1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,240 We got through chapter 1. So this week we're going to 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:07,240 start back in chapter 1 because we're actually going to be we're 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,240 going to start in verse 8 just to do some review in chapter 1. 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,720 And so we'll just start real quick. 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,680 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves in the 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,400 truth. Oh, sorry. 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,320 And the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,920 faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from 9 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,480 all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,600 sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in US. 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,880 My little children, these things I write to you so that you may 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,960 not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an 13 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,320 advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He 14 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,840 Himself is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, 15 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,400 but also for the whole world. And dear Lord, I just thank you 16 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,440 for tonight and I thank you for how big you are and how in 17 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:06,480 control you are, Lord. And I thank you for your word. 18 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,680 Thank you for everybody here, Lord, that you'd filled with 19 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,800 your spirit, that you'd guide and direct us, Lord, that you'd 20 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,560 be speaking tonight, Lord, that I just get out of the way. 21 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:18,600 And I pray this in Jesus name, Amen. 22 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:23,000 So we went back to verse 8 just because it's really we're only 23 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,760 going to get through those first 2 verses in chapter 2. 24 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:30,520 But to get it some context. If we say that we have no sin, 25 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,200 we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in US and that 26 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:40,560 we're going to go through a bunch of just the Margie would 27 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,320 mention it that you know, just that the different teachings 28 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:46,040 that people come up with and this is one of those John is 29 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:50,160 bringing up that there there's two sides he could be he he's 30 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,600 pointing out from both sides of the aisle. 31 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:57,120 Some say in Christ, nothing is sin. 32 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:02,240 That's the I can do all things crowd and then others say in 33 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,880 Christ, my sin nature is dead and that's the and therefore I 34 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,560 can't sin crowd, right? Either I'm perfect or I can do 35 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,120 anything. And neither one of those is what 36 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,280 John's saying, right? He's saying if we say we have no 37 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,120 sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in US, right? 38 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:25,840 We're we still have sin. John is reminding us that Christ 39 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:32,560 that we are free from sin, but our free will can and does reach 40 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:38,320 out of the light and sin, right? And Paul, Paul completely agrees 41 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:44,400 with that in Romans 323 and and really I'm going to call out 42 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,840 who's writing it, but we all know that the Holy Spirit wrote 43 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,560 it. But 323 for all sinned and fall 44 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:55,960 short of the glory of God. And John reminds us in verse 9 45 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,800 to just keep short accounts right that that that if we say 46 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,560 we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not 47 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:05,600 in us. And then verse 9, if we confess 48 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,840 our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and 49 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,080 cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 50 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,760 So what I love about and just well, what I love about God is 51 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,800 as you're as you're digging into his word and you just get to see 52 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:25,480 him that he he is the same today, yesterday and forever, 53 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:30,280 right. David back in Psalm 32 writes, I 54 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,200 acknowledge my sin to you and my iniquity. 55 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,320 I have not hidden I said I I will confess my transgression to 56 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:43,560 the Lord and you forgave me, forgave the iniquity of my sin. 57 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:50,880 So it's really we a lot of times we think, and this is both David 58 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,400 and John saying it. We, we think there's, there's 59 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,640 the ability to hide our sin. Like I'm not going to confess it 60 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,600 because I, I, I feel guilty, but I don't want to talk to God 61 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:00,720 about it. Well, he already sees you. 62 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,240 He already knows about it, right? 63 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,120 It's, it's that moment in the garden when, when Adam is hiding 64 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,680 from God. Was he ever actually hiding? 65 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,680 When God said, Adam, where are you? 66 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,800 You knew where they were, right? But Adam needed to come out. 67 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,279 And, and in this, in the, in the David part, there's, there's two 68 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,279 types of sin. There's iniquity and 69 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,560 transgression, which iniquity is like bent. 70 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,960 It means bent or twisted, corrupt, the idea of aiming to 71 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,840 do good and then missing. So think of David and David 72 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:36,040 sleeping with Bathsheba, which is he fell short, he was tempted 73 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,960 and he failed, right. But then transgression is like 74 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,440 like rebellion or or violating. And there you can, you can 75 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,760 picture David ignoring God and having Elijah or Uriah killed. 76 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,240 And I always, I always picture David going La La La La La La 77 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,520 right? I'm not listening God right? 78 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,880 And Uriah's name means light of the Lord. 79 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:04,720 And if you guys can imagine the neon light that Uriah was 80 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,200 shining on David's sin when David had slept with Uriah's 81 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,960 wife and Uriah wouldn't sleep with his own wife. 82 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:18,240 The sin was being announced and David was definitely ignoring 83 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,320 it, right? So it's that's that's 84 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,120 transgression. But David said God Forgives both 85 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:29,160 of those right and and you got to remember that's before Jesus. 86 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,160 So how does that work? How does David how did how is 87 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:39,880 how are we to know this right? Colossians 126 says the mystery 88 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,040 which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now 89 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:49,280 has been revealed to his Saints to them God will to make known 90 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:52,760 what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the 91 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:58,560 Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory and that hope 92 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:05,560 of glory is what is what the all the all the pre Incarnate Jesus 93 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,960 people had right They they didn't know how it worked. 94 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,640 They just knew it worked. They they knew who they were 95 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:20,800 supposed to honor. And as I as I have here, David 96 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,080 didn't know how God would do it. He just knew he would. 97 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,200 And there there's that faith in that right. 98 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:35,080 So Paul goes on in Romans 324 and says being justified freely 99 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,400 by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ 100 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:44,400 Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by by his blood 101 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,000 through faith to demonstrate his righteousness. 102 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,840 Because his forbearance, God had passed over sins that were 103 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:56,720 previously committed to demonstrate at this present time 104 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,760 his righteousness and he might just be sorry. 105 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:05,000 He might be just and the justifier of one who has faith 106 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,400 in Jesus. And that is a lot to look at one 107 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,560 word that is this. This is really fun guys. 108 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:19,200 Propitiation here is he la stay rayon, which I mutilated, but 109 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:25,080 that's the best I can do and it means mercy seat. 110 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,440 And and that's what we what we very often when we talk about 111 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,800 propitiation and it's true, we call it an atoning sacrifice. 112 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,120 But here, this word that Paul that's being translated for us 113 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,520 in English is propitiation is the mercy seat. 114 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,880 And this is Paul pointing to, pointing us to Jesus as the 115 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:52,160 mercy seat on the ark, right? He, he was, he was where we met 116 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,800 mercy. It's where Israel back in the 117 00:07:54,800 --> 00:08:00,000 Old Testament, that's where they went for mercy. 118 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,720 It's where the high priest went to receive that to, to ask for 119 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,280 that mercy, right? It's where they took the 120 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,240 sacrifices where they took the blood. 121 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:14,400 David again in Psalm 51 two says, wash me thoroughly from 122 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,440 from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 123 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,440 For I acknowledge my transgression and my sin is 124 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:27,160 always before me against you. You only have I sinned and done 125 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:34,840 this evil in your sight that you may be found just just you speak 126 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,559 and blameless when you judge. So David under good God was the 127 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,600 one he needed to be forgiven by right? 128 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:50,200 And that happened at the mercy mercy seat and how that 129 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,200 happened, they didn't they didn't understand. 130 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,480 They just knew God said that's how that happened, right? 131 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,760 When they when they read the law that they knew, they knew what 132 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,360 they were supposed to do and they knew they served a living 133 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,880 God and this was what was required and how it worked was a 134 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,360 mystery to them. What wasn't a mystery to them 135 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:15,560 was their need for forgiveness from a holy God. 136 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:22,000 When someone says they have no sin, they're saying they have no 137 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:28,080 need to be saved and are good. They are and they are lost and 138 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,400 in their sin against God, denying His Holiness. 139 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:38,040 And that's really, you know, I, I talk to people and very often 140 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,480 somebody will come up to me and say, so am I going to go to hell 141 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,800 because of this, this sin or, you know, whatever the big sin 142 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,120 in their life that they think that the church hates or 143 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,160 whatever. Guys, that is not the sin 144 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,400 sending them to hell. I mean that sin's a sin. 145 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,400 That ain't the one. The one that's sending them to 146 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,840 hell is that they don't believe God is holy and worthy to be 147 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:59,720 served. That's it. 148 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,320 Because once you make that decision, God will start 149 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,200 cleaning up all the rest of the junk in your life, right? 150 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:08,680 But you have to make that decision. 151 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,560 You have to decide that he is the gold standard. 152 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:14,320 He is where you're at. And if you haven't decided that, 153 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,880 then you're over here in the weeds going well, I got a quit 154 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:18,440 drinking or I got a quick cussing or I got to quit 155 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,680 watching bad movies. Well, none of that matters if 156 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,720 you're not in Christ. Once you're in Christ, he's 157 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,600 going to start yard sale in your life. 158 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:32,520 Ask me how I know that right? And, and that, but that's, 159 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:34,680 that's the God we serve, right? He's a living God. 160 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:36,880 It isn't. I, I, I will talk about the 161 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,360 Bible and I will tell you how awesome it is that he wrote it 162 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,920 down. And he, he definitely uses the 163 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:44,800 Bible. He definitely speaks to us 164 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,720 through it. But the awesome thing is we 165 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,280 serve a living God that is totally going to convict you and 166 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,480 speak to you and tell you things that you need to get out of your 167 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,840 life. You know, it doesn't talk about 168 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,160 it doesn't talk about Facebook and TV in, in the in the word. 169 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,360 But there might be a time where he says you need to get off 170 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:04,920 Facebook. You need to put your phone down. 171 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,280 You need to you, whatever that is right. 172 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,480 And and that's a you and him conversation. 173 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:16,000 And when you decide in any of those conversations that your, 174 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,080 your liberty and in America, we are really guilty of this, that 175 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:23,040 I have freedom and liberty to to do whatever I want. 176 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:28,560 If God is telling you to stop, whatever it is, if God's saying 177 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:37,000 no, your answer is yes, I will yes, Lord not, but I can because 178 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,800 right. And that's, that's everything 179 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,080 right. That's that is if he's asking 180 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,040 you to fast, if you whatever that thing is, and it isn't 181 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,160 about it isn't about what he's asking what he what he's asking 182 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,920 your neighbor to do. You know, I, I use, I use when 183 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:58,280 I, when I got saved, I, I chewed and I chewed a lot and they look 184 00:11:58,280 --> 00:11:59,320 back on it, it tastes kind of funny. 185 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:05,360 But I was not convicted at all when I got saved about chewing. 186 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,440 I had, there were people that smoked, they were convicted when 187 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,040 I got convicted of chewing and it became it, it became, I mean, 188 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,280 I'd love to say I got a little conviction and I just quit. 189 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,320 It didn't work like that. It took some time and it's a 190 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,040 long story, but when I did finally quit or when it when it 191 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,600 came to a head and I quit, I didn't look at everybody that 192 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,800 was chewing and say you're sinning because they're not. 193 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,320 There's nothing in the Bible about chew left or right. 194 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,680 They're not sinning because God convicted me to stop, right? 195 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,360 But if I keep doing it, I'm sinning if God convicted me, 196 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,480 right, It's Pastor Mitch one time was convicted to quit 197 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,840 watching TV and he removed the TV from his house. 198 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,480 He didn't come to church and go everybody needs to get rid of 199 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,680 the TV in their house because I was convicted, right? 200 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,720 So it's, it's God is that's the God we serve. 201 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,480 He's a living God that wants to speak to you about your life and 202 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,600 your relationship with him, right? 203 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,800 And just just knowing that that's that's that isn't a that 204 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,880 isn't a bad thing, guys. That's an awesome thing, right, 205 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,560 that I don't I don't have to guess. 206 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:13,920 A lot of times he just tells me I get dents in the back of my 207 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:19,480 head from it. If we say that we have not 208 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,960 sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in US. 209 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,600 And, and you know, this is just back to the we've all sinned and 210 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:32,400 fall short and we need Jesus. And first, John 511 says this is 211 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,200 the testimony that God has given us eternal life and this life is 212 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,200 in his Son. He who has the Son has life. 213 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,600 He who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 214 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,160 And when we deny that we have sinned and we deny that we need 215 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,120 a Savior, we're, we're in that spot. 216 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:54,400 That's not good, right? That's, that's not where we want 217 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,600 to be. Now all of that is just getting 218 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:04,200 us into chapter 2 and chapter 2 is these first 2 verses are 219 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:08,240 probably, I mean, I've always liked them, but I didn't know 220 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:10,680 how much fun they were until I really dug into them. 221 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,360 These two verses are awesome. And if you want to, I'm going 222 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,800 to, I'm going to stir a whole hornet's Nets just because it's 223 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,920 fun. And I, and when I say that it's 224 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:31,240 so I like to mess with doctrine that that leaves things out to 225 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,680 make their doctrine work. I always say. 226 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,920 So when I got saved, I was an evolutionist because I grew up 227 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:44,160 in the secular schools and that's where I was and, and I 228 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,880 was not a very, I thought I was a smart evolutionist. 229 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:48,800 I was, and I was just taught whatever they taught me in high 230 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,800 school and I enjoyed it. So I and then Steve was teaching 231 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:58,160 through Genesis and we got to Noah's, Noah's ark and he's 232 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,120 teaching through it. And I'm like, well, that's a 233 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,440 problem because I want to believe the Bible's true Lord. 234 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,600 And I had faith in that and faith, this is the word of God 235 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,400 and this is true, but you're going to have to meet me because 236 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,400 I have no idea how any of that works. 237 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,720 So I took a refuting evolution class and I really walked in 238 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:22,200 that class like a prideful, arrogant 31 year old who thought 239 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:26,680 he was smarter than he was. And Rob Wallace was the the 240 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,880 teacher and he was a science teacher at a school. 241 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,600 So he knew both sides of the argument very well. 242 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,680 And we went through feuding evolution. 243 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,960 And I will tell you what evolution is due to this day is 244 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,240 give you they're they're no different than our news media. 245 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,800 We're kind of used to it now. They give you their bit of the 246 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,080 information and their bit of the information is exactly true. 247 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,160 I mean, they are not lying. They are just leaving out the 248 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,000 rest of the chart. And when you see the rest of the 249 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,280 chart, their information doesn't seem to matter as much. 250 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:03,920 And, and you'll find a lot of times when you get into 251 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,760 doctrinal issues that they're that both sides are firing 252 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,080 verses back at each other and people go, well, you can't be 253 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,720 sure on any of it. It's like, no, first you have to 254 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,720 remember how awesome and big our God is. 255 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,560 And if he says it, it's true. It isn't, it isn't. 256 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,520 This truth is true and this truth is true. 257 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,400 One of those that we would like to talk about. 258 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,280 There is one God and three persons, right? 259 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,360 And we can, I think in this room, we're pretty, pretty solid 260 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,640 on the Trinity. That's a thing. 261 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,760 And there are, there are those kind of truths throughout the 262 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,640 Bible because he's bigger than us in a, in a way that we can't 263 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,960 there, there should be things that he says that I can't 264 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,040 understand. I can, I can kind of explain to 265 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,440 the best of our ability, but it's, it's beyond my how does 266 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,440 that work? Well, I'll explain that right 267 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,880 after the rapture, right, right. When we're with Jesus, we'll, 268 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,000 we'll have a class and it'll all be, Oh, that's how that works. 269 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:03,760 So verse one says, my little children, these things I write 270 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:08,599 to you so that you may not sin and if anyone sins, we have an 271 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:11,680 advocate with the Father Jesus Christ, the righteous, righteous 272 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,200 now advocate here and and Margie mentioned it that this is John 273 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:21,680 writing John writing here and then John wrote the gospel as 274 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:24,880 well. And Paraclete toss, which is 275 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:30,680 that word for advocate is only used in four locations. 276 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,440 And in those four spots, the other three spots, that's the 277 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:41,040 helper, the Holy Spirit. In this spot it's Jesus. 278 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:47,240 And all four spots are John. So he isn't confused on what 279 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,800 he's using and where he's using it. 280 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:55,840 So, so it's the advocate, which is which is with the Father, 281 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,480 Jesus Christ the righteous. So he's saying the pericletos, 282 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,160 the advocate, Jesus Christ the righteous. 283 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:07,840 And he says in other places that you will have a a helper will 284 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,520 come. I will send a helper for you. 285 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,840 I don't have those verses because I jumped a different 286 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,520 direction, but know that that's the coolest thing right there is 287 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,320 that literally John is on purpose. 288 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:21,840 This isn't this isn't an accident. 289 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,320 He's referring to the Holy Spirit everywhere else. 290 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:29,640 And here he solidly connects in one failed swoop, the Father, 291 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:35,240 God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in one, one sentence. 292 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,440 And I just love that. It makes me smile. 293 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,640 And then Romans 826, it says likewise. 294 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,000 And and remember, this is this is that advocate with the 295 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,600 Father. So like a lawyer, an 296 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,560 intercessor, Romans 26 says 826 says likewise. 297 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,560 The Spirit also helps in our weakness, for we do not know 298 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:03,360 what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself 299 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,400 makes intercession for us with the groanings which cannot be 300 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,600 uttered. So we ask, OK, so who is it? 301 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:14,120 Jesus or the Spirit? Yep, that's right. 302 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,640 He is our lawyer, right? He's who lives inside of me, the 303 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:20,320 Spirit, who who's in me, Jesus, right? 304 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,760 And, and, and that is the God we serve. 305 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:31,960 He's that big and that we need to trust and rely on him. 306 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,720 He is faithful, right? And this is he is faithful to 307 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,440 finish the work that he finished at the cross. 308 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,960 And and that is such I mean, he's he is faithful to finish 309 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,720 what he already finished. But that's because he is outside 310 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,560 of time and we are in time. And that's one of those things 311 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:57,520 guys, that that anybody that tells you they understand that 312 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,880 is and understand that like, yeah, that's completely within 313 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:06,080 my grasp is the the scientists that go well, you know, we know 314 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,160 time started at one point and and then they try to explain it. 315 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:13,520 They are they are out of their element because it is not 316 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,760 something that we can grasp to be outside of time. 317 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:23,040 OK, so verse 2. And he himself is the 318 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:27,760 propitiation for our sin, and not for ours only, but also for 319 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,320 the whole world. And this is the hornet's nest of 320 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:35,240 fun. So this is Jesus is the this 321 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:39,200 that propitiation here is Jesus is the sacrifice that removes 322 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,720 sin. So in John, the word that is 323 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:49,840 translated propitiation is hell loss Moss, which is the atoning 324 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,600 sacrifice. So when you look at the 325 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:57,360 combination combination of John and Paul, Jesus is the sacrifice 326 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:01,000 that's satisfied and the mercy seat that is satisfied. 327 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:07,480 He is it once again a picture of of both the Son and the Father 328 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,920 all in one and that and their, their, their togetherness. 329 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:16,080 Jesus is the only one that could pay the price for the mercy, and 330 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:26,120 he is always wanted to give it. And not and then that last 331 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:31,680 sentence, not for ours only, but also for the whole world. 332 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,680 And this is that this is that I just get a stir up doctrine, 333 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,760 right. This is a Calvinist would say 334 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:44,120 that that God is sovereign and there are those that are elect 335 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:47,000 and those that can't be good can't go to heaven and those 336 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,720 that that are already going to heaven. 337 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:53,240 And what this says is not only ours but for the whole world. 338 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:01,360 And so that leaves things that and what what Calvinists do and 339 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,760 there's another side of this the Armenians and what they do what 340 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,680 both sides do is leave the other argument out. 341 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:11,040 Now Armenians will tell you that that it's all about my free will 342 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:12,720 and God. This place is just kind of 343 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,520 running on its own and we get our free will and and then 344 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,200 Calvinists will say no, it's all God's sovereignty and we really 345 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:20,600 don't have a choice in the matter anyway. 346 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,600 And and those are the extreme views, right. 347 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,640 So I mean, I am definitely brought painting with A broad 348 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,160 brush. When you look at Calvinism, 349 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,360 somebody bigger than me explain the sovereignty of God and and 350 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:41,160 the and free will kind of like this And there this was AI think 351 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,040 I heard this on the radio. Think of who put the breath in 352 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:50,200 your lungs. God right but do we still choose 353 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:55,720 to breathe and so those are both and right you you still have 354 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,760 choices in that a couple of more verses just so we've got this 355 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:06,000 whole world part down is first John 413 by this we know that we 356 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,480 abide in him and he and us because he has given us the 357 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,040 Spirit and we have seen and testified that the father has 358 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:18,960 sent the son as the savior of the world, not of the elect of 359 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,920 the world. John 129 says the next day John 360 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,000 saw Jesus coming towards him and said behold the Lamb of God who 361 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:34,080 takes away the sin of the world. But this is just going through 362 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,680 John and my favorite. This is truly my favorite like 363 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:44,880 well that just because they will tell you that God chose and and 364 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:53,760 my decision has nothing to do with it. 6 John 663 through 70 365 00:23:53,760 --> 00:24:00,360 and it says it is the spirit who gives life the flesh profits 366 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:02,720 nothing. The words that I speak to you 367 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,320 are Spirit and their life. But there. 368 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,480 But there are some of you who do not believe. 369 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,320 For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did 370 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,800 not believe and and would betray him. 371 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:18,240 And he said, Therefore I have said to you that no one can come 372 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,440 to me unless the Father granted to him, unless sorry, unless it 373 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,680 had been granted to him by my Father. 374 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,720 From that time many of his disciples went back and walked 375 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,160 with him. No more than Jesus said to the 376 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,600 12 Do you also want to go away? But Simon Peter answered him, 377 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,440 Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal 378 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,240 life also. We have come to believe and know 379 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,760 that you are Christ, the Son of the living God. 380 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,320 And Jesus said to them, Did I not choose you? 381 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,000 The 12 And one of you is the devil. 382 00:24:53,120 --> 00:25:01,400 So he chose Judas, right? Did Judas choose him and and 383 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,840 that granted by the father up there in in verse 65 it it's 384 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,360 grant, it's D doe me, which is to grant or to bestow or to 385 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:16,440 entrust or to offer freely. And and so they would your your 386 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,120 doctrine. People would say, well, that's 387 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:20,240 see that says that that's father granting it. 388 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:26,920 But Jesus in John 519 says, so this can't be they can't be the 389 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,440 Father doing one thing and Jesus doing something else with this. 390 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,560 I chose you because in 519 it says then Jesus answered and 391 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,160 said to them, most assuredly I say to you, the Son can do 392 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,520 nothing of himself but what he sees the Father do. 393 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,560 For whatever he does, the Son does also in like manner. 394 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,360 So it can't be that the Father and the Son are two two 395 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:58,120 different things right here and in so Jesus chose the 12. 396 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,520 So the father chose the 12 because that's what it says. 397 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,560 He can do nothing that the Father isn't doing. 398 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,760 And as many as received him, he gave the right and that is 399 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,800 that's John 112. But as many as received him, he 400 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,120 gave the right to become children of God to those who 401 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:23,560 believe in his name. So out of out of 12 apostles, 11 402 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:29,880 of them, he, he chose 12 and 11 of them received him right and 403 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:37,000 became children of God. So Jesus does the choosing, but 404 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,440 we have to accept and, and freely receive the gift by 405 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:49,710 faith. Oh, and there's that there's 406 00:26:49,710 --> 00:26:51,510 another doctrine that it all hamstrings. 407 00:26:51,510 --> 00:26:54,070 It's just I, I will jab at real quick. 408 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,240 Irresistible grace, which is another like hardcore Calvinist 409 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:04,000 line is that if God chose you, you could not refuse him. 410 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,840 Just said that Judas refused him and pretty straightforward. 411 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,640 So and I, and I am, I'm having fun with that guys. 412 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:20,720 But it I'm having fun with it, but I don't want to be if 413 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,200 somebody's watching online or something, I don't want to be 414 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,880 dismissive in that the Calvinists and the Armenians 415 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:33,040 have some good there is there's truth there. 416 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:38,600 They, it's if they got if they get off the rails, right? 417 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,680 And understanding that, that both sides have there's, there's 418 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,160 truth in that, right? I mean, they, they're, they're 419 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,280 verses that they use there. There's truth in those. 420 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,400 They just have to at any point, if you have to explain away a 421 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:57,160 verse to make your beliefs work, you're, you're, you're 422 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,840 struggling, you're, you're in the wrong place, right? 423 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,640 You need like that that old line. 424 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,200 If if you have a problem with the verse, you don't have it has 425 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,920 a problem with you, right? So we bend to it. 426 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,800 We don't try to bend the Bible to us. 427 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,120 So all of this to say, like David in the Psalms, there are 428 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:24,840 things we can't get our heads wrapped around, right? 429 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,640 I mean that literally David didn't understand in the Psalms 430 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:36,120 how a lamb dying at the altar and being and blood being 431 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:39,480 dripped on on the mercy seat, how that saved him. 432 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:44,120 He just knew it did right? He, he knew that's what God 433 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,320 asked him to do. And, and he was doing that. 434 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,200 And but there are things we can get our heads wrapped around, 435 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,040 right? And, and that's the, the major 436 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:58,720 stuff, which like pretty simple, I think everybody in this room 437 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,800 could admit that we've all sinned and fall short of the 438 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,120 glory of God. That isn't one that, that that's 439 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,880 not a hard one, right? And that Jesus rose again on the 440 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:15,520 third day and he did that to pay for that sin so we can spend a 441 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:20,080 turn and and through his his paying for that sin gives us the 442 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,120 right to be called children of God if we accept his gift, 443 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:30,040 right. A Chuck Smith quote that is 444 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,840 really just he's way better. He's way better at quotes than I 445 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,240 am. He used to. 446 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,840 I heard a bio I heard a Radio One that that he said he was a 447 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:44,400 Calmenian. So he's a little both, but I am 448 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,480 not a Calvinist. I am not an Armenian. 449 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,800 Both have truth. Both go too far. 450 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,600 If you only teach one side, you end up in heresy. 451 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,120 The Bible teaches God's sovereignty and human 452 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,480 responsibility. The truth lives in the tension, 453 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,520 right? And that is in that there's 454 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,720 there's mystery there, right? Be willing to accept that 455 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:12,680 mystery that, that there's stuff that I don't know that I can't 456 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,320 lock down right, because he's bigger than me. 457 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,400 Like I can't lock down how I'm in time and he's outside of 458 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,200 time. I can't lock that now. 459 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,680 I can't lock down how he is sovereign and I have free will. 460 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,320 I can, I can explain it like this. 461 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,520 I can show you where he's pointing it out, but I don't 462 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:37,560 know exactly how that works. And why is it all important? 463 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,360 I mean, that's, that's the at the end of the day, guys, for us 464 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,360 in this room. Why is it important to us? 465 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:43,800 Why is why is that a conversation? 466 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,560 Because when you fall on either either one of those camps, it is 467 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,160 really hard to go out and share the gospel with people. 468 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,760 It is really hard to be on either side of that, that that 469 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,040 God is an uncaring UN uncaring and he isn't plugged in and he's 470 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,120 not involved. But we have free will that's 471 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,640 hard to share who Jesus is or that I don't really have a 472 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,200 choice in it. And I don't know if you're saved 473 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,400 and I don't know if you're elected, but you know, when you 474 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:11,800 can say the prayer, maybe find out. 475 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,480 That's a hard way to do it, right? 476 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,840 So God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit chose 477 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,600 you and chose me from the foundations of the world. 478 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,040 Will we agree we need him? And as I said on Sunday, get in, 479 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:36,120 sit down and hold on, right? And, but it's a gift that we 480 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:43,200 have to accept. And so in Uganda we do pretty 481 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:48,840 simple evangelism because it they, I don't know, Uganda 482 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,960 doesn't, doesn't require they, they get it. 483 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,320 They, they first of all know that God is real and are pretty 484 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:02,120 excited about a God who died for him and, and rose again and is 485 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,400 living right. And so we do, we do the 486 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:07,960 bracelet. I'm sure there's a bunch in this 487 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:12,080 room that's, that have done the bead bracelet, you know, the 488 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,000 black, the black bead, the red bead, the white bead, the blue 489 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,520 bead and the green bead, the gold bead, all the things, but 490 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:22,440 the black bead, it represents sin and it's for everybody, 491 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:27,240 whether they, whether or not you accept Jesus into your life, you 492 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,480 all have a black bead, right? We all sin fall short, right? 493 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:37,360 And Jesus died for everybody, and that's the red bee. 494 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,560 And it doesn't matter whether you accept it or you don't 495 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,160 accept it. You know, the truth is the 496 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,320 truth. He died for everyone, the whole 497 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,760 world, and that's it. These are and that's Ephesians 498 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,840 17. In Him we have redemption 499 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,640 through His blood, the forgiveness of sin according to 500 00:32:54,640 --> 00:33:00,280 the riches of His grace. And then John 316 is about 501 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:07,200 obviously forgiveness and that is for the whole world that 502 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:12,840 believe he he offers forgiveness to the whole world on the white 503 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:18,160 bead, but it's not theirs unless they accept it, right? 504 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:25,600 That's that he chose to die for everybody, but who who believes 505 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:30,720 in him will not perish and will have everlasting life, right. 506 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,600 And then the green bead is about growth. 507 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:40,800 And that's 2nd Corinthians 57. For we walk by faith, not by 508 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,960 sight. And that is faith equals works, 509 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,000 equals grace, or equals growth, right? 510 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:54,320 Which is if I have faith, you will see work in my life and 511 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,680 through that work, I will grow closer to the Lord. 512 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,040 And that isn't I'm not working so that everybody see it like a, 513 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,040 a works mentality. I'm going to read my Bible. 514 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,760 I'm going to pray. I'm going to because I'm not 515 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,640 going to get anything out of it if that's what I'm doing. 516 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,920 But if what I'm trying to do is grow closer to Christ and spend 517 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,600 time with him, then I'm going to get rewarded for that because my 518 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,000 reward is going to be that I'm going to grow closer to Christ 519 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,280 and then the gold 1 and that one and that that sorry, the green 520 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,480 bead is only for those who accept him, right? 521 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,679 Someone's someone back at the at the blood that hasn't accepted 522 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:35,639 him in in their forget, haven't gotten the forgiveness. 523 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:37,480 They don't get to grow in Christ, right? 524 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,840 They don't they don't get any of that. 525 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,560 They're not children of God that get to grow closer to him. 526 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,400 I had that backwards. But anyway, I'll get there blue 527 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:52,719 blue that was faith all that was about faith. 528 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:59,680 I missed one sorry. Ephesians 415 is about growth, 529 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,680 but seek the truth and love that you may grow up in all things 530 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:11,680 into him who is the head Christ. And then gold is our eyes are on 531 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,400 him and not in this world. And that's that's heaven right 532 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,680 where where we laying up our treasures. 533 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,640 But guys, we should be able to share that because we know who 534 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,440 Jesus is. And I don't mean to get to share 535 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,560 the bead bracelet, but we should be able to share that simple, 536 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:31,000 simple truth with people that that Jesus came because we're a 537 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:36,680 bunch of sinners who need a savior and that he came for 538 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,920 everybody. If they will accept him and he 539 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,840 wants their he wants them. I mean, he wants him to the 540 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,040 point that he was willing to go to a cross and die on it. 541 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,840 And if we have faith in that, he's going to do amazing things, 542 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:57,320 right? John 1421 is he who has my 543 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,840 commandments and keeps them, and is he who loves me and he who 544 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,480 loves me be loved by my father? And I will love him and manifest 545 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,880 myself to him. And that manifest myself to him 546 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:10,440 is when I listen to Him and obey, He becomes bigger and more 547 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,640 real in my life that manifest, right? 548 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,520 So yeah, that's it guys. I stood that pond. 549 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,080 It was a lot of fun. I I enjoyed today. 550 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,560 I I was busy Monday and Tuesday. So today I just sat down in my 551 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,360 office and dug into two verses in first time. 552 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,040 So I'll get you guys out of here. 553 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,480 So Lord, I just thank you for all that you've done. 554 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,760 I thank you for how big you are and I thank you that that you do 555 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:40,880 know the end from the beginning and Lord that as we are here in 556 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,080 the present, and that's what we have control of, Lord, that we, 557 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:48,320 we know that you are before us and after us, Lord, and that we 558 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,320 can count that your, your plan is bigger than we are and that 559 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,000 you do have a plan and you have a plan to use each and every one 560 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,440 of us, Lord. And that you would do that, that 561 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,600 you would be in our midst, Lord, that you'd be putting 562 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,600 appointments in front of us, guiding and directing us. 563 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,760 And I pray all this in Jesus name, Amen.