0:09 1-10 gives us another insight into the
0:16 Christmas behold what manner of love the
0:19 father hath bestowed upon
0:22 us that we should be called the children of
0:23 of
0:27 God therefore the world knoweth us not
0:30 because it knew him not
0:34 beloved now are we the children of God
0:37 and it does not yet appear what we shall
0:41 be but we know that when he shall appear
0:44 we shall be like him for we shall see
0:46 him as he
0:50 is and every man that hath this hope in
0:55 him purifieth himself even as he is
1:00 pure whosoever practices sin
1:04 transgresseth also the law for sin is
1:06 the transgression of the
1:09 law and ye know that he was manifested
1:14 to take away our sins and in him is no
1:18 sin whosoever abideth in him does not practice
1:20 practice
1:24 sin whosoever practices sin hath not
1:26 seen him neither known
1:29 him little children let no man deceive
1:32 you he he that doeth righteousness is
1:35 righteous even as he is
1:37 righteous he that committeth sin is of
1:41 the devil for the devil sinth from the
1:43 beginning for this purpose the Son of
1:45 God was manifested that he might destroy
1:47 the works of the
1:52 devil whosoever is born of God does not practice
1:53 practice
1:57 sin for his seed remaineth in him and he
2:01 cannot practice sin because he is born
2:04 of God in this the children of God are
2:06 manifest and the children of the
2:10 devil whosoever doeth not righteousness
2:15 is not of God neither he that loveth not his
2:16 his
2:19 brother Jesus Christ was
2:23 manifested to take away our
2:26 sins and you
2:30 know that he was manifested
2:33 to take away our
2:37 sins this statement that the Apostle
2:39 John makes in his first epistle chapter
2:42 3 and verse
2:45 5 is one of four statements that he
2:49 makes concerning the promise of
2:53 Christmas in chapter 1 in verse two
2:58 Christmas promises life the life was
3:01 manifested in in chapter 3 and verse
3:04 8 for this purpose the Son of God was
3:07 manifested that he might destroy the
3:10 works of the devil the promise of
3:15 victory in chapter 4 in verse 9 in this
3:19 was manifested the love of God toward us
3:21 that God sent his only begotten son into
3:23 the world that we might live through him
3:24 the promise of
3:28 love and here in chapter 3 and verse 5
3:30 the promise of forgiveness
3:32 he's talking about
3:35 Sin it's interesting to note that many
3:38 people today are talking about
3:41 Sin the word sin has come back into our
3:45 popular vocabulary once again a leading
3:47 psychiatrist writes a book entitled
3:54 sin and sin is something that all of us
3:57 have trouble with in one way or
4:00 another is not a person listening to my
4:03 voice right now who does not have to
4:06 confess that he has a problem with
4:09 sin and this is
4:12 understandable because of what sin
4:16 is and because of where sin came from
4:19 and because of what sin does sin is much
4:22 more than a word in the
4:25 dictionary the word that John uses for
4:28 sin is the word that means to miss the
4:30 mark this is one of of the favorite
4:32 words for sin in the Bible to miss the
4:35 mark God said here's the target you
4:37 ought to hit and we hit down here
4:41 somewhere and we miss the mark for all
4:45 have sinned and come short of the glory
4:46 of God but he tells us there's another
4:49 word for sin in verse four it's
4:50 transgression of the
4:53 law sin not only means to miss the mark
4:56 but sin means to go over the mark that
4:59 God has drawn God says here is a line
5:01 you don't go there any farther than this
5:11 lawlessness sin came from the
5:13 devil that would that's what makes it
5:16 such a difficult dangerous thing he that
5:19 practices sin is of the
5:22 devil sin is not
5:26 weakness sin is not just some kind of
5:30 disease in our system sin is an ingrained
5:32 ingrained
5:37 inborn Rebellion against
5:40 God and it leads to
5:42 death it led to the death of our Lord
5:44 Jesus who was
5:47 sinless no one here can afford to joke
5:49 about Sin laugh about
5:52 Sin it's so easy for us to say well now
5:55 this is the way I am this is my
5:59 lifestyle that word lifestyle covers a
6:01 mul multitude of
6:05 sins now you can't change my lifestyle
6:07 well God will change your lifestyle
6:09 someday and you'll discover that
6:13 lifestyle may have been death
6:16 style what has the Lord Jesus Christ
6:21 done for us to solve the sin problem the
6:24 basic problem in the world today the
6:26 biggest problem in the world today is
6:29 the sin problem at the heart of every
6:32 problem is the problem of the heart and
6:34 the Heart Is deceitful above all things
6:39 and desperately wicked who can know it
6:41 what has Jesus Christ done to help you
6:44 and me solve the sin problem well
6:47 according to First John 3:
6:50 1-10 our Lord performs three very wonderful
6:52 wonderful
6:55 Ministries to help us solve the sin
6:58 problem and if you and I will just let
7:01 him do what he wants to do in our
7:05 lives we can have Victory now what has
7:07 our Lord Jesus Christ done and what does
7:10 he do well verse 5 gives us his first
7:14 Ministry he died for
7:18 us and you know that he was manifested
7:22 to bear away our
7:25 sins the word that's translated here
7:28 take away is the same word that John the
7:33 Baptist used used in John 1: 29 Behold
7:37 the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin
7:40 of the world so the first Ministry our
7:44 Lord performed to solve that sin
7:48 problem was the ministry of Dying For
7:53 Us you see his death really explains his
7:56 birth if you begin at the manger you had
7:58 better end up at the
8:01 cross if you begin with the Shepherds
8:03 you'd better end up with the shepherd
8:06 giving his life for the Sheep if you
8:09 begin with people bowing low at the
8:12 manger you'd better come to the Cross
8:15 where our lord said it is finished his
8:18 death explains his
8:23 life Thou shalt call his name
8:28 Jesus why for he shall save his people
8:30 from their sins
8:32 when Mary was rejoicing at what the Lord
8:36 had done for us she says and my spirit
8:46 savior when dear Godly Zacharias the
8:49 father of John the Baptist was praising
8:52 the Lord for the birth of his
8:56 son he mentions the fact that the Savior
9:00 has come listen to what he says in uh
9:03 Luke and chapter
9:07 1 and his father Zacharias was filled
9:09 with the Holy Spirit and prophesied
9:13 saying blessed be the Lord God of Israel
9:17 for he hath visited and redeemed his
9:21 people and hath raised up an Horn of
9:26 salvation for us in the house of his
9:28 servant David he's talking about a
9:31 savior the Angels said that when the
9:33 Angels appeared to those frightened
9:36 Shepherds they said' don't be afraid we
9:39 bring you good tidings good news Evangel
9:42 of great joy which shall be to all the
9:46 people for unto you is born this day a
9:50 savior which is Christ the lord when
9:52 Mary and Joseph brought the little baby
9:55 Jesus into the temple for his
9:59 presentation that Godly Old Saint Simeon
10:01 met them here was a man who had been
10:04 waiting for the consolation of Israel
10:06 and he took the Lord Jesus up in his
10:09 arms and he blessed God and said
10:14 Lord now letest thou thy servant depart
10:19 in peace according to Thy word for mine
10:23 eyes have seen thy
10:27 salvation his birth is explained by his
10:30 death and he was
10:34 manifested he came to us that he might
10:38 be able to die for us now need I tell a
10:40 congregation like this that only Jesus
10:44 Christ could die for us there was no
10:48 other good enough to pay the price for
10:53 sin he only could unlock the Gate of
10:57 Heaven and let us in John tells us why
11:00 only the Lord Jesus could take away our
11:07 sins chapter 3: 7 he is righteous
11:13 chapter 3: 5 in him is no sin chapter
11:19 3:3 he is pure now you cannot point to
11:21 any human being on the face of this
11:26 Earth and say he is pure she is pure he
11:30 is righteous in him is no
11:35 sin only Jesus Christ is the sinless one
11:37 he was sinless in his birth therefore
11:40 that Holy thing which shall be born of
11:43 thee shall be called The Son of God and
11:46 he was not sinless in his birth because
11:49 his mother was holy he was sinless in
11:52 his birth because the Holy Spirit who
11:55 generated his body was
11:59 holy he was sinless in his life which of
12:02 you you convince me of sin he said to
12:04 his enemies they had to hire false
12:09 witnesses to lie in court to convict
12:12 him yes the Lord Jesus Christ is the
12:16 only one who could die for us and pay
12:19 the price for our sins because he's the
12:21 only one who is pure he's the only one
12:23 who is righteous he's the only one who
12:26 never missed the Mark he's the only one
12:29 who always hit the target he's the only
12:31 one who never rebelled against the
12:33 father I do always those things that
12:35 please him I have come not to do my own
12:38 will but the will of him that sent me
12:42 and he died for us and in his
12:45 death he solved the sin
12:48 problem you see when Jesus Christ was
12:54 here on Earth there was no sin in him in
12:56 him is no sin says John but when he went
13:00 to the Cross there was sin on on him not
13:05 sin in him sin on him had there been sin
13:08 in him he never could have died for us
13:12 how could a sinner die for Sinners oh no
13:15 only a savior can die for Sinners and in
13:19 him is no sin but on him was all
13:23 sin and God took all of the filth and
13:28 all of the moral sewage and all of the
13:31 godlessness and our lying and our
13:33 rebelling and our
13:36 lusting and our hatred and all of our
13:38 wickedness and all of our unbelief and
13:40 all of the respectable
13:44 sins that society says are permissible
13:47 and God took all of these sins in one
13:51 great burden and laid them on his son on the
13:52 the
13:55 cross you say what did Jesus Christ do
13:57 to help you solve the sin problem my
14:00 friend he died for you
14:04 the theologians tell us that sin creates
14:07 three problems for us there is the
14:10 penalty of sin which is eternal judgment
14:12 and there is the power of sin that drags
14:14 us down daily and there's the very
14:17 presence of sin all around us and when
14:21 he died for us he took care of the
14:23 penalty of
14:26 sin now the Jewish people who were in
14:28 the congregation that receiv received
14:30 this letter UND OD what John was talking
14:33 about because for centuries they had had
14:36 a religious holiday called the day of
14:41 atonement yam Kapur and on the day of
14:44 atonement the high priest would get two
14:48 goats and one of those goats would die
14:50 his blood would be shed and the blood
14:52 taken into the holy of holies and
14:55 sprinkled on The Mercy Seat the other
14:58 goat was kept alive and the high priest
15:00 would come out and he would lay his
15:02 hands on the head of that goat and
15:05 confess the sins of the people of Israel
15:08 and then a man would take that goat out
15:09 into the
15:12 Wilderness and typically
15:17 symbolically that goat was bearing Away
15:19 The Sins of the people as far as the
15:23 East is from the West so far hath he
15:26 removed our transgressions from us my
15:30 friend in this Advent season I ask you
15:33 this question has Jesus Christ taken
15:34 away your
15:38 sins have you trusted him can you point
15:41 to him and say behold my Lamb of God who
15:45 has taken away my sins even as he's
15:47 taken away the sin of the world the
15:52 penalty for sin has been taken care of
15:55 he died for us someone says but Pastor
15:57 if I trust Christ as my savior and he
16:00 forgives me and he takes away the
16:01 penalty of my
16:04 sin I'm still a sinner oh but not in
16:07 God's sight when God forgives God
16:10 forgets and God takes that record book
16:13 that has all of the record of our sins
16:16 and across that record book he writes
16:20 righteous in Jesus Christ accepted in the
16:21 the
16:24 Beloved as a second Ministry the Lord
16:27 Jesus performs for us in solving the
16:29 problem of sin he not only died for us
16:34 but he lives in us and this John
16:36 discusses in verses
16:39 6-10 you'll notice when I read the
16:41 scripture I gave the literal meaning of
16:44 the Greek verbs it's important
16:48 here I doubt that any language has more accurate
16:49 accurate
16:53 verbs than the Greek language whosoever
16:59 abideth in him does not practice sin
17:00 now he may
17:05 sin in fact John tells us back in
17:09 chapter 1 verse 8 if we say we have no
17:12 sin we deceive ourselves and the truth
17:15 is not in US verse 10 if we say that we
17:19 have not sinned we make him a liar and
17:21 his word is not in us but that's no
17:23 excuse for sinning he says in chapter
17:27 2:1 my little children these things
17:30 write I unto you that you sin not
17:34 and if any man sin we have an advocate
17:36 with the father Jesus Christ the
17:39 righteous John says a Christian is not
17:42 someone who is
17:47 sinless a Christian is one who does sin
17:51 less he does not practice
17:53 sin when Paul wrote to the Galatians he
17:56 said my brethren if a man be overtaken
17:57 in a
18:00 fault that happened
18:03 sometimes Temptation swoops down upon us
18:05 sometimes we find ourselves fighting a
18:07 tremendous battle and sometimes we give
18:11 in we don't want to and our heart Rebels
18:13 against it and we're broken after it a
18:16 Christian is not someone who is perfect
18:19 a Christian is one who is accepted in
18:23 Christ but occasionally he does sin now
18:25 says John what does the Lord do to solve
18:28 that problem well there is a new life
18:33 down in side verse 9 whosoever is born
18:36 of God that's the new birth does not
18:40 practice sin why his seed the divine
18:45 nature the implanted life of God is down
18:49 inside when a person becomes a Christian
18:57 nature God implants a new nature and as
19:00 long as you and I Yi to that new nature
19:04 and Let Jesus Christ live in us the old
19:09 nature is subdued the old nature is
19:11 crucified the old nature is not
19:15 cultivated and fed and
19:17 encouraged every one of us has had this
19:20 experience I'm sure we trusted Christ as
19:23 our savior we were born again a new
19:26 nature came within and life became
19:28 different the old things we used to love
19:30 we didn't love anymore and the things we
19:32 used to dislike we begin to love the
19:34 word of God and prayer and being with
19:36 God's people and doing the things that
19:39 are right and each of us had some area
19:42 in our lives that bothered us some
19:45 habitual sin or some weakness and we
19:47 begin to get victory over that as we
19:50 prayed as we walked with the Lord and
19:52 perhaps you had been saved a year two
19:56 years 10 years and then one day pow that
19:59 old sin came back again and you fell
20:01 lots of people have this
20:03 experience and we go running to the
20:06 pastor or to someone say how could this
20:09 have happen I haven't lost my temper
20:12 like this for five years I haven't used
20:15 these words in 10 years how could this
20:18 have happened and the answer is my
20:20 friend your old nature is just what it
20:24 was 10 years ago just what it was 20
20:26 years ago and what it will be 20 years
20:29 from now if the Lord doesn't return he
20:31 does not change the old nature he
20:34 implants the new nature his seed
20:37 remaineth in him and he cannot practice
20:40 sin because he's born of God he may
20:43 occasionally fall into sin but he cannot practice
20:44 practice
20:47 sin and there are those today who lives
20:49 lives of immorality and say oh but we're
20:51 saved we believe the same way you
20:54 believe but our lifestyle is different
20:58 my Bible says we don't practice sin
21:03 because because he lives in us one of
21:07 the beautiful themes in first John
21:14 involves Three Little Words as he
21:18 is over in chapter 4:1
21:22 17 herein is our love made perfect that
21:24 we may have boldness in the day of
21:29 judgment because as he is
21:33 so are we in this world you couldn't
21:37 find a simpler statement as he is so are
21:41 we in this world as he is in heaven so
21:45 are we in this world now just Trace as
21:48 he is through first John look at chapter
21:54 1: 7 if we walk in the light as he is in
21:56 the light now the unsaved person can't
21:58 walk in the light he's in darkness but
22:01 we've been saved we have the new nature
22:04 and so we walk in the light as he is in
22:08 the light chapter 2: 6 he that sath he
22:11 abideth in him ought himself also so to
22:14 walk even as he walk as he is how did
22:16 how was he he walked in righteousness we
22:20 walk in righteousness chapter
22:22 3:3 every man that hath this hope in him
22:26 purifieth himself even as he is pure as
22:29 he is pure as he is is in the light as
22:32 he is righteous he says in verse 7 he
22:35 that doeth righteousness is righteous
22:38 even as he is righteous and the ultimate
22:42 is we shall see him as he is so we are
22:46 in this world as he is up in heaven and
22:50 the Victory he won we can win and the
22:52 righteousness he possesses we can
22:55 practice and the light that he is we can
23:00 walk in day by day now how do we do this
23:03 well he tells us in verse 6 of chapter 3
23:08 whosoever abideth in him does not
23:11 practice sin now abide in him what does
23:14 it mean to abide in him once again if
23:16 you'll just take this beautiful book of
23:18 First John and see what he says about
23:21 abiding I'm looking for example at
23:25 chapter 2 and I'm looking at verse
23:29 19 chapter 2 verse 19 John is talking
23:31 about people who left the church they
23:34 left the fellowship they went out from
23:37 us but they were not of us for if they
23:40 had been of us they would no doubt have
23:42 continued with us and that word
23:48 abide but they went out that they might
23:50 be made manifest that they were not all
23:53 of us is everyone whose name is on a
23:57 church role saved no no John said there
23:58 are people who went out from ourth
24:01 Fellowship didn't lose their salvation
24:02 they never had it to begin with they
24:06 were in us but not of us one of the ways
24:08 we abide in Jesus Christ is by abiding
24:11 in the fellowship don't you write off
24:14 the importance of fellowship with God's
24:16 people I know you have a radio and a
24:18 television set and you have a cassette
24:21 recorder in a large library but that's
24:24 no substitute for the fellowship in God's
24:25 God's
24:27 church and I have seen it over and over
24:29 again when people get careless about
24:32 their worship of God with God's people
24:34 they stop Abiding and when they stop
24:36 abiding they start
24:39 sinning so we abide in the fellowship
24:43 over in chapter 2: 24 we abide in the
24:47 word let that therefore abide in you
24:50 which ye have heard from the beginning
24:52 if that which ye have heard from the
24:55 beginning shall abide in you ye also
24:58 shall abide in the son and in the father
25:00 oh no time for the Bible no time for
25:03 meditation no time for study no time to
25:06 get into the word but plenty of time for
25:09 sin how do we abide in him we abide in
25:10 him through the
25:13 word how do we abide in him we abide in
25:15 him through the Holy Spirit walking in
25:19 the spirit verse 27 but the anointing
25:21 that's the Holy Spirit the unction from
25:24 above the anointing which ye have
25:29 received of him abideth in you
25:31 and ye have no need that any man teach
25:33 you now he's not discounting teachers
25:36 and preachers what he's saying is I
25:39 can't teach you spiritual truth the Holy
25:40 Spirit has to take what I say and make
25:42 it real to you that's what he's saying
25:44 otherwise it's
25:46 secondhand you need not that any man
25:49 teach you but as the same anointing
25:51 teaches you of all things and is truth
25:53 and is no lie and even as it hath taught
25:56 you you shall abide in him how through
25:57 the anointing of the Holy Spirit when
25:59 did you get that when you were saved
26:01 abide in the fellowship abide in the
26:04 word abide in the spirit and you shall
26:07 abide in Jesus Christ and when we abide
26:10 in him and he lives in us we don't practice
26:12 practice
26:16 sin we walk in
26:18 Victory I've said this so many times I'm
26:21 sure people don't hear it but I'll say
26:23 it again because somebody may dare to believe
26:24 believe
26:27 it the life of
26:31 victory is the life in the word in the
26:34 spirit in the fellowship of God's people
26:36 and if you don't take time every
26:40 day to Fellowship in the word through
26:42 the spirit in
26:45 prayer there's going to be defeat he
26:50 lives in us now there's a third Ministry
26:52 our Lord performs he died for us that
26:54 takes care of the penalty of sin he
26:56 lives in us that takes care of the power
27:01 of sin sin shall not have dominion over
27:08 spirit Chapter 3 of 1 John the first
27:12 three verses here's his third Ministry
27:15 he is coming for us and this will take
27:18 care of the very presence of sin behold
27:21 what strange kind of
27:27 love says John what peculiar foreign
27:28 kind of love
27:32 the father has bestowed upon us that we
27:34 should be called the children of God and
27:38 many manuscripts add at this point and we
27:45 are beloved now are we the children of
27:48 God now oh but you can't know if you're
27:51 saved until you die don't wait that long
27:55 now are we the children of God it does
28:03 know that when he shall appear we know
28:06 over 20 times in this little letter Paul
28:09 John uses the word no KN n o w we know
28:10 we know we
28:13 know oh but that's arrogance no it isn't it's
28:15 it's
28:17 confidence oh but that's pride no it
28:19 isn't it's Assurance we know that when
28:23 he shall appear when not if when he
28:27 shall appear we shall be like him for we
28:29 shall see him as he is is the second
28:31 coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is just
28:33 as certain as his first
28:36 coming you could trace through the Old
28:39 Testament scriptures the plan of his
28:42 first coming and he came according to
28:43 plan you can read through the New
28:45 Testament scriptures and find the plan
28:47 for his second coming and he's going to
28:49 come according to plan just as he kept
28:51 the Old Testament prophecies so he will
28:53 keep the New Testament prophecies just
28:55 as he came as he promised so he will
28:57 come again as he promised it's that
28:59 certain and we know that when he shall
29:01 appear not
29:04 if now when will he appear we don't
29:11 none my understanding of scripture is
29:13 that no signs have to take place before
29:16 Jesus can come he could come
29:18 today I would that he
29:22 did the last Prayer in the Bible is even
29:29 Jesus and he's coming for us and this is
29:31 going to take care of the very presence
29:33 of sin he's coming for us because we're
29:37 his children this world is not our home
29:40 God's children are not of this world the
29:42 world doesn't understand us and the
29:45 world doesn't even want us we are not of
29:48 this world even as Jesus is not of this
29:50 world we don't belong here we are left
29:52 here to be lights in the world and salt
29:55 in the earth we are left here to witness
29:56 and to
29:59 win but this isn't in our home I go to
30:01 prepare a place for you and if I go and
30:03 prepare a place for you I will come
30:05 again he comes for
30:08 us and when he comes for us he's going
30:12 to finish what he started he died for me
30:15 that takes care of the very penalty of
30:18 sin he lives in me that takes care of
30:21 the power of sin he comes for me that
30:23 will take care say the theologians of
30:26 the very presence of sin my body will be
30:28 transformed to have a glor glorious body
30:32 like unto his I'll have a new home a
30:35 whole new atmosphere a whole new
30:37 environment where everything will be
30:41 pure and glorious and holy and righteous
30:44 and loving and Splendid all of the glory of
30:46 of
30:49 God when he
30:51 comes now it seems to me that our Lord
30:53 Jesus Christ has done a very very fine
30:56 job of solving the sin
30:59 problem Moses didn't solve the sin
31:02 problem in fact Moses in giving the law
31:05 accentuated the problem by the law is
31:07 the knowledge of
31:10 sin and all that Moses could do is say
31:12 don't do this and don't do that but do
31:15 this and do that and people cried out
31:16 and said we
31:19 can't God said I know you can't that's
31:20 why I gave you the law to let you know
31:23 you could not now by Grace I want to save
31:28 you Moses did didn't solve the sin
31:30 problem with the law and yet people
31:32 today are trying to solve the sin
31:35 problem with law John the Baptist didn't
31:38 solve the sin problem with
31:40 baptism I've met many people who have
31:42 been baptized and I believe in baptism
31:44 but they they've never been saved they
31:45 think that by being baptized they're
31:47 going to solve the sin problem John the
31:49 Baptist didn't solve the sin problem
31:53 Jesus did John himself said to our Lord
31:57 in those Waters in this manner said
32:01 Jesus to John in this manner we shall
32:04 fulfill all righteousness in what Manner
32:06 through death burial and Resurrection
32:09 how did Jesus bring in righteousness and
32:12 solve the sin problem death burial and
32:14 Resurrection he was
32:18 manifested to take away our sins this is
32:21 the only solution for the sin problem he
32:26 was manifested to take away our sins now
32:29 you know this John said so John says and
32:33 you know you know that he Jesus was
32:36 manifested to take away our sins you
32:40 know this what have you done about it
32:42 you say what should I do about it well
32:44 you should trust him you should come to
32:46 him and say Lord Jesus I believe that
32:49 you died for me I believe that you bore
32:52 my sins in your body on the cross and I
32:54 will trust you now as my savior I will
32:56 receive you implant that new nature
32:59 within forgive me take the record of my
33:02 life and across that record please write
33:05 accepted in the beloved one wash away my
33:09 sin and then once we have been saved we
33:11 come to him and say Lord I want to abide
33:13 in you and I want you to abide in me I'm
33:15 going to abide in the fellowship and
33:17 abide in the word and abide in the
33:19 spirit because I want you to give me
33:21 victory over the power of
33:23 sin that like as Christ was raised up
33:26 from the dead so also we should walk in
33:29 newness of life therefore If any man be
33:31 in Christ he's a new creation old things
33:33 are passed away behold all things are become
33:35 become
33:38 new no reason for us to stumble and
33:41 fall when Jesus Christ lives in us and
33:43 then we
33:45 spend our thoughts and our mind and our
33:48 heart lifting them upward to heaven and
33:50 saying you know he's coming for
33:53 me the return of Jesus Christ is a
33:56 tremendous motivation for Godly living
33:58 every man that hath this hope in him
34:01 purifieth himself even as he is pure and
34:03 now little children abide in him that
34:06 when he shall appear not if when he shall
34:08 shall
34:11 appear we may have confidence and not be
34:15 ashamed before him at his coming asham
34:29 shame he was manifest to take away our
34:32 sins the greatest problem in the world
34:34 today has been
34:37 solved the sin
34:41 problem because he died for us he lives
34:45 in us and he's coming for
34:47 us the
34:53 son has solved the sin problem for you
34:55 now will you receive
34:59 him and trust him
35:08 God if our hearts Were Somehow projected
35:10 on a
35:14 screen and we let alone others could
35:20 see what our sins are really like oh God
35:22 how we would cry out for
35:26 Mercy forgive us Lord because we have
35:29 covered sin we we have whitewashed it we
35:32 have redefined it we
35:36 have sometimes even approved of
35:39 it we've argued about it we've excused
35:42 it but oh Lord the one thing we need
35:44 more than anything else is to be saved from
35:45 from
35:49 it and I pray that today people will
35:52 come and Trust Jesus Christ and be born
35:55 again and receive the new
35:57 nature and find in Christ for
35:59 forgiveness I pray for
36:02 believers Lord you know the needs of our
36:05 own Hearts we need to walk as he walked
36:09 and be as he is in this
36:12 world I pray that during this season and every
36:13 every
36:19 season we might live as those who have a
36:21 savior and who are looking for him to come
36:22 come
36:26 again I pray this in jesus'
