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*“Walking With God (part 1a**)”*
*Introduction*:
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For this week and next and then for the following opportunities that I have in the pulpit I will be preaching through the book of 1 John.
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The series will be entitled *“Walking With God”*
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But before we jump into the book and start breaking down the passage I would like to start with a little background.
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If I were to ask you about the personalities of Peter or Paul you could probably all answer me and be pretty close
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In the Gospels, *Peter* was very out spoken and often got himself into trouble.
Then in Acts a very mature and Spirit–filled *Peter* dominated the early church.
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And *Paul* was so open with his feelings and motives that sometimes we’re embarrassed by his totally honest revelations.
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But if I were to ask you about John’s personality you would have a harder time answering me.
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I am sure that some of you would come up with the fact that he was part of the inner circle with his bother James and Peter
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You might remember that at the Last supper John was the one closest to Jesus reclining at the table.
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But what else do we know about this quiet apostle?
1. Apparently he and his brother were quite young and passionate when they first joined the disciples.
a. On one occasion James and John were sent ahead into Samaria to find lodging.
But know one would welcome them.
i.
So they asked Jesus “do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?”
Luke 9:54
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What were their nicknames?
Sons of Thunder.
How appropriate!
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Another occasion John told someone to stop casting out demons in Jesus name, “because he was not one of us.”
Mark 9:38
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And the final profile we have of John in the Gospels was found in Matt.
20:20-28 where we find James and John talking with their mother who goes to Jesus and ask Him to reserve a place of honor in his kingdom for her two sons.
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Obviously when the other disciples heard of this they were not happy.
Then Christ used this to teach them about humility and servant hood.
2. Yes, we can all understand John, because we have known (and possibly been) such go-getters, firebrands.
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We can understand his quickness to take offence and to react.
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We can understand his pride that held others at arms length.
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We can understand his drive to succeed.
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We understand all this because these are the motivating passions in our world.
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These are the desires that the New Testament encourages us to replace with a set of values summed up in the concept of holiness.
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Yes, we understand young John only too well.
He is so much like us!
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But here in the 1st epistle of John we see a totally different man:
a. Now his favorite word is LOVE
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He is gentle and so selfless that he hardly even mentions himself in this epistle and only when it is applicable to his teachings.
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We meet a man who has been transformed.
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Now that we have a better understanding about the man (John) lets dig into this 1st epistle of John.
*Outline*:
* Turn with me to 1 John 1:5-2:2 and follow along as I read.
* The Series that we will be going through is “*Walking with God*” This morning we will be looking at “*Walking in the Light*,” being *Honest*.
I Walking In the Light (Vs.
5)
A There are so many times that we (people) try to hide our sin and cover over what we do so that “know one will ever know about it.”
1 Think about it: when are most crimes committed?
a At night, when it is dark out.
Criminals feel safer at night because not as many people can see what they are doing.
b Many crimes are committed in dark allies.
2 But if you are a Christian this morning then.
“God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.” (Vs.
5)
3 When we were saved, God called us out of darkness into His light (1 Peter 2:9).
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
4 We are children of light (1 Thes.
5:5).
“You are all sons of the light and sons of the day.
We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.”
5 Those who do wrong hate light (John 3:19–21).
“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”
6 When light shines in on us, it reveals our true nature (Eph.
5:8–13).
“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.
Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord.
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.”
7 Light produces growth and beauty, but sin is darkness, and light and darkness have nothing in common, they cannot exist in the same place.
a If you are walking in the light; then the darkness has to go.
But if you are holding onto sin, then the light goes.
b There is no middle ground or “grey” area.
You are either in the light or in the darkness.
This brings us to our second point… How do we try to cover up our sins?
By telling lies!
II There are three steps in lying that we tend to follow.
A *The first step: We lie to others* (Vs.
6)
1 We live the hypocritical life: we say one thing and do another.
2 We all want our friends to think that we are great Christians so we tell them that everything is fine and when they ask about our Spiritual life we elaborate it and make it sound great and wonderful.
When in fact there are all kinds of problems there.
a We don’t pray very often.
b We don’t read our Bibles.
c We pretend that we are worshiping in church when our minds are really in a million other places.
d And I could go on and on with all the ways that we try to look good on the outside when the inside is filthy.
1) The sixth of the seven Woes goes like this, Matthew 23:27-28 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
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