Shalom I wish you a contemplative and good Sunday. Rejoice 0ber everything Jesus has done for you!
1 John 3, 3
Who has this hope – a hope that is entirely tailored to Jesus – holding from every sin away, to be as pure as he.
The hope is alive in our lives! Without “hope” no one can live. But all earthly hopes, so they can energize us and meet some time, but are still births.
We have a “living hope” (1 Pt 1,3), a hope that not with everything else goes by in our lives and makes the very reason also our age bright and livable. It is the “hope” that “relies on him” the believer. This hope is not deceptive, because the one on which we found, not deceptive. You do not end in death because he, to which we hope the death conqueror who is risen.
But even this hope and just they – will now determine us also effective in the reality of our lives.
It is a basic train in the biblical statements about the future that they never serve the sole interest of knowledge or enjoyment of personal happiness. They always act into our present life with power as an incentive. So it is with John, he assures: “. And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure” Let us respect on the wording!
John does not say the church: Those who live in this hope, “must” cleanse or “should” be cleaned. John is convinced it is with the innermost necessity. Here we notice again the freedom of all “morality” and all mere “law” in.
But how then is this “clean” about? John says he “purifies himself, even as he is pure.” The “just as” in Greek has not only a comparative sense, but also a causative sound. In our “hope” to him, which is a, is a “doing” well founded, the like of a living source always new flows of our hope: that fact “some” of our lives here and now.
If its size is really bright before us: “I will be like him,” I can now tolerate nothing in me what to its purity does not fit as a dirty, dark and ungodly.
Pray for Jesus Christ is in you figure that you abnimmst and Jesus Christ is increasing in you.
God’s protection, blessings and peace
Pastor Lionheart (Thorsten Wurm)