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5This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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Have you ever thought about what makes people attractive?
Now I don’t mean sexually – get your mind out of the gutter.
But what I mean by attractive is they seem always to draw people near to them.
These are the popular people.
The people who set the trends or styles.
These are the people that everyone looks at and tries to imitate.
People imitate the way they act, the way they dress, the way they do their hair and makeup.
We have all, at one time or another, looked into the mirror and wondered: What would I look like if I did my hair like Shiloh or my makeup like Angel.
And of course, that leads up to the question: What kind of people attract us?
What are the things that they do that we find attractive?
- Are you attracted to the jock or gamer/YouTuber, the comedian or the serious-minded?
Or what about the whole yin-yang thing – the good and the bad?
Or you could say light-darkness (as a metaphor for righteousness and unrighteousness).
I know most of us genuinely want to strive to be a good person, do the right things morally; I say most because I know there are some of you in here that like being little heathens.
You like going against what you know is right just because you can 😊
Do you ever find yourself looking in the mirror and wondering how do people view me?
Or would I be more accepted and have more friends if I acted like so and so?
This line of thought has to do with who you are (at the core) – your personality and your character.
Who you are and what you value.
Your driving forces in life.
And then, of course, there are those who just go with the flow and find themselves not thinking about these things.
And if that is you, I would encourage you to think about these things.
Because the driving forces in our lives are the things we value most.
And the things we value are what we represent and what we ultimately become (rather we think about them or not); they are the things we live for and worship.
They become our idols.
Well, today I hope to equip you to confront these darkness’s (regardless of what they are) in the light of the gospel.
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When you think of light and darkness, the first thing that should come to your mind is good and evil, life and death, holiness and unholiness.
Now we have all heard the word holy and know the basic meaning of holiness, or have at least sang about it in a church song – right?
We know that being holy is being good, being morally pure, and that is true, and the Bible tells us, “to be holy because God is holy” ().
But when the Bible speaks of being holy it is much deeper than that.
When the Bible talks about the holiness of God, it speaks of God as the creator of all things the source of all things, the sustainer of all things.
He is the one and only unique being that has the power to do this and that’s the definition of Holiness – the unique power to make a world full of such beauty and light.
(Illustration) A helpful way of understanding the holiness of God is to look at the sun as a metaphor (all metaphors break down).
The sun is unique, powerful, the source of life, at least in our universe, you could say the sun is holy.
We could take this metaphor even further, by saying that all the area around the sun is holy because the closer you get to the sun the more intense it gets.
And because it is so pure and holy if you get to close to it, and you’re not pure, it will destroy you, not because it is so bad, but because it is so good!
And this is the same paradox that we see with the very heart of God.
This is the picture of the holiness of God that we see all through Scripture and this is the reason we have been separated from God. God’s holiness created life created the world, created us.
He created us to be in a relationship with him, fellowship with him.
And because of our desire to do our own thing we have broken up with God.
Our sin has rejected God.
And because of our impurities God has no choice but to separate himself from us.
But Jesus. . .
(T.S.) So, how do you confront darkness?
By knowing if the light switch is on or off.
Jesus said in ,
“I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”
Look in the Mirror.
Are you a light to the world?
Are people attracted to you because you are bringing the light of life to everything around you? Are you walking in the purity of Jesus?
His word is a “lamp to our feet and a light to our path” ().
And no one lights a lamp and then covers it up, so no one can see its light ().
Look in the Mirror.
What are your motives in life?
What is radiating out of you? says,
6If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
This is the holiness of God; this is talking about being pure.
Look in the Mirror.
What is feeding your soul?
Your eyes are a gate to your heart and mind.
The things you surround yourself with will consume your thoughts and intentions in life.
They will also radiate out to the people that are around you.
That’s why it is so important to live for Christ.
But if your life is surrounded by garbage you will radiate garbage.
(Illustration) Are you looking at porn, thinking about sex outside of marriage, drinking, drug use.
Or maybe it’s the way you talk the way you bully people.
OR maybe it is the way you dress and carry yourself.
Is what you are wearing highlighting your body or is it highlighting your face?
Because if it is highlighting your body, it is causing someone to sin in their hearts.
Jesus said if you look at someone with lust you have already committed adultery with them.
If you are a child of God, why would you want to put someone in that situation?
Or if you are the one looking how dare you disrespect a child of God by looking at them with unrighteous thoughts.
They are holy to God.
Jesus died to cleanse them, and you are going to going to look at them with that kind of defilement?
How are you going to explain that to Jesus?
And don’t think, well I’ll just remind him I am a sinner saved by grace.
That’s cheap grace.
Paul addressed this in , he said,
1What shall we say then?
Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
2By no means!
How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Jesus gave us a way out of that sin by dying on a cross to crush that sin.
So, Knock it off.
I know at times this might seem easier said than done and v.9 gives us the answer to conquering this difficulty.
says,
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Have you done that?
This is something that we do daily as Christians.
If we say we have fellowship with God, he convicts us of our sins, and we will sin less and less.
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