Walking in the light as God is in the light, is a result of God giving us his righteousness – John is talking about our position here, not our behaviour. In fact most of your arguments against the GRACE message comes from the book of John (and I’ll bet you’ll be throwing some verses from James at us as well pretty soon). That is mostly because legalists that read the book of John see it as a book that tells us what we are supposed to do, instead of reading it in the correct context. John wrote this book to his “little children” who had just come out of the teaching of Gnostics. John was by no means trying to tell them to “DO THIS!” or “DO THAT!” No he was telling them how secure they were in Christ, assuring them of their eternal salvation.

You are in essence contradicting yourself in your previous argument. 1 John 1:7 says EVERY sin, and that to me pretty much means EVERY sin. Rom 6 clearly tells us that our sinful nature (the old man) has been crucified and buried with Christ. It has been REMOVED, Christ cut it out of us with the circumcision not made with hands: Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. If you believe you can “walk in the light” based on your own obedience, why then would you need the blood to continually cleanse you? Because now you are doing it all yourself! No, we walk in the light because we have been given the righteousness of God: 2 Cor 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Yes when we look at our behaviour we will clearly see that we make mistakes every day, but that is because our minds have not been renewed yet. You can read our 2-part series on this topic here:
http://www.newcovenantgrace.com/why-do-christians-sin-pt1/
http://www.newcovenantgrace.com/why-do-christians-sin-pt-2/

In Grace
Andre van der Merwe

“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from every sin” (1 John 1:7). Again, sin here is in the singular form. This does not mean that the blood of the Lord Jesus cleanses the root of sin. The preceding part shows that if we walk in the light as God is in the light, we will have fellowship one with another. After this it says that the blood of His Son also cleanses us from every sin. If this cleansing referred to our sinful nature, and we walked in the light as God is in the light, we would have no sin. How then would there be sins for the blood of the Lord Jesus to cleanse? It is when we walk in the light of the gospel, as God is in the light of revelation, that we see the blood of the Lord Jesus solving all the problems related to our sin. In verse 9 it clearly says that we have sins (plural). Again, we have sins! Therefore, we can see that sin (singular) refers to the sin that dominates within us as master, while sins (plural) refer to our outward conduct. Sin (singular) refers to the whole problem of sin, while sins (plural) refer to specific sins.

If we look at Christ with the eyes of faith and believe that we have been crucified with Christ, we will see that the power of Christ will save us and free us from the power of sin within us. The first step of salvation gives us peace and satisfaction; it causes us to enjoy happiness. The second step of salvation gives us power to be freed from sin and walk in His way. when we feel sin within us we use the Power of the Holy Spirit to confront that sin. When we slip up and fall into the flesh and sin, we confess those sins, the blood of Christ cleanses us and purges us of that unrighteousness so that we a restored to full fellow ship in Christ.