CLEAN – podcast 5 (Walking in the Light)

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/clean-podcast-5-2/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p><strong>Introduction</strong></p><ul><li>OT: Purity and cleansing are more about forgiveness than about transformation.<ul><li>Yet, for fairness and balance, holiness was the goal, and then as now involved a quest, a process...</li><li>E.g, Exodus: facilitation of forgiveness and holiness: laws, priesthood, tabernacle; Leviticus: atonement and holiness; Numbers: the journey of faith continues, with penalties for sin; Deuteronomy: obedient love / loving obedience.</li></ul></li><li>Two-stage salvation<ul><li>Baptism: past sins</li><li>Confession and repentance: future sins</li></ul></li><li>Far too many believers are confused about what it means to walk in the light.</li></ul><p><strong>Scriptural study: 1 John 1:6-2:7</strong></p><ul><li>Contrast: light / darkness</li><li>Walking in light assumes some degree of failure</li><li>We do not move to the darkness every time we sin (though we do if we give up on Christ.)</li><li>What is walking in darkness?<ul><li>Darkness is pretense.</li><li>It's also lack of openness.</li><li>Those in the dark ignore, twist, or reject God's word.</li></ul></li><li>How we live -- how we obey Christ -- <i>does</i> matter.<ul><li>Yet if we slip, we have an advocate.</li><li>Walking in the light is the way of obedience.</li><li>Walking in light is walking as Jesus walked: openness, honesty, obedience to the Father, a life centered round others (love).</li></ul></li><li>There's one more key dimension of walking in the light (1 John 3:1-3).<ul><li>Walking in light isn't only ongoing forgiveness and ongoing obedience.</li><li>It's also ongoing transformation!</li><li>Protestants tend to see the crucifixion of Jesus as their means of forgiveness, while Orthodox theology highlights the resurrection (the other side of Jesus' atonement) as a source of new life -- becoming like God.</li><li>We too should appreciate that God's plan