Examining Your Faith

One of the most fascinating insights about this current moment in our society is that people have never been more anxious and fearful about their everyday lives, while surprisingly confident or indifferent about their spiritual state. People seem to be very presumptuous about the possibility of standing before God and finding that God would have any reason to judge them harshly. Most people seem to assume that if there is a God, they have always heard that He is loving and a loving God will be glad to receive them into heaven. 

This was also a problem towards the end of the first century. John addresses 3 false ideas that many were claiming (1 John 1:6, 8, 10).

Lie #1 - We can have fellowship with God while walking in darkness.

Lie #2 - Our actions don't make us sinful but good.

Lie #3 - Our sinful actions don't reveal anything about our true nature.  

In John's first letter (1 John), he begins by confirming the Deity and humanity of Jesus (1 John 1:1-4) as the second person of the Triune God. Then in verse 5, John describes God with the words, "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." With these words, John reveals astonishing truths about the nature of God. If God there is no darkness in God; what about the darkness in us?

Join us this Sunday as we go deeper into a new series on the letter of 1 John.