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  1 JOHN 1:6
  by John Gill
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Summary: The sermon explores the essential nature of true fellowship
with God, emphasizing the necessity of walking in the light and
rejecting darkness and sin.

Topics: "Walking in the Light", "Fellowship With God"
Scripture References: John 3:21, John 8:12, Romans 13:12, 2 Corinthians 6:14, Ephesians 5:8, Colossians 1:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:5, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 John 1:6, 1 John 2:4

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John Gill emphasizes the contradiction of claiming fellowship with God
while walking in darkness, which represents sin, ignorance, and
unbelief. He explains that those who profess to have communion with God
but continue in sinful ways are deceiving themselves and are hypocrites.
True fellowship with God results in walking in the light, as God is
light, and one cannot genuinely know Him while remaining in darkness.
Gill warns that such individuals are liars, as their actions do not
align with the truth of the Gospel. The sermon calls for self-
examination and a sincere pursuit of the light of Christ.

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Ver. 6. If we say that we have fellowship with him,.... The Alexandrian
copy reads, "for if we say": that is, if any profess to be partakers of
the divine nature, to be like unto God, and to have communion with him,
to have the light of his countenance, and the discoveries of his love:

and walk in darkness; in the darkness of sin, ignorance, and unbelief,
or are in a state of unregeneracy and blindness; whose understandings
are darkened, and they know not God in Christ, nor have any true sight
and sense of themselves, their sin and danger; and are ignorant of
Christ and his righteousness, and the way of salvation by him; and are
strangers to the Spirit of God, and the work of his grace; and are
unacquainted with the truths of the Gospel; and not only so, but go on
in darkness more and more; prefer it to the light, love it, and the
works of it; have fellowship with them, and choose them; take pleasure
in the ways of sin and wickedness, and continue, and walk on in them; if
such persons pretend to fellowship with God, they are liars:

we lie; it cannot be, it is a contradiction, the thing is impossible and
impracticable; what communion hath light with darkness? or what
fellowship can the throne of iniquity, or those in whom sin reigns, have
with God? for God is light, and were they partakers of him, or like unto
him, or had communion with him, they would consequently be in the light,
and not in darkness, and much less walk in it; wherefore they are liars,

and do not the truth: they do not say the truth, nor act according to
it; they do not act uprightly or sincerely, but are hypocrites, and
pretend to that which they have not; and if they did the truth, they
would come to the light, and not walk in darkness; see Joh 3:21.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-gill/1-john-16/
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