• the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

    Par Jacques-G dans English version le 13 Juillet 2019 à 16:20

    Hello

    I would like to share with you the first epistle of John chapter 1 to chapter 2 verse 6, which I entitled:

    the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

    So the question that could be asked is:
    Does Chapter 1 verses 8 to 10 of the first letter of John justify a child of God to remain a sinner all his life on earth?
    The answer is obviously no.
    I would like to show you by reading and studying:

    1 John chapter 1 to chapter 2 verse 6

    Verse 1 to 2

    1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life

    2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us

    When we read the first verse we understand that the apostle John speaks about Jesus Christ, he and the disciples of Jesus lived near him and touched him.
    They did not touch a feeling or an impression, no, they heard, saw, contemplated and touched a person, that person was Jesus Christ, he is the word of Life, he was there from the beginning.

    When we speak about the beginning in the Bible, it is the book of Genesis, chapter 1 verse 1. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Jesus Christ was there in the beginning.

    The Book of Proverbs chapter 8 verses 23 and 24 confirms us that Jesus Christ, who is the personified wisdom and intelligence, was there from the beginning.

    Jesus himself when he was on earth, told us: Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am" (John 8/58)

    Abraham who was born about 2000 years before Jesus came to earth.

    We find a similarity between what is written in the beginning of the first letter of John and the beginning of the Gospel of John in Chapter 1 verses 1 to 4 in which we read:

    “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

    All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”

    Jesus is there from the beginning, he came into this world, but he was not of this world, he is the first born of another mankind.

    We, inherit the futile ways inherited from our forefathers, that what the apostle peter said in: (1 Peter 1:18).
    Futile ways inherited from our forefathers which is the sin nature, also called: the sin.
    But Jesus Christ comes without any sin in him.

    Do you understand the difference?

    We, we inherit sin and from the first day of our life, we are children of the sin nature, we are in darkness.
    Jesus, is the equal of God, entering into this world, he is stripped of his `attributes divine, to become like men, (Phil 2/6 and 7)

    But he does not inherit sin, he is not a child of sin nature, he never becomes darkness, he is and remains the life and light of men as soon as he enters this world.
    He is not of this world of darkness.

    He said in John 8/23

    He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

    Jesus said also:
    John 8/12
    Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

    In these verses 3 and 4 John explains why he wrote this letter.

    1 John Chapter 1 verses 3 and 4:

    3 “that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
    4 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.”

    John, who was with Jesus Christ, the word of life, who saw and heard him, who is in communion with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ, wrote this letter to announce what he saw and heard, so that those who read him may also be in communion with him, in communion with the Father and with his son Jesus Christ, in the light.

    So it is clear that in these first verses, John announces that he is writing for people, whom they name, the little children, in the chapter 2, who are not yet in communion with John and the disciples of Jesus, therefore with the Father and with his son Jesus Christ and who still need to learn how to become one.

    In fact, the goal of all Bible writings is to teach, so that readers can learn how to be in communion with the Father and His son Jesus Christ.
    Do not put the cart before oxen. It is a mistake to think that all those who receive the letters or epistles of the New Testament are already children born of God in communion with the Father and that we could take them as an example, to justify our life.
    NoThey are often not examples to consider. If we want to have the Life. There is only one example to follow, it is Jesus Christ.

    The Apostle Paul understood this well, when he wrote: “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” (1Cor. 11/1)

    In the verse 5 of the 1 john, we are beginning to see that John wants to enlighten his readers on the difference between the darkness and the light.
    1 John 1 verses 5, 6, 7 et 8
    5 “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

    It is a little what Jesus said in John 8/12 that I quoted above:

    “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

    In the verse 6 we see that the apostle John uses the first person of the plural, the "we", sometimes to express what a child of light lives, and sometimes to express what the little children live in darkness.

    It is clear that when John writes in verse 6: “ If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.”
    it is neither of him nor the children born of God that he speaks. John and the children who are in communion with God, walk in the light.

    In this verse 6 John describes the attitude some men still in the flesh of the old man, in the darkness, claiming to be in communion with God, they lie.
    There is no need to be a great sinner to be in darkness, as I said at first; from our birth we are children of sin nature, in darkness.

    There are believers today who think to serve God or to be in communion with God, and who are in darkness.

    1 John 1/8 to ten

    8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
    9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
    10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”

    In these three verses John speaks:
    1 In verse 8 of the sin, written in the singular, who represents the sin body or the old man, be the tree.
    2 In verse 9 sins, which are the fruits of sin, of the sin nature.
    3 And verse 10 of the action of sinning

    These three peculiarities of sin walk together, there are no sins without the sin, the sin body, and no sin body without sins. As there are no fruits without tree.

    Jesus came to take away the sin. (John 1/29) and he took away the sin.

    He said in Mat 7/18

    A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.

    When we are children of God, we know where we come from, we know that before being born of God, we were like everyone else, children of darkness, in sin, the bad tree.
    Since we follow Jesus Christ, we are the good tree, we walk in the light.

    Moreover, in verse 7 of 1 John 1, John clearly demonstrates what a child born of God lives, he is no longer in the darkness, but in the light.
    “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 cleanses us from all sin.”

    If the blood of Jesus purifies, those who walk in the light, of all sin, it is obvious that there is no more sin in them, it was destroyed on the cross.
    Romains 6/6:
    “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”

    These three verses concern only little children who walk in darkness.

    To begin with, one must admit to having sin and confessing one's sins, which is what Jesus said: "Repent". (Mat 3/2)

    At the time of the Apostle John, there was certainly a current of thought that encouraged men to believe that man was born, good, without sin, As we still find people today, having their own justice, who claim to be in communion with God while walking in darkness with sin in them.

    But there is another way of staying in darkness, is to admit to having sin in oneself by saying that it is a normal situation, we cannot do otherwise, we are all the same, etc. And to comfort us we rely on passages of the Bible, like this one, misunderstood, and which are not what Jesus says, who came to take away the sin.

    With God, there is no half-measure, it is darkness or light.
    There are no sinners from time to time or holy from time to time. The saints from time to

    time are the lukewarm ones who will be vomited from his mouth (Apo 3/16).
    Those who think they are from time to time dark and from time to time light, are in darkness.

    Let's finish these three verses, by The end of verse 10 which is: “ and his word is not in us” The word is Jesus and God, see the beginning of the John’s Gospel, and that is also the Holy Spirit. The spirit of God can dwell with him who walks in the darkness but is not in him

    The Apostle Peter, like all the apostles, before the death and resurrection of Jesus, was still under the law; the spirit of God dwelt with him, but was not in him. As written in John 14:17.

    The Lord Jesus will say to him:

    “But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” (Matt 16/23)

    Clearly Peter, like the other apostles, was still in the sin nature, in darkness.
    A few years later, Peter had passed from darkness to his admirable light (1 Peter 2/9), he wrote in 1 Peter 4/1 and 2

    “Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.”

    Suffering in the flesh, means no longer bearing the sin in himself, in his flesh, as the Apostle Paul wrote at the end of Romans 7 verse 24:
    “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”

    And to suffer in the flesh leads to cease from sin as Peter says or also Paul in the sequel of Romans 7, Romans 8/2
    “For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death”

    See Romans 7 study on my channel or on my blog.

    John 8/34 à 36

    “Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”

    It is one thing to sing: "I am free from sin" and, that is something else, to be really free of it, so as not to sin anymore. As I said above When there is no tree, there is no more fruit.

    The beginning of chapter 2 continues on the same theme.
    John teaches little children who walk in darkness so that they do not sin. The purpose of this teaching is to be truly free from sin. (John 8/36)

    1 John chapter 2 verses 1 to 4

    1 “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
    2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

    3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments
    4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him”

    So we see clearly as I said above that John writes for little children who are still sinning, who walk in darkness, they have not understood everything yet, they can confess their sins and be forgiven, but it is not an end in itself, it must not last years.

    The goal is that they may not sin.
    It is when we keep His commandments, that is, not to sin, that we know that we have known Him and not before.

    And if at the end of our life we still cannot say that we knew him.

    Then Jesus will say in Matthew 7/23

    “And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

    We continue: 1 John chapter 2 verses 5 and 6

    “5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
    6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”

    In conclusion

    I will say that those who use the verses of 1 John chapter 1 verses 8 to 10 to justify the sin in the believer, either they are agents of the devil, either deceive themselves completely, they should better be careful, and get away from those who teach them these things.

    For as John says: My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.” It is also true that Jesus is a lawyer who will forgive us our sins, but to sin and to repent, walk a time for a little child, but it is not an end in itself, the goal being to keep his commandments, his word and walk as Jesus walked, that is, without sin.

    And for that there is only one solution: to die with Him on the cross, to finally walk in newness of life. (Romans 6/4)

    1 John 1Verse 6: “whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”
    This is the only condition to abide in him.

    Otherwise, as Jesus said in John chapter 15 verse 6, this is what might happen, I quote:

    “If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.”

    John’s teaching does not vary, he gives us in the following of his epistle other indications to know if we are darkness or light.1 John 3/8
    “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”

    As a greeting, I will say, as the apostle John in verse 2 of his first letter:

    “We proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us”

    God will never force anyone to enter. God bless you,
    Amen.
    Jacques Goillot


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