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It's wonderful to be here with 
all of you today to worship, God

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in spirit. 
And in truth, we appreciate all 

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that have come to be with us. 
And as always is the case, I do 

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consider it a privilege to 
speak, concerning the word of 

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God. 
And I hope we have some things, 

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that would be both edifying and 
encouraging to you. 

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The reason for teaching on this 
passage in 1st, John chapter 5 

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and verse 18 is because a 
question came up in a Bible 

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study of private Bible study 
that I was having about oh 10 

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days ago or so. 
And the question came up about 

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this verse, what is this verse 
talking about in first, John 

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chapter 5 and verse 18? 
John says we know that whoever 

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is born of God does not sin. 
But he who has been born of God 

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keeps himself and the wicked one
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So the question came up is this 
verse actually saying that a 

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person will ever reach a point 
in time in their life when they 

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do not sin at all? 
In fact, this person. 

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I was studying with said, you 
know, the Bible says that 

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everybody said I thought 
everybody makes mistakes in the 

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only one. 
That's perfect. 

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Is Jesus, do I need to cut this 
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Is there a contradiction? 
Action. 

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The answer to that is no. 
And we're going to get to the 

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context of this passage in just 
a minute. 

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But first, let's notice the two 
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important important. 
Statements of fact about someone

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who is born of God and we'll 
talk about what that means, also

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in just a few minutes, but the 
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things does not sin and the 
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We're going to get to those in 
detail in just a few minutes. 

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But, you know, this passage is 
sometimes often misunderstood 

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some people have looked at this 
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comes a time when a person 
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spirituality through 
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Spirit and actually gets to a 
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all. 
That is false. 

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That's not what John was saying 
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But what we want to do is we 
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passages before we get to the 
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remember this, if we think that 
there's a contradiction in the 

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Bible, but When two passages of 
scripture, it can only mean the 

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following. 
It only means that we don't 

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understand one or both of those 
passages because the Bible says 

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that the Bible is not for 
private interpretation and God 

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is not the author of confusion, 
but of Peace. 

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So, all that being said, notice 
with me now some foundational 

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passages regarding things like 
sin. 

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And first John, chapter 1 and we
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Eight, if we say that, we have 
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the truth is not in us. 
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the bat. 
If a person says that they have 

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no sin, they deceive themselves.
And the truth is not in us. 

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What else do we know? 
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John says, if we confess our 
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And just to forgive us our sins 
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unrighteousness. 
Enos. 

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I love verse nine very much. 
You've heard me preach on this 

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many times over the years, but 
let's just notice. 

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If we say we have no sin, we are
deceiving ourselves. 

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The truth is not in us, we are 
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if we confess our sins, And that
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And by the way, remember this 
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Does it mean admission, does it 
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Well, I'm caught red-handed. 
I got to admit it. 

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Oh, okay. 
I did, I confess confess here is

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the Greek word that literally is
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So when you confess your sins to
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that is confession with Godly 
sorrow, that his confession with

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repentance when you do that. 
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What God does, he's faithful. 
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and to cleanse us from all 
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It says, even the contamination 
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complete forgiveness. 
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in passing though, Sometimes we 
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that continue. 
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consequences of our sins will be
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All were promised is we're going
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happened and even the stain of 
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takes that away too. 
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remember, though. 
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times the consequences of those 
sins and they Linger on and you 

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could plug in, you don't need me
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consequences for our actions. 
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We sin? 
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truth is not in us. 
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God. 
He'll forgive us of our sins and

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then he says, in verse 10 if we 
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make him a liar. 
And his word is not In US. 

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Then first John, chapter 2 verse
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verse 1. 
My little children, these things

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I write to you so that you may 
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And if anyone sins, we have an 
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Christ, the righteous and he 
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our sins and not for ours only, 
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Now by this, we know that we 
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Commandments he who says I know 
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Commandments is a liar and the 
truth is not in him but whoever 

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keeps his word. 
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perfected in him by this. 
Know that we are in him now. 

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Send happens to every person. 
What he's saying is this, these 

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things I write to you that you 
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What's he talking about? 
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there? 
I'm writing these things to you 

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so that sin is not the direction
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It's kind of like this. 
Okay, people make mistakes kids 

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make mistakes. 
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little kids and they're getting 
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say behave yourself, don't 
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Don't don't do those things that
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get you in trouble. 
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Do we really think for a minute 
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decision, right? 
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behave and not misbehave at all.
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that behavior be the direction 
of their activity and the 

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direction of their choices. 
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He says, I'm writing these 
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not the direction of your life. 
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But if anyone sins, and 
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confusing. 
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translated since here Scholars, 
tell us the word if is better 

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translated as when so I'm 
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So that sin is not the direction
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And when you sinned though, We 
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father, Jesus Christ, the 
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He himself is the propitiation 
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He paid the fine for us. 
He paid the price for us. 

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He went down that lonely road 
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the sins of the world. 
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says to. 
He is the propitiation for our 

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sins, but not just our sins, all
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world Jesus died for the sins of
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The world. 
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here. 
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know him, you know, there's two 
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passage and this statement and 
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This word, no means to know for 
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assurance, you can know for 
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No means to have a relationship 
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notice what John says, we know 
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relationship with him, only if 
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says I know him and does not 
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and the truth is not in him but 
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Truly, the love of God is 
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We know that we are in him. 
This is a mouthful here. 

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So notice this in verse 4, he 
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keep his Commandments. 
Vince is a liar and the truth is

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not in him. 
Want to give you a little 

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example, okay? 
There was a brother in Christ 

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and it's not the only time 
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When they decided not to follow 
the lord anymore, not to be a 

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member of the church, a faithful
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quit. 
I was talking to this fella and 

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he said, yeah, I know, but I 
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I still pray to God, I still 
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Well, not according to this 
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have a relationship with God and
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And if we say that, we know him 
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were a liar and the truth is not
in him. 

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Notice the next verse. 
But whoever keeps his word. 

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Truly, the love of God is 
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What I want to know is this is 
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God or is it talking about God's
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I think it's both. 
I think it's both our love for 

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God. and God's love for us, 
notice when we keep his word and

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we obey him, Our love for God is
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fully in our obedience. 
Jesus said, if you love me, keep

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my Commandments. 
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my words. 
That's what Jesus says the word 

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perfected means according to mr.
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To bring to an end by completing
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It means fully developed are 
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love for God. 
Now also in secondarily God's 

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love for us. 
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verse 3, real quick for this is 
the love of God, that we keep 

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his Commandments and his 
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So our love for God is made 
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perfect it in our obedience to 
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That's number one. 
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about God's love for us? 
Well, the Bible says, in John 

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3:16, very familiar passage for 
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So loved the world that he gave 
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whoever believes in him, should 
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life. 
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world. 
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God loved the world so very much
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the sins of the world and when 
it says so loved it doesn't mean

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an amount of love. 
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his love by sending his son. 
All right. 

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But God's love for man is only 
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when we obey him and receive the
spiritual blessings in Christ 

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and receive salvation. 
It's by our obedience. 

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Our obedience shows our love for
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fully developed. 
And our obedience also is a time

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when God's love for, man, for us
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receiving, those spiritual 
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Now, all right, so what have we 
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What do we know about Sin? 
We know this for things, we know

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that all have sinned We know 
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have not sinned, we deceive 
ourselves number three. 

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We only know him or have a 
relationship with him if we keep

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his Commandments. 
And number four, when we keep 

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his word, the love of God is 
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That's our love for God, and 
God's love for us. 

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So what about first John chapter
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All that being said, what about 
first John 5:18, what does it 

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mean? 
Remember it cannot contradict 

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other passages of scripture and 
be true. 

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So we need to understand what 
the context is in doing that, 

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though. 
We have to go to First John 5 

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and we have to go to verses 16 
and 17 first. if anyone sees his

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brother sinning a sin, which 
does not lead to death, He will 

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ask and he will give him Life 
For Those who commit sin, not 

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leading to death, there is a sin
leading to death, and I do not 

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say that he should pray about. 
That all unrighteousness is sin 

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and there is a sin not leading 
to death. 

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I don't have time to go into 
this in great detail. 

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I'm going to be very brief about
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couple of things here. 
What he's saying is there's a 

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sin that does not lead to death,
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That leads to death and all 
unrighteousness is sin, okay? 

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So everything is Under the 
Umbrella of sin, if it's 

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unrighteousness, it's in, you 
know what that means? 

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There's no degrees of sin. 
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consequences for different sins 
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All unrighteousness is sin and 
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But then he says though, one 
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that does not Lead to death and 
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This is this, there's a sin that
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and there's a sin that does lead
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What's the big bad Sin? 
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Spiritual death. 
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Is any sin? 
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confess. 
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sin without the willingness to 
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death. 
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this because this is the same 
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18, the same thing Now a sin 
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Obviously there's we all sin. 
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because we sin it did not 
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We did not lose our relationship
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We pillar Warheads, we ask God 
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cleans that slate, we confess 
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sorrow and repentance. 
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contamination of that still have
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when I go, and I decide to live 
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make that choice, Choice without
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leads to spiritual death or the 
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relationship. 
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We know that whoever is born of 
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Does not sin. 
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God keeps himself. 
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touch him. 
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Translated begotten of God. 
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be made alive, okay? 
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Let's go further. 
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Just somebody that's been 
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sins and nothing else. 
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The statement of fact in This 
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Christian only and what he's 
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Christian. 
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Alive by God is not going to 
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That we just talked about in the
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That's all that means. 
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all. 
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I'm not going to practice 
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of desire to repent. 
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those sins in my life, that's 
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It means I'm not going to ruin 
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But you have to be a faithful 
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A person that is a faithful 
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Has that promise You know, 
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Said. 
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There's a lot said about the 
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It's amazing. 
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to with people that talk about 
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And the devil having strongholds
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The devil meeting us in our 
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Step that I've really never even
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sometimes today have that in 
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happens. 
Now remember this is a statement

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of fact, there are two facts 
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it's for the faithful child of 
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What happens if I'm a faithful 
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I'm not going to be guilty of 
living my life in the habitual 

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practice of sin and be stuck in 
the unhappy circumstance of the 

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sin, that leads to spiritual 
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What else? 
But he who has been born of God 

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that's begotten child of God or 
faithful Christian keeps himself

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I don't know if a passage can be
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If I'm a faithful child of God. 
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my own strength, not based upon 
my own wisdom or anything, 

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really? 
But with the Lord's help, 

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putting my faith and trust in 
the Lord, and all things, and 

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putting my life in the hands of 
the Lord and all things, 

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trusting him in both Time, and 
Eternity, you know, it's going 

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to happen. 
The wicked one, the horrible 

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devil is not going to touch me. 
I didn't say he's not going to 

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tempt you. 
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not have a stronghold in your 
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The Devil is a vanquished foe. 
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The cross took care of the 
Whippet on the devil. 

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The devil was whipped by Jesus 
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And you know what, he's a 
vanquished Foe and the Lord was 

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Victorious and we that are in. 
Jesus Christ will also be 

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victorious in the same way. 
The devil does not have a 

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stronghold in your life. 
If you don't allow. 

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So in closing at first John, 
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sum it up and we'll be finished 
the Christian who sets his mind 

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to refrain from sin will not be 
guilty of the habitual practice 

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of sin without the willingness 
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He will set his mind to refrain 
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And with the Lord's help will be
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devil, because Satan has no 
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That we do not give him. 
Those are great promises. 

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I'll just throw one more passage
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If you're having trouble, if 
you're struggling submit 

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yourselves therefore to God 
resist the devil and he will 

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flee from you. 
He's bound, we could buy them by

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the word of God today to great 
stuff. 

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