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Ans. All the sins' root cause is from these 3 examples of Worldiness that John gives. These sins pull us away from our divine Creators' holiness and thus from living in harmony with Him. Wor;d in this context is the evil system totally under the grip of the devil. This becomes concrete in wicked desires or base appetite for things forbldden by the Holy Creator

Q3. ans. The world here does not refer to the physical creation but to all aspects of reality that are opposed to and opposed to God. It refers tothe things in god's creation that pulls us away from away from our divine Creators's holiness, and thus, from living in totally under the grip of the devil. b] This evil love of the **** of the world and to get carried away by this **** is to move further away from God and become a part of that which opposes Him.This becomes concrete in wicked desires or base appetite for things forbidden by the Holy Creator.

Question no.2 ans. John encourages children, the new belivers by assuring that all their sins committed before salvation are forgiven, washed away by the precious blood of Christ, ie they are pure in heart. They are a new creation. The next step, the young in Christ, they must keep on fighting the sins, the evil oneof this world and conquer it. These young believers are strong in Christ as they feed on the word daily ,His word LOGOS stay in them, so they cannot be easily shaken by satan. They have Holy Spirit to lead them to all righteousness od the Lord. Fathers ,the mature christians or leaders,can be an example and a help to the child believer and the mature believer

Q.1. Ans. Hatred or unforgiveness makes us spiritually blind. As god is Love He or H.S. cannot flow into our life.Hatred cuts us off from God Himself. We think we are spiritually o.k., we worship, we sing, we pray, but all in wvain .We are doing all this at the other side of the wall that has been come up in between us and God,otherwords our unforgiveness has built a wall between us and God without us even knowing it. b]An unwillingness to forgive our nieghbour ie others cut off us from thr forgiveness of our sins. If we dont forgive others, god wont forgive our sins also. c]Forgiveness is not optional. We must forgive others, then the darkness that is hovering over our life will move away. and God's light , LOVE WILL HOVER OVER LIFE and it will give us peace.

The basic feeling of fellowship is the most divine quality of god - Love . When we love others as we love ourselves as Jesus taught us , our fellowship with fellow christians will be a deep relation . We can have fellowship at a deeper level.Salvation of all the fellow christians will help us have fellowship at a deeper level in Christ . We cannot be in fellowship with God when we are doing or thinking those things which are evil.Fellowship with god is excercised in prayer . More quality time spent in prayer will deepen the level of fellowship .

When achristian walk in darkness ,his fellowship with Jesus and his fellow christians is severed. He is grieving holy spirit and he is cheating himself , losing his peace and joy in the lord. To cover his faults and grieving of the holy spirit he will love to justify himself and also say to himself that "I am better than so &So""' When we wealk in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesushis son cleansing us from allour sins. The only way to get back into light is by accepting our our faults and be honest about our sins and must hate the sin and decid not to repeat the same mistake again .

Confession means to agree with God's truth about our sins- to concede that something is factual or true . Confession is vital in healing our souls , so that we stop hiding from ourselves . When we refuse to acknowledge our sins ,love in our hearts for God , loses the vitality of the spirit . The promises given tous if we do confess our sins : (a) He will forgive our sins (b)He will purify us from all unrightousness . confession touches the guilt of sin , that is the relationship with Father and cleansing touches the contamination of the sin , that is our character

What assurance does John gives us if we do sin? John assures the sinner not to give up faith because of the sin , as the sin is already paid by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus christ for the same . The sin is already redeemed by the sacrifice . How does this comfort us ? The truth that we had been bought ,from the filthy sin of which we often feel guilty ,for a price , itself relieves us from the clutches of the sin and the Guilt that follows . We havw a spoke person Jesus to advocate our case , to argue for our justice .... How does it make to avoid sins ? The infinite love which is the price for which we are bought make us avoid further sins ....

"Obedience must flow from love , not from a legalistic , self righteous spirit " God's love is both creative and purposive . He showers his love on us for the purpose of creating loving obedience and righteousness in us . By being legalistic we can obey many man made rules without a spirit of obedience which results from love . Obedience to God become a channe;l for God to express his redemptive love for others . A person who knows God will obey his commands..