Time Well Spent Wednesday Bible Study

Due to the recent and ongoing Coronavirus outbreak, we are doing our Wednesday Bible Study via Blogtalkradio.com for the next few weeks in order to reduce the possibility of transmission of the virus. We are currently teaching through 1 John.

John, the beloved apostle, has long known and enjoyed the Lord. He writes 1 John to help out his spiritual brothers and sisters in their walk with the God who is light, love and life. John wants them to be grounded in assurance of their salvation, experiencing victory over sin and the full joys of the Christian life. He reminds them that all these gems can be dimmed by false teaching, so John reminds the reader that belief should be based on the facts about Jesus Christ’s incarnation and that every believer has the responsibility to walk like Christ.

The apostle John opens his letter by asserting that one of the main aims of the Christian message is we may enter in to the apostolic fellowship, which is “with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ” (verse 3). Such fellowship with God is at the very heart of what it means to be a Christian. Christianity is a walk of personal fellowship with the living God.

John makes it clear that fellowship with God is not a matter of being chummy with your good buddy in the sky! He asserts that God is absolutely holy (verse 5). To have genuine fellowship with the holy God, we must walk in the light, as He Himself is the Light. It’s easy to claim to have fellowship with Him, but to be mistaken or deceived. The false teachers were claiming to have fellowship with God, but their claims were patently false. There was in John’s day, as there is today, the peril of profession, the danger of claiming to know God, but of being deceived. John’s message is:

To have fellowship with the holy God, we must not walk in the darkness, but walk in the light.

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