Walk Honestly Before God

Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning we are going to be at 1st John, asking what hope do we have? What hope do we have about Jesus? Let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll get into God's Word. Is it hot?
Nope. Just a little sip, not a bunch. Okay, that's enough. That's enough. Alright, you ready to pray? Okay. God, thank you so much for this day. Thank you for the blessing it is that we get to read your word. And we pray that you would please help us to not just read it, but to understand it and to practice it in our lives. In Jesus' name, amen. Okay, here we go. This is one of my favorite words of the Bible. We are in 1 John chapter 1, verses 5 through chapter 2, verse 2. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declared to you. Can you read that part that's underlined?
God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another. And the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, And we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not to us. Oh, not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his words is not in us.
My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. and he himself is the propitiation for all sin and not for us only but also for the whole world.
All right, so a series of different kind of switches type sentences, right? If this, then this. If this, then this. If this, then this, right? So first he wants them to know that God is light, and in God there is light. Well, if there's all light, then there's no darkness at all. Right now, here's the thing. If we say that we have fellowship, like friendship and communion with God, and yet we walk in darkness, we lie. Yep. Because can we have fellowship with the light and be in darkness?
Nope. no no but instead we do not practice the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another yep and the blood of his son cleanses us from all of our So do you think God cares about how we walk in this life? Yeah, what do you think that means to walk in this life walk in the darkness or walk in the light? Oh That's true, but yeah, but the you're right we take detours we kind of get stuck in the park of of Enjoyment sometimes Yeah, sometimes we get distracted and we end up in Vanity Fair yeah, but the point is right can we The the walking is kind of like the pattern of your life, right? Yeah, so Well, if we say that we have no sin And so we're supposed to walk in the light, but if we're walking in the light And we say we have no sin What's what's that tell about us We really just sinned.
Yeah, we deceive ourselves, right? You're lying to yourself, and the truth's not in us. Right, so can anybody say, oh, I walk perfectly in the light? No. No. So we really just lied. Yeah. But if we confess our sins. And say that we have sinned. Yeah, so if we confess our sins, who is faithful and just? God will forgive us. Yeah, God is faithful and just to forgive us of all of our sins and cleanse us from all of our unrighteousness, right? So he's righteous and he'll cleanse us of our unrighteousness or not righteousness.
Yeah, good. If we say that we have not sinned, oh, here's a big one. If we say, I've never sinned, what do we make God? Yeah, make him really small. You know what he says here? We make God a liar. Even though God is big. Well, it's not a matter of big or small, right? It's a matter of who's told us that we're sinners. God has, right? Yeah, so God's told us that we're sinners. And so if I say, oh, I don't sin, then I'm saying God's a liar and the truth isn't in us.
And so he says, my little children. This is old man John writing to the church. And he says, my little children, I write to you so that you may not sin. He wants them to know that God is light and in God there's no darkness at all. Does any pastor want the people to sin? No. So he says, I write to you that you may not sin.
But if anyone does sin, you have an advocate. What's an advocate? i'm like um see like if china wanted to go to war with india that's an advocate No, that might be like aggression or something like that. But an advocate is like if you were to go to to court and you were on the on trial and somebody was saying that you did something horrible and wrong. You could have a lawyer, a defender come and he could advocate for you.
You'd say, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Here's the truth. Here's what happened. Well, do you want to know who the advocate is? No, that's the adversary. We have Jesus Christ. Right? Jesus, who is righteous. And Jesus comes, and he defends us. Because of our righteousness? No, because of his righteousness.
So do we want to sin? No. The pattern of our lives should not look like just sinning all the time. Not like we just enjoy and revel in our sins. You can try not to sin, but you're going to sin. And so when you do sin, what do you do about that? Ask God for help. We'll ask God for help and maybe even ask Him for forgiveness. But do we have to be afraid before God? No. Why not? Because God, He already paid for us. That's right. He gave us His own blood. He gave us the blood of His own Son, right? He redeemed us. Isn't that good news? Yeah. So what do you think this caused you to do in your life? Try not to sin. Try your best just to be kind and try not to sin like grandma. Try not to sin. Yeah, so right so we don't want to we want to walk in the by the Spirit, right? Is there any law against the fruits of the Spirit?
Is there any law saying do not love? Nope. What about do not have joy? Nope. Is there any law that says don't have peace with your siblings? Nope. Yeah, can you do it from yourself? Nope. So who do you need depend upon? God. That's right. But when we walk in the light as he is in the light, because in him there's no darkness at all. So when we're trying to walk in his light, we need to walk by his spirit, not by the flesh. But we say, God, this isn't what I naturally want to do. So please help me. Give me your spirit. Teach me to walk in your ways. Instruct me in your paths. Like not get mad at Nathan when he triple jumps me. Yeah, not to get mad at Nathan when you're playing checkers and he triple jumps you.
Well, we're not gonna rehash that whole argument here, all right, well you ready to pray okay God we pray that we would not be so full of pride that we would say we don't have sin and Lord, we pray that we would have true faith in Jesus, that when we do sin, we know that you have given us your Son to teach us and to advocate for us. We thank you that you are faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all of our transgressions.
Lord, please help us to walk in the light as you are in the light. Father, please do not let us get distracted by vanity, fear, or by the things we might want to do in our lives by our own sinful flesh. But God, teach us your ways in Jesus's name. Amen. May God bless you. May you walk in the peace that comes from knowing that you have an advocate, the propitiation The one who's laid down his life for you, Jesus himself in heaven. I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye.