5 And this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not do the truth; 7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:5-10 (LSB) Read verses 8-10 on the site.
I was preparing to write this post and just before I started my Bible study of 1 John 1 to get ready I decided to walk outside to check to see if the timer for our Christmas Lights was working. It is cold and windy out there right now, by-the-way. My wife and I worked several hours this afternoon on those lights and both us are still trying to get warmed up again,…
In any case the lights were not on yet and so I walked over to the north side of my house to check the settings on the timer that was over there. It was then that I noticed three young men approaching me on the sidewalk that runs in front of my home. I could tell they were Mormon missionaries. They were very nice young men and we had a nice conversation, but I was freezing and they could tell I wanted to go back inside. I made it clear to them that I was a Christian and that I knew the difference between true Christianity and Mormonism. Their leader asked me how I knew what my Bible said was true. I told him that I had the Holy Spirit and that when God saved me He also regenerated me enabling me to understand the scriptures….