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- Randy: Okay, welcome back to the Accidental Bible Scholar Podcast. We're glad you're with us and still hanging in there. for joining us. We a few things to go over real quick. ⁓ That is you ⁓ if you or like or comment, those things are good to help get the word out for the podcast. You can hear us on Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple. Podcast, iHeartRadio, those are all available. If you have any questions you want to talk to Randy I directly, you can do that at contact at accidental bible scholar dot com. take any good criticism or bad for that matter. And then what we're do today is just a quick ten, maybe fifteen on a topic a few questions have up from people, and that is first John one nine. Some a new believer should in to be forgiven sin, confess sin. And ⁓ just question we have been asked, and how do you address that or think about that as a believer under the new covenant. So how we start if wanna address my question better. Well you said a new believer and I think I think the misunderstanding of first John one nine is that We have to confess sin in order to be forgiven of sin. Yes. there I'm talking about I'm not talking about the moment of conversion. I'm talking about ⁓ ongoing life of believer. I can't his name. I should have looked it up because I got it on a separate sheet of paper. But but he's he it the treadmill ⁓ of confession and forgiveness. he's ⁓ he's saying that's a and he's a a guy at one of the Southern Baptist Seminaries. Anyway, I I would like to give him credit for that treadmill comment because it it's pretty effective. the bottom line is that John 9, if you you have to take it out of context to turn it into Christian instruction or Christian day to day instruction. So I'm gonna about the context, but I'm before I talk about the context, I'm gonna just talk about forgiveness of sins. We are forgiven, because of the work that of Christ on the cross, because of his shed blood and his broken body. Right. no other thing than forgiveness. And when he's forgiven us, we're forgiven forever. and I'll just read few There are many, I'm not gonna hit them all, but you know, Romans four, and eight, ⁓ just four eight, I quote it you've heard me quote it. Happy is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin. Right. That's a ⁓ that's from ⁓ the Bible. Paul quoting saying, Blessed happy the one against the Lord will never count sin. Romans five nine says we are justified by his Justified means. means to be made right or to be made righteous. Corinthians six eleven, that that that we were washed by his blood. We were cleansed by his blood. Second Corinthians five nineteen talks about not counting ⁓ trespasses against us because of what Christ did. Ephesians 1 7, which we talked about a few weeks ago, in we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of trespasses. ⁓ Any of those are, you they the deal. and yet I got a whole page full of them here. Colossians 1 Colossians 2, 13 and 14 says, forgiven us all trespasses. ⁓ Again, that's of the blood of Jesus Christ and his broken Hebrews and a couple other places have an interesting way of it that I so I pulled out a bunch these verses. They talk about once and for all. and for all ⁓ is once and all time, once and all people. Of course, is you to receive it, and once for all. For for all sin. these different ones cover all three of those. ⁓ And a once and for all sacrifice. So Hebrews 7:17 says he has no need to do this every day like those priests. Those priests are the Old Testament priests. First for own sins, ⁓ and then sins of the people. That's what the old priesthood had to do. And this about since Jesus did this in offering himself ⁓ once for all. And he then ⁓ Hebrews nine twelve, and he entered once for all into the most holy place, not the blood not with the blood ⁓ goats and calves, but with his own blood. And he himself secured eternal redemption. That's a once and for all. Hebrews nine for then he would have to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. He's talking about if we had to keep ⁓ getting forgiveness, he just have to keep getting sacrificed over and over. Right. ⁓ It says, But he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin. By his sacrifice. That was Hebrews nine twenty-six. Hebrews nine twenty-eight. said he was Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many to those who eagerly await him and appear his second coming. So he the sins once. And then ten ten. ⁓ Hebrews ten is an awesome chapter in a lot of different ways, but it says, By his will we have been made through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Hebrews ten twelve, two verses later. But when this priest, about Jesus, had offered one sacrifice for sins ⁓ all time, ⁓ sat down at the right hand again, right of the Father again for all time, for all people, for all sin. Hebrews ten I know it's repetitive, but that's the point. ⁓ Right. It says, For by one offering has perfected for all time those are made holy. It can't any more plain that he has it for all time, that he solved our sin problem. Our sin problem is completely solved. Once and for all. Right. And ⁓ see, Romans six ten, first Peter three eighteen. If you want s another book besides Hebrews, because obviously I just read Hebrews there and he's really is comparing the Old Testament priesthood to the New Pres New Testament priesthood here in in seven, eight, nine, and ten. And where and he's comparing the the repetitive day, ⁓ a day. Right. And then and if somebody personally sinned, more so, it was just and over and over and over. We'll come back to Hebrews 10 here in just a second. But anyway, that's the that the ⁓ of believer's sin. Right. It's ⁓ for all time, for all sin, anybody that'll believe. so that's that's Pretty me that's pretty clear clear cut. ⁓ that if you go into first John one nine, ⁓ need to interpret first John one nine against all those other verses, right? That's always sat with me weird when I would read that. Yeah. And not it a lot of consideration. It was like, well, wait a minute. I thought was forgiven of all my sin 'cause it says that in so many places. As far as the east is from the west. Yeah. part of the ocean. Yeah. Or put behind my back. I'm like, well, okay. Yeah. There's in the lost days I'll remember no more. Yeah. Hebrews and Hebrews ten. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not saying we take our sin lightly. we don't have to confess it. We r we we just don't go do what we want. Right. But ⁓ how do we Well, ⁓ and when I say we don't have to confess that it you know, when somebody says do you have to confess sin? Well, what purpose? Right. Not be forgiven, no. If you're already a believer. Right. You know, it do you ⁓ am I talking about hiding sin from God? No. Am I talking about hiding sin from you and I, from friends? No. It ⁓ James five says to confess confess your sins one to another. Right. That's this in first John I is the only place after Acts chapter two, and Acts chapter two is important 'cause that's when the new covenant begins. It's the only place where confess and sin are together. Only those two places. And so we are to confess it to each other. And I find that's where we mess up. We don't really do that. We hide it from each other. Exactly. You know, I got my I'm really good, you're really good, but I'm not gonna tell you. what's really going on. the Bible wants transparency authenticity between believers. Right. Same for we're s we're be transparent before the Lord too. I mean, i i it's not like we can hide anything from him. And I'm not saying we don't agree with him and don't talk about it, you know. I say, search me know me. You know, that's what David says. That's great thing to do. But ⁓ I don't want to search me and know me or search me and if there be any sin in me ⁓ in that I may it in order to be forgiven. That's what that's not why I'm wanting to be searched. I'm wanting to be searched and see if there be any wicked in me so that I can repent and healing can begin and freedom can begin. So my point of a believer ⁓ dealing with if they have a ⁓ problem, you an habitual sin or something like that, is not have it revealed or become aware of it so that you confess it in order to be forgiven. You're already forgiven. Right. The is, and confession is not the solution to sin. Repentance is solution for sin. So you want have the Lord search you and and see if there be any wicked way in you so that ⁓ so that the of you can bring to light something that maybe you've been previously blind to and so that you repent of it and be freed from it. ⁓ Right. So so we free from but we have to protect participate in that and we have to work through that. And sometimes can lose our way. We can you know, just start stuff that we're, you know, not supposed to And so and reason is important, reason I don't want this to to go by is because one, it's really I would say it's of the areas that is maybe the most pervasive Western Christianity. I mean some some circles it's not even an issue, but others it's like, yeah, ⁓ my goodness. and like said, I think I've said this before, I've done I tried it. You can't do it. It's bondage. Yeah. It's ⁓ Yeah. And what if forget one? Right. Well that one's covered then. Yeah. I guess. if according to this, if you're really gonna live like it's unforgiven. ⁓ And if you're unforgiven, you can't come before the Father. Yeah. You're now broken off from the Father if you have an unforgiven sin because you're no longer righteous or right with him. Yep. ⁓ and when eternity t comes, hello, it's not good. Yeah. So and what do you do? What if two years ago I did something and I c what I do? ⁓ Yeah. there's how do I that? Right. I forgot. I don't even know maybe. Right. was an attitude, a motive that wasn't aware of. So my goodness. No, our sin problem has been totally taken in care And let just let me let me this important in so many First of all, if I if my ⁓ forgiveness depends me, depends on my depends on my introspection. Then I'm not gonna have a whole lot of confidence to come boldly before the throne of grace. Right. Which Hebrews 4 tells me to do. And Ephesians, what, three or three or four me to do the same thing, come confidently before the Lord. If if it's on me, I can't do it. And the thing is, if I'm walking with this guilt and shame, then I I can't out the Christian life Right. So and I bring this if you go look, you don't have to. If we go second 2 Peter 3 8 lists these wonderful things that we're supposed to make for effort. Make every effort, add to your faith excellence, to excellence, knowledge, to knowledge, self-control, to self-control, perseverance to perseverance, godliness to godliness, brotherly affection, to a brotherly unselfish love. That's a great list. we would all want Holy Spirit to manifest with us or out of us, right? But he says, we skip to verse nine, he's to talk about somebody who's lacking in those, who can't do those. He says, but concerning the one who lacks such things, he is That is to say, he is nearsighted. he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins. If you and I ⁓ confident of our past sins, we can't do that list that starts in what verse ⁓ five. Right. just can't do it. And and what we say but the current concerning the one who likes such things, he's a knucklehead and we need to pop him up ⁓ side the head. That's we all expect. It says, No, he's forgotten how forgiven he is. Right. He's nearsighted. What's nearsightedness? He's focused on himself. He's self-centered. focused on his He's focused on Does he measure up? old testament, that's religion. Right. And this, our question now in the new covenant is does Christ measure up? Right. So I'm Christ centered, Christ focused. Right. I'm righteousness conscience. And don't have to go there because this is running longer than you wanted me to do it, but the first part of Hebrews 10. Basically says, let me put a severe paraphrase, but can he's considering the old sacrifices to the nude sacrifice or to Jesus sacrifice, and basically says You're we're you and I, as New Covenant believers, are are to have no more consciousness of sins. That's exactly opposite of a bad interpreter. Yeah, we're not sin focused all we are Christ focused. as we focus on him and run him down, we just leave our sin in the wake. It just kinda it'll just go. It'll dry up due to a lack of attention. But this self centered, sin conscious thing is a religious thing that if living in that way, you're not going to produce the fruit of the spirit and the things that the Lord wants to do through you. ⁓ What's the And the things of the earth will grow. strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace. Yeah. Yeah, it just kinda ⁓ goes away. Yeah. the treadmill, ⁓ put here if if unconfessed sin, you if I'm unforgiven or here's here's my point The treadmill interpretation of this, I just ⁓ I have to confess single sin for it to be forgiven. makes some assumptions that the New Testament ever makes. What what the assumption behind reading first John one nine, that way, the assumption is that if I sin, I become unforgiven. Or if I sin, I become unrighteous. first John one nine says that we confess our sins, he is faithful in justice to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Forgiveness of ⁓ and cleanse all unrighteousness is a one and done thing. Which these verses just I could have read twenty more that said exactly the thing. ⁓ Right. So to for to treat like that, ⁓ there ⁓ you would have find there ⁓ a truth or a verse else that says, if you sin, you become Or you sin, you become unrighteous. That's the unwritten assumption that is is ⁓ ⁓ a interpretation first John one nine. Right. And nowhere in the does say that. Yeah. It's just read you from Hebrews the once and for all things. ⁓ Right. It's a once and for all ⁓ is a one and done thing. And that's that's hugely important. And I got another thing here. I somebody asked this question wanted a simp a way to simplify this. Well, I don't know if I've simplified it exactly, ⁓ but got several thoughts here that you could pull just one of these out. Here's another one that ⁓ here's here's you want to get right down to the real nitty-gritty. You know, used the context New Testament. We've read a bunch verses that would contradict that interpretation first John one We've talked about impossible it is. We talked about Hebrews ten through four talks about how we're not to be conscious of our sins anymore, which is a radical idea that ⁓ preachers and would be afraid to teach, but that's what Hebrews says. Right. ⁓ And I've lived I don't focus on my sin. Right. And it literally dries up and goes away. ⁓ And we can about that. Romans six. ⁓ If you think a a sinner trapped in sin, ⁓ but you're a in Jesus Christ, go read Romans six. Your the freedom You've been freed from sin. Right. Okay. I think that ⁓ that'll come up maybe in our Ephesians teaching a little bit. But let's talk about First John for a minute. John wrote this to the church because of in the church. Yep. He'll talk that book of First John people who have left the church. ⁓ And the people remaining Well, were we were we right or were they right? Because he had some really prominent, smart people leave the church. But they got bought into this Gnosticism thing. Here's what here's what that would say. It says that the physical world, there's two worlds, a physical world and a spiritual world. And the physical world is evil its very nature and cannot be redeemed. And it says the spiritual world evil and good in it, but the one ⁓ by the Lord, that part of it in his kingdom is good ⁓ holy ⁓ divine. Okay. Well, you take that, that's not true, by the way. Right. The physical realm is not in and of itself evil. Right. ⁓ But you take that idea, it it produces, or this case, in John's case, it produced two thoughts, two philosophies, two where he weren't where he weren't talking. He addresses both of them. The first thing is produces is that. that well Jesus didn't come a real human being. Right. Because if he's divine and perfect, he could not take on physical flesh because if physical flesh is by its very nature evil. Right. So thought goes, well, Jesus was just a Right. He just fooled our eyes. But he a real human. But without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. And and we've probably talked about this before. He had to come as a human being. So that's the first And John will address that throughout. ⁓ But he starts off the intro, addressing them both and is Intro there, say, We touched him, ⁓ saw him, ⁓ touched eternal life, ⁓ saw, we spoke, we heard. He's about his five senses in the body met up understood Jesus to be a physical form. First John 4:1 gives us the command to test every spirit. How do we test it? That's the next first John 4:2 us the test. Only by the Holy can you say that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. So again, he throughout this he's going to or out his book first John, he's addressing this idea that Jesus really didn't come as you know as a flesh and blood human being. so and he's saying to not to say that he didn't is ⁓ the spirit of the Antichrist if you say Jesus didn't come in the flesh. So that's first thing he's addressing. ⁓ The thing that Gnosticism can can kind impart itself Christianity that if the spirit realm in the physical realm are so separated and the physical realm is already evil, sin doesn't matter. Immorality, we if I whatever thinking I I'm doing with my body, it's already evil. It's not gonna get any worse. So sin doesn't matter. And sin's even a big deal ⁓ or not a thing I have to be concerned about. So the John into that and he covers that as an intro in John one. And then he well Again, just like th the other idea, lie, you will, he'll then turn it into he'll address throughout. But but so first John nine, ⁓ if we read Back in Peter. Give me just a second. I mean, I'm in second Peter. So I was talking about earlier, first one, It starts off talking about the life revealed. And we seen, we have seen and testify and announced to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us. We have seen him, we have heard him. have fellowship with him. in verse one says we have touched him. So he's Hey, this was a real life human being, this man Jesus. then in verse He starts if if. If this this, but if this then this. Right. And he's gonna sit do a series of three. And what he's he's comparing and contrasting those who legitimately say matters, and I have confessed it before the Father. ⁓ And talking about the process. And he's talking about those who are in the fellowship or in the light, those who are not in fellowship or water. Walking in the dark. So he's addressing some he's not addressing your day-to-day operation of whether you sin or not. He's addressing, you the ones ⁓ who that sin's even real or that sin even matters. Right. And so, six, if say that we have fellowship with him and yet are and yet keep on in the darkness, ⁓ we are lying and practicing the truth. So there's the first if then. He's saying, hey, if you're if you're say you have fellowship, but you're a sinful lifestyle, you're That's not true. But then the but if. Verse 7 is the but if. So these are the he's comparing those are saved and those who are not saved. But if we walk in the light, and as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses us from all So there he's saying. Yeah, if we walk in the light we say we have fellowship and we we are in fact in fellowship with him. And even there, and I didn't read this because we were going to come to this, but this is one of the things that says the blood of Jesus, his cleanses us from all sin. There, there one of all sin is cleaned by Jesus, even in this in section right here. And it and in it's it's throughout here. The next if but is if we say we do bear the guilt of sin, we're deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. So there's people that say sin's no big deal. There is no guilt. Right. That's compared and contrast to verse nine, the but if. But if we confess our sins, in other words, we agree God, sin is a real and it's it's a real big deal, and we do bear the guilt of it, ⁓ he is faithful and or faithful and just, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteous. So so that's ⁓ there. He's hey, those who say that no sin's no denying that sin, those are saying, Yeah, sin's real, and Jesus Christ is answer. Yep. And then ten, and then into verse two, ⁓ chapter two, if we say Say we have not sinned, so these are the folks that are saying we don't even sin. never sinned, so it's no big deal. I don't need Jesus. If ⁓ we say we don't sin, we make him a liar, and his word is not within not in us. So if say we're good, but we're not walking good, that's not good. we say we sin, but there's no real consequence, we don't bear guilt, that's not good. That's eight and nine. And then 10 and verse 2 2:1 is saying, Yeah, well, we don't sin. ⁓ saying, Yeah, you're a lie, but if Mine has a that says, My little children, I'm these things to you so that you may not sin. But out but here's the but if. So if, first 10, chapter 2, But if anyone does sin, we have an with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous one. So ⁓ if we do we have Jesus. Okay. Which brings me a of points here. If first John one nine was the method by which we were to be forgiven, this verse two, wouldn't have said. He would have said, Hey, but if do sin, just make sure you remember, ⁓ don't forget it, you can confess it. Yeah. He doesn't. He says, If you do sin, you have an advocate. His name is Jesus. Right. So This if but if he's contrasting those who have left the church who were not believers were really smart and could could talk a really big game versus ones that are still in the church and are believers that say, we there is sin. ⁓ Yes, I'm of sin, and Jesus' blood cleanses me and he's the answer of sin, ⁓ and I in the light ⁓ and I fellowship. So that's that. I'll pull out one more from this because I want to sh I want to prove That interpretation of first John 1 9 wrong using this. And I've used it, I use verse 1 8. 8, the the f the if before the but if is first one nine. I will you, I'm not reading scripture, those who are but I do not bear the guilt of my sin. I don't. He did for us. did that. Two thousand years ago there was a man, a real flesh and blood man, who bore the guilt of my sin. So me saying that, if I if I this as just instruction out of context, first John one eight, it says, if we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. So just said I don't bear the guilt my sin. So now I deceiving myself and the truth not in me? ⁓ No, because I on the other side of this if but if thing I have went to the cross, to Jesus, and received grace that he freed me from. Yeah. With within that. So So yeah, I we forget and we think we get into this religious mindset that wants to compare and contrast and and generate to do list, I gotta do this, this, and this in order for approval, in order to be accepted, in order to be righteous, in order to be forgiven, I have to do this list of things. And that that's other in the world. That is the old testament law and it just can't be Right. it's a free gift given to us by what Christ did the cross. And his burial, resurrection, and ascension, those fill the new covenant so that now I am freely, fully forever. Right. ⁓ And now can come confident before the throne's grace. I can now achieve excellence. I can it I'm I'm released to forgive others, to brotherly to have affection, all these things that were in that list and other lists, but the one I've ⁓ you know, Second Peter for one. But anyway, that's both kind the technical aspect of as far as what is actually being said in context in First John, why first John written and how that's addressing And then we've also covered just scratched the surface of number of ⁓ verses that directly say that of blood of Jesus we're forgiven. And righteous and holy and those kinds of things and we've read of those. I love Hebrews ten one through four 'cause it talks about near n it frees us from even having a consciousness of sin. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah. We are designed this is this is free. You don't see this in your bill as twenty seven minutes into this, but we are such that here's a law. A law says ⁓ This is the in a severe paraphrase probably. ⁓ But whatever we worship, become like. ⁓ Yeah. Whatever we focus on, we become like. Whatever we glorify or orbit around, become like. Jes the Old Testament told ⁓ the Israelites, of the prophets, said, This is he goes, go tell these guys. They can't see they worship idols that have eyes but can't see. They can't hear because worship idols that ears, but their ears can't hear. Yeah. So in other words, whatever you worship, you become like. First John chapter three, we won't go there, he says we will be like him when we see him. an again, the idea that whatever we see, we become like. second Corinthians eighteen says, as we behold his glory, he takes us or moves us from glory to glory. So that's part of the New Testament mechanism to becoming like Christ is just to behold his glory. We see his glory in his word. as we behold his glory, then we will become him. So we want to be sin focused because that traps us in sin. Yeah. We don't want to be sin conscious because that traps us in sin. We want to be Christ conscious, righteousness We want to be of his holiness that has won us given us. You know, in our Ephesians. study, Ephesians 1 4, we talked about we were chosen to be holy. Yeah. And holy is not is not moral. I I I'll talk talked about this in Ephesians. Maybe I'll just say it then, but if I was to say what's holy, you'd say, or what's the opposite of holy, you'd say, well, ⁓ immoral. You not saying you would, but some people would. or some sinful thing. That's not true. opposite of ⁓ holy is ordinary. Jesus Christ has set apart as a believer to be extraordinary. Yeah. And set you apart for his purpose and for you belong to him. So That's interesting. I've never ⁓ thought of that. I would not have answered ordinary. Yeah. That's why I answered it for you. I didn't want you to didn't want you to, you know, be and interesting. Ten million Because I thought apart. ⁓ Holy is set But I've not thought of the opposite as well. The opposite is just ordinary. Interesting. When when the the around the throne or the four creatures are saying holy, holy, holy day and night, they're saying you're extraordinary. ⁓ You are your own unique. self. is nothing ⁓ you. ⁓ are the all the things that holy infers. then when he sets us aside, remember it's by his choice. So as saw ⁓ Hebrews ten, Hebrews fourteen that we just read, and we also saw in Ephesians one four, there's a by his will or by his choosing. He chooses to set apart. And holiness to answers the question to whom do you belong and for what purpose. So he has set us apart his own, for purposes, and nothing is ordinary about that. So Not John one nine confession sin. It doesn't relationships never our fellowships ⁓ never affected by we do of who Christ is. therefore there we traded his for our our sin. There's no more guilt, no more shame on how we act. yes. Yes, and there's a flip side of that i in that because we're gonna read we're gonna study ⁓ here in a little bit ⁓ Ephesians four. or maybe by the time we release it, we've already released Ephesians four, the second part of it. there a fruit that that produces. Right. So yeah, you your righteousness is not d by anything you do not. Yeah. No, your rights are not effective. And the more you surrender and receive that, now the produces fruit of righteousness, which is all these things that we talked about in Second Peter and we'll talk about Ephesians three four and five and six, as we're ongoing here. But but forever. Yeah, so so you are correct. Some people will that wrong and go, I can do whatever I want. Right. Well you have been set free for freedom. By no means. That's even a problem. It's silly. ⁓ Go Yeah. Romans says And and we'll look Ephesians, it talks about being deceived and with empty words. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? He'd just come off of Romans four and five, which paints this super awesome picture of grace, and he goes, He Well, does that mean we can just do whatever we want? Well, yes and you are free, ⁓ but on the hand, sin kills, steals, and Right. Sin is bondage. You've been set free. Why would you return back to bondage? Exactly. ⁓ So yeah, we we have righteousness and therefore surrender, the Spirit will ⁓ produce fruit of righteousness coming out us. Yeah. ⁓ Yeah. But right. there's nothing else to Right. My sin problem solved. I'm free from the power of sin. Right. I'm dead to sin, alive God. I am righteous, holy, flawless, blameless, quote, to quote 122. And ⁓ and those, you know, I've been kind for last ⁓ months or years been just going, you know, he did it. I just to him, I can't believe you did that. Right. How what you through and you did it and and it can't undone. ⁓ Yeah. It's one of those tragedies that something happens, you go, if I just hadn't done this, but I can't undo it. He was not a tragedy from our from our perspective. I mean it looks like a tragedy, but he saved us by giving for us and it can't be undone. ⁓ Yeah. ⁓ just Yeah. And trying didn't ⁓ Yeah, no, didn't work. couldn't explain why sometimes when I just quit ⁓ fighting whatever sin or it like Okay, it just kinda went away. Mm-hmm. because you quit attention to it, ⁓ you focusing on it. Yep. You unconsciously the that says the spiritual law that says we become like whatever we glorify or worship or focus on. Yeah. and just let it focus on him and we become like him. Yeah. That's where the power is. Yeah. Not in the law. No, not in the law. It's from the inside out Yep. ⁓ Okay. I know that that I know you could probably speak for hours and hours and really Yeah, I probably did. Well, thirty-five minutes. Not too bad. You I'm hoping I know the question that this I saw I read her question and she wanted, you a quick and easy way to summarize it. Well, you gotta something in there, and I'm just like, you know, yeah, that that's not Christian instruction. Yeah. That's a of the Gnostic way thinking and it's a compare and contrast between those who have fellowship, those who don't have fellowship. Yeah. Those who walk in the light, those who walk in the darkness. ⁓ Yeah. Those who say they don't really any guilt sin and those who have confessed their sins. Right. Those who say they don't sin and those who say say that, yeah, sometimes I do, and I have an advocate in his name is Jesus. ⁓ Yep. That that we should have just done that and that's 20 seconds, right? So we got we'll cut that out. We'll just we'll just that and that'll be it. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Randy. 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