He who was from the beginning, whom we heard, whom we saw with our own eyes, whom we have perceived and our hands touched--concerning the Word, haChay. And haChay was revealed; we have seen and testify, and we proclaim to you haChay of `Owlam, who was with the Father and was revealed to us. We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also will have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Yeshuwah haMashiyach. We write this that your joy will be complete.
This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: that ha’Elohiym is ‘Owr; and in Him there is nothing at all of Choshek. If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in the Choshek, we lie and do nothing by ha’Emeth. But if we continue to walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Yeshuwah, His Son, continues to cleanse us from all chatta’ah.
If we claim to be without chatta’ah, we deceive ourselves and ha’Emeth is not in us. If we confess our chatta’ah, He is Ne’eman and Tsaddiyq and He will forgive us the chatta’ah and purge us from all resha`. If we claim we have not been a chatta’, we make Him out to be a liar and His Word is not in us.
My dear children, I write this to you that you will not be a chatta’. But if anybody is a chatta’, we have a Paroket bringing us near to the Father, Yeshuwah haMashiyach, Tsaddiyq. He is Kaphar for our chatta’ah, and not only for ours but also for the whole world.
And by this we know that we have acknowledged Him -- if we attend to His mitsvowt. The one who says, "I have acknowledged Him," but does not keep His mitsvowt is a liar, and ha’Emeth is not in him. But whoever attends to His mitsvowt, truly the checed of ha‘Elohiym is complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him. Whoever claims to live in Him will live as He lived.
Chacdiym, I am not writing you of a new mitzvah, but an old mitsvah, which you have had since the beginning. The old mitsvah is the Word you have heard. Yet I am writing you a new mitsvah; its truth is seen in Him and you, because the Choshek is passing away and the ‘Owr of ‘Emeth is already shining.
Anyone who claims to be in ha’Owr but hates his brother is still in the Choshek. Whoever has checed for his brother lives in ha’Owr, and there is no offensive thing in him. But he who hates his brother is in the Choshek and lives in the Choshek; he does not know where he is going, because the Choshek has blinded his eyes.
I write to you, converts, because your chat'owt have been forgiven through His Name. I write to you, zaqeniym, because you have known Him who is from Bre'shiyth. I write to you, male converts, because you have overcome the Rasha`. I wrote to you, zaqeniym, because you have known Him who is from Bre'shiyth. I wrote to you, male converts, because you are strong ones, and the Word of ha'Elohiym lives in you, and you have overcome the Rasha`.
Do not have desire for the world or anything in the world. If anyone has desire for the world, the checed of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world--the cravings of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of what he has and does--is not of the Father but of the world. The world is passing away, and its desires, but the one who does the will of ‘Elohiym lives past the age.
Converts, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the opponents of the Messiah are coming, even now many opponents of the Messiah have already come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going revealed that none of them belong to us.
But you have an anointing from the Qadowsh, and you know everything. I do not write to you because you do not know ha’Emeth, but because you do know Him and because no lie comes from ha’Emeth. Who is the liar except the one in denial, claiming that Yeshuwah is not the Messiah. Such is the opponent of the Messiah--he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise He promised us—the Chay l`Owlam.
I wrote these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. As for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need of anyone to teach you. But as the same anointing is teaching you about all things -- and it is true, not a deceit -- just as She has taught you, you will be remaining in Him.
And now, converts, remain in Him, so that when He appears we will have all out-spokenness and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
If you know that He is Tsaddiyq, you know that everyone who acts in His tsdaqah has been born of Him.
See what kind of checed the Father has given us, that we could be called children of ‘Elohiym! Through that the world does not understand us because it did not understand Him. Chacdiym, now we are children of ‘Elohiym, but what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him just as He is. Everyone who has this expectation in Him sets himself apart, just as He is Qadowsh.
Everyone who does chata’ does what is against the Torah; and chatta’ah is the state of being against the Torah. But you know that One appeared so that He could take away our chat’owt. And in Him is no chatta’ah. No one who remains in Him continues in chatta’ah. No one who continues in chatta’ah has either seen Him or known Him.
Converts, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does the tsedeq is qadosh, just as He is Qadowsh. He who does what is chatta’ah is of the devil, because the devil has been chatta’ah from Bre’shiyth. The reason the Son of ha’Elohiym appeared was to undo what the devil did. Everyone who is sired of ha’Elohiym will not continue in chatta’ah, because His Zera` remains in him; he is not able to go on in chatta’ah, because he has been born of ha’Elohiym. By this it is revealed who are the children of ha’Elohiym and who are the children of the devil. Anyone who does not do what is tsedeq is not of ha’Elohiym; nor is anyone who does not have checed for his brother.
This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should have checed for one another. Do not be like Qayin, who belonged to the Rasha` and slaughtered his brother. And why did he slaughter him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were tsedeq. And do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from haMaveth to haChay, because we have checed for our brothers. Anyone who does not have checed remains in ha Maveth. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has Chay l`Owlam in him.
By this we acknowledge the Chacad: He laid down His nephesh for us. And we ought to lay down our nephesh for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the checed of ha’Elohiym be in him? Converts, let us not have checed only with words or tongue but in action and truth. In this we will know that we belong to ha’Emeth: In His Presence our heart will persuade us of that when our heart accuses us because ha’Elohiym is greater than our heart and knows all things.
Chacdiym, if our heart does not accuse us, we have confidence in ha’Elohiym and receive from Him whatever we ask, because we attend to His mitsvowt and do what is pleasing in His Presence. And this is His mitsvah: that we will have ‘emuwnah for the Name of His Son, Yeshuwah haMashiyach, and to have checed for one another even as He commanded us. The one who keeps His mitsvowt remains in Him, and He in him. And this is how we know that He remains in us -- by haRuach, whom He gave to us.
Chacdiym, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of ha’Elohiym, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize Ruach ha’Elohiym. Every spirit that acknowledges that Yeshuwah haMashiyach has come in the flesh is of ha’Elohiym, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Yeshuwah is not of ha’Elohiym. This is he of the opponent of the Messiah, which you have heard he is coming and now is already in the world.
You, converts, are of ha’Elohiym and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world, therefore they speak of the world, and the world listens attentively to them. We are of ha’Elohiym! The one who knows ha’Elohiym listens attentively to us; the one who is not of ha’Elohiym does not listen attentively to us. This is how we recognize Ruach ha’Emeth and the spirit of error.
Chacdiym, let us have checed for one another, for checed is of ha’Elohiym. Everyone who has checed has been born of ha’Elohiym and knows ha’Elohiym. Whoever does not have checed, never knew ha’Elohiym, because ha’Elohiym is Chacad. By this ha’Elohiym revealed His checed in us, because He sent His one and only Son into the world that we could have Chay through Him. In this is the checed: not that we have love for ha’Elohiym, but that He had checed for us and sent His Son as Kaphar for our chatta’ah. Chacdiym, if ha’Elohiym had checed for us in this manner, we also ought to have checed for one another. No one has ever seen ‘Elohiym. If we have checed for one another, ha’Elohiym remains in us and the Chacad, being made complete, is in us.
By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Ruach. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Go’al of the world. Anyone who acknowledges that Yeshuwah is the Son of ha’Elohiym, ha’Elohiym remains in him and he in ha’Elohiym. And we know and have trusted the Chacad of ha’Elohiym in us.
Ha’Elohiym is Chacad. Whoever remains in the Chacad remains in ha’Elohiym, and ha’Elohiym in him. In this way the Chacad is made complete within us so that we will have confidence on the day of the judgment, because as that One is we are also in this world. There is no fear in the Chacad. But the completion of Chacad drives out the fear, because the fear has the risk of punishment. The one who fears has not been completed in the Chacad.
We have checed because He first had checed for us. Because, if anyone says, "I have checed of ha’Elohiym," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. How can anyone who does not have checed for his brother, whom he has seen, have checed for ’Elohiym, whom he has not seen? But, He has given us this mitsvah: Whoever has the checed of ha’Elohiym will also have checed for his brother.
Everyone who has ‘emuwnah that Yeshuwah is the Messiah has been born of ha’Elohiym, and everyone who has checed of the One begetting has checed for the One born of Him. By this we know that we have checed for the children of ‘Elohiym – whenever we have checed for ha’Elohiym and attend to His mitsvowt. For this is the checed of ha’Elohiym – attending to His mitsvowt. And His mitsvowt are not burdensome, because everyone born of ha’Elohiym overcomes the world. And this is the means of success that has subdued the world -- our ‘emuwnah. Who is He subduing the world, except he who has ‘emuwnah that Yeshuwah is the Son of ha’Elohiym.
This is He who came through water and blood—Yeshuwah haMashiyach —not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And it is haRuach who testifies, because haRuach is of ha’Emeth. For there are three that testify: haRuach, the water and the blood (and the Three are into One). If we accept man's testimony, the testimony of ha’Elohiym is greater because it is the testimony of ha’Elohiym, which He has testified about his Son. The one who has ‘emuwnah in the Son of ha’Elohiym has this testimony in himself. The one who does not believe ha’Elohiym has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not trusted in the testimony ha’Elohiym has testified about His Son.
And this is the testimony: that ‘Elohiym has given us Chay l`Owlam, and this Chay is in His Son. The one who has the Son has haChay; the one who does not have the Son of ha’Elohiym does not have haChay.
I wrote these things to you, to those having ‘emuwnah in the Name of the Son of ha’Elohiym so that you may know that you have Chay l`Owlam. This is the confidence we have toward Him: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have the thing we asked from Him.
If anyone sees his brother committing a chata’ that is not because of Maveth, he will pray, and He will give Chay to those committing a chata’ that is not because of Maveth. There is a chata’ that is because of Maveth. I do not say that he should pray about that. All resha` is chatta’ah, but there is chata’ that is not because of Maveth.
We know that everyone born of ha’Elohiym does not continue in chatta’ah and the One born of ha’Elohiym guards him, so then the Rasha` does not touch him. We know that we are of ha’Elohiym, and that the world is completely under the control of the Rasha`. We know also that the Son of ha’Elohiym has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know ha’Emeth. And we are in ha’Emeth in His Son, Yeshuwah haMashiyach. That same One is ha’Emeth of ha’Elohiym and Chay l`Owlam.
Converts, keep yourselves from the idolater.
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