...and this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you; that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But what is darkness, what is 'truth?'

Darkness...the absence of light. Darkness, spiritual darkness is the absence of The Light of God, JESUS Christ the LORD. Living among the shadows, the gloom; never quite at peace, seldom content with yourself or your surroundings, this is darkness. Truth defined as that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality is rejected by millions as they embrace what 'they' perceive to be truth. Truth is fluid, ever changing, each generation reassesses and a new truth is born. A women' right to choose, homosexuality, transgender; this is truth for many. JESUS said; I AM the Way, the Truth, the Life...God' Word is truth, it never changes, it is fact, reality, all other truth is man-made conveniences to justify deviate lifestyles, given over to an abhorrent hatred of all that is good in a world reeling with the sin and sickness that is filling hearts and minds, destroying spirit, soul and body. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God...but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ.

Darkness has infiltrated the church in America. Truth no longer finds a place as weekly men and women, the young, the old gravitate to their favorite form of religion. Basking in the glory of their own goodness...rejecting Truth darkness continues to shackle the saints, enslave the evangelicals as the message of the cross slowly dies upon the altar of Baal.