Now let's turn in our Bibles
to the book of 1 John. 1 John chapter 1. This morning I'm going to speak
on the subject of the fellowship of light. The fellowship of light. You remember that God the Holy
Spirit, by the Apostle John in this epistle, this short letter,
is revealing the foundation and the basis and the boundaries
of true Christian fellowship. He stated it in verse 3 of chapter
1, when John speaks of that which we have seen and heard, declare
we unto you that which we have seen of Christ and the ministry
of his truth, that which we have heard, that you also may have
fellowship with us, fellowship of the brethren, fellowship of
the church, God's elect, the redeemed, the justified, the
regenerated, the called. Those who are preserved by the
grace of God and who will be glorified, caught up together
with Christ, His church, His bride. And he says, and truly
our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
That's the basis, the foundation and ground of our fellowship
with each other. It's in the fact that we are
truly in fellowship with the Father, and with His Son Jesus
Christ. Because true Christian fellowship,
partnership, family, company, citizenship, all of those things
that we mentioned last week is established in that fellowship
that we have by the grace of God. Through the redemption that
we have as accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ as He died
for our sins. It's in the grace of God. It's
a fellowship of grace. And our fellowship with God and
with each other is attained by and founded upon and established
in the Lord Jesus Christ. For in Him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in Him. The question
might come then, how can I know that I truly am in the fellowship
of God's grace? How can we all know that our
fellowship is truly with God in Christ? That's a good question.
There are many types of fellowship around the world, religious,
irreligious, based on many different things. But what I'm concerned
with, as we study through this book of God's Word, is this. What is the fellowship of the
church? What is the fellowship of Christ?
And how can I know that I personally am part of that fellowship? We
spoke of being partakers of the divine nature. And somebody asked
me, well, doesn't that refer to the new birth, regeneration?
Yes, it does. And what it means is this, that
by the power of God's grace through the Spirit who applies the gospel
message, the promises of God to our hearts, our minds, affections,
and will, we personally are brought into fellowship with the divine
nature Himself. God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit. Just like John is saying right
here, our fellowship is with the Father and the Son. We do
become partners, fellowshippers, sharers with the divine nature
as we look to, as we believe in and rest in, as we follow
the Lord Jesus Christ as He dwells within us by His Spirit and by
His Word. And it's fellowship. And I want
to know, and I know you do too, I believe you're concerned with
that. How can I really know whether or not I'm truly in the fellowship
of Christ? Well, the Holy Spirit throughout
this epistle gives us four benchmarks, if you will, through fellowship,
all determined by the very nature of God himself. I mentioned them
last week. First of all is the fellowship
of light. And that's what we're going to talk about this morning.
But let me just mention all four of them. The fellowship of light.
If you're in fellowship with with the people of God, you're
in fellowship with the father and son. You're in the fellowship
of light for God is light and in him is no darkness at all.
And secondly, it's a fellowship of righteousness for God is righteous. And thirdly, it's a fellowship
of love because God is love. And then it's a fellowship of
faith, because God is true and faithful. But let's concern ourselves
this morning with beginning at verse 5. 1 John 1, the fellowship
of light. He says, This then is the message
which we have heard of him and declare unto you. Now, John is
saying here, this is not a message that comes from a man, from himself. It's a message we heard of him.
And we can look at it this way, now some translators translate
that from him, and I believe it can be both. We heard it from
him, that is the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the light of God. John 1 tells us that, John the
Baptist spoke of that, Christ is the light of the world, Christ
himself, the God-man. God manifest in human flesh is
the light. And we heard it of him and from
him. It's a message that has its source
in God. Paul said that to the Galatians.
He said, the message of the gospel that I preach is not of man.
I didn't get it from Peter or James or John. These men, they
preach it, but it didn't originate with them. We didn't go to the
church. It didn't originate with the church. You know, Catholicism
says it originates with the church. It doesn't. It originates with
God. He is the truth. God is light. Look at it. And declaring to
you that God is light. God is the originator of the
message, of the light. And in Him is no darkness at
all. Now, light in Scripture is symbolic of several things. It's symbolic of holiness. We
dwell in the light of God's holiness. Now, how is that possible for
sinners like us to dwell in the light of God's holiness. Well,
there's not but one way that a sinner can do so. We sang it
a while ago, I'm only a sinner saved by grace. Those two hymns
that we sang state the twofold theme of this message. Confession
and life. We're sinners saved by grace
and we dwell in the heavenly sunlight of Christ and Him crucified. And that's the only way a sinner
can dwell in the light of God's holiness. You remember when Isaiah
first saw the Lord in a saving view as recorded in Isaiah chapter
6. He said, in the year that King
Uzziah died. You remember who King Uzziah
was? He was a king who got lifted up with his own pride and power
and took it upon himself to go into the temple where he had
no business being because that was only for the priests, the
tribe of Levi. And to go in and burn incense
in the temple, some say go into the very holiest of all, which
was only the high priest, and God struck him with leprosy.
And he had to be a recluse all the rest of the days of his life.
That well-respected, that very successful King Uzziah, whom
everybody just knew was blessed of God, took it upon himself
to go into a place that no sinner has any place to go, into the
holy presence of God. And he was struck with leprosy,
the most dreaded disease of that time, that disease that pictures
sin, that starts from the inside out, because that's what sin
is. And God struck him down. And
Isaiah said, when I saw that in the year of the King Uzziah,
I saw the holiness of God. And he said, holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty. And he said, I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell amidst a people of unclean lips. How can man,
who is nothing but sin and evil, approach unto a holy God? Well,
there's not but one way, and that's through Christ. The Redeemer. That's through Christ, the Savior
of sinners. That's through Christ who Himself
is holy and pure and righteous. John says it over here in verse
1 of chapter 2. Our advocate with the Father
is Jesus Christ the righteous. Our only righteousness is in
Christ. Our only holiness is in Christ.
You listen. You attempt to go to God without
Christ, you're doing the same thing that King Uzziah did. That's
what he did. And all that can do is expose
you to sin. So, light here is symbolic of holiness and purity. God is so pure, he cannot behold
evil. The heavens are not pure in his
sight, the psalmist said. Light is a symbol of God's glory. The effulgence, as one old theologian
said, of His glory. The essence of His glory. Who
He is. God is light. You notice there
it doesn't say God is a light or even the light. God is light. Everything about Him is light
and in Him is no darkness. There is no darkness in God.
Light also is a symbol of God's truth and God's knowledge. God's
truth is light. Back over in Genesis chapter
1, let me just read this to you. The very first thing it says
about God in creation, after verse 1, in beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth. It says, the earth was without
form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And here's
the first words that's recorded that God spoke, and God said,
let there be light. And there was light. And God
saw that the light, that it was good. And God divided the light
from the darkness. And God called the light day
and the darkness He called night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day. Let there be light. Now that was in the
creation of the world. God spoke. Now we know this. Light is the opposite of darkness.
And darkness is a symbol in Scripture too. Darkness is a symbol of
sin. It's a symbol of depravity. It's
a symbol of lies. It's a symbol of ignorance. That's
what darkness is, evil. The Bible teaches that by nature
we are in darkness. That's why we need salvation.
David said this, he said, we come forth from the womb speaking
lies. Look at the book of Colossians
with me. Turn back there to chapter 1. When God saves us from our
sins, And actually what this is speaking of here in Colossians
chapter 1, beginning at verse 12, is speaking of the death
of Christ on the cross. And I want you to listen to this.
When Christ died on that cross, it says in verse 12, we give
thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet, that means
qualified, fitted, to be partakers, sharers, fellowshipers
of the inheritance of the saints in light." In other words, by
God's grace in Christ, we who are sinful and darkness by nature
and by practice in ignorance and depravity and sin are made
qualified, made fit To be a sharer of an inheritance of saints.
What is a saint? A sinner saved by grace. I'm
only a sinner saved by grace. This is my story. To God be the
glory. That's what a saint is. A sanctified
one. Well, who sanctified me? Well,
the Father sanctified me before the foundation of the world when
he set me apart in divine election. The Son sanctified me on the
cross when He died on the cross and put away my sins. For by
one offering, He has qualified and fitted all those and perfected
those whom God has sanctified. And then we are sanctified by
the Spirit in regeneration when He raises us from the dead spiritually
and shines that light into our hearts. But look at verse 13.
He says, God who hath delivered us from the power of darkness
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Now,
his kingdom is a kingdom of light. Think about this. Christ is the
very light of God. Go back to that scripture that
Brother Joe read in 2 Corinthians chapter 4. I want you to see
this too. This is the essence of the fellowship of light right
here in 2 Corinthians chapter 4. And I want you to consider
several truths that are brought out in this passage. He says
in verse 3 of 2 Corinthians 4, he says, but if our gospel be
hid, it is hid to them that are lost. Now they're in darkness.
They don't know Christ. They don't know the light. They've
not seen the light. And it says in verse 4, in whom
the God of this world, that's referring to Satan, who is the
father of lies, hath blinded the minds of them which believe
not." Now, right here in this passage, we see that salvation
is not by the free will of man. Salvation is not a choice you
make. It's a place that God brings
you to. It's a persuasion God brings
you to. But I'll show you why here. He says, "...in whom the
God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe
not." Now, if you're a believer today, what were you before you
were a believer? You were an unbeliever. Right?
That makes sense. That's what Scripture teaches.
Well, what made the difference between you as an unbeliever
and somebody else as an unbeliever? Who brought you to the light?
God did. And look what he says here. He
says in verse 4, And them which believe not, lest the light of
the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves.
We're not trying to promote ourselves, exalt ourselves, and we're not
preaching salvation conditioned on ourselves. But we preach Christ
Jesus the Lord and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
Now look at verse 6. Remember we read back in Genesis,
God said, Let there be light. Look at verse 6 here. For God
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness. That's talking
about creation. Well, that same God who created
the world hath shined, or is He who hath shined, in our hearts
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. It's God who gave you the light.
You didn't have it by nature. You didn't get it because you're
better than somebody who didn't believe. You didn't get it because
you were on some kind of a high search. God shined in your heart
by His Spirit. And what did He show you? How
perfect you are? Is that what He showed you? Look
back at 1 John 1. What did He show you? He showed
you how perfect Christ is. He showed you the glory of the
Savior. He showed you how sinful you
are, how wretched and rotten and vile you are, and He showed
you how great and glorious and holy and merciful He is in the
Son. That's what He did. Look back
here. He says, so when we speak of
the fellowship of light, see, we're speaking of the fellowship
of God who is light. We're speaking of the fellowship
of Christ, God the Son, who is light from God, who is the light
of the glory of God. It's the fellowship of the Spirit,
the Scripture says, because it is the Spirit who shines in your
heart to show you the light, puts the light within you. It's
the fellowship of truth and knowledge, the Word of God in Christ. It's
the fellowship of faith in Christ. It's a mutual admiration society,
all admiring one person, the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. It's the fellowship of love.
For we love one another because he first loved us. Here in his
love, John said in 1 John 4, 10, not that we love God, but
that he loved us and sent his Son to be our sin-bearing sacrifice
unto blood for our sins, propitiation. It's the fellowship of humility.
For we are all, if we're in this fellowship, we're submitted to
Christ. That's right, we're submitted
to him and his righteousness as that which alone saves us,
keeps us, and entitles us to heaven. It's the fellowship of
obedience and faith. The fellowship of light is the
fellowship of truth and knowledge as it is in God who reveals Himself
by His Spirit in Christ. And our fellowship with the Father
and with His Son and our fellowship with each other must be grounded
in the truth that God reveals of Himself. How do we know we
have the same Father? How do we know that? Only based
upon what the Father reveals of himself in this word. So that
when one comes along and he speaks of his heavenly Father, yet he
begins to describe him in ways that are opposed to the word
of God. What do we conclude? We don't
have the same Father. How do we know we have the same
Savior? You know, the Bible says there are false Christs. I had
a man tell me one time, he said, what do you want to deal with
things like that? It doesn't matter. We all believe in Jesus. And
I said, we'll read 2 Corinthians chapter 11. He said, for if he
that cometh preacheth another Jesus, I quoted it to him first. And he said, that's not even
in the Bible. 2 Corinthians 11, read it. He that cometh preacheth
another Jesus by another gospel, by another spirit. Paul wrote
to the Galatian church in chapter 1, he said, for if he that cometh
preacheth any of the gospel than that which we have preached,
though he be an angel from heaven or an apostle, let him be an
atheist. How do we know we have the same
Savior? You see, that's where the fellowship is. It's in the
light. How do you know we have the same Savior? Based upon what
the Word of God says of the Savior here concerning who he is, concerning
what he has accomplished, and concerning why he did it and
where he is now, and the fact that he's coming again to take
us up. That's how we know. So that if
we speak not according to this word, what does the Old Testament
tell us in the book of Isaiah, chapter 8, verse 20? If they
speak not according to this word, there's no what? There's no light
in them. To the law and to the testimony,
Isaiah said. That means that the light you're
going to have by the power of the Spirit in Christ is going
to be according to the law and to the testimony of God. And
if it's not according to that, then there's no light. Well, somebody says, well, you
have your way of interpretation and I have my way. My friend,
the Bible tells us the rules of interpretation, not you, not
me. You see what I'm saying? But
people just don't want to receive it. Because the God of this world
has blinded their minds. Now, if the God of this world
has not blinded your mind today, you have one person to thank
for that. And that's God alone. Salvations
of the Lord. He sent the light. Somebody said
He turned on the light switch. One man said it's like this.
It's like a bunch of people sitting around in a dark room. And they
can't see themselves. And they can't see each other.
Somebody comes in, turns on the light switch, and they look around,
and they see all over themselves nothing but putrefying sores,
running sores, just the awfulest mess you would ever see. They
see it in each other, but they see it in themselves. And they
look around the room, and there's one man standing in the center
who is perfect, pure, light, no sin. And they look at him,
And some of them run to Him and fall down at His feet. And that
leprosy is removed. Those sores are removed. Some
just sit there in their chair, still looking around, because
they still can't see. They're blind. Do you see what
I'm saying? That's the way it is. When God
turns on the light switch, you'll see your sins and you'll see
the glory of Christ. And you'll run to Him. You'll
run to Him. What is the light? Well, it's
the truth. Go back to 1 John 1. This then
is the message, verse 5, which we have heard of him and declare
unto you. It's a message. It's a message
of truth. It's the gospel. When we speak
of the fellowship of faith, we have to understand that faith
cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Isn't that
right? Romans 10, 17. When God brought him into the
church, After Peter preached that message at Pentecost, it
said they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine. That's
the gospel of God's grace in Christ, how God saves sinners,
by His grace. It's forgiveness by the blood
of Christ. It's justification by the righteousness of Christ.
It's the new birth by the Holy Spirit. Paul spoke to the Philippian
church about being steadfast together, arm in arm, in defense
of the gospel. That's fellowship. And then we
just read of those whom God has spoken and shown the light of
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Is Christ and
Him crucified? Who is He? He's the God-man.
He's God in human flesh. He's the perfect substitute,
the sin-bearer who took our sins to the cross. He was crucified
for sins that became His only by God charging them to His account,
and He drank damnation dry. He paid the debt in full. He
satisfied law and justice. He made an end of sin, the Scripture
says. He finished the transgression,
and He brought in everlasting righteousness and justified all
of His people. This is how God, a holy and just
and righteous God, can remain holy and just and righteous and
still save sinners in mercy and grace and love. That's how God
can be just and justified. This fellowship revolves around
this question. What think ye of Christ? Whose
Son is He? What did He accomplish? What
is it to walk in the light? Now, beginning at verse 6, John
gives us a series of if statements. And he says, if this happens,
then this is the result. And there are negatives and there
are positives. There's a negative and a positive. And it sets the
tone for the whole epistle. It's a very short letter. And
what John establishes here is this. What he is talking about
here is opposites. He's talking about the difference
between a believer and an unbeliever. He's talking about the difference
between a sinner saved by the grace of God and a sinner still
lost in his sins. He's talking about the difference
between one who is regenerated and called by the Spirit and
one who is still in a state of unregeneracy. He's not regenerated.
He's not born again. That's what John's talking about.
These are opposites. And what he begins with is there
are those who walk in light and then there are those who walk
in darkness. And this is the issue. Now, there's two things
that first set the tone for what it is to walk in the light. There's
two things. The first one is this, an honest
and open confession of my sin. If you walk in the light of truth,
the light of Christ, the light of God, you have truly seen yourself
for what you are. I have truly seen myself for
what I am. We haven't seen the lowest degree
of it, or you might say the highest degree of it, or the deepest
degree of it. I'm afraid if we saw ourselves
the way we truly are in the sight of God as sinners, it would sicken
us, just like those lepers sitting around in the room. But if we're
walking in the light, we're walking in an honest and open Not a hidden,
concealed, but an honest and an open confession of our sin. And secondly, if we're walking
in the light, we're walking in a bold confession of the glory
and the power and the grace of God in Christ. Now, that's where
it begins, walking in the light. We sang it. I'm only a sinner
saved by grace. That's the confession of sin. and heavenly sunlight. That's
the bold confession of Christ. Look at verse 6. He says, if
we say, or if we were to say, that we have fellowship with
Him, with God in Christ, and walk in darkness, what are we?
We're liars. We lie and do not the truth. Now, that's the first negative.
What is he saying here? A profession without practicing
the truth is a lie. That's what he's saying. It's
a lie. And this term, do not the truth. Now, this is a common term in
the book of John. And the book of first and second
and third John. Doing the truth. Do not the truth.
That sounds kind of strange. Because we normally think of
something of the truth, that the truth is something to be
believed. Something to be heard. Something to be admired. Something
to be agreed with. Something to understand. But
John speaks of it as something that we do. And what he shows
here is the nature of faith, true saving faith, and what it
really is to believe. It's not only to know the truth.
It's not only to admire it and agree with it. It's not only
to understand it, but it's to do it. It's to live it. Truth is revealed by God. Truth is known by the power of
the Spirit. Truth is believed by the gift
of faith. And truth must be lived. In other
words, it's not just something as a sideline. It's your life. Peter said that when the multitudes
left the Lord, and he turned to his disciples, and he said,
will you go away also? Peter said, to whom shall we
go? You have the words of life. He didn't say, well, you've got
some real quaint moral sayings that go over well in a sermon. He didn't say, well, I'm writing
a book and I'm going to add what you say to it. No, he said, you've
got the words of life. This is my life. That's what
he's saying. And that's what John is saying here. Those who
have a profession of Christ without the truth and without doing truth,
they're liars. Now, what's the problem? Go back
to John chapter 3 and listen to the words of our Savior. He'd
just spoken to a man named Nicodemus, and he said, Nicodemus, you must
be born again. Now, why is that? Because that
which is born of flesh is flesh. Flesh and blood will not receive
the things of the Spirit of God. Man by nature will not receive
it. It takes the power of God's grace by the Spirit of God for
a sinner to see himself as he really is and to see the glory
of Christ and submit to Him and believe Him. Faith is the gift
of God. Repentance is the gift of God. Humility is the gift
of God. These are all gifts from God. Well, why do we need to
be born again? Well, look at verse 19 of John
chapter 3. Christ says this. He says, this
is the condemnation that light is coming to the world. And here's
the problem. Men love darkness rather than
light. Can you imagine loving darkness more than light? Would you rather be in the dark
or in the light? Would you rather walk into a
room that's fully lit or in the one you can see? See all the
obstacles that you might stump your toe on or you might trip
over. See the right path to go. See
where the door is. Which would you rather be? But
here, you say, well, obviously, I'd rather be in a lighted room.
Well-lit room. But spiritually, when it comes
to spiritual matters, by nature, men love darkness and hate the
light. Now, why is that? Look on, verse
19. Look at the last words of that
verse. Because their deeds were evil. That's why men by nature
hate the light. Now, what does that mean? What
are those deeds that it's speaking of? Now, those deeds... Now,
remember who he's talking to here. He's talking to a man named
Nicodemus. Now, Nicodemus was a Pharisee. What is a Pharisee? He's a moral
religionist. He's a serious religionist. I
mean, he's not just an every-other-day religionist. I mean, it's every
day for him. 24-7. And not only that, Nicodemus
was not only a Pharisee, a moral religionist, he was a member
of the Sanhedrin. That means he had risen in the
ranks by his accomplishments and his deeds. When the Bible
mentions the word deeds, in most contexts it's speaking of deeds
of law. And it's describing men and women
who are doing their dead level best to keep the law. And all
the time, the darkness that they're in is this, they imagine and
believe and trust that their deeds or their best efforts at
those deeds will recommend them unto God, will save them from
sin, will make them holy and righteous. That's why the Bible's
adamant in the preaching of the gospel that by deeds of law there
shall no flesh be justified in God's sight. So that when the
gospel light of Christ and him crucified is preached, what does
it do? It exposes us for what we are
by nature, sinners. And it exposes the fact that
our best efforts at religion and morality and law-keeping
are inadequate, even evil, in the sight of God as far as salvation
is concerned. Why are they evil, if you're
sincere? Because they become a rival and a denial of what
Christ accomplished in the glory of God. So that when that light
shines and exposes those evil deeds, which men by nature are
so proud of. Oh preacher, I've got the Sunday
school pen, never missed one. I've been baptized, I've walked
an aisle, I've rededicated, I've given my tithe. My friend, all
of those things, when aimed at attaining or maintaining salvation
and rewards, are evil in the sight of God. That's the darkness
that men love. Just leave me alone, let me think
what I want to think. You're upsetting too many people. The Pharisees said of the disciples,
they've turned the world upside down. Not because they were out
there preaching against drunkenness and murder, which we do. We preach
against those things. But because they were preaching
against self-righteous, free-will, works religion. And that's the
darkness that men love. That's the refuge that they'll
run to. You remember when God said through the prophet Isaiah,
I'll sweep away the refuge of lies. That's what the gospel
light does. But look at verse 20 of John
3. He says, For everyone that doeth
evil hateth the light. Now, what is it to do evil here?
Well, it's anything that's opposed to God's way, God's Word. It
can refer to any sin, even the sin of trying to work your way
to salvation. Even the sin of trying to establish
your own righteousness before God. Even that sin. And he said, lest they hate the
light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should
be reproved. That means uncovered. Discovered. You see, it takes the gospel
light to discover those kinds of deeds. Most preaching today
will not uncover that kind of thing, because it's not light.
Most preaching today that comes in the name of Christ actually
promotes those evil deeds. Have you noticed that? Just listen
to it sometime. I'm telling you, it actually
promotes sinners thinking of themselves too highly. Any preaching,
now listen to me, any preaching that diminishes the person and
work of Christ and exalts the sinner is darkness. I don't care
what it says. It may say sovereign grace. I
don't care. I believe in sovereign grace.
There's no other kind, is there? Does this Bible teach any other
grace but sovereign grace? It's got to be sovereign grace
because it's from a sovereign God. God's in control. But any preaching under whatever
guise that diminishes in any way the person and work of Christ
and exalts the sinner, I don't care if they thank God until
they're blue in the face. Or say it's in his name and for
his glory. If it diminishes the personal work of Christ and exalts
the sinner, it's darkness. Mark it down. Look at verse 21. But he that doeth truth. Now,
you remember what John said over in 1 John 1. He that doeth truth. He says he cometh to the light.
What light? The light of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ. the light of how God saves a
sinner like me through His beloved Son on the cross, who died and
was buried and rose again the third day and ever lives to make
intercession for me and still reigns and rules and disposes
over all things as our Advocate, as our Lord. And it says, that
His deeds may be made manifest. Now look at this. Don't miss
this. That His deeds may be manifest that they are what? wrought in
God, literally the work of God. I'm going to tell you something,
if there's anything good about any of it, it's God. All right? Now, that's why those who have
a profession of Christ, but who walk in darkness, and what he's
saying, go back to 1 John 1, they continue to walk in darkness,
and they have no They have no valid claim. They lie and do
not the truth. But look at verse 7, but if we
walk in the light, as he in the light, he is in the light, walking
in the light of Christ, and that he there is referring to Christ,
the Father and the Son, the Godhead in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and listen to this, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. You see that? Now that walking in the light
there, he says if we walk in the light, it's not our walking
in the light, listen to this now, it's not our walking in
the light that cleanses us from all sin. You hear me? The if there, he says if we walk
in the light, the if there is not a condition for being cleansed.
The if there is an evidence of one who has been cleansed. It's
not our walking in the light that cleanses us. Do you know
what it is that cleanses us? He says it right there. The blood
of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. What can wash away my
sins? Do you sing that song? What can
wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is the flow. That makes me white as snow.
No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus." Now,
if that's your song, if that's the song of your heart, that's
an evidence that you are walking in the light and you've been
cleansed by the blood of Christ. All right, we'll conclude there
and pick up there next week. Let's sing that hymn, Are You
Washed in the Blood, hymn number 208.