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Sermon: 1 John 1:5-2:2 Spiritual Experience and Sin

Spiritual Experience and Sin


1 John 1:5-2:2


Spiritual consciousness. Experiencing the transcendent.
Harmonising with the universe. Knowing your Karma.
Cosmic channelling. It’s astonishing how popular the
quest for spirituality has become in a rationalistic postmodern
world.


All religion of course has at its heart a desire for
spiritual experience. There seems to be a deep and
insatiable human hunger for spiritual satisfaction,
spiritual identity, and spiritual wholeness that cannot be
satisfied with atheism.


Christians of course are no different. We desire
spiritual reality too. John writes this letter about this
very issue. And we have already discovered he is
utterly radical about this. John insists that spiritual
reality; ‘knowing God’ as he frequently calls it, is only
possible through Jesus Christ.


This is the point John has been at pains to make in 1vv
1-4.

There were various trendy teachers in the church
who were doing what trendy teachers always do; they
were trying to marry the Christian faith to the various
currents of thought popular in the culture. They had
imbibed Greek ideas that suggested God was to be
known through a kind of inner mystical knowledge
known only to the initiated and they tended to despise
any who were not initiated and did not have this
knowledge.

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