Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>THE DEVIL HAS TOLD A BIG LIE AND MOST - EVEN CHRISTIANS - 01:16 HAVE TAKEN IT HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER - 01:18 THAT GOD DOESN'T REALLY EXPECT US TO BE GODLY. 01:24 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:27 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:30 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 01:33 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK 01:36 AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:45 >>NOW WHEN WE THINK ABOUT PERFECTION IN CONNECTION WITH 01:48 CHRISTIANITY, THERE ARE A LOT OF MISCONCEPTIONS AND SOME PEOPLE 01:51 HAVE A LOT OF FEAR - 'WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?' 01:54 YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT STATEMENTS WHERE JESUS SAYS IN MATTHEW 5:48 01:58 - ESPECIALLY IN THE KING JAMES VERSION IT READS, "BE 02:01 THEREFORE PERFECT EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT." 02:06 WELL, IF A CHRISTIAN IS A FOLLOWER OF JESUS AND JESUS WAS 02:10 SINLESS AND PERFECT, AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PERFECT AS OUR 02:14 FATHER IN HEAVEN AND CHRIST IS A REFLECTION OF OUR FATHER IN 02:18 HEAVEN, ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE GOD-LIKE IN OUR PERFECTION? 02:23 I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY HERE IS READY TO CLAIM THAT, 02:26 BUT I'M NOT. SO, WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT FROM US? 02:32 WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN BY 'BE YE PERFECT.' 02:37 YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO START WITH A DICTIONARY 02:38 DEFINITION. WHAT DOES PERFECT MEAN? 02:43 NOW WE'LL LOOK AT IT IN ENGLISH, HEBREW, AND GREEK. 02:46 FIRST OF ALL, PERFECT - AND THIS IS JUST ACCORDING TO THE ONLINE 02:51 DICTIONARY - 'CONFORMING ABSOLUTELY TO A DEFINITION OF AN 02:56 IDEAL TYPE; EXCELLENT OR COMPLETE BEYOND PRACTICAL OR 03:01 THEORETICAL IMPROVEMENT.' HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE 03:04 BEYOND IMPROVEMENT? 03:08 3. EXACTLY FITTING THE NEED OF A CERTAIN SITUATION FOR 03:11 A CERTAIN PURPOSE; 4. ENTIRELY WITHOUT ANY FLAWS, 03:16 DEFECTS, OR SHORTCOMINGS;' - ANYONE KNOW SOMEONE LIKE THAT? 03:21 'ENTIRELY WITHOUT ANY FLAWS, DEFECTS, OR SHORTCOMINGS.' - 03:25 '5. ACCURATE, EXACT, OR CORRECT IN EVERY DETAIL.' 03:30 SO WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORDS 'PERFECT CHRISTIAN' - PROBABLY 03:34 NONE OF US FEEL LIKE WE QUALIFY - AND THEN YOU READ OTHER VERSES 03:38 THAT TELL US THAT SO MANY IN THE BIBLE - THE BIBLE HEROES - EVEN 03:43 THEY HAD THEIR MISTAKES AND THEN THERE ARE STATEMENTS THAT TELL 03:46 US THAT REALLY NOBODY'S PERFECT IN THE BIBLE 03:49 OR IT SOUNDS THAT WAY. "THERE IS NONE GOOD" - JOB 5:7 - 03:55 IT SAYS, "YET MAN IS BORN TO TROUBLE AS THE SPARKS 03:57 FLY UPWARD." WE'RE ALL KIND OF BENT 04:00 TOWARDS TROUBLE. PSALM 119:176, DAVID SAYS, 04:05 "I HAVE GONE ASTRAY LIKE A LOST SHEEP." 04:09 PSALM 14:2 AND 3, "THE LORD LOOKED DOWN FROM HEAVEN UPON THE 04:12 CHILDREN OF MEN TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY WHO UNDERSTAND - 04:16 WHO SEEK GOD - THEY'VE ALL TURNED ASIDE. 04:19 THEY'VE ALTOGETHER BECOME CORRUPT. 04:21 THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD. NO, NOT ONE." 04:25 ECCLESIASTES 7:20, "FOR THERE IS NOT A JUST MAN ON THE EARTH THAT 04:29 DOES GOOD AND DOES NOT SIN." AND THEN, OF COURSE, ROMANS 04:33 3:23, "FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD." 04:38 WELL, IF WE LEFT YOU THERE, IT WOULD SEEM LIKE NONE OF US COULD 04:42 EVER DO GOD'S WILL - WE'RE ALL DOOMED TO LIVES OF PERPETUAL 04:45 DISOBEDIENCE AND REBELLION AND WAYWARDNESS. 04:50 SO WHEN JESUS CALLS US TO BE PERFECT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 04:55 IS HE CALLING US TO BE SOME SORT OF ANGELIC ANDROID OR 04:59 A STAINLESS STEEL SAINT? NOW, AFTER WHAT I READ ABOUT 05:05 THE BIBLE SAYING THAT ALL HAVE SINNED, I NOW WANT YOU TO KNOW 05:09 YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAY IN THAT CONDITION. 05:13 THERE ARE EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF PEOPLE THAT GOD CALLS 05:17 PERFECT AND GODLY. GENESIS 6, VERSE 9 - WE'LL START 05:22 AT GENESIS - "NOAH" - THESE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF GODLINESS - 05:26 "NOAH WAS A JUST MAN. PERFECT IN HIS GENERATIONS." 05:31 NOAH WALKED WITH GOD. NOW, WE KNOW THERE WAS THAT 05:34 EPISODE WHERE HE PLANTED A VINEYARD AND DRANK TOO MUCH AND 05:40 WANDERED AROUND DRUNK IN HIS TEEPEE, GENESIS 5:24 - 05:46 NOT ONLY NOAH WALKED WITH GOD, ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD. 05:49 NOW HE MUST HAVE BEEN DOING SOMETHING RIGHT BECAUSE GOD TOOK 05:51 ENOCH TO HEAVEN, RIGHT? I WANT THAT, DON'T YOU? 05:57 GENESIS 17:1, GOD SAID TO ABRAM, "I AM THE ALMIGHTY GOD. 06:01 WALK BEFORE ME AND BE THOU PERFECT." 06:07 WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN GOD SAYS, 'BE PERFECT.' 06:09 HOW PERFECT, EXACTLY, ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE? 06:13 ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE PARTIALLY PERFECT? 06:17 PARTIALLY IMPERFECT? IS THAT PERFECT? 06:21 DEUTERONOMY - I'M SORRY, ONE MORE ON ABRAHAM - GENESIS 25 - 06:26 NO, GENESIS 26, VERSE 5, "BECAUSE ABRAHAM OBEYED 06:30 MY VOICE, KEPT MY CHARGE, MY COMMANDMENTS, MY STATUTES, 06:33 AND MY LAWS." IT SEEMS LIKE ABRAHAM WAS PRETTY OBEDIENT. 06:38 NOW THAT MUST BE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE TIME THAT HE 06:40 TOOK TOO MANY WIVES AND THEN CALLED HIS WIFE HIS SISTER - SO 06:44 HE MADE SOME MISTAKES, BUT THE TREND OF ABRAHAM'S LIFE WAS ONE 06:48 OF OBEDIENCE BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT GOD SAID. 06:51 DEUTERONOMY 18, MOSES SAID - GOD SAID, "THOU SHALT BE 06:56 PERFECT WITH THE LORD THY GOD." MATTER OF FACT, IT'S BELIEVED 06:59 WHEN JESUS, IN MATTHEW 5, SAID, 'BE THOU PERFECT.' 07:02 HE IS ACTUALLY QUOTING THIS STATEMENT FROM MOSES. 07:06 "THOU SHALT BE PERFECT WITH THE LORD THY GOD." 07:09 NOW YOU CAN SORT OF UNDERSTAND WHY A PERFECT GOD 07:13 WOULD SAY THAT. HOW CAN A PERFECT GOD ASK YOU TO 07:16 BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN PERFECT BECAUSE HE'S PERFECT. 07:21 HIS STANDARD IS PERFECT. HE'S CALLING US TO FOLLOW A 07:24 PERFECT STANDARD AND WE WERE ORIGINALLY MADE - DID ADAM 07:28 HAVE A FACTORY DEFECT OR WAS HE PERFECT? 07:31 LET ME ASK, HOW MANY THINK ADAM WAS PERFECT WHEN HE WAS MADE? 07:34 OR WAS THERE SOME WIRING CROSSED? 07:36 THEN HOW COULD HE SIN IF HE WAS PERFECT? 07:38 I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY HE DID SOMETHING WRONG SO THERE MUST 07:41 HAVE BEEN SOMETHING WRONG IN THE ORIGINAL DESIGN. 07:44 NO, HE WAS MADE WITH A FREE WILL. 07:47 HE MADE A CHOICE. HE WAS MADE PERFECT. 07:49 EVERYTHING GOD SAID WAS 'GOOD, GOOD, VERY GOOD' 07:51 IN THE BEGINNING, RIGHT? AND GOD WANTS TO RECREATE 07:55 HIS IMAGE IN US. JOB, WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT HIM? 08:01 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 3, "THEN THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 'HAVE YOU 08:05 CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB? THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM IN THE 08:09 EARTH, A BLAMELESS AND AN UPRIGHT MAN. 08:12 ONE WHO FEARS GOD AND SHUNS EVIL.'" 08:16 NOW, THAT WORD 'BLAMELESS' THERE IS ALSO 'PERFECT'. 08:18 I WAS READING THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. 08:20 NOW ONE THING WE'VE NOTICED THERE FROM READING ABOUT JOB IS 08:23 THAT KIND OF GODLY PERFECTION IS RARE. 08:26 WHAT DID GOD SAY TO THE DEVIL? "NONE LIKE HIM IN THE EARTH." 08:29 IT'S NOT COMMON. NOW, JESUS SAID IN HIS 08:33 DEDICATION PRAYER, JOHN 17 - WE'LL PROBABLY READ A LITTLE 08:36 MORE FROM THAT IN A MOMENT - 17:23, "I IN THEM, THOU IN ME, 08:45 THAT THEY MAY BE PERFECT IN ONE." HOW CAN WE BE PERFECT? 08:51 I THINK THERE'S A CLUE HERE - AS WE ARE IN CHRIST AND CHRIST 08:55 IS IN GOD, WE CAN BE PERFECT IN HIM. 08:59 SO, ONLY THOSE WHO ABIDE IN HIM - 'WHOEVER ABIDES IN HIM' - 09:06 JOHN SAID - 'SINNETH NOT.' IT'S THROUGH CONTINUALLY, 09:10 CONSISTENTLY ABIDING IN CHRIST THAT WE GROW AND BECOME 09:14 WHAT GOD WANTS US TO BE. SOME OTHER NEW TESTAMENT 09:17 EXAMPLES, ZACHARIAH AND ELIZABETH - PARENTS OF 09:21 JOHN THE BAPTIST - 'THEY WERE BOTH RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD.' 09:25 THAT'S ALL I WANT. IF GOD COULD SAY, 'DOUG, YOU'RE 09:28 RIGHTEOUS BEFORE ME.' WOULDN'T YOU LIKE THAT? 09:31 SO IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A HUMAN TO HAVE THAT? 09:34 A HUMAN TO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE? IF IT'S POSSIBLE, 09:36 THAT'S WHAT WE WANT. I'M NOT DONE. 09:39 'THEY WERE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD, WALKING IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS 09:42 AND ORDINANCES OF THE LORD BLAMELESS.' 09:46 WELL, BUT WAS ZACHARIAH PERFECT? NOT IN THE WAY, SOMETIMES, 09:51 WE THINK OF IT AND THAT'S WHAT FRIGHTENS US. 09:54 HE WAS CONSISTENTLY FOLLOWING THE LORD. IT DIDN'T MEAN HE HAD 09:57 EPISODES OR MOMENTS WHERE HIS FAITH QUESTIONED. 10:01 AND THEN AGAIN, JAMES 3, VERSE 2, "IF ANY MAN OFFEND NOT 10:05 IN WORD, THE SAME IS A PERFECT MAN." 10:07 NOW, I BELIEVE THAT. MY PROBLEM IS OFFENDING IN WORD. BUT HE 10:12 SAID, 'IF SOMEONE CAN BRIDLE THEIR TONGUE' AND SINCE 'OUT OF 10:15 THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS' IF YOU COULD BE 10:17 PERFECT IN WHAT YOU SAY, YOU MIGHT HAVE A PERFECT HEART. 10:22 'IF ANY MAN CAN NOT OFFEND IN WORD THE SAME IS A PERFECT MAN.' 10:25 YOU SEE, THERE IS A BIG LIE THAT THE DEVIL HAS PERPETRATED OUT 10:30 THERE AND THAT LIE IS THAT YOU CANNOT HAVE CHRISTIAN 10:35 PERFECTION, THAT YOU CANNOT HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE WHERE YOU ARE 10:39 BLAMELESS, THAT YOU HAVE PERFECT LOVE, PERFECT MERCY. 10:44 YOU KNOW, BEFORE THE LORD COMES GOD WANTS US TO BE OVERCOMERS. 10:48 HE WANTS US TO BE VICTORIOUS. PRAISE GOD WHO GIVES US 10:50 THE VICTORY. WHY WOULD PAUL SAY STUFF 10:52 LIKE THAT? WHY WOULD JESUS SAY 'TO HIM THAT 10:55 OVERCOMES' IF IT WASN'T POSSIBLE FOR US TO OVERCOME? 10:58 THE LIE OF THE DEVIL IS HE WANTS TO GET US TO WHERE WE ARE 11:02 CONTENT AND DON'T EVEN EXPECT THAT WE SHOULD HAVE GROWTH AND 11:07 SANCTIFICATION AND VICTORY IN OUR LIVES. 11:10 JESUS CAME TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS. 11:13 FIRST WORDS OUT OF JOHN THE BAPTIST'S MOUTH WHEN HE STARTED 11:15 PREACHING WAS 'REPENT!' REPENT OF WHAT? OF SIN. 11:19 WHEN JESUS BEGAN HIS MINISTRY HE STARTED OUT BY SAYING, 'REPENT!' 11:23 - OF SIN - 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.' 11:26 SO THE MAIN PROBLEM WE ALL WRESTLE WITH IS SIN. 11:30 WE LIKE TO COUCH THE GOSPEL. 11:32 IN OTHER TERMS WE CALL IT A MISTAKE AND WE LOVE TO TALK 11:36 ABOUT - AND I DO TOO - LOVE, GRACE, MERCY - THOSE ARE VERY 11:40 IMPORTANT COMPONENTS - BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO BE BIBLICALLY 11:43 FAITHFUL, WE ALSO NEED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT JESUS TALKS ABOUT 11:46 AND THAT'S SIN. WHAT IS SIN? IT'S THE TRANSGRESSION 11:52 OF HIS LAW. IT'S NOT DOING GOD'S WILL. 11:56 IF WE DON'T HAVE A LOVE OF GOD, THEN THE ONLY OTHER MOTIVE LEFT 11:59 IS SELFISHNESS AND WE WILL SIN. 12:02 WHETHER IT MANIFESTS ITSELF IN THE LUST OF THE FLESH OR THE 12:04 LUST OF THE EYES OR THE PRIDE OF LIFE OR ANY OTHER FORM OF 12:07 SELFISHNESS, WE WILL BE GRAVITATING TOWARDS SELFISHNESS 12:11 AND THAT'S WHERE YOU HAVE PROBLEMS IN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS 12:13 WITH EACH OTHER, WE HAVE PROBLEMS IN OUR RELATIONSHIP 12:16 WITH GOD AND EVEN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU THAT YOU 12:19 HAVE WITH YOU IS GOING TO BE CONTAMINATED AND INFECTED AND 12:24 DAMAGED BY SIN. GOD WANTS TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS. 12:28 NOW HERE'S THE POINT: HE DOESN'T WANT TO SAVE US FROM SOME OF OUR 12:32 SINS. WHAT WOMAN WOULD ACCEPT A PROPOSAL THAT SOUNDED SOMETHING 12:37 LIKE THIS? 'I'D LIKE YOU TO MARRY ME AND I WILL BE DEDICATED 12:45 TO YOU 358 DAYS A YEAR - ONLY YOU. 12:52 THERE WILL BE SOME OTHER DAYS THAT, YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE SOME 12:55 OLD GIRLFRIENDS AND MEN WILL BE MEN - AND WE KNOW 12:57 YOU UNDERSTAND THAT. I MEAN, LET'S NOT BE EXTREME.' 13:02 ARE YOU REALLY EXPECTING YOUR SPOUSE 365 DAYS A YEAR 13:07 TO JUST LOVE YOU? AND I'M A BATCHELOR 13:12 AND SHE STILL EXPECTS IT. BUT ISN'T THAT LEGALISTIC? 13:19 ISN'T THAT PERFECT - I MEAN, WHAT WIFE WANTS HER HUSBAND 13:22 TO BE PERFECT IN THAT RESPECT? A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE WIVES, 13:28 RIGHT? YOU ARE FANATICS! LEGALISTIC PHARISEE WOMEN. 13:36 WHEN YOU HAVE LOVE, YOU WANT A HUNDRED PERCENT COMMITMENT. 13:41 THEN WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT LESS FROM GOD? 13:44 WHEN HE SAID, 'I LOVE YOU. NO I DON'T WANT YOU TO LISTEN 13:47 TO THE DEVIL. I DON'T WANT YOU TO SELL OUT 13:49 TO HIM. I DON'T WANT YOU TO SIN. 13:51 ZERO. NADA. NONE. GONE. KAPUT. STOP. 13:56 THE DEVIL HAS TOLD A BIG LIE AND MOST - EVEN CHRISTIANS - HAVE 14:01 TAKEN IT HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER - THAT GOD DOESN'T REALLY EXPECT 14:05 US TO BE GODLY. THAT IS NOT TRUE. 14:09 AND, YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL'S NOT AFRAID OF YOUR GOING TO CHURCH. 14:12 MATTER OF FACT, HE WOULD JUST AS SOON YOU STAY IN CHURCH AS LONG 14:14 AS YOU STAY IN CHURCH IF YOU CONTINUE TO HEAR LIES THAT LEAD 14:18 YOU TO THINK THAT GOD IS GOING TO SAVE YOU IN AND WITH YOUR SIN 14:21 AS OPPOSED TO FROM YOUR SIN. SO HOW PERFECT DOES HE WANT US 14:25 TO BE? JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 7, VERSE 21, "NOT EVERYONE 14:31 WHO SAYS TO ME 'LORD, LORD' WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM, BUT HE THAT 14:34 DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER." AND THEN HE GOES ON AND EXPLAINS 14:36 THERE'S GOING TO BE A VERY LARGE, DECEIVED CATEGORY 14:39 IN THE LAST DAYS. "MANY WILL COME TO ME IN THAT 14:42 DAY SAYING, 'LORD, LORD HAVE WE NOT PROPHESIED IN YOUR NAME? 14:46 AND IN YOUR NAME CAST OUT DEVILS AND IN YOUR NAME DONE MANY 14:48 WONDERS?'" - GONE TO CHURCH? PAID OUR TITHE? - 14:53 "I'LL DECLARE TO YOU - I'LL DECLARE TO THEM, 14:55 'I NEVER KNEW YOU. DEPART FROM ME YOU WHO PRACTICE 14:58 LAWLESSNESS.'" INIQUITY IN SOME VERSIONS, 15:03 SAME WORD - LAWLESSNESS. WHAT IS LAWLESSNESS? 15:06 1 JOHN 3, VERSES 4 TO 6, "WHOEVER COMMITS SIN 15:10 COMMITS LAWLESSNESS." NOW I'M USING THE NEW KING JAMES 15:14 VERSION THERE. SIN IS LAWLESSNESS - IT MEANS 15:17 LIVING OUTSIDE THE LAW - MEANING THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 15:21 SO THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO GO TO CHURCH AND THEY - THEY'RE DOING 15:25 WONDERS AND WORKING FOR THE LORD AND GOD SAYS, 'LOOK, 15:27 I DON'T KNOW YOU.' WE'RE NOT ABIDING IN CHRIST IF 15:30 THAT'S THE PATTERN OF OUR LIVES. HE WANTS US TO BE IN HIM. 15:34 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S SO DANGEROUS ABOUT THIS 15:40 CONCEPT THAT GOD SAVES US IN OUR SIN, WE'RE FALLING FOR THE 15:45 DEVIL'S ORIGINAL DECEPTION. WHAT IS THE DEVIL'S ACCUSATION 15:48 AGAINST GOD? 'YOU'RE UNFAIR, YOUR LAW IS 15:52 UNFAIR, YOU'RE ARBITRARY, YOU'RE A DESPOT, YOU'RE ASKING THESE 15:56 CREATURES ON EARTH TO DO SOMETHING THEY CANNOT DO. 15:59 THEY'RE BORN WITH THESE SINFUL SELFISH TENDENCIES AND YOU'RE 16:02 SAYING YOU'RE GOING TO PUNISH THEM IF THEY DISOBEY. 16:05 YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO PUNISH THEM FOR DOING WHAT THEY CAN'T HELP 16:08 DOING, BUT DO. AND JESUS IS SAYING, 'NO, THEY 16:12 CAN BE DIFFERENT. THEY CAN OBEY.' 16:15 THE DEVIL SAYS, 'NO THEY CAN'T.' AND SO, WHEN WE IN THE CHURCHES 16:18 BEGIN TO BECOME COMFORTABLE WITH THE IDEA THAT WE ARE JUST 16:20 DESTINED AND RESIGNED TO BEING DEFEATED, IT REALLY SAYS THE 16:25 DEVIL IS BIG ENOUGH TO TEMPT YOU TO SIN BUT GOD IS NOT BIG ENOUGH 16:30 TO KEEP YOU FROM SIN. THAT'S AT THE CORE OF THAT 16:33 TEACHING. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE IT, FRIENDS. 16:36 IF WE ARE RESIGNED TO THE IDEA THAT WE ARE DESTINED TO CONTINUE 16:39 LIVING IN SIN UNTIL JESUS COMES, THEN WHAT YOU'RE REALLY SAYING 16:44 IS 'I DON'T BELIEVE GOD CAN SANCTIFY ME BECAUSE I THINK THAT 16:47 THE DEVIL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN GOD IS.' 16:49 THAT IS TOTALLY AGAINST WHAT JESUS TEACHES. 16:51 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS 16:55 IN THE WORLD.' THE LORD CAN GIVE YOU VICTORY. 16:58 YOU CAN'T NAME A SIN THAT GOD CAN'T GIVE YOU VICTORY OVER. 17:01 YOU NAME A SIN - MAYBE YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN VICTORY BUT I 17:04 CAN POINT TO SOMEBODY THAT HAS. AND SO, IF HE DID IT FOR THEM 17:08 HE CAN DO IT FOR YOU IF YOU BELIEVE. THAT'S WHAT 17:12 RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH IS. IF YOU BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE 17:15 POSSIBLE. GOD DOES THINGS AFTER WE BELIEVE THAT HE DOESN'T DO 17:19 UNTIL WE BELIEVE. SO THE LORD IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE. 17:24 'THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN TO AND FRO THROUGH THE EARTH LOOKING 17:26 FOR SOMEONE THROUGH WHOM HE CAN SHOW HIMSELF MIGHTY.' 17:29 THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT HE CAN CHANGE ME, THAT HE CAN 17:33 GIVE ME VICTORY. NOW THE QUESTION IS, HOW MUCH 17:39 SIN CAN WE STILL CLING TO AND BE SAVED - DELIBERATELY? 17:46 JESUS SAID, 'SIN NO MORE.' YOU REMEMBER THE STORY - JOHN 17:52 5:14 - HE GOES TO THE POOL OF BETHESDA, HEALS THAT MAN THAT 17:56 HASN'T WALKED IN 38 YEARS AND LATER HE RUNS INTO HIM - JOHN 18:01 5:14 - AND JESUS FOUND HIM IN THE TEMPLE AND THAT'S - RIGHT 18:04 AFTER YOU'RE HEALED YOU WANT TO GO TO CHURCH. 18:06 FIRST THING HE DID AFTER HE COULD WALK WAS HE WENT TO CHURCH 18:08 - GOOD IDEA. JESUS SAID, "SEE, YOU HAVE BEEN MADE WELL." 18:14 NOTICE THE WORDS OF JESUS - IF YOU'VE GOT A RED-LETTER 18:16 EDITION IT'S IN RED. IF YOU'RE ANGRY WITH WHAT I'M 18:19 SAYING THIS MORNING, BE ANGRY WITH JESUS. 18:22 YOU TALK TO HIM LATER - DON'T TAKE IT OUT ON ME. 18:25 JESUS SAID, "SIN NO MORE LEST A WORSE THING COME UPON YOU." 18:30 HE DID NOT SAY YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO JUST KIND OF CUT BACK 18:33 A LITTLE BIT. YOU'VE GOT TO SLOW DOWN. 18:37 HE SAID, 'STOP.' JOHN 8, VERSE 10 - YOU KNOW, 18:43 THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY - ALSO IN THE TEMPLE. 18:46 WE ALL KNOW JESUS DID NOT COME TO CONDEMN US. 18:49 WE'RE ALREADY CONDEMNED. HE CAME TO SAVE US FROM OUR SIN. 18:54 AFTER ALL THAT WOMAN'S ACCUSERS WENT OUT AND JESUS SAID, 18:59 "WOMAN, WHERE ARE THOSE ACCUSERS OF YOURS? 19:01 HAS NO ONE CONDEMNED YOU?" SHE SAID, "NO ONE LORD." 19:04 AS IF TO SAY BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU? HE SAID, "NEITHER DO I 19:08 CONDEMN YOU." AND THE LAST THING HE SAID IS, 19:12 "SIN NO MORE." "GO AND SIN NO MORE." 19:18 NOW, OBVIOUSLY, HE'S TALKING ABOUT WHAT SHE SPECIFICALLY HAD 19:20 A PROBLEM WITH IN HER LIFE. 19:23 SO HOW DO YOU GET THE VICTORY OVER SIN? 19:25 FIRST WORDS JESUS SPOKE WHEN HE BEGAN PREACHING, 'REPENT!' 19:30 REPENTANCE IS ACTUALLY A GIFT OF GOD. 19:31 YOU MAY NOT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL YOU FEEL IT, BUT AS SOON AS YOU 19:34 BECOME AWARE THAT YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT GOD'S 19:38 WILL, CONFESS IT TO GOD. TELL HIM. 19:42 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU'VE GOT TO DEAL WITH - IF YOU'RE 19:44 STRUGGLING WITH ALCOHOL - ANYBODY HERE WHOSE STRUGGLED 19:46 WITH ALCOHOL - IF YOU GO TO AN AA MEETING ONE OF THE FIRST 19:48 THINGS THEY WANT YOU TO DO IS YOU'VE GOT TO CONFRONT IT AND BE 19:51 REAL WITH YOURSELF. YOU CAN'T GET OVER ANYTHING THAT 19:54 YOU DON'T ADMIT. SAY, 'LORD, THIS IS SOMETHING IN 19:57 MY LIFE - I KNOW YOU DON'T APPROVE OF IT BUT I CAN'T DO 19:59 ANYTHING WITHOUT YOU. BUT I AM SORRY. 20:01 I REPENT. I CONFESS MY SIN. 20:03 SAVE ME FROM IT.' AND AS SOON AS YOU COME TO THE 20:06 LORD AND YOU ASK HIM FOR HELP, THEN HE CAN DO SOMETHING. 20:10 PROVERBS 28:13, "HE THAT COVERS HIS SIN WILL NOT PROSPER BUT 20:15 WHOEVER CONFESSES AND" - YOU KNOW THE REST OF THAT VERSE? 20:20 "CONFESSES AND FORSAKES IT WILL HAVE MERCY." 20:23 IT'S NOT JUST CONFESSING. IT'S BEING WILLING TO TURN 20:26 AWAY FROM IT. JOHN 1:9 - I'M SORRY, 1 JOHN 20:29 1:9, "IF WE CONFESS OUR SIN HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE 20:34 US AND TO CLEANSE US FROM FIFTY PERCENT UNRIGHTEOUSNESS." 20:41 SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT BECAUSE WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, 20:44 THERE'S CUTBACKS. NO, HE'LL CLEANSE US FROM HOW 20:49 MUCH UNRIGHTEOUSNESS? HE CLEANSES US FROM ALL. 20:52 NOT ONLY DOES HE GIVE US CREDIT FOR HIS SON'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, HE 20:56 THEN GIVES US POWER TO LIVE NEW LIVES. 20:58 SEE, WHAT YOU HEAR IN THE CHURCHES IS ONLY JUSTIFICATION. 21:02 A LOT OF CHURCHES YOU CAN HEAR REALLY GOOD SERMONS ON 21:05 JUSTIFICATION AND I WOULD SAY 'AMEN' THROUGH ALL THOSE SERMONS 21:08 BUT THEY STOP WITH THE PART WHERE YOU COME TO JESUS AND HE 21:11 COVERS YOU AND GIVES YOU CREDIT FOR HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THEN 21:14 THEY DON'T GO ON WITH THE OTHER ASPECT, WHICH IS CALLED 21:16 SANCTIFICATION, ANOTHER VERY CLEAR BIBLE TEACHING WHERE THEN 21:20 YOU ARE TRANSFORMED AND YOU LIVE A NEW LIFE. 21:26 THIS IS WHAT REAL REPENTANCE IS - WHEN WE TURN FROM OUR SINS. 21:32 SO HERE'S THE QUESTION: IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN DOES THAT 21:37 MEAN THAT YOU'LL NEVER FALL, YOU'LL NEVER SIN, 21:39 YOU'LL NEVER MAKE A MISTAKE? THAT IF YOU SIN ONCE 21:42 YOU WEREN'T PERFECT ENOUGH? NO. IT'S WHO'S IN CHARGE. 21:49 WHO RULES IN YOUR LIFE? WHO IS YOUR LORD? 21:52 WHO DO YOU LIVE FOR? BY WHAT DO YOU DEFINE YOUR LIFE? 21:57 NOW I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THREE VERSES, ROMANS 6:12, "THEREFORE 22:04 DO NOT LET SIN" - THE VERY FACT THAT HE'S SAYING 'DO NOT LET IT' 22:08 MEANS THAT YOU HAVE A CHOICE. "DO NOT ALLOW SIN TO REIGN" - 22:12 REIGN IS LIKE IN A KINGDOM, IT MEANS IT'S RULING IN YOUR LIFE. 22:16 IF THERE'S ANY AREA WHERE SIN IS RULING IN YOUR LIFE THEN YOU'RE 22:20 NOT SAVED. CHRIST WANTS TO HAVE VICTORY. 22:24 THAT DOESN'T MEAN CHRISTIANS DON'T FALL - THAT'S DIFFERENT. 22:27 IF IT HAS DOMINION - AND THAT'S MY NEXT VERSE - ROMANS 6:14 - 22:31 JUST GOING DOWN TWO VERSES - "SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION 22:34 OVER YOU." LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU - 22:36 AND THIS IS A VERY ENCOURAGING QUOTE FROM THAT CLASSIC BOOK 22:39 'STEPS TO CHRIST' - THIS IS PAGE 64. 22:43 "THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWN THE PARDONING LOVE OF CHRIST AND 22:46 WHO REALLY DESIRE TO BE CHILDREN OF GOD, YET THEY REALIZE THAT 22:50 THEIR CHARACTER IS IMPERFECT, THEIR LIFE FAULTY, AND THEY ARE 22:55 READY TO DOUBT WHETHER THEIR HEARTS HAVE BEEN RENEWED BY THE 22:57 HOLY SPIRIT. TO SUCH I WOULD SAY, 'DO NOT DRAW BACK IN 23:00 DESPAIR. WE SHALL OFTEN HAVE TO BOW DOWN AND WEEP AT THE FEET OF 23:05 JESUS BECAUSE OF OUR SHORTCOMINGS AND OUR MISTAKES, 23:09 BUT WE ARE NOT TO BE DISCOURAGED. 23:11 EVEN IF WE ARE OVERCOME BY THE ENEMY, WE ARE NOT CAST OFF, NOT 23:14 FORSAKEN AND REJECTED OF GOD. NO; CHRIST IS AT THE RIGHT HAND 23:18 OF GOD WHO ALSO MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US. 23:22 SAID THE BELOVED JOHN, 'THESE THINGS I WRITE UNTO YOU 23:25 THAT YE SIN NOT. AND IF ANY MAN SIN, WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH 23:29 THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS. 23:31 AND DO NOT FORGET THE WORDS OF CHRIST, "THE FATHER HIMSELF 23:35 LOVETH YOU" - JOHN 16:27 - HE DESIRES TO RESTORE YOU TO 23:39 HIMSELF, TO SEE HIS OWN PURITY AND HOLINESS REFLECTED IN YOU. 23:44 AND IF YOU WILL BUT YIELD YOURSELF TO HIM, 23:47 HE THAT HATH BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL CARRY IT FORWARD 23:50 TO THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST." YIELDING YOURSELF TO HIM. 23:55 SURRENDERING TO HIM. HE CAN GIVE YOU THE VICTORY. 23:59 WOULD YOU PAY EVERYTHING YOU OWN FOR SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T THINK 24:06 YOU COULD ACTUALLY PURCHASE? EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU HEAR 24:10 THESE STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO PAY FOR SOMETHING AND THEY WERE 24:12 SWINDLED - THEY DIDN'T GET ANYTHING. IT'S KIND OF SAD. 24:18 WOULD JESUS PAY - WOULD THE FATHER PAY THE LIFE OF HIS SON 24:23 TO SAVE YOU - THAT'D BE AN AWFUL BIG PRICE TO PAY FOR SOMETHING 24:27 THAT COULDN'T BE ACQUIRED. THE VERY FACT THAT JESUS PAID SO 24:31 MUCH IS THE STRONGEST EVIDENCE THAT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO 24:36 BE WHAT HE PAID FOR YOU TO BE. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 24:42 IF YOU COME TO CHRIST AND YOU SURRENDER TO HIM, YOU CAN BE 24:46 A NEW CREATURE. DON'T BE DISCOURAGED BECAUSE OF 24:48 YOUR PAST FAILURES, JUST SAY, 'LORD, BY YOUR GRACE 24:51 I WANT TO WALK WITH YOU LIKE NOAH AND ENOCH. 24:54 I WANT TO HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF ABRAHAM. 24:57 I WANT TO BE LIKE DANIEL, WHERE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I'M 25:00 GOING TO LEAVE MY WINDOWS OPEN EVEN THOUGH I MIGHT DIE 25:04 BECAUSE I'M CAUGHT PRAYING. YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO ME IS THE 25:07 MOST IMPORTANT THING AND BY YOUR GRACE, LORD, I WANT TO BE 25:10 PERFECT IN CHRIST. I WANT TO BE HOLY. 25:14 I WANT TO BE LIKE JESUS. I WANT TO BE SO LOST TO MYSELF 25:19 THAT ALL PEOPLE SEE WHEN THEY LOOK AT ME IS YOU. 25:22 IS THAT YOUR DESIRE, FRIENDS? IS THAT YOUR PRAYER? 25:25 >>STAY TUNED. 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