Protect from Sins and Evil (1 John 5: 17-21)

PROTECT FROM SINS AND EVIL (1 JOHN 5: 17-21):

After writing about the basic necessities for life as believers, Apostle John continues to write decisively about protecting themselves from the sins and evilness.  Apostle John writes that all wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death. All the things that are injustice and ungodly are sins. Sin is the deviation, by disobedience to God. Though all the sin leads to death, a person is forgiven when he repents with a true heart. The glitches of sin could still present, though a person believes in God and repents. But the person who blasphemes against God and His spirit after knowing His power will sure be lead to death as there is no other redemption available.

Apostle John also writes that the believers know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.  The believers know that they are from God and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. The genuine believers who had been born again and desire to please God, do not keep on doing the wrong again and again but instead try their best to avoid it, and overcome the sin with the strength of God and Godly values, without being hurt or hurting others, and the invisible powers could never affect them. The committed believers know for certain that they ought to live a life by keeping the commandments of God, in order to be joyful, peaceful, and content. They also could differentiate and discrete the false standards and illusions of the world that are from the evilness, the end of which is devastation.

Apostle John further writes that the believers know that the Son of God had come and had given them understanding, so that they may know God, who is true and the believers are in God, who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. Apostle John also writes that Jesus is true God and eternal life. The believers know Jesus Christ who had come in flesh as a sacrifice for sins, once for all. Also, Jesus manifested the values of God and the Love of God to us, demonstrating and expressing the characteristics of God to us, offering the inheritance in God and eternal life for whoever truly believes in Him. Apostle John makes a final note to the believers, to be away from idols, by addressing them as little children. Idols needn’t be just the statues and images, but false ideologies and hypocrisy taking off the Qualities of God could also be Idols, which should be taken off by the true believers in God. 

Stimulations for Self-Reflection:

1.      What is sin? What does the author means by sin leading to death?

2.      Who does not keep on sinning?

3.      What does one who born of God do?

4.      Who does not touch on, who is born of God? Why?

5.      What does one who born of God knows?

6.      What does the Son of God give? Why?

7.      How those who are born of God is in Son of God and has eternal life?

8.      What should the believers keep away with? Explain?

9.      How we can avoid keep on sinning?

10.  How we can keep away from idol things?