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Fellowship With God
Fellowship - a relationship personal “day to day”
A father/son a family member
vs 3, vs 6 and vs 7
The apostle John opens his letter by asserting that one of the main aims of the Christian message is we may enter in to the fellowship, which is “with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ” (1:3).
Such fellowship with God is at the very heart of what it means to be a Christian.
Christianity is not, at its core, the observance of rituals or rules.
Rather, it is a walk of personal fellowship with the living God.
But before we all sign up for the program, John makes it clear that fellowship with God is not a matter of being chummy with your good buddy in the sky!
He asserts that God is absolutely holy (1:5).
To have genuine fellowship with the holy God, we must walk in the light, as He Himself is in the light.
if you have accepted Christ as your savior then:
Our Relationship with God :
There was in John’s day, as there is today, the peril of profession, the danger of claiming to know God, but of being deceived.
John’s message is:
Our Relationship with God :
Permanent -
Unbreakable -
Unbreakable -
Determines our eternal destiny
Our Fellowship with God
Dependent on obedience
Breakable
Determines daily joy
Fellowship - koykneea
Communion - it mean to have a relationship closely bound together for open sharing.
There can be know fellowship between light and darkness.
children sill dad - broken fellowship
children sill dad - broken fellowship
I The God of Light - 1 John 1:5
Note, also, that John does not begin with his hearers felt needs.
He doesn’t discuss where they may be hurting, or bring up how this message will help them have a happy family life or a successful personal life.
Rather, John begins with God and he brings us face to face, not with God’s love, but with His holiness.
Coming after verse 3, about having fellowship with God, you would expect John to say,
“To have fellowship with God, you need to know that He loves you very much.”
But, rather, he bluntly says, “God is light.”
Then, so that we don’t dodge the uncomfortable implications of that, he states the negative, “and in Him there is no darkness at all.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones “Our main problem is our self-centeredness, and so we come to the Christian faith looking to have our needs met.
I’m not happy; can God make me happy?
I’m looking for something that I don’t have; can God give it to me?
How can Christianity help me with my problems and needs?
But to approach the Christian faith in that manner is to cater to our main problem, which is self!
The first answer of the gospel can always, in effect, be put in this way: ‘Forget yourself and contemplate God.’” “The way to be delivered from self-centeredness is to stand in the presence of God
II Excuses that Don't Work -
1 John
Its is gods desire that we do not sin
vs 2- God has made a provision when we do sin
We all will sin
You may struggle with sin but as a Christian you will not continue in sin as though you were never saved.
vs 3,8 - comitteth
1 John 3
1 john 3.3-10
vs 3,8 - comitteth
vs 6 - sinneth
vs 9 - commit
present tense which indicate repeated action
1 john 1.3
Note, also, that John does not begin with his hearers felt needs.
He doesn’t discuss where they may be hurting, or bring up how this message will help them have a happy family life or a successful personal life.
Rather, John begins with God and he brings us face to face, not with God’s love, but with His holiness.
Coming after verse 3, about having fellowship with God, you would expect John to say, “To have fellowship with God, you need to know that He loves you very much.”
But, rather, he bluntly says, “God is light.”
Then, so that we don’t dodge the uncomfortable implications of that, he states the negative, “and in Him there is no darkness at all.”
Note, also, that John does not begin with his hearers felt needs.
He doesn’t discuss where they may be hurting, or bring up how this message will help them have a happy family life or a successful personal life.
Rather, John begins with God and he brings us face to face, not with God’s love, but with His holiness.
Coming after verse 3, about having fellowship with God, you would expect John to say, “To have fellowship with God, you need to know that He loves you very much.”
But, rather, he bluntly says, “God is light.”
Then, so that we don’t dodge the uncomfortable implications of that, he states the negative, “and in Him there is no darkness at all.”
Coming after verse 3, about having fellowship with God, you would expect John to say, “To have fellowship with God, you need to know that He loves you very much.”
But, rather, he bluntly says, “God is light.”
Then, so that we don’t dodge the uncomfortable implications of that, he states the negative, “and in Him there is no darkness at all.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones makes this point (Fellowship With God [Crossway Books], p. 100), that we must always start with God.
He argues that our main problem is our self-centeredness, and so we come to the Christian faith looking to have our needs met.
I’m not happy; can God make me happy?
I’m looking for something that I don’t have; can God give it to me?
How can Christianity help me with my problems and needs?
But to approach the Christian faith in that manner is to cater to our main problem, which is self!
He says (p. 101), “The first answer of the gospel can always, in effect, be put in this way: ‘Forget yourself and contemplate God.’”
He adds (p.
102), “The way to be delivered from self-centeredness is to stand in the presence of God
II Excuses that Don't Work -
if we say
1john 1
To have fellowship with God, we must not walk in the darkness (1:6, 8, 10).
To understand this paragraph, we must see that John is writing against the false claims of the false teachers.
Their claims are introduced by the phrase,
“if we say…” (1:6, 8, 10).
John here shifts the “we” from the apostles to a hypothetical group that may include anyone, but especially targets the false teachers.
- Walk in Darkness
Their first claim was, “We have fellowship with God” (1:6), but John says that their lives did not back up their claim.
They walked in darkness, they lied, and they did not practice the truth.
“To walk” points to the general tenor of one’s life.
Walk way of Life
Since to walk in the light involves confessing our sins (1:9), to walk in the darkness means ignoring or denying our sins.
Ignoring sin......
It is to block out the light of God’s holiness, as revealed in His Word, and to live as the world lives, making up your own ideas about right and wrong apart from God (see ; ).
To walk in darkness is to try to hide from God, rather than to expose your life to Him.
- We Have No Sin
Apparently these false teachers were doing this, because John’s next hypothetical statement is (1:8), “If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.”
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