Walk in the Light-1 John 1:5-10
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She calls me back again to my messages from the Mountain View Bible teaching and preaching Ministry of the Mount Olive Baptist Church on a thank you for being here. We recognize to do probably many pages many websites many YouTube's you could have turn to but instead you chose to visit with us this morning for that. We are grateful grateful indeed just for a few moments today. What we like to do is just continuing out series on True Believers the last time we stood upon two very very foundational unshakable. The storm is coming from the first Epistle of John. That is John the Revelator the one that wrote this particular.
he will just thought you said your tip doors you sit there in your jammies and what not and just listen to is very well and be attentive we promise to make sure that we declare God's Eternal Word that you just take a moment to pray with me just for a moment. We greatly appreciate that. Thank you God for your goodness to us today. We thank you for waking us up this morning. We thank you for giving us life health and strength. We thank you Father for the privilege of being able to be called your children old with manner of love. The father has given unto us that we should be called The Children got to be thinking today for that today Father. We thank you for the forgiveness of sin. And we pray even just in this worship moment that you would superintend over this particular text father and that you would use it as an encouragement to my brothers and my sisters and to myself. We asking today father in Jesus name let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. Oh Lord, my strength and My Redeemer in Jesus name the people God Said everywhere. Amen. Talking about you know right about about this this idea of what we called True Believers. Are we looking at the fact that when John is writing he is addressing a group of individuals that he's already known for sometime evidently and he even address them as children as beloved in the sense that he is speaking to him in very very endearing terms. Not what he he does this what he say, I love you and and I want to make sure that everything is okay with you and so he's talking to people who have committed their lives to Christ. And so these these young believers in Christ. He's addressing and so we talkin about that in the framing it in terms of True Believers those who are really trusted in price and another way. We can look at it this way and what does a real True Believer look like As I said about three weeks ago. We talked about True Believers and we talked about them being founded upon to and sycamore trees in the first one is that Christ? We came in human form. That is it took off Flash and that he became in car in the word incarnate means in freshmint. And we find a Jesus actually came from the father to us in the flesh. That's the first thing that we see but the second thing that we see this is complete. Enjoy. The only way that you and I can experience Joy to the fullest extent is that we have to interface with Jesus Christ and in doing so we find ourselves having full and complete Joy now right now. We are in the process because of the coronavirus right now that is testing us in a real sense about what a True Believer is in fact many of us are trying to distance to church the building that is mean that we are really true believers and I know there's somebody out there thinking that you know, there's some people right now that that that that this whole idea of the coronavirus coming in as redefining exactly what it means to be a member of the are we going to find out what it really means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ right now something about being a And that this thing is being a follower of Christ and that is the building is not the church. I need to say that again the building.
Place that you and I come to watch this ham Church on to do church, but it ain't use me bad in his good theology. It ain't the church. You don't get the bill. That means when I walk into a garage that makes me a cop now. We know that's not true. I walk into the garage. I'm just a person just stepped inside of a garage and that's all I really mean to be a True Believer. What is a True Believer in the sense? That that that that that which one if you got what is their primary occupation in my belief model is based upon the visible text mind you is that a True Believer who is occupied with watch this they are they at their operation. The idea of walking in the light and that means walking to life. Walking in the light means verses 5 through 7 the text reads this way. This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is like and in him is no Darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Tammy walking Darkness, thuy Li and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light watch that as he is in the light, we have Fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ. 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 is faithful and just to forgive us about sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not And we know that this text is written by none. Other than the author of The Apostle John known also as the John the older these 6 vs 321 words if you will communicate powerful and significant true that we don't John John was also the one the sons of Zebedee. He was one of these guys were very very passionate. He was very very intense. I mean John was one of these guys are sitting up there. They got working with us over there. We saw somebody casting out demons. Can we call down the Thunder Paul? Never Jesus Jones one of those kind of guys who was like, I need to know whether or not I'm going to be able to sit on your right hand on your left hand Jesus, but at the same time we know some News about John John wasn't God who believed that he needed to confront Harrison worth noting about that idea confronting heresy. Number one on the saying something about general principles in as relates to churches in particular and that is number one mutual Fellowship depends upon rosters the mutual adherence to sound biblical theological true. That is mutual Fellowship. That is you and I being able to say that we both believe it's in the same body of Christ believing about the same things about God. Those things are the things that allow us to be able to have Fellowship need to understand is that we need to refute and repudiate Aaron Doctrine.
Undocumented and beautiful things in the church. The church is a place that talk. 1st Timothy chapter 3 verse 15 pillar and ground of Truth. He called the house of God. But we should be able to find them. But number three the Bible also, we need an individual who continually costly whose excessively continues to be a disobedient person as really being a believer in the body of Christ. In fact, in fact a person who continue to do that is a person that we need to Mark and watch because it's evidence. Individual has not limited commitment the garage.
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Call him and explain to you that God is light and in him is no. is a little things out there that And in him, there is no Darkness at all. He's describing true. It's the synonym for life and this truth goes. 2 John chapter 1 verse 1 and John chapter 14:6 Prozac and I need to go to John chapter 14:6 and we beheld his glory as the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth. So he lets us know that it that Jesus Christ is the time. Embodiment and that that's the message that needs to continue to Echo throughout the church and for those individuals who are a part of the body you have to be included in that message as well accept and embrace that message.
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When truth is full dussehra this one of two ways we can do with it. We can watch this weekend technologent addressed repent of it and turn away from it, or we can try to hide from it. That's the other opportunity. We have no other than what you were raised about it. You can either address it or you can try to hide from it. The thing that we see here is that John is said and if we intend to be in fellowship with him, therefore, we need to watch the conductor life that reflects that we know him. We must also agree that he is the truth. We need to embrace that you receive that true. That truth. That's what he brings out without only that we must also acknowledge that there is no darkness in him. That is Has no dissimulation in him. God has no deception in him. God is not playing games with us. He's not playing peek-a-boo and help us figure out something. God is in fat letting us know exactly it is what it is both light and dark we find these things if you will the time you use them inside the Bible also as ethical ideas that is light and life histories good darkness and evil Wicked God has no part in the ideas of wickedness. So that means we agree with the message of truth. That's what he said. They're verse 5 In other words now a lot of times what happens in when we when we say this that is walk in the light mystery agree with the mess of the truth. We have to understand that every first Sunday in most churches. They will think all the right hand of Fellowship. Go back to Jerusalem Council. There was something along those lines to say that individuals who becoming a part of the body of Christ had to believe certain things in the bracelet. I was just considering the Baptist Church you agree with that the truth that's being Proclaim is in fact the truth strictly and sound. Is the reason why I believe my belief is that there needs to be a new membership class indoctrination, whatever you want to call it because you want people you want everybody to understand what the doctrine of the church is everything that is soundly based upon the word got me to talk about tradition. We had talked about Robert's Rules of Order based upon the word of God. I don't want me doing that. Is that true believers walk in the light means that he true but also work in the light also means that I can enter Condit condoms are consistent. That is we on walk. Right and talk lipstick is me. We don't talk right in with the key word in and 7 if we say that we have Fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have Fellowship one with another in the blood of Jesus Christ his son and that is right here that the Apostle John when he begins to deal with costume conditional Clauses from third class conditions in the original language. Have some things going on with them this particular one says that it goes something like this. If we say watch this and continue to say that we walk in the life that we have fellowship and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth. So it brings out two things about we need to have fellowship with God.
Fellowship has to be based upon a sound watch this confession in condo. That's consistent. John This book is written. John is dealing with the number of people by this time. The church is about 30 years old in a very very young.
The group she's dealing with one number one the doctor cuz they said that Jesus came and a spiritual woman on defrost a gnostic said that you need to have a sense of knowledge about something that they have a nice day did not the the deity of Christ altogether and the saurischian syringes. Did Jesus not come in the flesh, but the fact that the fact that Jesus Christ was 100% And 100% man that Jesus Christ did not come and wrap himself in the fresh as it says in Philippians chapter 2 The oldies groups had about two things in common. The first thing they did what they did not a significant part or should I say doctrinal that dealt with who Jesus was but they also a part of a group of what we call the secessionists that is individual who was stepping back from Christianity as they don't think in the name of Christianity and watch this. I don't know any Administration allows you to work under their auspices and do your own thing. I don't know anybody that says Jesus Christ took on the phone with Simple Plan.
We're not embracing that we not receiving that today. And so with that said there's some things that I think that we as Christians need to rip to remember and hold close to our hearts when it comes down to this idea people who say that they believe in Jesus really don't remember but add to the word of God that you got up there. They always want you to read the Bible and something else and what you read the Bible in the new world translation of the Bible in the Bible and the Quran the Bible in the Book of Mormon. Read the Bible in something else wife because they know that the way to get you folks in the first meet you reading on the Bible and then keep you astray.
What day is Christ? the fact that Jesus Christ is the theatricals PSD God men is essential to what you and I need to understand is believe in Jesus is not
And assuming we remember that they understand that the better we need to embrace Jesus Christ as God as long as true because that's who he is. And because he's loyal. Give me a responsibility. But what did God he was Michael the Archangel. He was a Lesser God.
I mean, I mean, I mean these individuals are always trying to make sure you don't hang around people who believe what you believe but did find a few you want. I want two things that I just do it when I was a young boy, I should watch Mutual Omaha Wild Kingdom in what is always show you what that whenever they were getting ready to it. Whenever a wild Eastern tiger or lion attack one of these things. They would show that how they waited until they got the young one all to himself and they peel that one off and then they would kill that. All the way to they found the one that was sick or weekly they would get that one off his side and then they will kill that one and that's what coaches do they. You all to the side now, they might be sympathetic. Sorry that those Christian folk don't believe that are accepting of your lifestyle accessories such a sum of the reality. Is there peeling you off so that they could just they don't want to be around friends family or Fellowship of people who believe in describing family. They add the requirement of Salvation. That is they always want to do something and if you In front of the subway and you're staying out front of some some some some some Pockets Lee a very very busy thoroughfare so you can pass out those tracks They got going on at the moment. You got 2 years of compulsory missionary service if you are another particular denomination,
Take a day over Jesus Christ. If you will listen to some things that they do in order to peel you off. That's what coaches do and that's what these people they were saying things like
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I'm all of these these groups. These people were made up of the secessionist and they all denied the presence of Jesus. We find today some of us having to deal with. Go back in in in in in in the fourth Century by 451. There was a council Council called the Council of chalcedon and it was came together to repudiate and did not all of those teachings that they were touching things in show me to say that Jesus Christ was Washington's truly God and truly man that will love you need to understand something anybody to tell you what Jesus Christ in the Bible says is the Antichrist need understanding people saying that he that he's not the price that is all that they made themselves be cleaning and they might even be inclined to trick even those who are the marionette but we praise God that because it is true. We won't be this evening, but John says if we continue to say watch this That we have fellowship and walk in darkness. We are hiding from the truth. And that's what these groups to they were hiding with more than that. It was
that's what it says right there because it's not allow us to do. Good morning, then it was ever since I said that they really did not have a relationship with God that they never knew the truth in the form of relationship with Jesus Christ dying for 7 he begins to contrast. Good first 70 cuz he says but if we walk watch this and continue to walk in the light as he in the light, we have Fellowship one with another in the blood of Jesus Christ his son Prince just from staying in that beautiful. In other words meaning if we conduct our lives in such a manner that is in such a way that we are controlled by the truth that we have subscribed to then what happens is we show that we're actually in Fellowship. That's the thing. He brings up in England. They have a clot called Big Ben. because England United Kingdom there about 14 of the territories in four of the countries that are small properties if you will Honors that are associated with it in that sense. It happened. I don't know if it's happening right now, but we're used to have it as an everyday at a certain time every territory and every island that was asked. Stopped at the same time to have a spot of tea if you will if you will they have the same message as Believers if we're walking through life with God. We all have the same message in the matter where you go people are bumping into the same as that, Jesus Christ is God. Did Jesus Christ came to die on calvary's cross that Jesus Christ when he died that he did raise was raised from the dead that Jesus Christ is coming back again. Those are the main tenets that we need to understand when we also have to do with the fact he was born of a virgin we can deal with all of that truth is things that we have to embrace. Look, look look look look what it says right there. He says here that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. This is this this this this this this perv in in this particular text is very important because it just don't mean that the stain is removed. It means that there's a continual all the sin that you and I have committed and see God doesn't forgive us which we definitely need but it continues to just watch this heat. He does more than a race this thing. He continues to cleanse us as we continue 2% I'll send for situation to him. So Walking with God
The more you walk with him the cleaner you get your at what you're saying is no matter what your past is no matter what happened to you and your life and you turn that over to Jesus Christ. It's what he cleanse you but not only that if you continue to walk with him, that means conduct your life in such a manner that you would have remembered him. Yes what he continues to cleanse you from in your city like to get the red out. If you would like Visine it gets the red out. The Bible says that it was the blood of Jesus that cleanse us from all sin. It was not a phantom. It was the blood of Jesus. It was not a fact it was the blood of Jesus. It was not a ritual. It was the blood of Jesus that cleanses us from all sin. Would you be free from your passion and pride are there is power in the blood of this Power in the Blood with you? Would you for victory for evil Victory to win that is Wonder working power that is in the blood there is power power wonder-working power in the blood of the Lamb with me in the Precious Blood of Atlanta. What can wash away my sins nothing, but the blood of Jesus the blood of Jesus washes away all sins the stains of sin yards blood.
Okay, walking in the light means also that I kind of degrees without confession verses 6 and 7 but in verse 815 walk in the light means that we watch this conscious about a name for being cleansed from sin. You think 60 the reality is in the text messages if we say that we have no sin watching. I need to understand if we continue to say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not said we make him a liar and his word is not in a pot roast. The issue here. We talk about first date has to deal with a particular type of sin. That is you and I resend that's what Sinners do listen to Dave who don't believe that we sent in the sense that they're talkin about that is residents in the principle of saying no we can't do the same thing a sinner even once a backrest is that we still send by omission and uncles and commissions. And so what are you saying here is that we have to admit that we still do that before god student. Why is there this need for Bluetooth?
Why was there a need for the perfect sacrifice if you don't send it? Why would we push out of the garden that is if there's no need for send? See if this thing called send E30 has fallen short of the glory of God. Send send send send send is the thing that separates us from sin is the thing that caused the Calamity in price that we see that says the thing that calls itself in this racism and Injustice has a thing that causes us to have to be all that the pollution of other things that happened to us because we are those individuals who are the blood of Jesus Princesses and continues to cleanses and replace ourselves before almighty God. Yes, do we have verse 9. Is he verse 9 hit verse 9 verse 9 brings us back into this idea of Verse 9 why it's important for us to know that if we confess our sins. He is faithful and just thinking about the movie trustee. No matter who we are on Judge or lawyer. No matter who we are member visitor. We all need cleansing from personal spending everyday every moment. Sometimes twice in the same moment. Someone even said that my prayers are forgiven this if need prayers for forgiveness, that's how impactful and how much influence it has on people today because it is pervasive it wasn't for the movie. Thank God for Jesus that he's Cleanse This from I'll send But what do we have to do in order to get it? I'm glad you asked that question not all of them friends and we have to confess we have to admit we have to believe matter fact that the Greek word here is homologous to say the same thing to agree with what we did we have to call Sin Sin and when we call send send. Cleanses us from the sin that we've admitted how many times have the people who don't think they sent it all don't think that they've done anything wrong at all. Those individuals are evidencing something based upon what this verse in the text says it says here that we are conscious of I need for cleansing. Are you one time? I was working at this particular place and they run which will take a look at something and they show me some film about what does individual it done and we'll have basically and I got caught lifting some some money and whatnot. Have some time to spend with the individual those persons that were responsible for him. I never forget what they did. We going to call this guy anyway. Question about the disease you going to just wait a minute and if you miss it, then things will figure out a way to work it out. Well.
Vegeta with a particular person in he's like, I don't know who that is. So then what they did what they back the camera up and they showed him coming in the door. They showed him going into the chamber. They showed him going inside of the place that showed him actually removing the monies from Pickler bought that they had They show him leaving and I said, do you know who this person is? Do you know? I don't know where that person is. That was something that was someone else something like that. I don't know. I can't say that was me now clearly all the people that were in the room.
What is individual continue to say watch this that they did not have any bring it out here? If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in him. That's the thing. He brings out. Give me the things that we have to do is we can't be doing like this guy was doing this guy was on the river called denial and he was sailing down and he was going down pretty fast easy way to do it individual who was dealing with the same thing. I'm working at a restaurant with supervisor there and was working as a supervisor to take it upon himself to lift money from his tips and whatnot.
Genius the way he did he Changing his money back and forth for the vending that he would do without the benefit of ever going to the cashier to get it done. I don't forget I walked in and out. Before him and I was talking to him about this very Problem by peep. And as I was talking to him, I was putting together the ticket that had his neighbor not already had it. Already headed Howard put together already knew it was by the handwriting because I often see it. But what I do is I put it together in front of it and I was I was putting it together. I was letting him know because the the thing that I noticed was that the number two. The waiter that was not present at the weather. That's my fault. I'm sorry I did that I should have did that. I just said you have to and he did his confession. He was extended forgiveness and you continue to keep his job. If a dozen people don't believe that they need to come to God until the truth about what's going on in your life, but you need to understand something. Is a just God he's a merciful god. He's a loving God and he will forgive us of our sins. But we need to come to him and talk to him about it. He has Pittsburgh telling you. Is this here? If we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in it that what you to know that he talks about sitting here to talk about.
And then there is the principal of sin the principal says what you and I inherited from Adam and the more we get saved God has cleansed from that he is he's also watch this he's places from that sentence and innocent, but at the same time there's the residue watch type of human depravity that still causes us to do the things that we do we have to make a choice before we didn't have a choice according to Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1 through 3 watch children. We were by children by Nick jr. Children if you will, but but now we have the ability according to Romans chapter 6 to be able to choose whether or not we're going to continue this way. Shall we continue in sin that Grace May abound God forbid. How can we get a dead to sin continue living a longer to make a decision not to continue to walk in sin? You see that's the beautiful thing about this. God in his great mercy and his love he fixed it so that you and I can be the people that he's called us to be and because of that because he's done that he done in such a way to call me. If you would come to him to get cleansing and to acknowledge that we are sinners if you will. You know, this is all possible because of what Jesus did in the cross. It was against the Black Velvet midnight sky that hung them cross not one cross not to cross has the three and the reason why they're going there because you're the one in the middle the one that had Jesus on it. That one is the one that we need to be most concerned about this because on the hill on him the iniquity of us on his past present and future will put on Jesus and their Jesus phone to pick up Dad there for you and for me and he hung there and died he gave up his life and all that you and I might have a right to the Tree of Life. Good as they say they put them in a bottle to stay there. Stay there all night Friday State all that Saturday with a girl in the Bible says Sunday morning this same Jesus got the power in his hands. Yes, somebody said it this way when I Survey the Wondrous Cross in which the Lord Of Glory. My riches gain, I count the lost and show contempt on All My Pride at the cross at the cross where I first saw the light and the burdens of my heart rolled away. It was damn by faith. I received my sight and now I'm happy all the day. will what does a True Believer do? Those people who have trusted in Christ number one, they walk in the light.
Walk in the light in the sense that they agree with the message of Truth. A walk in the light also understanding that their conduct and the confession agree. A walk in the light meaning that they are conscious of their need for cleansing for personal and particulars. You might be listening to this message for the first time. You may not have heard it for the first time, but you need to know if you don't have Jesus Christ a person would he say that that you are a sinner? That you inherited this sent from Adam and because you would hear this sent from Adam you are now seeing is guilty. graciously provide his son Jesus Christ The Bible says wait for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life that God loves you as a wonderful plan for your life. And the only ask one thing is that you say Lord Jesus. I am come into my heart take over my life and make me the person you want me to be that you would ask price to be your Saviour annual. It says it that you are saying for whosoever shall call upon the Lord Romans chapter 10 verse 13 that you are saved. So today I just want to say to you and if that's true of you, please please man will please serve send me an email at rev Stanley at hotmail.com. Let me know that you made that decision to follow Christ Desi. Can we get some material to you as soon as possible to help encourage you to live the Christian life? I want to thank you again all who are here today and want to say to those who are considering supporting us simply saying whatever you have your gift to us at 1140 6th Street Northeast, Washington DC the Mount Olive Baptist church, and we would be grateful to use whatever often. Did you give us for the furtherance of God kingdom here on Earth? Thank you so much my beloved. May God richly bless you. Amen. in the light Beauty full light Come where the Dew Drop summer Sea Bright. Shinola around us
very very poignant words Thank you for joining us today. If you happen to be in the Washington DC area. Feel free to join us at the Mount Olive Baptist Church 11 46th Street Northeast, Washington, DC 20002. Again, thanks for listening. God bless you, richly and have a great week.