John is writing his letter so that his readers can know that they have eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:13). John is also writing so that his readers would experience complete joy as they have fellowship with God and the apostles (cf. 1 John 1:4). The name of this short series is Complete Joy: Live In Light. In our last lesson we noted that God is light and we must walk in the light to have fellowship with God. God cannot live with darkness or in darkness. Walking in the light means that the rule of our life is to follow God’s desires and not our own desires. Walking in the light also means that we are sin confessors, not sin hiders. But in our last lesson I raised an important question because it is the problem of human history. Since God is light and in him there is no darkness at all, how are we going to be able to be in fellowship with God? How can God have a relationship with us considering the problem of sin? John even declared that if we say that we have not sinned, we are making God a liar, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us (cf. 1 John 1:8, 10). So how can we know that have eternal life and can experience complete joy when sin is our greatest problem? Open your copies of God’s word to chapter 2 of 1 John and we are going to see what God has done for us to make this relationship with him possible…

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