“Walk in the Light”

If we walk in the light as He is in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin —1 John 1:7

To mistake freedom from sin only on the conscious level of our lives for complete deliverance from sin by the atonement through the Cross of Christ is a great error. No one fully knows what sin is until he is born again. Sin is what Jesus Christ faced at Calvary. The evidence that I have been delivered from sin is that I know the real nature of sin in me. For a person to really know what sin is requires the full work and deep touch of the atonement of Jesus Christ, that is, the imparting of His absolute perfection.

The Holy Spirit applies or administers the work of the atonement to us in the deep unconscious realm as well as in the conscious realm. And it is not until we truly perceive the unrivaled power of the Spirit in us that we understand the meaning of 1 John 1:7, which says, “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” This verse does not refer only to conscious sin, but also to the tremendously profound understanding of sin which only the Holy Spirit in me can accomplish.

I must “walk in the light as He is in the light . . .”— not in the light of my own conscience, but in God’s light. If I will walk there, with nothing held back or hidden, then this amazing truth is revealed to me: “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses [me] from all sin” so that God Almighty can see nothing to rebuke in me. On the conscious level it produces a keen, sorrowful knowledge of what sin really is. The love of God working in me causes me to hate, with the Holy Spirit’s hatred for sin, anything that is not in keeping with God’s holiness. To “walk in the light” means that everything that is of the darkness actually drives me closer to the center of the light.

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行在光中

我們若在光明中行，如同神在光明中……他兒子耶穌的血也洗淨我們一切的罪。 （約壹一7）

自覺脫離罪，得享自由；並不等於已蒙救贖，從罪中得釋放。若混淆二者，是嚴重得錯誤。人必須重生，才知何為罪；而罪就是耶穌在十字架上所面對的。我從罪中得釋放的證據，就是認識我裡頭的罪。主耶穌的救恩使人有分於他絕對的完全，叫人知道罪是什麼？聖靈使救恩在我們裡面生效，在非意識的領域，也在意識可及的領域；只有當我們體會聖靈在我們裡面那無可比擬的能力，我們才明白約翰一書一章7節的意思：[耶穌的血也洗淨我們一切的罪。 ]這不單指意識的罪，更是指因內居的聖靈而對罪有深切的認識。

我若像神一樣行在光中，不是自己良心的光，而是神的光－－沒有任何遮掩，就必希奇地領悟－－耶穌的血洗淨我一切的罪，以致神無法找出可指斥的。在我的意識中，他叫我對罪有一種敏銳而強烈的知覺。神的愛又在我裡面，叫我像聖靈恨罪一樣，恨惡一切與神聖潔相違的東西。行在光中的意思，就是每一件黑暗的事物，都驅策我更接近光的中樞。

祈禱◆潔淨我，噢，主啊，使我脫去靈裡一切的罪污，願你那充滿光輝的美善，今天臨到我身上。