Who Is This Light? God, Jesus, Or Both?

This then is the message which we have 

heard of Him, and declare unto you, that

 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 the truth: 

but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, 

we have fellowship with another, and the 

blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us 

from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, 

we deceive ourselves, and the truth 

is 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 word is not in us.

1John 1:5-10 

     In the book of John and John the Baptise ensures us that Jesus is the Light and that he was bearing witness to that Light, the One sent into the world. It is this light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world (John 1:9). John is clear and plain that Jesus is God (John 1:1) and that the Word is the Light and is God. Life, life eternal, is only through Jesus Christ and our confession, not only of our sins, but our confession that Jesus is God the Savior. This confession is proved to be real by our conversion shown in the exercise of our life. Here in the first book of John once again God is called Light and we are to walk in that light and the blood of Jesus who is also called the Light for John connects the two by informing us taht the message is of Him. Who is the "of Him?" It is Jesus Christ and is conjoined to God as also the light. To say anything different is to be a liar and though one is living a "good moral" life that will not save you from your sins. If we say we are walking in the Light and teach a doctrine that is foreign to the truth of Scripture, no matter how twisted a Scripture is tortured to prove a theology, that life is not saved and that person is a liar. Furthermore, if we walk in the light then we have fellowship with one another which is why we have congregations: we are to care for one another in Agape love, that is a love based on God's principle, a God principle love. 

     You may say: "I am a Methodist," or "I am a Baptist," or "I am a Presbyterian," or " I am an Epicopalian,", or any other denomination but being associated with a denomination will not save you. You may feel cleansed of your sins, and that might be true, but it is only true if you are walking in the Light, the truth of who is Jesus Christ and have Authentic Christian Faith, a faith built upon, not man's doctrine, but on the pure word of God. Catholics run to a priest to confess their sins and get some sort of abolution, but that is not Scriptural, the Charismatics get all worked up in some "holy" frenzy, a euphoric event, but that will not save you, in fact it does not even show that you are an Authentic Christian. Jesus is to whom we confess our sins (1John 1:9). Only Jesus can cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1John 1:9). 

     John makes this one thing very clear: "My little children, these things write I unto you, tht ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world" (1John 2:1-2). The propitiation is that by the death of Jesus Christ and our conversion to Him we are then made to be favorable with God. This propitiation is available for the whole world but unless faith is received and this by hearing the word of God that propitiation falls on deaf ears and that person is not in favor with God and deserves the punishment that God holds in reserve until He comes again for those who He holds in favor: His children who believe on Him and in the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ. 

     The world is in a mess, and the Church, that is the people of the Church are in a mess with so much heresy and false teaching misleading so many people that the time is now for all of us to be in the word, studying, looking up meanings of the Greek word when it is unclear, and to change from the culture of this world to the culture of Authentic Christainity. The question is: Will you?

Let them give thanks to the LORD

     for His unfailing love and His 

wonderful deeds for men. Let them

    sacrifice thank offerings and tell

of His works with songs of joy.

                  Psalm 107: 21-22

Confess your sins and you will be forgiven

Richard L. Crumb