Well, there's nothing better than to be in the presence of
God, to be talking about God, talking to God, to be singing
about him, singing His praises and affirming our faith to Him
and to each other, not just by ourselves, but with other people
who believe the same thing. It's a great day to be together.
And as I mentioned, don't forget, this is the last time
we'll be doing this in the afternoon only.
We'll be back to the morning services starting next week.
Thank you for making it once again, and it's a great day to
be together. I'm happy to continue our study
with you And 1st John. We're in chapter 4 today.
So if you want to turn your Bibles there for those who
haven't been here, we've been studying through the first book
of first John. And this book is a message,
holds a message of assurance, a message.
He tells us at one point that he's writing to them so they may
have full joy, so they may know that they have eternal life.
He writes concerning those who might try to deceive them.
And so you're going to see this mixture of themes even today in
this chapter as to what his goals are.
His goals are to establish and ground them in their faith so
they can know, so that they can be full of joy and so that they
can please God in reality and not just by the things that they
say. OK, so one of the things we're
going to talk about today, you may have noticed on the board,
is this idea of testing the spirits.
So just a little bit of a running start from last week in
chapter 3, we read. And by this we know that we are
of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him.
This thing that he was talking about was by this was obeying
and following Jesus and actually doing what he says.
He says that's how you know and that's how you'll be assured.
And at the end of the chapter he said, now he who keeps his
commandments abides in him and he and him.
And by this we know that he abides in us by the Spirit whom
he has given us. So here we go in chapter 4.
He starts out by saying, beloved or these people, these children
of God who he dearly loves, he says do not believe every
spirit. You have to remember he said
this for a reason. And I'm glad he said it because
I've needed this. I've needed this statement to
not believe everything you see in here.
And clearly they needed it because the Holy Spirit guided
the writer to say this. So maybe you need to hear this
like I have many times in my life.
Don't believe everything you hear.
And we're going to get into this spirit, but basically don't
believe the essence of everything or don't believe
everyone. He's not saying test, He's not
saying it's like some some mystical thing.
It's very straightforward. Don't believe everyone you hear
and don't believe everything you hear.
That's the spirit, the essence of the things that you hear.
And there may be a lot of people in here that are pretty
skeptical, but not everyone is as refined in their evaluation.
So maybe you need to hear to test the spirits today.
He says do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits
whether they are of God. Well, this word test does not
again mean some myth, mysterious, mystical thing.
It comes from a Greek word, doki mazo, that means to examine, to
prove or to scrutinized to see if something is genuine or not.
It's really a very straightforward thing.
We're supposed to evaluate something against a certain
standard to see if it is of that genuine standard.
If you have a gold standard, there is a standard set and you
have to evaluate every other piece of gold up to that
standard. So we are supposed to test these
spirits or these people or these ideas that are out there, right,
Because I have a tendency and I think as you get older, you get
more robust to wherever you are in your struggles.
But I have a tendency to thank everybody is good.
And it's not saying like, oh, that's that's so high.
That's so great of you, Wade, because that has its downfalls
too. Taylor's a little bit more like
she's skeptical and she sees saying things for how they
really are. Sometimes you need both
personalities in the world. You need people who see and want
to see the good. You need to see people who are
like, I see what's real. I need to hear the examination.
But we also read last time I spoke that the heart is
deceitful above all things. So I can't just examine
something and say, oh, I'm going to be a one.
I'm going to be a one man jury here and I'm going to decide
whether what I think is right because our hearts can deceive
us. So how are we supposed to
examine, and it's against the standard whether they are of
God. OK, so how do we do that?
How do you know what is of God? First Corinthians chapter 2
verse 11 says for what man knows the things of a man except the
spirit of the man, which is in him?
Even so, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God
for a very straightforward concept, right?
You don't know who I am unless I tell you.
No one knows it what's inside me unless I reveal it to you.
And God has to reveal himself to us for us to know the things of
God. So if we are going to evaluate
whether they're of God, we have to have God tell us.
Second Peter 2 verse 21 says for prophecy or the teaching of God
never came by the will of man, but holy men, men who are set
apart, holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy
Spirit. So in God's word, those holy men
who are set apart to teach and write these scriptures were
moved by the Holy Spirit himself.
So how do we test the spirits? Second Timothy 3 verse 16, all
scripture is given by inspiration of God.
That phrase, as you've heard it before, literally means from the
breath of God. So if we are going to evaluate
things and test them, whether they're of God, the only true
way we know is to look at God's Word.
How do we test the spirits #1 here's a couple rule of thumbs I
came across that might be helpful to you.
Number one, were they taught by Jesus?
The things that you hear people teach or that you are wondering
about, were they taught by Jesus himself?
Number two, were they practiced by the early church #3 are they
affirmed in the epistles? The other letters?
Now, most people are right on with this one.
They're like, man, Jesus said it, at least if he said in the
form of a command, I got you, I'll do it.
But a lot of people seem to kind of think these number two and
three don't matter as much. Well, yeah, they didn't say in
in the letters or, yeah, the church did that, But you know,
doesn't really matter. And, and I would ask why, why
did they go through all the work to write that?
Many of these people were not very educated.
And so it was difficult sometimes to get someone who can
write it all down to sit down and write line after line after
line. These are long letters.
They didn't have great paper. They didn't have a computer to
sit down at. It took a lot of work to produce
these. So why didn't they even write
it? Why didn't they go through all
the work to deliver and pass these letters around and share
them? If it doesn't matter what the
early church did, it matters what they did.
And that's why we have the examples in the book of Acts in
other places. And again, being affirmed by the
epistles, all the letters that were written to churches.
This is a a way of asking ourselves to test something,
whether it's from God. Does it pass these tests?
And this is your weekly reminder, my weekly reminder to
value your time with the book that we're that we call the
Bible. We have to value it so deeply.
Why? Because he says, because many
false prophets have gone out into the world, we have to value
our time with God's word. And the reason I'm telling you
is because I need it. I know how often I get off track
with my attention to God's word. And so I guarantee there's,
there's maybe half the room at least that needs a
reaffirmation. You got to get in your word.
You've got to get in and study every single day.
And I need that because I fall apart spiritually and in my
ability to test things if I do not.
And why is that important? Because there are plenty of
things to leave me astray, he says here.
And this was just shortly after the church was set up.
And he said there are already many who have gone out into the
world to teach what's wrong. False prophets.
The word prophecy or prophet, as Darren often says, doesn't have
to just mean telling something ahead of time.
It's not just like I have to tell you, oh, this is going to
happen in the future. That's a prophecy.
Prophesying can also be forth telling or just saying it.
So there are people who say things, whether they're
predicting something in the future or just saying about
what's going on now, or they're teaching you something, they're
forth telling things that are false.
OK, Why is that a big deal? If you look in the garden, the
devil is set up as the master deceiver.
In the early days of the world, the devil was in there and he
deceived man and woman, and he led them to sin.
Let's think about the context that we were in there.
You had one command. Don't eat that tree.
Tend the garden, do everything else.
Don't eat that tree. He had one command.
They had one command. They had two people.
Just two. Don't mess this up.
You got one command, two people. You got this right.
You can handle this. And they had all the ideal
circumstances you could ask for. It was there was no pain.
There was no suffering. There was no daily struggle.
It was peaceful work. You had everything.
You think we can handle it right as humanity, But the devil was
such a deceiver that he said this twist.
He said you will not die if you eat that tree.
God knows you'll become wise. Remember, we've talked before.
He teaches in half truths. Yes, they became wise, but to
the destruction of their soul. So if the devil can twist one
command with two people in a perfect environment today, there
are many instructions we had to follow.
I was going to show you my Bible.
I'm the whole my Bible. If you look at your Bible, there
are a lot of instructions. There are a lot of things to
teach and to learn. So that provides a lot of room
for people to get in there and mess it up.
There are many people on this world of all different
backgrounds, all different experiences, all different
tendencies, and we are dealing with fallen circumstances.
We're not dealing with an ideal world.
We get tired, we get burdened, we get weakened by so many
things. So if we think we can waltz out
there and say God, I, I've read your Bible before, I know these
three things that I've learned, I'll be all right.
He says we have to be ready to test the spirits against the
standard of God's word. And if we don't know God's word,
we don't stand a chance. You may think you go to a church
that practices good things and you're safe.
It's not that simple. We're here for a little while
and sure we can do our best together, but you stand and have
to bear your own burdens. We must spend time in the Word
of God so that we are not deceived because the danger is
real. The opportunity is real for us
to be deceived. Maybe you may seem small, but it
will cause issues in our walk if we don't know and live in God's
Word. Verse 2, we may not get through
the whole chapter. Don't worry.
If you're wondering why we're just getting through verse one,
verse 2 by this, you know the Spirit of God.
Now I don't believe he's drawing all the doctrine, the doctrinal
lines here. He's not saying this is the one
test that's going to tell you whether someone's going to be a
spirit of God. Rather, he's been talking about
a doctrinal issue and he's saying here is the Spirit of God
in this doctrinal issue. Let's remember back what he just
tell them in the last couple chapters.
If someone comes and says Jesus didn't come in the flesh, he
said that's the spirit of the Antichrist.
If somebody tells you that Jesus didn't really come, that's evil.
So what he's saying is you're going to know the Spirit of God,
the spirit of truth, by this. Every spirit that confesses that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every
spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh is not of God. So that is the context he was
writing about. We have been talking about
these, the Gnostic teachings that said Jesus couldn't really
have come in the flesh because all flesh is evil.
So Jesus wasn't evil, He didn't really come here.
It was an illusion, right? It's funny, we've talked about
this a couple of times. Modern day we see the more
common issue is there are plenty of religions that don't believe
Jesus was really God. They actually don't have many
problems with the fact that he was here on the earth.
Muslims, Jehovah's Witness, Mormons.
They do not believe Jesus was God.
They believe these other things, but not God.
But it's funny, during John's day, that didn't seem to be the
real issue. Clearly God was among us.
He healed the sick, He raised the dead.
He brought sight to the blind. They couldn't deny that this
figure was God, but they said he couldn't have really been man.
It's funny how we we just turn it around.
The struggle has changed today. Jesus was proven to be a man
clearly because he lives. History says it, but he's not
really gone. The problem is if we twist or
undermine any part of Jesus work, we are going to critically
undermine our faith. He goes on to say, and this is
the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming
and is now already in the world. The spirit of the Antichrist,
the essence of the teaching of the anti Christian principles
teach. Yes, Jesus did not come in the
flesh. But I think maybe the greater
and more widespread issue this represents is like we just said,
anything that would undermine the teaching of truth from its
pure simplicity and from faith in the facts.
Anything of that would be anti Christian and would undermine
Jesus's work. Verse four He says you are of
God little children and have overcome them because he who is
in you is greater than he who is in the world.
They are clearly struggling and he starts by affirming that they
are from God himself and maybe you need that information.
Maybe you need to be reminded of your identity.
You're not put here for no reason.
You have a great purpose in service to the Almighty Creator
and can't afford to be overcome by the by the works of evil
because He's living in you and He is.
He was in you is greater than he who is in the world.
This is the anthem of the people of God and has been for
millennia. Maybe you remember in Second
Kings chapter 6 this is said almost verbatim the same thing
and I'll just give you a quick rundown.
I think I taught on this about five years ago.
I don't think we've talked about it much then.
So maybe you need a refresher or someone hasn't heard it.
Second Kings, chapter 6 in this point in the narrative of the
Old Testament, the Israelites are at war or the the king of
Assyria is coming to make war with the Israelites.
So God's people, he's trying to make war with God's people.
And every time he tries to go attack the Israelites, he's got
an ambush set up. His plans are foiled and somehow
they, the Israelites avoid the attack of this evil king.
He's a warring king. He wants to come after and crush
them. And pretty soon he gets fed up
and he's like, who among you are is a spy?
Because someone in here is telling the Israelites what's
going on. There's no way they've avoided
my attacks this many times. And one of his people stands up
is like, it's not us. The prophet Elijah, who's in
Israel, hears the words that you speak in your bedroom.
He says, and he is probably freaked out by that, but he's a
warring king. And so he says, OK, I got to go
get this guy. And they tell him where he's at.
They say he he must be in Dothan.
Therefore he sent horses and Chariots and a great army there.
This man has charge of a massive army.
The Assyrians were very well established as a military force,
and he had come after this one man.
They surround the city with all of his force of his army.
And they came by night and surrounded the city.
And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out,
there was an army surrounding the city with horses and
Chariots. So Elijah has a servant with him
to help him along with everything.
And that servant gets up early and rubs his eyes, wakes up and
he is surrounded. And his servant said to him,
alas, my master, what should we do?
What are we going to do? We're surrounded.
And Elijah prayed and said, Lord, I pray open his eyes that
he may see. Then the Lord opened the eyes of
the young man, and he saw. Did it say the Lord put
something else there? It said, open his eyes and what
did he see? Maybe it looked something like
this. And behold, the mountain was
full of horses and Chariots of fire all around.
Elijah, he says you brought horses.
Great, I got horses, you got Chariots, I got Chariots.
But mine are horses and Chariots of judgement, of destruction, of
power that is beyond anything that the enemy has against you.
And they were surrounding. It says that the mountain was
full of these horses and Chariots of fire.
He said do not fear for those. I think I failed to leave off
the the phrase. He said those who are with us
are greater than those who are with them.
That's the phrase he includes that is almost verbatim with
what John said. And 1st John, those who are with
us or he who is in you is greater than those who are
against you. And I need to have a spiritual
perspective. If we are going to survive
spiritually, we won't survive without a spiritual perspective.
We are going to be like that servant who's freaking out in
the middle of his troubles, who has no Peace of Mind, who has
all this unrest and inside of him if we do not have a
spiritual perspective. And that perspective is that the
Lord's help is always there and he is with us every day.
God's might is surrounded you, and it was always there all
along, whether he took the opportunity to see it or not.
So we might as well get used to and enjoy looking at those
realities that should comfort us.
So he's giving them these affirmations.
He's saying you back in first, John, you are of God and you've
overcome them, not because you are so awesome, but because he
who is in you is greater. Our God, who works in US and
lives through US, is the greater force.
Verse five, he says they are of the world.
He's talking just about those, those false teachers.
He says they are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the
world and the world hears them. We talked about maybe some of us
have a hard time believing any someone else is really wrong.
We don't say it. God, whose word makes the
distinction. We don't have to make that
distinction. And don't let people throw that
in your face like you're somehow so judgmental and so rude that
you see something as truth. You and I don't make the
distinction. The distinction is already made.
God's word makes the distinction whether something is true or
not. And we just help people see it.
Hopefully that's our goal, right?
With humility and gentleness. Verse 6, We are of God.
He who knows God hears us. He who is not of God does not
hear us. Who is the US he's talking
about? Well, it's the people who wrote
the inspired Word of God. John is inspired writer and if
people who are writing that inspired word and people who are
sharing the truth are not heard said, they're not of us.
When she goes back again to making sure we understand the
word of God and listen to these writers because those are the US
who we must be listening to. He says by this we know the
spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Remember Spirit of being the essence of something or the one
who is of truth or the one who is of error.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God and
everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Now last time we talked in chapter 3, we talked about this
idea of laying down our lives for the brethren.
I don't know about you. I felt really challenged by
those scriptures. We talked about how aggressive
of a command it is to literally lay down your life for someone
else. And I left that wanting to speak
a little bit more and, and it came back up in this chapter.
Let us love one another. So if we're going to become
commanded to love one another according to this love that is
of God, then it's a big serious task.
He goes on to say, well, we'll get there in a minute.
He's commanding us to love as God loved, and I need a little
bit more help with getting there all the time.
So how might we do that? Now it is clear that we must
understand God's Word, as we've already said.
And we all, I think, get the idea that we have to understand
what God wants from us in his Word to practice it.
But sometimes there's a gap between how and what you know,
And maybe you're at the point where you're like, I want to, I
want to know, I want to do it, but how do I do it?
Asking others, as we've said often, is one of the best ways.
If you ask a spiritual leader in this congregation, if you ask
Frank, if you ask some of the older brother, Carl and Darren,
anybody who has lived the life and who have been faithful, they
can give you some great advice. And many others, I don't mean to
leave it there. They can give you great advice.
So yes, start there. That's great, but in reality,
they are living their own life. They don't see every little
thing that's going on in your life to give the best advice all
the time. We always pray, you know, to to
be able to give good advice, but sometimes you don't know exactly
what somebody needs the way maybe they know what they need.
And so I want to encourage you if you have tried asking someone
else, what should I do to show love?
How can I be an example of God's love for the world and how I can
be one who loves as God loves because that's a command from
God. The bar is set.
How do I love like God? Don't underestimate the power of
your heart going to God's heart, because once you know God's
word, you can study it all you want, but there comes a point
where you have to start to dig deep.
There comes a point where you have to ask God earnestly in
prayer. God help me to see.
In the book of James, he says, let him who lacks wisdom do what
ask of God who gives to all, How does he give to all?
He says who gives to all generously and and how and
without reproach. If you lack wisdom, he says ask
of God and he gives generously and without reproach, not giving
you shame like you're silly, don't know enough.
How could you not know what to do?
How could you not know how you should show love?
You should already know this. He says no, he gives generously
and without reproach. So if you want to love like God,
yes, ask, but ask God for guidance and don't underestimate
the value of what you can be aware of.
Because of that connection with God and because of the awareness
when you pray a prayer like this, this is a prayer that I
was taught and I think helps me a lot.
God, please help me to have opportunities to do good and
please help me to see those opportunities and please help me
to have the strength to take those opportunities.
Because sometimes you, you just missing it.
You don't care about people in the world.
You don't care about people around you sometimes as I do.
And I have to be willing to see that and then I can take
opportunity and take advantage of it.
So don't underestimate the process of the heart in seeking
communion with God. And something I don't normally
think about is one of God's guidance for prayers.
In Luke 18 it says this. Then Jesus told his disciples a
parable to show them they should always pray and not give up.
He said in a certain town there was a judge who neither feared
God nor cared what people thought.
And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with
the plea, Grant me justice against my adversary.
For some time he refused, but finally he said to himself, even
though I don't fear God or care what people think, yet because
this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice
so that she won't eventually come and attack me.
I think this is the NIV and the Lord said listen to what the
unjust judge says and will not God bring about justice for his
chosen ones who cry out to him day and night?
Will he keep putting them off? The teaching in this is this
worldly person can be convinced by a a woman who is persistent
in her asking. He's like I'm a good God.
Don't you think if you are persistent and ask me, I will
give to you? And it dawned on me, maybe I'm
not praying to God for guidance enough with that kind of
attitude. Oh sure, when when someone I
love is sick and struggling deeply, I will be persistent in
prayer and beg and I'll stay on it and stay on it.
But do I do that with turning my heart to God's word?
Do I do that with turning a mindset into action that has
never been in really an action before?
May we be as persistent as that widow in pursuing the actions in
the heart of God beyond maybe what we've ever done before.
Verse 8. He who does not love does not
know God, for God is love. He who does not love does not
know God, for God is love. God is defined by love.
God is the essence of love encapsulated.
So if we're going to be godly, we should probably start there.
Verse 9. In this the love of God was
manifested toward us, that God has sent his only begotten Son
into the world that we might live through him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us
and love, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins. Whenever the Word of God is
seeking to convince us of God's love for us, to teach us, it
doesn't do a whole lot of explaining.
It usually just gives US1 strong, concrete, undeniable
example. God loves you.
He sent a son to die for you. And that reminds me to look at
my love for God and for others that way.
Do I need to give some long oration about, well, I really do
love people. I just, God says I love the
world and here's how. Here's my action, here's my
proof. And I don't want to ever make
this seem like we are our our works earn our salvation because
they do not. No matter what I did, it would
not earn me salvation without Jesus Christ to save me.
But don't let people say that if you are evaluating your life to
see if you're a saved person, don't let them take you off the
fact that you show your faith by your works.
As James says, God to prove his love for us and to prove that he
does have love for us, reference an action.
So maybe we can reference, hey, I love God and I have faith.
And here's how I know that you can prove your love by action.
It doesn't have to be something that earns your salvation to be
assured, as we talked about in the last chapter.
Love that and be confident and to be able to reference your
faith by action. There's nothing wrong with that.
Verse 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love
one another. What if God loved me the way I
love my brothers and sisters? What if God loved you the way
you love the people who are your brothers and sisters in Christ?
Where would your soul sit today? He says to love God or to love
like God loved the world? Sure, we don't want to ever be
doing direct wrongdoing to people around us in the church.
I think that's obvious, like we don't want to be doing that.
But let's take it a little bit further.
What if God loved me like I can be toward my brothers and
sisters uninvolved in their life, and maybe they're on the
back burner. Maybe I treat you all sometimes
like you're on the back burner. Like you don't matter as much to
me as what's going on right now. Like it's really not worth my
time. I've got other stuff to do.
These people have their own. Go do your thing.
I'll go to church. I'll be whatever, but you're not
worth my time. Sometimes we, I think we as
humans, develop this attitude toward our brothers and sisters.
What if God loved you the way you and I sometimes love each
other? What if God loved me with the
spirit of just being annoyed at dealing with my brothers and
sisters? And I'm not saying you can't be
annoyed because there are things that deserve annoyance.
But if I just stay annoyed at my brothers and sisters?
If I don't move on past that and make something beyond that, I'm
living in annoyance with them. What if God lived in just
perpetual annoyance with you? And as we've kind of already
mentioned, what if God said I just got more important stuff to
do than to deal with them? Beloved?
And if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Verse 12. No one has ever has seen God at
any time. If we love one another, God
abides in US and His love has been perfected in US.
No one has ever seen God. God is spirit.
You can't see him. No one, no one in flesh has seen
God in reality. And John 14 verse 7, this idea
comic came up with his disciples.
Jesus said if you hadn't known me, you would have known my
Father also. And from now on you know him and
have seen him. Maybe you say see right there it
says you've seen God in a sense. He's not saying you've actually
seen God. He says Philip said to him,
Lord, show us the Father and it's sufficient for us.
He's like, yeah, it'd be great. I'd love to see God.
Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long?
And you and yet you have not known me, Philip, He who has
seen me has seen the Father. So no one has literally seen
God. No one wakes up in the morning
and says hi there, God, good morning.
No one does that because no one's really seen him.
We see him in another way. We see him in a spiritual sense.
We see him in an awareness. How?
If we love one another, that's how you see God.
If you love one another, God abides in US and his love has
been perfected in US. Do you think you would love him
more if you saw him? If you saw Jesus or God standing
here today in in your presence, do you think you love him more?
I think reaction might be to initially say, yeah, sure, I
think I would. I think I'd be more focused and
more attentive to that. But he just said it would not.
We would not love him more in a way that really matters to God.
Sure, we might have feelings that well up inside of us.
And this love is the word agape. The word agape means a self
sacrificing love that will give to another and show that aside
from what 1 feels, that's phileo love in the Greek.
If we might feel a phileo love more toward God if we saw him.
Doesn't sound like that's really what matters to God as much.
Obviously that comes with it. But God's love being perfected
in us in a way that matters to God comes in love for one
another. I might feel more love for him,
but the significance and what is great importance to Him is that
I love my brothers. By this we know that we abide in
Him and He and us because He has given us of His Spirit.
And I'm going to have to cut it off there.
We have a little bit less than half the chapter left, but I
hope this morning you have a written stilled, a reinstalled
desire to love God and to love your brethren with the kind of
love that God showed again, agape love.
That would be self sacrificing and do whatever it took for the
betterment of your brethren for mine.
And I stand the first in line of that list to be better at that.
And this church will be what it can be.
This church will grow in love and I believe in number as
people are drawn to that just said, the world will know the
love of God by how we love each other.
The lesson is yours this morning.
I hope that if you have not started this walk that you will
want to, that you'll want to be in God to know that He is with
me and living in me and He's greater than anything I'll face
in this world and it is powers surrounding me.
And if you have not started that walk and you want to enjoy that,
you can start it today. Obviously by hearing the word of
God, you got to hear something to believe and by believing that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and repenting of your past life,
saying I'm going to change, I'm going to turn from my way to
God's way and confessing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
As we've already said, you have to confess this in this study
that that Jesus was the Son of God, that he came to this earth
and he died and saved and rose again to save us.
You have to confess that, but there's no other way by by which
we can be saved. And if you've already done that
and you're and you're ready to be baptized, we can be immersed
into water for their mission of sins to be added to the church.
Now the sins washed away. And you can do that today if you
have not, and start the walk.