For us to understand 1 John, we must all first know Jesus properly, who is God Himself. All of us must stand firmly on the rock of this faith that truly knows and believes in Jesus Christ as God. To know and believe in Jesus the God as our Savior necessarily means that we would know that He is the God who created us. For all of us, Jesus Christ is fundamentally the Creator God and our perfect Savior. So for God the Father, Jesus is His only begotten Son, while for us, He has become our true Savior. It is when we all know Jesus Christ as God that we can encounter the true light of salvation and believe in it as well.

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The Bible says that if we claim to have fellowship with God, and yet walk in darkness, then we are liars, and that if we walk in the light of Truth, as the Lord is in the light, then we have fellowship with God. We can therefore realize that we, the saints and God’s servants, also can have true fellowship with each other through faith only when we are in the light of Truth.

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All the Word of God is life and truth for those who believe. But for those who have not been born again, it may bring them confusion instead, as they misunderstand and misinterpret the Word of God. The passage from 1 John 1:8-10 that we just read can become the Word of amazing truth to those who believe in Jesus as their Savior and enrich their souls, but at the same time, if it is misapplied, it may bring confusion to people’s thoughts and faith.

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Not long ago, we had Holy Communion in our church, where we once again ruminated on the meaning of the bread and wine that we shared.
Along with the baptism of the believers, the sacrament of Holy Communion is one of two sacraments that our Lord commanded to us to keep. One thing that we must realize through Holy Communion is that He has blotted out all our sins through the baptism that He received on His body and the blood that He shed. When the Lord told us to “remember” the bread and wine in Holy Communion, He meant that we should believe and remember His baptism and bloodshed in our hearts.

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In 1 John 2:1, the Apostle John says, “My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin.” He explains that the purpose behind his writing of 1 John is so that the saints would not commit the sins of not believing in Jesus, the true God. In the phrase from this passage, “so that you may not sin,” ‘sin’ here indicates ‘the sin leading to death’ (1 John 5:16). John wants all the saints to stand firm on the gospel of the water and the Spirit. He also wants them to believe that Jesus Christ is God Himself, the Son of God, and also the Savior who took away our sins.

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In the Old Testament, when a sinner brought a sacrificial animal to offer to God, he had to believe that while it was he who had to die for his sins, his sacrificial offering instead accepted his sins with the laying on of his hands and bled to death for his sins on his behalf. All those who are to have this faith must believe with their hearts that God has remitted away all their sins according to the sacrificial system of the Tabernacle—that is, by passing all their sins onto their offerings of sacrifice and drawing the animals’ blood.

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The Apostle John was someone who had reached a profound understanding of God’s love. He was the disciple that was loved the most by our Lord, the Son of God; he was the one who felt this love of the Lord most deeply, and who bore compelling witness of this love to us. This Lord had forsaken His throne of glory and came to this earth to save us from all the sins of the world.
The Apostle John believed that the Lord came to this earth incarnated in the flesh of man in order to save the entire mankind from their sins, and that He personally bore the suffering, curses, despise, insults, death, and the condemnation of sin that we were supposed to bear. And because John thus believed in the Truth of salvation that Jesus had given him, he could be saved from all his sins.

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I know that you and I are struggling with three kinds of lust. In James 4:1, it is written, “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?” Here in 1 John, the Bible speaks of lust as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
In fact, it is because these three kinds of lust that we struggle with our lives of faith and so often stumble over the things of the world. Because of this lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, our lives of faith are often interrupted, though we have been saved. And it saddens me deeply to see this happening.

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