following program is sponsored by seattle open door church nettleton door church he's committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church gone to the lord they are jesus i come to you i think you for the power of the word i thank you that we can go deeper in christ through the word of god i thank you for also john writing the first john book and all the truth there and there's a small little book it's only five chapters but there's so much meat there's so much to chew on there's so much to meditate on in those five chapters and so lars look at chapter one pray that you speak to us that you give us you help us to understand your work better i pray that in jesus name him in this first john chapter one versus one and two the titles word of life jesus says and you can follow in your bio we have different translation this is new americans enter  bible follow whatever trans she have if it is a translation as the word of god is going to end up coming up the same conclusion no matter what it is it's just saying in a different way what was from the beginning what we have heard what we have seen with their eyes what we have looked at in touch with their hands concerning the word of life and the life was manifested and we have seen and testifying proclaim to you the eternal life which was the father and was ma is concerning the word of life who is the word of life i put jesus but before we come up with that conclusion this break it down see what paul our john is saying here look at verse one what was from the beginning what we have heard what we have seen with their eyes and what we looked at and touched with their hands concerning the work of life this is apostle john apostle john was when he was with us he was one of the disciples of jesus so this look what he says was from the beginning he's saying what i'm going to write to you this is what happened the very beginning the beginning of what is this time about the beginning of the earth no this is talking about his time but the beginning when the gospel being started when jesus first appeared he says what was from the beginning what we have heard what did he hear what the john here you heard who you just heard jesus speak and jesus spoke what the were so this is what we have heard what we have seen with their eyes how do i know that john was with jesus because he says what we've seen with their eyes so he's saying what we heard with their own personal ears what we heard from her eyes so is what john's writing is it touch with their hands that means that there was physically interaction with jesus christ is this what touch with their hands and he's done about what we have experienced that makes sense if you heard it if you seen it if you touched it when it be that you experience and what does he say he experienced concerning the word of life what do you think that word of life might possibly be just might possibly look at verse two and a lot was manifested and we have seen him testify and proclaim to you the eternal light which was with the father and was matted vested to who was with the father jesus with the father he says and the life was a fist that means that that this life this word of life was manifested it was showing it was refilled and it effect in what is the eternal light who is the turn a life jesus so is there eternal life without jesus it can't be why because is eternal life so if he is the eternal life there cannot be eternal life without jesus so anybody that teaches you can have eternal life any other way except through the word of life jesus christ is false a because jesus is the eternal life are you getting i don't know if i can express that do you get what i'm saying is that when you see jesus you see eternal life or do you see jesus as condemning you do you see jesus as judging you do you see jesus as the one that will see in you to hell is that what you see or do you see jesus new sieges do you see eternal life you see what john is now listen you got to remember something what he says what we've seen with their eyes what we've looked at with touch with their hands you can understand he's talking about after jesus was resurrected it wasn't just before jesus resurrected but after jesus resurrected after jesus beat dad out there jesus sells that he is the author eternal life as he shows he's destroyed dad he's destroyed eternal punishment through him he's saying after i've seen all that i want to tell you about it i want to testify i want to proclaim it the question is do we know eternal life do we know eternal life do we know who is eternal life i would argue if we are born again and we experience the word of life in our life there should be a place in us where we want to testify of what we've seen what we've heard and we want to proclaim it so what if eyes that tell you you can be born again no jesus blot you could be a person that doesn't testify or proclaim and the reason why is because you're not experienced that turn a life welling up within you and i could tell you that maybe just maybe were a little different job we weren't their whole you expect me to be like john i wasn't there when jesus was resurrected you don't expect me to be like john we're going to find out guess what god expects us to be like john to testify to proclaim to be excited about the eternal life the one who is eternal life and it says which was the father was with the father and was manifested to us you understand that that you could not have eternal life and that one christ your life almost always gave us a revelation let's see manifested to you eternal life so what does that say about people who don't have eternal li people don't accept christ people who call themselves is that gnostics you know it tells you it has been manifested to all it has been revealed to all and i tell you that jesus go walk in the room  read the bible and do all those things but until the holy spirit gives us a revelation a manifestation to us and we experience it ourselves is just words that comes out of a mouth of a preacher it takes the holy spirit to bring that revelation so how do we apply that passage the way we apply the patches maybe we should be the ones testifying and proclaiming them praying the holy spirit will give the revelation that was true manifestation of this keep going next one is first john wand verse three fellowship among christians and fellowship among god this is the first john one three says assist what we have seen and what we proclaim to you also fellowship to have true fellowship of christians what do you have to be a christian until you become born again you can have true fellowship with with christians you can have eternal life and i listen to me listen to me closely is that if you say you say you're a christian and you say i love god but i don't love his people could that be true according to this can't be true you can't love god and not love his people because he says that if you seen and heard him proclaim and that you may also have fellowship with us that's how you have fellowship with christians but what about with god in a deep fellowship is with the father and with the son jesus your best friends are the christians or non christian does that mean we should have christians as friends and all those i mean get a best friend re a non christian best bring could be a non christian but what w the what's the principle here the principle we're going to find out in a moment when we look at the next passage we're going to find out the principle is yes you can have fellowship with anybody but who is the number one people who step fellowship dulls who have eternal why why why was that more important that have fellowship with the rule just look at the next passage look at the passage says and then we're going to go to the next one that talks about light and darkness first john one for joy made complete these neat how do we have all the joy that we need to read what it says above is that amazing about the word of god it is this principle is these days we write so that joy may be complete so that if you have complete joy but things that he wrote life is that you go the next passage verse three that if we have fellowship with christians and we have fellowship with the father of the son we will have joy we have complete joy so i got a question for you how many of you get joy someplace else if you try to go get joy someplace else you will not have complete joy and what if i was to argue that maybe you don't even have voice happiness i know what i'm going to do find me a girlfriend and i'm going to get me a girlfriend i have complete joy anybody tried out one as it were i i've sorry i'm sorry women i'm going to get me a boyfriend that's worse that's worse to get a girlfriend sometimes ok you're not going to find i know the perfect job i get the perfect job and we know what the perfect job is the one you get is the perfect job because that's the one that god has for the moment but if i just get the right job if i could only be whatever it would be i have complete joy how many already been where you're going to be you have complete joy not in us just break it down verse by verse verse verse this is the message we have heard from him and announce to you that god is light in him there is no darkness at all this is the mes he says this is the message that we heard from the eternal life one and this is the message now going to give to you that god is light and in him there is no darkness at all god is li is there any darkness in it is there any evil in it then why in a role to be question what god tells us to do why why would we question he tells us to do if there is no darkness in god there is no evil  god then why would we question what god says if god says jump three steps to the left jump three steps to the right go back three steps and jump forward steps what do we do three steps three steps two steps back one step forward but why because he says it i don't know why maybe it's because he knew i was going to have a heart attack and i need to get a little bit of blood flowing could it be that simple it could be that simple could he says you know what you're going to have a heart attack you've got to get some exercise yourself do it sometime so he says well you're not going to but sometimes i was going to do this so this look at verse six to see what if we say all all all over want to read this it says if we say that we have fellowship with him and yet walk in darkness read law in do not practice the truth he says if we say that we have fellowship with him what do you think that means if we say we have fellowship with him would you think that means a friend of god that we have a relationship with him that we talk with him we have indication with them that we may be  with him we spent some time with him it's as if we say that we have built a ship with them and yet walk in the ark miss what is darkness evil sin we all agree on that that darkness is you do know that is saying that if we say we have fellowship edges but we will fully on ongoing basis we choose to walk in darkness we lie and we do not know the truth what's the truth that jesus eternal we know of maybe about the truth but we don't know the truth is says if we walk in darkness we lie and we don't practice truth it doesn't say how often we block in darkness it doesn't say how much we're line it doesn't say how much the truth we have doesn't say we are born again or not born again it doesn't say any of that does it so we can't read into what it says if i was a safe we see if those with him and yet walk in darkness rely and do not practice the truth that when it says walk in the darkness if we look at context and we look at all the bible is not talking about when we walk in darkness and i say one sin and all the truth is left me that what it says say that it doesn't say if you speak one bit of darkness all the truth is left you so if anybody teaches if you're walking in sand then you have no truth in you where the teaching  doctrine because it doesn't say that ok does it say yet the walking a bunch of darkness before it's a lie it doesn't say that either so we've got to stick with what the word is but the principle is i would say is there's one thing to fall short because we all fall short is one thing that at justin says to denise i like your shoes and you can't stand them according to this he lied he's not say that but i think it's something that we if you look at all the work we see that we have it and i'll tell you why because it's going to tell us later on how many know that it will probably tell us later on what it means ok this is the first seven but if we walk in the light is he himself is in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of jesus is son cleanses from all sin listen but if we walk in the light and himself is the light if we are in the light we're with jesus who is the light we have fellowship with one another hear me out you know why so many christians can't get along are not walking in the light they're not walking in the maybe when there is not fellowship among believers the problem is the believers who are not walking in the light all while so guess what the next question is if i'm not going along both believers who is not walking a light near them did i misinterpret that in any way that i apply that as a principle and a truthful manner that is says that what is a sig in that if we sin why is that added in there my son he told that in there because what he's saying this isn't just maybe listen but he's saying if you're not in ship with others you may not be walking a light and it may be because we have sin but here's the good news is a clincher from your sin so in other words if you're having conflict with the brother in the lord a sister in the lord god is saying is maybe you need to know more about the light of jesus and maybe there's sin but here's the good news that jesus can forgive you of the sin so how do you fix broken relationships take care of your part of your sin can you make it we're all be perfect and all but you can do your believers and you're saying it's not me it's not me it's not me you know jesus says if you say you have no sin you're deceiving yourself now this finish up this look at the last pass each year first jo right standing right justice fair he says if you can fast your sins he i god i'm faithful and righteous i will do what i said i'm going to do and i have to because i'm a righteous scot i have to do what i say right god can't be a liar so if god says it he has to do it because he's faith when it's righteous to do what to forgive us of our sins well god can't forgive me you just call god a liar if you only knew was that i had you know that god can't forgive me you just call god a liar because if you're a follower of jesus christ if you know the truth needs if you confession or sins god cleans you and there is no on righteous in you at that moment it's all got so if you're living with guilt you're living with shame you're living with woes you're living with them a victim if i only knew what i says river calls upon the name of the lord will be saved john one seven says you must be born again acts sixteen thirty one says believe in the lord jesus christ and thou shall be saved and that the one to pieces repent you and to talk to me person you can always give me a call toll free anytime one eight six six one god you have been listening to there is so with pastor richards over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle's open door church located in theory and committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves their doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at 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