Introduction:
The writer whom we believe is Apostle John makes us know
that he is the carrier of a message. It was the ambition of the apostles to be
found faithful, and faithfully to deliver the errands and messages they had
received. The apostles and the apostolical ministers are the messengers of the
Lord Jesus; it is their honour, the chief they pretend to, to bring his mind
and messages to the world and to the
churches. So John says in verse 5 that “the message which we have heard
of him, and declare unto you.”
The present message he wants to bring to us is about God
whom we have to commune with and his nature. In fact he wants us to know
that to fellowship with someone, we need to know his or her nature so that you
can truly have communication or true relationship. That message he has is that
God is Light and in him there is no darkness at all. Can you understand? The
beauty and excellency of God here described?
That He is a self-active uncompounded spirituality,
purity, wisdom, holiness, and glory. There is no defect or imperfection,
no mixture of any thing alien or contrary to absolute excellency, no mutability
nor capacity of any decay in him: In him is no darkness at all. That is
what it means to be Light. God is Spirit; self-active; no one makes him active
or inactive. He is perpetually active according to His will and no external
source can change who He is. He is the unchangeable changer. Purity is his
nature with all knowing capacity. Just think of His holiness and His Glory.
The writer now brings in the conclusion to professors of
Christianity or professed entertainers of the gospel:
1.
If we say we have fellowship with him and walk
in darkness, then we lie and do not the truth. To walk in darkness is to live
and act according to such ignorance, error and erroneous practices as contrary
to the fundamental dictates of the scriptures. God holds no heavenly fellowship
or intercourse with unholy souls. What communion has light with darkness? They
lie themselves because they have no communications from God nor accesses to
him. There is no truth in their profession nor in their practice.
2.
But if we walk in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all
sin. As the blessed God is the eternal boundless light, and the Mediator is
from him, the light of the world, so the Christian institution is the great
luminary that appears in our sphere, and shines here below. A conformity to
this in spirit and practice therefore demonstrates communion with God.
Are you walking in the light? Where the blood of
Jesus has cleansed you from all sin. Where you cherish the work of God which is
the word of life. You will want to go anywhere just because of the undiluted
gospel. Not only will you listen to the Gospel but you seek for God’s grace to
live the gospel, you want to practice the gospel by the grace and power of the
Holy Spirit of Light that is in you.
Or Are you walking in darkness? Where you enjoy the errors
and ignorance of this world. Hatred, lasciviousness (feeling or revealing an
overt sexual interest or desire: lascivious wink, arousing sexual desire. Don’t
we see that in facebook and whatsapp? Girls who kiss the phone or the air, some
extend their tongue as if they are panting for the devil in sex. And we say they are sexy. You sinner!) ,
debauchery (extreme indulgence in bodily pleasures and especially sexual
pleasures: drugs and drunkenness that leads to sexual immorality before they
realize when it’s too late), fits of rage, revelling (enjoying oneself in a
lively and noisy way, especially with drinking and dancing), jealousy, murder,
sexual immorality and all the like even though you come to church every Sunday
and profess that you are Christian. It doesn’t matter whether you are pastor,
evangelist, ordained or not, choir member, deacon, elder or leader in your
church. Are you walking in the light?
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