1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,800 All right, so we are going to be in we are going to be in first 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:07,520 John and last week I got I got through chapter 1. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,120 So this week we're going to start back in chapter 1 because 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,000 we're actually going to be we're going to start in verse 8 just 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:21,480 to do some review in chapter 1. And so we'll just start real 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,520 quick. If we say that we have no sin, 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,480 we deceive ourselves in the truth. 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,560 Oh, sorry. And the truth is not in US. 9 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,040 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,160 our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 11 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:40,320 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar. 12 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,000 And His word is not in us. My little children, these things 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,800 I write to you so that you may not sin. 14 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:52,160 And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus 15 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,760 Christ the righteous, and he himself is a propitiation for 16 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,960 our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. 17 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,080 And dear Lord, I just thank you for tonight. 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,440 And I thank you for how big you are and how in control you are, 19 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,640 Lord. And I thank you for your word. 20 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,880 Thank you for everybody here Lord, that you'd filled with 21 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:20,080 your spirit that you'd guide and direct us, Lord that you'd be 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,200 speaking tonight or that I just get out of the way and I pray 23 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,440 this in Jesus name, Amen. So we went back to verse 8 just 24 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,280 because it's really we're only going to get through those first 25 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,160 2 verses in chapter 2. But to get it some context. 26 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,200 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the 27 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,560 truth is not in US and that we're going to go through a 28 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:48,080 bunch of just the Margie would mention it that you know, just 29 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,520 the the different teachings that people come up with. 30 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,560 And this is one of those John is bringing up that there there's 31 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,080 two sides he could be he he's pointing out from both sides of 32 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,720 the aisle. Some say in Christ, nothing is 33 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,040 sin. That's the I can do all things 34 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:10,320 crowd and then others say in Christ, my sin nature is dead 35 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,440 and that's the and therefore I can't sin crowd right. 36 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:18,680 Either I'm perfect or I can do anything and neither one of 37 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,040 those is what John's saying, right? 38 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,000 He's saying if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and 39 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,680 the truth is not in US, right? We're we still have sin. 40 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:36,160 John is reminding us that Christ that we are free from sin, but 41 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:41,360 our free will can and does reach out of the light and sin right. 42 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:48,800 And Paul, Paul completely agrees with that in Romans 323 and and 43 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,720 really I'm going to call out who's writing it, but we all 44 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,120 know that the Holy Spirit wrote it. 45 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,040 But 323 for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 46 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:03,720 And John reminds us in verse 9 to just keep short accounts 47 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,440 right that that that if we say we have no sin, we deceive 48 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,000 ourselves and the truth is not in us. 49 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,760 And then verse 9, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and 50 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,320 just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all 51 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,600 unrighteousness. So what I love about and just 52 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,520 well, what I love about God is as you're as you're digging into 53 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,120 his word and you just get to see him that he he is the same 54 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,040 today, yesterday and forever, right. 55 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:38,800 David back in Psalm 32 writes, I acknowledge my sin to you and my 56 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,720 iniquity. I have not hidden I said I I 57 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,880 will confess my transgression to the Lord and you forgave me, 58 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:54,640 forgave the iniquity of my sin. So it's really we a lot of times 59 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,920 we think, and this is both David and John saying it. 60 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,120 We, we think there's, there's the ability to hide our sin. 61 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,880 Like I'm not going to confess it because I, I, I feel guilty, but 62 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,080 I don't want to talk to God about it. 63 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,160 Well, he already sees you. He already knows about it, 64 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,880 right? It's, it's that moment in the 65 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,920 garden when, when Adam is hiding from God. 66 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,600 Was he ever actually hiding? When God said, Adam, where are 67 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,760 you? You knew where they were, right? 68 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:23,640 But Adam needed to come out. And, and in this, in the, in the 69 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,520 David part, there's, there's two types of sin. 70 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,880 There's iniquity and transgression, which iniquity is 71 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,520 like bent. It means bent or twisted, 72 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,520 corrupt, the idea of aiming to do good and then missing. 73 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,440 So think of David, David sleeping with Bathsheba, which 74 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,880 is he fell short. He was tempted and he failed, 75 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,160 right. But then transgression is like 76 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,600 like rebellion or or violating. And there you can, you can 77 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,920 picture David ignoring God and having Elijah or Uriah killed. 78 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,400 And I always, I always picture David going La La, La La La La 79 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:01,680 right? I'm not listening God right? 80 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:06,040 And Uriah's name means light of the Lord. 81 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,880 And if you guys can imagine the neon light that Uriah was 82 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:15,360 shining on David's sin when David had slept with Uriah's 83 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,120 wife and Uriah wouldn't sleep with his own wife. 84 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:24,400 The sin was being announced and David was definitely ignoring 85 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,480 it, right? So it's that's that's 86 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,320 transgression. But David said God Forgives both 87 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:35,360 of those right and and you got to remember that's before Jesus. 88 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,320 So how does that work? How does David how did how is 89 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:46,040 how are we to know this right? Colossians 126 says the mystery 90 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,240 which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now 91 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:55,440 has been revealed to his Saints to them God will to make known 92 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,960 what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the 93 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:04,720 Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory and that hope 94 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:11,680 of glory is what is what the all the all the pre Incarnate Jesus 95 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,080 people had right They they didn't know how it worked. 96 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,800 They just knew it worked. They they knew who they were 97 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:26,960 supposed to honor. And as I as I have here, David 98 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,240 didn't know how God would do it. He just knew he would. 99 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,360 And there there's that faith in that right. 100 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:41,240 So Paul goes on in Romans 324 and says being justified freely 101 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,520 by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ 102 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:50,520 Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by by his blood 103 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,160 through faith to demonstrate his righteousness. 104 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:59,040 Because his forbearance, God had passed over sins that were 105 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,920 previously committed to demonstrate at this present time 106 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,960 his righteousness and he might just be sorry. 107 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,200 He might be just and the justifier of one who has faith 108 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,600 in Jesus. And that is a lot to look at one 109 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,760 word that is this. This is really fun guys. 110 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,400 Propitiation here is he la stay rayon, which I mutilated, but 111 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:31,280 that's the best I can do and it means mercy seat. 112 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,640 And and that's what we what we very often when we talk about 113 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,000 propitiation and it's true, we call it an atoning sacrifice. 114 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,320 But here, this word that Paul that's being translated for us 115 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,720 in English is propitiation is the mercy seat. 116 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:53,040 And this is Paul pointing to, pointing us to Jesus as the 117 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:58,320 mercy seat on the ark, right? He, he was, he was where we met 118 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,960 mercy. It's where Israel back in the 119 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:06,160 Old Testament, that's where they went for mercy. 120 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,880 It's where the high priest went to receive that to, to ask for 121 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,440 that mercy, right? It's where they took the 122 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,400 sacrifices where they took the blood. 123 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:20,560 David again in Psalm 51 two says, wash me thoroughly from 124 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,600 from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 125 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,560 For I acknowledge my transgression and my sin is 126 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:33,320 always before me against you. You only have I sinned and done 127 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:41,000 this evil in your sight that you may be found just just you speak 128 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:45,720 and blameless when you judge. So David under good God was the 129 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,760 one he needed to be forgiven by right? 130 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,360 And that happened at the mercy mercy seat and how that 131 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,360 happened, they didn't they didn't understand. 132 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,640 They just knew God said that's how that happened, right? 133 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,880 When they when they read the law that they knew, they knew what 134 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,480 they were supposed to do and they knew they served a living 135 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:14,040 God and this was what was required and how it worked was a 136 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,520 mystery to them. What wasn't a mystery to them 137 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,720 was their need for forgiveness from a holy God. 138 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:28,160 When someone says they have no sin, they're saying they have no 139 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:34,240 need to be saved and are good. They are and they are lost and 140 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:38,560 in their sin against God, denying His Holiness. 141 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:43,800 And that's really, you know, I, I talked to people and very 142 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,360 often somebody will come up to me and say, so am I going to go 143 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,360 to hell because of this, this sin or, you know, whatever the 144 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,240 big sin in their life that they think that the church hates or 145 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,280 whatever. Guys, that is not the sin 146 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,520 sending them to hell. I mean that sin's a sin. 147 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,560 That ain't the one. The one that's sending them to 148 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:03,960 hell is that they don't believe God is holy and worthy to be 149 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:05,880 served. That's it. 150 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:10,520 Because once you make that decision, God will start 151 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,400 cleaning up all the rest of the junk in your life, right? 152 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:14,840 But you have to make that decision. 153 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,760 You have to decide that He is the gold standard. 154 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,480 He is where you're at. And if you haven't decided that, 155 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,040 then you're over here in the weeds going, well, I got to quit 156 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,600 drinking, or I got a quick cussing or I got to quit 157 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,880 watching bad movies. Well, none of that matters if 158 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,920 you're not in Christ. Once you're in Christ, He's 159 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,800 going to start yard sale in your life. 160 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:38,680 Ask me how I know that right? And, and that, but that's, 161 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:40,800 that's the God we serve, right? He's a living God. 162 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,000 It isn't. I, I, I will talk about the 163 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,520 Bible and I will tell you how awesome it is that he wrote it 164 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,040 down. And he, he definitely uses the 165 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:50,960 Bible. He definitely speaks to us 166 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:52,880 through it. But the awesome thing is we 167 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,400 serve a living God that is totally going to convict you and 168 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,600 speak to you and tell you things that you need to get out of your 169 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,000 life. You know, it doesn't talk about 170 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,360 it doesn't talk about Facebook and TV in in the in the word. 171 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,560 But there might be a time where he says you need to get off 172 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:11,120 Facebook, you need to put your phone down. 173 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,480 You need to you, whatever that is right. 174 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,680 And and that's a you and him conversation. 175 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:22,200 And when you decide in any of those conversations that your 176 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,280 your liberty and in America, we are really guilty of this, that 177 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,200 I have freedom and liberty to to do whatever I want. 178 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:34,720 If God is telling you to stop whatever it is, if God saying 179 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:43,160 no, your answer is yes, I will yes, Lord not, but I can because 180 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:45,920 right. And that's that's everything 181 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,240 right. That's that is if he's asking 182 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,600 you to fast, if you whatever that thing is and it isn't about 183 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,440 it isn't about what he's asking what he what he's asking your 184 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,240 neighbor to do. You know, I, I use, I use when I 185 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:04,400 when I got saved, I, I chewed and I chewed a lot and they look 186 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:05,640 back on it. I think it's kind of funny, but 187 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,520 I was not convicted at all when I got saved about chewing. 188 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:13,840 I had there were people that smoked. 189 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,720 They were convicted when I got convicted of chewing and it 190 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,280 became it, it became, I mean, I'd love to say I got a little 191 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,320 conviction and I just quit. It didn't work like that. 192 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,120 It took some time and it's a long story. 193 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,960 But when I did finally quit or when it when it came to a head 194 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,480 and I quit, I didn't look at everybody that was chewing and 195 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,640 say you're sinning because they're not, there's nothing in 196 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,480 the Bible about chew left or right. 197 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,800 They're not sinning because God convicted me to stop, right? 198 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,520 But if I keep doing it, I'm sinning if God convicted me, 199 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,360 right? It's pastor Mitch one time was 200 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,720 convicted to quit watching TV and he removed the TV from his 201 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:55,520 house. He didn't come to church and go 202 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,880 everybody needs to get rid of the TV in their house because I 203 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:02,200 was convicted, right. So it's it's God is that's the 204 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,440 God we serve. He's a living God that wants to 205 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,040 speak to you about your life and your relationship with him, 206 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:09,920 right? And just just knowing that 207 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:13,040 that's that's that isn't a that isn't a bad thing, guys. 208 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,360 That's an awesome thing, right? That I don't I don't have to 209 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,120 guess. A lot of times he just tells me 210 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:20,560 I get dents in the back of my head from it. 211 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,960 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and 212 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,760 his word is not in US. And, and you know, this is just 213 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,960 back to the, we've all sinned and fall short and we need 214 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:38,600 Jesus. And first, John 511 says this is 215 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,280 the testimony that God has given us eternal life. 216 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,360 And this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life. 217 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,800 He who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 218 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:54,320 And when we deny that we have sinned and we deny that we need 219 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,280 a Savior, we're, we're in that spot. 220 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,560 That's not good, right? That's, that's not where we want 221 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:04,800 to be. Now all of that is just getting 222 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:10,360 us into chapter 2 and chapter 2 is these first 2 verses are 223 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,400 probably, I mean, I've always liked them, but I didn't know 224 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,840 how much fun they were until I really dug into them. 225 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,520 These two verses are awesome. And if you want to, I'm going 226 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,960 to, I'm going to stir a whole hornet's Nets just because it's 227 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:28,080 fun. And I, and when I say that it's 228 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:37,400 so I like to mess with doctrine that that leaves things out to 229 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,840 make their doctrine work. I always say. 230 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:44,080 So when I got saved, I was an evolutionist because I grew up 231 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:50,320 in the secular schools and that's where I was and, and I 232 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,040 was not a very, I thought I was a smart evolutionist. 233 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:54,960 I was, and I was just taught whatever they taught me in high 234 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,960 school and I enjoyed it. So I and then Steve was teaching 235 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:04,320 through Genesis and we got to Noah's, Noah's ark and he's 236 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,280 teaching through it. And I'm like, well, that's a 237 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,640 problem because I want to believe the Bible's true Lord. 238 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,760 And I had faith in that and faith, this is the word of God 239 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,600 and this is true, but you're going to have to meet me because 240 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,560 I have no idea how any of that works. 241 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,880 So I took a refuting evolution class and I really walked in 242 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:28,400 that class like a prideful, arrogant 31 year old who thought 243 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,880 he was smarter than he was. And Rob Wallace was the the 244 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,040 teacher and he was a science teacher at a school. 245 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,800 So he knew both sides of the argument very well. 246 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,880 And we went through feuding evolution. 247 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:47,160 And I will tell you what evolution is due to this day is 248 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,440 give you they're they're no different than our news media. 249 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,960 We're kind of used to it now. They give you their bit of the 250 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,240 information and their bit of the information is exactly true. 251 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,360 I mean, they are not lying. They are just leaving out the 252 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,200 rest of the chart. And when you see the rest of the 253 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,480 chart, their information doesn't seem to matter as much. 254 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,080 And, and you'll find a lot of times when you get into 255 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,920 doctrinal issues that they're that both sides are firing 256 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,280 verses back at each other and people go, well, you can't be 257 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,920 sure on any of it. It's like, no, first you have to 258 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:20,880 remember how awesome and big our God is. 259 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,160 And if he says it, it's true. It isn't. 260 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,040 It isn't. This truth is true and this 261 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,000 truth is true. One of those that we would like 262 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,360 to talk about. There is one God and three 263 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,960 persons, right? And we can, I think in this 264 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,080 room, we're pretty, pretty solid on the Trinity. 265 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,800 That's a thing. And there are there are those 266 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,200 kind of truths throughout the Bible because he's bigger than 267 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,440 us in a, in a way that we can't there, there should be things 268 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,920 that he says that I can't understand. 269 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,400 I can, I can kind of explain to the best of our ability, but 270 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,120 it's it's beyond my how does that work? 271 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,440 Well, I'll explain that right after the rapture, right, right 272 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,720 when we're with Jesus, we'll have a class and it'll all be, 273 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:08,640 Oh, that's how that works. So verse one says, my little 274 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,599 children, these things I write to you so that you may not sin. 275 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,280 And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus 276 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:21,839 Christ, the righteous, righteous now advocate here and and Margie 277 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:25,640 mentioned it that this is John writing, John writing here. 278 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,640 And then John wrote the gospel as well and Paraclete toss, 279 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:36,840 which is that word for advocate is only used in four locations. 280 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:41,600 And in those four spots, the other three spots, that's the 281 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:47,200 helper, the Holy Spirit. In this spot, it's Jesus. 282 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:53,400 And all four spots are John. So he isn't confused on what 283 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:54,960 he's using and where he's using it. 284 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:02,000 So, so it's the advocate which is which is with the Father, 285 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,640 Jesus Christ the righteous. So he's saying the Pericletos, 286 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,320 the advocate, Jesus Christ the righteous. 287 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:14,000 And he says in other places that you will have a, a helper will 288 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,720 come, I will send a helper for you. 289 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,000 I don't have those verses because I jumped a different 290 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,640 direction, but know that that's the coolest thing right there is 291 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,440 that literally John is on purpose. 292 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:27,960 This isn't this isn't an accident. 293 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,480 He's referring to the Holy Spirit everywhere else. 294 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:35,760 And here he solidly connects in one failed swoop, the Father, 295 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:41,360 God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in one, one sentence. 296 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,560 And I just love that. It makes me smile. 297 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,760 And then Romans 826 it says likewise. 298 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:54,680 And and remember this is this is that advocate with the Father. 299 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:00,800 So like a a lawyer and intercessor, Romans 26 says 826 300 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,800 says likewise. The Spirit also helps in our 301 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,600 weakness, for we do not know what we should pray for as we 302 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,280 ought, but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with 303 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:12,880 the groanings which cannot be uttered. 304 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,840 So we ask, OK, so who is it, Jesus or the Spirit? 305 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:22,000 Yep, that's right. He is our lawyer, right? 306 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,840 He's who lives inside of me, the Spirit who who's in me, Jesus, 307 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,560 right? And, and, and that is the God we 308 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:36,240 serve. He's that big and that we need 309 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,880 to trust and rely on him. He is faithful, right? 310 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,840 And this is he is faithful to finish the work that he finished 311 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:49,160 at the cross. And and that is such I mean, 312 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,040 he's he is faithful to finish what he already finished. 313 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:57,120 But that's because he is outside of time and we are in time. 314 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,720 And that's one of those things guys, that that anybody that 315 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:06,800 tells you they understand that is and understand that like, 316 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,040 yeah, that's completely within my grasp is. 317 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,000 The the scientists that go well, you know, we know time started 318 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,320 at one point and and then they try to explain it. 319 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,640 They are they are out of their element because it is not 320 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,880 something that we can grasp to be outside of time. 321 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:31,320 OK, so verse 2 and he himself is the propitiation for our sin and 322 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,880 not for ours only, but also for the whole world. 323 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,800 And this is the hornet's nest of fun. 324 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:43,920 So this is Jesus is the this that propitiation here is Jesus 325 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,800 is the sacrifice that removes sin. 326 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:53,560 So in John, the word that is translated propitiation is hell 327 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,960 loss Moss, which is the atoning sacrifice. 328 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,800 So when you look at the combination combination of John 329 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,480 and Paul, Jesus is the sacrifice that satisfied and the mercy 330 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:11,480 seat that is satisfied. He is it once again a picture of 331 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,560 of both the Son and the Father all in one and that and their, 332 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,920 their their togetherness. Jesus is the only one that could 333 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:24,320 pay the price for the mercy and he is always wanted to give it 334 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:35,880 and not and then that that last sentence not for ours only, but 335 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:42,560 also for the whole world. And this is that this is that I 336 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,160 just get a stir up doctrine right? 337 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:48,880 This is a Calvinist would say that that God is sovereign and 338 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,880 there are those that are elect and those that can't be good 339 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,440 can't go to heaven and those that that are already going to 340 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,400 heaven. And what this says is not only 341 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:05,080 ours but for the whole world. And so that leaves things the 342 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,760 and what the what Calvinists do, and there's another side of this 343 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,160 the Armenians and what they do, what both sides do is leave the 344 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,440 other argument out. Now mean Armenians will tell you 345 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,640 that that it's all about my free will and God, this place is just 346 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,400 kind of running on its own and we get our free will and and 347 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,120 then Calvinists will say, no, it's all God's sovereignty and 348 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:26,760 we really don't have a choice in the matter anyway. 349 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,760 And and I'm those are the extreme views, right. 350 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,800 So I mean, I am definitely brought painting with A broad 351 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,320 brush. When you look at Calvinism, 352 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,520 somebody bigger than me explain the sovereignty of God and and 353 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,080 the and free will kind of like this. 354 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,560 And there this was AI think I heard this on the radio. 355 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,760 Think of who put the breath in your lungs. 356 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,920 God, right, But do we still choose to breathe? 357 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:02,800 And so those are both and right you, you still have choices in 358 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:07,200 that a couple of more verses just so we've got this whole 359 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:12,200 world part down is first John 413 by this we know that we 360 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,640 abide in him and he and us because he has given us the 361 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,240 spirit and we have seen and testified that the Father has 362 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:25,120 sent the Son as the savior of the world, not of the elect of 363 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:29,080 the world. John 129 says the next day, John 364 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:33,040 saw Jesus coming towards him and said, behold, the Lamb of God 365 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,960 who takes away the sin of the world. 366 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:42,760 But this is just going through John and my favorite. 367 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,120 This is truly my favorite like well that just because they will 368 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:52,520 tell you that God chose and and my decision has nothing to do 369 00:23:52,520 --> 00:24:03,560 with it. 6 John 663 through 70 and it says it is the spirit who 370 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,080 gives life the flesh profits nothing. 371 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,880 The words that I speak to you are Spirit and their life. 372 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,040 But there. But there are some of you who do 373 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,840 not believe. For Jesus knew from the 374 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,600 beginning who they were who did not believe and and would betray 375 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,800 him. And he said, Therefore I have 376 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:26,360 said to you that no one can come to me unless the Father granted 377 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,360 to him, unless sorry, unless it had been granted to him by my 378 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:33,400 Father. From that time many of his 379 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,160 disciples went back and walked with him. 380 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,640 No more than Jesus said to the 12 Do you also want to go away? 381 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:44,080 But Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? 382 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,320 You have the words of eternal life also. 383 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,080 We have come to believe and know that you are Christ, the Son of 384 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,560 the living God. And Jesus said to them, Did I 385 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,800 not choose you? The 12 And one of you is the 386 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,040 devil. So he chose Judas, right? 387 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:09,760 Did Judas choose him and and that granted by the father up 388 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,400 there in in verse 65 it it's grant. 389 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,080 It's D doe me it, which is to grant or to bestow or to entrust 390 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:22,600 or to offer freely. And and so they would your your 391 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,280 doctrine. People would say, well, that's 392 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,400 see that says that that's father granting it. 393 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:33,080 But Jesus in John 519 says, so this can't be, they can't be the 394 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,600 Father doing one thing and Jesus doing something else with this. 395 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,760 I chose you because in 519 it says then Jesus answered and 396 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,320 said to them, most assuredly I say to you, the Son can do 397 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,680 nothing of himself but what he sees the Father do. 398 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,720 For whatever he does, the Son does also in like manner. 399 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,520 So it can't be that the Father and the Son are two and two 400 00:25:54,520 --> 00:26:04,280 different things right here and in so Jesus chose the 12. 401 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,680 So the Father chose the 12 because that's what it says. 402 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,720 He can do nothing that the Father isn't doing. 403 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,920 And as many as received him, he gave the right and that is 404 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:19,520 that's John 112 But as many as received him, he gave the right 405 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,360 to become children of God to those who believe in his name. 406 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:32,640 So out of out of 12 apostles, 11 of them, he, he chose 12 and 11 407 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:37,280 of them received him right and became children of God. 408 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:45,640 So Jesus does the choosing, but we have to accept and and freely 409 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:55,890 receive the gift by faith. Oh, and there's that there's 410 00:26:55,890 --> 00:26:57,650 another doctrine that it all hamstrings. 411 00:26:57,650 --> 00:27:00,250 It's just I will jab that real quick. 412 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,440 Irresistible grace, which is another like hardcore Calvinist 413 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:10,200 line is that if God chose you, you could not refuse him. 414 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,960 Just said that Judas refused him. 415 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:20,920 Been pretty straightforward. So it and I and I am, I'm having 416 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,040 fun with that guys. But it I'm having fun with it, 417 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,160 but I don't want to be if somebody's watching online or 418 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:33,240 something, I don't want to be dismissive in that the 419 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:38,480 Calvinists and the Armenians have some good there is there's 420 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,520 truth there. They, it's if they got if they 421 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,520 get off the rails, right? And understanding that, that 422 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,320 both sides have there's, there's truth in that, right? 423 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,320 I mean, they, they're, they're verses that they use there. 424 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,440 There's truth in those. They just have to at any point, 425 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:01,480 if you have to explain away a verse to make your beliefs work, 426 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,600 you're, you're, you're struggling, you're, you're in 427 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,520 the wrong place, right? You need like that, that old 428 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:08,920 line. If, if you have a problem with 429 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,320 the verse, you don't have it has a problem with you, right? 430 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,120 So we bend to it. We don't try to bend the Bible 431 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:25,560 to us. So all of this to say, like 432 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,400 David in the Psalms, there are things we can't get our heads 433 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,560 wrapped around, right? I mean that literally David 434 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:40,480 didn't understand in the Psalms how a lamb dying at the altar 435 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,240 and being and blood being dripped on on the mercy seat, 436 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,680 how that saved him. He just knew it did right? 437 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,080 He, he knew that's what God asked him to do. 438 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,400 And, and he was doing that. And but there are things we can 439 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:57,600 get our heads wrapped around, right? 440 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,560 And, and that's the, the major stuff, which like pretty simple, 441 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,040 I think everybody in this room could admit that we've all 442 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,600 sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 443 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,360 That isn't one that, that that's not a hard one, right? 444 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:16,960 And that Jesus rose again on the third day and he did that to pay 445 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:22,600 for that sin. So we can spend a turn and and 446 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,800 through his his paying for that sin gives us the right to be 447 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,040 called children of God if we accept his gift right. 448 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:39,840 A Chuck Smith quote that is really just he's way better. 449 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,280 He's way better at quotes than I am. 450 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,920 He used to. I heard a bio I heard a Radio 451 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,800 One that that he said he was a Calmenian. 452 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,440 So he's a little both, but I am not a Calvinist. 453 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,800 I am not an Armenian. Both have truth. 454 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,760 Both go too far. If you only teach one side, you 455 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,360 end up in heresy. The Bible teaches God's 456 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,320 sovereignty and human responsibility. 457 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,960 The truth lives in the tension, right? 458 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,120 And that is in that there's, there's mystery there, right? 459 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,960 Be willing to accept that mystery that, that there is 460 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,800 stuff that I don't know that I can't lock down, right, because 461 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,360 he's bigger than me. Like I can't lock down how I'm 462 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:24,960 in time and he's outside of time. 463 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,480 I can't lock that now. I can't lock down how he is 464 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,240 sovereign and I have free will. I can, I can explain it like 465 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:34,560 this. I can show you where he's 466 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,480 pointing it out, but I don't know exactly how that works. 467 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,000 And why is it all important? I mean, that's, that's the at 468 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,360 the end of the day, guys, for us in this room. 469 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,320 Why is it important to us? Why is why is that a 470 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,040 conversation? Because when you fall on either, 471 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,400 either one of those camps, it is really hard to go out and share 472 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,960 the gospel with people. It is really hard to be on 473 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,960 either side of that. That that God is an uncaring, UN 474 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,080 uncaring and he isn't plugged in and he's not involved. 475 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:11,040 But we have free will that's hard to share who Jesus is or 476 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,400 that I don't really have a choice in it. 477 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,080 And I don't know if you're saved and I don't know if you're 478 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,720 elected, but you know, when you can say the prayer, maybe find 479 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,920 out. That's a hard way to do it, 480 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:26,520 right? So God the Father, God the Son 481 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,360 and God the Holy Spirit chose you and chose me from the 482 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:34,840 foundations of the world. Will we agree we need him And as 483 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,160 I said on Sunday, get in, sit down and hold on, right? 484 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,120 And but it's a gift that we have to accept. 485 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:52,760 And so in Uganda, we do pretty simple evangelism because it 486 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,520 they, I don't know, Uganda doesn't, doesn't require they, 487 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,320 they get it. They, they first of all know 488 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:05,040 that God is real and are pretty excited about a God who died for 489 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,080 him and and rose again and is living right. 490 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,120 And so we do, we do the bracelet. 491 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,320 I'm sure there's a bunch in this room that's that have done the 492 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,800 bead bracelet, you know, the black, the black bead, the red 493 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,280 bead, the white bead, the blue bead and the green bead, the 494 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,840 gold bead, all the things. But the black bead, it 495 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:31,000 represents sin and it's for everybody, whether they, whether 496 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,760 or not you accept Jesus into your life, you all have a black 497 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,680 bead, right? We all sin fall short, right? 498 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:43,560 And Jesus died for everybody. And that's the red bead. 499 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,720 And it doesn't matter whether you accept it or you don't 500 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,360 accept it. You know, the truth is the 501 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,520 truth. He died for everyone, the whole 502 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,320 world. And that's if these are, and 503 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,040 that's Ephesians 17. In Him we have redemption 504 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,840 through His blood, the forgiveness of sin according to 505 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:06,480 the riches of His grace. And then John 316 is about 506 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:13,400 obviously forgiveness and that is for the whole world of that 507 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,000 belief. He he offers forgiveness to the 508 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,840 whole world on the white bead, but it's not theirs unless they 509 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:27,440 accept it, right? That's that he chose to die for 510 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:35,480 everybody, but who, who believes in him will not perish and will 511 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:40,360 have everlasting life, right. And then the green bead is about 512 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:45,240 growth. And that's 2nd Corinthians 57 513 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,480 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 514 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,880 And that is faith equals works, equals grace or equals growth, 515 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,240 right? Which is if I have faith, you 516 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:02,720 will see work in my life and through that work, I will grow 517 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,800 closer to the Lord. And that isn't I'm not working 518 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,400 so that everybody see it like a, a works mentality. 519 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:09,800 I'm going to read my Bible, I'm going to pray. 520 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,000 I'm going to because I'm not going to get anything out of it 521 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,800 if that's what I'm doing. But if what I'm trying to do is 522 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:19,600 grow closer to Christ and spend time with him, then I'm going to 523 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,920 get rewarded for that because my reward is going to be that I'm 524 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:28,719 going to grow closer to Christ. And then the gold 1 and that one 525 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,120 and that that, sorry, the green bead is only for those who 526 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,040 accept him, right? Someone's someone back at the at 527 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,679 the blood that hasn't accepted him in in their forget it 528 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:43,400 haven't gotten the forgiveness. They don't get to grow in Christ 529 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:44,679 right. They don't they don't get any of 530 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:47,120 that. They're not children of God that 531 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:54,280 get to grow closer to him. I had that backwards, but 532 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,080 anyway, I'll get there blue blue. 533 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,880 That was faith all that was about faith. 534 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,760 I missed one. Sorry. 535 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:08,160 Ephesians 415 is about growth, but seek the truth and love that 536 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:13,240 you may grow up in all things into him who is the head Christ 537 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:19,280 and then gold is our eyes are on him and not in this world and 538 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,280 that's that's heaven right where where we laying up our 539 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,280 treasures. But guys, we should be able to 540 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,400 share that because we know who Jesus is. 541 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,760 And I don't mean you guys share the bead bracelet, but we should 542 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:34,480 be able to share that simple, simple truth with people that 543 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,520 that Jesus came because we're a bunch of sinners who need a 544 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:43,800 savior and that he came for everybody. 545 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:48,840 If they will accept him and he wants their, he wants them. 546 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,200 I mean, he wants him to the point that he was willing to go 547 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:56,080 to a cross and die on it. And if we have faith in that, 548 00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,440 he's going to do amazing things, right? 549 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,800 John 1421 is he who has my commandments and keeps them and 550 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,200 is he who loves me and he who loves me and be loved by my 551 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,680 father. And I will love him and manifest 552 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,080 myself to him. And that manifest myself to him 553 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,640 is when I listen to him and obey, he becomes bigger and more 554 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,840 real in my life that manifest, right? 555 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,720 So yeah, that's it, guys. I stood that pond. 556 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:26,280 It was a lot of fun. I, I enjoyed today. 557 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,600 I, I, I was busy Monday and Tuesday. 558 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,800 So today I just sat down in my office and dug into two verses 559 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,000 in first John. So I'll get you guys out of 560 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,920 here. So Lord, I just thank you for 561 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,040 all that you've done. I thank you for how big you are 562 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:43,520 and I thank you that that you do know the end from the beginning. 563 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,800 And Lord that as we are here in the present and that's what we 564 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:53,080 have control of, Lord, that we, we know that you are before us 565 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:57,040 and after us, Lord, and that we can count that your, your plan 566 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,840 is bigger than we are and that you do have a plan and you have 567 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,600 a plan to use each and every one of us, Lord. 568 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,200 And that you would do that, that you would be in our midst, Lord, 569 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,800 that you'd be putting appointments in front of us, 570 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,400 guiding and directing us. I pray all this in Jesus name, 571 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:10,960 Amen.