1 John Team Teaching Collection, pt. 1—Going the Light Way

 The letters of John are believed to be the final Epistles in the New Testament.

Beliefs John was confronting—

Docetism 
An early Christian heresy which denied that Christ truly lived in the flesh.

Dualism
The belief that physical matter and the spirit are two opposing realms.

Where there is no , there can be no .

1 John 1:1 NIV
… we have seen (him) with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 

Life is found by knowing the Christ and walking in His .

1 John 1:2 NIV
The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.

Jesus doesn’t just offer eternal life; Jesus eternal life.

When We Walk in the Light—

1. We experience Fellowship with and the of God.

1 John 1:6-7 NIV 
If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

John 17:21-23 NIV
… that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

2. Our fellowship with God is . We can confidently invite Jesus into our .

1 John 2:1-2 NIV
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

3. We don’t see the of our sins as permission. Rather, we see it as love. 

Galatians 2:20 NIV 
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

“If Jesus is all you have, then you have all that you need.” —Corrie ten Boom