Friday, February 3, 2017

Children of the light.

Walking in the light.
As He is IN the light.
He that LOVES others abides in the light.
Walk while ye have the light.
Believe in the light.
Be children of light.
Put on the armor of light.

The BLOOD of CHRIST purges our conscience from DEAD WORK so we can serve the living God.

When our conscience is purged by the blood of Christ we serve the living God. If we imagine there is anything other than the blood of Christ which can cleanse our conscience, any action on our part we are sorely mistaken. We MUST rely up the blood of Christ to purge our conscience. When our conscience is convicted of sin we MUST seek forgiveness and cleansing by the blood of our Savior, He alone can help us.  We can promise all we want to never sin, and by the grace of God He will keep us from all evil, however as soon as we are convicted of any sin- past or present we must listen to our conscience and repent as led to by the Holy Spirit. We must walk in the LIGHT and the light is truth, and the truth will not abide in darkness, in lies and any lie is worthy of condemnation. When the darkness, when the lies, are exposed for what they are we must seek forgiveness.

Light is truth- living, walking, wearing armor of light is embracing the truth wholly, not running from it, not dismissing it, not covering it up, not altering it to suit our own desires. Truth. God's truth. Jesus' truth. Not the truth man-made. Our Savior is in the light and we need to be in the light with Him. All by HIS grace and mercy, His amazing love!

1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 

1Jn 2:9  He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 
1Jn 2:10  He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 
1Jn 2:11  But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. 

Joh 12:35  Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 
Joh 12:36  While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. 

Rom 13:12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 

Heb 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 

Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 

(Excerpt)
'As the knowledge of a believer grows, his conscience too increases in its consciousness. The more his knowledge advances the more his conscience judges. One need not worry about what he does not know if he but completely follows what he already does know. “If we walk in the light”—that is, if we are walking in the light which we have already—“as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin (though many are still unknown to us)” (1 John 1.7). God has unlimited light. Although our light is limited, we shall have fellowship with God and the blood of His Son shall cleanse us if we walk according to the light we have. Perhaps there are still sins today unremoved from our life, but we are not conscious of them; hence we can continue to have fellowship with God today. Let us keep in mind that, important as conscience is, it nevertheless is not our standard of holiness, because it is closely related to knowledge. Christ Himself is alone our single standard of holiness. But in the matter of fellowship with God, His one condition is whether or not we have maintained a conscience void of offense. Yet, having fully obeyed the dictates of conscience, we must not visualize ourselves as now “perfect” A good conscience merely assures us that so far as our knowledge goes we are perfect, that is, we have arrived at the immediate goal, but not the ultimate one. Such being the case, our standard of conduct rises higher to the degree our knowledge of the Scriptures and spiritual experience increase. Only when our lives become holier as our light progresses can we preserve a conscience without offense. It shall invariably accuse us if we accompany this year’s knowledge and experience with only last year’s conduct. God did not cut off His fellowship with us last year because of our sins unknown to us then; but He certainly shall sever it today if we do not forsake the sins unknown last year but now known this year. Conscience is a God-given current standard of holiness. Whoever violates that standard is assumed to have committed sin. '  The Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee


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