John Stott once put it like this:
“Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony.”
Sin disrupts our fellowship with God. Fellowship with God disrupts our relationship with sin.
“Beloved, do not misunderstand me – no man can have fellowship with God unless sin be taken away; but his fellowship with God, and his walking in light, does not take away his sin – not at all. The whole process of the removal of sin is here, ‘And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.'” (Spurgeon)
1 John 1.05-10.mp3 (Jake Medlong)
1 John 1.05-10.pdf (Jake Medlong)
In his essay Christian Apologetics, C.S. Lewis said, “One of the great difficulties is to keep before the audience’s mind the question of truth. They always think you are recommending Christianity not because it is true but because it is good. And in the discussion they will at every moment try to escape from the issue “true–false” into stuff about a good society, … or the Spanish Inquisition … or anything whatever … One must keep on pointing out that Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance.”
“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.” – 1 John 5:13
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