1 John 1:5-10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“5And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7But 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 cleanses us from all sin.
“8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.”
If We Say
Actions speak louder than words. Who we are and what we do
and what we are made out of is not just in the words that we speak, but it is
in the things that we do and in who we are in character and attitude and
behaviors. So we can say, “I am a Christian,” and not be a Christian at all. We
can say we love God, that we believe in Jesus Christ, that we are in fellowship
with Christ and with His Body, His Church, i.e. the faithful in Christ Jesus,
and be none of those. For if sin is still our practice, deliberately and
habitually, and not obedience to our Lord’s commands, we lie if we say we are “In
Christ.”
Light and Darkness
If truly we are in fellowship with Christ, and we know God
intimately via biblical faith in Him, it should be evident by how we live, by
what we practice with regard to our behaviors. And this is not to say that we
will never sin again (see 1 John 2:1-2), or that we might not ever fall back
into sin and be in need of restoration. It is also not saying that we will be
absolutely perfect in everything that we do. But the Scriptures make it clear
that those who make sin their habit (practice), and not obedience to God’s
commands, they are not in Christ, even if they profess with their lips that
they are.
In The Light
God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. Jesus
Christ is The Light. And light is the opposite of darkness. Light represents
God, the gospel, truth, righteousness, holiness, honesty, faithfulness, moral
purity, and obedience to God. Darkness represents sin, evil, and wickedness. And
our walk has to do with how we live, our practices, our behaviors. If what we
do and how we live in practice is sinful and disobedient to our Lord, we are
still in the darkness. But if how we live in practice is honest, faithful,
obedient to God, and morally pure, we are In Christ, and our sins are forgiven
us.
If We Confess
If we confess our sins God is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. But confession is not
in lip service only. For to confess our sins is to speak to the same conclusion
as God about our sins. It is to agree with God, not just that we sinned, but
that if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, that we will not have salvation
from sin and eternal life with God. It is to agree with God that we must repent
of our sins, turn away from them, and now walk in obedience to our Lord in holy
living in moral purity, honesty, and faithfulness, no longer as slaves to sin.
If We Claim No Sin
All of us who were born into this world were born with sin
natures in the image of Adam, the first man to sin against God. And we are not
acceptable to God and approved by God in our sinful state. So God sent His Son
Jesus Christ to the earth to be born as a baby to a virgin woman, but conceived
of the Holy Spirit, and not of man, so He was not born with a sin nature as we
are, and He never sinned. And He came to die on a cross to put our sins to
death with Him so that, by faith in Him, we will deny self, die to sin, and
obey God in life practice in the power of God. He died to deliver us from sin.
But if we claim that we have never sinned, that is a lie.
And if someone is currently sinning actively and habitually while hiding or
denying the sin and acting as though they are righteous, that is a lie. All of
us have sinned and have come up short of the glory of God, and all of us are in
need to submit to Christ as Lord, to die with Him to sin, and to now obey Him
in life practice. Not all of us are actively sinning against God, but we still
have the propensity to sin (1 John 2:1-2). But by faith in Jesus we were
delivered out of slavery to sin so we will now serve God with our lives from
now forward.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts
26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans
8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1
Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians
5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14;
Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24;
1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation
3:1-22]
If We Say But We Don’t
An Original Work / October 6, 2026
Christ’s
Free Servant, Sue J Love
Talk Video on Same Subject
The Great Redeemer
Lyrics by Francis
Foster, 1915
Music by Samuel W.
Beazley, 1915
How I love the great
Redeemer
Who is doing so much
for me;
With what joy I tell
the story
Of the love that
makes men free.
Till my earthly life
is ended,
I will send songs
above,
Then beside the
crystal sea
More and more my
soul shall be
Praising Jesus and
His love.
He has purchased my
redemption,
Rolled my burden of
sin away,
And is walking on
beside me,
Growing dearer day
by day.
That is why I sing
His praises,
That is why joy is
mine,
That is why
forevermore
On the everlasting
shore
I shall sing of love
divine.
Glory be to Him
forever!
Endless praises to
Christ the Lamb!
He has filled my
life with sunshine,
He has made me what
I am.
Oh, that everyone
would know Him,
Oh, that all would
adore!
Oh, that all would
trust the love
Of the mighty Friend
above
And be His
forevermore.
He is everything to
me, to me,
He is everything to
me,
And everything shall
always be;
I will never cease
to raise
A song of gladness
in His praise;
Here, and in the
world above,
My soul shall sing
of saving love;
Life and light and
joy is He,
The precious Friend
who died for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-LJGRnUZY
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