Verse of the Week - 1 John 1:9 - August 8, 2016

We must beware of deceiving ourselves in denying or excusing our sins.
The more we see our sins - the more we should value the remedy - confessing to Christ and living rightly.
If we deny our sins, the truth is not in us,

1. either the truth that is contrary to such denial (we lie in denying our sin)
2. the truth of religion, is not in us.(we are not living according to God's Holy Word, the Bible)

The Christian life is a life of continued repentance, of continual faith in, thankfulness for, and love to the Redeemer, and hopeful joyful expectation of a day of glorious redemption, in which the believer shall be fully and finally acquitted, and sin abolished for ever. 
If we say, We have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us, 

adapted from Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary