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In 1907 King Oscar of Sweden lay on his death-bed. Westcott (B. F.), The Historic Faith, 236. The idea is more where we walk than how we walk. Even though the body of sin crucified within us is dying its slow, difficult death, there is a great sense in which we are even now delivered from all evil. A second result of this walk in the light now comes to be mentioned. Compare John 13:10, 'He that has been bathed [ leloumenos (Greek #3068)] needeth not save to wash [ nipsasthai (Greek #3538)] his feet, but is clean every whit.' Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine. Tons more resources, better tools, NIV84 and easier navigation. They pour effectual prayers, they strongly plead for me. 1:1 In 1 the a beginning b was c the Word, and the Word was d with God, and the e Word was God. уются Его святостью (3Ин. happiness hereafter, 1 John 3:3-10 and therefore we must obediently keep his commandments, 1 John 3:11-24 and love one another with true … It is hence evident, that no one leads a holy life, except he is united to God. Next year you will find the grass growing tall and green where the stone lay; the ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had its hole; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there; and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut over their golden disks, as the rhythmic waves of blissful consciousness pulsate through their glorified being.1 [Note: O. W. Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. Then we are coming to God as He really is (not as man thinks that He is), we are coming to the One Who is the light, Who dwells in light, and recognising Him as such. Bereft of light, all life would languish. No man lives who does not make some mistake and commit sin incidentally. If we do walk with Him Who gives us the light of true life which shines continually within us. through the Spirit purchased by his blood. ], "One another" evidently means God and us rather than our fellow believers and us in view of the context. The man assured him that he had not, and invited him to see the process a second time. It was the most holy thing with which even the high priest himself had to do. John is not speaking about the fellowship of Christians with each other, but with the Father and his Son. [Note: Idem, The Epistles . For the Apostle here addresses the faithful; as doubtless no man has ever been, nor ever will be, who can otherwise please God, since all are guilty before him; for however strong a desire there may be in us of acting rightly, we always go haltingly to God. Two truths. My wristbands, collars, and handkerchiefs got woefully stained with what my mother called “that nasty black stuff.” One hot summer day I had been very busy. His (God's) Son, His only Son. But this phrase means a man whose general life is one of godliness and whose me tive principle is the light of the New Testament. When Butler in his dying moments had expressed his awe at appearing face to face before the Moral Governor of the world, his Chaplain, we are told, spoke to him of “the blood which cleanseth from all sin.” “Ah, that is comfortable,” he replied; and with these words on his lips he gave up his soul to God.2 [Note: Bishop Lightfoot, Northern Leaders, 169.]. Pardon seems merely to restore us to a kind of negative condition. [Note: Ryrie, p1467.] sin. The communion of saints is an unmistakable proof that the saints themselves are in communion with God. We are justified by Christ; we are sanctified by the Spirit. If so, by the blessing of God, I’ll have them cleansed away.” And soon he was rejoicing in Jesus, who died for his sins, and who was then alive, and present with him continually. So, those continually walking in the light rejoice in a continual cleansing from sin"s defilement. "By contrast, to "walk in darkness" ( 1 John 1:6) is to hide from God and to refuse to acknowledge what we know about Him." For if God is light, and that light is not producing the effect in us that the light of God should, then we must seriously ask ourselves whether we are saved at all, whether we truly know God. If it be not, then not only will that which is wrought be so far defective, but the possibilities of the future will be marred and spoiled. Bereft of light, all life would languish. It is some kind of secrecy—which no doubt has its motive in sin—that is meant by darkness, and this gives us the key to walking in the light. They are thence liable to be deceived by arguments based on the figure which have no base in the literal. Holiness is more than innocence. 1 John 1:3). "This ["every sin"] refers to man"s sinful nature in general, although it may include the wrong acts which can occur even when a Christian is living "in the light. He wishes especially to guard them against the superstitious notion that there could be the merest shadow of evil in the nature or life of Him whom they had come to know as the God and Father of the Lord Jesus. The whole of his doctrine has been wickedly perverted by the sophists; for they imagine that pardon of sins is given us, as it were, in baptism. III. Jowett, I remember, had said shortly before, in one of his quaint and characteristic Balliol sermons, “The search for truth is one thing; fluttering after it is another.” Here was a man whose earnestness rebuked all “fluttering,” who was plainly in honest and urgent search for truth, and who found it in the Word made Flesh.1 [Note: Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, i. This figure simply means, first, that our sins are, upon our faith, forgiven us on account of the death of Christ; and, second, that the Holy Spirit being given in consequence of that death, does, in the completeness of that work, so strengthen and energize our moral and spiritual powers that we are able to reject temptation and avoid sin; and just in the measure and fulness of that power in exercise is the entireness of our sanctification. The statement of the writer to the Hebrews is strictly accurate,—“almost all things are by the law purged with blood” (Hebrews 9:22). but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. This is God’s way of peace and holiness. If we do walk in His light, responding to His word and to His commandments. Sir Henry Havelock used to meet with his soldiers for prayer. So far as sin is a matter of guilt before God, it is taken away even to the last relic of evil, and we walk with God in the light, having our conversation above the skies. By saying, from all sin, he intimates that we are, on many accounts, guilty before God; so that doubtless there is no one who has not many vices. Walk in the light; know and obey the truth. In my enthusiasm I forgot the effect of the special ink on linen. We share the light in which God dwells. They, indeed, leave some part to the blood of Christ; but when they assign merit to works, even in the least degree, they wholly subvert what John teaches here, as to the way of expiating sins, and of being reconciled to God. It is not mere pronouncing man just when he is in fact unjust. For a new humanity had now appeared, and the Apostle viewed it as Christ’s body, in which every member served the rest and each was indispensable in his own place.1 [Note: Harnack.]. John is not speaking about the fellowship of Christians with each other, but with the Father and his Son. But if we walk in darkness, we lose this fellowship! This is the other side of the test of fellowship. ), Sermons (Brighton Pulpit), iv. Rather he is talking of walking truly with God. Christ's blood is the mean whereby, being already justified, and in fellowship with God, we become gradually clean from all sin which would mar fellowship with God. On the morning of the washing day a bill was passed into our door. This, of course, is done through openness in prayer and through openness to the Word of God in which He is revealed. To walk in the light means to live a life in which there is nothing hidden, nothing in which we are insincere with ourselves, nothing in which we seek to impose upon others. Now it is a universal law that blood alone can redeem. Then, integrity of conscience is alone that which distinguishes light from darkness. When I returned in the evening I was glad to see my mother looking quite pleased. The preaching which laid hold of the outer man, detaching him from the world, and uniting him to his God, was also a preaching of solidarity and brotherliness. But he shews that no sins prevent the godly, and those who fear God, from obtaining his favor. Thus consciences are held in suspense, which the Apostle here bids to rely on the blood of Christ. For these two things can never harmonize together, to be cleansed by the blood of Christ, and to be cleansed by works: for John assigns not the half, but the whole, to the blood of Christ. 11), проявляя истинное общение с Ним (Иак. Dependence is, indeed, an inexorable law of natural life. Once more, the law said that nothing less sacred than this consecrated blood might be used in the expiation of sin. Secondly, this passage shews that the gratuitous pardon of sins is given us not only once, but that it is a benefit perpetually residing in the Church, and daily offered to the faithful. Cleanseth us from all sin; expiates the guilt of all our sin, and cleanses our souls from all its pollution. Choose a chapter and verse from '1 John' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org StudyLıght .org . No hindrance must be offered to the light of truth and holiness with which our life is to be penetrated. 7But if we walk in the light. We have fellowship one with another - and of course with God (understood from 1 John 1:6), without having fellowship with whom there can be no Christian fellowship one with another (cf. But let us not deceive ourselves into thinking that if we see ourselves as ‘saved’ we need not then worry. The Christian"s walk should be in the light. Christ's blood is the mean whereby, being already justified, and in fellowship with God, we become gradually clean from all sin which would mar fellowship with God. He appealed to his instructor, and insisted that he must have concealed something. The blood of Christ is available and efficacious. No! He does not ask perfect holiness, as God is holy; but he demands concentrated zeal. The blood of Jesus. but in a sublimer form, by making Himself one of that race, and descending from His eternal glories to shame, to sorrow, and to death. But let us not deceive ourselves into thinking that if we see ourselves as ‘saved’ we need not then worry. In the meantime, by new sins we continually separate ourselves, as far as we can, from the grace of God. ... see under 2 John 1:1. Hence the power and efficiency of these belong to the blood of Christ alone. Yet what is half done obtains no approval with God. It is the imperfect light, the twilight, in which so many professing Christians live that accounts for that weakened sense of sin which is so marked a feature of the present day. But he shews that no sins prevent the godly, and those who fear God, from obtaining his favor. 6:14; Еф. How can it be done? Our faith has anticipated the conclusion and hallowed it. And the result will be joyous fellowship with all true believers, with all things open between us, with no sin hidden, and the further result will be that the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, ‘goes on cleansing us’ (present tense) from all sin. , not from all sinward liability or tendency, so but that apostasy is possible. As to the character which our work should bear, Browning’s teaching is clear beyond the shadow of a doubt. [Note: Westcott, p21.]. No man lives who does not make some mistake and commit sin incidentally. It is all this and more. If I were to personalize the light, I could also say that I was walking in the presence of the light. Holiness is the comprehensive word which includes the whole discipline of life, the whole trust of the heart in God, and the continuous aspiration of the spirit after the perfectness of God’s own beauty.1 [Note: J. Dewhurst (E. M.), The King and His Servants, 191. "What John has in mind here is the cleansing of the conscience from guilt and moral defilement which is so insisted on in the Epistle to the Hebrews ( Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 10:2; Hebrews 10:22), and which takes a leading place among the saving benefits of the redemptive self-sacrifice of Christ." . Walk in the light. However, we need continual cleansing from the defilement that sinful daily living brings because it hinders our fellowship with God (cf. ], This was the text that God blessed to give peace to Hedley Vicars, that dashing young officer who died at Sebastopol leading on his soldiers, and crying out, “This way, men of the 97th!” He had before this been a careless young man; but one day he went to a brother officer’s room, and found him not within. as He. Makes as clean. [Note: Ryrie, p1467.] The blood of Jesus ... cleanseth us from all sin - daily contracted through the weakness of the flesh, and the power of Satan and the world. Through the blood-shedding of Christ we have remission of sins now, and are as truly forgiven as we shall be when the light of the glory of God falls on the resurrection face. Walking in the light produces a genuine fellowship. Such a witness is the moon, which reflects a borrowed portion of light from the sun, and so assures us of him; but when the sun itself arises, himself becomes invisible, and as not existing. He is speaking, not of justification through His blood once for all, but of present sanctification ("cleanseth"), which the believer, walking in the light, and having fellowship with God and the saints, enjoys as his privilege. We walk. Lilley (J. P.), The Pathway of Light, 49–111. The whole of his doctrine has been wickedly perverted by the sophists; for they imagine that pardon of sins is given us, as it were, in baptism. Hereby is disproved and exposed the sacrilegious invention of the Papists as to indulgences; for as though the blood of Christ were not sufficient, they add, as a subsidy to it, the blood and merits of martyrs. They will be cleansed by the "fountain opened to the house of David . Here is the Figure of speech Metalepsis. It is a direct allusion to the Passion of Christ that we find in the Fifty-first Psalm, where David says, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean”; that is, sprinkle me as the high priest sprinkled the victim, with the Blood of Christ, and I shall be clean—clean from the defilement and pollution of sin and its consequences. 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And then just as one is bemoaning its darkness, it will suddenly blaze out in astonishing brightness, and almost startle the heart by its revelations of safety and strength.1 [Note: The Life of R. W. Dale, 79. Be not thou envious against evil men.] The dying King replied, “Thanks be to Jesus.” These were his last words (from a newspaper report). This man can truly be said to be walking with the Lord because he is in the pathway that Jesus laid out for him. If it be not, then not only will that which is wrought be so far defective, but the possibilities of the future will be marred and spoiled. WALKING in the light, the element in which God IS, is the test of fellowship with Him. For when God saves He makes His salvation effective. The man assured him that he had not, and invited him to see the process a second time. Our guilt was taken away by the great Propitiation, when He suffered without the gate, and knew the withdrawings of God. Just as physical life is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11; Leviticus 17:14), eternal life is in the blood of Jesus (Hebrews 9:22; Matthew 26:27-28; John 19:33-34; Romans 6:3-4). Blades of grass flattened down, colourless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and ironed; hideous crawling creatures, some of them coleopterous or horny-shelled—turtle-bugs, one wants to call them; some of them softer, but cunningly spread out and compressed like Lepine watches; black, glossy crickets, with their long filaments sticking out like the whips of four-horse stagecoaches; motionless, slug-like creatures, young larvæ, perhaps more horrible in their pulpy stillness than even in the infernal wriggle of maturity! It is true that John is not here dealing with the question of entry into salvation, for he assumes that already for his readers (although warning against complacency - 1 John 2:4). Compare 1 John 2:6. one with another = with one another. 3. Patton (W. Woods says, "The verb "walk" here (ean peripatomen) is present active subjunctive, thus literally, "If we keep on walking in the light...."" The daily lives of God"s children must be so conducted as to remain in the light of God"s direction. I said, “Did you try that cleanser?” “Yes, I did.” “How did it act?” “Act! Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture; died the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. ), Pardon and Assurance, 71. The Gospel, it has been truly said, is at bottom both individualistic and socialistic. We might have thought that it should come first. In the darkness he was glad to see the twinkling of a light by the roadside that proved to be the light of a little inn, in which he at once took shelter from the pitiless rain. App-128. 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