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GOD IS LIGHT, What is the Meaning of this?
Sentence 1 john 1:5
This is the message...
Subpoint 1 - we have heard from Jesus
Subpoint 2 - now declare to you
Subpoint 3 - that God is light
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Jame 1:17
Subpoint 4 - and there is no darkness in Him at all.
1. Sin and the nature of God (5)
This is God’s message about Himself (which we have heard from Him), which John now reveals to us (and declare to you).
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What John will tell us about God is what God has told us about Himself.
God is light and in Him is no darkness at all:
John declares this on the simple understanding that God Himself is light; and light by definition has no darkness at all in it; for there to be darkness, there must be an absence of light.
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A good definition of God is, “God is the only infinite, eternal, and unchangeable spirit, the perfect being in whom all things begin, and continue, and end.”
Another way of saying that God is perfect is to say that God is light.
“LIGHT is the purest, the most subtle, the most useful, and the most diffusive of all God’s creatures; it is, therefore, a very proper emblem of the purity, perfection, and goodness of the Divine nature.”
(Clarke)
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“There are spots in the sun, great tracts of blackness on its radiant disc; but in God is unmingled, perfect purity.”
(Maclaren)
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God is light and in Him is no darkness at all: Therefore, if there is a problem with our fellowship with God, it is our fault.
It is not the fault of God because there is no sin or darkness in Him at all.
2. God’s sinlessness and our relationship with Him (6)
Many Christians are not aware of their true condition.
They know they are saved, and have experienced conversion and have repented at some time in their life.
Yet they do not live in true fellowship with God.
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And walk in darkness: John speaks of a walk in darkness, indicating a pattern of living.
This does not speak of an occasional lapse, but of a lifestyle of darkness.
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We lie and do not practice the truth: God has no darkness at all (1 John 1:5).
Therefore, if one claims to be in fellowship with God (a relationship of common relation, interest, and sharing), yet does walk in darkness, it is not a truthful claim.
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The issue here is fellowship, not salvation.
The Christian who temporarily walks in darkness is still saved, but not in fellowship with God.
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In 2004, the governor of the state of New Jersey was caught in a scandal.
Though he was a married man with children, he was also having a sexual relationship with a man.
At the press conference he held to admit this, he began by saying: “My truth is that I am a gay American.”
Those were very carefully chosen words: My truth.
In the thinking of the world today, I have my truth and you have your truth.
But Jesus said, “I am the truth” and the Bible clearly tells us of a truth that is greater than any individual’s feeling about it.
3. The blessing of walking in the light (7)
But if we walk in the light: This means to walk in a generally obedient life, without harboring known sin or resisting the conviction of the Holy Spirit on a particular point.
i. John’s message here means that a walk in the light is possible.
We know that on this side of eternity, sinless perfection is not possible.
Yet we can still walk in the light, so John does mean perfect obedience.
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As He is in the light: Since God is light (1 John 1:5), when we walk in the light we walk where He is.
We are naturally together with Him in fellowship.
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We have fellowship with one another: We would have expected John to say, “We have fellowship with God.”
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This leads to an important idea: if we do not have fellowship with one another, then one party or both parties are not walking in the light.
Two Christians who are in right relationship with God will also naturally be in right relationship with each other.
• You can’t come to fellowship with God through philosophical speculation.
You can’t come to fellowship with God through intellectual education.
• You can’t come to fellowship with God through drugs or entertainment.
• You can’t come to fellowship with God through scientific investigation.
• You can only come to fellowship with God by dealing with your sin problem through the blood of Jesus.
We might say that the only sin that cannot be cleansed by the blood of Jesus is the sin of continuing to reject that blood as payment for sin.
4. The presence of sin, the confession of sin, and the cleansing from sin (8–10)
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If we say we have no sin: John has introduced the ideas of walking in the light and being cleansed from sin.
But he did not for a moment believe that a Christian can become sinlessly perfect.
“Our deceitful heart reveals an almost Satanic shrewdness in self-deception … If you say you have no sin you have achieved a fearful success, you have put out your own eyes, and perverted your own reason!”
(Spurgeon)
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