He is saying that if you hate your brother, you are
not abiding in eternal life.
Let every
man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be sacred as the work of ministry.
By abiding in these different circles, and performing before others within them, our need for significance may be temporarily satisfied.
I've personally tested this and now I know it is true: when you let a
question abide in your mind, in time the solution will come.
That this is what John means is clearly indicated by the following context, especially in 1 John 3:17 where John writes that when the love of
God abides in us and we are living in light of God's love, we will help our brothers in need rather than hate them (Once again, the NIV unhelpfully deleted the word abide from 3:17).
The Father not only loves others by loving the Father's Son, but also directly «loves you» (16:27), i.e., the disciples, the ones
who abide in Jesus» love.
It is my understanding that if a person who has totally surrendered his life to Christ, and his
word abides in him, there is no way for the devil can enter in.
1 John 3:15 — Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal
life abiding in him.
That same
seed abides in each true believer, producing the nature and likeness of Jesus the Son of God.
John 6: 52 - 58: He who eats my flesh and drinks my»
blood abides in me, and I in him.
It continues to help me dismantle some of the limiting beliefs I hold about myself that prevent me
from abiding in my truest, highest self.
In the face of the multitudes, who, lacking everything, suffer hunger, the words of Saint John acquire the tone of a ringing rebuke: «How does God's love
abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses to help?»
While some Christians never really abide, and so never really produce fruit, other Christians produce much fruit for years and years, and then one day,
stop abiding in Christ and stop producing fruit.
The book of 1 John is very helpful in understanding
what abiding in Christ is all about.
We can
then abide in this as Self - Actualized beings knowing all that is to be known.
And there were in the same country
shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
Since in Jesus Christ there has been brought to a focal point the significance given by God to the human creation, it is precisely this which is «raised from the dead» and
now abides in God for ever.
«May the infinite mother beings attain perfect peace and happiness and be released from their pain, fear, sorrow and delusion; may they
always abide in perfect equanimity of mind and in joy beyond all sorrow.»
11 He went on to say that «the Christian doctrine of God would be inferior to that of the Greeks, did it not supplement this teaching of the infinite passibility of God with the assertion that the Almighty
abides in perfect felicity,» 12 whereupon «the revelation of the cross is the persuasive power which brings all men to God.»
Those who want to love the people
without abiding in the highest good sink «their own minds in base and trifling things,» losing them in scheming strategy and cunning techniques having neither the sincerity of humanity nor that of commiseration (WYM 274).
God alone knows the river of tears and dysfunction set in motion by the absence of
abiding in marriage, the foundation of human community.
Where the old Moral Majority was essentially
law abiding in its campaign against secular society in the late 1970s and early 1980s, new fundamentalist campaigns (such as the anti-abortion crusades of Operation Rescue) are prepared to resort to civil disobedience.
Paul encourages his readers to
abide in faith, hope, and love, and adds that «the greatest of these is love.»
Unity
means abiding in love in both our similarities and differences and in allowing others their differences without condemnation.
Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Such images can hardly be revelatory to us until we have learned tacitly to indwell many of the cultural particulars that the
Buddhist abides in spontaneously.
All prejudices and disagreements aside, there are in fact, universal truths that we all knowingly or
unknowingly abide in that have origin in one faith, one God, one creator.
We can either
abide in line with this or choose to reject God and live in rebellion.
In writing to them, John encourages these believers to rely upon their new birth in God for teaching, instruction about righteousness,
abiding in faithfulness, and remembering that Jesus is the Christ, and that by Him, they have life in His name.
The entire book of 1 John is engaged in this idea about good and evil, light and darkness, truth and error, and John is intent on showing his readers that based on who God is and what Jesus has done for all people, we can choose to live in love, light, and righteousness, rather than
abide in hatred, darkness, and evil.