Sept. 19, 2024

We Are All Sinner!

We Are All Sinner!

A plea for a gospel mindset in the midst of sin

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A plea for a gospel mindset in the midst of sin

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon, everyone.

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It is Thursday, September nineteenth, twenty twenty four. It is

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currently three twelve pm Central Time, and I am coming

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to you live from the Theology Central studio located right

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here in Abilene, Texas. Now, I'm going to ask you

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to do something right now that is probably more important

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than you really will understand, at least at the beginning

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of this. You may not understand the importance of what

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I'm going to ask you to do, but it is

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really really important. I want you, if you can, to

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take a piece of paper right now, something to write with,

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and I want you to write down five sins that

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you have committed, maybe today, within the last twenty four

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hours forty eight hours. I want you to think about

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the sins you have committed in the last twenty four

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to forty eight hours, and I want you to write

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them down. You can burn the list after we're done,

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but for right now, write those sins down on paper.

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I want you to look at them. I want you

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to see them sins you have committed. It may not

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be sins anybody knows about. It may be in private,

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it may be secret. It may be sins that you

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have committed internally. You've not done anything externally. It's all

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in your mind. It's in your feelings, it's in your heart,

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it's in your thinking, it's in your desire. Wherever the

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sin may have occurred, internal, external, by what you have done,

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or by what you have left undone. I want you

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to write down your sins, and I want you to

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to look at them. I want you to see them.

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I want you to fill them. I want you to

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know your sin, because ladies and gentlemen, we are all sinners.

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Whenever we open our Bible and we come across any

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verse that says do this, don't do this. Those verses

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are what we refer to as law, and they condemn us.

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They show us our inability because we cannot keep God's

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law perfectly, we cannot even come close. We are always

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we are in a perpetual state of disobedience to God's law,

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a perpetual state of disobedience. Constantly, we're in sin. The

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law says love God with all your heart, mind, body,

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and soul. You never accomplish that. It says to love

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your name It says to be ye perfect as your

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heavenly Father is perfect. It tells you to be holy

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as God is holy. The law condemns, condemns, condemns. The

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law reveals your disobedience, it reveals your sin, and it

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condemns you. It breaks you, It crushes you, It humbles you,

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it humiliates you. It fills you with guilt and shame.

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That's what the law does. And I want you to

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see your sin, and I want you to feel the

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weight of that law crushing you down, crushing you. Don't

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worry about anybody else, don't think about anybody else, Only

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think of yourself. See that sin. And when you feel

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that weight, you feel that guilt. You may be tempted

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to say, Okay, I'm gonna do better, I'm gonna try harder,

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I'm not gonna do this, I'm not gonna do that.

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And you may try to commit yourself. But no matter

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how much you commit yourself, no matter how much scripture

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you read, no matter how many times you go to church,

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no matter how much you pray, the reality, the reality

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is that nobody wants to admit, is that we are

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still sinners, and we are going to sin. We will

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continue to sin, perpetually, in a state of sin, all

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the way until glorification, when we are now freed from

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this body of sin, and then then we will stop sinning.

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But for now, I know the Church believes so much

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that we can stop sinning, that we can say notice

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sin and yes to God. But that is just not

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the case. Reality all around us screams we keep sinning.

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I keep sinning, You keep sinning. And I'm not excusing it.

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It is sin, it is wrong, it should be condemned.

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I'm not excusing it. I'm trying to state that the

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reality is that we are guilty, and we are always guilty.

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We're continually guilty. We're constantly guilty, We're perpetually guilty, whatever

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word you want to use. Our only hope, our hope

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is not to try to do better, to stop it,

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to all the things that we know. Our hope is this,

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when we are crushed by the sternness of the law,

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when we taste the bitterness of the law and we

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feel the weight of it, our only hope is it

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for people to point the finger and throw more law

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at us, and throw more guilt upon us. What we

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need to hear is that Jesus died for you, that

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in Him there is forgiveness, that his blood washes away

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all sin, and that in Christ, by faith alone, you

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stand in Him, perfect, holy and righteous. Oh you feel

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the weight of that sin. Run to Christ, and in

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Him you are declared to be holy, imperfect, because of

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an imputed righteousness, not infused. It is accredited to your account,

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even though if you are a sinner, even though you fail,

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and not excusing that. In Christ, though you are free

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from that condemnation. There is therefore now no condemnation for

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those who are in Christ Jesus. In Christ, not practically,

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but in Christ, positionally, you are a new creature. All

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things are passed away, all things have become new in Christ.

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Not practically, practically you are still a sinner. You are

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in a perpetual stat of sin. Practically, positionally you are

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perfect and you are holy. That is the duality of

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Christianity that sometimes Christians struggle with. We have a hard

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time processing that reality. But it's a reality. I don't

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care who you are. You are a sinner. Could we

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could literally say these words every ten to fifteen minutes,

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have mercy upon me, Oh God, according to thy loving kindness,

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according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blought out

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my transgressions, Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse

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me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and

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my sin is ever before me against thee the only

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have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight,

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that thou mightst be justified when thou speakest and be clear,

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when thou judgest, behold, I was shapen in iniquity and

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in sin did my mother conceive me. I was born

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a sinner, and I have been a sinner ever since,

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every single day before I was saved. After I was saved,

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I continue to sin and thought word. Indeed, if I

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could sit here and list all of my sins, I

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could list them, and you would be You may be shocked,

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You may be appalled, you may be disgusted. You may

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want me crucified. I don't know, but I am a sinner.

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Ladies and gentlemen, and guess what so are you Look

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at your list, admit it, acknowledge it, don't try to

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cover it up. Don't go run outside and grab some

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fig leaves and cover it up. Don't go find a

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robe of self righteousness and pretend to be something you're not.

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Let's all just look at one another and go, we

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are sinners. We sin, We continually sin, and when the

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weight and the sternness of the law crushes us, what

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we need is the sweetness of the gospel. We need

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the healing medicine that is found in the Gospel. And

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that healing medicine is this. Yes, you're a sinner, Yes

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you are condemned, but in Christ Jesus, by grace alone,

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through faith alone, you are declared to be wholly perfect

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and righteous. Even though you are a vile sinner and

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you're not made righteous in practice, you're made righteous and

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you're standing before God because it's an imputed righteousness. Christianity

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doesn't like that idea. We want to say, no, you

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are going to be this, You're going to be this.

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You can basically be perfect, is the way it's sold. Well, no,

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you can't, because we're sinners. So guess what we should

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expect from anyone and everyone? Sin? I know nobody wants

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to hear you know what I should expect from you? Sin?

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You know what you should expect from me? Sin? You

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know what you should expect from your husband? Sin? You

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know what the husband should expect from the wife. Sin.

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You know what you should expect from your kids. Sin. Now,

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expecting it is not the same thing as saying excusing it.

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It's just an acknowledgement that you're a sinner. I'm a sinner.

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We sin. You know what should expect in the church? Sin.

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You know what should expect from Christians at work? Sin.

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You know what you should expect from your Christian neighbors. Sin.

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Sin is what you should expect because because we are

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sinners and we sin, we still have a sinful nature,

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we still have a sinful heart. Now why am I

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emphasizing this because I want you to remember your sin,

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because over the next few hours, you're going to start

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seeing information about a very famous pastor well who's had

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to basically he's been removed. Let me, I'm going I'm

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not going to say the name. I'm not going because

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that I don't want to give any names. I have

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no desire to throw any more condemnation, shame, or humiliation

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on the individual in any way, shape or form. I'm

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not gonna mention it. It's already on the internet, there's

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already news articles. So I'm not going to say anything,

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you're going to hear it. But when you hear this, okay,

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I'm just going to give you I'm going to read

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a statement from the church. I'm not going to give

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you the name of the church, anything gonna. I'm gonna

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just leave those parts blank. But listen to me. When

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you hear it, don't think about who it is, don't

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think about what they've done. Think about yourself. Right here

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is the statement. The elders at a particular church regretfully

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announced that, effective immediately, a certain very famous pastor has

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been removed indefinitely from all ministry. Many days ago, the

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elders that this particular church were informed, and then they

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go in to talk about what the sin was. I'm

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not gonna go into it. I'm not gonna describe it

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because I'm not here to put the focus on that individual.

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The focus needs to be on you and me. When

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you hear everyone talk about this sin, think about yourself.

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Don't think about them, Think about you. Think about if

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your sin, the sin inside of you, if it was

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broadcasted all across the internet. I want us to think

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about this. Romans, Chapter two, verse one. Therefore, thou art inexcusable,

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oh man, whosoever thou art that judgest, for wherein thou

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judgest another, thou condemnest thyself, for thou that judgest doest

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the same things. Now you may say no, no, no, no,

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no no, I don't do the same things. You may

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not do the same things the exact same way. But

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I guarantee you there is the same or similar type

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sin inside of you. It may be in your mind,

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it may be in your heart. You may not have

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done it with your hands, you may not have done

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it physically, but you've done it internally. And if you've

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done it internally, you're just as guilty, because that's the

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entire point of the law. The law condemns us. The

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law demands perfection externally and internally. So you may be

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able to pat yourself on the back and go, I've

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never externally done this, but what have you done internally? See,

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we're so quick to see everyone else's sin. We're so

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quick to throw rocks at everyone else's sin. We're so

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quick to judge everyone else. We have to look at ourselves.

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Romans too goes on to say, but we are sure

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that the judgment of God is according to truth. Against

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them which commit such things and thinkest thou this o

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man that judgest them which do such things, and dost

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the same, that thou shall escape the judgment of God. Look,

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no one can escape the judgment of God except for this,

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unless someone's already taken the judgment for you, and that

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is Christ Jesus. In him judgment, he satisfied the judgment

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of God. He was our propitiation. We are declared righteous

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by faith. We are made righteous by faith, not in action,

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but we are declared to be at positionally. I want

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you to remember this. And I know some people don't

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believe this text belongs in the Bible. I understand that.

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But the story is powerful. Jesus went unto the mount

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of Olives, and early in the morning he came again

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into the temple, and all the people came unto him,

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and he sat down and taught them. And the scribes

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and pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery.

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And when they had set her in the midst they say,

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unto him Master, this woman was taken in adultery in

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the very act. Now, Moses in the law commanded us

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that that such should be stoned. But what sayest thou

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now the law God gave laws that what we don't

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understand is that law would condemn all of us. Then

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they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.

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ground as though he heard them. Not so, when they

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continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said, unto them,

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he that is without sin among you, let him first

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cast a stone at her. And they, all being they

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all be being convicted by their own conscience, went out

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one by one. Jesus was left alone and the woman

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standing in the midst And when Jesus had lifted up himself,

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he saw no he saw none but the woman, and

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he said, woman, where are thine accusers? Hath no man

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condemned thee When people fall into sin, we can pick

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up rocks. We can try to throw them out of

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the king of God and say they were never saved.

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this person send and I'm a sinner. And they need

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God's grace, they need mercy, they need the sweetness of

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the Gospel. They're already condemned by the law. They know

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they've been condemned. Once someone knows, when someone acknowledges their guilt,

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says they're guilty, and they've already been crushed by the law,

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they don't need more law. They need someone to come

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with the medicine of the gospel. We need to be

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battle filled medics right where someone has been blown apart

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by the law. And then we come run in with

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our medical badge, our medical bag, and we come in

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and we apply the sweetness of the gospel, the healing

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of the gospel, saying, yes, you send there's no excuse

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for that sin. It is wrong, but you know what

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you need. You need the Gospel that saved you is

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the gospel you need as a Christian. Christ paid for

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your sins in Him. There is there for now, no condemnation.

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There is forgiveness. Now I'm not saying we cover up

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illegal activity, all right, illegal activity has to be handled correctly.

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But sin, there is forgiveness in Christ Jesus. Now that

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illegal activity has a sin element to it, obviously, and

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there is forgiveness for the sin, but there has to

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be legal consequences. We don't cover up, We don't cover

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up breaking the law. Can you understand that? But we

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need to be that. We need to be running around

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with a medical bag, maybe a medical badge, the red

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cross on our arm. And when we see people blown up,

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you know what we do. We don't go spread the information.

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We don't go tell everyone their name. We don't gossip.

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That's why I'm not going to mention the name. I'm

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not going to say a word about the name. It's

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nobody's business. You know where? You know that where that

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person needs to be right now, standing alone before Christ

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Jesus and all of us with sin. We need to

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put down our stones and walk away and think about

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our own sin. And what this person needs is Christians

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running to them with our medical bags and saying, here's

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the gospel. Here's the gospel. Christ Jesus died for your sins.

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Christ Jesus blood, his blood washes away all your sins.

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If we will confess our sins. He's faithful and just

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to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from

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all unrighteousness. There is hope, there is redemption. There should

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be able to be restoration. I know many Christians don't

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believe in restoration. You're gonna hear the story. It's gonna

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be everywhere again, it's already on one website. I'm looking

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at it right now, and it's gonna show up everywhere.

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It's gonna be everywhere. It'll probably be on the Christian

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Post probably within a couple of hours. It's it's already.

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I'm not going to name the website that it's currently on.

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It's gonna be. It's gonna make its way actually because

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of the person's name and the positions that they hold

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and the ministries they are connected with. If you disagree

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with their theology, this is very important. If this was

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someone from Bethel Church, which I cannot stand their theology,

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I think they're heretics. You know what, I don't use

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someone falling into sin as an opportunity to attack their theology.

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I don't use someone falling into sin as an opportunity

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to attack my philological enemy. You know what, someone needs

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who falls into sin, no matter how much we disagree

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with their theology. They need Christians who show love, compassion, mercy, forgiveness,

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and our wartime medics, battlefilled medics. We run with our

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medical kit, our medical bag. We apply the Gospel. We

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don't slander, we don't gossip, we don't destroy and humiliate

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we want to cover, pick up, love, forgive, mercy, restoration.

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And that's what Christianity is about. Jesus dying for sinners.

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And that message is not just for you when you

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became a Christian. You need the Gospel, you need the cross,

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you need his blood Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

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every day of your entire Christian existence, because you may

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never commit the sins I commit, but you've got your own.

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Look at that paper today. Look at that when you

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see and hear, don't go spread that. Grab the paper

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and look at your own sin. If you want to

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go spread something on the internet today, spread your own sin. Oh,

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nobody wants to do that. Let's be very careful what

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we say in public. Let's think about ourselves and let's

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be grateful that Jesus died for sinners, and that is

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blood is sufficient to wash away all sin, not excusing

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any sin. I just want to change the narrative and

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that we approach this differently. You're going to hear it,

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you're going to see it. Please handle yourself biblically carefully

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because there's human beings involved and people are going to

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be filled with guilt. Shame, humiliation, hurt, pain, suffering, embarrassment.

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Jesus wrote on the dirt. Everyone says, what did he write?

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Some people say he wrote the very commandments. The people

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who had the rocks had broken themselves. We don't know.

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I know this. You just write down on paper your sin,

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and just remember your sin. Whenever you see someone else's sin,

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remember your sin before you speak of their sin. Pray

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for the church, for the pastor for anyone involved in

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the sin, and for all the people who are associated

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with it. Are going to be impacted. There's going to

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be pain. There's going to be so much, it's going

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to possibly be it's going to be ugly for all

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the people involved. Pray and let's not make it worse.

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Let's be medical. Let's be battlefilled medics. And we're there

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to bandage and to put the pieces back together with

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the only thing that heals, and that is the gospel,

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because when the law crushes, the Gospel is needed to

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put back together. Thanks for listening, God bless