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#243 Lifting Life's Greatest Load (Part 2 - Clearing Your Conscience with God) · The OneCry Podcast

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How often should I come to the Lord with confession and repentance?
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Well, all the time, as often as I sin.
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One man said that the Christian life is not a matter of sinless perfection, but of immediate
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confession.
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Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and
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reports.
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Well, welcome to the One Cry Podcast.
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I'm Kyle Reno with my buddy, Bill Ellef over here, bringing the truth, man, how are you
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doing today?
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Man, I'm good, my friend, and great to see you, great to be with all of our listeners
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and partners at One Cry, and Kyle, we're tracking on some really heavy, really practical,
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helpful stuff right now because we're talking about something that nobody really ever deals
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with much.
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We're talking about sin.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Well, you know, and I think that, you know, honestly, with what we talk about every week,
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and I love being around you because you're a life-giving, full-of-life guy, and we lean
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into, honestly, truth that a lot of times is heavy and hard, but just so that the listeners
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know, I think most of our people probably just listen to this, but we also have a video
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version that many watch as well, just so y'all know that we are cut-ups.
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I am, in between these recordings, I am bringing a little grabber hand into the video screen
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and I'm acting like I'm scratching my chin and picking my nose, and it gets Bill every
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time, the best part about it is, every time I do it, he can't control it.
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I told him earlier, I said, you know, you're just a kid from Reno Street, I mean, that's
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all you are in Alabama, and you can take the boy out of Alabama, you can't take the Alabama
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out of the boy, I'm afraid.
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That's a fact, that's a fact.
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Well, man, listen, you did walk us into it, personally, just sitting in Psalm 32 last
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week with you, and I feel in what David felt, because I think everybody has felt what David
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was feeling in that moment, and then the blessing that can come through freedom and confession
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being set apart, sanctified from your mess-ups, or your missed moments, or those things, which
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is a non-negotiable for a real revival, moments of redemption.
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And you know, God has nothing to gain by keeping you down.
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When his hand, which David talks about in Psalm 32, he said, man, I'm blessed when the
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hand of God is lifted from me, because the hand of God's conviction is heavy.
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Guilt is heavy.
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Appropriate guilt is heavy, and God wants to lift that off your soul, and you know the
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blessing of his salvation, the joy of his salvation, but you've got to cooperate.
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And I think that's what we're going to talk about today, Kyle, is how do I cooperate with
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God in dealing with my sin?
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And there's two arenas where we sin, and that is our sin before God, and then our sin before
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others.
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So there's this vertical sins that we commit against God, and there are these horizontal
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sins that we commit against others.
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And we referenced Paul's statement in Acts 24-16 last week, that Paul said, I constantly,
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continually am exercising myself to try to maintain a blameless conscience before God
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and before man, vertically and horizontally.
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So today, we're going to talk about how to maintain that vertically, right?
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How to make sure there's nothing between us and God.
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Now, and the passage we're going to look at, if you are sitting where you can open your
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Bible, you can open up to 1 John 1, it's just a classic passage on this, and we're going
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to look at it here in a minute.
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But here's the deal, we've got a huge problem, and the huge problem is related to our sin.
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We were designed to live in perfect fellowship with God, all of us have sinned and fallen
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short of the glory that God intended for us.
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And the wages of sin is always, whenever we commit it, is death, which means separation
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from the life of God.
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We don't have a life of God.
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So here I am, even as a believer, when I walk away, when I get distracted and I say,
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oh, I'm going to go do that, I'm going to follow that false God, you know, pleasure
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or power, materialism or reputation or whatever it is, I'm the one separating myself from
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God and everything flows from the presence of the Lord.
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Everything is valuable, it's found there.
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So how do I deal with that sin that has pulled me away from the presence of God?
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And you can try different solutions if you want to.
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You can try to balance the scales.
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A lot of people do that, say, well, I'm sinful and I've done some stuff, but I'm just going
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to try to do some good stuff over here and maybe, you know, my good will outweigh my
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bad.
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That's not the way.
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You can't ever fix that.
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You can't ever balance that.
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Some can say, well, I'm just going to be sincere about it, but they don't get honest and deal
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with their sin before God.
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That won't work.
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You can be sincere and just be sincerely wrong.
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Some can just, some like people just act like it doesn't matter.
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You know, so yeah, I, yeah, I yelled at my wife and, but you know, she'll get over it.
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It's no big deal and, uh, but what you don't realize is you sin against God first.
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All sin is sin against God because it's saying, God, I'm going to be in control.
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I'm, I'm, I'm going to take charge.
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I don't think you're capable of leading my life, so I'm going to do what I want to do.
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And that's a, that's a direct affront to God, right?
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I mean, it's a slap in his face.
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He loves us and that grieves him.
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It grieves him.
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And so we can't just ignore that.
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We can't just walk away from that.
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And also it matters to other people, right?
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And there's a way to deal with that.
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And there's only one remedy and that remedy is, is coming to Christ and what he did on
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the cross of Calvary to forgive us and to cleanse us from our sin.
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Now, let me, let me read a great passage here.
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It's in the book of first John, not John, but first John, the epistle.
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And he says in verse five of chapter one, this is the message that we've heard from
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him.
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And we announced to you that God is light and in him, there's no darkness at all.
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If we say that we have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we're just lying
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and we're not practicing the truth.
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But if we walk in the light, as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one
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another and the blood of Jesus, his son cleanses us from all sin, beautiful.
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If we say that we have no sin, or we're deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
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But if we confess, and we're going to see what that means here in a minute, if we confess
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our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from
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all unrighteousness.
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And if we say that we've not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.
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My little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you may not sin, but he knows
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we're going to sin.
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He says, if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
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And he himself is the propitiation, a big 10 cent theological word that just means the
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payment, the covering.
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He's the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole
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world.
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Now how do we resolve our sin problem?
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We all have sin, we're all going to mess up.
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We resolve it by faith in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and what he's done, by trusting
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in Christ, not by working at ourselves, not by trying to justify it, not by trying to
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say, well, I sinned 10 times, I've got to do something good 10 times.
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No, it's by coming and saying, as the songwriter said, nothing in my hands I bring simply to
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the cross I cling.
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Lord you paid the penalty for my sin on the cross and I'm trusting you to cleanse me,
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to forgive me, and to help me.
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And it comes by this honest, open transparency about our sin.
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And the Bible calls this confession.
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Now let me tell you what confession is not.
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Confession is not saying, well, God, I know I did something, but you should have seen
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what they've done.
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That's not confession.
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Confession is not, Lord, I did something wrong, so I'm going to run around the block
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10 times to rectify what I've done.
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I'm going to go to church, I'm not going to miss Sunday, I'm going to read my Bible every
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day, so that's not what confession is.
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Confession literally means to say the same thing as, that's what the Greek word means.
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In other words, we say the same thing about our sin that God says about our sin.
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And we see our sin like God sees it.
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For instance, here's a guy that, you know, has committed a murder, and he's in the courtroom,
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and everybody says, that's Professor Plum, he killed her in the library with the wrench.
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If you've ever played the old game Clue.
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Anyway, and Professor Plum says, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he lies about it, he covers
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it, he blames others.
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Confession is, he gets up in the witness box, and he says, I did it.
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I agree.
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And it was grievous, it was terrible, and so I just admit my sin.
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There are some hallmarks, though, of true confession.
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And they're found here in this passage and in other passages that we need to understand.
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First of all, our confession must be honest.
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It's just got to be full-blown honest.
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Don't cover, don't hide, don't play games, don't give 50% of the confession, and hide.
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You know, the Bible says in Proverbs 28, 13, he who covers his sin will never prosper,
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but he who confesses and forsakes his sin will always find mercy.
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God is waiting to give you mercy, but you got to get honest, right?
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God hates hypocrisy.
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And that's why John comes in verse 6 and verse 8, and he says, if you say that you haven't
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sinned, you're just a liar.
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I mean, John didn't mince words about this.
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He didn't say, well, you're not nice, or you are, you know, doing a little prevarication.
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He says, no, you're just a liar.
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If you think that you haven't sinned, you're a liar, right?
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Let me just help us with this right now.
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How many of you, and I know some are watching by video, some are listening by audio, but
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I want, wherever you are, I want you to raise your hand.
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If you are a sinner, would you just raise your hand?
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Just so you can see it.
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I don't care if anybody else is in the car.
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Just raise and keep one hand on the steering wheel, raise the other hand.
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How many of you sinned yesterday, right?
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And I promise you, if you will sit before the Lord and say, Lord, like the psalmist
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said, search my heart and know my ways, turn on the light in me and see if there's any
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wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting, Psalm 139, I promise you the Holy Spirit will
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gently and lovingly show you that all of us are sinners.
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It's constant, and so we need constant confession, right?
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When did David get honest about his sin with Bathsheba?
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When he got honest.
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It says, we read it last week in Psalm 32, 5, when I got honest and I acknowledged my
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sin fully, completely to the Lord.
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That's when he found forgiveness.
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Now, let me just pause right here.
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You may be going down the road, but I want to tell you something.
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That guilt that you're feeling, that pressure that you're feeling, which is a wonderful
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conviction, the physical and emotional and spiritual deterioration that you're feeling,
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it may even be leading to what you are describing as depression in your life, that may stem
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from a sin or a series of sins that's undealt with in your life, that's not always the cause
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for depression, but it very well can be and is often in our lives.
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You're not going to get that resolved until you get honest, until you come clean.
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I'm thinking about, I've dealt with so many men about this, and I'm thinking about a guy
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in Houston, Texas who came to me one day, and he said, Bill, we were there at a meeting
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in his church, and he said, Bill, he said, I had a, I think it was an eight or ten-year
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affair with this gal, and my wife didn't know about it.
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She still didn't know about it, and we finally broke it off.
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But I still feel this weight, and I said, well, have you confessed that to God?
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He said, well, no, not really.
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I said, well, that's where we begin.
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You just got to get honest with God, and then you got to get honest with somebody else.
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We'll talk about that next week.
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But you have to be honest.
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Secondly, you need to be specific.
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He says here in this passage, when I confessed my sins to the Lord, plural, he didn't say,
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when I confess the fact that I'm a sinner, you know, now, I want to tell you something.
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In this arena, generality is the language of pride.
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Well, I know I'm a sinner.
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Yeah, I know I'm wrong.
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Everybody does that.
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Well, that's just the language of pride.
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That's the language of covering.
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That's the language of hiding.
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But what God is looking for is honesty and specificity, which is a word, right?
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I'm specific about my sin.
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Lord, I yelled at my wife.
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I stole those tools from work.
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I've been cheating on my taxes.
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I lied to that guy.
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I exaggerated, which is just nothing but a lie.
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I gave a better impression of myself at work than is really true.
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I sinned.
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That's just sin.
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So it's not coming to the Lord.
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I don't know, but I think the little prayer we pray sometimes, Lord, forgive me of all
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of my sins.
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Now, the reality is because of the cross, he has, right?
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If you're a believer and you come to Christ and you received his forgiveness, he has forgiven
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you of your sins.
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But you see, what happens is we have these daily pulling away, daily distractions from
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the Lord, and God wants us to recognize that daily and make adjustments and repentance.
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Repentance is just seeing my sin like God sees it and being willing to make an adjustment
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in my life, and we need to be constant repenters.
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So when was the last time you just got specific with the Lord?
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I want to tell you something practically.
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A simple way that I have done this in my life for 60 years, when I was 17, not quite 60
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but 50-something years, when I was 17 and I got right with the Lord, I'd wandered for
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several years.
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I came home and just got honest with my dad and my mom because I've been lying to them.
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And my dad, who is a wonderful pastor, said, Bill, I want you to take this legal pad and
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just write the word sinless on top and put a number one and just say, Lord, turn on the
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light, show me anything, and just write it down, don't argue with him, don't make excuses.
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If he brings something to your mind, just write it down.
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And I spent a long time making that list.
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I came back and I had seven pages, front and back, legal pad, just junk.
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And you see, all of that was in my life.
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Now you say, Bill, why did you have to write all that down?
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You know what that did for me?
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Number one, it identified what was going on.
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Number two, it broke my heart.
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When I saw that, it brought me to the end of myself, and I was weeping by the end of
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that.
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I said, oh God, I'm so sorry.
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And I see now why my life was such a mess, why I was so depressed all the time, because
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I had all this sin, all this guilt in my heart from these things I was doing that was wrong.
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There's something about being specific that really humbles us.
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There's something about going to your wife and saying, you know, what I did just a minute
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ago and the way I did it and what I said, that was wrong.
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And I need to ask your forgiveness.
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Would you forgive me?
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That's the language of humility.
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And you know what?
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God gives grace to the humble, but he opposes the proud.
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There's a guy who would go to his wife and say, you know, if you felt bad about what
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I said, well, I'm sorry.
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You know, that's the language of pride.
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That's saying, well, you've got a problem with it.
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I may have had a little sin, but you're the one who has a big problem.
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Well, that's just the language of pride.
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And God opposes the proud.
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He resists the proud, but he will pour out grace on the humble.
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So our confession needs to be honest.
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It needs to be specific, and it needs to be continual, continual.
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When I confessed my sins, that indicates that we have to do this over and over and
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over again in our lives, right?
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How often should I come to the Lord with confession and repentance?
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Well, all the time, as often as I sin.
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One man said that the Christian life is not a matter of sinless perfection, but of immediate
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confession, immediate confession.
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How blessed is the man who has such a tender heart?
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He's going to sin.
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We're all going to sin in this life, hopefully less and less and less as the years go by.
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But we're going to sin.
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How blessed is a man who doesn't take him two weeks or two months or two years to realize
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it, but he immediately realizes, and he has the humility and the honesty to immediately
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confess.
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And here's one more thing before we close, Kyle, and that's this.
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Our confession needs to be complete.
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You know, we have a knack of quitting before the job gets done, and we don't want to deal
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with the last 10%.
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And that's probably the part that God wants us to see more than anything else.
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So David, again, praise his prayer, Psalm 139, 23, search me, search me and know me.
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I mean, go all the way to the bottom, Lord, in my life.
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I don't want anything unturned, and it's not unturned.
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And this is why, Kyle, he says in this passage that God is light.
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He's light.
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And if you let him have his way, he's just going to turn the light on all of us.
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Now, one more thing, Kyle, and we're not spending a lot of time on this part, but it's the best.
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He says if we walk in the light, see us in the light, we have fellowship with each other,
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and the blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses us from all sin.
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I mean, could there be a more blessed sentence in the world?
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The blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses.
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Later in verse 9, he says, if you confess your sin, God's faithful.
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He will forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
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So Kyle, the cleansing is waiting.
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God is anxious.
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I mean, he's like a father who looks at his parent's son, and he's just waiting for you
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to come back.
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He says, just come on, boy, get on, be specific, be complete, just come on, and I will forgive
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you.
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I've already paid the ultimate price on the cross to take care of this, but you got to
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cooperate with me.
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Man, so rich, Bill.
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Man, I'm thinking, you know, you can't run from yourself, and I think most of us are
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aware to some degree of what our struggle is right now currently, what sin is between
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us and the Lord.
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What's this habitual, besetting tendency, maybe thing that you continually return to
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in your life, and so I think if we just linger long enough, the Spirit of God makes that
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pretty clear to us what that is, but I do think where the breakdown happens, and one
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of the biggest breakthroughs I had specifically, personally, in Confession of Sin, is getting
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to the place that you're willing to name it what it is, to be specific, and to get, I
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remember you've heard, I've shared this story numerous times on this podcast with our listeners,
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but I remember in the course of a fast where the Lord turned the light on, and a time on
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my face before Him, it started showing me motivations, and things about pride, and it
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got to the place of pride in my preaching.
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Pride, pride, and I had to confess those things as was revealed to me, and get specific about
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it.
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Like, hey Lord, I want to be seen in that.
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I see the wickedness of my heart behind that.
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As the light's on, I'm just taking it from what God is showing me, and I'm bringing it
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right back to Him, going, I agree with you.
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I agree with you, Lord.
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That is not of you.
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That is sin.
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That is born of my flesh.
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I am confessing that, and the beauty of that, I'm telling you, if you learn, and I think
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there's breakthroughs where we realize the goodness of God.
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God doesn't stiff arm.
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That is what God has felt so near, when we're honest, it just closes that gap.
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I think so many people are living with this big gap.
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There's these things in between you and God, and you know about it a little, you're as
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much so as possible right now, and the Spirit of God is made aware, God knows about it fully,
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but you're just sort of circling it, and if you get specific, man, you just close that
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gap around with the Lord, and His promises, it cleanses.
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It's not like the labors, you go back to Psalm 32, I confess my sin, and He forgave me.
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And I love 1 John 1.9, He is faithful and just.
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In other words, God's not being, He's not bypassing justice.
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He's dealt with this on the cross, so His justice was on the cross, so your sin is being
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paid for, but it's being paid for by Christ.
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And there's something people say, well, you know, I've got this besetting sin that I just
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keep having to struggle, we all have those, and Satan knows that, so he keeps tempting
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us there.
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Do I need to keep coming back and back about that, you know?
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Well yeah, and you know why?
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Because if we keep coming back and back, there's this point where we say, okay, Lord, this
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is just not worth it.
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This is just, I'm paying a price, and what I am doing to Christ and the reputation of
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Christ in my family is just not worth it.
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So the humble, pliable, godly man is the man who's just a daily repenter.
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He's just a daily repenter.
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And he sees God's, and accepts God's evaluation about his sin, and is willing to make adjustments.
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Man, I tell you, I remember a meaningful message that Early in my walk with the Lord, John
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Piper was preaching about this very thing, and he's talking about when David is confronted
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by Nathan in that moment, and honestly, breaks, and we see it in Psalm 32, 51, this repentance
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psalm, and the Lord has forgiven you, and when you read it, and he was saying that message,
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it's sort of appalling.
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What do you mean?
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Like, he forgives you?
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Like, shouldn't he have to pay the price?
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And this is the statement I'll never forget.
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And God did not sweep David's sin under the rug.
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He crucified it.
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And I thought, man, that is so true.
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Why doesn't this sweeper sin under the rug?
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He didn't find a way to hide it.
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He crucified it in the sun.
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So that's why he takes it.
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It makes you love him all the more, doesn't it?
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It just makes you, you know, I just could just weep thinking, yes, my sin, it's terrible.
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It's grievous.
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It's, I mean, you know, if we put everybody's sin up on a big screen, and everybody could
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see it.
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I mean, I would be so saddened and embarrassed by that.
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But it's there before God, and he sees it, and he crucified it in his time.
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And so, Lord, we love you.
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Praise into it, Bill.
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I mean, take some time here and help our listeners start this.
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I know we got more parts in this journey here.
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Yeah, well, I want to say two things.
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One, we reminded them last week of this little booklet, Lifting Life's Greatest Load.
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We'll put a link in the notes on the OneCry podcast, where you can find this.
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You can get it on Amazon or at BillOft.org.
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It's not on our OneCry site, but it'll just help you.
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And it may become a tool that you use to help other people.
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Just a quick little small read that gifts is very practical.
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But number two, how could you hear this today and not spend some time before the Lord?
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And I want to pray for that with you right now.
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So I'm going to ask us all to just bow our heads, close our eyes if you're able.
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And I wonder if maybe it's time for you to just turn off the podcast and just say, okay,
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God, search me.
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Search me.
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Maybe it's time to get a blank page on your computer or on your notepad and write sin
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list on the top.
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I've done that, honestly, for 60 years, hundreds and hundreds of times.
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And put a number one and just say, Holy Spirit, show me.
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I mean, honestly, you're going to be shocked at what He sees as the problem more than what
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you see.
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And so I wonder right now if you'd be willing to say to Him, Lord, I'm going to do business
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with you.
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I'm going to do business.
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Maybe you're in the middle of work or something and you need to set aside time tonight or
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early in the morning, or maybe you need to take a day and just take your Bible and notebook
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and fast and pray and get away with the Lord, whatever it is.
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But don't neglect to cooperate with God in what He's saying to you.
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That would come under the category of quenching the Holy Spirit when He's speaking to you
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and despising what He's telling you, which 1 Thessalonians 5 talks about.
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So don't quench the Spirit.
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He's working in your heart.
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He's calling you to repentance.
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He's calling you to confession.
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He wants you to get everything right between you and Him.
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And Father, I pray for all of us that we wouldn't neglect to deal with our sin.
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Lord, it's just there and it's a part of our lives.
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And Lord, it's the beautiful thing.
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It can be the most wonderful tool in the world to bring us back to you.
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It's a constant reminder of our frailty and our desperate need for a Savior, for a forgiver,
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for a cleanser.
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And so I pray, Father, that we would not let the devil win the day here and that we see
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some sin, but we just don't deal with it honestly, specifically, and repentantly, and the devil
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just wins the day and we just wallow in our sin.
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I pray, Father, that what he means for evil, you would work together for good.
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And Father, we would complete the task of coming to you just in humility and honesty.
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And Father, then you do the wonderful completion of forgiveness and cleansing.
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So Lord, I pray for that kind of work.
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I pray you'd bring personal revival to some people as a result of their cooperation with
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your Spirit today.
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We pray that in your precious name.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Well, thanks so much, Bill, for leading us into that.
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And I do encourage our listeners, don't just hear these things.
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Take next steps.
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Continue.
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Sit in the presence of the Lord and cooperate with what he's wanting to do in you and share
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it with somebody.
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If it's me, if it's speaking to you, it'll speak to somebody else.
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And Kyle, one more word.
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Just like a preacher, one more word.
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Next week, we're going to talk about the last part of this, and that's clearing our conscience
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with others.
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And there are a lot of people that need what we're going to talk about, and it's going
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to be, we're going to answer the 10 most asked questions people have asked us over the years.
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But what do I do about this?
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How do I clear this up?
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So don't miss that next week.
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That's right.
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Don't miss that.
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Share this with someone.
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We're so grateful for you, and we're praying for our listeners specifically, that God would
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meet you in a personal way, and where he's placed you, that you'd be the first that walks
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that line and that path into the presence of God and personal revival, and others will
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follow you.
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We look forward to being back with you next week.
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Amen.