[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we're in first y'all and we are in chapter two now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So last week, oh, by the way, there's a lot of folks asking about the recording of Wednesday night services.
[SPEAKER_00]: So people want to want to love to be part of what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they are being recorded, but the folks that are behind getting them uploaded onto the website, it's not happened yet, but I'm sure it will be soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be more like a podcast for people
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can listen to it at any time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you can start back with first John.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure how far back it's going to go, but you'll probably put just first John hopefully somewhere where people can start out with first number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that being said, you'll have to help me help them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what happens is we're talking you have questions and I answer, well, they can't hear the questions.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm trying to word it that they can know all that's the question.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, but a lot of folks would love to be going through this, but they're helping out with these kids right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, we're thankful for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, first on chapter two, we say chapter two, do you do know that when the Bible was written, it wasn't written in chapters and verses?
[SPEAKER_00]: You probably knew that, if not now, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, when John wrote this or the gospel of John, it wasn't John 1, 1.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the letter, the epistle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we divide it in chapters and verses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing wrong with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the guy's name was...
[SPEAKER_00]: even or Stevens that decided to do this, what a brainiac, how he was able to divide chapters.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's paragraph things and some bibles.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's like, here's the thought, here's the paragraph, which is a great way to study.
[SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes when we put chapter two, it's almost like, all this is a new idea now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, first John chapter two is a continuation.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not like he's done with the subject of forgiveness.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to get into some of the detail about the orgies as Christ and about him being our mercy seat, if you will, our forgiveness.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we got some really important doctrines to study out tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to get you to help me out with some verses, men or women, whoever wants to read a verse for me, we encourage us to like glorified Sunday school class, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So if somebody wouldn't help me, I'll give a few verses out in a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so let's read it and we're going to get through verses one and two.
[SPEAKER_00]: My little children, these things right I under you that you send not.
[SPEAKER_00]: with the Father, who's the advocate, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
[SPEAKER_00]: And He is the propitiation for our sins, but not for our only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now we're going to read it again, and I'm going to start asking some questions, because if we don't ask questions when we're reading the Bible, we're just going to read it and forget everything and we just said.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in the text, who is he talking to?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is the we?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is the world?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's a perpetuation?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is what are these things?
[SPEAKER_00]: So now let's read it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: My little children, who do you think he's addressing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Believers, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: The church, even for us, he's saying, I'm writing these things unto you that we do not do something.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: So God doesn't want us to sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll address that in a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: But is it possible for a Christian to sin?
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what the next verse goes on to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you do sin, we have somebody on our side.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's another word for advocate in our day and age?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lawyer, a substitute, OK?
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's really somebody that goes on behalf of another an advocate, arbitrator, if you will.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the one that goes in between between two people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who are they?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Father is the one.
[SPEAKER_00]: The sinner is the other.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to help you on that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when we do wrong, we have somebody going in between the Father and ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's pleading for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So with that, how is this done?
[SPEAKER_00]: How did Jesus go in between for the Christian?
[SPEAKER_00]: in this text for you and I to be forgiven.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the pro-pitchiation.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll explain that a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anybody have another word or definition for that one?
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, he peases payment.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has to do with a sacrifice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many have applied it to mercy with the mercy seat.
[SPEAKER_00]: that that will be the place where the perpetuation was done in the Old Testament.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Christ would literally put his blood, therefore, our sins, but it's not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world, well, who will be the whole world?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you short means everybody?
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna say no, and I was saying, well, it says a whole world, and I'll show you a bunch of verses that says, it's the whole world, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So, let's get into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first thing he says is this, my little children, darlings, it's a word-maning infants.
[SPEAKER_00]: The little ones isn't that kind of need, the God calls us little ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, this is not like first Corinthians three.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're still babes on the bottle.
[SPEAKER_00]: You should be mature.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not what he's talking about here.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not a rebuk.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, let me pull you together, kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me, let me teach you some things.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, I'm writing these things unto you that you sin not.
[SPEAKER_00]: So one of the accusations for a pastor and churches that believe when you are truly born again, given new life, you can't be unborn.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're either born again or you're not born again.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing in between.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're either saved or you're not saved and you're kind of saved as not in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not like in between.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're either
[SPEAKER_00]: He's turned a life or he turned on that death and there's nothing in between, John 524 and a lot of, like, give you 100 other verses.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we have this concept.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what I'm accused of by people is that I'm giving people because I give them this hope that they can't lose or salvation, a license to sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: and that's how they interpret this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that means you can tell people you can say and by your heart you can do anything you want now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's not what the Bible says.
[SPEAKER_00]: And neither is that what we teach.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fimans and crises are what?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a new creation, nothing's the same, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a transformation that happens inside, spiritually that eventually causes this new believer to be able to drink milk, eventually meet or bread or an amy, they're able to walk, they're able to run and work and such, so it's a spiritual growth that takes place.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what he's saying is, I don't want you to send.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can anybody think of any other verses where there was this teaching in the church that, yeah, everything is on moral.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no morality, you can do whatever you want.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you're forgiven, you've got all this grace.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you can do whatever you want.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think of any?
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So look what made it wrong this chapter number six.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd rather you turn there instead of me quoting because that way you can read it and see it for yourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: While you're turning there, the churches in the Revelation were also rebuked for doctrines that were entering into the church.
[SPEAKER_00]: The doctrine of the Luke warmness, you know, they're not cold, they're not hot, you know, on a speedy out, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I was right one that what they were teaching in the church is that nothing done physically has to do with anything spiritual.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were adapting to this doctrine, meaning, who cares how many times you got married or how many people you're married to?
[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's, you know, sexuality has nothing to do with spirituality.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you get drunk, it doesn't matter, you know, in this day and age, who cares if it's
[SPEAKER_00]: Who cares what you do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Spearishly, that's separate.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they will teach, it's opposite, there's a disconnect.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yet, scriptures will teach the opposite of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so in this verse of what we're reading now, what should we say then, and there's this question mark?
[SPEAKER_00]: Shall we continue in sin that Grace may about, who do you think he's addressing the lost world or Christians?
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: To his breath in a church is saying, people are coming in and saying, hey, God's grace is greater than all of our sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: So therefore, just go ahead and do whatever you want because God has to forgive you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what's the next phrase in verse 2?
[SPEAKER_00]: God forbid, let get that thought as far away from you as you possibly can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now here's the explanation in a question form.
[SPEAKER_00]: How shall we, the Christians, that are already dead, and I'm adding that dead, to sin, live any longer they're in, or how can we who have now died with a Lord Jesus Christ when we guys say, well, why in the world will we want to go back to the garbage and go back to the sin?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it goes on and says, therefore in verse number three, no you not as many as of them, a merc or baptized into Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's where literally you merc in who is death.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why you can mix this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't you know you're already dead in Christ?
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's a death spiritually, if you will, that's happened to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if we allow the old man to be alive,
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we're going to go back into the garbage again.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's a spiritual battle inside of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to tell you this.
[SPEAKER_00]: One other way is that you and I know that we're Christians is that we battle with sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because when I was lost, I could care less that I was drunk.
[SPEAKER_00]: I cared less that I was doing drugs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need care what I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just didn't want to go to jail for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't want to get in trouble for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the only thing I cared about.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had no conviction.
[SPEAKER_00]: And guys like, and I never heard a message on some of these subjects.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just knew instinctively, well, I'm a Christian now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't do that anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had bonfires.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I burned stuff up the idolatrous stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got rid of all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's in the book of Acts 2.
[SPEAKER_00]: They took those curious arts and they just took them and burned them up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody told me to burn them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they gave him, I don't need that anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna do everything's done, I'm forgiven.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it began to change me slowly internally.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's what he's getting at, is no, it's not giving us the license to do whatever we want.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because let me ask you this, what happens to you and I as Christians, if we want and I'm gonna lead you in first John here.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we just, if sinful habits is our normal,
[SPEAKER_00]: what do we expect God to do then?
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so spank or correction, wood shed, call whatever you want.
[SPEAKER_00]: So God's going to step in, you say, oh, how would a loving God ever spank me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the same reason your daddy did, or should have.
[SPEAKER_00]: because you do wrong, you get in trouble.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wish there was a lot of people right now they're out in the streets that they would have got a good old fashioned weapon when they were a kid.
[SPEAKER_00]: And realize there's an authority over top of you and they're called police officers.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not the bad guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're the good guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're here to protect us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hate authority.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see them in court.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're yelling at judges.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: this gal she thought she was everything so she takes on the judge and he gives the verdict because she won custody only and he's like the court has already issued custody to him your your ex and she's like well it's just not rude he's a molester he's you know screaming everything at the judge and he's like well that's not in my records no he's not
[SPEAKER_00]: and you are supposed to give him this child at such and such date, and the police have come and knocked on your door and you slammed the door on the police officers.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've resisted everything from the courts to obey this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will get them.
[SPEAKER_00]: She continues to scream at him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, well young lady, you have 30 days in jail now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she started yelling to get at him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he says, no, you have 60 days in jail.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he says, I can do this all day, sister.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then she shut up, because they literally took her from there to jail.
[SPEAKER_00]: We think, well, there's no authority.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't do anything to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, watch them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 13, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So God is our ultimate authority.
[SPEAKER_00]: or God, chose us He is our boss.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, literally He's our master, He's over top of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, not teaching a Lordship salvation, whatever they interpret that to me, because in this text, by the way, what they say is, if Jesus is really Lord of your life, then you are saved and you will always obey Him because He's your Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what they do with this verse either.
[SPEAKER_00]: In 1 John, that doesn't make any sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're teaching a lot of things that are philosophies that are out there that are not biblical, period.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, if we do wrong, God takes us to the wood shed, oh, by the way, Hebrews chapter 12 is your text for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: whom the Lord loves, He chases.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then He goes on and says, if you as a child, our person are without chastisemen, then are you illegitimate children and not even sons in the first place.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, we as God's kids, at some point, are gonna get in trouble with a father.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all there is to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was there two weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: God was convicted me about an attitude I had, and he slapped me a good one on the long side of the head.
[SPEAKER_00]: You say, well, you shouldn't be the pastor then.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you ever do anything wrong, I have never met a man that should be in a pulpit then.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're all in the same boat here, a bunch of sinners say by grace, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, yeah, so Lord like, so he took me to the wood shed and like sorry Lord, it's called an attitude adjustment, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, good.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we have that.
[SPEAKER_00]: saying of the horrible seven sins, the pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and laziness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in the Bible, there's a whole lot more than just those.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, there are times they let's a summary of all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and I get that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God actually gives you an eye definitions for different types of sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what we're going to walk through right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: The traditional word is heart hemartiology or hemartial is, and what that is is like in Romans, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, that's your traditional word that's used most times for sin, and you know what that means, probably.
[SPEAKER_00]: It means, miss the mark, so it's like, here's the bull's eye, you're supposed to hit the bull's eye and you're up here.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the holiness of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what God wants you to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you miss the mark.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is literally the thought on this one, missing the mark.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's going to be more to it in definition, depending on how it's done.
[SPEAKER_00]: So can somebody read James 417 for me?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I need somebody to go to first John 3 4.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pam, you are next.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you go to 2nd Thessalonians 2-8?
[SPEAKER_00]: 2nd Thessalonians 2-8?
[SPEAKER_00]: Bob, I'm going to get you to go to Romans chapter 2.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's going to be two verses.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to get you to read there 25 and 27.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 2, 25 and 27.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the first one is James 417. Who's got that one for me?
[SPEAKER_00]: So what did they do wrong in that verse?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, that's it they didn't do the right thing they didn't do you knew it was right thing to do But you didn't do the right thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's also saying it we called the sin of omission Meaning I didn't do something else for us to do so Sam you I forget which one the man said it will be a sin for me not to pray for the people
[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty good, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so that gives us a definition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we are to pray, we're to pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, yeah, if I don't pray for my people Israel, that's sin to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's, I didn't do something good or do something right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, good.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's possibility for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got the, what's one's next?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it the first John 3?
[SPEAKER_00]: Got that one, Joe?
[SPEAKER_00]: There it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sin is what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Lawless.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want you to meditate and thank for a moment of our country right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to think the word, lawless.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one's telling me what to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do whatever I want to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I make the laws up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm going to get you all to go along with me to the other text that I didn't give.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't give second-fest lines to eight, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: OK. Oh, you have that one?
[SPEAKER_00]: OK.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to get us all to go to a PAM because I want everybody to see this one and I want you to, and I'll get you to read that for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I've got the right verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm second guessing myself here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second-fest alonians, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, go ahead and read verse number eight, them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so let's start backwards and get the end of the verse and go, you know, back in this explain it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, who do you think the one who is going to come with the brightness of his coming and is going to destroy Jesus, very good?
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Christ is going to be the destroyer in this text, well, who's he destroying?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's destroying the wicked or lawless one, and there's going to be a time, this lawless
[SPEAKER_00]: So the lawless one, does anybody know who this person is that Jesus is going to destroy when he comes back?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not Satan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Antichrist.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Antichrist will be destroyed in Revelation chapter 19 when Jesus Christ comes back.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says he literally will take the first and second beast, which are the Antichrist and the false prophet, and it says they will cast both of them alive into the lake of fire, done over.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a prediction in 2nd, Thessalonians 2, what will happen in Revelation 19.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you doing okay so far?
[SPEAKER_00]: So guess who promotes lawlessness?
[SPEAKER_00]: Satan, and we're gonna learn, by the way, when we get through, first on, we're gonna see verses dealing with the anti-Christ, this guy, but also the spirit of anti-Christ, the anti-Christ that are happening right now in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the spirit of anti-Christ is already at work, we're seeing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're seeing the drug lords.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're seeing the fentanyl.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're seeing 100,000 deaths because of stupid drugs that are coming in that people are actually stupid enough to buy, by the way, I blame them as much as the seller because if nobody's buying, the seller's out of work, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't give them, and those drug lords are taking a money, and they're going ahead and buying weapons that are killing good people, it's really evil, lawless, what you're seeing in Chicago, what you're seeing in South Bend, it's hit no cart a lot more, you're just seeing all of these shootings, 17 year olds, 17 year olds, that number of things like it comes up all the time, 17 year olds shot, oh 14 year olds shot, by a 17 year,
[SPEAKER_00]: Where is control?
[SPEAKER_00]: Law creates control.
[SPEAKER_00]: Law creates right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So officers of the law, meaning you're not allowed to murder.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're murder, you're going to jail.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe they should get the death penalty.
[SPEAKER_00]: That would empty the jails out real quick because Genesis chapter nine actually says this before the law of God was ever given to Moses,
[SPEAKER_00]: If a man sheds blood, his blood will be required of him, period.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you disagree with me, I love you, but I'm telling you, the Bible's right, because this is what God tells us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that would maybe keep people from killing of their people, if they knew their were consequences for actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if we allow people to just do whatever they want, and then it's like, don't do that again.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all they're doing right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're just slapping the fingers, like, oh, I want that really hurt, let's go back to doing it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, God is about law.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about the law of Moses.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about law in general.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, the rebellion or lawlessness is another sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Enemies is your Greek word there, another Greek word.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where you might get the word hostility, animosity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Enemies is your Greek word there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you have the next one, oh, I missed trespass.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have a verse that goes along with that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot to write those verses down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you can look in your concordance, and you can see trespass or trespasses, and that means a false step or deviating from the truth is the definition for that when I'm told.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you have, oh, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: transgress stress pass and then transgress and that is where we got Bob up here going to give us Romans five would like to hire two twenty five and twenty seven there you go so the law says circumcision
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't do circumcision, you've trespassed the law or literally stepping over it as the word means.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, here's the law.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to step over that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to bypass that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to just go ahead and break that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go pass it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to break that law that was given.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of people when you'll test me got in trouble because they didn't circumcise.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was like, no, you're in trouble.
[SPEAKER_00]: You better circumcise.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so that was a law in that text.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you didn't, you are trespassing, or transgressing against the Lord, you're literally breaking the law the covenant that I have given with the nation of Israel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there again, God gives you an eye.
[SPEAKER_00]: things to do, there are lines in the sand, if you will, there are things you just don't do that, and if you do, then you have broken my law.
[SPEAKER_00]: You bypassed what I told you to do, and so therefore it is a transgression.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so these are, of the last one, I apologize, there's one more.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't write the Greek word down, but it literally is the word injustice.
[SPEAKER_00]: So injustice or not right, unjust before God.
[SPEAKER_00]: So injustice, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So has to do with iniquity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luke 1327.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a verse four, this one too.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll go, oh, I'll go there if you want, if not, it's okay, I'll read it as soon as I'm there.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever said that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's the phrase, workers of iniquity.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's a different Greek word.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that Greek word literally means you clearly are unrighteous, not right.
[SPEAKER_00]: injustice, and he says, you're in big trouble with me because you are literally working this inequity.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's another Greek word.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that helps you to understand God has his own way of talking about the big picture of what is sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be, hey, you know the right thing to do, but you didn't do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: or Rome and Sebb will help you with that one, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you have all these other definitions.
[SPEAKER_00]: So now we have definition of what sin is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's go back to first John and chapter number two.
[SPEAKER_00]: So now that we have this understanding of, generically, my little children, my little ones, I'm right now into you that you sin not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you know what not to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it means you better do the right thing, or it's sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we have a lot of circumstance, circumstances we get involved with, where we have to act or react.
[SPEAKER_00]: The kids at school, they have things that are in their face.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was hard enough when I was a teenager in the 70s.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine some of the pressure that are on the Christian teenagers now of what is accessible to them, things that they see, things that they have to react to.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you see a kid that is being bullied because of his intellect or because of his size or for whatever reason or she is being bullied around, and you know if you
[SPEAKER_00]: tell the authority about it, they're probably going to come after you, and we don't realize I don't think how bad this really is that's going on right now, and it's because maybe they're a Christian, or maybe it's because they have another faith, but they're despised and beat up and going after, or they won't do the drugs or trying to sell them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all this pressure that's
[SPEAKER_00]: or not.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you know to do good and you do it not, sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's time you have to be the Christian need to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, no, the right thing to do is protect this person.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so there's things that we don't know that's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so if any man sends
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in first John one nine, God told us what we're supposed to do, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is to confess that sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if it's the sin of omission, or it's the sin of trespass, or transgression, whatever it is that I've done, then God, this is specifically what I have done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sadly, off times we are like, okay, God, it did wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_00]: and he's faithful and just to do it, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So keep that in your mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this week, last two weeks, I've had so many people wallowing around in the guilt of their sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're wallowing around it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are dysfunctional.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then like, just so horrible having us, I said, well, did you go to the God about it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, but,
[SPEAKER_00]: And they still live in the guilt, and that's not what God wants us to do while around in the guilt of what we have done wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: He qualified to take it and cleanse us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, of course, we would want to then say, Lord, help me not to do it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you ever have that prayer at the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like Lord, I need help, but this is my weakness.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I need help, not to do that one again, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, because all of us have that sin that thus, so easily, be set to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that verse?
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's something you're tripping on, and you say, new, I am perfect, whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you need to re-first John 1, 8 and 10, and then get back with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because if we don't evaluate ourselves, we will find no wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you evaluate yourself, we're gonna be like, yep, I got an attitude problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: or I'm resisting God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not submitting to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not walking in the spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not praying as I should.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am not.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like, do my own thing, God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bless everything that I have going on here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you'll be a good God to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is idolatry.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like God is not obligated to be your little genie in rubbs, like I'm gonna give you everything you want.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, less today's Christianity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's like, that's God does not, he's not obligated, but I said it in Jesus' name, the carrot maker, I did it in Jesus' name.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has to do that, no he doesn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: He tells me, no more than yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you know what, I realized, quit asking for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm like, God, if it's your will, no, it's not.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Lord, you've got to see it my way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was actually carnal in my prayers.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I quit praying about it because it's like, nope, this is where you're at.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So.
[SPEAKER_00]: Search me, oh God, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So we, the believers, are told, don't sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 6, 1, 2, 3.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no license for us to do whatever we want because God will correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when we do fall, we have one who is an advocate and interceder, the Greek word, paracolotos.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what he's talking, paras, like coming alongside of,
[SPEAKER_00]: So you'll see that with a lot of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Holy Spirit is our comforter.
[SPEAKER_00]: The one that comes alongside of us, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So God is Jesus, like, literally comes very beside us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though the Word of the bad guys, is that cool?
[SPEAKER_00]: We're the bad guy, we're in court with God, and Jesus stands right with us, ready to defend us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't deserve that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm the bad guy here, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're coming to Lord, and we're like, yep, guilty, I did it, I'm wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not, like, a lot of guys, it's like, I did not.
[SPEAKER_00]: killed our woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did not.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're always trying to say, I did not.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, she did.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was proven, proven, proven that yes, she did.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the guys, let's not be like the lost world saying I just want to get away with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because we don't get away with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I regard an equity in my heart,
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord does not hear my prayers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 6618, that we don't get away with the Christians.
[SPEAKER_00]: So why do we fight and battle God?
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't like, okay, just God, I'm bad, you're good.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're right, I'm wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did wrong and I'm a mitigate and that's what God's waiting to hear.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we have Jesus who is the one going between God the Father and the sinner and he's there in between.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you think there's somebody else on the other side of the courtroom, who's that?
[SPEAKER_00]: The accuser who is Satan, so Satan's up there young, you have to see that horrible creature over here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at what, he calls himself a preacher.
[SPEAKER_00]: He calls himself a Christian, no look at him.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Satan's up there trying to get God to get us.
[SPEAKER_00]: The hurt us, if you will, to condemn us.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Jesus steps in and says, my blood's on him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Covered forgiven by the blood.
[SPEAKER_00]: always.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so God, when He sees the blood on the believer, the forgiveness because we confess it, we call it on the Lord to forgive us or sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is qualified then, God is qualified and just to forgive us.
[SPEAKER_00]: You say, that's not fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aren't
[SPEAKER_00]: God's not just, you say, or excuse me, fair, he's just, he's not always fair, because you look at Abraham's life, you look at David, adulterous murderer, under the law, what should have happened to him?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the list goes on with people.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there are times, you say, well, God should have killed him, but God is also merciful.
[SPEAKER_00]: They saw the heart and saw messed up one time and God said, it's all you're done.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm given your kingdom that you could have had and given to Jonathan, I'm going to give it to another who's after my own heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the difference?
[SPEAKER_00]: Saul did wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't murder anybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was all about the heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: He tried to cover it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: All that the Lord has commanded, I've done, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like I've been, all of this things got, and it seems like God's done with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't show him.
[SPEAKER_00]: You say, well, that doesn't seem fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: God is sovereign.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are times we're not going to understand why God does one thing with one person.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why didn't Jesus heal everybody when he was on this earth?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why did he just say, okay, everybody in your, your healed?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you would choose not to, like with Job.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, what did I do wrong that all of this I kids your dead?
[SPEAKER_00]: My wealth has gone, the barns are gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: My wife has told me to curse you.
[SPEAKER_00]: God, what is going on here?
[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Job had to live through all of that, and then he gets boils, you know, and so he has this cause, and then at the end God did bless him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at the beginning, God did not remove all of the problems, and there are times that God doesn't remove our problems so that we can be a light to reflect to show others, God sometimes takes good, godly people and puts them through the ringer.
[SPEAKER_00]: and they didn't do anything wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: You say, that doesn't seem fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, why then does a goodness of God leave men to repentance to get them safe?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's times God does really good things to lost people.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen him in hospitals.
[SPEAKER_00]: They should have died, they're lost.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God, we pray for Him, and God brought healing, and they walk out of the hospital, and they're like, man, God's amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe this happened, and they believe in Jesus and crush Jesus or Savior.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because God was good to the lost person, and then I go into another room, and here's a Christian, it's a serving Jesus forever, and they die of cancer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let God be God, we're not God.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, going back here, we see the Christ, then, is the inner cedar, Satan's the accuser, God's the forgiver, and literally, He takes us right back to a place of freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is God expunges this record of sin from our record.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can I remember verses in the Old Testament?
[SPEAKER_00]: God does the same thing in the Old Testament.
[SPEAKER_00]: as far as the east is from the west, I don't know which way I'm at, you know, east is from the west so far as he removed my inequalities and into the depth of the
[SPEAKER_00]: See, you ain't gonna find it, it's gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a continuation of what God has done.
[SPEAKER_00]: So back to our text then, he is the one that intercedes for us, he's our advocate, he's our lawyer, he's the one that pleads on our behalf and then he is the righteous one, verse number two now.
[SPEAKER_00]: He Jesus is the propitiation.
[SPEAKER_00]: the word atonement is associated with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, this word is translated quite a few times in the New Testament.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can somebody look up while I'm going on first John 410?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who got that for me?
[SPEAKER_00]: You got it, Dennis?
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so he's going to re-first John 410 and think about the atonement or the
[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there was a connection of John 3, 16, the father sent in the sun, and the purpose is for this atonement or the Christ would take care of the sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we deal with our sins, but the last part of verse number two, he changes gears.
[SPEAKER_00]: He goes on and says, but not for hours only, who's he's addressing?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's still on the Christians, but Jesus didn't die for our sins only.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who did He die for in the rest of the verse?
[SPEAKER_00]: The sins of the whole world.
[SPEAKER_00]: So God, a whole bunch of verses, I need help.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can somebody read, I want to make sure I'm getting all the right ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know John 3 16, somebody get first John 4 14, who's got that one for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got that one?
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I got that one and then somebody can get first John 5-19, say if you have who, ages, all ages, every, every, everybody, and then, and then first John 5-19, who, the whole world lies in wickedness, so who are sinners in this world?
[SPEAKER_00]: Does that sound like Roman's three versus 10 to 13?
[SPEAKER_00]: There is none righteous, no, not one.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are all together become unprofitable.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's none that do with good, no, not one.
[SPEAKER_00]: For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So the whole world,
[SPEAKER_00]: Jew and Gentile is condemned because what he gets into in chapter 1 dealing with the idolatry, dealing with the Gentiles, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Chapter 2, he gets into the Old Testament and the Jews guilt before God, but also the Gentiles.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, goes back and forth, but then chapter 3 summarizes that Jew Gentiles, you're all bunch of sinners.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody is a center.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very clear in chapters one through three.
[SPEAKER_00]: So now I want you to go to this verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go with me to first Corinthians 15.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians 15.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're doing okay, I need a couple more minutes, so I can finish this.
[SPEAKER_00]: You need to go, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you want to hang out, I'd love you too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be quick with us.
[SPEAKER_00]: For Corinthians 15, verse number 22.
[SPEAKER_00]: For as in Adam, what's the next word?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Some are all right across the board.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is anybody did anyone not come from Adam?
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody came from Adam, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then now we change it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even so in Christ shall all be made what?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the contrast?
[SPEAKER_00]: death and life, the first atom brought death to all humanity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Through the second atom, life came through the second one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, 45, as it is written, the first atom was made a living soul that last atom, that's Jesus, was made a quickening spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's your thought of life, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Anybody can receive life through the second atom because everybody did receive death through the first atom.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I actually had it right there, the next point.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I got one more text to go to, in first Timothy, if you want to turn there with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And chapter two, verse five.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to me, I wanted to save this and for last because it kind of wraps up the whole thing tonight of what we've been talking about.
[SPEAKER_00]: So first in the two, five, many of you have this verse memorized.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is how many gods?
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, one god, number two.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, and how many mediators?
[SPEAKER_00]: One mediator.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no other mediator, but this one, the one that goes between God and men, it is the man Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why did God use man Christ Jesus here?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's that point, too?
[SPEAKER_00]: Born of a woman, and while he came to this earth, guys, remember reconciliation, I just taught all this Sunday morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping you remember all this, you're connecting.
[SPEAKER_00]: He came in the flesh, so he could beat up on the devil.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember, he destroyed the work of the devil?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why he came in the flesh, son of man.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he came as man to be the one that goes between God and the sinner, notice the next verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't bring this one up.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you gotta put the two together.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the mediator, which we can go out of man, gave himself a ransom for who redeemed ransom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Price is paid in full for all to be testified or it's gonna be a tested and revealed in the proper time.
[SPEAKER_00]: If, you know, I'm not pointing fingers here, but I'm just saying this, if you're not saying you can't hide it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to all be shown one day.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's going to reveal everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're saved, that's going to also be manifested.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be, and it's all through Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all in the proper time is going to be the Christ did die for our sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if we have the blood applied to our life, we're then justified, Christ is our mediator.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the tax, he's not just talking about
[SPEAKER_00]: Prayer, although crisis are mediator and prayer, also.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in the text, he's talked about the Savior.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a mediator between God and lost man.
[SPEAKER_00]: The man Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And because of that, we are one with God.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is a propitiation for our sins, but not for ours who are already believers, but for the sins of the entire world.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the mouth of two and three witnesses, things are established.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have given you verse after verse after verse showing you the exact same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I believe in why I believe it and nobody is going to convince me otherwise.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care how many doctorates they have because if the Bible tells me this, I'm simple enough to believe it and you know what faith does, it sets me free, free.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when it's free, it's free indeed.
[SPEAKER_00]: To Lord bless this time and use it as we have compared Scripture with Scripture over and over again on a clear topics of forgiveness of Christians that we are not just to think I can do it and you don't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you do, just as any loving father cares about the actions of their children because the action the children reflect on you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But those who are without chastisement aren't your children, it's one of the evidence that we are your kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: But while we thank you that you love the world, Father, and for that reason you sent your son, you didn't send them to condemn the world, you sent him to save the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: You sent him to be the mercy seat, the atonement.
[SPEAKER_00]: that we can be one with you, if we believe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, with the heart man believes under righteousness.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, with the mouth confession is made, believe that Jesus died and he rose again.
[SPEAKER_00]: So all of this is very, very clear over and over in your words.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is what we are ambassadors to tell the world that you sent your son to reconcile the world to yourself, that we can be won with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for that day, that whether we were we're a younger, older, we believed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now you've transformed our life.
[SPEAKER_00]: As many times the profits,
[SPEAKER_00]: would go to you and say, Father forgive us as a nation for what we have done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, we come to you as your people and ask you to forgive us as a nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Much of our nation now has turned their back on you, and yet many of them know the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many of them went to Sunday's goal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Love them and draw them back to you, Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, our nation is a battle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Israel is a battle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we uplift what is happening right now to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is beyond us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can reason or think we understand what's going on, but Lord, those who actually do know what's going on, give them courage, give them boldness.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've lost some of our men and women,
[SPEAKER_00]: and God, I pray that you will help them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Lord, use our nation to bless the nation of Israel, because you tell us, I will bless those that bless you, but I will curse them to curse you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so Lord, may we always have leadership that stands behind your nation Israel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for this night, bless our missionaries, some are in Israel and harm's way daily.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray for protection on them, that you will help them Lord, and through this may others come to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray that you'll use this hardship to open up even the eyes of Israel, and that's why interestingly Paul said, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in that test, he's not talking about physical salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's praying for them to come to know you because they're self-righteous, and they've not submitted to the righteousness of God, which is through Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I pray that you'll work in hearts and Israel draw them farther through this hardship to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Use it for your glory in Jesus' precious name, I pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.