Spiritual Front

The spiritual is a greater reality.

There is a war in the spiritual. Battles are being fought at this moment.

What we do in the physical has spiritual repercussions.

1 John 5:9–10 NRSV

If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son. Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

1 John 1:5–10 NRSV

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

John 3:19–21 NRSV

And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”

God is Light

1 John 1:5 NRSV

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.

Here is he presenting a spiritual reality, that is supposed to affect the spiritual.

This statement begs the question what is it to me ?

Walking in the Darkness

1 John 1:6 NRSV

If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;

1 John 6:7

Walking in the Light

1 John 1:7 NRSV

but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Lying to Ourselves

1 John 1:8 NRSV

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:10 NRSV

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Confession

1 John 1:9 NRSV

If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.