Ep 180 – 1 John 1:5-2:2 PT 4

This is our fourth episode on 1 John chapter one, verse five, through chapter two, verse two. This episode is entitled, “The Danger of Deception” and deals with three very dangerous perceptions that lurked in the church to which John wrote. They each involve sin and our outlook regarding it. There are those who deny its very existence and, as a result, deny their need for salvation. They believe sin is simply a figment of man’s imagination or a throw-back to less enlightened times in man’s long history. Sin is nothing more than the natural outcome of a lack of education or opportunities. It’s merely a byproduct of man’s environment. Then there are those who acknowledge the reality of sin, but who deny their guilt when it gets exposed in their lives. They simply refuse to admit they did something wrong. But there is a third group John addresses. These individuals claimed to be walking in the light, but their behavior revealed something altogether different. Their lives were characterized by darkness, not light. And like the other two groups, they were living a lie and, in the end, only managing to deceive themselves.