W. Barclay, “There is the gift of victorious strength. John looks on the struggle with temptation as a personal struggle. He does not speak in the abstract of conquering evil; he speaks of conquering the Evil One. He sees evil as a personal power which seeks to seduce us from God. Once Robert Louis Stevenson, speaking of an experience which he never told in detail, said, "You know the Caledonian Railway Station in Edinburgh? Once I met Satan there."

Plain Truth: The darkness cannot overcome the light of Christ in us.

1) Knowledge itself will not remove darkness but intimacy with Jesus will.

2) Grace shines continually yet it's repentance which takes us from the darkness to light.