1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,400 This is City Post Church, we're about three things, build 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,000 equipped and send all under the lordship of Jesus Christ, a 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,300 small Church Plant in Fort Worth Texas, who decided to do things 4 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:16,000 a little differently. I would almost I had to Crystal, 5 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,000 I love City Post because of the people. 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:22,100 It's where I belong, we truly preach the word. 7 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:24,100 I love City Post because of the community. 8 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:25,800 We've been able to build to do ministry. 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,800 Like Jesus perlite to push back Darkness. 10 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:41,800 This is City, Post podcast. All right, so we're going to be 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,000 in the book of First, John. We're going to keep trucking 12 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,900 through this thing. Woo. 13 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,900 It's like I feel like we have to like calm down a little bit man. 14 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:58,700 I was like I gotta move. It was good man. 15 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:03,200 That's awesome man. So we're going to be in the book 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,600 of First. John going to be looking 17 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:11,900 starting in verse 8 1:8 before we dive in, let's pray together 18 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:15,800 father we love you and we thank you so much for this time 19 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,800 together and Lord I pray that you speak to us through your 20 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,600 word this morning. God. 21 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:23,300 Pray for myself. Lord that you helped me to 22 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:28,300 remember the things that I've studied father to trust the Holy 23 00:01:28,300 --> 00:01:32,600 Spirit Lord and for any of these ideas not to be mine but to be 24 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,100 all you. So Lord, I pray that you open 25 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:37,900 our hearts and Minds to your word and that you be with us 26 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:39,400 today and your name, we pray all these things. 27 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,900 Amen and Lord. Please don't let the Cowboys 28 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:44,300 choke. I come on man. 29 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:48,700 Play it like you did last week, man. 30 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,700 Let the quarterback. Get a stomach bug. 31 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:56,600 I don't know what they're like, man. 32 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,100 Come on, we can do it. All right, so we're going to be 33 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:01,900 in the book of First John. We're going to dive into it. 34 00:02:02,700 --> 00:02:07,000 So last week we talked about God is light and we talked about 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,699 what that means but I also want to fast forward one other week. 36 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:14,800 So the first week we looked at verses 1 through 4 and we talked 37 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,600 about what this book is about John is writing to the gnostics 38 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,700 and the gnostics. That you could separate the 39 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:25,600 spiritual from the physical. That's right. 40 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,800 The material and there and we looked at the implications of 41 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,400 that. So John immediately Begins the 42 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,100 argument with, you got to get Jesus, right? 43 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,400 You guys got your view of Jesus is all jacked up because they're 44 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,700 like, how can Jesus be 100% man and 100% God at the same time, 45 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:47,300 if the spiritual and the physical don't match up and 46 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:49,500 there in John is like, you guys are wrong. 47 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:53,100 And here's why Then last week, we talked about how God is 48 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:56,500 light. The implications of that and how 49 00:02:56,500 --> 00:03:00,500 because God is light, because of his Holiness, he shines a light 50 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:04,600 on our sin. So if you walk with Christ, if 51 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,600 you claim to walk with Christ, people who walk with Christ, who 52 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,500 love Christ are always confessing their sin because of 53 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:15,100 his Holiness. So I mean, like, you don't 54 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:18,000 become numb to sin. You don't like you, you don't 55 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,100 claim to love Christ and love Jesus, but yeah, Yet live in sin 56 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:25,400 knowingly. So we are going to trip up. 57 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,100 We live in a sinful world but that's why we need his 58 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,300 forgiveness. And pretty much what John is 59 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:35,000 doing here. Is, he's sorting out the fake 60 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,400 Believers from the real ones and that's kind of what our culture 61 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,900 is doing right now. And I truly believe that's what 62 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:46,800 God's word is doing right now because there's a difference 63 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:51,400 between someone who professes Christ and someone who possesses 64 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,900 Christ, there's a difference between someone who's in church 65 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,100 and someone who's in Jesus, like we see these things and I mean, 66 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:02,800 like, let's just be honest, we Live in Texas in north Texas. 67 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:07,900 We are the belt buckle of the Bible Belt and going to church, 68 00:04:07,900 --> 00:04:10,500 has become, like, a cultural thing. 69 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:14,300 People go to church for so many different reasons and what we 70 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:16,300 need to look at. We didn't make sure that it's 71 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:20,100 not about attendance. It's not about just showing up 72 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:21,800 to something, it's not about serving. 73 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,700 The good of the community. No, it's about surrendering your 74 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:29,300 life to King Jesus. It's about his lordship. 75 00:04:29,300 --> 00:04:32,800 It's about following. Him and John is calling out 76 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,300 these folks. So we saw there's like to test 77 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:39,300 that John is pretty much doing to everyone right now. 78 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,700 Number one is the Christ test, which we saw the last couple of 79 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:45,100 weeks. So, who do you say Jesus? 80 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:48,300 Is because, if you get Jesus wrong, then you can't get right 81 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:50,900 with God. So, that's the first smart. 82 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:53,700 But then the second Mark, is the confession test. 83 00:04:54,700 --> 00:04:59,400 Because there's no one in the history of Christendom that has 84 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:02,500 come into salvation without confession of sin. 85 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,500 You just can't sign up for it like there's got to be some 86 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:10,200 confession of sin. There's got to be some kind of 87 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,200 of you saying, I need a savior and John is also going to go in 88 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,700 and say you can't separate regeneration and sanctification. 89 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:25,600 So if you say, your heart has been regenerated by Stiff, God 90 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,800 changed your life. That means, from that point on, 91 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,400 he's going to be keep forming, you toward the image of his son. 92 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,000 That's what we call, sanctification, and you are 93 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,800 going to become Sanctified until you reach glorification, which 94 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:46,700 is Us in heaven with Christ. So there is no Ann's if there's 95 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:50,800 no division here, if you claim to know Christ, and that means 96 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:54,700 your life is becoming Sanctified, you're being modeled 97 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:58,200 into the image of God through the holy spirit. 98 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,800 So John is going to go through this back and forth here because 99 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,800 if you look at verses 6, 8 and 10, they all begin with. 100 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:09,900 If we say John throws that out there. 101 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:15,800 It's like if we say but then verses 7 and 9 The evidence, 102 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,200 it's the if you do. So I'm glad that you're saying 103 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,000 it but the proof is are you doing it? 104 00:06:22,700 --> 00:06:25,600 And John's calling him out on it, he's calling them out on it 105 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,200 and he's calling us out on it too. 106 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,100 You see, you can't separate those two. 107 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:33,000 I mean, think about it. It's like if Jesus says, narrow 108 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,500 is the gate, you can't separate the narrow path of the gate and 109 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:40,300 the path itself. So it's like you don't enter a 110 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:42,800 narrow gate in order to go into a wide path. 111 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:46,800 That doesn't make any sense. Jesus is saying no like narrow 112 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,700 is the gate because Narrows the path. 113 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:53,200 That's kind of what he's calling us to and the truth is, a lot of 114 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,100 us believe that if you walk a now you raise a hand. 115 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:57,900 You join a church, you teach a class. 116 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,400 Some of us even lead worship. We get, baptized you join a 117 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,500 choir but yet your life is never changed. 118 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,600 So you could do all those things that's great. 119 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:13,100 But the, the true, it has your life and transformed by Jesus 120 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:17,000 and John even calls it out and the Book of John chapter 3, 121 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,600 where he talks to Nicodemus, and he's like, you've got to be born 122 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,000 again. And he talks about all the 123 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,500 implications of that So, look at verse 8. 124 00:07:26,500 --> 00:07:27,800 So, with that being said, let's jump in. 125 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,400 Look at verse 8, if we claim to be without sin, we deceive, we 126 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,100 deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 127 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,300 So in verse 8, John is immediately going to the false 128 00:07:38,300 --> 00:07:40,400 teachers. Now, remember the false teachers 129 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,900 were saying that we are enlightened, we have the 130 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:48,500 revelation, we have the truth of God in our lives but yet we 131 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:50,700 could live anyway. We want to because the body is 132 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:53,300 not connected with the spirit and we talked about, you know, 133 00:07:53,308 --> 00:07:58,700 we do that too. So he's immediately saying if we 134 00:07:58,700 --> 00:08:05,600 claim so that means y'all to that we have that we are without 135 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,100 sin, we are playing ourselves, we are deceiving ourselves. 136 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:16,000 There's no way if someone admits of being a sinner or if you 137 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,500 don't admit to being a sinner there's no way salvation could 138 00:08:18,500 --> 00:08:20,900 be in. You See, these guys were 139 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:23,700 floating around saying, everybody else is wrong, except 140 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:27,200 us. And John is calling them out on 141 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,600 their fill-in-the-blank. He's like, no, this is not the 142 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,700 way it works. So, let's go ahead and dive in 143 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:36,400 the verse 9. This is where I really want us 144 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:41,000 to kind of dig our heels in. Look at verse 9 and 10, if we 145 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 confess our sins, he is faithful. 146 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,900 And just, and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all 147 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:57,300 unrighteousness verse 10. If we claim we have not sinned, 148 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:02,400 we make him out to be a liar. And his word is not in US. 149 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,100 Whoa, so we got to go back. Look at verse 9. 150 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:10,200 Let's dissect this because man, these next couple of verses are 151 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,300 so powerful because John is going to be talking about how 152 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:20,100 this all works with forgiveness here if we confess our sins. 153 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,500 So that means that there must be a declaration of you confessing 154 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:28,800 your sin, it must be on your own terms. 155 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:33,500 You can't confess something just because you feel bad, you 156 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:36,400 confess it to a holy and righteous God because you 157 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,900 understand who he is and you understand who you are, like I 158 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:43,500 sinned against a holy and righteous God. 159 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,100 Like that there should be something in me that the Holy 160 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:51,800 Spirit would convict me of that. That's how that's a true sign of 161 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,700 a Believer right there. So as Christians, we are 162 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:02,600 lifelong, confession, errs. We are always confessing our 163 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,700 sins to God. If you fail, a hundred times, 164 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:11,400 you run back to Jesus 101 times. There's always there's something 165 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:16,700 in us that when we do sin, we feel convicted about it. 166 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:20,900 We confess it to God, but it doesn't stop there because 167 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:22,200 there's got to be something called. 168 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,700 Repentance. Repentance is an about-face. 169 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:27,800 Right. It's like you turn around so 170 00:10:27,808 --> 00:10:29,200 there's got to be something in you. 171 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,200 That's like I keep failing but I'm going to do whatever it 172 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,500 takes not to do this anymore. That's when repentance hits. 173 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:40,500 There's got to be something in you. 174 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:42,200 When you're like, this has got to stop. 175 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:48,300 You see the word confess actually means that you cease in 176 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:52,400 the same way, God sees it. That means that you disagree 177 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,800 with it the same way God disagrees with it. 178 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:59,200 It's like, man, like you're bothered by your sin. 179 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:07,200 So if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just we got to 180 00:11:07,208 --> 00:11:10,800 break that down too because that's big-time right here, he's 181 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,500 talking about. So who's faithful and just Jesus 182 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:15,600 is faithful and just what does he is? 183 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,900 Faithful actually mean, he is faithful says he will do exactly 184 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:24,200 what he said he's going to do no ends at no ifs, ands or buts 185 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,900 about it. If Jesus said, if God says he's 186 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:30,100 going to do something is going to happen, it's going to be 187 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:33,700 done. So he is faithful what Be 188 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:36,900 faithful to read the vest rest of verse 9. 189 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,300 To forgive us of our sins and purify and purify us from all 190 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:46,200 unrighteousness. So, Jesus is not just faithful, 191 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,900 he's not only going to do it because he said he's going to do 192 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:52,500 it, but he's just, that means he's Equitable. 193 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,500 That means like, there is no underlining. 194 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,100 There's no small print here is not like, I'm going to forgive 195 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:03,700 your sins, but you must sacrifice things in your life in 196 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:06,600 order to repay me. That's not how this works here. 197 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:09,800 And I'm just going to call it out. 198 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,100 I know a lot of us fall into that especially before Easter 199 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:17,200 hits where we decide to give something up to try to make God 200 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,200 a little happier with us. That's not what it says here. 201 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:25,300 Because what it says here is that he's not just faithful but 202 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:29,300 he's just And I mean, it's a good restart. 203 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,400 We could give up, dr. Pepper or chocolate? 204 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:38,900 Because it's going to help us. But if you think that, that is 205 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:46,200 going to, please the Lord. You're wrong and I'm sorry, but 206 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,300 that's not the right theology here because there's nothing 207 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:54,300 that you can do to appease God's Wrath. 208 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:58,100 Especially something like giving up candy. 209 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:03,600 So we need to make sure that we get these Traditions, right? 210 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,100 Because he is faithful, he was going to, he's going to do what 211 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:09,400 he says he's does. He is just, that means he's 212 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:12,900 Equitable. There is no underlying, God is 213 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:19,400 righteous to forgive our sins, and he will forgive our sins and 214 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,500 purify us. So there is a cleanse to this 215 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,300 because when we sin and we, we get in our sin, it's almost like 216 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:31,400 you feel kind of dirty about it. Like, there's like this guilt 217 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,600 and shame that falls on your shoulders. 218 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,500 And you just kind of feel like, oh, man, like I got to go into 219 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:40,600 hiding right now and what Jesus is saying is I'm not just going 220 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,800 to forgive your sins, but I'm going to free you of that. 221 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,700 You see, there is no such thing as guilt-based faith. 222 00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:53,100 Our faith is not out of guilt. If you're feeling guilt and 223 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:56,300 shame, that is not coming from God, that's coming from 224 00:13:56,300 --> 00:14:01,000 somewhere else because God does not operate in a guilt pushed 225 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,900 religion, he doesn't operate that we don't go based off of 226 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,500 guilt, we go based off of conviction because God is light 227 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:12,800 and he is highlighting our sin. And I know sometimes our 228 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:19,100 families guilt us into things. But the truth is, we don't 229 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:22,800 worship our families. Our families are not faithful 230 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:28,600 and just to forgive our sins Christ is So when people try to 231 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:34,000 kind of guilt you into things, you remember who's the one that 232 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,400 forgave my sins and purified me of all unrighteousness. 233 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:41,700 And that's what keeps me looking forward. 234 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,800 Like my Ricky but like, my family loves me. 235 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:52,500 I know my family loves me too, but they also understand that 236 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,700 there's somebody greater that I serve. 237 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,800 So, we've got to make sure that we do not get pushed into this 238 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,700 whole guilt driven Faith because that's not what the word says. 239 00:15:07,100 --> 00:15:10,500 So he calls us. When we feel dirty and unclean 240 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:15,200 because of our sin, he cleanses us of all unrighteousness. 241 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:19,400 So wherever sin, abounds Grace is greater. 242 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,100 We are covered by his grace. He covers us and no matter what 243 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:29,400 you've done, Jesus is greater Isaiah 1:18. 244 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,700 I'm just going to go and read this just for time sake. 245 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,300 Isaiah 1:18 says come. Now let us settle. 246 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:42,200 The matter, says the Lord though your sins are like Scarlet. 247 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,300 They shall be white as snow though. 248 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:48,800 They are as red as Crimson. They shall be like wool. 249 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,700 See what Christ does is that he he doesn't just forgive us but 250 00:15:52,700 --> 00:15:57,000 he cleanses us. He cleanses us of our guilt and 251 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,400 our shame. He covers it and I will say 252 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:07,000 this, even even if Are slow to confess Christ. 253 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:12,300 Is quick to forgive. So, your confession does not 254 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:17,500 determine how Jesus forgives us. So there might be something that 255 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:21,400 we're holding onto for years. And we're like so ashamed of it, 256 00:16:21,408 --> 00:16:23,900 like my house. Jesus going to, like, forgive me 257 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:27,700 because I've been, like, just into this thing in crisis. 258 00:16:27,700 --> 00:16:30,400 Like, I don't just ask for forgiveness and I'll give it to 259 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,800 you. It is made available to you, but 260 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:39,400 you must confess your sin. So even though you're slow to 261 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:44,100 confess Christ is quick to forgive and if you don't 262 00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:48,900 remember anything else today, please know that, then verse 10. 263 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:54,600 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar, 264 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:59,500 and his word is not in a. So now what John is doing, he's 265 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:03,000 he's talking to the he's addressing those fake those 266 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,099 false teachers, but now he's kind of Shifting the focus to 267 00:17:07,099 --> 00:17:11,200 the The fake Believers, the false teachers, he calls out a 268 00:17:11,208 --> 00:17:15,099 little bit but now he's going to the false believers. 269 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:19,300 And when he's calling him out on his, their view on sin. 270 00:17:20,099 --> 00:17:22,599 So if you claim, you haven't sinned, and that means that you 271 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:27,200 make him out to be a liar. Now, in verse 6, he talks about 272 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:32,200 how we lie and now I'm verse 10. He's taking it up a notch and 273 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:37,900 he's saying how you're saying that God lies, man, that's big 274 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,900 You're brave soul. If we say we have not sinned 275 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,500 then then we're calling God a liar. 276 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:49,900 Now, a lot of us are like, that's right, but but hold on a 277 00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:54,400 second because I want us to think about this first, what 278 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,900 excuses, do we come up with? For not just our sin, but also 279 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:02,000 our support of sin. Because remember, we saw that in 280 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:07,100 Romans chapter 1 even if you support it, You're in the same 281 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:11,000 gang as those who admire it or doing it. 282 00:18:11,900 --> 00:18:15,700 We might hear things like that's just my personality to my DNA. 283 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,300 It's a mistake. It's just how I am. 284 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:23,300 It's how I Was Made. Listen, if you don't confess to 285 00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:29,400 a holy and righteous God of your sin, Then you're calling him a 286 00:18:29,408 --> 00:18:33,600 big liar. And last time I checked, you 287 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:39,300 didn't create a universe. He did, he's the creator of all 288 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:44,700 things and it is unwise of us to say that God is making stuff up. 289 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,800 When we come up with these man-made thoughts and ideas. 290 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:50,400 That something is our DNA, who cares? 291 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,700 If you were born that way, you're still a sinner and it 292 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:57,800 still must be confessed. Regardless of what you think, or 293 00:18:57,808 --> 00:19:00,700 what people have told you, we are all sinners. 294 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:04,800 We all must confess, our sins, his, and then he tells us he's 295 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:05,900 like you're not just call me a liar. 296 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,200 But his word is not in you. That's a non-believer. 297 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,600 So, if you go around here, like, man, not like, that's not a sin, 298 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,600 that means that his word is not inside of you. 299 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:23,200 There's no conviction at all. Now, I'm not saying good. 300 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,100 Just hate people know, that doesn't give you a license to do 301 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:29,100 that. We love everyone, but you've got 302 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:31,800 to look at yourself inwardly before we start pointing at 303 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,800 everybody else. What am I? 304 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,200 What is God shining a light in my life to point out my sins? 305 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:43,700 So for us to say that God said it but yeah, we deny it, that's 306 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:47,700 crazy, that's crazy, talk. Okay, guy moves. 307 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:50,900 So look at verse verse 1 and chapter 2. 308 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,400 Now John is going to shift his Focus. 309 00:19:53,700 --> 00:19:55,500 So he called out the false Believers. 310 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,600 He looked at kind of the fake Christians that claim to be 311 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,800 followers of Christ but yet there's nothing in their life 312 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:06,000 that shows it But look, all verse 1 starts in Chapter 2. 313 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:12,100 My dear children, I write this to you, so that you will not 314 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:16,500 sin. But if anyone does sin, we have 315 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:20,400 an advocate with the father Jesus Christ. 316 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,100 The righteous one going to go ahead and read verse 2. 317 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:28,300 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for 318 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:33,400 hours, but also for the sins. Of the whole world. 319 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,500 So why do we start? So who's John talking to now? 320 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:40,400 Understand John is pushing about 90 years old right now. 321 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,500 So for him, my dear children, that's kind of like a term of 322 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:49,900 endearment like mijo or like, you know, whatever your parents 323 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:52,200 call you. But he's nine, he's allowed to 324 00:20:52,208 --> 00:20:56,000 call people that, but he's also talking to the brothers and 325 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,900 sisters of Christ. Those are the children are. 326 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:01,300 He's talking about God's children here. 327 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:07,800 So my dear children. I write this to you, so that you 328 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,000 will not sin, the purpose of these Epistles. 329 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:15,300 And John, does this three times throughout the book of First 330 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:18,400 John, he gives a purpose on. Why? 331 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:23,400 The purpose I'm writing you to you, this is that you will not 332 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,600 sin. Now with John saying you will 333 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,200 not send indicates that we will sin. 334 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,700 Right? Like he's calling you out 335 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:35,600 because that's what we do. We are sinners. 336 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,600 We live in a sinful world and he's trying to say, like, the 337 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:44,100 reason I'm writing you today is so that you will not send a k, 338 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:47,100 you will stop living in your sin. 339 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:53,900 Because Jesus is going to be the advocate, the righteous one 340 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,600 that's going to forgive us for this. 341 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:59,600 He's going to go and talk about this here so that you will not 342 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,800 sin and real quickly, I just want to talk a little bit about 343 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,600 Sin. Because there's some things that 344 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,000 the reason why John is calling out, he doesn't want us to sin 345 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:12,200 because he understands what sin does. 346 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:18,100 So, five quick things and I'm going to run through these, what 347 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:21,000 is it, what is it? That sin does to us the 348 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,700 children, number one, sin dishonors, God, and we see that 349 00:22:25,700 --> 00:22:29,600 based off of the text here. We serve a holy and righteous 350 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,700 God. And when we choose to sin, we 351 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:36,300 are saying we're chasing our heart rather than the Holy 352 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:39,000 Spirit we're giving in to ourselves. 353 00:22:39,300 --> 00:22:42,300 So, number one, it dishonors God, number two, you lose your 354 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:45,200 joy. He's talked about that, how 355 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,600 Christ he cleanses us. So when you're buried in guilt 356 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,200 and shame, it's not easy to be joyful in that moment. 357 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:57,700 So when you're in your sin, you lose your joy as well. 358 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,500 Number three, you forfeit spiritual power, you forfeit 359 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:05,300 spiritual power. You know, if you really want to 360 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:08,400 see the Holy Spirit, moving your life, there's going to be some 361 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,400 things in your life that you're going to be like like that. 362 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,300 That's saying I can't have, I can't be around. 363 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:17,500 Can't have that. So whenever you have this 364 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:20,100 habitual sin, whenever there's a sin in your life that you're 365 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:24,000 clinging to, don't be surprised if there's no movement. 366 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:28,800 So we forfeit spiritual Power, number four, it dulls our 367 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:34,200 ministry, we'd all our ministry. So what John is saying is like 368 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,300 liquid, if you claim to know God that means you walk. 369 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:44,700 As he told us to we walk in the light but if you're too busy 370 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:47,700 falling into your selfish desires, what does that? 371 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:51,500 Tell the world. Yeah, you're claiming Christ, 372 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:55,000 you're claiming Joy, you're claiming Freedom that we were 373 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,300 singing about but yet you're in your sin and now you're 374 00:23:59,300 --> 00:24:03,100 depressed and anxious. But yet you serve a God of Peace 375 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:06,900 but your life is chaotic. You see the dualism there. 376 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:11,100 That's exactly what the gnostics were going through and then the 377 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:15,200 last one is we harm. We don't just harm our ministry, 378 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:20,800 but we harm our Witness. Because sin affects everyone 379 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,500 else around us, not just you. I love how selfish we are, 380 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:28,000 sometimes. Well, we think like what we do 381 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,500 is only going to impact us. But in all honesty sent impacts 382 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:38,700 everyone that we're connected to, we don't realize that You 383 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:42,400 know, growing up I went through a phase where I would wear 384 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,600 shoes. I would wear everything chanclas 385 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,100 with no socks. Anybody else here? 386 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,500 No, just me. I'm on an island by myself. 387 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,800 All right, great. And in the early 2000 I had 388 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,700 these like leather Doc Martin sandals. 389 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,000 Remember those. First of all, the problem was 390 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,500 their leather, and if they get a little bit wet and then your 391 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:09,000 feet happened to be on them over time, it smells Terrible. 392 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,900 But I loved it though. So so I kept doing it. 393 00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:19,800 So I would wear shoes with no socks out where my chanclas with 394 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,500 no socks. And after a couple of weeks. 395 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,900 Yeah, right. Even knows, right. 396 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,400 And after she's like sleep, my son and I stopped that way. 397 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,000 I wear socks. Now, you know I changed 398 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:37,000 sanctification, right? But I remember we were taking a 399 00:25:37,008 --> 00:25:39,900 car ride. We were, we were driving and I 400 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:45,800 decided to move my sandals. And the smell just permeated the 401 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,100 cart like slowly, it was like a stink bomb. 402 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:52,000 Went off like, umm, and I'm hit first, so I'm and I start 403 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,300 laughing cause I know it's coming. 404 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,900 Like, this is wonderful. I'm not gonna say a word to 405 00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:57,700 anybody. I'm not even going to do the 406 00:25:57,700 --> 00:25:59,300 silent. Like let me lower my window 407 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:01,100 low-key. Like now we're going to all 408 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:04,200 going to get it. And then all of a sudden people 409 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,100 like start making comments like Mario starts yelling Martinez. 410 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:11,200 So like and I can't breathe. I'm laughing so hard because I 411 00:26:11,208 --> 00:26:13,700 like, oh my God. So is it the Trinity? 412 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:20,700 Like if we passed the trinity, Like is it like we had a dog 413 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:22,600 named shimmy there? Like the shimmy P? 414 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:26,800 Like what is it? But you see like that, that 415 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,900 stench, that smell like it in just impact me. 416 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:35,800 It impacted every single person I was around and whenever we sin 417 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,800 in our lives, that's exactly what it does. 418 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,800 That stink impacts everyone around us, and we don't realize 419 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,300 it for some of us. We think it's funny. 420 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:50,700 But it's not so sin doesn't just piyo guilt and shame on top of 421 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:53,500 you. It also piles selfishness on top 422 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:57,200 of us as well because we think it's all about us and that's not 423 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,900 Freedom at all. So, so John he's like, I write 424 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:08,000 this to you so that you won't sin because he understands the 425 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,800 effects of sin in our lives. Now, John's about to go and 426 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,500 explain a little bit of what this looks like. 427 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:22,300 So he goes and he says, but if anyone does sin, which you are, 428 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:28,800 we have an advocate With the father, Jesus Christ, the 429 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,100 righteous son. This is so cool. 430 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,200 The more you study them like wow this is awesome. 431 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,500 Why does John use the term advocate? 432 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:39,800 a lot of us read this here, like with the Holy Spirits are 433 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:46,400 Advocate and The word advocate here is a it's like a legal 434 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,100 term. It's like a term that you use in 435 00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:53,000 a courtroom like a like a like like there's something going on 436 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,600 with law. We see the same word in John 437 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:02,700 16:7 so it's translated as like a helper like someone that's 438 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:08,600 going to help you to get free. So what what John is saying here 439 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:15,900 is that Jesus is our Advocate. He's like our defense attorney. 440 00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:21,300 So it's almost like a courtroom here, it's like God, holy and 441 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:23,900 righteous. God is the judge, right? 442 00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:28,600 He's the one that his wrath toward sin is the Judgment. 443 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,500 The devil is like the prosecutor. 444 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:32,700 He's the one that's always pointing. 445 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:37,200 Like look what Ricky did, look what he did. like look what you 446 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,100 did last week, look, so he's trying to point you to God and 447 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:46,300 then you have Jesus that I were advocate Who's kind of like our 448 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:49,200 defense now? Ricky, where do you get that 449 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,200 from? Because if you look through 450 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:56,300 scripture, like if you look at the Book of Job, The Book of Job 451 00:28:56,300 --> 00:29:01,300 begins with Satan coming into the presence of God says, I bet 452 00:29:01,300 --> 00:29:03,100 you, I get anybody to turn against you. 453 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:07,300 And then God, says, look at my servant job and then God gives 454 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:10,400 him permission do anything. He wants to, but you don't kill 455 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,800 them and I promise you, he will still not turn against me. 456 00:29:14,900 --> 00:29:20,200 I also see this in Zechariah Chapter 3 Verse 1. 457 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,600 It says, then he showed me Joshua, the high priest standing 458 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:29,900 before the angel of the Lord and Satan standing on his right side 459 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:35,200 to what accuse him, he Satan is our accuser. 460 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:39,800 He's the one that's trying to disprove God's faith. 461 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,200 I mean, his faithfulness and his Justice, he's trying to say, 462 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,400 look, look what, look what your people are doing to you. 463 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,500 They're sinners. Like, what you're claiming is 464 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:51,300 wrong. Wrong. 465 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:57,100 But then Jesus standing at the right hand of the father, being 466 00:29:57,100 --> 00:30:01,500 the defense attorney and then look what it look. 467 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:04,600 What it adds though. In verse 2, he says not just we 468 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,600 have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ, but they look what 469 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,100 he adds. The what the righteous one? 470 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,300 You got to throw that in there. Why? 471 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:18,600 Because Jesus Christ is the only one that has right standing with 472 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,500 the father because he's the only one that lived a perfect in It's 473 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:26,900 in this life and he's the only one that's able to take God's 474 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:30,800 Wrath do sin and satisfies and appease the father. 475 00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:35,700 So, we have Christ who's like that defense attorney. 476 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,900 So whenever the Satan the accuser comes and he's trying to 477 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:43,300 point like, look at all this in you've done, Jesus gets in the 478 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:45,200 way and says, hold on. He belongs to me. 479 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:50,300 I got him, he's mine. And he takes it, and I just want 480 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:53,300 to say this one time, Jesus has never lost a case. 481 00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:59,000 Ever and will never lose a case. Why? 482 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,600 Because he's the righteous one. So what the word says, So we 483 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,000 have this advocate in Jesus, that if you surrendered your 484 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:14,500 life to him, he steps in for us to appease God's Wrath towards 485 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:17,300 sin. So whenever we feel like I'm and 486 00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:21,200 we messed up, if we don't confess, we have this Advocate 487 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,300 that's going to take it for us how wonderful. 488 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,600 It's so many times, man, we fall into this trap of thinking, 489 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:34,600 we've ejected up so bad, that there ain't no way God can 490 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,700 forgive us. And what Jesus is saying now, I 491 00:31:37,708 --> 00:31:40,700 have to send don't fit it. Must have quit Johnnie Cochran. 492 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:45,200 Okay, he steps in and he throws that he's like, no. 493 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:50,000 Like your sin doesn't work here because I've taken it for you. 494 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,000 He's the, he steps in between. And then we had with verse 2. 495 00:31:56,500 --> 00:32:01,300 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 496 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,400 I love that term. He is in other translations. 497 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:11,200 It translates to he himself is the atoning sacrifice. 498 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:16,100 There's a word for that atoning sacrifice more of the accurate 499 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:19,400 translations is the propitiation. 500 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,200 It's a big word, I've had to practice it a lot. 501 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,000 So I could actually say it the propitiation of sin. 502 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,500 The propitiation pretty much means that he's able to satisfy 503 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:36,000 the price. God looks at him says, like, I'm 504 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,500 satisfied with your with the cost. 505 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:47,100 So I'll take that he himself. This is important because Jesus 506 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:48,900 doesn't need anybody else to help him. 507 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:52,500 He doesn't need anyone. He's a committee of one. 508 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,500 He doesn't need any guidance. He doesn't need any help. 509 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,400 He doesn't need help from his mom. 510 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:03,500 Just throwing that out there. He's the only righteous one. 511 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:07,200 He's the only one that is righteous enough. 512 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,200 For propitiation, he's the only one righteous enough to atone 513 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:18,800 the sacrifice of our sins. And not just for hours but also 514 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,400 for the sins of the whole entire world. 515 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:28,900 So everyone who comes to Christ everyone who gives their life to 516 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:32,700 Christ, he's able to cover them. You see, this is a kind of a 517 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:38,800 complicated thing because it is that he redeemed us This in the 518 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,600 present tense, it's not in the future tense that he's going to 519 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,300 be redeeming. No, he redeemed us at the cross, 520 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:50,300 right then and there it is done. It is finished. 521 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:54,500 It's over so because he's the righteous one because he 522 00:33:54,500 --> 00:34:00,400 redeemed, us, anyone who comes to him, he's able to atone their 523 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,300 sin because of his sacrifice, and God looks at that payment 524 00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:10,500 and says, I'm satisfied. Now, the sacrifice had to be a 525 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:15,699 death on the cross, for the wages of sin is death. 526 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:18,100 But the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus. 527 00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:23,100 Our lord that's Romans 6:23. It had to be a death, it not 528 00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:26,600 just blood if Jesus was in The Garden of Gethsemane and he 529 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,100 starts bleeding through his pores, if it was just blood, 530 00:34:30,100 --> 00:34:31,500 that would have sufficed it right there. 531 00:34:32,300 --> 00:34:35,500 He bled, it would have been done but no, the wages of sin is 532 00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,400 death. There had to be a death. 533 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,199 There has something had to die a life for a life. 534 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:47,500 And God looks at Christ and says, I'm satisfied with that 535 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,100 sacrifice right there. There's nothing else that's 536 00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:54,100 needed, that's it, that's, that's appeases me. 537 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,300 Because that's a big deal because it is finished. 538 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:05,200 It's done. so as we close, and I'm just going to go ahead and 539 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:11,900 just as I think about this, I look at this text and I'm like, 540 00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:16,400 man, like my mind is blown right now, because it's like, I've 541 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:23,600 jacked it up so many times, but yet Christ steps in and says, he 542 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,300 belongs to me, like, man. Ricky, like, he messed it. 543 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:31,100 No, but he's mine. So I'm going to take it. 544 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,800 So Jesus is our Advocate, he's faithful. 545 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,000 And he's just, he cleanses us of our guilt and shame and 546 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,700 selfishness and And he's the only one that could satisfy this 547 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:46,700 payment and knowing that he's the only one he still goes 548 00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:51,100 through with it. Like there's no hustle. 549 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:53,500 Like there's no like, strings attached. 550 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,700 And all I have to do is surrender my life to him. 551 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:03,300 And I hear this and I think to myself, why are we still under 552 00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:07,400 the control of sin? For some of us we're still under 553 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,100 that that that grip of sin in our lives. 554 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:17,300 How is that possible? You see, we're going to sin. 555 00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:20,100 We're Sinners. That's what the Bible says. 556 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:23,300 John even says it. But Christ through his 557 00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:28,800 sacrifice, says you no longer have to live as a slave to your 558 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,300 sin because we are more than conquerors. 559 00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:34,700 There's no condemnation. That's Romans 8:1. 560 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,000 So he gives us his freedom to beat our sin. 561 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,100 He gives us this freedom to be free from it, and he gives us 562 00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:44,700 this freedom to continue to walk in the light. 563 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:51,500 And I started thinking like why like why to some even myself 564 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:54,400 like why do we continue to walk unrepentant? 565 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,600 Why do we continue to go back to the same junk that he freed us 566 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:02,700 from and I started thinking and what came to my mind was 567 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:05,700 Taekwondo. I know. 568 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,700 So who when I was younger in South Florida, my parents 569 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:14,500 actually had us in Taekwondo classes for you guys. 570 00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:18,200 That don't know what that is. Like, it's not like a, like a 571 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,900 restaurant. Taekwondo is like martial arts. 572 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,100 You know, like karate like like, yeah. 573 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,200 And I remember my, when we were kids, my dad had me and my 574 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,900 brother in Taekwondo. It wasn't for me. 575 00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:36,800 It was like, too boring for me, but before we were going to go 576 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,400 to class at in Pompano we were at our friends house. 577 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,400 I think was like Pastor bones his house or something and me 578 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,500 and my brother were outside playing with her pet dog and we 579 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:52,000 were running and as I was dog, was chasing me and it was like 580 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:57,100 small, so it wasn't crazy. It like bit my He'll like it 581 00:37:57,100 --> 00:38:00,300 just caught my heel. And it bugged me out. 582 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:01,800 I was like, oh my God, he's got bit by a dog. 583 00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:05,200 It is like bleeding a little bit. 584 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:11,300 I'm dramatic. I think I cut my foot off and 585 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:15,200 and I'm scared because like we're about to go to karate or 586 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:16,600 Taekwondo. I don't wanna get in trouble. 587 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:20,600 We're about to go to karate, but yet my I'm bleeding, I'm cut. 588 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,800 So I take like some tissue paper, just hold it there. 589 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,400 Try to hide it and I remember like my dad sees an alien was 590 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,000 there as And I was like, just trying to play it off because 591 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,700 I'm like man if he sees that I'm bleeding and I'm hurt we're not 592 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:36,000 going to be able to go to practice. 593 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,300 We're going to go home and it's going to be bad and and then 594 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:42,600 also like to clean the wound, they use hydrogen peroxide, you 595 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,800 remember that and it just starts fizzing and like there was a 596 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,300 thing as a kid. You're like, it's gonna sting so 597 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:51,500 bad. So I didn't want to use that as 598 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:55,200 well. That all these like these 599 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,100 thoughts going through my mind on, why? 600 00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:03,000 I don't want to I show like the bite that the cut I have. 601 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,100 And of course, I fought it. They were like we got to get 602 00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:10,500 that clean. So they held me down and I'm 603 00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:12,700 like fighting and I'm like using my Taekwondo. 604 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:18,200 I do not like they're holding me down and my dad, he takes it, he 605 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,400 cleans it, he wipes off the blood, he puts the hydrogen 606 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,300 peroxide on it. He puts a bandaid on it and I'm 607 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:28,400 like, you know you know and then you're like that didn't even 608 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,500 hurt. Like, what am I tripping? 609 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,700 Like that makes no sense. It is. 610 00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:37,900 I'm thinking about this. I'm like, I think for many of us 611 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:40,700 We don't like to go through pain. 612 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:42,900 We don't like to go through like not just physical but like a 613 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:48,100 painful thought like something that pains us. and I felt like 614 00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:50,300 the holy spirit said, you know, Ricky like the pain is not in 615 00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:57,700 the healing, the pain is in the revealing The hard part was not 616 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:03,400 fixing my bite. The hard part was showing my 617 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,600 dad. Ripping it open saying, look, 618 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,700 what happened to me. That's the hard part because I 619 00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:12,700 think cleaning it's going to hurt. 620 00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:15,800 I think putting the hydrogen peroxide is really going to hurt 621 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,200 like I started thinking about this. 622 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:19,200 I was like man that's the hardest. 623 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,800 Part is like we don't want to reveal our sin because we're 624 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,200 scared of what dad's going to say. 625 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,300 We think that he's going to take us out, he think that he's not 626 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:32,900 going to let us keep going, you're not put like three 627 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:34,500 things. I was like, you know why, we 628 00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:42,800 don't want to reveal our wound or our sin Because we know 629 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:46,800 what's actually there and it's one of those things like if I 630 00:40:46,808 --> 00:40:49,700 ignore it it'll go away type situation. 631 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,700 I don't we do that. We ignore it or we're scared to 632 00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:56,600 see what we're going to find. I don't want to look at it 633 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,400 because it's going to freak me out if I see it. 634 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,600 We're number three. We're scared of what dad's going 635 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:06,200 to say? And I'm just thinking like, God 636 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:10,100 is like man, I am an advocate for you. 637 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,600 I want to heal you. I want to fix you. 638 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:17,900 But you got to get through the hard part. 639 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:22,600 The hard part is exposing your sin? 640 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:28,600 Yeah. But if we confess our sin to 641 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:35,800 him, He is faithful. And he is just not just to 642 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,600 forgive us, but to purify us of all unrighteousness. 643 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,800 So that way, we could live a life without guilt and shame and 644 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,600 selfishness. And we could be free. 645 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,500 It's a beautiful thing. But you got to get through the 646 00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:53,600 pain of revealing it. You got to reveal it. 647 00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:58,700 Well, Ricky like I if I revealed it what are what are people 648 00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:01,000 going to say? What if what if I can't do this? 649 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,200 Like how do I fight? And I'm like, listen it. 650 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:04,700 That's why you have a church family. 651 00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:08,400 So that way, they're there with you. 652 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:12,100 When you rip that sucker off and you're in, you're terrified and 653 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:14,800 like now I'm be there with you. So that way you're not going 654 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,000 through this alone. Love this. 655 00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:21,200 So Ricky, how do we fight this then? 656 00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:26,700 Like okay how do I fight this sin that I can't seem to get 657 00:42:26,700 --> 00:42:29,800 away from. Yeah, he's just he's he's 658 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:30,800 faithful. He's gonna hook. 659 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:35,800 He's going to help me out. Well, I think of ice skating. 660 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:42,100 Out of all things yesterday, I took Livy and Elena to go ice 661 00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:45,100 skating, me and Rachel like, we had to some as a family, and I 662 00:42:45,107 --> 00:42:45,900 was like, all right. Cool. 663 00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:47,600 Let's go ice skating. That's that's random but let's 664 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,900 go. Now, Elena is more methodical in 665 00:42:51,900 --> 00:42:54,200 light ice skating. She wants to learn to dancing 666 00:42:54,200 --> 00:43:00,100 and she slower Livi. Is YOLO. 667 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,500 She had ice skate song. As soon as she stepped on a 668 00:43:04,508 --> 00:43:05,300 night. She thought she could be a 669 00:43:05,308 --> 00:43:08,700 sprinter. She's like, well, I'm like a 670 00:43:08,707 --> 00:43:10,100 broken arm. Here we go. 671 00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:13,700 Concussion. Yeah. 672 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,700 But Levi thinks she could ice skate. 673 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,400 Really good. You know why? 674 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,800 Because she was holding her dad's hands the whole time. 675 00:43:23,700 --> 00:43:28,700 So the whole time I am grabbing her hands and she's like, 676 00:43:28,700 --> 00:43:31,100 Trucking it. She's like whoa! 677 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:33,700 She's like doing jumps. She thinks she's a figure 678 00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:38,000 skater. She's confident because she 679 00:43:38,008 --> 00:43:40,400 knows who's holding her, you see. 680 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:46,000 So how do I fight sin? You go to Christ with a reckless 681 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:50,000 abandonment, Faith like a child. You grab on. 682 00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:53,600 You don't overthink it and you say, god, let's go. 683 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:57,200 The more that you rely on Christ. 684 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,500 The more that your confidence is in Christ, the more that your 685 00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:03,700 faith is in Christ, the more that you trust him, the less 686 00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:07,500 you're going to fall, you got to believe it, you got to trust 687 00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:10,000 him. And when you do fall, he is, 688 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,200 he's more than faithful to step in and forgive us. 689 00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:18,300 But you got to confess it, you got to trust him. 690 00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:21,300 In the way you fight, it is that you grab on with Reckless, 691 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:23,200 abandonment. And you just say, let's go. 692 00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:29,500 Just let him hold you, you're going to be surprised how fast 693 00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:34,300 and smooth your life goes. Well, pray for us father, we 694 00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:35,900 love you and we thank you so much. 695 00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:38,400 God, we thank you for being the advocate. 696 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:43,300 Father, we thank you for taking it for a sky Lord we're so 697 00:44:43,300 --> 00:44:47,300 grateful. That regardless of our sin, 698 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:49,800 regardless of them, how much time we fail? 699 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:55,300 You You are faithful and you continue to forgive us. 700 00:44:55,300 --> 00:44:59,900 Father Lord, you are the holy and the righteous one. 701 00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:04,600 You are the only one that could take sin and Lord we worship you 702 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,100 for that. So Lord, if there's anyone in 703 00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:11,100 this room God that is that is fighting this. 704 00:45:11,100 --> 00:45:14,000 This guilt and is fighting the shame is fighting this. 705 00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:16,500 Just like mad. I feel dirty right now. 706 00:45:16,500 --> 00:45:20,100 Lord, that is not from you. And in the name of Jesus I pray 707 00:45:20,100 --> 00:45:24,400 that the Holy Spirit convict so that way we could confess. 708 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,700 And that way, we could be healed. 709 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,300 So Jesus, we love you and we praise you for what you're 710 00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:33,000 doing? You made me probably stinks. 711 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:27,000 Amen. And that way, we could be 712 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,400 healed. So Jesus, we love you and we 713 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:31,700 praise you for what you're doing? 714 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,400 You made me probably stinks. Amen.