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In our day, we have some legalism. Most of the problems we have today come from Gnosticism, special knowledge and revelation that's not found in the scripture, but that God seemingly gives to those "special people" who can determine what we call insight.
You hear somebody speak, and they take two pieces of scripture and put it together a certain way, and you go, "Wow, how did they come up with that? That person really has some spiritual insight. I never would have seen that." That's because it's not there!
The main teaching about Jesus from this movement denied the Lord's humanity in order to support the Lord's sinless nature. Their reasoning was that if He was sinless, then He couldn't have had a physical body.
But we will see in 1 John that he will use language to address all of the issues that were going on with the Gnostics. He's writing to the believers, but he writing to them in light of the Gnostic doctrine that is just beginning to spread through the churches.
V. ABOUT 2 JOHN:
2 John is one chapter long. It was written right after 1 John. How do you like that for insight?
2 John was written to combat the infiltration of Gnostic teaching into the church. And what I mean by that is that the church met in homes. They didn't meet in public church buildings. So, they had a problem, because in order for the Gnostics to infiltrate the church, they had to come to the church meeting in the homes. And so, John had some instruction there, not to let them into your home.
I think it is interesting, because in our day, we love to have non-believers come. I'm not saying that they shouldn't, but sometimes we actually highlight that, like "We're here for one reason, and one reason only, to bring in the unsaved!"
But John says if you bring the unsaved in, spiritually you will have a big problem. We'll see that in 2 John.
In our day, we have some legalism. Most of the problems we have today come from Gnosticism, special knowledge and revelation that's not found in the scripture, but that God seemingly gives to those "special people" who can determine what we call insight.
You hear somebody speak, and they take two pieces of scripture and put it together a certain way, and you go, "Wow, how did they come up with that? That person really has some spiritual insight. I never would have seen that." That's because it's not there!
The main teaching about Jesus from this movement denied the Lord's humanity in order to support the Lord's sinless nature. Their reasoning was that if He was sinless, then He couldn't have had a physical body.
But we will see in 1 John that he will use language to address all of the issues that were going on with the Gnostics. He's writing to the believers, but he writing to them in light of the Gnostic doctrine that is just beginning to spread through the churches.
V. ABOUT 2 JOHN:
2 John is one chapter long. It was written right after 1 John. How do you like that for insight?
2 John was written to combat the infiltration of Gnostic teaching into the church. And what I mean by that is that the church met in homes. They didn't meet in public church buildings. So, they had a problem, because in order for the Gnostics to infiltrate the church, they had to come to the church meeting in the homes. And so, John had some instruction there, not to let them into your home.
I think it is interesting, because in our day, we love to have non-believers come. I'm not saying that they shouldn't, but sometimes we actually highlight that, like "We're here for one reason, and one reason only, to bring in the unsaved!"
But John says if you bring the unsaved in, spiritually you will have a big problem. We'll see that in 2 John.
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