GOOD NEWS IS STILL GOOD NEWS

Great to be back to GOODNEWS.
The Good News is that Christ Jesus is STILL our Good News. Trust that you had a wonderful time with family and friends during our Christmas and New Year break. We Did.

Our study of First John continues verse by verse. We have worked our way through verse six of chapter one. We are dealing with Fellowship. John has explained that we Christians (those spoken to and us)may have fellowship with "us" vs. 3, and that your (them and us)joy may be full vs.4.

The fact that they (Apostles) have declared Jesus as the Christ. Matthew proved this fact to the Jews and John is proving it to the World. God is Light and in Him is NO darkness - No not any! For a person to say they are walking IN God, but showing darkness in the life is a lie.

BUT if we walk IN the Light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship Gr. (koinonia) - with God. This is an experience. We have something in common with God.

John was exposing false teachers (then and now). This same Church problem existed ca A.D. 90 as now, and prompted the Holy Spirit to shed light on it in Second Peter and Jude. False teachers had slipped in and were soft on known sin. Their teaching, no doubt in elegant speech, was that you can have fellowship with God and live any way you please.

Today we have the same problem and the same solution. Plead the BLOOD. If you are caught up in this being friends with the world, follow John's Word and confess it as what it is - SIN. Then be cleansed by the only remedy - apply the Blood of our Savior spiritually.

Our Church's weakness? Worldliness, which leads to no fellowship experience with our God, and no witness of the Holy Spirit through us. We Christians have exchanged our old sin controlled life for Spirit controlled Christ's eternal life. Sin does not touch His life, and when we walk IN Christ's Life, the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth (continuously) FROM all sin.