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False Assertions Addressed By John.  *  "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth" 1 John 1:6 In the scriptures of truth, darkness is so often related to sin as though synonymous with it. Soon as man touched/meddled with sin in the garden, the entire human race was plunged into darkness; thus, the first and most spontaneous reaction Adam & Eve had to the rays of the bright presence of God, when he came walking in the garden, was to flee and hide from the light of his presence.  In the dark shade of the branches and leaves of the trees of the garden, they sought for shelter and a covering from the light of God's presence. Genesis 3:8-13. The Lord Jesus in John 3:19-21 said: "t his is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved  darkness  rather than light, because their deeds were evil.  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his d

(False Assertions Addressed By John) Having dealt with three false assertions about sin, John went ahead to address other related false assertions like: "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him" (1 John 2:4). Those who profess to know the Lord and yet play down on the need for obedience/keeping his commandments, are liars and do not have the truth in them. Paul the apostle in his letter to Titus puts it this way: "They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." Titus 1:16. Some wrongly assert/teach that Paul preached salvation by grace through faith and said nothing about good works. Paul taught that salvation is the gift of God and not of works, yet he maintained the truth that at new birth, we are created in Christ unto good works, which God preordained that we should walk in.  "For by

False Assertions Addressed By John.  (3.) "If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."  1 John 1:10. This is the third false assertion about sin, which John the apostle dealt with. I know you must have heard some preachers/christians today teaching that the new creation man does not have a past; that the new creation man is not the man that Christ died for, that the new creation is not the redeemed for he never existed prior to his birth in Christ. I was once in a service in 2001 when a renown preacher/televangelist, in a bid to demonstrate and pass across this teaching, brought out two men, and put one of them infront and said that is the sinner, that is the man that Christ died for, the man that was redeemed; he can sing: 'Amazing grace...that saved a wretch like me'; he can sing the songs of redemption.  He then led the second man out and said that is the new creation man, the man who has no past; that is

False Assertions Addressed By John. (2.)  "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." 1 John 1:8 This is the second false assertion about sin, John the apostle dealt with. Today, this assertion will sell very well as an assurance of salvation, and a profession/declaration of faith; "I have no sin in me"! However, the greatest of all deceptions, which is SELF Deception, is bound up with this assertion. Those who speak this way deliberately deceive themselves, for they know within themselves the struggles they have with besetting sins in their vile/mortal flesh. The modern day version of this false assertion is: "Sin is dead! Sin no longer Exists". I know you must have heard some professing christians making such claims lately, and you probably felt it's a new discovery or doctrine they stumbled on. No! It's not new, it's just a modernised version of an ancient heresy, which christians