Today’s post is a continuation of Tuesday’s post…Faith Talk
I’m in the book of 1 John, and we’ll start with verse 5, which says…
“This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.”
Here John is truthfully saying that no one can claim they’re a Christian, and still live in evil and immorality. We simply cannot have one foot in the Church and one foot in the world. I remember Jesus saying that you are either for or against Him. “God’s light” means He is holy and true…He alone can guide us out of the darkness.
Verse 7 says, “But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, cleanses us from all sin.”
Sin by its very nature, brings death-that is a fact as certain as the law of gravity. Jesus did not die for His own sins; He had none. Instead, by a transaction that we may never understand, He died for the sins of the world ( John 1:29). When we commit our life to Christ and thus identify ourselves with Him, His death becomes ours. He has paid the penalty for our sins, and His blood has purified us. Just as Christ rose from the grave, we will rise to a new life of fellowship with Him (Romans 6:4). NLT Commentary
We’ll pick up more in 1 John tomorrow…