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1 John 1:5-2:2
Stephen Caswell © 1999
Introduction
God intended from the beginning that we might have fellowship with Him.
*/Fellowship/* can be described as /communion, partnership, participation./
In the garden of Eden the Lord walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day.
But sin broke man's fellowship with God.
God is light and cannot have fellowship with darkness, with sin.
Sin separates us from God.
But Christ came to destroy the works of the Devil, that we might have fellowship with God again.
This is why John starts by revealing the standard for fellowship.
*1 John 1:5 says: */This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
/*What we do with sin affects our fellowship with God.
*/But in today's society no one wants to admit their sin!
I will read a quote from:/
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Whatever Became Of Sin? by Dr. Karl Menninger
In all the laments and reproaches made by our seers and prophets, one misses any mention of " sin, " a word which used to be a veritable watchword of prophets.
It was a word once in everyone's mind, but now rarely if ever heard.
Does it mean that no sin is involved in all our troubles - sin with an "I" in the middle?
Is no one any longer guilty of anything?
Guilty perhaps of a sin that could be repented and repaired or atoned for?
Is it only that someone may be stupid or sick or criminal - or asleep?
Wrong things are being done, we know; tares are being sown in the wheat field at night.
But is no one responsible, no one answerable for these acts?
Anxiety and Depression we all acknowledge, and even vague guilt feelings; but has no one committed any sins?
Where, indeed, did sin go?
What became of it?
Quote from John Macarthur's Book " The Vanishing Conscience " pgs 22-24
Passing the Buck
If we try to blame our past or some chemical imbalance for all of our failures, God cannot deal with our sin.
Circumstances may stir up our sinful nature, or even increase its effect, but they do not cause it.
Sin is not an accident or mistake, but disobedience to God's revealed standard.
We are not victims of society.
Therefore we are responsible for our actions.
God says /" all have sinned and fall short of His glory/!
" We have missed the mark.
We have deliberately crossed over the boundary.
We have acted independently of God!
And God will not accept excuses for peoples sin!
He knows the truth about everything.
He provides a way of escape for us when we are tempted.
We do not have to sin, but rather choose to.
/Has this victim mentality of sin crept into the church?
Do Christians have a Biblical perspective of sin?/ /Is sin in the life of a believer just as offensive to God as in the life of a non believer?/
I want to tell you from the Bible that it is!
However unlike a non Christian it will not condemn us to hell.
But it still must be dealt with! /What can people do with their sins?
What will you do with your sin?/
The apostle John deals with this very matter in his first epistle.
The Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to reveal the invisible, holy God to mankind.
The first three verses of the letter describe how John, along with the other Apostles, saw, heard and handled the Word of life.
In Jesus Christ, they saw God in human form.
Essentially John was saying we were eye witnesses of the incarnation.
We saw God walking in human flesh./
One of the reasons John wrote this letter is stated in verses 3-4.
He wrote so that they might have fellowship with the apostles and with God. /
God is light
John declares here that /God is light/.
His basic nature is one of /holiness, glory, truth/ and /perfection/.
If man is to have fellowship with God, he must come to the light, for God will not have fellowship with the darkness.
John is speaking to believers in this passage from 1:5-2:2 since he constantly identifies himself with the audience, by saying " we."
Whether or not we have fellowship with God depends on the way we respond to the light.
The light represents God's standard revealed in His word and manifested or displayed in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The darkness represents the sinful manifestation of the Devil.
Believers can either walk in the light or walk in darkness.
Our walk determines what we do with our sin.
*Proverbs 28:13* *says:* /He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
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We have two choices of what we can do with our sin.
*/We Can Cover It, Or Confess It! /*
/Firstly /We Cover Our Sin!
*1 John 1:6 *says: /If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth./
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This Response Says,/* /" Sin Doesn't Affect My Fellowship With God! "/*
This verse addresses believers who think that their sinful lifestyle does not affect their fellowship with God.
This could well describe a person who says, " I am a child of God, He has forgiven me, loves me, and does not care how I live, after all I am only human.
And to err is human but to forgive is divine.
/After all, we are in the age of grace now, the way I live won't affect my fellowship with God, will it?./
In the first century the apostle John had to correct this same thinking.
There were people known as Gnostics that brought error into the early church.
One of these groups taught that the spirit was basically good whilst the body was evil.
So it didn't matter if you sinned in the body since you couldn't help it.
Besides it wouldn't affect your spirit or your relationship with God who is also Spirit.
But John replies to this kind of thinking by saying/ " that we lie and do not practice the truth."/
We cannot walk in darkness, or live as we choose and think that we will have fellowship with God.
He will not ignore our sin and continue to have fellowship with us.
Someone who thinks this way has totally misunderstood God's grace.
*Psalm 66:18 says: */If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear/.
David and Bathsheba
After David had sinned with Bathsheba, he tried to go on with his life as if nothing had happened.
He went up to the tabernacle to offer sacrifices and worship God.
He continued to rule as king.
He tried to hide his sins of covetousness, adultery and murder.
But God knew of his sin.
David didn't fool anyone but himself.
Only when he confessed his sin to the Lord, did he receive forgiveness and restored fellowship.
His prayer of confession is found in *Ps 51:*
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A second response is to say:/ */I Don't Have A Sinful Nature! /*
*1 John 1:8* /If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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