1 John 1:9

Introduction

1 John 1:9 If we confess state our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse purify us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9 ἐὰν ὁμολογῶμεν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν, πιστός ἐστιν καὶ δίκαιος ἵνα ἀφῇ ἡμῖν τὰς ἁμαρτίας καὶ καθαρίσῃ ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ πάσης ἀδικίας.

Ephesians 5:18 and don't be drunk with wine where there's debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit

Ephesians 5:18 καὶ μὴ μεθύσκεσθε οἴνῳ, ἐν ᾧ ἐστιν ἀσωτία, ἀλλὰ πληροῦσθε ἐν πνεύματι

Psalm 66:18 (65:18) If I exhibit sin in my heart (mind), the Lord will not hear me

Psalm 66:18 (65:18) אָ֭וֶן אִם־רָאִ֣יתִי בְלִבִּ֑י לֹ֖א יִשְׁמַ֣ע׀ אֲדֹנָֽי׃

Philippians 2:5 (Get) this mind (thinking) in you which (was) also in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:5 τοῦτο φρονεῖτε ἐν ὑμῖν ὃ καὶ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ,

Christ's thinking in your brain!

The whole goal of 1 John 1:9 is that once you're saved, you get re-filled with the Holy Spirit to resume being online with God. This is not an emotional or physical process (you cannot 'feel' something with your biology that's inorganic), and in fact, you won't really know the difference between being online or offline with God unless you're an advanced believer and pay attention to the very tiny cues: such as making mistakes, performing mental attitude sins, not being given 'ideas' in your head from what God wants you to reference with what you're learning etc. Once you know enough Bible Doctrine and continue to learn advanced concepts and ask God questions for things you don't know (James 1:6), He'll start bringing verses to your mind; but it's only ever with LEARNED INFORMATION. There are no visions, special dreams, voices talking in your head: all of that is either your gaslighting yourself or the demons throwing you a bone. The Bible has been completed so everything you need to learn is in the original language texts (Greek & Hebrew), and it's so comprehensive a single lifetime wouldn't learn all of it anyways. You're fooling yourself if you think the spiritual life is reading a few verses here and there in English translation and getting an emotional high over "voices" or "visions".

I suppose a question many would have is... why would God do it this way? Why wouldn't it just be automatic without us stating "I've sinned" over and over and over and over a thousand times a day until we die? I can think of three reasons:

1. The first being is that it allows consent (God is very serious about freedom but also the integrity of His character in tandem with that). Should God force those to perpetually be in fellowship who don't actually want Him but instead a religion or one of Satan's replacements to Christianty? This would also force believers who lose interest in the Word to perpetually be in fellowship even when they stop believing, but are still saved of course (Luke 8:13).


2. This would violate the terms of the Angelic Conflict (1 Corinthians 10:21), because nobody would be free to choose the cup of demons which requires you to be offline. One of Satan's arguments is that nobody wants to choose God, but instead Satan's replacements to God... that wouldn't be possible with a forced & automatic 1 John 1:9 and so there'd be no trial.


3. It reveals character of the individual: how much do you want God? Everyone who's lukewarm (Revelation 3:15) falls into the category of not using 1 John 1:9, in a kind of stasis of wanting to learn God on their own terms without His System. You'd be better off not learning anything than learning the Word inverted (2 Timothy 3:7), it's more productive being an unbelieving believer than a carnal believer under Satan's replacement Christianity. Look at how evil Christians become when they get enough replacement doctrine from Satan, they go haywire with: Prolife, Antisemitism, judging, force-feeding what they think the Gospel is, etc.

God's System

All of these elements work in tandem, failure in any one will result in perpetual carnality and a small soul. If you place any of them in red tape, well, God isn't for you and you'd be better off being an atheist or choosing one of Satan's many religions to get that fix your old sin nature wants. I wouldn't recommend Satan's flavour of Christianity because you end up being worse than if you've never touched Christianity at all.

1. Believe Christ paid for your sins (no strings attached, single-use, permanent)
• This makes you become trichotomous (Body + Soul + Indwelling of Holy Spirit, aka "born from above") cannot be revoked (Ephesians 1:13).


2. Use 1 John 1:9 like your biological breath; the mental request of "I've sinned" to God as much as needed
• Doesn't matter if it's a hundred or a thousand times a day. Helpful to mention the types of sin to God purely for personal diagnostics (once you know of them) so you can negate repeats as time goes on. It's not an overnight process and never will be, for if God wanted it to be overnight He'd impute us with perfect knowledge rather than allowing us to choose how much we want to learn.
• Be careful of 1 John 1:9 nullifications: refusing to forgive others and holding on grudges, refusing to believe salvation is a gift, refusing to believe God gives you a right-pastor, will all nullify 1 John 1:9 (John 4:24). Obviously we all believe in incorrect doctrines since that's a part of growing up as you learn the Word, but these ones directly affect God's System and break it. If you willingly break the system or refuse to ASK GOD why you think the system is wrong, then it's impossible to be in it.
• And once you become aware of these concepts (point of perception) and willingly disobey them, you will face tremendous divine discipline. Obviously those who are ignorant can't be held accountable for what they never learned.


3. Ask God for your right pastor-teacher (the male teacher who you need to learn Bible under)
• It is possible to change RPTs if you've outgrown whomever you're under, but it tends to be rare. Reason why a 'right teacher' is always male is due to the male-female dynamic God has established. It's obviously NEVER meant to be disparaging and once we're dead we won't even have a sex for we won't have biological bodies: that of course means becoming a 'king' and reaching Pleroma is irrelevant to your biology and applies to both sexes (1 Corinthians 9:24). Furthermore, pastor-teachers get far more harshly graded so it's beyond me why anyone would actively WANT to be a pastor and especially self-elect themselves to be; it's asking for a bomb to go off in your face and ruin your life with God in eternity.
• If God wants you to witness with the Word (just as I am doing: which helps me learn and consolidate my thoughts in one place), it's obviously permitted but shouldn't be conflated with the teacher you are to be under. And such material from your pastor's is always adjunctive.
• Also be aware that none of us are perfect, so your RPT will make mistakes, but those mistakes are also to be used for your growth... are you paying attention? Or just mindlessly memorizing & repeating? A good student always audits what they're studying, and most importantly talks and reasons it out with God.


4. Get in Bible Study (stay in it!)
• It's also important to not simply memorize what you're learning but understanding the 'whys', memorization and repeating means you've not learned anything for you're not thinking on what you've learned: if you don't want to think forget about even being a Christian. Failure to also take appropriate breaks and overstudy can lead to insanity.
• If you're exclusively learning in translation without the original texts or refusing to deviate from denominational rot this will also hinder your growth at some point, don't compromise the truth based on your feelings or someone elses', but remember that God is also very practical and logical.


5. Rapport with God (vertical relationship)
• You will need to maintain daily conversation with God as a part of your growth, failure to do so and this will be one of the biggest catastrophies to your spiritual growth. This is your opportunity to ask God every and all questions you have along with arguing certain things out with Him, if you don't ask God won't answer queries that never existed: He's very serious about consent for it's your decision how much you want to learn. This is also where prayer comes in as you're asking Him to be involved with others and yourself, AKA spending His wealth
• While we're free to talk to any of the three or all at once (Father, Son, Spirit), correct prayer protocol is to ask the Father in the Son's name while being refilled with the Spirit, else your prayer will not be heard. Obviously God doesn't 'have' to do it this way just as 1 John 1:9 'could' be automatic, but practical order and processes are meant to be followed.
• Of course there are exceptions to this, if you don't KNOW the protocol to prayer and 'ask the ceiling' as I did, then God through circumstance brings what you need to know, to you. If you never ask God for the truth... then do you really want it?

The Spiritual Life (which really means the THINKING life) is all about constantly using your thinking not your actions. At the heart of it, all we are is a bunch of thoughts or thinking machines (Genesis 1:27) so to avoid thinking and emphasizing the physical is to avoid using our core nature. The merchandise is our thinking! His (Christ's) thinking in ours = increased wealth in us.

Most of Christianity falls victim to the classic problem of making the spiritual life into something physical: think about how many denominations emphasize: clothing, objects, fancy gestures, pictures, stained glass windows... all of this to always avoid advanced thinking and becoming virtually a scholar under your right pastor-teacher. God doesn't want your gestures, or your clothing, or your special icons/portraits, or your chanting (Matthew 6:7): only your thinking. Why? Because God's infinity could make all of this and already sees everything that could be seen. What's different is when there's a consenting soul thinking towards Him of its own volition, using your actions and physical molecules nullifies your trajectory to thought. God can already make robots and as many molecules as He wants, but He can't force a soul to get His thinking (well... He could but then it wouldn't be freedom and He wouldn't be righteous now would He?!). Look at how awful it is when Christians try to force-feed anybody, it's uncomfortable... so why would God force-feed?

It is possible to study the Bible your entire life and not learn a single thing when you choose to evict yourself out of God's System, willingly. The "Church Fathers" even knew the original languages but learned less (actually in the negatives because they were Antisemitic) than most believers do only knowing English.

Refilling of the Holy Spirit Mechanics

• Permanent indwelling occurs AFTER believing, this cannot be undone
• Sinning causes the filling (not indwelling) to be removed
• Refilling occurs from 1 John 1:9 after stating "I've sinned"
• Knocking is the reminder to get refilled if you're in a prolonged state of being unfilled

John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

John 4:24 πνεῦμα ὁ θεός, καὶ τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας ἐν πνεύματι καὶ ἀληθείᾳ προσκυνεῖν δεῖ..

1 Corinthians 6:19 What? Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?

1 Corinthians 6:19 ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι τὸ σῶμα ὑμῶν ναὸς τοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν ἁγίου πνεύματός ἐστιν, οὗ ἔχετε ἀπὸ θεοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἐστὲ ἑαυτῶν;

1 Corinthians 6:20 For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 6:20 ἠγοράσθητε γὰρ τιμῆς· δοξάσατε δὴ τὸν θεὸν ἐν τῷ σώματι ὑμῶν.

A common point of confusion in Christianity is: "if sins are paid for on the cross, why would we need to ask for forgiveness?" And that's exactly why: you're not asking for your sins to be paid for or the gift of salvation (they're already paid for even if you're an unbeliever for Christ's omniscience paid for everyone in advanced and most likely for eternity since "Father" needs to also be paid for everyone who continues to sin in the future Lake of Fire), you're requesting to be refilled (purified) after having committed whatever sin(s) they may be. So it's not a matter of salvation but purification.

If Christians did research on other religions for even just one microsecond, they'd see how the demons make a parody of 1 John 1:9 in other religions such as in Hinduism, so the demons are very much aware of this and never want us to use it once the concept is made known.

Walking in the Light or Darkness

FIRST AND FOREMOST "walking in darkness" does NOT refer to an unbeliever or that you're not saved. You will hear countless Christians misinterpret the analogy frequently. If you're not saved you're not even on the map.

• Walking in the Light = refilled with the Holy Spirit
• Walking in Darkness = unfilled with the Holy Spirit

1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth

1 John 1:6 ἐὰν εἴπωμεν ὅτι κοινωνίαν ἔχομεν μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν τῷ σκότει περιπατῶμεν, ψευδόμεθα καὶ οὐ ποιοῦμεν τὴν ἀλήθειαν·

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

1 John 1:7 ἐὰν δὲ ἐν τῷ φωτὶ περιπατῶμεν ὡς αὐτός ἐστιν ἐν τῷ φωτί, κοινωνίαν ἔχομεν μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων καὶ τὸ αἷμα Ἰησοῦ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ καθαρίζει ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ πάσης ἁμαρτίας.

And the 'blood of christ' refers to Christ's thinking. Why? Well Christ said "it's finished" (τετέλεσται) before He died (John 19:30), this should be a giant red flag to anyone who thinks it was the biology that paid for our sins because Christ would have had to say τετέλεσται after He died. It also wouldn't be possible for a single biological body to "take our place", what this means is that in order to pay the Father, Christ virtualizes Himself in our place for EVERY SINGLE one of our sins and actively 'lives' this forever, for, it's His thinking. This also hearkens back to Genesis 1:27 because just as God is 'thoughts', so we are we, for we're shadow images of Him, this has nothing to do with the biology which again will be completely dead at some point. And if our biology dies or hasn't even been born yet, how could Christ be paying for OUR biology as well -- which would be mere animals without our souls annexed? Therefore Christ's thoughts are paying for our thoughts (1 John 3:15), it's not a biological thing.

The fact all religions ALWAYS place emphasis on the biological and the physical should tip you off that Satan is actively involved with distorting the "blood (thinking) of Jesus" into literal blood, along with Prolife and everything else. It's very disappointing Christians want parallel beliefs to that of all religions and sell it in the name of the true God (Exodus 20:7), anything outside of God's System is no longer Christianity.

Gnosticism or CARNALITY?

A common interpretation is that John is addressing "gnosticism" instead of carnality (through means of 'dualism' with light/dark, various aspects of physicality and sin). The problem is, right again "darkness" is being interpreted as being unsaved and CARNALITY IS IGNORED. When you're not in fellowship it never refers to being unsaved. This can easily be proved with the dynamics of inheritances, the dynamics of sinning after post-salvation, the dynamics of salvation being permanent, etc.

If someone says 'darkness' is referring to unbelievers, they effectively BREAK the entire analogy and so many systems and verses.

Wood, Hay & Stubble Without 1 John 1:9: Carnal Christians

For the sake of brevity, some of the verses have been excluded, but it's a good idea to study all of 1 Corinthians 3 in context of 1 John 1:9 because the whole thing is important.

1. First thing to realize is that Christ is the foundation: not the pope, not some Orthodox patriarch, not Mary, not the Apostles, only ever Christ.


2. All of our works will be tested; if they were things we've done ourselves without 1 John 1:9 they get burned up. If they're things we've done while using 1 John 1:9 and God did them, then they remain.


3. You'll notice that there's emphasis as well that you're still saved, even though you've forfeited all eternal rewards through persistent carnality. Of course the 'rewards' really shouldn't be your focus, it should always be God.

John's Sandwich

What about Christians who don't use 1 John 1:9? John outlines two major outcomes on either side of 1 John 1:9: much like a sandwich with verse 8 and 10 being the 'buns'. If we say we have no sin in any given period while being in a biologicaly body that has a permanent old sin nature, the truth (ἀλήθεια) isn't in us. If we say we've never sinned period it becomes 'upgraded' as we say Christ Himself has lied (since He paid for the sin of all humanity which means we will all have sin) and the Word (λόγος) isn't in us. So yeah, the bottom bun is worse than the top; but you don't want to be in either.

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:8 ἐὰν εἴπωμεν ὅτι ἁμαρτίαν οὐκ ἔχομεν, ἑαυτοὺς πλανῶμεν καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ἡμῖν.

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1 John 1:9 If we confess state our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse purify us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9 ἐὰν ὁμολογῶμεν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν, πιστός ἐστιν καὶ δίκαιος ἵνα ἀφῇ ἡμῖν τὰς ἁμαρτίας καὶ καθαρίσῃ ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ πάσης ἀδικίας.

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1 John 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

1 John 1:10 ἐὰν εἴπωμεν ὅτι οὐχ ἡμαρτήκαμεν, ψεύστην ποιοῦμεν αὐτὸν καὶ ὁ λόγος αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ἡμῖν.

Our disposition (we're all short and unrighteous):

Romans 3:10 As it's written: there's no one righteous, not (even) one.

Romans 3:10 καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν δίκαιος οὐδὲ εἷς

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Romans 3:23 πάντες γὰρ ἥμαρτον καὶ ὑστεροῦνται τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ,

Verses used to 'contradict' 1 John 1:8 and 1 John 1:10:

Hebrews 10:26 (KJV) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins

Hebrews 10:26 Even intentionally sinning after we have received the knowledge (of) the truth, there's no longer a (animal) sacrifice for sins

Hebrews 10:26 Εκουσίως γὰρ ἁμαρτανόντων ἡμῶν μετὰ τὸ λαβεῖν τὴν ἐπίγνωσιν τῆς ἀληθείας, οὐκέτι περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν ἀπολείπεται θυσία,

This is NOT saying that Christ's payment on the cross becomes voided by us "wilfully sinning" (you would also require verses to prove we can lose the indwelling of the Holy Spirit or that salvation can be permanently revoked which there are none), it means that when we intentionally sin there are no more animal sacrifices (θυσία) because Christ has already paid for our sins, why WOULD there be any continued sacrifices? If Christians actually read the whole book in context they'd know this, and you can ratify it in the very first verse even in the KJV:

Hebrews 10:1 (KJV) For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Hebrews 10:1 Σκιὰν γὰρ ἔχων ὁ νόμος τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν, οὐκ αὐτὴν τὴν εἰκόνα τῶν πραγμάτων, κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν ταῖς αὐταῖς θυσίαις αἷς προσφέρουσιν εἰς τὸ διηνεκὲς οὐδέποτε δύναται τοὺς προσερχομένους τελειῶσαι·

Everyone is so eager to carelessly contradict verses they don't like that they've not considered the context or audience for Hebrews. If you're forcing what you want the Bible to say because you feel threatened, that's exactly how you'll read it: and you'll blissfully ignore the contradictions caused by your wanting to contradict. Claiming you only have "one shot" at salvation once you wilfully sin is a huge loaded gun and one that can easily be proved false by any hypocritical Christian. NOBODY would be saved then. A lot of these 'works salvation' types eventually burn themselves out, or the effectual gaslighting runs its course and they become jaded about Christianity as a whole.

Those who continue to misread basic concepts in the Bible by refusing God's System never come to the knowledge of truth, live in more sin than those who already know the truth and intentionally sin, how's that for irony:

2 Timothy 3:7 always "learning", and never able to come into the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:7 πάντοτε μανθάνοντα καὶ μηδέποτε εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας ἐλθεῖν δυνάμενα.

1 John 3:9 whoever is born from {the} God doesn't produce sin; for His seed remains within him: and he (is) not able (to) sin, because from {the} God (he's) born.

1 John 3:9 πᾶς ὁ γεγεννημένος ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ ἁμαρτίαν οὐ ποιεῖ, ὅτι σπέρμα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ μένει· καὶ οὐ δύναται ἁμαρτάνειν, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ γεγέννηται.

1 John 5:18 We know that whoever is born from {the} God doesn't sin; but (the) One (who) is born from {the} God protects them, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

1 John 3:9 Οἴδαμεν ὅτι πᾶς ὁ γεγεννημένος ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐχ ἁμαρτάνει, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ γεννηθεὶς ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ τηρεῖ αὐτόν, καὶ ὁ πονηρὸς οὐχ ἅπτεται αὐτοῦ.

On closer inspection in the Greek, neither 1 John 3:9 and 1 John 5:18 explicitly say you CANNOT or WILL NEVER AGAIN sin in your entire life: rather you won't produce and don't sin when you're simultaneously born of God and refilled... that is until something tempts you or you sin unknowingly. The more Bible Doctrine you have the longer you'll be able to practice being sinless, but in reality we should be using 1 John 1:9 to such a high degree that we're never offline for that long. Once you're offline/unfilled, you're susceptible to demon influence and especially your own self-righteousness.

This is also why many Christians enforce the whole "you must stop sinning" mentality (1 Timothy 2:4). They're carnal, not using 1 John 1:9, and doing exactly what John has pointed out: either saying they no longer can sin or were always sinless, never having the knowledge of the truth. It's indicative of extreme arrogance to say you were always sinless (making a single mistake or gaff in your life proves you're not sinless) and may indicate that they have never believed in Christ PAYING for their sins and as a result, not saved. Why would someone need a saviour if they haven't sinned?

Change is not instant and this applies to all disciplines (you don't become a master chef just by slicing one tomato): with 1 John 1:9 and learning the Bible, you'll naturally sin less as you mature (and for that manner actually learn the sins that you're doing-- for we generically associate what we THINK is a sin from cultural perspectives). Forcefully trying to make yourself stop sinning will just cause more sinning as it's like stepping on a hose where another part pops up; and you'll become more fixated on this than your interest in God.

• It's impossible to know every sin, and we sin without knowing it. Therefore someone who says they are without sin should also be able to relay the impossible and list every single sin. They can't.


• 1 John 1:9 is mandated as a continuous action (if you love or want God). If someone stops they are walking in darkness, unfilled & unable to process the Bible.


• Sin is not the issue in post-salvation as Christianity makes it, it's maturity. And maturity through God's System is the only way you can gradually reduce the systemic chaos of your old sin nature. Ironically those who are opposed to God's System like claiming salvation isn't a gift and that you need works, are enjoying a full dosage of their sin nature and don't want to reduce it.
• If sin was 'an issue' then God would never have made us or made us virtually robots such that our souls remained so small we couldn't interpret the concept of ever sinning violating freedom. Obviously being born in bodies that come prepackaged with the old sin nature is very much deliberate, it's not possible for us to shed the old sin nature until we get a different body: which is one reason why we experience a biological death. To emphasize the concept of sin, God made entropy visible all around us in the universe.
• Obviously sin does affect us which is why we will get divine discipline from what we do, but that's a part of the learning process, and we wouldn't be able to learn without the freedom of being able to 'do the wrong thing'. This is why those who reach pleroma (winning the race) end up with a large soul because they were able to learn with sin being completely 'unlocked' as it were, which is something the angels who haven't sin, can't do. And yes, while the demons have sinned they don't want God and don't have 1 John 1:9, so they can't live & learn Bible while being in a sinful body. It's also actually one of Satan's arguments that God's System is 'too difficult', which is why He's so opposed to it.
• Also, learning in a much lower human body gives you a different perspective as well (humans are "low-to-high" whereas angels are "high-to-low", and there's some things you just can't understand unless you begin 'low' and work your way to 'high')

Is 1 John 1:9 Required to Keep Salvation?

One misreading of 1 John 1:9 is that this is actually tied in with salvation and not carnality. So every time someone sins they "lose their salvation", of course that contradicts with being born again from above and having Christ's righteousness imputed to you: but in this case these people don't understand the concept of the permanent indwelling of the Holy Spirit and the refilling of the Holy Spirit. This is actually very similar to the Catholic view of 'Last Rites'.

Is 1 John 1:9 Reserved for Unbelievers?

Another misreading is that 1 John 1:9 refers specifically to unbelievers who haven't been saved-- or more specifically haven't "confessed" or "acknowledged" their sins. However this then damages the mechanic for post-salvation sin. What HAPPENS when you sin after salvation (and you will, and probably even more often than you did before you believed)? God chooses not to be in the presence of sin, so while He dwells in you at the same time, something will have to happen: and the re-filling resolves this problem.

Spending God's Wealth

With the mechanic of 1 John 1:9, this allows you to operate under your Royal Priesthood (1 Peter 2:9) with asking God for anything (Matthew 17:20), it's important for us to spend His wealth by asking for everything to His plans. But with much power comes much responsibility. Satan is watching carefully what we ask, and if we ask for the wrong thing he'll petition God to grant it, oh yes he's that petty. So there's a balance between:

1. Not asking God for anything [and/or] never using 1 John 1:9
• Unfortunately this is the majority of Christendom, your prayers hit a brick wall without 1 John 1:9


2. Not making the 'big asks' of God
• If you don't think God is going to honour a request you place Him in a finite container, and if you don't think you're worthy of making a specific request you undermine your own Royal Priesthood.


3. Asking for the wrong things
• While it's not wrong to ask for things for yourself, a lot of people will ask things from a perspective of selfishness, and you might just be granted this and of course it won't really result in happiness. Paradoxically the people who it would make happy have no interest in God or Bible Doctrine, so they'd never use 1 John 1:9 in the first place.
• It should also obvious that there are some things God won't honour once requested (such as asking for your soul to be turned off, Satan made that request and it was turned down on him as well)


4. Asking for the right things, and asking often


5. Becoming impatient with God and no longer believing God will answer it

Naturally if you're using 1 John 1:9 a thousand times a day, talking with God every waking moment, and applying Bible Doctrine to everything you do... you'll be inclined to start making requests; it's a natural series of progression. Of course if you neglect your relationship with God because you'd rather be entertained by religion or physical things, your prayers will be ignored and you'll start having fantasies over a "dress your own Christ" to whatever your imagination or old sin nature wants.

The biggest 'tell' that your spiritual life is in a decline is when you stop talking to God, not maintaining that 24/7 conversation means you're losing interest.

Miscellaneous

2 Corinthians 6:14 Don't be unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion has light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:14 Μὴ γίνεσθε ἑτεροζυγοῦντες ἀπίστοις· τίς γὰρ μετοχὴ δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἀνομίᾳ; ἢ τίς κοινωνία φωτὶ πρὸς σκότος;

This verse is in regards to a believer and unbeliever marrying one another and therefore being 'unequal'. It has nothing to do with the usual works-centric nonsense most of Christianity conflates it with.

Of course you're more than welcome to do so and God will allow it (just as He allows a lot of our antics in pure freedom), but you'll be punished for it.

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