God is light

"God is light" - 1 John 1:5-10 If God is light, there is no darkness in Him. John gives the qualifications for fellowship with God. In doing so, he appeals (to go to someone whose authority is trusted) to the teachings of the Lord Jesus while on earth.

I. The sum and substance (stable, fundamental matter of something) of His teaching was that God is light and there is no darkness in Him.

A. By this he meant that "God is absolutely holy, absolutely just, and absolutely pure."

1. God cannot look favorably on any form of sin.

2. Nothing is hidden from Him, but "all things are naked and uncovered in the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. (Hebrews 4:13)

3. (1 John 1:6) It says that in order for someone to have communion with God, there can be no "concealment of sin."

4. Light and darkness cannot exist simultaneously (at a time, at the same time) in a person's life, nor can they coexist in the dwelling room of a home.

5. If someone who claims to have "fellowship with Him" and habitually walks in darkness, "has never really been saved at all."

6. (1 John 1:7) Instead, "if anyone walks in the light," then he can have "communion" with the Lord Jesus and "with his fellow believers."

7. As far as John is concerned, in this passage the person is either in the light or in the darkness.

8. If you are in the light, you are a member of God's family.

9. If he is in darkness, he has nothing in common with God, because in God there is no darkness at all.

10. Those who walk in the light, that is, Christians who have fellowship "with one another" and the blood of Jesus Christ continually "cleanses" them from all sin."

11. You have something against your brother, you can get stuck in sin.

12. "All forgiveness of God is based on the blood of His Son," which was shed on Calvary.

13. This blood "provided God with a righteous foundation on which to forgive sins," and "the blood never loses its power."

14. It has a permanent efficacy in cleansing us.

15. It is proper, "believers must confess before they can receive forgiveness. (1 John 1:9)

16. (1 John 1:8) Fellowship with God demands that we recognize the "truth" about ourselves.

17. To deny that we have a sin nature indicates self-deception and falsehood.

18. John makes a distinction between sin (1 John 1:8) and sins (1 John 1:9).

19. "Sin" designates (names) our corrupt, evil nature.

20. "Sins" refers to the wrongs we have committed.

21. In reality, what we are is far worse than what we have ever committed.

22. But praise the Lord, Christ died for our "sin" and for our "sins."

23. Let us walk daily in communion with God and with our fellow believers, we must "confess" "our" "sins" of commission (action of committing (guilt, action of committing) sin of omission (forgetting, abstention from doing or saying, renouncing to do or express something, hiding) sins of thought, sin of act, secret sins and public sins.

24. We are to drag them into the open before God, "call them by their names," and forsake them.

25. He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but he who confesses them and amends himself (correcting an error) will obtain mercy. (Proverbs 28:13)

26. God is faithful and just to forgive us.

27. He is just to forgive.

28. Also, to "cleanse us from all iniquity."

29. We need paternal forgiveness throughout our entire Christian life.

30. When we "confess our sins," we must believe, by the authority of God's word, that He forgives us.

31. (1 John 1:10) God wants us to cast out all our sins before "His presence," "confessed," and "forsaken."

32. Be totally frank about our condition and that there should be no hypocrisy or concealment of who we really are. Amen.