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Day 356, or December 22nd, Deep Down Clean Our

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thoughts today are rooted in 1 John 1, verse

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9. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and

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just and will forgive us our sins and purify

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us from all unrighteousness. First, the big picture

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surrounding this verse. As the last survivor

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of Christ's twelve disciples, John writes a series

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of three letters in addition to his gospel in

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the book of Revelation. His first letter agrees

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with several others in the New Testament that

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false teaching must be confronted. These heretics

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and their false teachings must be removed from

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the church. He refutes false teachers as he declares

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Jesus was indeed a fleshly man who our hands

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have touched. At that time, some were teaching

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that Jesus was just spirit and that someone else

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died on the cross, probably Simon of Cyrene.

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The heretics reasoned that as God is only spirit,

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His Son must be exclusively Spirit too. John

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denies this travesty of the truth by saying Jesus

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was definitely a physical man who is now in heaven

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and offers forgiveness of sins. As his children,

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we are to love one another. And now today's action

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step. The hospitals and surgeries of our country

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are overflowing with people who are burdened

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with guilt and need to be forgiven, and to forgive

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others in return. Sadly, all the psychoanalysing

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in the world cannot cleanse us from our sins.

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We are made in the image of God and naturally

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long to be renewed and cleansed to be like Him

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again and have fellowship with Him. Of course,

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the world doesn't use such spiritual language.

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That would give the game away. The Apostle John

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comes straight to the point in the first chapter

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of his letter with the verse we are focusing

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on today. This verse may be summed up with three

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phrases which describe the way to be forgiven

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and to be made right with God. 1. Confess or

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agree with God that you are wrong. 2. God will

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forgive us. Three, God will cleanse us. It's

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as simple as that. Don't make it complicated

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when God planned it simple.