1John 1:1-10
John 3:16-21How do we walk in the light? God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 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 we have fellowship one with another and with the father and with his Son Jesus Christ, and His blood 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 our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. The Apostle Paul said "I exercise myself daily to have a conscience void of offense toward God and man. This is how we walk in the light. If we sin we go to God and confess it and He forgives us for Jesus sake, and the sin is purged by His blood, and our consciense is purged of the offense. If we do not take it to Him, if we say no I haven't sinned, when the Holy Spirit is pricking our conscience, and we harden our heart, we deceive ourselves, and the sin remains uncleansed by His blood and we are guilty before God. We are thereby separated from Him and from true fellowship with our brothers and sisters. He is merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but he will by no means clear the guilty. We must bring it to Him and confess our sin and then He will forgive us and cleanse us by the blood of Jesus, and we continue to walk on with Him being led by the Holy Spirit to do the will of the Father in fellowship with Him and with our brothers and sisters, with no condemnation and no guilt because of the wonderful gift of God of His grace through the Lord Jesus Christ, justified by faith in His shed blood. We may also need to go to a brother or sister if we have sinned against them and repent to them. When we obey God in this manner, again our conscience is purged of the offense, and we walk on with a conscience void of offense toward God and man. Love does no ill to his neighbor, therefore love is the fullfilling of the law. We cannot say, "Because I am in faith it is not sin.", when we are doing ill to our neighbor, because faith works by love. If we love God we will keep His Word. When we are led by the Spirit and we walk in the light there is no condemnation and no guilt. In John 3:19-21 Jesus said, And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that does evil hates the light, and will not come to the light, unless his deeds should be reproved. But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God.
Repent and Believe the Gospel!
REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL!
Jesus said,"The time is fullfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe the Gospel" The Gospel is that the Word of God became a man; Jesus, the only begotten of the Father, the Son of God, full of grace and truth, and lived in this world with every temptation that you and I face, and yet He never sinned and He gave himself to die on the cross and shed His blood for our sins. God made Him who knew no sin to become sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. He was buried in a tomb, and on the third day the Father raised Him from the dead. He was seen of above 500 witnesses after He arose and He ascended to the right hand of the Father in heaven. He is there right now, alive, making intercession on our behalf to the Father. He is coming again with all the saints and all the angels in great power and glory and all who live and believe in him will be united with him and thus will we ever be with the Lord. I urge you to seek Him now, during this time while the long suffering of God is waiting, for the Day of the Lord is coming soon. He loves you and He will save you to the utter most if you will put your trust in Him.
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