God's Answer to Sin: 1st John 2:1-2

GLITCH: You can skip from 27:23 to 28:55 to save time because I had to plug my laptop in during this video.

In John’s first movement, he explains how Christians experience eternal life in fellowship with joy, and to do that he begins with the nature of God. He shows that God’s nature is holy and entirely separate from all darkness; there’s no shadow of deception or unrighteousness in the nature of God’s being.

The holiness of God then presents the first obstacle to human fellowship and joy in his presence.

• How can fallen humans experience real fellowship with a God in whom there is no darkness?

• How can fallen humans rejoice in the presence of a God who fundamentally opposes their sin?

John then dismantles three false solutions to this problem:

1. To ignore the holiness of God and try to have fellowship with him while living in darkness

2. To ignore our fallen human nature and deceive ourselves into thinking we are without sin

3. To deny our fallen nature altogether and reject the idea that we have sin

These are false solutions to the problem of God’s holiness.

Now we are going to hear God’s solution for restoring fellowship between the fallen human race and our holy God.

The three primary theses of this movement are as follows:

1. We come to God through the sacrifice and mediatorship of Christ

2. Love for God is expressed by living out his word

3. God’s original command is now realized in our lives because of Christ in us