1 John 2:1-6

The elder John speaks in today’s text with both real authority and real affection.  He communicates that he loves his readers, and knows the One who loves them even more.  For followers of Jesus, sin ought not to be the norm in our lives; we should flee from it.  Even so, in the vestiges of sin that still cling to us, we have an advocate (paraclete) who pleads before the Father on our behalf, appealing to the perfect sacrifice of Jesus as our propitiation.  As we are kept in Jesus, we are called to live out our “keptness”.