I was listening this morning to Piper’s sermon from February 24th entitled, Everyone Who Is Born of God Overcomes the World. This sermon was especially moving at one part as Piper exposed with detail how a Christian views sin after Christ saves them. He said:
He says in 1 John 1:8-10, “If we say we have no sin [present tense], we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins [present tense], he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” So John is at pains to say that “walking in the light” (1:7) does not mean walking flawlessly. It means that, when you stumble, the light of Christ causes you to see it and hate it and confess it and move forward with Christ.
This isn’t in his manuscript, but in the audio version Piper compared this to holding something nice and cozy in the dark, only to have the light turn on and see that its a roach or a scorpion or a tarantula. The light of the Gospel helps us see sin for what it really is. Are you fighting sin because Jesus lights the way?