Truth, Fellowship, and Light
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Title: Truth, Fellowship, and
Light----------------------------- Date: 04/29/2000
Keywords:
"darkness" "fellowship" "lie" "light"
"purity"
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temptation.
Passage: 1 John 1:5-7*
5. This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you:
God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
6. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness,
we lie and do not live by the truth.
7. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
Question
1. Is John speaking of physical light and darkness, or good and
evil, or maybe both?
2. According to verse 6, what does it mean to "walk in the
darkness?"
3. What does it mean to be "purified" from sin? Is this
forgiveness, or is it something more?
Practical help
All of us, Christians and non-Christians alike, struggle with what
it means to "walk in the light." We desire truth and the beauty of holiness, but
we often confuse and replace that desire with increasingly unrelated longings for
happiness, contentment, peace, prosperity, gratification, self-indulgence, and pleasure.
As we pursue this list, we disconnect ourselves from what is truly at the core of our
longings - the longing for fellowship with the true and perfect God. The essence of the
lie is the convincing fabrication that what matters most is our happiness, and that we
cannot be happy if we let the truth of the darkness in our hearts be exposed and known. To
truly have fellowship with one another, and with him, we must not play cover-up with our
sin.
Presumably you're reading this for help with a problem of addiction
to web-based (or other) pornography. If that is the case, look earnestly for the lies in
your life, and turn the light of truth on them. Are the carefully airbrushed body-idols in
those pictures really a true image of what being human is about? Is there joy in
relationship-less sexual relations? Is there any fellowship between yourself and the
people in those pictures? Are there real people in your life with whom your time would be
better spent in fellowship? These questions and many more should be asked of yourself
daily.
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