I John 2 Part 1
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God desires a fellowship with us that exists in his Light.
Principle from Chapter 1
We sin (8)
We do not have to sin…Sin is not commanded by God.
We have forgiveness for sin. (9)
When I think of the miraculous truth of I John I am mindful of whole arc of the work that God has done all with this one desire and purpose.
Think of the Garden of Eden…
A place where God and man could commune. A place where heaven and earth could connect. God and man together. A place of sweetness and Unity with God himself. Many mark this as the era of innocence. There was nothing between God and man. As a by-product there was nothing between man and his wife. Nothing producing conflict or hatred. All of it was lost because of - Sin. Man’s willingness to have his way over God’s way.
Think of the Tabernacle
Generations later God bring Israel into the wilderness free from their slavery in Egypt. He gives them a law just as he had Adam. He gives them a covenant then gives them a place. A place where God and man could commune and they would know his word and will and he would know them and cover up their sin.
Inside the Tabernacle was a reminder of the place where God and man last communed.
The tree of life as a Candles stick with seven candles.
The purity seen in the laver
Then an ark with Cherubim guarding like we see Eden when Adam and eve were cast out.
And the tapestry was covered in the characters that the prophets saw surrounding the throne of God.
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
God was bringing man back into his fellowship.
Think of the Temple
The tabernacle gave way to the Temple when it was coronated God demonstrated his apporoval by joining with the in their worship.
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Think of the Prophet
The prophet was given for the work of Revealing God to the people. Calling them to purity calling them to fellowship and yet man’s heart would not hear it and loved darkness rather than light.
All of this is God’s Work to join man back in fellowship with him.
But God wasn’t done. He desired fellowship. This worked better than any other point in History.
What was that work. The work of Calvary. This work gave us an Advocate: One that would pay for the sin with his own blood and therefore qualify the sin of humanity by the temperance of his Sacrifice.
The Advocate argues… but does so with his own blood.
This is all together different than we would have ever seen before.
The work of the Propitiation was that of Atonement. The day of Atonement was the day when the lots were cast and two goats were brought one was sacrificed and the other was set free for destruction outside the camp that would hold the curse of the people’s sin.
Pointing to the day when our Propitiation would take our sins upon himself and then be destroyed for our sins, but not our sins but the sins of the whole world.
That was God’s plan instead of turning to the dark and clearing off a place of light that sat in one point of time. Wehrever the tabernacle was setting. or the Temple mount His plan was to concentrate all the darkness into one place and then propitiate it all. Atone for it all… Pay for it all. So that at any point in any place a man or woman could turn from darkness to the marvelous light of Jesus.
And in that moment he made light accessible to any one any where.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Consider the full and wonderful nature of this Advocate and Propitiation.
How different would the event of the Garden of Eden happen, had their been an Advocate to argue for them.
How different would the event of the Garden of Eden had their been a Protitiation on sight.
This is what Christ gives us.
You and I find ourselves outside the fellowship we can go to our Advocate and he will point to his own blood as the payment and you and I are restored to fellowship.