Confession

It is so good to be back again with you. Our Lord had me busy in ministry.

What does our Bible teach concerning walking (continually) IN the Light?
We know from previous study that it does not mean that Christians do not sin. We also know that Christians can walk most of the time IN the Christian walk -- that is, with Christ in control of the life.

People, other Christians, and to some extent, people in the world apart from God can see a rightness about the life. Christ in charge is very different than Christian in charge.Children are in fellowship or out of fellowship with the Father.

Our answer to what does it mean to live this Life is taught in our next three verses. 1 John 1:8,9,and 10 continues with confession. Confessing that God's Word is true and must be lived IN our daily lives is made abundantly clear.

"If we say..., If we confess...If we say... is how the Holy Spirit teaches us to KNOW God's truth in these three verses.
First we must agree with God that every human born unto woman is born apart from God and His holiness, Christ Jesus being the only exception.
"If we say that we have no sin..." we are in the most dangerous position we can be in as Christians. 1 John is written to those who are IN Christ, little children who belong to God. We are sealed human beings,placed inside of Christ Himself by the Holy Spirit, and can never be apart from God positionally - but we CAN be totally outside of God's will and controlled by our old selfish will.

In this CONDITION, we can not please our Father.
Think of it... nothing we can do, say, or think is pleasing to our Savior. Then we say, "I have no sin..." "I just do not understand what is separating me from the sweet fellowship I used to have with my Lord."
God says, "WE ARE SELF DECEIVED.God's TRUTH is not IN us."

When we walked in the TRUTH of God's Word - we walked in His LIGHT - we were completely CONTROLLED by Christ's Eternal Life. Now we have allowed our old ways to take us back and to tell God that His way is wrong.

There is only one way out of this ungodly mess. It is to completely turn back to our Father and with a broken heart; cry out "Father, I HAVE SINS!"
"If we confess our sins..." next time.