these brothers and sisters must know their own anointing was not a crap shoot a gamble they were predestine before the founding of the world along with Christ, what they had, was not known by this world and that is why the world did not, could not work for them as it does for false Christian's. The world of God is opposed to the flesh or this world, it does not intermingle into the world making a better yeast pie. God's contact with this world is through his anointed, and they are not know by this world because they are not part of this world anymore than Christ was. So it is their works on earth at the direction of their headship Christ Jesus that are God's works of calling home his children into a spirit born again life with him. The body of Christ is created for the body, not the world, so all the far reaching programs of weed Christian's to convert others to Christianity spreads more weeds, and when planting weeds, weeds come up not wheat.

1 John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

1 John 3:13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own.

1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

2Cor.3:1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
3:2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
3:4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
3:5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
3:6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

God is not dealing with the flesh, it was judged throughout history of mankind as of having no value at all when it comes to knowing truth and Spirit of God's mind, and his works. Those loving the world are not part of God that is a cold hard truth these brothers and sisters must understand, or they would never know the love of the Father.

1 John 2:5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

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