1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:03,920 Hello, Crossing Church. How are you doing this? 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:05,400 Fine day. You doing all right. 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:11,200 So good to see you. And you've all survived 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,200 Thanksgiving and that takes some doing, right? 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,160 I mean, for a whole lot of reasons. 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:18,960 But there is so much to be thankful for. 7 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,120 I mean, some of us may be challenged in certain areas, 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:26,880 missing people, dealing with some realities that that we 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,680 might be having. But you know, God is faithful 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,920 and there is always so much that we can thank him for. 11 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,400 I know all of the animals in Fort Madison are thankful that 12 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:43,760 Thanksgiving is over because Clayton has eaten his fill of 13 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,400 last week. He was talking about all that. 14 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,280 He was barbecuing and smoking and roasting and everything else 15 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:57,040 and and so that carnage is over and thankful for that. 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:02,520 I want to welcome all of our locations all over this three 17 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,320 state region for joining us. If you're insider online we're 18 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:10,880 so thankful for you as well and you know of course this is what 19 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,200 we do during this time of the year. 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,880 You know we we kind of have Thanksgiving as a theme. 21 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,280 So we we think about what we're thankful for and most of us 22 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,640 probably start with our family and then we work out from there 23 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,600 and and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. 24 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:32,120 But everything that we receive, every good thing that we receive 25 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,840 in this life, we receive directly from the hand of God. 26 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,560 And we need to be thankful to God for all that he has provided 27 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,200 for us. And so you know we look for OK, 28 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:48,240 how do I do that how how do I structure that that that prayer 29 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,680 of thankfulness to God. One of the best ways of doing 30 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:56,200 that for me has been to look at the names of God in the Old 31 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,480 Testament. So you know, God gave himself a 32 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,800 name when Moses asked. You know, who should I say sent 33 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:10,160 me when he went back to Egypt and God gave him this name? 34 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:16,280 Tell them I am, that I am. And in the English language that 35 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,080 word is Jehovah. And so we see that word as a 36 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,800 matter of fact, in your Bible, they use different names for 37 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,120 God. But when it's all for Cap, when 38 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:30,560 it's the Lord and all four letters are capitalized, that's 39 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,480 the word that's being used, the word Jehovah. 40 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:36,600 And a lot of times there's is a descriptive word that's 41 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,120 connected to that word. So it'll talk about some 42 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,640 attribute of God and that it is God. 43 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:46,360 And here's one of his many attributes. 44 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:51,160 And I look at those words, those names, and it gives me a context 45 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,960 of how do I say that I'm thankful to God. 46 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,000 Let me give you some examples of that. 47 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,680 Many of you. How many of you heard of Jehovah 48 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,440 Jireh? Have you heard of that before? 49 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,800 Well, Jehovah Jireh means the God who provides. 50 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,000 And that's the truth, isn't it? He provides for us so many 51 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,440 things that we take for granted. He's providing for us and things 52 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,600 that we appreciate, He's providing for us. 53 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,720 And so this is a way we can thank God, because he's a God 54 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,760 who provides. He's also Jehovah Rapha. 55 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,560 And Jehovah Rapha means the God who heals. 56 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,360 And when we've tried everything the world has to offer, a lot of 57 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,680 times He's our last resort and not our first resort. 58 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,680 But when we pray to God, God is the Great Physician and God 59 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,320 heals. And you know when, when, when 60 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,560 everything else fails, He's still right there. 61 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,680 Now, his healing may not look the way that I want it to look, 62 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,960 but he is the God who heals. And I can be thankful for that. 63 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:56,120 He's also Jehovah Nissi, which is the God who is my banner. 64 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,920 And we think banners like armies marching forward. 65 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,360 And I know that a lot of us, we get caught up in worldly things. 66 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,720 You know, government. We get caught up in politics. 67 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,280 We get caught up in whatever, you know, suits us as any 68 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,520 particular time. We get all excited about that 69 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,320 and motivated from that. But we need to understand as 70 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:19,880 believers in Christ, we March under 1 banner, and that banner 71 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:24,680 is the Lord God Almighty. He is Jehovah Nissi. 72 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,920 There's also Jehovah Shalom, which is the God who is peace. 73 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,080 Anybody that's listening to me right now think this world could 74 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,280 use maybe a little more peace? Wow. 75 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,480 We need to be praying that one, thanking God that he is the 76 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,520 source of peace. And the peace that comes from 77 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,720 God is a greater peace than any peace on earth. 78 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,080 Jehovah Sabaoth. Jehovah Sabioth means the God 79 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,280 who leads the heavenly host. And a lot of times you you think 80 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,720 about the heavenly host, you're thinking about the armies of 81 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,760 heaven. I think about the Book of 82 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,160 Revelation where it talks about someday the the sky is going to 83 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,320 split apart like a broken piece of parchment and Jesus is going 84 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,840 to come back riding on a White Horse. 85 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:20,600 He's described in Revelation and all the hosts of heaven are with 86 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,840 him. And if I'm not alive, I plan on 87 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:28,040 being in that host of heaven, and I hope that you do as well 88 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,960 to be able to see it from that vantage point, to be even better 89 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,320 than seeing it from this vantage point. 90 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,200 Jehovah Sabayev. Then there's one that's a little 91 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,600 less known, probably because it's just so hard to pronounce, 92 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:46,000 and that's Jehovah Mekotischkam. But it's an important one 93 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,960 because it means the God who sanctifies. 94 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:54,120 You know, the word sanctify sanctification means to be set 95 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,840 apart for a holy or noble purpose. 96 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,440 And that means that God knows you. 97 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,360 He built you, He created you, all of the parts of what makes 98 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,200 you who you are. He did that. 99 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,960 He put all that together, and he did it with a particular purpose 100 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,240 in mind. And that purpose was a holy 101 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:19,360 purpose and a noble purpose that he has that set apart from you 102 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,040 for you. Jehovah Rahab, We're talking 103 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,840 about the heart of David. We've been spending a lot of 104 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:28,360 time talking about the heart of David. 105 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,840 David would really associate with this word because it means 106 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:36,600 the God who is my shepherd, the one who leads me and guides me, 107 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,720 the one who takes care of me, not just like on a wide and wide 108 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:48,680 sense, but in in very specific ways that I specifically need. 109 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,920 He's also Jehovah said. Can you? 110 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,520 Which means the God who is my righteousness. 111 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:59,680 You know, the Bible's real clear with us that as righteous as we 112 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,440 might try to be, we're just not. We're not righteous. 113 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:08,240 We we don't have that ability to be righteous in the eyes of God. 114 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:13,360 And yet through Jesus Christ, he provides righteousness for us 115 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,360 that we don't deserve and that that's what this name of God 116 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,600 means. The God who is my righteousness. 117 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,520 I'd be. I'm thankful for that. 118 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:28,040 There's Jehovah Shema and that means the the God who is near. 119 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,640 Aren't you glad that God isn't like that? 120 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,840 Looking at you through binoculars, like from a 121 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,720 distance? That he is up close and personal 122 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:42,480 with you, that he knows you, He knows every little aspect of 123 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,480 your life and loves you through that. 124 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:52,080 All of those really helps us to define thankfulness for God, and 125 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,520 there's one that is not actually specifically on this list. 126 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,280 The reason it's not on this list is because instead of using one 127 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,200 word as a descriptor, the Bible uses 2 words. 128 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,520 But what it essentially means is this. 129 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:12,160 The God who forgives. And of all the names of God and 130 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:16,000 all the attributes of God, I feel like I need that one the 131 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,600 most. I need a God who forgives me. 132 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,640 Maybe I need to understand that a little bit better because the 133 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:31,320 2 words that are associated with this name of God kind of gives 134 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,000 us a deeper insight into it. OK. 135 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,600 And by the way, when the Bible uses these two words, and the 136 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:44,440 words are NASA and Salah, so Jehovah NASA and Jehovah Salah. 137 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:50,840 And what those two words when they describe God, they only 138 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,440 describe God. Those two words are never used 139 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,080 with regards to forgiveness between people like each other, 140 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,720 just the vertical forgiveness between US and God. 141 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,680 All right, the first one is in Micah Chapter 7, verses 18 and 142 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:09,440 19. It says who is a God like you, 143 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:15,320 who pardons sin and forgives transgression of the remnant of 144 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,840 his inheritance. You do not stay angry forever, 145 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:23,480 but delight to show mercy. Now the name of God. 146 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:29,280 Here then, the word NASA actually means to pardon or to 147 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,880 have the debt removed, the removal of debt. 148 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:37,240 And we all understand that right, that when we sin we have 149 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,680 a debt, like a debt that needs to be paid, because God demands 150 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,720 that. But he is a God who pays our 151 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:52,200 debt for us. But it is not enough that one 152 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,080 word describing God is really not enough to understand 153 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,840 forgiveness. We need a second word because 154 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:04,640 there's a deeper reality, a soul issue that really needs to be 155 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,320 addressed. And so that's why the second 156 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,760 word comes in the word Salah. It's in Isaiah chapter 55, verse 157 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,560 seven. It says, let the wicked forsake 158 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:18,280 their ways and unrighteous their thoughts. 159 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:23,480 Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them and 160 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:28,360 to our God, for he will freely pardon. 161 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:34,360 Now, where the word NASA means the removal of debt, the word 162 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,400 Salah means the removal of guilt. 163 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,640 Are you connecting with that? Because we're kind of that way. 164 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,440 Like we know that we've done something wrong. 165 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,080 And how do I, how do I make restitution for this? 166 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,240 How do I rectify this? And I I don't know how to do 167 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,280 that. If somebody steps into the 168 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,520 picture and pays my debt, that's that's an awesome thing. 169 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:04,240 But that doesn't solve the heart problem, because even though 170 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,320 maybe the debt was removed, there's still the feeling that I 171 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:13,960 have in my heart for what I have done and how disrespectful and 172 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,600 unloving that has been to God. And that's the guilt that I 173 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:19,920 carry. And what I need is cleansing 174 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,640 from that. So I need both of these aspects. 175 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,960 The the removal of dead and the removal of guilt. 176 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:32,680 That's what forgiveness is now. Last week, Clayton told us a 177 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:34,880 story about David's greatest failure. 178 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,840 And it was massive. Because for all of his triumphs 179 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,640 and all of his victories, for all the heartfelt songs that he 180 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,080 wrote, all the good things that he had done, he committed one of 181 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:50,800 the most epic compounded sins ever recorded. 182 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,840 There's a Bible verse that tells you what's next. 183 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,200 It's this one. Be sure your sins will find you 184 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:03,000 out. That's a scary verse for every 185 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,640 single one of us. Be sure your sins will find you 186 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:12,880 out. And David's sin found him out. 187 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,360 God found him out. And I didn't do it just to 188 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:21,520 gotcha because David needed forgiveness. 189 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,040 He was a ruined man after he did this, and he needed forgiveness. 190 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,320 And forgiveness for David was both NASA and Salah. 191 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,560 He needed the removal of debt and he needed the removal of 192 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:38,480 guilt. And so God was the one who found 193 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,480 him out. We read about it in Second 194 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,440 Samuel chapter 12, verses one to seven. 195 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,000 It says. Then the Lord sent Nathan. 196 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:51,000 He was a prophet to David. When he came to him, he said 197 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,920 there were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other 198 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,280 poor. The rich man had a very large 199 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,840 number of sheep and cattle. But the poor man had nothing 200 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,400 except one little ewe lamb he had bought. 201 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:13,280 He raised it and it grew up with him and his children, and it 202 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,720 shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. 203 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,640 Now before you're going, that's just weird. 204 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:24,120 You don't want anybody to judge you on how you treat your dogs 205 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:29,480 and cats, do you? It was like a daughter to him. 206 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,680 Now. Traveler came to the rich man. 207 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:37,760 But the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or 208 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,120 cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. 209 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:45,120 Instead he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man 210 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,680 and prepared it for the one who had come to him. 211 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:55,160 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, as 212 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:00,960 surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die. 213 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,920 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such 214 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:12,120 a thing and had no pity. And Nathan said to David, you 215 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,880 are the man. Wow. 216 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:22,920 That's how David was found out. He was exposed. 217 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:27,760 There was no more hiding, no more rationalizing, no excusing. 218 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,960 Nothing left but a man who was found out, and even though he 219 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,800 was the one sitting on the throne, he was the one who was 220 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,200 being judged. There was no defense for it, no 221 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:46,560 mitigating circumstance, no character witness, just a harsh 222 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,920 and all-encompassing light of God and God's judgment. 223 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,720 What would David do with that? Would he try to continue to 224 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,440 cover it up? Would he put Nathan to death so 225 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:04,680 that what Nathan said to him would also be hidden and lost 226 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:09,280 forever? You know, I think that when we 227 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,760 read that story together, we've all tasted that feeling that 228 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,200 David must have had in that moment. 229 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,760 Like we can connect with David in that moment. 230 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,440 You know what I mean? It's like when you're found out 231 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,280 in your sin and there's the sinking feeling that comes into 232 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:29,160 your heart and you have this need, immediate need for self 233 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,720 preservation, and then you want to try to find the comfort of 234 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:38,600 darkness. What do we do? 235 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,720 What do I do now? And the realization that you 236 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:49,680 cannot undo the past. So what's the way forward? 237 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:55,240 There's only one way forward, and that way forward is the way 238 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,840 of forgiveness. So this is something all of us 239 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,760 need to understand on a deep level. 240 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,200 What is forgiveness? What does it look like? 241 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:13,240 Well, it begins with confession. Look at Second Samuel 1213. 242 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:18,960 Then David said to Nathan. I've sinned against the Lord. 243 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:24,080 He admitted it. No more rationalizations, no 244 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,920 more hiding. I've sinned against the Lord, 245 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,920 Nathan replied. The Lord has taken away your 246 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,680 sin. You're not going to die. 247 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,360 David knew that there was no hiding from God, and Nathan told 248 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,600 him that everything was going to be exposed. 249 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:52,800 So David owned what he had done. But do we do that? 250 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,640 What do we do when our sin is exposed? 251 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:03,040 Well, we really normally do one of two things, and this is in 252 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:07,640 the New Testament, in the book of first John in first John 1/8. 253 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,200 This is the first way that we try to deal with exposed sin. 254 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:16,839 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the 255 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:20,440 truth is not in us. So what we do is we just deny 256 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:24,960 that it's a sin. We just say no, that's not 257 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,160 really a sin. Maybe it's part of a social 258 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:32,400 construct or cultural construct. We might say, well if it's legal 259 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:39,280 it must be moral. What John says is it means that 260 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,440 we're self deceived and we are truthless. 261 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,240 Well maybe we don't deny that it's a sin or that we're not a 262 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:52,800 Sinner because that is no sin. Maybe we just deflect it and try 263 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,440 to blame other people for it. That's in first. 264 00:17:55,440 --> 00:18:01,360 John 110 says if we claim we have not sinned, we make him God 265 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:06,240 out to be a liar and his word is not in US. 266 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,880 You see, God knows what we've done and whether we're able to 267 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,560 fool all the other people around us. 268 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,960 You can't fool God and listen, God's not a liar. 269 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:25,800 We are the liars, not him, and all that those lies do is just 270 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,120 compound the sin. There's only one way to 271 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:32,840 forgiveness and it comes from the verse that's in between 272 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,800 those two. So you got 1/8 and 110. 273 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:40,800 Let's look at first John 19. It says if we confess our sins, 274 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:45,880 he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins. 275 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:47,840 Look at this. OK? 276 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:52,120 He'll cancel the debt. He'll forgive us our sin and 277 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,640 purify us from all unrighteousness. 278 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,760 Both the NASA and the Salah. Do you see that? 279 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:05,680 That he will make restitution for the debt and then he will 280 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,320 take care of the guilt by cleansing us. 281 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:12,000 So that is really what we're looking for. 282 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:17,000 Now we have to understand this word confess, because a lot of 283 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,320 us misunderstand the word We think, well, to confess your sin 284 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:26,800 means to admit it. It means to say I did it, you 285 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:31,520 got me now, now, now, David did that, and we just read where he 286 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,920 did that, right? But that is, that is only the 287 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:39,480 first step of confession. Confession is actually a lot 288 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,680 bigger than that. Now let me help you to 289 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,160 understand that if you're writing notes down, this is a 290 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,200 good one to understand. Ready. 291 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:52,040 Confession is understanding your sin from God's point of view. 292 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:59,680 Confession is understanding your sin from God's point of view. 293 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,600 See, when we admit our sin, we're understanding it from our 294 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,120 point of view, but we really haven't let it sink in as to how 295 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:15,760 it applies to God Himself. We need to understand that 296 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:21,920 because forgiveness flows from that, and so does cleansing. 297 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:27,280 Here's where a lot of us get tripped up with the idea of 298 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,640 forgiveness. We think that if we confess our 299 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:34,440 sins or admit that we did it, that somehow God will roll, will 300 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,360 miraculously remove the consequences. 301 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,720 Forgiveness does not remove the consequences. 302 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,240 I know we would like for it to be the other way, but it doesn't 303 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:52,040 work that way because when repentance begins in a person's 304 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:56,840 heart, it's based on the fear of consequences. 305 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,440 We're afraid of what's going to come to us or happen to us or 306 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,520 people we love because of the sin that we've done. 307 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,000 And maybe if we confess our sins, we'll be able to avoid the 308 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,960 consequences. Now David prophetically received 309 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,560 from Nathan what the consequences of his sin were 310 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,640 going to be, even after he admitted it. 311 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:23,280 The baby that was conceived with Bathsheba was going to die. 312 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,320 There was going to be a lot of violence. 313 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,040 It would never depart from his family. 314 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:32,840 The Bible says one of his children would sin openly the 315 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,400 way that David had, in secret. He would actually do it in 316 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,800 public. Now that's all horrible stuff. 317 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,840 But we need to understand that when we sin, it's like throwing 318 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:48,000 a rock into the water. The ripples go out and it 319 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,800 affects everything around it. Same thing with us. 320 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,840 When we sin, the ripples go out. The people that we love the most 321 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:02,960 are often affected the worst. So David's repentance at first 322 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,280 was an attempt to avoid the consequences. 323 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,960 Because he's just as human as you and I are. 324 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,840 So what does he do? He dresses in sackcloth. 325 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:19,360 He covers himself with ashes. He goes out and lays outside on 326 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:22,240 the ground and won't even go into the house. 327 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,920 He's praying for this baby to survive. 328 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,480 He won't eat anything. He won't drink anything. 329 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:34,840 Let's read what it says in 12. It's verse 16 and 17 says David 330 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:39,120 pleaded with God for the child he fasted, and he spent the 331 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:42,960 nights lying in sackcloth on the ground, and the elders of his 332 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,080 household stood beside him to get him up from the ground. 333 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,240 But he refused. He would not eat any food with 334 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:54,920 them. You know what he thought? 335 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,160 He thought, I have AI follow a God who is a graceful God and a 336 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:06,960 merciful God, and if I pray to him, maybe this consequence will 337 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,240 leave me now. God had plenty of grace and 338 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,400 mercy for David. He kept his own life. 339 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:16,800 He was going to have another son named Solomon who would succeed 340 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:22,040 him as king. But he had to know that those 341 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,640 consequences were still there for his actions. 342 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,960 And you see his David's understanding of that in chapter 343 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,440 12, verses 22 and 23, after the baby died. 344 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,400 It says he answered because they were asking him why he did what 345 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,680 he did. Because he when the baby died, 346 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,640 he cleaned up. He went in and he ate. 347 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,160 While the child was still alive. I fasted and wept. 348 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,040 I thought, who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me 349 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:55,720 and let the child live, but now that he is dead, why should I go 350 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,640 on fasting? Can I bring him back again Now 351 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,680 look at this. I will go to him, but he will 352 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,680 not return to me. That's profound, because what 353 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:12,040 David is doing is he's looking at life inside of the idea of 354 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:17,160 eternity. I'm not going to be able to do 355 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,040 anything about this consequence now, but God is faithful. 356 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,920 Even though this child has died, God is faithful. 357 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:29,360 And I'll see this child again. He's understanding the reality 358 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:34,760 of his life inside the context of eternity, not just in the 359 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,720 circumstance that he was living in right now. 360 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:42,640 Do we do that? His hope's eternal, not 361 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,720 temporary. And there's something else we 362 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,080 need to learn about repentance here that we don't want to 363 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,560 learn. None of us want to learn this 364 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,800 because we're always looking for the short line. 365 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,640 We're always looking for the easy button. 366 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,080 But this is not the way repentance works. 367 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,600 Listen to me. Repentance takes time. 368 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:07,960 It is never quick, never quick. Feeling bad about what you did, 369 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,240 saying you're sorry. That can happen really quickly. 370 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:16,760 Confessing it, you know, which is admitting what you did, that 371 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,000 can happen quickly. But true repentance, which is to 372 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,040 look at your sin from God's point of view? 373 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:29,160 That takes time because there's this initial understanding, But 374 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:33,440 then grasping the full weight of what you've done is a much 375 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,200 longer process. But in that process, I know that 376 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,960 sounds bad, but in that process, that's when we draw closer to 377 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,560 God, and that is when we put more distance between ourselves 378 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,400 and that sinful event or what we have a propensity to do. 379 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,800 Now, David gives us deeper insight into this. 380 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:58,720 He does it in Psalm 51. The whole song is written about 381 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:03,000 what he did with Bathsheba and what he did to cover that sin up 382 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,800 killing Uriah. How would you like to be 383 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,600 inspired by God to write a song about the worst moment in your 384 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:16,480 life and then publish it in a hymnal so everybody can sing the 385 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,280 song of your greatest failure? Because that's exactly what 386 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,800 David did in Psalm 51. Let's read the 1st 12 verses. 387 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,760 It says have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing 388 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:34,120 love, according to your great compassion, blot out my 389 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:40,680 transgressions, wash away all my iniquity, and cleanse me from my 390 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,520 sin. That's that Salah again, for I 391 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,720 know my transgressions. My sin is always before me. 392 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,360 See, that means that he's in a process of repentance. 393 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,960 He can't just let go of it and move on. 394 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,360 It has to change him. He has to look at it from God's 395 00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:01,840 point of view against you. You only have I sinned and done 396 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:06,360 what is evil in your sight. So you are right in your verdict 397 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:11,000 and justified when you judge. See that he's not trying to be 398 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,360 self-righteous, he's not trying to rationalize what he's done, 399 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,800 he's owning it. God's right. 400 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,000 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother 401 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,200 conceived me. Yet you desired faithfulness 402 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,760 even in the womb. You taught me wisdom in that 403 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:33,320 secret place. Cleanse me with hyssop. 404 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:37,080 This is an interesting word because it means a brush. 405 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,800 And this word, this, this hyssop was a plant that they would bind 406 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,040 together like you might bind together straw to make a broom. 407 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,240 This was what they actually used to paint the blood of a lamb on 408 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,120 the doorposts in the lentils of their houses on Passover. 409 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,920 So it's like a scrubber. Cleanse me with hyssop is what 410 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:04,280 it means, and I'll be clean. Wash me and I'll be whiter than 411 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,800 snow. Let me hear joy and gladness, 412 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,640 and let the bones you have crushed rejoice. 413 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,320 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquity. 414 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:22,440 Create in me a pure heart. He wants that Salah, oh God, and 415 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,400 renew a steadfast spirit within me. 416 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,160 Do not cast me from your presence, or take your Holy 417 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,160 Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your 418 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:37,880 salvation, and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me. 419 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,120 He doesn't just leave his mind what he's done because he's 420 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,920 using it to discover the deeper things of God. 421 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:53,440 He realizes that ultimately all sin is against God alone. 422 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:58,600 He said that in Psalm 51 because God is the one who's primarily 423 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,640 offended. Listen, a lot of times I hear 424 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,320 people say that we've sinned against each other. 425 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,360 That's really not a biblical concept. 426 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,800 We do wrong things to each other. 427 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:13,920 But sin is vertical in nature. It has to do with what we owe 428 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,040 God. It has to do with the debt that 429 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:21,960 we owe God because it is always God who is primarily offended. 430 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,760 He declares that God's right. He doesn't give any excuses or 431 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,000 rationalizations and he accepts the consequences and looks 432 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,240 forward to a clean heart and a spirit filled life. 433 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,000 That is what true Restoration looks like. 434 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,680 It's not. Things are going to go back to 435 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:46,800 the way they were. It means that life is going to 436 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:52,160 move forward where confession and the consequences push us 437 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,840 closer to God than we were before. 438 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,320 Now I want you to think about your sins. 439 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,800 I'll think about mine because we all have them. 440 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,280 Have you had a conversation with God about those sins? 441 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,520 Have they found you out? Are you still hiding from God? 442 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,480 Are you still searching for dark places? 443 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,400 Are you denying your sin? Are you rationalizing your sin 444 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,160 like first John 18 and 1st John 110? 445 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,680 Or are you looking at it from his point of view like First 446 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:30,640 John 19? Let him lead you to the place 447 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:35,160 where you realize that it's him who has been offended. 448 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,960 Declare that God is right, drop the excuses and the 449 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:45,440 rationalizations, accept the consequences and look forward to 450 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,160 a clean heart and a spirit filled life. 451 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:54,360 Then you can ask for what David asked for later in Psalm 51, he 452 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,680 said. Then I will take what I have 453 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:01,440 learned and I will use it as an example, a platform where I can 454 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,400 help other people not to sin the way I did. 455 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,520 He's going to turn this destructive behavior into a 456 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,520 testimony, and Psalm 51 proves that that's true. 457 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,240 And then he says this in verse 16 and 17. 458 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,360 You do not delight and sacrifice or I'd bring it. 459 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,160 You do not take pleasure and burnt offerings. 460 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:37,360 My sacrifice, oh God, is a broken spirit and a broken and a 461 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:43,160 contrite heart you, God will not despise. 462 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,480 You know what David realizes in this moment? 463 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,960 That a broken and a sorrowful heart is not mended. 464 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,680 I want you to hear me when I say this. 465 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,160 A broken heart, sorrowful heart is not mended. 466 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:14,120 It is replaced this whole series. 467 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:20,120 This is the last, and that's the series it's about handle with 468 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,240 care our hearts and using David as the example of how to do 469 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,640 that. And David understood this. 470 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,920 He understood that it really wasn't about having his heart 471 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,960 mended. Because the one key concept, key 472 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,800 verse in this whole series has been this that David was a man 473 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,600 after what he wasn't after his heart. 474 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,720 He was after God's heart. He wasn't after having his heart 475 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,760 mended. He was about having his heart 476 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,000 replaced with God's heart. And guess what? 477 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,600 Every one of us needs exactly the same thing. 478 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,120 We don't need a tweak in our lives. 479 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,640 We don't need a counselor in our lives. 480 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,680 We don't need Jesus, you know, whispering over our shoulder 481 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,920 while we sit on the throne of our own lives. 482 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:13,880 What we need is God's heart in our chest beating inside of us. 483 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,240 We we need to say I don't want that heart anymore. 484 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,840 I don't need surgery. I need a transplant. 485 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:27,800 I need God's heart inside of me. And that is what makes David so 486 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:33,120 special. And even though he didn't 487 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,480 understand it, he talked about it prophetically, but he didn't 488 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,400 really understand it. Someone was coming. 489 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:45,120 Someone was coming that was going to give his heart for 490 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,240 someone else to have it beat in their chest. 491 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,360 And that was Jesus. Because when Jesus went to the 492 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,840 cross for your sin, and mine, I've had, I've actually heard 493 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:03,000 doctors and coroners say that Jesus literally died of a broken 494 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,640 heart. His heart was removed so it 495 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:14,560 could be placed inside of you. He died so that you could have 496 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:19,679 his heart beating in your chest. And you know what? 497 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:26,600 You can do that right now. You can have that transplant 498 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:31,280 right now if you trust in Jesus. We're moving to a time of 499 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:39,040 decision. Some of you, you just keep going 500 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,080 down this road of I'm just, I'm just going to work it out. 501 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,880 I mean, I'm just going to put enough disciplines in my life in 502 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,600 place and I'm, I'm going to get this taken care of. 503 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,040 I, I, I'm going to, I'm going to figure this out. 504 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,480 I'm going to solve this problem. No, you're not. 505 00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:00,440 No, you're not. If there's anything that you 506 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,480 need to learn about David is that you can't do that. 507 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:09,400 As committed as David was to the Lord, as many times as God had 508 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,320 shown his power to David, he still blew it. 509 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,560 And he understood this basic truth. 510 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,840 And you have to understand, I mean, is anybody here tougher 511 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,600 than David, Stronger than David. Done more than David. 512 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:27,520 Been closer to God than David. I told you at the very beginning 513 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,840 of this series, no one has had as much written about him in the 514 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,520 Bible as David, except for Jesus. 515 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,480 You don't get to step in front of him. 516 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:43,720 But for all of that, David needed a heart transplant, and 517 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:47,960 so do you. Tough as he was, dedicated as he 518 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,480 was, he needed it. So do you. 519 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:55,360 You need to give up on depending on you being the savior of your 520 00:35:55,360 --> 00:36:03,080 life and you need to trust the Savior of every life and the 521 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,280 Lord of every life. And you can do that today. 522 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,640 And there's nothing stopping you except something inside your own 523 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,040 heart saying, I want to do this myself. 524 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:19,840 Pride, ego, fear, you name it, somebody's going to be right 525 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,320 over there by that baptistery with love. 526 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:27,560 Nothing more than to help you take those next steps to come to 527 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:38,640 a place where God doesn't fix you, where God replaces that 528 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:44,960 heart with his, and it'll change everything. 529 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:50,960 Some of you, many of you, are here today and you say, well, I 530 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,080 did that, Jerry. Well, good for you. 531 00:36:55,680 --> 00:37:03,000 Bless your heart, because you're like me and you're a hypocrite 532 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,160 like me, and you're inconsistent like me. 533 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,160 You see, it isn't like, you know, I needed forgiveness and I 534 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:17,360 went to God to forgiveness and I asked Jesus to to do this in my 535 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,440 heart and he forgave me. And it's like 1 and done, man. 536 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,680 I'm good. Look, I need the forgiveness of 537 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,600 Jesus every day. How about you? 538 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:32,680 I need it every day. Where do I go? 539 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,720 See, that's why these steps are here. 540 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,760 It's for you to take a moment. Because we're human. 541 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,640 We're human beings. And we, we, we, we need some 542 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,440 physical way of expressing what's going on in our heart. 543 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,280 Right. You gave me this new heart, 544 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,120 Lord, but I'm not treating this new heart. 545 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,200 I mean, you can get a brand new heart and you can keep eating 546 00:37:58,200 --> 00:37:59,520 like you used to. You know what I'm saying? 547 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,560 You get a brand new heart. And you and you could choose 548 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:06,480 behavior that that doesn't take care of that new heart. 549 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,160 And I and you might have a new heart. 550 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,800 I have a new heart. But that doesn't mean that I'm 551 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,360 treating it the way it needs to be treated. 552 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,920 So I didn't go to the Lord just once. 553 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,640 I mean, he saved me, but do you know what? 554 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:25,000 In first Peter chapter one he uses the word salvation in three 555 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,760 tenses. That means that Jesus saved me 556 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,440 soon as I ask him to come into my heart. 557 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:38,200 But but he saves me every day. And when that final day comes, 558 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,240 when I close my eyes in death and he's going to save me then 559 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:45,280 too. Past, present, future. 560 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,000 So you need him right now. You need to be at the foot of 561 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,120 the cross right now, just like I need to be at the foot of the 562 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,720 cross. That's what these steps are for. 563 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,760 And if you need to do some business with God, you need to 564 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,800 talk to him. You think he's listening? 565 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:06,160 Is he near? Is he able to cancel the debt? 566 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:13,000 Is he able to remove the guilt? You bet he is, because he loves 567 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,720 you just as much as he loved David. 568 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,240 God is no respecter of persons. He doesn't love people in pieces 569 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:25,840 or percentages. He loves people to the fullest 570 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,560 extent of his love, and he'll never love him any less than 571 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,640 that. And you can come to him now and 572 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,320 He'll make the difference. Would you stand with me? 573 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,280 Let's pray together in Jesus name. 574 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:39,280 Heavenly Father, we come to you and I ask that you would do with 575 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:43,680 no human being. Nothing on this earth or from 576 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:49,200 this earth could ever do because you were from heaven and your 577 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:55,080 son came down. He came down to our level when 578 00:39:55,080 --> 00:40:04,280 we couldn't get up to his, and he paid our debt, and he took 579 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:10,480 our guilt and He cleansed us and He set us free. 580 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,960 Help us to receive what you've so freely given today, I pray. 581 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,120 In Jesus name, Amen.