FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

1 John 1 is a message from the Lord Jesus, the Word of life, the eternal Word, we should all gladly receive. God should be represented to this dark world, as pure and perfect light. As this is the nature of God, his doctrines and precepts must be such. And as his perfect joy cannot be separated from his perfect holiness, so our joy will be in proportion to our being made holy.

To walk in darkness, is to live and act against God. God holds no heavenly fellowship or intimacy with unholy souls. There is no truth in their profession; their deeds show their sin and falsehood.

The eternal Life, the eternal Son, put on flesh and blood, and died to wash us from our sins in his own blood, and win for us the sacred influences by which sin is to be subdued more and more, till it is quite done away with. While the necessity of a holy and righteous walk is insisted upon, as the effect and evidence of the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, the opposite error of self-righteous pride is guarded against with equal care. All who walk near to God, in holiness and righteousness, know that their best days and duties are mixed with sin. God has given testimony to the sinfulness of the world, by providing a sufficient, effectual Sacrifice for sin, needed in all ages; and the sinfulness of believers themselves is shown, by requiring them continually to confess their sins, and to apply by faith to the blood of that Sacrifice. Let us plead guilty before God, be humble, and willing to know the worst of ourselves. Let us honestly confess all our sins in their full extent, relying wholly on his mercy and truth through the righteousness of Christ, for a free and full forgiveness, and our deliverance from the power and practice of sin. Amen..

I love this verse...."And this is the condemnation, that light came into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." John 3:19

How many people read past John 3:16?