And so, He's teaching us that
the character of those who have fellowship with God is liked. Because God's character is liked,
the character of those who have fellowship with God will be liked. It's because Christ's blood cleanses
the believer of all our sin, and He cleanses us of all unrighteousness. If it wasn't for the light of
the Lord and His faithfulness to give everything to us, we
wouldn't be able to believe on the Lord. We wouldn't be able
to have the love of God toward brethren if it wasn't for God
giving us that love and He gives us that faith and it's His constant
cleansing and cleansing us from the unrighteousness that our
sinful flesh is. And all of this is declared in
this one simple statement that God is light. And in Him is no
darkness at all. But then John gives us a warning
here as well. And he's not only showing us
what the believer has, in Christ and through the blood of Christ,
but he's also showing us here something about a false profession. He says there, if we say we have
fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie, do not the
truth. And then he says, if we say that
we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. And
then he says, if we say that we have not sinned, we make him
a liar and his word is not in us. So tonight our subject is
walking in light or darkness. The fact is all men are either
walking in light by the grace of God or walking in darkness. What is the difference? What's
the difference between these and who makes that difference?
The first thing that we look at here, John says in verse 5,
this then is the message which we have heard of Him and declare
unto you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. Now, that's what true preaching
is. true faithful preaching is to
get a message from the Master and declare that message to His
people. John said, this then is the message
which we've heard of Him and declare unto you. That's good
preaching. That's faithful preaching. To
get a message from Christ and deliver it, declare it to His
people. And what He declares that He
heard from Christ Himself is that God is light. And in Him
is no darkness at all. Now, John began, you know he
wrote the Gospel of John and then he wrote this epistle. And
in the beginning of the Gospel of John, that whole letter is
different than the other Gospels. John, in the Gospel of John,
is declaring that Christ is the Son of God. That He's God in
human flesh. God come down. The second person
in the Trinity. He's declaring his Godhead, his
divinity. And he begins the gospel of John
by saying, in the beginning was the Word. And that's how he began
this epistle. Remember back up in verse 1,
that which was from the beginning, which we've seen and heard and
handled of the Word of life. And in both places he's speaking
about Christ. Well, here in this epistle, the
next thing he deals with is light. And that's what he dealt with
in the gospel, was light. He began talking about light.
Go over there with me to John chapter 1 and hold your place
in both places. We'll be back and forth. He says there in verse 4, talking about the Word, talking
about Christ. He says, In Him was life, and
the life was the light of men. When we talk about light, we're
talking about life. That's one thing we're talking
about. The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended
it not. The darkness was amongst mankind. The light that shined in darkness
was shining amongst us. And look here, he speaks about
John the Baptist in verse 7. He says, The same came for a
witness to bear witness of the light, that all through him might
believe. He was not that light, but he
was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light,
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was
in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew
him not. He came unto His own, His own
received Him not. But as many as received Him,
to them gave He the power, the privilege to become sons of God,
even to them that believe on His name, which were born, not
of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of God." John is speaking of Christ. And what did he hear Christ?
He said, what we've heard of Him, from Him, we declare unto
you. And then he goes talking about
light. God is light. And in Him is no darkness at
all. What did he hear Christ declare? Christ declared, I am
the light. I am the light of the world.
And that's what John's declaring to us. He's declaring what he
heard Christ declare. He said, this is the message.
This is the message that God sent His Son to declare. And this is the message His Son
came and declared. God is light and in Him is no
darkness at all. The only way we behold God is
in Christ. This is what Scripture says of
God. He only hath immortality, and he dwelleth in the light
which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen nor can
see. That's what Scripture says of
God. But the way we're going to see God and see that light
and have that light revealed to us is by beholding Christ
the light. And so Christ came forth and
He declared, I am the light. And He's declaring, I and my
Father are one. You want to see God the light?
Look at Christ the light. He's the light. He is the light. Now, what does it mean that He's
the light and in Him is no darkness? Well, it means He's holy and
He's righteous. He's light. He's holy. He's pure. He's all-powerful. It means He's
holy in power. He's alone in power. No one else
has power like what He has. And no one has any power that's
apart from His power. He's holy in power. He's holy
in wisdom. He is wisdom. He is knowledge. He knows all things. And there's
nothing that you and I do that's not naked and open before Him. He knows everything. He's holy
in justice and holy in mercy. He will not clear the guilty,
and He will not punish the innocent. And in Christ Jesus we behold
this holiness, this perfect righteousness of God. How He can be just and
justifier. He's holy in love. Where He loves,
He loves in a holy manner. He loves in a perfect, righteous,
holy way. He's holy in sovereignty. Whatever
He works in the earth, moving all things and working all things
after His own pleasure, it's all holy. It's for a holy purpose,
His eternal purpose. All the works that He does in
saving His people is holy. It's light. There's no impurity
in it. There's nothing sinful about
it. There's nothing unjust about
it. Everything He does is right. Light means not only that He's
holy, it means He's truth. Everything about Him is truth.
There's nothing about our Lord that's a lie. And those that
worship Him, we have to be made holy. We have to be pure as God
is pure. We have to be truth. We have
to worship Him in spirit and in truth. He's saved by truth
and the only way He can be worshipped is in truth. Because He is truth. And in Him is no lie, no darkness, no unrighteousness, no ungodliness,
nothing that's unholy whatsoever. But those that He saves now,
He's talking about me and you, we're only darkness. All we are
by nature is darkness. All we are by nature is lies. There's no light at all in us
by nature. So how then can we approach unto
God and see God and have fellowship with God? Be accepted of God. How's that going to happen? Only
way it can happen is in Christ the light. revealing Himself
to us and bringing us to cast all our care on Him and trust
Him to bring us to God, to make us to be like God. That's what we have to have happen.
It's by the blood of Christ, by His blood alone, we have to
be created entirely new. He's not going to use anything
that's of Adam. And that's all that we are by
nature, just what's of Adam. We're unrighteous because we
broke the law in Adam. We're unholy because we're born
of Adam's corrupt seed. He's not going to use anything
that's of Adam. What He's going to do is He's
going to create us entirely anew, totally anew. And it's all going
to be the work of His hands so that we're righteous and holy
by Christ. And it's only going to be in
His light that we see this light. He's going to have to give us
the light so that we have light and we behold the light and we
come out of the darkness and we dwell in light. So God is
light. This is the first thing. He's
light and Him is no darkness. You and I are nothing but darkness
and in us is no light. How are these two going to be
brought together? It's all going to be by Christ. He sent His
Son to do this work, to bring us together. Now John declares
to us now what is a false profession and what is a true profession.
And what he's saying here is because God is light and in Him
is no darkness, like begets like. He's going to create what's like
Him. And so if our profession is not like Him, It's false. Look what he says here, 1 John
1 verse 6. 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 and the blood
of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. Now, I remind
you again, John's declaring what he heard Christ declare. Look
at that statement. 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's in the light, we have
fellowship one with another. Go over to John 8. John chapter
8. Where'd John get that from? Where'd
he hear Christ say that? See what the Lord said here in
John 8 and look at verse 12. And then spake Jesus again unto them,
saying, I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall
not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. That's where John heard this.
That's how come he said it. And what he said is because he
heard Christ say that. Christ said, I am the light.
He that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have
the light of life. Now the difference between this
false profession and this true profession is the walk. That's the difference. When you
look back there at 1 John, he says there, If we walk in darkness,
we lie. If we walk in the light, we have
fellowship. The difference is in the walk.
So my first question is, what is it to walk in darkness? And
I want to answer that by seeing what it is to walk in light.
We see what it is to walk in light, we'll know what it is
to walk in darkness. It's just the opposite. And what
I did when I was studying this is I went through And I took
each word in this passage and I looked up John's use of those
words in his gospel and in this epistle. Because I want to see
what he's got on his mind, what the Spirit's putting on his heart
and how he's using those words. And I want to see what he means
by it. So that's what we're going to look at here between the gospel
of John and his epistle here and see what he's talking about.
What does the walk mean? Well, 1 John chapter 2. First of all, it's to have the
light of Christ shine in our hearts so that our darkness is
passed. Look here at 1 John 2 and verse
8. He said, Again a new commandment
I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you. And here's why we have this truth
in us and it's in Christ. Why are we together in this truth? Because the darkness is past
and the true light now shineth. The darkness is past and the
true light now shineth. Whenever God shines in our heart,
just like He said, let there be light and there was light.
And God says, let there be light in the heart of one of His particular
elect. He shines the light and gives
you the knowledge of God, of the glory of God in the face
of Christ. And when He does that, the darkness
is passed. The darkness of our ignorance
is passed now. We have the light. We have the
light of life, we have the light of truth now, and the darkness
is past. Now, we still see through a glass
darkly, and we're going to as long as we're in this flesh,
till we see Christ face to face. But the darkness of total ignorance
and total darkness is past now. We have light now. And once you
have light, He's never going to take that light away from
you. The darkness has passed. You have light now. It's the
light of Christ that shines in our heart. He said, I'm the light.
He that follows me shall not walk in darkness. He shall have
what? The light of life. We have it
because He gives it. We have it because He gives it.
He knew who the Father chose and gave to Him. He knew Him
when He laid down His life for us. And He knows us when He sends
the gospel to us. And He knows it when He speaks
light. And there is light in our heart.
He knows who He has given the light to. We have the light of
the gospel now. We have some light. It all gets
its light from Christ the light. And we get the light from Christ
and we can see what this gospel is teaching to us now and what
the message is and all the word of God. And now we're looking
for Christ the light and all the word. And it redounds back
to His glory. Everything we're seeing gets
its glory from Christ and it's all to Christ's glory. We have
the light of the gospel. And when it's given to us, now
we worship God in spirit and in truth. We're not worshipping
Him in the darkness that we were in. We're worshipping Him in
spirit and truth. We're worshipping Him in light
now. We didn't have it before. The true light shines when we
see that we're seeing. And Christ Himself is our righteousness. that He Himself is our pardon,
that He is our forgiveness, that He is our completion, that He
is the life. He's everything. It ceases to
be a system of doctrine and all that. Christ Himself becomes
the sum and substance of everything we need. Christ Himself. We have the light. And so the
first thing, this thing of walking in the light is, is to be regenerated,
is to be born anew, is to be given the light of Christ. So
to walk in darkness is to be in an unregenerate state. A man
can say, I have fellowship with God, and be walking in total
ignorance, in total darkness, in unregenerate state. And he's
without life, he's without the light of Christ. Well, here's
the next thing walking in light involves. Since we're right here
in 1 John 2, we'll stay right here and look at verse 9. It's
to walk in darkness is to hate those born of God. To walk in
light is to love our brethren. Look here, 1 John 2, 9. He that
saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness
even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth
in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Look over at 1 John 5. Why do we love the brethren?
Is this something we muster up in ourselves? Not hardly. Not
hardly, we're talking about being in communion and fellowship with
those who believe the same gospel as we do. You can't love somebody
that don't believe the same gospel that you do. Not with the love
of brethren. Watch this, 1 John 5, verse 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus
is the Christ, here's why, he's born of God. and everyone that
loveth him that begat." You love Christ who begat you, you're
going to love Him also that's begotten of Him. And that's how
we love is because we're born anew, born of God. This love
is the second part of the Holy Commandment. The Holy Commandment
is just one commandment. It's that which Christ works
affectionately in the heart of His people. And this is the second
part of it, loving our brethren. Remember Christ we saw, He said,
a new commandment I give you, that you love one another as
I've loved you. And it's so important that He
said, by this shall all men know, you're my disciples. You're my
students. You're the ones I've taught.
How are we going to know? How are they going to know? Because
you love one another. You have love one for another.
Now I'll tell you something about love. Men can try to fake this
love we're talking about here. But you can't fake the love of
brethren. Because we're not talking about
a fleshly love. We're talking about something
God gives. And this is what God says that charity, which He called,
which is love, He's saying charity. This is what it does. It beareth
all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things. And this love is so abiding when
God who is love, when He abides in you, you're going to have
this love. And it's so abiding with us that Scripture says when
we don't have hope and faith anymore, when we don't need hope
and faith anymore, when we're with Him in glory, we're going
to still, charity never faileth. We're going to still love one
another. This is an abiding, continual
thing that His people always have, is love. And when you think
about it, what did our Lord say the fulfillment of the law is?
It's love. And what Romans 8 says, if Christ
is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life
because of what? Righteousness. When you're created
anew by the Holy Spirit and that new man is righteous, that new
man is love. That's the essence of the new
man is love. Because righteousness and love
are the same things. You love your brethren now. And a hypocritical love can leave
brethren and will leave brethren or forsake them. Well, it's like
a hypocritical faith can leave Christ. A hypocritical love will
leave the brethren. But when you love somebody, you
don't leave somebody you love. You don't forsake somebody you
love. You stay with them. And whatever you bear all things,
you endure all things, you suffer long, whatever it is you have
to suffer through, you do because you love them. That's this love
that God gives. And those that don't have this
love, I tell you one way they'll manifest it. They'll side with
liars before they side with God's people who rest in His free and
sovereign grace. They'll side with free will works
religionist before they'll side with God's people. Because that's
who they really love. God's people love one another. When you're born of God, you're
going to love those that are born of God. And under this, I would
include all those works that God foreordained that His children
shall walk in and that He brings you to walk in, including godliness
and everything. I'd include all that under this
because when He gives this love in the heart, it makes you be
devoted to Christ. It makes you want to honor Christ
and honor the gospel. You don't want to bring reproach
on the gospel. Because He said, when the grace of God comes,
it changes the heart, sanctifies His people, and it teaches us,
brethren, that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should
live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world.
And the reason I include that under brotherly love is because
the greatest way you can express love for your brethren is to
be an encouragement to them in godliness. That's the greatest
way you can love them. If we lead one another into error
and lead one another into sin and rebellion, that's not loving
them. Do you lead your children into
that? No, because you love them. When you love your brethren,
you don't want to lead them into anything like that either. That's a great
expression of love. So first off, it's to have the
light shining in your heart. Then it's to have the love of
God in your heart so that you love your brethren. And then
also walking in light is faith, is to believe on Christ, is to
believe on Him alone. For wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
redemption is to trust Him alone and have no confidence in yourself,
in you whatsoever. That's the first part of that
effectual command. Look over there, John 3. I'll
show you what I'm talking about. 1 John 3. This is what John says
it is to do righteousness. And this is what it is to walk
in light. 1 John 3 verse 23. Verse 23, this is His commandment. It's just one commandment. It's
got two parts to it. That we should believe on the
name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another as Christ
gave His commandment. That's the one commandment that
the believer is under. It's called faith which worketh
by love. That's it. That's the rule that
the believer is under right there. By faith in Christ, we fulfilled
the whole law of God, because He fulfilled it for us, and we
don't owe the law anything. We have fulfilled it in perfect
righteousness. God says, your sins I remember
no more. They're blotted out of the book.
To be righteous means you're justified, you cannot be found
guilty ever again. And we have this through faith
in Christ. And then that second part is
He gives love in the heart. Let me show you some places where
I show you this means faith. Go with me to John chapter 12. John chapter 12. And listen to what our Lord said.
John 12, 46. Watch this. I am come, a light
into the world, that whosoever believeth on me shall not abide
in darkness. See there, he's talking about
faith. Abiding in Him, not abiding in darkness. Look back up at
John 12, 35. Then Jesus said unto them, Ye shall a little
while, as the light with you, walk while you have the light,
lest darkness come upon you. For he that walketh in darkness
knoweth not where he goeth. What does he mean by walk? Look
at the next verse. Verse 36. While you have light,
believe in the light. that you may be the children
of light. See, that is faith. Look at John 3 and look at verse
19. This is familiar. John 3, 19. Look what he said. This is the condemnation that
light is coming to the world. And men loved darkness rather
than light because their deeds were evil. For everyone that
doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light,
lest his deeds should be reproved. Let me tell you what he's talking
about first of all when he talks about evil deeds. He's talking
about the same one John's talking about when he says, if we say
we have fellowship with God, but we walk in darkness, we lie
and do not the truth. And the man that's doing that,
the man that has a false profession and says he's walking in the
light, but he doesn't love Christ's true brethren, those that preach
the gospel and support the gospel of God's free and sovereign grace
and His accomplished redemption of His people, But he lives amongst
will workers and those are the ones he hangs out with. He doesn't
love the brethren. He doesn't believe Christ alone.
He's trusting his work somehow. Trusting some pretended goodness
he's got. He's in an unregenerate state.
He's in darkness. But he won't come to the light
because he doesn't want all that to be reproved. He won't come to the light and
confess. That's all true of him. He won't do it. because he loves
that darkness rather than that light. Look here, but look, but
he that doeth truth, he cometh to the light. He comes to Christ. He comes to Christ. When John
says, they that walk in the light, that word in could be translated
into. We walk into the light. We come
to Christ the light. come out of the darkness to Christ
the light, believing on Christ. And why do we do that? He does
it that His deeds may be made manifest. They might be open
in the light. That they're all wrought in God. That Christ worked out all the
righteousness for Him. That Christ worked everything
for Him. Christ gave Him life. Christ regenerated Him. Christ
worked out, fulfilled the law for Him. Everything, Christ is
our holiness, our righteousness, our wisdom, our redemption. We
come to the light manifesting that Christ has worked it all.
It's all worked in Him, in God. And that's why we come to the
light. So it's first of all, walking in light is to be born
of light. It's to have the love of God
in your heart. It's to be given faith to believe on Christ. And
then here's the next thing. If we're walking in darkness,
we're denying our sin before God. If we walk in light, we're
confessing our sin in every way. Look here, 1 John
1.8. 1 John 1.8, if we say that we have
no sin, Now look at that carefully. If we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our
sins, He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned,
we make Him a liar and His word's not in us. Verse 8 is dealing
with a man who is a self-deceiver. He denies himself. He deceives
himself. He deceives himself into thinking
he is innocent of sin. If we say we have no sin, you
ever run into somebody that will not bow to the truth that we
were made sin by Adam's one transgression? A man will not say he has original
sin. He will not say he was conceived
in sin. He will not say that. And so
long as a man hates the fact that we're made sin in Adam,
he'll never bow to the fact that we're made righteous in Christ
alone. Until a man can bow to the fact that he was made sin
by another, he'll never bow to the truth that God's people are
made righteous by another. That's why they say he has no
sin, no original sin. And then verse 10 deals with
a man who's a blasphemer against God. Because this man is saying,
we have not sinned. He's saying, I've never broken
the law. This is men who think they've
become, or includes men who think they've become so progressively
holy that they're living now above sin. And they're not breaking
God's law. And men who think they actually
can keep God's law. have not sinned. If we do this,
why is that blasphemy? We're making God a liar. And
I tell you, it's not only blasphemy against God, remember what Paul
said, if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead
and vain. If at any point in my life I
begin to say, now I can keep the law myself, then I'm saying
Christ died for nothing. That's how serious it is. Because
Christ had to come and live and fulfill that law for His people
and that's the only righteousness God's looking to. He's not looking
to anything we've ever done under the law because we've never ever
kept the law. So if I say I have not sinned,
I have not broken the law, I'm lying and I'm calling God a liar. And we see here why a person
does that. Why does he walk in darkness?
Verse 8, he says the truth's not in us. Verse 10, he says
His Word's not in us. That's why if a man doesn't walk
in light, he walks in darkness. It's because God's Word is not
in him. It's just not in him. You remember,
look at John chapter 9. I want to show you this. John
chapter 9. Do you remember when Christ came
to that blind man and He gave that blind man sight? Look here
at why Christ said He came. They asked Him, they said, who
sinned? This man or his parents said he was born blind. Verse
3, he said, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents,
but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. And
look at the next thing he said, I must work the works of him
that sent me while it is day. The night cometh when no man
can work. As long as I am in the world,
I am the light of the world. I'm the light, I'm the one that
has to work the works. So, it says then, look, when
he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, he made clay of the
spittle, he annoyed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
and he said unto him, go wash in the pool of Siloam, which
is by interpretation sin. He went his way therefore and
washed, and he came seeing. Christ gave him light, and he
could see. And so then after his parents
denied him, and the Pharisees kicked him out, Now look what
happened. Verse 35, Jesus heard that they
cast him out. When he found him, he said unto
him, Do you believe on the Son of God? And he answered and said,
Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said
unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh
with thee. He said, Lord, I believe. And
he fell down and worshipped him. Now watch this. We're talking
here about these men that won't confess their sin. Watch this,
verse 39, Jesus said, For judgment I am coming to this world, that
they which see not might see, and that they which see might
be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which
were with him heard these words, and they said unto him, Are we
blind also? And Jesus said unto them, If
you were blind, if you confessed your sins, You should have no
sin. But, now you say, we see. Now you say, we've not sinned.
We're not sinned and we haven't sinned. Therefore, your sin remaineth. That's exactly what John is telling
us in our text back over here in 1 John. He's saying, He said,
if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth
is not in us. If we say we've not sinned, we
make him a liar and his word is not in us. But if we confess
our sin, if we confess our sin, this is what happened to that
blind man. If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just
to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
That's what happened to the blind man. The other said, we don't
have sin. He said, your sin remains. But
this blind man came saying, that's all I am is sin. I need to believe
on you, Lord. I need you to save me. And the
Lord cleansed him of all sin. Now, lastly, I want to show you
this. The blessing that God gives to those that He's made honest
to confess our sin. This is the blessing, verse 7.
If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ
His Son cleanseth us from all sin. Verse 9, And if we confess
our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now those that are born of God
walk in the light as Christ is in the light. Before we wouldn't
come to the light. We loved darkness, we stayed
in darkness. Now we come to the light. And we confess that Christ
is all our righteousness. And we've been born of Him. We
believe on Him. We trust Him. We're constrained
by His love now. We love those that have forgotten
of Him. And now we have fellowship one with another. That's not
talking here about us having fellowship with each other here.
It's talking about now I have fellowship with God in Christ
and you have fellowship with God in Christ. We have fellowship
with Him and He has fellowship with us. We've been made partakers
of the divine nature. We have communion with God now.
All things that are God's are Christ's and everything that's
Christ's is ours. We have all things in common.
We're heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. Fellowship,
communion. And then the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses
us from all sin. That word ETH means we never
cease coming to Christ and He never ceases cleansing us from
all our sin. We need a constant cleansing.
And He cleanseth us from all our sin. And we confess our sins
to God. We're constantly coming and confessing
our sins to God. We don't have any confidence
in our flesh. We confess that sin is what we
are because of Adam. And sin is all that we do because
that's what we are. And God is faithful. As He promised,
He's faithful. And He's just because of the
blood of Christ. To do what? To forgive us all
our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. God's faithful
to do it. He's just to do it. Unlike, you know, like we saw
Sunday. If you surrender to earthly General, a lot of times the army
will treat you in a horrible way. You surrender to God and
He says, I'll have mercy on you. My thoughts are not your thoughts.
He says, you come confess your sins to Me. I'm faithful and
just to forgive you your sin and I'll cleanse you from all
unrighteousness. Now sinner, you listen to that. You come to Christ. and stop
trying to be a hypocrite. You know, you hear people all
the time using that word. Oh, that's a hypocrite. And they
don't even know what a hypocrite is. A hypocrite is somebody who
professes to know God that don't know Him, that hadn't experienced
this grace we're talking about right here. You come to Christ
confessing all you are is sin, with no confidence in yourself,
casting all your care on Christ. And it will be because the Word
of Truth is now abiding in you. God has shined His light in your
heart and all these blessings right here that His people have,
you'll have them. Every one of them. And believer,
don't ever stop coming to Christ. We need daily cleansing. We need daily cleansing. We go
out into this world and we get defiled and we come back and
we hear the gospel priests and He washes us and cleanses us
and we keep coming to His throne of grace every day, every day,
every day, every day. And He continually cleanses us.
This is how we continue to believe and continue to repent and continue
to love holiness and hate sin because He keeps cleansing us
and cleansing us and cleansing us. Don't ever quit coming to
Christ. Amen.