perceive what kind of love the Father has given to us so that called children of God and so existing! (1 John3:1)
To be called and exist a child of God, do you perceive? It is an astonishing thing. The Greek word for perceive is used to express astonishment or inquiry about the nature or kind of something. Perceive is is to attain awareness or understanding.* John is using this to provoke thought or reflection of our Father's love as beloved children of God. There is a love that roots and founds us, and there is a deeper love that creates a bond that brings us into maturity.
Now, know because all things work together for good, the ones loved of God, for those who are called according to his purpose, (Romans 8:28)
There is much to this verse in regard to purpose, and calling, but I want to bring to your thoughts on how we did not love God but he loved us and revealed himself to us and because he loves us :all things work together for good." Before he created the world, he predestined us, through adoption of the Spirit, which exists a guarantor of our inheritance. Through this new birth we are called children of God and so existing! So if existing according to purpose, predestined, and if predestined called, then justified, and glorified (the purpose, the calling, being chosen in love; to be conformed to the image of his Son). What astonishment is his love!
dear beloved at the present existing children of God and not yet revealed what existing, knowing because if revealed existing the same as him because we behold him just as existing and everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he exists pure (1 John 3:2-4)
As beloved children of God we know we exist as such, but we don't fully perceive what we will exist like but we do know Jesus and one day will will exist like Jesus. Have we not beheld him? Does he not exist light, life, the essence of purity and righteousness, of God's divine image? Are we not as children, to be like his own, to be partakers of his divine nature? Peter wants us to think on these things until we perceive and understand. Do we exist children of God? This is great news! Have we purified ourselves just as he exists pure? As children we are to be like him.
... sin exists lawlessness and you know because for this very reason he was brought to light to destroy sin and exists no sin in him. No one who abides in him, not of sin, the one of sin beholds him not neither knows him (1 John 3:4-10)
Jesus did dot come just to atone for sin but to destroy it, condemning it in the flesh and taking its power away. We see two words used in the above scriptures to express sin. One is ἁμαρτία (hamartia, which is defined as a moral failing of meeting God's righteousness. Whether we define it as immorality, offense, wrong... the point is we failed in God's moral standards. The second word is ἁμαρτάνω (hamartanō) which has as its root in the above word but adds anō. Anō in Greek expresses the idea of fullness (John 2:7; John 8:23; Acts 2:19; Galatians 4:26; Revelation 14:18). This word is usually expressed as "missing the mark" and that is true but in Christ we are imputed righteousness, so through him we make the mark.
so then brothers we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to its desires... (Romans 8:12)
We see "sin" hamartia and "of sin" hamartanō with two different meanings. There is sin and there are those who are "of sin." This speaks of identity, you are of Christ and God's Spirit or you are of the sinful nature, fleshly and are under the influence and power of the prince of the air. The one "of sin" doesn't know Jesus, they have no part with him, no communion, no fellowship, no Spirit of Christ, they are of the sinful nature and live accordingly (Ephesians 2). With this understanding now read 1 John 3:2-4 again. In Christ you are born of the Spirit, no longer "of sin" though you still live in a body in which sin dwells in, it doesn't define you.
because we behold him [know him] just as existing and everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he exists pure (1 John 3:4)
If we behold and know him and exist children of God then we have this living hope that someday we will be fully like him, to be pure as he exists pure. The church is to grow into mature adulthood, the measure of that being the quality of the likeness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13-14). It is to be pure, set a part from sin. We set high expectations of excellence as we grow in grace and in knowledge of Jesus. Yes, we fall short at times but we are not of those who turn back, we press toward the high calling of God in Christ Jesus because he has taken hold of us, he loves us, adopted and sealed us and is working out all for good. We have a high calling, if we are to be in heaven with Jesus would we not exist like him? Then our high calling here on this earth is the same, if we don't want to be like him here, why would we want to go to heaven?
little children let no one deceive you, the one doing of righteousness exists righteous just as he is exists righteous (1 John 3:7)
The sign we are a child is from God, a testimony of the Spirit that we exist his own and that we put away sin is a sign we become mature, sons of God (Romans 8:13-17). Those "of sin" are from the devil as he existed "of sin" from the beginning (1 John 3:8). "No one born of God does sin because his seed abides in him and is not 'of sin' because born of God, in this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed, the ones not doing righteousness exist not from God and the ones not loving his brother" (1 John 3:9-10).
we know that we crossed over from death unto life because we love the brethren, the ones not loving remains in the realm of death. All who hate his brother exists a murderer and you know no murderer has eternal life abiding in him (1 John 3:15)
How do we know love? "because he laid down his life on our behalf" (1 John 16). So we define love for our brother in that we lay down our lives for them (1 John 3:16). How do we define hate?
Jesus said the Pharisees committed murder in their hearts because they hated their brethren. How did they hate their brother? "Whoever has this worlds resources and sees his brother in need and turns his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?" (1 John 3:17). The sign we are growing in grace and knowledge of Jesus is that we are imitators of his divine nature and he exists love, so we love His brethren.
For the love of Christ holds us together us, since we have concluded this: because one has died for all; therefore all have died.As beloved children we are loved deeply, and God wants us to know this so we are filled to the fullness of God (Ephesians 3). As we perceive such great love its bond leads us to maturity, then we can say "nor height, nor depth, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:39). We can say this because we know the great love of God, having a foundation laid so to have strength to know the height, depth, breadth, and width of a deeper love so to be filled to the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:18-19). Then we truly exist like him as beloved children and the world knows we are his disciples by our love for one another.