04/30/2026
This Sunday our little group came together and sang some good old hymns that spoke truth to our hearts and gave praise to the Lord. We read in 1 John . There is a lot of good reading in 1 John and it hits pretty hard. John the close desiple of Jesus and brother to james is said to have written it.Evidently there was a group of something like gnostic started out with the truth of the gospel but turned a different direction thinking they could live as Christians but carry on with all the sinful things everyone else was doing .they believed it didn't matter what you did with your body as long as you also kept up with the spiritual things the two were separate. So John wrote this letter to settle any confusion. He said God is light and in him is no darkness.If we say we have fellowship with him but walk in darkness we lie He said if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us . If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we know him we should keep his commandments. The person that says I know him and don't keep his commandments is lier and the truth is not in him.These are some hard truths. He goes on to say .He that abides in Jesus does not sin he that keeps on with sin has not seen him or know him . Then verse 9 is a verse that really puts the breaks on sin .. whosoever is born of God does not sin because his seed remains in him and he cannot sin..what does that mean ? That our sin is not really sin because it is covered by the blood ? Or maybe if we are true Christians we won't ever sin we just have to try harder ? No . But if we are truly born again born of the spirit of God and washed in the blood of his son. We can no longer live a life filled with sin like we never knew Jesus. Like we never felt the Holy spirit move in us. Our attitude toward sin is changed for ever.. The darkness is killed by the light..we are born again we are a new creature. We have a heavenly Father now.He is a good father and he won't let us do what the world does. He calls us away from sin..All sin is destructive Jesus gave his life not only to save us from Hell but also to save us from ourselves.. We have more good reading in 1 John to finish this coming Sunday I'm looking forward to it. Lord thank you for your word your rebuke and correction you are a good good father.