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First John chapter 2 beginning at verse 1 my little children these things I write to you that you may not sin and if anyone sins we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he himself is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the whole world now by this we know that we know him if we keep his commandments he who says I know him and does not keep his commandments as a liar the truth is not in him but whoever keeps his word truly the love of God is perfected in him by this we know that we are in him he who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked and so as mentioned I'm going to look at verses one and two that actually gives to us an opportunity to harken back to chapter one to get the flow of what is taking place it lays a foundation for us and they will move into verses three through six and conclude today's time in the word where we're looking at the subject of a walk in the light now John has been instructing his readers concerning the fact that God is liked when you read the writings of John he likes to make statements concerning what God is God is spirit he says those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John says he that God is love he that loveeth not knoweth not God he said for God is love so he likes to make and he does make these these statements about God to give to us an insight into what God is or who God is God is is light God is spirit and and the bottom line is is that the Lord God has as certain qualities about him that John wanted us to know so he had just instructed his readers concerning the fact that God is light you see that in verse one of chapter rather verse five of chapter one when he said this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you that God is light and in him is no darkness at all so God is light that agrees obviously with the Old Testament Psalm 104 verse 2 it simply says he wraps himself in light as with a garment and so when it speaks concerning God as light that's intended to reveal to us that God is holy and that God is righteous because God is holy and because God is righteous those who are his children are also going to live as holy and righteous people we will live holy lives and righteous life and that's why John in verse seven of chapter one again encourages us to walk in the light he says in verse seven if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin and so God is light we as his children are to walk in light so walking in light is another way of saying we live a righteous life living a righteous life we have fellowship with God living in a particular way enables us to continue in our fellowship with God and we live in a continuing walk of fellowship with God because we understand that God is holy in Psalm 99 verse 5 it simply says exalt the Lord our God and worship at his footstool he is holy in Isaiah 5 verse 16 it reads the Lord Almighty is exalted by his justice the holiness of God is displayed by his righteousness Isaiah 57 15 thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him who has a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones God is in scripture over and over again referred to as the one who is holy he is exalted he is righteous so if God is holy then those who are truly his children will also be holy in 1st Peter 1 15 and 16 now you must be holy in everything you do just as God who chose you to be his children is holy for he himself has said you must be holy because I am holy and so they're going to walk in the light and as they're walking in the light as we walk in the light we will maintain close fellowship with God and so that's the call like it says in Isaiah 2 verse 5 oh house of Jacob come ye let us walk in the light of the Lord so walking in the light walking in the light is a way of life that is centered on fellowshiping with God and honoring God walking in the light is evidence that you have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ Jesus in John 8 verse 12 said I am the light of the world whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life in John 12 verses 35 and 36 Jesus told them you're going to have the light just a little while longer walk while you have the light before darkness overtakes you the man who walks in the dark does not know where he's going put your trust in the light while you have it so that you may become sons of light we are to walk in the light because we have the light of life we can walk in darkness or we can walk in light and and I know I know the difference and all of us do spiritually know the difference between walking in spiritual darkness and walking in spiritual light we know that we've been enlightened by the Holy Spirit when we got saved he opened up opened us up he illuminated our darkened understanding and he gave to us insight actually we have a look at the face of God through Jesus Christ and and so spiritually we've been made alive and we walk in light I I have night blindness and which simply means that if all the lights went off in this room here right now I wouldn't move because if I did you'd hear a sound of me falling on this table here I mean I couldn't I couldn't see the edge of this in the dark and and you know I came walking a couple years ago I came walking out of the back and the main sanctuary that came walking out of the back towards the stage area to go into the front of the church all the lights were off and I didn't see a thing until I bumped into one of the props that we had for VBS and when I hit that prop I it hit I hit it so hard and I stopped so abruptly I pulled my hamstring and so for me to walk in the darkness is not only something that's not real wise but it's also painful and so if you're walking in darkness is it's unwise and it in ultimately will be painful some who are claiming to be Christians in 1st John were not walking in the light and they were claiming to know the Lord but they weren't walking in light and that is confusing to those who are watching them so John is giving tests as to whether or not they truly are Christians how am I gonna put this because I didn't really mark this down I didn't write notes so I could clearly say it so I'll say it in a muddled fashion but hopefully it'll make some sense to you we've been going through John rather I'm sorry we've been going through Matthew on Sunday morning and we've been in as you know those of you who've been with us we've been in the Sermon on the Mount and we've been going through chapter 7 we're about to conclude chapter 7 next time we get together and when we began chapter 7 remember how the Lord Jesus Christ in the first verse there gave a scripture that I mentioned to you is probably one of the most misquoted scriptures in the Bible where he says judge not lest ye be judged and and I was mentioning to you that there are quite a number of people who who feel that that Jesus Christ is is saying do not be discerning you see we are not the ultimate judge of anybody God is the ultimate judge we know that and yet we have to have discernment it's interesting how that Jesus says do not judge and and then goes right on into telling us don't be casting your pearls before swine and then and then he begins to speak later on as we've recently seen concerning false teachers and you'll know them by their fruit Jesus was not saying for us not to be discerning what Jesus was saying is that if you're going to be making judgment the very first person you ought to judge is yourself because how can you remove a speck from a brother's eye when you yourself you said have a beam in your own so the real beginning of judgment is always self judgment because listen because when you examine your own life it brings humility into you because you're aware of the grace of God and how much needed it is for me and therefore I'm not going to judge you harshly because I see myself for who I am that will bring humility so that I can be an encouragement to you to walk for Jesus Christ so it's not it's not intended to destroy it's intended to encourage people and so don't have a judgmental spirit when you're trying to bring somebody to a correct place in the Lord always examine yourself first so that you may first see yourself for what you are how much you need Jesus Christ it brings humility into you you won't speak with arrogance and you'll have wisdom and discernment when it comes to bringing correction right and so that's what the Lord would teach us to do it's not that that I should ignore sin that's obvious because if I really love a person and they're in sin the real love is to encourage them to walk right with God that's real love that's why Paul would ask the Glacians have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth is it so difficult for you to receive from me Paul an apostle is it so difficult for you to receive from me the truth to the point that you have thought I'm your enemy because I point out areas of your life that God wants to work in so he can bless you is that how it's gotten now that was back in the time of Paul is it that way today absolutely absolutely the message I just gave just this last week you know there are those who think that the message I was giving is a judgmental message but in reality it's a call for us to be careful that we don't have just a head faith or a said faith but an actual living faith and so what I was sharing with you on Sunday is really this is part two in a way I wanted to build on that a little bit further so that we might understand what it means to walk in the light and so some were claiming here in 1st John to be Christians but they were not walking in the light and that brings confusion and so John gives them three tests of whether or not they're believers first you see that the first test in chapter 1 verse 6 where he says if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not practice the truth the first test is do you live in habitual sin if you live a life of habitual sin unrepentant habitual sin you're not fellowshiping with the holy god second you see in verse 8 where he says in chapter 1 if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us second there are those who are denying that they had a sin nature and if you deny you have a sin nature you don't understand your own nature and then third verse 10 of chapter 1 if we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar his word is not in us and so another another way to test is do you deny that you even sin my mom was sharing the gospel with a woman and thought that she had thoroughly covered what needed to be shared in order for the woman to have enough gospel to make a decision for christ and mom said to the woman would you like to receive the lord as your savior and and the woman said yes i would so my mom says let's pray together repeat after me father forgive me a sinner and the woman said now wait a minute i'm not a sinner and and there are people who are that way because we we get the idea of sinner and we say well you know only the worst of the worst are really sin hitler he's a sinner you know or charlie manson the last from the past some of you younger people charlie manson was a monster from the 70s and so he is evil incarnate and so they say well i'm no hitler i'm no manson i'm not like that no what he's saying is one if you deny that you have a sin nature you don't have a relationship with the lord or two if you deny that you sin you don't understand what holiness is and so john desires these believers to walk in fellowship with the lord and that's why he's instructing them and that's why he says in verse one of chapter two my little children these things i write to you that you may not sin i'm writing this so that you might live a life that is pleasing to god now when you go through first john in the letter first john john lists at least four reasons for the letter being written he said in chapter one verse four that the letter is written that they might have joy in chapter two verse 26 he has written to keep them from deception and then in chapter five verses 11 through 13 he writes to give them an assurance of salvation here he is saying i'm writing to keep you from living a life in bondage to an earmarked by sin now john is writing from what is called a shepherd's heart notice how he begins here in this verse he says my little children my little children that's a very that's a tender way for this elderly apostle to be writing to these people he could have been 90 years old or so at the time that he wrote this and so he says my little children the word is used when he speaks concerning little children is used as a term of endearment and it would be used by teachers when they spoke to their disciples so he's an older man he loves these these readers as as little children and as a pastor he has a great concern for the welfare of the church john's desire that all pastors would share is for the church to have joy for the church to live holy lives that are filled with god's love and god's truth when he writes his third letter in third john verse four he says it like this he said i have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth and that's a genuine desire for every true shepherd so here in verse 20 simply says i write that you may not sin i'm encouraging you to live a life of holiness now when he says that you may not sin that's a reference to a life that's earmarked by and filled with the continuous and he's saying i'm writing to you that you don't live a life of continual and habitual sin uh i i had mentioned i i mentioned this yesterday when i was speaking to the to the pastor's oh and i'll but i mentioned it some of you perhaps were in the church service when i said this and i'll say it a second time of this time hopefully we'll clarify what could have been and was misunderstood when i was sharing that my son joseph had had a uh a conversation with the man when joseph was going to bible college at murietta and this man had said to joseph what is it that your father has done in your life that has helped you to stay solid with jesus christ and i mentioned that joseph told the man my father has never intentionally sinned in front of me my father has never intentionally sinned in front of me and i said to the church that's true and it is true i've never intentionally sinned well somebody was really upset not upset but questioned are you saying you're perfect of course and that was an honest question and i think it was it was a good question it was nothing wrong with the question i think it was a good question were you saying you're perfect and the answer of course is no now what i was saying is and i'll say it again is that i didn't intentionally have i sinned of course of course have i intentionally that's different that's a different intent is entirely different there are times that you sin you miss the mark not because you're planning to it's because you do because you have sin nature and you might be doing the best you can walking with the lord something happens you lose your temper something goes on that that you know jesus isn't there and the flesh is and your kid sees it well that's one thing that's not something you planned on doing you didn't wake up this morning saying let's see at about 1115 i'm going to hit my thumb with a hammer and probably say some words that they've never heard before strung together in a way that is very creative you more than likely didn't do that and so there's a difference between intent and entering in through a weakness of the flesh that's why we pray that we enter not into temptation the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak right and so he's not speaking about the fact that people sin he's saying i'm writing this so that you don't live a life of continual and habitual sin that sin will become the infrequent element of your life not the thing that people know you about by and and that's what he wants i want you to live a life that's not in bondage so he's encouraging his readers to live a life that's airmarked by holiness and and it's not a continual sin some people will beat themselves up because you you aren't perfect you know and and i don't want to give anybody permission to go out and continue sinning tonight i'm not gonna say you know what you know god loves you and he said he said he loves him so i'll go out and have a beer and celebrate i'm not saying that what i'm saying is don't beat yourself up because you're not perfect you know don't beat yourself up you know i think if you're anything like like me you probably are your own worst critic anyway i i mean people have they've told me what a sinner i am and i say you don't even really know me i'm worse than what you think i mean so so when have i ever presented myself as being perfect you know i'm not i am a sinner in need of the grace of god and just like you but over time god works in your life and your appetites change and you have a hunger for him more and more and you desire more of his spirit and you walk more with more fruit in the spirit in his life because that's the process that's called sanctification where where the that old way of life is is is gradually but surely is is is fading and this walk of the spirit is on the ascendance and that that that does happen and god does work in that way in our lives and so that's why he would have written chapter one verse nine when he said if we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness now because he wrote that some may have considered that permission to continue in sin so he makes his purpose of writing this letter very clear do not continue living in sin again no matter how much we desire to live right we will fall short and we will sin that is part of our human nature and because that is true god has made provision for us notice what he says in verse one if anyone sins we have an advocate with the father jesus christ the righteous he himself is the propitiation for our sins not for ours only but also for the whole world in bible it's interesting you have one referred to as your adversary your adversary is who satan the devil you have what is called an adversary and the bible in first peter chapter five verse eight says be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour in revelation 12 10 i heard a loud voice saying in heaven now has come salvation and strength and the kingdom of god and the power of christ for the accuser of our brother in his cast down which accused him before our god day and night so you have an adversary and that is a prosecuting attorney some of you have been arrested i know and you've gone to court and you had a prosecuting attorney who did everything that they could do to prove you guilty he is your adversary in court used to be called the adversary because he was going after you and bring it up all that you did and details and getting you to admit to him and so you have an adversary even if you've never been to jail even if you've never been to court you you have an adversary his name is satan oh he wants to rip you apart he really does i mean god loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life satan hates you and wants to destroy it never forget that that is so basic never forget it please lodge that remember that satan hates you he is a thief he steals he kills he destroys he is a liar he is the father of lies he is a murderer from the beginning he wants to destroy you this isn't science fiction this isn't mythology this isn't fantasy this is bible he's called your adversary and he accuses you that one there says they're yours but look at what they just did that one there says they're christian did you hear what he just said to his wife did you see the way he just looked at that woman oh she says she loved you did you just hear what she said about her sister i thought gossip is a sin and yet this one claims to be yours how many sins does it take for you to go to hell one of the enemies the user and he accuses you night and day before the throne of god think about that for a minute he's busy accusing and you know what no doubt about it i'm guilty but then my advocate walks into the courtroom jesus and jesus who is my defense attorney says that one belongs to me my blood has been applied to their sin they have confessed and they've been forgiven and god's holy gavel hits that desk and he says not guilty now that's good news that is good news that's good news not guilty not guilty not guilty because the blood of jesus christ his son cleanses us from all sin that's why it wasn't cheap grace is not cheap but it was so costly that we will give our lives to follow him every day for what he has done for us there's a man we are all familiar with his name is joe one of these days we're going to meet him face to face in heaven and joe was going through such terrible times that he cried out and he wished that he had someone who could be his defense attorney it's found in the book of joe chapter nine verses 30 through 35 he said even if i work to wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye to make them absolutely clean you would plunge me into a muddy ditch and i would be so filthy my own clothing would hate me god is not a mortal like me so i cannot argue with him or take him to trial if only there were a mediator who could bring us together but there is none the mediator could make god stop beating me i would no longer live in terror of his punishment then i could speak to him without fear but i cannot do that in my own strength jesus is your mediator what joe had wanted we have and that's what jesus is portrayed here as doing he john is saying we have nothing that we can plead before god to gain forgiveness but jesus acts as our defense attorney and he pleads our case before his father in heber 7 25 he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto god by him seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them he makes intercession for them and he makes intercession for us now jesus according to verse two is what is called the propitiation the word propitiation speaks of appeasing the anger of god you see god is angry with sin and psalm 7 verse 11 god is a righteous judge a god who expresses his wrath every day in john 3 36 whoever believes in the sun has eternal life whoever rejects the sun will not see life but god's wrath remains on him and because god is angry with sinners and hates sin god has dealt with it and he did it personally so jesus not only is our advocate he is our atoning sacrifice he is the propitiation for our sins jesus died for our sins he died for the sins of the whole world and because of that verse three by this we know that we know him if we keep his commandments he who says i know him and does not keep his commandments is a liar the truth is not in him whoever keeps his word truly the love of god is perfected in him and by this we know that we are in him he who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked salvation in other words is more than simply gaining information about god it says in verse three we know that we know him if notice if we keep his commandments so how do you know if you really love god is a simple test how do you know the answer is very basic you have a desire to keep his commandments the word keep means to attend to carefully to take care of as if you were guarding a treasure to a christian god's word is precious and to be carefully followed god's word changes our lives and the sign that one knows god is obedience to his commands and a life pleasing to him there are those who wonder whether or not they're right with the lord they question their relationship to god and they may have a right to do so if living in accordance to his word is not your concern if you don't really care it's pretty obvious that you may not know him in john 847 it says he who is of god hears god's words that jesus went on to say therefore you do not hear because you're not of god in john 14 21 he who has my commandments and keeps them he it is who loves me and he who loves me shall be loved of my father i will love him and will manifest myself to him yeah do you love do you love his word do you treasure it as it within you do do you seek it as as more important than your daily bread is god's word that important to you when you hear a bible study and and i think i'm speaking to people who who can say yes it is that important to me but it's a good it's a good thing to to consider and hear a bible study do you do you say lord i i i am listening so that i might obey i want my life to be changed i'm not looking i'm not looking at the bible study for opportunities to find permission to express some lusts of my flesh i i actually want to live in such a way that i i really do bring honor to you i've shared this before some of you have heard me say it i've said it in various places i've said it in our church i've said it like this i want to live a life in such a way that when my children will speak at my funeral when they do speak at my funeral i don't want them to have to say things that aren't true about me to make me look good i would like to live a life that they could stand up and with all honesty say this is a man who loved jesus christ that's really what i want that that is my goal and and some people don't understand that sometimes they think that's even melodramatic but it's it's just absolutely true listen i i stood up and i gave messages at my father's funeral and my mom's funeral and the things i wanted to say about them are the things that people needed to know they needed to know and and i want to live in such a way that that when my sons if they can it would be difficult for them to do this but to come up to be able to come up and say this is my father these are the things that he loved i want to live that way that that matters guys that matters and maybe you think i'm just an old man rambling up here and that's possibility maybe i am but it's true and you maybe think oh i'm young that that doesn't matter yes it does i'll tell you man turn around and and you're an old person turn around just turn around and you're an old person that's just a bottom line fact and the bottom line fact it's a fact you know should the lord grant you a long life uh you'll discover that and then you discover um how much time you wasted on things that don't really matter that really just don't they don't matter it doesn't matter oh she did she didn't eat lunch with me couldn't get those shoes i needed those shoes you know that none of that matters jesus taught us that your life does not consist in the abundance of the things that you possess you know there's only one thing and i'm telling you it's so important this is basic basic christianity so basic well done my good and my faithful servant is what you want to hear that's what you want to hear you don't want to hear anything other than that i am telling you you want to hear well done well done and so it doesn't just happen it's something that you die to self daily and pursue him with greater urgency over time you don't want to live in habitual sin any longer you want to be free from its bondage and so you know john is saying by this we know that we know him if we keep his commandments all right is his word dear to us do we desire to obey him do we want to keep now i want you to note the word commandments because i'm going to show you something in a second if we keep his commandments he who says i know him and does not keep his commandments is a liar the truth is not him so somebody's oh yeah i'm a christian you know i'm a christian you know past that do be over here whatever you call it now that medicinal or whatever i just want to keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous they're not burdensome they set you free now john is saying somebody who confesses jesus but doesn't truly obey him is not telling the truth and that's one of the ways a false christian will be revealed now again this isn't giving us a commanded judge one another but it is a call to be discerning in a time when some were professing to be christians believers needed to be wise now notice something here when he says in verse five but whoever keeps his word truly the love of god is perfected now when you looked at verse three it says keep his commandments notice verse four he says i know him and does not keep his commandments but now we have verse five whoever keeps his word there's a difference let me share with you the basic difference this will help you it's helped me anyway i hope it helps you too commandments word do they mean the same thing the answer is no commandments are things that god said specifically that pertain to what you should do or not do word speaks about something a bit different when he speaks concerning word it is not necessarily a written command but is an insight into his wishes now what do i mean by that it's easy to illustrate uh i've got a lot of parents in here perhaps some of you have children who have gotten into their teen years i had four teenagers oh i felt so sorry for marie so you have a son you say to your son listen son where are you going your son says i'm going to go over to bill's house you say to your son bill huh you know son i really i don't feel good about bill i think that he's kind of a sneaky kind of guy i think he's influencing you in a way that i don't want you influenced so i don't want you to go to bill's house okay dad so later on he comes home and you say where'd you go i went to jim's house who was there oh christ and mike and bill now wait a minute anybody ever hear anything like that now wait a minute i said i didn't want you hanging around bill no you didn't what you said is you don't want me to go to his house and i didn't go to his house he went to jim's house anybody ever hear anything like that what what are you dealing with commandments and words that's the difference a commandment is specific word is intent so it may not specifically say thou shalt not shoot up heroin thou shalt not drink boilermakers doesn't say it specifically says i'm not supposed to be drunk on wine but doesn't say that i and that's when you start playing with the word of god to try and find a loophole to do the thing that you want to do and he said it's not just a specific command it's also knowing the wishes of your god and what is it what is it it's it's saying love him so much that you don't want to do anything that you feel would be displeasing to him is that heavy is that that is heavy because that's demanding not that we should imagine oh i'm going to imagine a bunch of things and become a Pharisee no that's not what i'm saying what i'm saying is lord i just i want to live in a life in a way that you're pleased you're pleased with me and and i want to keep your commandments but i also want to keep the essence of your word i want to keep the flow of it you want me to live a pure life you didn't give me specific commands pertaining to every single thing in life but you did say this you did say that i should pursue you with all of my heart you did say that i should love you and that's what i want to do and and i want to keep your commands the things that you specifically have told me to do i want to do that and even the things that that i may it may not be specifically saying i can't do that i want to be careful that i just live in a way that pleases you and and the point he's making isn't that we get into legalism at all it's that we just love god enough to just stay away from the things that he's grieved by just love him like that yeah that's christianity anything less than that we're not really really loving him are we anything less than just my whole heart on a daily basis you know when i first got saved and somebody said you need to love the lord and this and that i said man i don't know i i i i you know i want to but i'm not sure that i i've got it in me it's not that at all it's that he gives the holy spirit to live within you and all you need to do is begin to love him and just enjoy him and and i guarantee you the more you enjoy him the last things that displease him you'll find yourself doing it's because you love him and you want to be close to him it's not that hard it really isn't you see the first test of a disciple is your attitude do you desire to not only do what is expressly said but also what could be inferred and and then there's my activity or my action am i obedient to what he says you see if i want to want to please him and i'm obedient to what i know then god's love will be matured in my life and then finally he says in verse six he who says he abides in him had himself also to walk just as he walked he walked how did he walk well jesus walked with sacrifice in first peter two twenty one to this you were called christ suffered for you leaving you an example that you should follow his steps so he had a sacrificial we walk in love Ephesians five verse two live a life of love just as christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to god and and then we walk in service like it says in john 13 15 i've given you an example that you should do as i have done to you we walk with sacrifice we walk in love and we walk in service if i really love the lord if i'm really abiding in him i'm going to walk like he did i have a grandson two grandsons my Josiah whom i love with all of my heart and the latest one his name is david david erin david erin looks like me i like that i was in my um in the foyer here at our church just this afternoon my son david was here and his son david's with him and um one of our ladies said i've never noticed this said something like this the way you are standing here and your son standing there you guys actually look alike and i said yeah but you know who really looks like me is the baby and if my mom were still with us my mom would say that she'd say it looks just like you and he does and i like it i really do i like it i mean he's got light skin like his daddy and his grandpa he's got brown hair i have baby pictures that if i put next to him you'd think of the same person it's rather cool it's rather cool why am i rambling on like that um i'm old it's because there's a certain joy that you have when one of your kids or baby grand babies and they look like you that's a fact that's just a fact could be that the lord god may have a certain joy when his children are acting like him you think that's possible that he'd be pleased with you because you're walking in sacrifice or walking in service you're walking in love just like him you think that would please the father i believe scripture says it does it pleases him because you like him because isn't that what a christian is by the way you know the word christian simply means little christ that's what it means little christ or christlike that's what christian means it used to be a word that was a slam on christians they were first called christians in antioch and it was a slam oh there go those little christs it was a slam they were actually putting them down they think that it was a it was a knock on them and we turned it around and we said no that's what we want to be like him we want to be like him and what is he he loves he sacrifices he served and so if any man says or any woman says they know him they walk like him a walk in the light