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1 John 1:5-10
Stephen Caswell © 2005
Cleansing the Soul
While walking down a street one day, I passed a store where a man on the pavement was washing the large plate glass shop window.
There was one dirty spot which defied efforts to remove it.
After rubbing hard at it, using much soap and water, and failing to remove it, he found out the trouble.
*/It’s on the inside, he called out to someone in the store./*
Many are striving to cleanse the soul from its stains.
/They wash it with tears of sorrow; they scrub it with the soap of good resolves; they rub it with the chamois of morality, but still the consciousness of it is not removed./
The trouble is, it’s on the inside.
*/Nothing but the blood of Jesus, applied in the power of the Holy Spirit, can cleanse the inside;/* He alone can reach it.
/ /
/Who wants to live a joyful life, a fulfilling life?
Who craves for real fellowship with God and His people?
*I think* *everyone does!*
Why can’t we have it then?
What spoils Christian fellowship?
*Sin; Sin with an I in the middle.*/*
*Sin spoils our fellowship with God and His people.
John wrote this letter so we could enjoy rich fellowship.
*1 John 1:3-5:* /that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, *that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.*
And these things we write to you that your joy may be full./
/This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
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John declares here that /God is light/.
His basic nature is one of /holiness, glory, truth/ and /perfection/.
*/If man wants to have fellowship with God, he must come to the light, for God will not have fellowship with darkness./*
John is speaking to believers in this passage since he constantly identifies himself with the audience, by saying */we./*
/Whether or not we have fellowship with God depends on our walk./
The light represents God's righteous standard revealed in the word and manifested in Jesus Christ.
The darkness represents the sinful manifestation of the Devil.
*/Inevitably our daily walk determines our fellowship with God./*
Fellowship In The Light
God intended from the beginning that we might have fellowship with Him.
In the garden of Eden the Lord walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day.
But sin broke man's fellowship with God.
God is light and cannot have fellowship with darkness, with sin.
Sin separates us from God.
Last week we saw that, /John wrote this letter so that we might enjoy fellowship with God once more./
Jesus Christ has provided eternal life for mankind.
This is important for people who are spiritually dead in sin.
But there is a prerequisite to receive God's life.
We must come to the light confessing our sin./
*Unfortunately, today no one wants to admit their sin!* *– */*Read from the Book - /The Vanishing Conscience/*
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Passing the Buck
Today people try to blame their past or some chemical imbalance for all of our failures.
Even we Christians do this.
/The result is that God can't deal with our sin./
Circumstances may stir up our sinful nature, or even increase its effect, but they don't cause it.
*/Sin is not an accident or mistake, but disobedience to God's revealed standard./*
We don’t have to sin, we choose to.
/Has this victim mentality of sin crept into the church?
Do we have a Biblical perspective of sin?/ /Is sin in the life of a believer just as offensive to God as in the life of a non believer?/
I want to tell you from the Bible that it is!
*Proverbs 28:13* *says:* /He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
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We have 2 choices.
*/We Can Cover Our Sin, or We can Confess Our Sin!/* John says that fellowship is based on our honesty with God.
*/God doesn't expect sinlessness but sincerity!/*
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/Firstly, /We Can Cover Our Sin!
*1 John 1:6:* /If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth./
*/This is a false statement/*/./
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This Response Says,/* /I Can Mix Light And Darkness!
Sin doesn’t affect my relationship with God!/*
The word */walk,/* *peripatew* means */to live, to conduct yourself./*
This verb is in the*/ present tense/*.
It describes a */lifestyle./*
/Some believers say that they can live sinfully and still have fellowship with God./ */God says that such claims are a lie./*
The apostle John had to correct this thinking.
He replies to this by saying/, that we lie and do not practice the truth./
Ÿ /If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and bear a grudge against another, we lie and do not practice the truth./
We are to love and forgive one another.
*Colossians 3:13-14*
*Ÿ */If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and don't serve the Lord, we lie and do not practice the truth./
To him who knows to do good and does it not this is sin.
*James 4:17*
Ÿ /If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and speak evil of our brother, we lie and do not practice the truth./
Do not speak evil of one another brethren.
*James 4:11*
*Any kind of sin ruins our fellowship with God.*
If we walk in darkness, we can’t have fellowship with God Who is in the light.
*Psalm 66:18 says: */If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear/.
We can't pretend to be righteous and keep sinning.
*/If we possess real life from God won't we walk in the light with Him? /2 Corinthians 6:14:* /Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness?
*And what fellowship has light with darkness?
None!*/
There is no fellowship between light and darkness.
/What does God have in common with sin?/ */Nothing!/*
/People who live like this are hypocrites!/
They are like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde.
Their life isn't real!
They’re playing religion.
*/God doesn't expect sinlessness, but sincerity, honesty & integrity!/*
David And Bathsheba
After David had sinned with Bathsheba, he tried to go on with his life as if nothing had happened.
He continued to reign as king.
For about 9 months he went to the tabernacle and offered sacrifices.
He worshipped God in vain.
In fact he wrote no Psalm during this time.
David tried to hide his sins.
But God knew his sin.
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