与神相交的证据
约翰壹书二章1至2节
1我小子们哪，我将这些话写给你们，是要叫你们不犯罪。若有人犯罪，在父那里我们有一位中保，就是那义者耶稣基督。
2他为我们的罪作了挽回祭，不是单为我们的罪，也是为普天下人的罪。
信息分享
约翰壹书一章5至10节清楚告诉我们，每个信徒都仍有罪性和犯罪的可能；我们的旧本性总是死缠不放，一直要到我们离开身体这躯壳，回到荣耀的天家，才能完全摆脱罪性。约翰在这里的第1节再次指出：「我承认每个信徒都仍有罪性，但继续犯罪却是不对，也是神所不容的。」
约翰把收信者视作家人般劝勉说：「我的小孩儿，你们快将进到世界。但不要忘记你们的身分，我希望你们要保持家的声誉。神必帮助你，但有些事情是你们绝不可以去做的。你万一犯了罪，就只管回到神那里，因为神已经为你提供了一个处理罪的方法。然而，我当然希望你们不要犯罪，因为你们是神的儿女。」
当约翰说：「若有人犯罪」，他是指到偶然一次被过犯所胜，而不是持续不断的犯罪。即使我们每个人都渴望过讨主喜悦的生活，但我们必须承认，我们还是经常被罪所胜。我们若然犯了罪，该怎么办呢？赶快回到家里。「如果你遇上麻烦，你身边总有一个人会帮助你去解决。」我们每个人都需要这人的随时帮忙，因为祂就是耶稣基督，祂必能帮助我们。
当我们犯了罪，基督会站在父神面前，为我们求情：「父啊，这人是我们家中的一个孩子。他已经被我的宝血遮盖。他虽然犯了罪，但我已为他的罪受了刑罚，请你赦免他吧！」
我们的敌人撒但经常在父面前指控我们，所以，我们更需要基督为我们代求，因为天父终必听祂。
约翰还提醒我们，基督不单为我们的罪受死，祂更是为普天下人的罪作了挽回祭。我们要处理本身的罪之同时，更要关心普天下的人同样要解决罪的问题。基督是我们的代求者，但祂同时也是普天下人的代赎者。将祂为普天下人成就的工作传给所有人知道，乃是我们当尽的责任。
FELLOWSHIP TESTED
1 John 2:1-2
1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
Message
Only two verses in our reading today but what wonderful verses they are. They concern our fellowship with our heavenly Father- something that he wants above everything else. Isn't that a wonderful thought?
In 1 John 1:5-10 we saw clearly that in every believer there is the root and possibility of sin. Our old nature is always with us until we leave this body and go home to glory. John says again here in these verses 'I recognise the possibility of sinning by the believer but the continuing practise of sin is wrong and is prohibited'.
John writes to the family of God and says 'My little children, you are going out into the world. You bear the family name. I want you to keep it clean. God will help you but there are some things that you must not do. If you sin God has provided a way of dealing with the situation, but it will be far better if you do not sin at all because you are a child of God.'
When John says 'If anyone does sin', he is talking about a single action rather than continuing in sin. All of us are overtaken by sin from time to time, even though our desire is to live constantly as Christ would have us live. What happens then when we do sin? Go back to the family scene. 'If you ever get into trouble, there is someone who will stand by you and get you out of trouble.' We all need someone like that don't we, and that person is Christ himself.
When we sin, Christ stands before the Father and says 'Father this is one of our family. He is covered by my blood. He has sinned but I have paid the penalty for his sin and he still remains one of the family.' We need an advocate like that because we have an adversary, Satan himself. He is called the accuser of the brethren and that is what he does. when we sin. He accuses us before God but Jesus Christ always takes our part and he always wins with the Father.
John adds one thing more-he reminds us that Christ died not for our sins only but the sins of the whole world. In our concern over the Christian's sin problem let us not forget the world's sin problem. Christ is our advocate but he is also the world's redeemer. To tell the world is our responsibility.