staying at the Cross (6)
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Activation
Activation
14 As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me has also died.
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Why do so many people who call themselves christians not experience the power of God at work in their life.
1 We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life.
2 This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us.
3 We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
4 We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.
9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.
Read Tony Evans Commentary 1 John 1:1-2
The theme of 1 John is fellowship.
I john 1:3
3 We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
Read Tony Evans commentary 1 John 1:3
and the reason that he is writing to these believers he tells us in verse 4
4 We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy.
You see it is possible to be a Christian and lack Joy.
It’s possible to merely go through the motions .
john wants his audience to know joy and when you experience meaningful, intimate fellowship with God through Jesus Christ, you will experience true joy that is not dependent on your circumstances and that is available nowhere else,
true joy transcends external circumstances, it is stability on the inside in spit of what is occuring on the outside.
5 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.
Read tony Evans Commentary 1 John 1:5
6 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.
7 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, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
Read Tony Evans comentary 1 John 1:6-7
8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.
9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.
ὁμολογέω (homologeō): vb.; ≡ Str 3670; TDNT 5.199—1. LN 33.274 profess, to confess allegiance (Mt 10:32); 2. LN 33.275 admit, confess, acknowledge bad behavior (1Jn 1:9+); 3. LN 33.221 declare, make an emphatic assertion (Mt 7:23; 14:7; Jn 1:20; Ac 7:17; 24:14
a unity based on being of the same or similar mind or thoughts
To say the same thing