1 00:00:08,820 --> 00:00:11,100 Lovely. Seeing lots of familiar faces 2 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:14,220 and some new ones. I I turn my back and there's two 3 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:16,140 babies arrived, apparently. Isn't that right? 4 00:00:17,420 --> 00:00:20,100 Yeah. Shagen looking quite tired 5 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:21,820 today. The third one. 6 00:00:22,980 --> 00:00:25,780 Yeah. Beautiful. 7 00:00:26,020 --> 00:00:28,460 Yeah. Mavis. 8 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:30,340 Yeah, I did see Mavis. Lovely, isn't she? 9 00:00:30,340 --> 00:00:32,860 Since last. Oh, yeah. 10 00:00:32,860 --> 00:00:36,520 But she was about a few months. She's there like, is she quiet? 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:40,760 Is she asleep? Oh, well, most of the 12 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:42,880 congregation will be asleep in about 10 minutes will be 13 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:48,760 preaching. Is that right, dear? 14 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:50,960 It's amazing. God adds to us, isn't it? 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,040 In the next chapter 2, it says, you know, they, they broke bread 16 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,720 together, they they prayed together, etcetera. 17 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,760 So I listened to the teaching and so on. 18 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,680 And he said, and God, God added to their number day by day. 19 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,720 And we don't have to go force people, we just do what we're 20 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:12,920 asked to do, love him, worship him, be of practical use and God 21 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,000 will add to us for the mission. And suddenly you realise we've 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,960 got a bigger mission abroad and therefore people adds to us, 23 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,080 some who can actually help get on with that. 24 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,160 And then he adds to us new Christians, doesn't he? 25 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,960 And I think that's been wonderful to see those getting 26 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:29,080 saved here. So it's great to be part of you. 27 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,240 Whether I get through all this, I don't know. 28 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,720 What time do we finish? Half an hour. 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,160 Well, it's 2525 to 7. That says I don't. 30 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:38,120 That's quite right. Is it? 31 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,200 Right. Let's see if we can keep. 32 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:42,400 See if we can do that in half an hour. 33 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:43,760 OK. I've got my glasses. 34 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,760 I want to look intelligent, so I've got my glasses on. 35 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,240 Good to see you, Lizzie. Good to see you. 36 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,040 Great. Joel. 37 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,840 I here got into the semi finals. Your injury. 38 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:59,440 We want to get you faster, don't we? 39 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,800 Please. Yeah, good. 40 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:04,600 Still enjoying the relationship with that. 41 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,280 Joe, there is now estate agent. So you want to want to buy a 42 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,240 house? Go see Joe anyway. 43 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,440 Not with that. Come on, let's get going. 44 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,160 Right. We're going to look at 1 John 1 45 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,720 today and I want to just talk about walking with the gods. 46 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:20,240 You'll see where we go with this. 47 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,200 I might have to skip over some things. 48 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,400 We'll see. So this is John chapter one, 1 49 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,240 John chapter 1, and starting in verse 5. 50 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,960 This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to 51 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,120 you that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 52 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,960 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in the 53 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,160 darkness, we lie, we don't practise the truth. 54 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:47,080 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have 55 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,840 fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son 56 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,120 cleanses us, or it's the continuous present. 57 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,840 Continuous it means goes on cleansing us from all sin. 58 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,240 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth 59 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,880 is not in us. If we confess our sin, He is 60 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:11,120 faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from 61 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:12,600 all unrighteousness. Wow. 62 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,680 If we say we're not sinned, we make Him a liar. 63 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:21,400 His word is not in us. My little children, I am writing 64 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,560 these things to you so that you may not sin. 65 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,640 But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, 66 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,400 Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation that 67 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,520 means atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but 68 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,120 also for the sins of the whole world. 69 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,200 By this we may know that we are in him. 70 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,280 Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in 71 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,760 which he walked. Paul, John is writing this. 72 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,080 He said, my little children are writing these things to you so 73 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,120 that you may not sin. So his intention was, I want to 74 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,560 help you not sin, not give in to your fallen nature. 75 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:06,000 You say, well, hold on John, I try to be good, but I do fail. 76 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,960 It's God expected me to live a perfect life. 77 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,720 Well, obviously it's not because he's already just said if we say 78 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,320 we have no sin, So I'll go back to that. 79 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,320 If we say we have no sin, then we deceive ourselves. 80 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:23,280 But the truth is Jesus says this, that nobody's good except 81 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:26,640 God alone. And the guy he said that to was 82 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,400 a rich young ruler who who lived a pretty religiously good life. 83 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,000 Paul says we've all seen them fall short of the glory of God. 84 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,480 Children amazing with kids, aren't they? 85 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:43,520 You know, you for for two years you, you teach them to talk and 86 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,440 to walk. And the next 16 years you tell 87 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:53,920 them to sit down and shut up. I mean, someone said children 88 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:58,400 are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every 89 00:04:58,400 --> 00:04:59,920 effort to teach them good manners. 90 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,000 Someone said the main purpose of holding children's parties is to 91 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,680 remind yourself that there are children more bad mannered than 92 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:14,160 your own. I read an article the other day 93 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,840 written by a parent of three kids about what he had observed 94 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,720 in the hearts and the lives of the children as they grew up. 95 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,480 He loved them, and though he loved them dearly, he found that 96 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,440 they were by nature infected with something. 97 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,680 This is what he noticed. Three chick kids. 98 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,480 Temper tantrums, sometimes violent slamming of doors. 99 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:42,800 I suppose self will. Pride, envy, self pity. 100 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,720 It's not fair. Irritability, idleness, and 101 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:53,560 ladies in US selfishness, deceit, cunning, lying, 102 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,600 hypocrisy. A terrible aptitude to learn 103 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:01,400 what is bad, a painful slowness to learn what is good, a 104 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,760 readiness to pretend anything in order to get their own way or to 105 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,240 gain their own ends, Stubbornness, unwillingness to 106 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,800 own up, hate, to say sorry, et cetera. 107 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:19,120 He said this nobody had taught his children these traits, where 108 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:24,480 they come from, and he concluded obviously that they were born 109 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,800 with them. Now these fallen human traits 110 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,920 which we observe in children, we observe in one another, and we 111 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,800 observe them in world leaders too, don't we? 112 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,400 And that ones we have to deal with throughout our whole 113 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,320 Christian life. Someone once said, it's not the 114 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,680 things I do that make me a Sinner. 115 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,160 It's because I'm a Sinner. I do the things I do. 116 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,400 We're all infected with it. Yes, Jesus said very truly, 117 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,720 everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 118 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,280 But oh, I'm not a master of of these things that are wrong. 119 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,000 You try taking them away from them. 120 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,520 Oh, help. And so we have to live with a 121 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,880 fallen nature. But praise be to our wonderful, 122 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,080 merciful God. He's not prepared to leave us 123 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,440 like that. Paul writes at just the right 124 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,680 time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the 125 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,040 ungodly. That means you've been Very 126 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,120 rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a 127 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,600 good person, someone might possibly dare to die. 128 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,800 But God demonstrates his own love resists why we were still 129 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,520 sinners. Christ died for us. 130 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,440 And as we put our trust in Jesus, put our faith in him, 131 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,040 suddenly we're forgiven, we're cleansed, we're justified. 132 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,440 In fact, we know the famous verse, John 316. 133 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:48,280 Where are we? Yeah. 134 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,200 Oh, that's why I think, Yeah. Famous verse about God so loved 135 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,320 the world. Notice there is not just 136 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,400 forgiveness. Whoever believes in him puts 137 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,040 their trust in him, relies upon him, not upon their own works. 138 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:06,520 Who banks upon him actually are given eternal life. 139 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,160 We're born again. Jesus says that was his term. 140 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:14,200 In other words, what was dead in us because of our sin has been 141 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:18,160 made alive anew. So into our natural fallen 142 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,000 selves. God life has been birthed. 143 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,640 We're many temples of the Holy Spirit now and all because we 144 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:31,800 put our faith in Jesus. Wow. 145 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,120 And since we've been justly by faith, we have peace with God 146 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,200 through our Lord Jesus Christ. And I want us to understand 147 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,320 tonight that today, sorry, you have peace with God because of 148 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,280 Jesus. He's not going to die again for 149 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,240 you. And he knows what you're like. 150 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,800 He knows the fault of nature, which you're battled with every 151 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,320 day, but you're his now. And the blood covers you as 152 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,760 we're here, as we saw it. It just goes on cleansing you 153 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,080 from all sin, peace with God. Wow. 154 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:08,160 Do you know you're on his team, You're on his team yes. 155 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,800 Some of you go around with your headache looking I don't know 156 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,640 I'm not very good. You're good or bad. 157 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:20,280 You're on his team and in Micah we we realise that what John's 158 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,080 talking about here. Walking is what God has always 159 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:27,520 wanted in Micah 6 verse 8, he says this he has told you, O 160 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:29,600 man, what is good? What does the law require of 161 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,000 you? Notice three things. 162 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:37,520 Got to do justice, to love, kindness and to walk humbly with 163 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,200 your God. And John is saying in his 164 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:41,960 reading, look, God wants to walk with you. 165 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:43,520 He's inviting you to walk with him. 166 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,120 It will be in the light as we'll see. 167 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,920 But you not understand God desires friendship with you. 168 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,320 How many of you are Christians here, right? 169 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,080 OK, God desires friendship with you. 170 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,760 He wants friendship with you. He likes you. 171 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,960 I don't know why, but he does because you're 1. 172 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,680 I, I had a, a picture the other day of of this glorious 173 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:07,720 daffodils. Oh, meta world of them. 174 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,560 I thought, wow, are they all the same? 175 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,880 But I just looked at one. I thought that is amazing 176 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:19,400 engineering, amazing artwork. I, you know, just this one and 177 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,520 it's one of, I don't know, millions. 178 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,080 And I, I felt the Lord saying, yeah, I've got millions of 179 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:26,320 children, but there's only one of you. 180 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:29,960 Some would say, thankfully he doesn't. 181 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:36,560 He says, no, no, no, no. I made you for my pleasure and 182 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:40,160 I've started to work in you. And one day, you know, when you 183 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,560 see me face to face, you're gonna be, you'll say, wow, I'm 184 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:48,320 glorious, wow. But he loves me now when I'm in 185 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,760 the mess I'm in. See, God has always wanted to 186 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,360 walk with his people. We've got to Adam and Eve. 187 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,600 They heard the sound of the God of the Lord as they walked in 188 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,840 the garden. He not walked with I could go 189 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:00,600 through them all, all these great men. 190 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,120 It says in the scriptures, it says they walked with God. 191 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,280 They weren't perfect. Are you perfect? 192 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:07,640 But he's saying come on, walk with me. 193 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,880 What did Jesus do? He called his disciples to say 194 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,840 come and follow me. He said come on, walk with me, 195 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,240 sit with me. Let's let's get knife together. 196 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:19,640 They were a motley bunch of people, weren't they? 197 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,640 Bit like this church. There's some something special 198 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:25,920 about walking with friends, isn't it? 199 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,600 I remember I I was with a youth group years ago. 200 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,240 We're going back a long time, probably in the 76, eight, 60s, 201 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,200 Yeah, late 60s. And there's this young, lovely 202 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,680 young lady I'm walking with. There's a youth group and we're 203 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:39,880 out in the middle of Surrey Hills somewhere getting lost. 204 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,480 You always got lost. And she started to sing a 205 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,360 Beatles song. So I slugged it in and started 206 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,800 harmonising. She loves you. 207 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:48,280 Yeah. Yeah. 208 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:53,120 And we start to chat to each other and we will sing a few 209 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:54,080 songs. Badly. 210 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,800 I got to know her. She ended up my wife, OK, right? 211 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,880 My next door neighbour Liz is a member of the Wellington 212 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,240 Walkers. Because I live in a place near 213 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,920 Wellington and I've looked on the website and they have these 214 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,920 kind of comments. Walking allows for shared 215 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,680 laughter, support during tough times and a chance to celebrate 216 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:16,280 each other's victories, big and small. 217 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,080 The act of walking fosters connection, both physically in 218 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,000 emotionally. Think about God like this, would 219 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,240 you? Thanks for helping me remember 220 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,400 where I'm going in life, says one of the walkers. 221 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:30,560 I'm sure you've noticed I have a tendency to get lost sometimes. 222 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,240 You're very patient with me. I hope I can show you the same 223 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,520 love in return. The walk is not always easy, but 224 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,960 it's better with you, my friend. Don't you feel that, God? 225 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,160 It's not always easy, is it? Life's tough, isn't it? 226 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:46,840 Unless you've got a charm. Life got another one somewhere 227 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,400 here. Oh, as we walk together as 228 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,520 friends on the road of life, I get a feeling in my heart there 229 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,920 everything's OK. I'm so happy that I have your 230 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,000 friendship. It helps me let go of so many 231 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,480 fears when you're by my side. And then another common only 232 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,480 your old friends will tell you when your face is dirty. 233 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:04,600 Do you know God loves to walk with you? 234 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:08,000 And he will tell you when your face is dirty not to have a go 235 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,280 because it makes you look ugly. The truth is, when we begin this 236 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,880 walk with God in our new life, we sometimes become aware of the 237 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:17,480 battle going on with the old one. 238 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:23,840 Yes, we're now disposed to follow Jesus and allow the Holy 239 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:28,800 Spirit and his new life to work. So our natural selfish nature is 240 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,520 not very happy about that. But it can no longer have the 241 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,320 last say because Jesus say, I will keep forgiven you, and I'm 242 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,080 going to change you if you let me. 243 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,560 And therefore we know that God actually walks in the light. 244 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:46,000 So he says if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we 245 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,280 have fellowship with one other friendship and the blood of 246 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,120 Jesus Son goes on cleansing balls. 247 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,840 And so if you want to walk with God, where have you got to walk 248 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,200 in the light? OK. 249 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,240 And it's a fact that as you become a Christian, you're 250 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:03,640 filled with the joy of being forgiven. 251 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,040 You have a new life. But then you begin to mature and 252 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,400 say I'm not happy with some of the things I do, the things that 253 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,160 are in my natural selfish nature. 254 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:14,680 Sometimes people think crumbs am IA Christian at all. 255 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:17,520 But the very fact that you're not enjoying that is evidence 256 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:24,480 you are a Christian. Did you hear that some 257 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,600 Christians think they can never make God happy? 258 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:28,920 They've got this perfection idea. 259 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,880 They they can't keep up with their Bible reading and prayer 260 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,000 or living a perfect life. Oh, he can't be happy with me. 261 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:41,240 Might as well give up. Look, God knows what we're like. 262 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,760 He's not looking for us to perform, but to relate to him, 263 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,560 Yes. He's not asking you to be who 264 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,560 you're not. He's saying I'm going to change 265 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,440 you, to be who I'm going to make you. 266 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,720 It's a process. He wants us to come. 267 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,920 Guess what? Just as we are not as we should 268 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:03,800 be, as we could be, as we wish we were. 269 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,720 This is me, waltz and all. Here I am, Lord, he said. 270 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,920 Lovely, I'll have you. When you got saved you were a 271 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,760 mess and you're still lots of stuff to clean up. 272 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:18,240 But my blood will go on. Oh, Linds, if you walk in the 273 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,320 light, my blood will keep cleansing you. 274 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,720 Wow, what a privilege that is. That's why in the reading it 275 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:29,360 says he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, 276 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:30,680 but also the sins of the whole world. 277 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,280 That word propitiation means a turning away of the wrath of 278 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,320 God. So every time you feel you 279 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,440 failing. Oh, you just look to the blood 280 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,520 and oh, instead of wrath, oh Jesus, blood has pushed it away. 281 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:48,680 Wow, that's rather good, isn't it? 282 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,440 That doesn't mean I just go on being sinning as Paul said, you 283 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,720 know, do I sin that grace may have bound? 284 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:57,560 No, we don't want to be like that. 285 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,960 Sin makes us ugly. Sin makes us feel yuck. 286 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,120 It's like eating. What is it, Lionel with a 287 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:05,960 wardrobe? The Turkish delight goes in 288 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,480 sweet and it tastes horrible in the stomach and it's a horrible 289 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,120 feeling. But we know the blood of Jesus 290 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,640 keeps working, and look how intimate God wants to be with 291 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,960 us. If anyone loves me, he says, 292 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,200 he'll keep my word and my Father will love him. 293 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,920 We'll come to him and make our home with him. 294 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:27,720 You can't be more intimate than that, can you? 295 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:34,840 Perhaps he wants to be in me with this, this kind of fallen 296 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,920 nature. But he's come in now and become 297 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,200 a St. And it's the opposite to the 298 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,360 wolf sheep's clothing. There's a beautiful sheep in 299 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:44,760 here. There's something lovely and 300 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:49,440 beautiful in this old, old body of mine with all its problems at 301 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:53,800 times, and it's aches and pains. And rather than withdrawing from 302 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,920 us when we sin, he will convict us. 303 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,720 He will say there's dirt in your face, it's not good for you. 304 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,920 It looks, it's horrible, it affects those around you. 305 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:07,160 You look ugly and, and I'm not condemning you, but let's deal 306 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,079 with it. If you want to walk in the 307 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:10,720 light, I've got to be honest with you, but come in the light 308 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,880 because I'm full of grace and love to forgive you. 309 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:16,520 He will convict us when we've sinned, but then they'll be 310 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,720 ready to rush to us to forgive and cleanses. 311 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,200 Don't understand. This is your God. 312 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,960 You just wait until you say. Oh, I shouldn't have said that. 313 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,440 Oh, dear. I'm sorry about that thought. 314 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,240 OK, Confess it. I've. 315 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:28,800 I'm with you. Come on. 316 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,680 I come to forgive you. He's easy to please. 317 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:34,800 You don't think that some of you. 318 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:36,320 You don't think God's easy to please you? 319 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,560 Well, I don't read my Bible. Of course. 320 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:39,760 It's stuck with that performance. 321 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,840 I want a relationship with you. And if you're lazy, you're lazy. 322 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,280 But I'll take that. I'll help you not to be so lazy. 323 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,880 Amen. Yeah, we're getting this. 324 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,560 So many Christians are living second rate lives because they 325 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,880 think God's always. I'll never make him happy. 326 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,160 We're his forever. When Jesus took that cup on the 327 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,760 Last Supper, he said this. This is the new covenant in my 328 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,440 blood, which is poured out for you. 329 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,520 Do you know that God is committed to you in an 330 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,320 unbreakable covenant? Have you got that? 331 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,800 Yes, you can't break that covenant. 332 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:18,240 He's covenant to you in his blood. 333 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:21,920 You can be awful and terrible. He won't break his covenant with 334 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,640 you. You say that's another way to 335 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,080 carry on. I love you the bits I'm 336 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,200 committed to you for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, 337 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,680 in sickness and health. I'm committed to you. 338 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,680 It's an unbreakable covenant and it's in that environment you can 339 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:40,840 change. And what is this God like when 340 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:45,320 Moses said, I want to see your glory, so well, if you see my 341 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,400 glory, you die. So he gets Moses and says, hide 342 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,360 in that, that cleft in a rock, hide there and I'll pass by and 343 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:55,120 I'll let you get a glimpse of the back of me. 344 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:02,600 And that's Moses does that. He hears God describing himself. 345 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:05,840 So this isn't somebody else's idea of God. 346 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:11,520 This is God saying who is? Look you look what he says, the 347 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:18,200 Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, 348 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:24,160 abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast 349 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:28,680 love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgressions that 350 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,800 should be and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty. 351 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,160 They need the blood of Jesus. But for us, look at that. 352 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,920 That's the God that we'll we'll want want to walk with. 353 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,040 He's saying, will you walk with me? 354 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,800 Who wouldn't want to walk with a God like this? 355 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,080 That's why I said why ever backslide? 356 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,560 What a waste of time. Where you going if you 357 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,440 backslide? You've got a God there. 358 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,760 He's not against you. And not saying you've got to 359 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,880 live up to certain standards. No, I'll take you as you are. 360 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,320 You said, well, I I don't pray very often. 361 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,280 I got it. I'll take 5 minutes. 362 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,120 Do you hear me? He will take 5 minutes. 363 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:07,680 Is that all? You can pray for him today. 364 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,240 I know. 5 minutes and I'll use that and bless you. 365 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,840 Give me 10 minutes thought stuff the time. 366 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,880 What I want is your heart. We've got this wrong idea of how 367 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,520 God is his, his steadfast love and faithfulness. 368 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,400 It's abounding. It says here just nice and good, 369 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,160 cold and calculated. It's abounding. 370 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:33,440 Give me steadfast love for thousands, Iniquity, 371 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,400 transgressions and sin covers things, accidental, covers 372 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,400 things that are part of who you are that need changing, but also 373 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:42,840 part of things that we deliberately do. 374 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,840 He's a loving God who has to be provoked and then provoked again 375 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,680 before he has to come in with judgement. 376 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,560 He's not a judgemental God. It's not part of his nature. 377 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,920 His nature is this man, this sorry, this God. 378 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:02,040 And when you look at this God, you think, wow, I wouldn't want 379 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,520 to mess with him. But actually it's so easy to 380 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,480 please if I just walk in the light and be honest with who I 381 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,240 am and how I am. Yes, I love that my blood would 382 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:16,080 just cleanse you. And at the cross, God satisfied 383 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:22,600 both His justice and His love. He was so just and desire to 384 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,520 judge those who do wrong to others and wrong to Him that 385 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:31,640 Jesus had to die in our place. But he was so loving and 386 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:36,200 desirous of our salvation that Jesus was pleased to die, glad 387 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,640 to die for you. It's full of love for you. 388 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,720 What is he? It comes naturally to him. 389 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,880 Judgement doesn't come naturally to him. 390 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,440 Judgement is something he has to done Where there where, where 391 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,360 there is sin in his universe, where there's evil and no one 392 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:55,200 gets away with anything. Of course, on Judgement Day 393 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:56,720 sometimes. Can't you deal with them now? 394 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,880 And I said, no, no, there will be a day when I will bring A 395 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,080 reckoning. And you and I say, oh, thank 396 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,600 God, I've asked bring, bring judgement day Now, please, Lord, 397 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,760 I'm guilty. That's why the blood cleanses 398 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:08,680 you. Hallelujah. 399 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,520 Oh, give thanks to the Lord for he is good. 400 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,240 Yes. So he saved us so we might have 401 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,520 fellowship with him. Walk with him forever. 402 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,160 He doesn't want a cordial, polite relationship with you. 403 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:21,960 He wants you to walk in the light. 404 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,080 He wants you to be very, very honest with him. 405 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,320 When you look at the psalmist, they weren't backward in sharing 406 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,920 how they felt, were they? I've read Psalm 88 the other 407 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,040 day. I've shared it with Julian. 408 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,120 I mean, he's so he's really fed up, isn't he? 409 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,840 He says, the only friend I've got around is darkness and God's 410 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,880 saying thank you very much. You know, God's almost saying, 411 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,120 look, I know what you're feeling, so get out there. 412 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:52,040 Say it. Don't need to be rude, but say 413 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,720 how you're feeling. I was looking at Job chapter 414 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,360 after chapter of complaints to God for the state he's in and 415 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:03,160 his three friends, so-called friends and another one joins 416 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,520 them start to say, well, you must have done something wrong. 417 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,320 You got this. And they start really saying 418 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,280 this. Well, no, no. 419 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:13,600 And in the climates of the book, God actually starts to question 420 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,200 Job this time because Job's been questioning God, why is this 421 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:17,120 happening? What's he doing? 422 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,600 And then God says, OK, Joe, where were you when I made the 423 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,360 mountains? Where were you when I created 424 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,320 that deer that that's over there and the deep sea. 425 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,320 And he starts to give Joe also questions and cause Joe repents 426 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,520 of ever thinking that he can know the mind of God. 427 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:36,920 Some Christians are like that. They want to know what's 428 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,680 happening, why it's happening. And until I know that I'm not 429 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,160 going to trust you. Joe never once stops trusting 430 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,080 God. His wife said slay him. 431 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,920 No, that's right. Go and kill yourself. 432 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,960 They said she's it's lovely, isn't it? 433 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,360 She's such a helpful wife there guys, didn't you think she she 434 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,480 says just just get just kill yourself. 435 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,920 You know, curse God and die is the old version. 436 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,200 But he never does. And at the end, quite 437 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,440 interesting. They've got these 3-4 friends 438 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:14,280 now and Jonah and and Job and they want to bring an offering 439 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,920 to God and God says my anger burns against you. 440 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,480 He's talking about these friends of his. 441 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,640 For you have not spoken of me. What is right as my servant has 442 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,840 now therefore offer a burnt offering for yourselves and my 443 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:33,160 servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not 444 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,280 to deal with you according to your folly. 445 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:36,840 And you're thinking, well hold on. 446 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,760 You're saying what God has said is right. 447 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,480 What he means is that all his suffering and confusion, because 448 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:47,800 we know why he went through it. He doesn't and he's complaining. 449 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,280 Joe never once stopped believing in God. 450 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,120 He never once turned away from God, but honestly poured out his 451 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:58,200 confusion and his pain to God. That's walking in the light of 452 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:04,760 God, John says. If we walk in the light as he is 453 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,680 in the light, we have fellowship with each other and the blood of 454 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,960 Jesus Son goes on cleansing us. That lovely. 455 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,400 So that means I'm walking. I shouldn't have thought that or 456 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,240 said that. Sorry, Father, That's right. 457 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,120 I know. Come on, we can do better. 458 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,400 I cleanse you, but Jesus goes on cleanses you. 459 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,400 Come on, you're my son. Come on. 460 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:25,840 I know what you were like when I took you on. 461 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:33,600 I'll work, but I love you. Are you expecting to live a 462 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,880 perfect life this week? You weren't deliberately sin, 463 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,360 were you? You don't deliberately want to 464 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:43,160 be selfish and nasty or Moody. You don't want your mood to 465 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,320 affect the person you know you love nearby. 466 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,680 Yeah, because that is what you don't want to do. 467 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,960 God is going to help you change. Now. 468 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,880 Skip and I play golf badly. Just saw our plays with us, and 469 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,720 he's doing too well for me, actually. 470 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,360 Although the other day he drove the golf cart into a bunker, 471 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,880 which I thought was classic. Where's he gone? 472 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,320 But he he can half hit the ball when he goes, he can hit it 473 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,000 further than I can, which is not greatly. 474 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,840 But one of our favourite stars is, is Rory McIlroy. 475 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,400 OK, sorry, those who don't know golf, but just and he was 476 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:28,320 struggling a bit and the top golf coach called Bob Rotella 477 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,560 came and saw him and he just said this. 478 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,720 Listen, golf is a game of mistakes. 479 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,000 You're hitting a little ball and you're hitting it and it could 480 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,200 be too high, too low, wet, slippery. 481 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,080 If you hit it slightly out, it won't just go there, it'll go 482 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,680 over there. So Skip spends a lot of time in 483 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,960 the mud and the the grass. Where's that ball gone? 484 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,760 Where's that ball gone? He's looking for a ball. 485 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,800 He says, oh, found it. No, no, he doesn't cheat really. 486 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,480 But I found that good. What you're saying, look, you 487 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,640 will make mistakes all the time when you're playing golf. 488 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,080 It's just, it's just the name of the game. 489 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:10,240 And he said the player, the winning player is not the one 490 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,800 who avoids the mistakes, it's the one who best manages them. 491 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,000 And I just smiled. I thought, well, I suppose in a 492 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,560 way of Christian life is 1 of continual repentance, 493 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,920 forgiveness and joyful acceptance. 494 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,520 Yes. He doesn't want us to get 495 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,040 modelling and miserable. Oh, terrible. 496 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,440 No, I'm sorry, Lord. Yeah. 497 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,040 OK. Come on. 498 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,400 Let's let's change you, make you more loving. 499 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,400 I don't want you to be a slave of that sin anymore. 500 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,960 Would you? Would you be a slave for the 501 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:35,720 habit? Come on. 502 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,200 I want to get you free. His whole heart is for us that 503 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,040 wants us. When we fall, the blood will 504 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:43,440 forgive us. He wants to get us something. 505 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,880 Go again. Oh, it's not my self pity. 506 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,240 Some people are perfectionists, you know, they, they really 507 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,000 think like I've failed myself. But the, they're more judgmental 508 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,560 than God. They couldn't be really. 509 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,920 He's, he's just wants the best for us. 510 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,480 He wants to be the best we can be for Jesus. 511 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,640 Yes, he wants to change us, wants us to throw off those 512 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:10,320 selfish, unhealthy patterns. And so for for us to change, for 513 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,680 him to change us, he has to lovingly and precisely show us 514 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,760 what's need to be changed. OK, Now we know this first, 515 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,320 clearly because so many Christians get down by this, 516 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,320 they they don't believe what he's saying. 517 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,120 Where is it? Yeah. 518 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,720 Therefore there is no condemnation for those in Christ 519 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,040 Jesus. But do you, do you get this? 520 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,960 Do you feel condemned at times? Yes. 521 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,040 In other words, my fallen nature. 522 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,160 Oh, I'll never please God. Listen, if you pray for 10 523 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,640 minutes today. So, yeah, the enemy would say it 524 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,880 should be 15 minutes. Oh, rats. 525 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,320 So I do 50. Yeah, but if you're really 526 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,480 spiritual, it'll be half an hour. 527 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,800 Stop playing the silly game. See, you don't read the Bible to 528 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,360 Marx. You earn the Bible because of 529 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,720 it's blooming. Good advice. 530 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,280 And it's a love letter from God to you. 531 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,760 I've got to read it in a year. Well, fine too. 532 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,120 If it blesses you, you can do that. 533 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,680 That's not the issue. The issue is God is speaks. 534 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,640 It's one of those books or 66 books that actually God speaks 535 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:10,920 to you through. It's strange. 536 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,600 The truth will come off the page. 537 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,000 So we don't read the Bible to mop up ours. 538 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,400 We're reading the Bible because it's life. 539 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,840 It puts us back together again. It, you know, we've been that 540 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,760 wobbly clay, clay on the wheel and it just puts us back in the 541 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,440 centre again. Amen. 542 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,640 Now what we know is about condemnation. 543 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:38,440 It's, it's, it's normally to do with our past or our or the 544 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:39,440 enemy. It could be two with our 545 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,480 temperament in our past condemnation is a just a general 546 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,480 feeling of unworthiness. I just feel rude and we feel 547 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,160 like anyways, sometimes, don't we yes, I won't go into ladies. 548 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,360 They have to trust all this more than we do every month. 549 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,480 Glad I don't know that ladies. I mean it's not nice because 550 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,640 sometimes some of you can feel rude. 551 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,360 There must be a reason why I'm, I failed God, or it's his fault 552 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,440 or it's whatever, you know, I, I, we get off light blokes, 553 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,280 fellas. We are very fortunate here. 554 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,920 But content nature is a general feeling unworthiness. 555 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,120 You don't quite, you can't put your finger on it. 556 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,280 And we tend to turn inwards. Where am I failing? 557 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,080 And we can go for all sorts of thoughts so that it's something 558 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:32,000 inward. We feel like giving up or we 559 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,960 have self pity or we blame, we blame other people. 560 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,560 When you're walking with God, that doesn't come into it. 561 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,520 If that comes into it, it's not from God. 562 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,560 It's from the enemy or your perfectionism or your past 563 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,560 conviction is very different. I'll put it there for you. 564 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,440 It's from the Holy Spirit. It's awareness of a specific 565 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:58,160 sin, you know. Oh, yeah, I shouldn't have said 566 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,360 that or I should have done that or. 567 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:09,120 But what is wonderful notice we are then encouraged to look up 568 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,920 and repent. Not maudling. 569 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,920 Oh, I've just failed, aren't I? Terrible Got. 570 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,480 So that's what you like without me, aren't you? 571 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,480 Oh, yes. Well, stop yourself pitying. 572 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,640 I've died for you. I'm coming here with the blood 573 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,320 to cleanse you. I want you to look up and get 574 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,480 up. You've repented and said no. 575 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:30,840 I'm sorry at all. It's not right. 576 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,760 I forgive you. And then next is we receive 577 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,760 immediate forgiveness. So I'm not waiting to the end of 578 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,680 the day. I better get rid of my sins of 579 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:40,600 the day. What have I said? 580 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,000 What have I done today? We know as we're walking with 581 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,440 him, we think, oh, that was that order. 582 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,800 Oh, dear. Sometimes it hits us a bit 583 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:48,920 later. They're, oh, crumbs. 584 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,320 Yeah. That was not right, Lord. 585 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,800 And then we walk in victory. See, they all want you to walk 586 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,520 in victory every day. Whatever you're going through, 587 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,840 the enemy wants you limping. Now, some of us are not walking 588 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,600 the light. We've got like a stone in our 589 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,560 shoe as we try to walk. It's a stone that you know what 590 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,480 it is. I am going to say, can you guess 591 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,480 what? It is not like condemnation. 592 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:13,720 You don't know what it's all about. 593 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,560 God will say, you know, that's out of order the way you are, 594 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,320 your attitude, it could be anything. 595 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,280 And you're kind of, Oh well, I'll put up with it, But you're 596 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,560 never a victorious Christian. And God says, stop, let me well, 597 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,400 take your shoe off. Empty that stone out of your 598 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,040 shoe. Come on, confess it, repent of 599 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,560 it, put your shoe on. Don't let it get back in there 600 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,240 again. Amen. 601 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:48,240 Now of course there is that discipline as we walk with God, 602 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,480 that discipline. He says here, this is the writer 603 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,800 of Hebrews. Endure hardship as discipline. 604 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,400 Thanks. God is treating you as sons, 605 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,280 children. God disciplines us for our good 606 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,280 in order that we may share in His Holiness. 607 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,520 No discipline seemed present at the time, but painful. 608 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,680 It is painful when I'm coming through a discipline that I 609 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,560 realise I've got to change my ways. 610 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,440 Sometimes we say I want to change Lord, and we don't change 611 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,480 anything, so we'll never change. It's insanity. 612 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,200 If I want to change, then I've got to change something, haven't 613 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:23,800 I? Somebody said, oh, I'd like to 614 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,080 read the Bible a bit more. Well, if you want to, not 615 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,080 legalism, but you're very wise, What are you going to change in 616 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:30,480 your lifestyle? So you're going to read the 617 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,080 Bible? It's not going to suddenly 618 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,480 happen. Oh, I can't read my book. 619 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,560 Yeah. Later on, however, it produces a 620 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,400 harvest of righteousness, of peace for those who've been 621 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,240 trained by it. Therefore, strengthen your 622 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,640 feeble arms and weak knees, make level paths through your feet. 623 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,920 So we're walking again and he's saying, God's saying, look, I am 624 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,160 going to at times discipline you and help you to become like my 625 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,280 son Jesus. It's the best privilege I can 626 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,760 give you. The best gift I can give you is 627 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,880 actually to make you like Jesus. You think, Oh, no. 628 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,960 And it's true, those discipline times later on, it provides us a 629 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,520 harvest of righteousness and peace. 630 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,800 I like Terry Virgo's comment here. 631 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,639 Satan will accuse you because he's against you and he wants to 632 00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:15,520 destroy you. God will correct you because he 633 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,840 delights in you and he aims to transform you. 634 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:24,440 Dane Alton says whom do you perceive God to be in your sin 635 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,159 and your suffering? You think God is not just on 636 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:30,000 paper. Being the kind of person you 637 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,960 believe he is when hearing you pray, how does he feel about 638 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,239 you? His saving of us is not cool and 639 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,800 calculating. It's a matter of yearning. 640 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,000 Not yearning for the face of you, the you that you project to 641 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,199 everyone around you. Not the you that you wish you 642 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:48,560 were yearning. But He's yearning for the real 643 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,600 you, the you underneath everything that you present to 644 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:54,719 others. You see we're the call and 645 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,840 calculating ones and think he won't accept us. 646 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,680 He's warm hearted, just wants to love us. 647 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,440 He said oh come on to me. Oh you're wearing heavy laden 648 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,080 come heavy laden with all sorts of things. 649 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,480 I'd stand at the door and knock. I want friendship with you. 650 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,880 Can I come on in? He is enthusiastic. 651 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,840 We're indifferent and sluggish. His arms are open for us. 652 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,520 Ours are hanging by our sides. He's passionate about wanting 653 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,240 the best for us. We hold back thinking we're so 654 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:24,120 undeserving. But of course you're unserving 655 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,160 for deserving. Your weight will be. 656 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,000 You forget the blood, it's for you. 657 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,280 You forget that we're totally accepted through the death of 658 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,520 Jesus. Often we just don't get it. 659 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,360 God's heart for us confounds our intuition who we think He is. 660 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,160 Surely He can't be like that. With all my fallenness and my 661 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,720 away, I behave at times. Lord, forgive us for thinking 662 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:50,160 badly about you. Course we will fail in sin, 663 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,720 sometimes sadly, deliberately. Sin is like a leprosy of the 664 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:58,320 soul for a Christian. God hates the disease. 665 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,280 He won't tolerate it. Walking with him means walking 666 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,240 in the light. God's loved us too much to for 667 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:08,200 us to carry on spoiling our lives and those around us. 668 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,040 So if you want to know God, and if you want to walk with God, 669 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,520 you must be walking in the light. 670 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,720 And as Jesus was drawn in love to lepers, would even hug them 671 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:20,800 and roll on the ground with them. 672 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,760 I think he had such pity for them. 673 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:30,080 So Jesus has drawn to us even in our sin, even when we fail, He's 674 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,760 not. He said I'm going to come to 675 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:34,600 you. I'm going to deal with this. 676 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,320 Come on. Yes, good. 677 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:37,480 I forgive you. Come on. 678 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,800 Let's get on with it. Grace of God has appeared that 679 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,120 offers salvation to all people is grace. 680 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,640 It's a gift. It can't be earned. 681 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,400 This grace teaches us to say no to ungodliness and wealthy 682 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,400 passion and to live self controlled, upright, ungodly 683 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,640 lives in this present age. So the the more we know of this 684 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,480 love and they'll never let you go. 685 00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:58,960 He's committed to you on his side. 686 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,960 He loves you and the blood will cleanse you and cleanse you 687 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,000 actually. So you want to change. 688 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,840 You suddenly realise that rather than that, when you do something 689 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,480 wrong, rather than trampling on some law or rule some of you put 690 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,360 in your own head, actually you've grieved a dear friend. 691 00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:20,000 When I muck up, I say, oh Lord, I'm sorry, you don't deserve 692 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,400 that and I don't deserve to be like that, do I? 693 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,120 Shouldn't be like that. Lord, thank you, you forgive me. 694 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,600 I should say to Jane, when she was naughty I said May God 695 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,280 forgive you. She said he does. 696 00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:39,760 Couldn't win then could I really let God search you out? 697 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:45,640 Don't walk around with those stones in your shoe, but also 698 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,960 don't hide who you are. Confess it straight away. 699 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,760 You know what it is. You know where you've failed. 700 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,280 You'll know where you failed later on today. 701 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,640 Oh, so of course not like a big policeman is saying, come on, 702 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,520 let's deal with that. Oh, OK, I want you like Jesus. 703 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,280 I want to. And that's why Paul says walk by 704 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,400 the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the 705 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,480 flesh. Sorry. 706 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,240 Second one, where are we? Where are we at? 707 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,760 Oh yeah, I say walk by the Spirit. 708 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,680 We're walking again by the Holy Spirit. 709 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,920 And you will not clarify the desires of the flesh, for the 710 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,520 desires of the flesh are against the Spirit and the desire of the 711 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:29,120 Spirit against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other. 712 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,240 Should be if we live by the Spirit, that's all. 713 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:32,760 Like keep in step with the Spirit. 714 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,800 So it gets to keep walking with you. 715 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,040 Let the Holy Spirit who lives in you walk with him, and if you 716 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,360 walk with him, you won't do those other things. 717 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,880 Keep in step with the Spirit. In other words, it's not that 718 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,080 you cannot sin, but you can not sin. 719 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,120 Now I went too far, did I? Yes. 720 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,440 It's not that you cannot sin. It's you can not sin. 721 00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:58,560 I couldn't help it. Yes, you can, but it was too 722 00:38:58,560 --> 00:38:59,280 much. No, it wasn't. 723 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,920 You can not sin. That's what a Christian has the 724 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,440 power to do. I don't do things now that I 725 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:13,720 used to do, and I do certain things that I negatively didn't 726 00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:18,840 do before because I'm walking with him and I'm not condemned 727 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,000 anymore. I don't condemn when I muck up. 728 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,520 I'm not thrown by that. I just think, Oh dear, that 729 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,400 wasn't very good. John Newton says this. 730 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,520 Our sins are many, but his mercies are more. 731 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,920 That's lovely, isn't it? Your sins are many, His mercies 732 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,840 are more. You can't out beat Him, out 733 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,080 mercy Him. Our sins are great, but his 734 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,400 righteousness is greater. Just keeps cleansing me. 735 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,280 Wow. We are weak, but He is all 736 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,800 powerful. Most of our complaints are owing 737 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,600 to unbelief and the remainder of a legal spirit. 738 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,320 And that's the way if you're miserable to that in your 739 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,320 Christian life this week, most of that will be to do with. 740 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,480 And you're not doing what the Bible's saying to do here. 741 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,160 You're thinking, well, I don't know if I can believe you. 742 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,280 Forgive me. What an insult. 743 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,360 I'm too bad. I don't know. 744 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:11,480 It's all right for him to say that. 745 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,120 No. The blood of Jesus cleansing you 746 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,920 and he gives you a gift of righteousness. 747 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,000 Yeah, he is. Yes. 748 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,720 Well, if you don't, if not you're doubting that's unbelief 749 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,440 or he says the remainder of a legal spirit and legalism is 750 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,480 trying to earn God's approval by being very good girl today, a 751 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,640 very good boy today and he's saying that shouldn't remain. 752 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,040 But you said, well, many Christians do. 753 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:36,360 They've forgiven thee. No die. 754 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,920 But then they think, oh, I don't think I quite live up to those. 755 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,200 What standards? God said, oh, what about you 756 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,000 performing start. I want a relationship with you. 757 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,960 Yes, I'm, I've been getting this. 758 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,120 I'm really egging it. But you get the message. 759 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,440 It's by faith. You've been saved through faith. 760 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,800 And this is not yourselves. It is what? 761 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:03,120 Yes, we've been saved as a gift. You're never going to earn it. 762 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,600 Forget it. Otherwise you. 763 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,240 Oh, I'm better than you. No, you're not. 764 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:10,560 You're a Sinner. You have failings like we all 765 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,680 do. That's why people said all rely 766 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,440 on works of the law doing things or under a curse. 767 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,200 Get off that curse. You don't want to start saying 768 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,160 God, you're my father. You're easy to please. 769 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,200 I often in my prayer times do this. 770 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:28,000 I say this. I love you too. 771 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:36,960 I love you too. My kids will come and say Dad, 772 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:38,960 yeah, but I love you. I say I love you too. 773 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,440 I said, Emma, Emma, I love you. I love you too, Dad. 774 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,160 When we start saying things that I, I love you, that I love you 775 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:51,840 too, we're demonstrating that he has already said I love you to 776 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:52,960 me. Yes. 777 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,360 And for some people in my church, they've heard that and 778 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,880 it's helping them realise, oh, I am loved. 779 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,920 I love you too, Lord. Oh, just don't keep saying that 780 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:08,280 and I'm going to believe that. Sam Storm says this grace ceases 781 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,120 to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of 782 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,920 human merit. It's not grace if you've earned 783 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,920 anything. Grace is not grace if God is 784 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,880 compelled to withdraw it in the presence of human demerit. 785 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,760 In other words, you've been so bad I'm not going to have give 786 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,160 my grace. No grace is treating a person 787 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,920 without the slightest reference to desert whatsoever, but solely 788 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,360 according to the infinite goodness and sovereign purpose 789 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,480 of God. We sing only you are worthy. 790 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,600 He is the only one that's worthy. 791 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,800 I want to be like Him. You don't want to sin, do you? 792 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,680 But you will. Sorry if you say you haven't 793 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,360 sinned. You deceive yourselves, it says 794 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,800 in our reading. But if we confess our sin, what 795 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,200 is He? He's faithful and just to 796 00:42:55,200 --> 00:43:00,120 forgive us and mourn that to cleanse us straight away, not in 797 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,680 the evening or later on. Why is He just to forgive us? 798 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,560 Yes, because Jesus has paid the price. 799 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:10,720 What? Of course he's going to forgive 800 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:13,440 us because Jesus has said I've paid the price for him and her. 801 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:15,800 I've paid that price. So it's just that he forgives 802 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:22,840 you that amazing, wonderful. Finally, there's a passage. 803 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:27,880 Jesus is talking about Judgement Day and he's saying people will 804 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,160 come to him. Let's see what he says. 805 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:33,360 This is the Master talking, He says, on that day, judgement 806 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,360 day, many will say, Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name 807 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,440 and cast out demons in your name and do many mighty works in your 808 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:45,600 name? And I will declare to them, I 809 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:50,440 never knew you depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. 810 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,680 Can I ask, does he know you? He said, what do you mean I 811 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,440 never knew? I thought God knows everything. 812 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:03,640 This knowing is in Adam and Eve. It's when they knew each other 813 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:08,000 intimately and had a baby. Of course, this knowing means 814 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:13,120 you actually have opened your heart to God honestly and 815 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,040 openly. Do you know you can work with a 816 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,840 person for many years and never know them? 817 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,360 Listen, this is important comment here. 818 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:27,400 You only know a person as much as they let you know them. 819 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,840 Yeah, got that? That's how God is. 820 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,560 I don't know you unless you open your heart to me and you share 821 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,080 everything about you with me. Biggest compliment I gave, ever 822 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,400 gave Jane, or ever give constantly gave her, was having 823 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:51,760 the courage to forget my male ego and tell her what I felt, 824 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,560 what I thought, my aspirations, my concerns, my worries, my 825 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:59,000 fears, all those. Yes, for us blokes to do, it 826 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,360 takes a lot. Sometimes we're not in touch 827 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:05,440 with our feelings anyway. But for me to share who I am 828 00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:10,200 openly with another human being is vulnerable, she could say. 829 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,200 That's why us blokes, we talk about the weather of football or 830 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,720 sport, we talk about political views. 831 00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:19,600 When we talk about who I am, we're very wary. 832 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,160 Perhaps one or two friends we might do now. 833 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,560 God wants us all to be like that, open with him. 834 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,280 I don't want him. That's the worst thing you could 835 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,960 say on Judgement Day. Can you imagine? 836 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,480 You know, we did things for Jesus. 837 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,400 We healed the sick. We cast out demons. 838 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,200 We prophesied. Yep. 839 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,040 I never knew you. You did a lot of good things. 840 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:44,560 You said you had a belief, but I never knew you. 841 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,080 You never opened your heart to me. 842 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,960 You never were honest with me. Go. 843 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,680 Can you imagine that? The rejection on that final day, 844 00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,520 You're never coming back. They have cast out the doors 845 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,680 shut. They can't come back in to be 846 00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:00,560 with God and enjoy the heaven and the new heaven and new earth 847 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:03,600 and God doesn't want you like that. 848 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,680 He wants you as a as his child. He says I want to walk with you 849 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,440 in the light. I want to love you. 850 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,760 I want you to be honest with me. Yes. 851 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,760 Do you get this? That means be honest with him, 852 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:19,240 complain, moan, joy, say thank you, not our rudeness, but of 853 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,760 honesty. Be all you are with him and then 854 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,880 saying all I could do with that. Would you help me with this? 855 00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:25,360 Be honest with him. Amen. 856 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,920 Because those people walking humbly with their God, he will 857 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,680 bless. And so as I finish, I would say 858 00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:39,880 this, come today as we close this meeting, come forward, let 859 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,480 us pray with you. Some of you might never said 860 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,280 I've, I've never given my life to Jesus. 861 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,640 I've believed certain things, but I need to come. 862 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,640 Others might say I'm fed up with that stone in my shoe. 863 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,200 I could do with a a friend's prayer to help me into that. 864 00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,000 I'd love to introduce you to the friend of sinners. 865 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,880 That's what Jesus called himself, a friend of sinners. 866 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,960 That's a friend of you and me. You might need a special 867 00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,680 cleansing today. Don't waste it. 868 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,240 Don't leave it, you know, just come and let's pray together. 869 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,720 Come to this God who knows you and still loves you. 870 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:17,040 He still wants you. He died to save you. 871 00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:23,120 You remember? Let's pray Lord Jesus. 872 00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:27,200 Well we are, we are gobsmacked. We, we are stunned, Lord that 873 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,440 you would want fellowship with us. 874 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,160 And that was the whole point. Lord, we know that in eternity 875 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:38,040 past, Father, Son, Holy Spirit loved each other too much, so 876 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,120 loved each other. They said let's share our love 877 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,000 and make men and women. Let's share our love with them. 878 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,920 And we know it went wrong, Lord, and we've seen this sinful 879 00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,920 nature that we know we have. But we thank you, we're born 880 00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,680 again. We have God, life within us. 881 00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:55,760 We thank you. That's going to live forever 882 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,720 with you. And Lord, we don't want to be 883 00:47:57,720 --> 00:48:00,120 mastered by anything of our old nature. 884 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,680 And I asked all that today there might be a cleansing around this 885 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,960 room. As brothers and sisters here, 886 00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,120 just say, Lord, I'll be honest with how I am. 887 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:13,440 Thank you Lord, as I'm honest. So you come and forgive and I 888 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,000 pray that about your cleansing here. 889 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:17,840 I also pray in equipment. I pray a change in our attitude 890 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,640 to you. Forgive us for thinking that 891 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,600 you're a hard God that is so difficult to please, that is so 892 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,920 far from the truth. You are easy to please. 893 00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,480 We're on your side. You love us and you want to keep 894 00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,200 changing us. And I say Lord, today we want to 895 00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,600 love you even more. May you you add people to this 896 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,760 church you might come in. Know the cleansing and the love 897 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,040 of God here in Jesus name, Amen.