What has the dead to do with The Life?

 

1 Jn 1:6  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 

If we say that we have fellowship with Him but walk in darkness, if we walk in sin - then we lie and do not know the truth, nor do we do the truth. 

For what is the truth - Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life. 

How can we fellowship with Him if we are dead in our trespasses and sins, for what does Life have to do with that which is dead? Nothing. 

For the dead contaminate the living. The dead bring disease and contagions. The Light can have no fellowship with that darkness, that death. He is the only way to Spiritual life.

You can not fellowship with the dead, they can not talk to you of life, they can not know what you are experiencing, they can only bring death!

Jesus only can bring life.

So yes by their walk, by their life you will know them and to whom they belong.

For if they are filled with life, if they walk in the light, then they will have fruit and that fruit shall be visible for all. What is that fruit we speak of? Works, changed lives that spring forth from the Life and the Light shown in the life of the Changed Christian.

Works are not necessary for Salvation, rather they are a sign of that Life and that Light.

That YOUR Joy may be full

 1Jn 1:4  And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. 

This to me is quite interesting. For he, John, the author of this book, who has been persecuted, exiled, boiled in oil, is full of joy and he wants us to have that same joy.

That your Joy may be full.

Notice not his joy, but yours.

He writes all of this that you might know and believe and that you might have a heart for the things of God and that your joy may be full.

(side note: this kinda dispels the name it and claim it crowd, the prosperity people for John writes this book that JOY may be the result).

Joy A feeling of great pleasure – happiness. Not a high priority in today’s world is it? Joy, happiness, it comes from Jesus, it comes from the knowledge of Jesus, it comes from a heart full of His Love flowing out to man.

Have you ever witnessed of your Jesus to another? If you have then you know that joy for it wells up in you.

Have you ever led another to Christ? If you have then you know the joy of a soul saved from the gates of hell, a soul saved from the pits to life everlasting.

If you have no joy in your life, then tell another of your Jesus, relive, revive  and reignite your Spirit by melding with another’s.

John got joy from writing, talking, telling, of this man Jesus. John got Joy from relaying to you the message he had been given from the Son of God, the Messiah, the Redeemer.

Is your Joy full?