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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before
we get to today's message, we want to tell you
about an insightful sermons series from Dr Young called The
Church Awake. Our world is teetering on the edge of
disorder and disaster, and this series sounds an inspiring call
for the church to awaken and engage your culture with
clarity and conviction on important issues, standing confidently on truth
(00:25):
than bending to the pressures of the world. This series
is our thanks for your gift to help keep the
proven truth of God's Word reaching you and others around
the world through this program. So be sure to request
your copy of The Church Awake when you give Just
call one eight hundred three five oh Walk one eight
hundred three five oh nine two five five. Now let's
(00:48):
get started with today's teaching from doctor Young.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We've got no more problems in our world today than
perhaps any of the time in the history of humanity.
We see revolution taking place virtually in every country in
the Middle East. We see unrest in Africa, Central and
South America. We see our own overwhelming economic challenges, moral
(01:21):
challenges in America and in Europe. Wouldn't it be something
as we're looking for all of these answers with the
brilliance of humanity. If people were simply introduced to Jesus
(01:43):
Christ in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Canada, Europe, you name it,
and given the operation manual, it says, this is how
you live. What would happen? What would happen? That's our
(02:15):
calling as members of the family of God. It all
begins with learning how to pray. Really, the apostles saw
that when Jesus prayed, power came into his life, supernatural power,
amazing things in words and in miracles. And they watched
(02:40):
him and they said, Lord, we want some of that.
Teach us to pray like that. And Jesus gave to
those followers as he has given to us his prayer,
the Lord's prayer. Notice how it begins. It's how all
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prayer must begin. Transcendence. We have to understand a little
bit with whom we are speaking with, whom we are
dealing with, whom we are listening to our Father ah Bah,
(03:26):
who are in heaven hollow it be thy name. It
starts with reverencing the name of God. Be careful how
we use God in humor's ways. His name. Be careful,
how we profane his name. Prayer begins with an awesome
(03:51):
reverence toward our Father of Art in heaven, and then
we pray hallowed, separate, Special be Thy name, Holy is
thy name. Then we ask Thy Kingdom come, Thy will
be done on earth it is in heaven. We're saying,
the kingdom will come. When does the Kingdom of God come?
The Kingdom of God exists when God is king and
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Jesus's Lord. Wherever that is, there's a kingdom Jesus Lord,
there is a kingdom of God. The king is in control.
There's the Kingdom of God. And we're praying that the
Kingdom of Heaven will become the kingdom of this earth
and the affairs of this earth would be administered the
way the affairs of Heaven are administered. That is a big, supernatural,
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out of this world prayer, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will
be done on earth as it is in heaven. And
then notice how practical the prayer gets. We could say, well,
Christianity is so other worldly it is, but yet it
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is also of this world. World. Give us this day
our daily bread. You can't live without bread. Physical needs.
Give us this day the physical nourishment that we need.
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And then after we ask to give bread, we ask
for forgiveness. Forgive us, forgive us, give, forgive proper order.
We have bread for this life. We have spiritual bread,
so we experience forgiveness. It's physical and spiritual that we
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pray for. And what about this word forgiveness. Forgive us
our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
That's Matthew six. That's our verse today. Let's say it together.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass
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against us. If you can kneel, if you can't, just
bow your head with me for a moment. Please, before
we pray, ask the Holy Spirit right now to bring
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to your mind anyone that you haven't forgiven, any grudge
that you have, any bitterness towards someone you've entertained, any
desire for revenge, any idea that they will get what
(06:53):
they deserve. Does any names come to your mind? Some
of it may go back through the years. Abuse, They
embarrassed me, they exploited me, they use me. Any names
(07:16):
come to your mind, Names of individuals you haven't really
truly forgiven, parents, brother, sister, friends, anyone, Any name come
to your mind. Hold on to that name, keep it
(07:43):
in the front of your mind. As we study this
verse together, Father, I pray that you will speak and
let me get out of the way as you do
a healing work in the hearts and lives of many
of us gathered here. For this is our prayer in Jesus' name.
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I'm in forgiveness. That's a big word, isn't it. Forgiveness.
Forgiveness has about it a mystery, and I think we
all wonder at times, has God really forgiven me? I mean,
all of these times I've gone back over and over.
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Has he really does he keep on forgiving me? Am
I forgiven? And then we wonder have I really forgiven
other people? Have I forgiven them? Have I let them
off the hook? And then have people forgiven me? So
(08:52):
forgiveness is a big mysterious word. So we say forgive
us our or forgive us our trespasses, and some translations
said forgive us of our wrongs. I like it, forgive
us of our sins. I got that one. And you
can do a linguistic study of the word for sin
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or trespasses or debts in the Bible. There's a lot
of words. It means to miss the mark. It means
to come up short. It means to step over the line.
It means to get out of the path. It means
to do your own thing. It means to rebel. There's
a lot of word and nuances of the word sin
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and debts and trespasses and wrongs all the way through
the scripture. But we worry about the Lord's prayer. We say,
you know, in some churches they say debts, other churches
they say trespasses. What's that all about? I like one
simple explanation I read he said, it's a different between
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the Scotchman and the Englishman. He says that you go
to a Scottish preparatory. In church, they say forgive us
our debts. Scotchmen are in the money and debt and
being skin flints and cheap, and so they're worried about
being a debt so they use the word debt. Go
to English church, Church of England, Piscopal Church, the say
(10:23):
forgive us our trespasses. The English are interested in property
in lines, and man, when you trespass, you go over
that line. So difference in being an Englishman and a
Scotchman debts and treadspasses. I like to use the word sin.
Forgive us our sin. Now, somebody might say, why do
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we have to pray that? If we're a Christian. This
is a believer's prayer. So I want us to see
two simple, basic things that every Jesus followed he used
to have nailed down in their life. A lot of
things you can forget and wonder about. You'll need this.
You need to know how to get right with God,
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and you need to know how to stay right with God.
Isn't that it can't get more basics than that? How
do you get right with God? You need three words
every person. If you don't have these words, write it
down your bible, you use lipstick, a pen, pencil, mass care.
Write it down. We need these three words the rest
(11:29):
of our lives if we're Jesus followers. First of all,
we needed to get right with God. We needed to
stay right with God. What are those words? Conviction? We
become a Christian when the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin.
I have stepped over the line. I have fumbled, I
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have failed, I have struck out, I have lied, I
have deceived. Conviction of sin is where it all starts,
and the Holy Spirit does that. I can dangle everybody
here over the fires of hell for thirty minutes, say
ooh boy, I'm glad to get out of there. But
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it is the Holy Spirit that brings conviction in my
life and your life. That's the first step of being Christian.
Conviction God to have that word. Then there is confession.
We're convicted of sin. We confess sin. Don't say forgive
me of my many sins. Spell it out, be specific,
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be specific, confession of sin. And then what do we do.
We repent, We turn away from all known sin. We
move in the opposite direction. Now, this is how we
become a Christian. Those three words. You have to have them.
You get right with God. Conviction, the Holy Spirit does it. Confession,
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and then we repent and we receive Christ. Bang we're
in the family of God. This in one sense, is
a judicial process. God is a holy God. He cannot
tolerate debts, trespasses, wrongs and sins. They have to be
(13:17):
dealt with. You see, God doesn't leave any loose ends
out there, so it has to be dealt with. We
know that Jesus Christ came on the cross, He took
all that I owe. He took every time I had
stepped over the line. He took all of my sins
and all of yours, and he died for us. He
(13:38):
paid the price. He is a substitute for you in
a court of law before Almighty God. He died on
your behalf. He took the judgment that you and I
deserve upon himself. This is what happens. This is how
we get right with God. Those three words. Let me
(13:59):
explain in a very simple way. There was a family
walking through the plains of Georgia, grass about this high,
taking a stroll large large valley, and they looked behind
them and they saw a brush fire had started, and
the wind was pushing that fire rapidly in their direction.
(14:21):
There was no way they could escape. Fire was moving
in nowhere to run, flames everywhere. But the father, who
was an outdoorsman, took a match and lighted a fire
where the family was, and they established a burned out place,
and they stepped back. The fire was coming and this
(14:42):
place burned out. So after the grass he was burned,
they got his family in the middle of that burned
out place, and when the fire was moving rapidly for them,
it just went around them. There was nothing to burn.
They were safe. It went over them. They were not
harmed or sinsed in any way because there was nothing
(15:05):
to burn. The fire moved over them. This is what
happens on the cross. We stand in judgment for our sin.
Jesus has already paid the price. There's no double jeopardy there,
and so we have to stay in that burned out
place with Christ at the cross, and the judgment passes
(15:31):
over us because there's nothing for you and for me
to be judged about, because Jesus has paid the price.
He has paid it all. See, we're in that burned
out place. This is how we get right with God.
You got to have those three words conviction, confession, repentance.
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Now how do you stay right with God? Well, I
don't know about you, but since I became a Christian,
I'm not sined anymore. You know, I've just I've been perfect.
It's just been amazing to observe. That's not quite the
way it is, is it? So what do you do
about sin and life of Christian? You need those same
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three words to stay right with God. Conviction of sin.
The Holy Spirit does that confession of sin and repent
us from sin to get right. There's where we go
to stay right. There's where we go. And let's talk
about confession. You know, our problem with confession, Our problem
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is a little weak word. But let me tell you.
We don't own our sin. This is how we confess. Lord,
forgive me for losing my temper. I know I'm wrong,
but everybody in my family has a temper. Lord, forgive
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me for those lustful thoughts. But you made me like this. Lord,
forgive me for wanting the approval of people more than
I want your approval. But isn't most everybody like that?
You see we put these little if ans or butts
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in there. Listen, Confession is taking ownership of sin. I
made the choice. I stepped out of bounds. I went
in that direction. I am wrong. Don't put any defense up.
Confess that sin. By the way, how long has it
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been since you've confessed to sin something that you should
have done and you didn't do? You know, we don't confess, Lord.
You know, Lord, I forgive me because I didn't. Oh,
forgive me, Lord because I did. But evidently that's a
big deal because in Matthew twenty five, Jesus is there
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the sheep and the goats, And he says, hey, where
were you when I was naked? You weren't there? Why
he'd clothed? Where were you and I in prison? Where
were you when I was broken? Where were you when
I was hungry? Where was you? And I have all
these problems? And we say, Lord, we didn't know, We
didn't see, we didn't know. He said, you didn't open
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your eyes, the little ones, the people around you. You
should have known. What happens to us in this sense
of oh mission, what we admit? Why do we miss things?
We worked with people, we live with people, and suddenly
their lives move out in a disastrous way. They go
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into depression, they go in too all have all kinds
of problems that just explode their lives. And you know
what we say, You know I see them all the time,
and I didn't know. That's the excuse we give. Why
do we not pick up on this, It's because we
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don't really love folks. When you love something or someone,
you always have understanding. A mother loves her children. She
understands them because she's read all the books on child's psychology. No,
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because she loves If you love botany, you're going to
understand botany. Whatever we love, we understand. And therefore, because
we're not sensitive, we do not love, we do not see,
we do not feel. Oh we love. Well, they're in trouble.
I'm going to help them before they're in trouble. If
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we love, we understand, and then we can move in
ahead of time. So we pray for sins of o mission.
What we do do not do? We confess that as
well as sins of commission, and we pray. I pray, Lord,
give me quick eyes to see. Is that what we need?
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Quick eyes of love to see? Love has understanding, it's
just built in. So how do you get right with God?
Three words? Conviction? Holy Spirit? Does that confession, repentance? How
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do you stay right with God when we fumble and
step over the line as Christians? Same three words. You
got to have those words built in your life, your vocabulary,
your Christian experience. If you're going to get right, yes,
and if you're going to stay right now look at
the second part of this. Forgive us our sins, and
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then look at this we forgive those who sin against us.
By the way, this is the most important part of
the Lord's prayer. If we take the lords prayer we'd
write on the screen. It is this verse. It ought
to blinko boom boom. It ought to be large print,
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It ought to be emphasized. It's the most important part.
It is the heart of the prayer. You say, well,
how do you know that? It's because it's the only
part of the prayer that the prayer has completed. Jesus
in verse thirteen and fourteen, he explains this. He underscores
at the end, he says, I don't want you to
miss that. He's saying, if you're going to be forgiven
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by God, you'd better be in the forgiving business, as
God is in the forgiving business. Years ago, the famili
has moved away. Over ten years ago. There's a family
in our church. Father, mother, cute, little girl, little guy.
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The girl was thirteen, the boy was about seven. The
mother went to pick him up at school. As they
were going home, they stopped in front of the house.
The little girl, thirteen year old girl, got out and
went to the mailbox. She opened the mailbox and she
found in there a note, a note that was meant
for her mother. But the thirteen year old girl picked
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up the note. It was a note from her father's
mistress blessed of a man who preserves under trial, for
once he has been approved, he will receive the crown
of life, which the Lord has promised to those who
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love him. James one twelve. If you follow Cottage football,
you've heard a lot in the last couple of years
about transfer portal. Although it has a science fiction ring
to it, the transfer portal is merely a database that
has the names of student athletes who want to transfer
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to the greener grass of another school's program. It's a
player's escape plan when things aren't going as he thinks
they should. A criticism of the portal is that athletes
are not learning the porters of perseverance staying power in
spite of difficulty, resistance, or opposition. Many times, when the
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going gets difficult for us, we also look around for
a transfer portal, a quick fix to help us escape
life circumstances. The Biblical answer is to persevere, be steadfast.
If we practice staying power, the Lord has a crown
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waiting for you and for me.
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Of God's Word.
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Call one eight hundred three five oh walk. That's one
eight hundred three five oh nine two five five. Thanks
for being with us today on the winning Walk Today
next time, as doctor Young shares more proven truth from
God's Word,
Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before
we get to today's message, we want to tell you
about an insightful sermons series from Dr Young called The
Church Awake. Our world is teetering on the edge of
disorder and disaster, and this series sounds an inspiring call
for the church to awaken and engage your culture with
clarity and conviction on important issues, standing confidently on truth
(00:25):
than bending to the pressures of the world. This series
is our thanks for your gift to help keep the
proven truth of God's Word reaching you and others around
the world through this program. So be sure to request
your copy of The Church Awake when you give Just
call one eight hundred three five oh Walk one eight
hundred three five oh nine two five five. Now let's
(00:48):
get started with today's teaching from doctor Young.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We've got no more problems in our world today than
perhaps any of the time in the history of humanity.
We see revolution taking place virtually in every country in
the Middle East. We see unrest in Africa, Central and
South America. We see our own overwhelming economic challenges, moral
(01:21):
challenges in America and in Europe. Wouldn't it be something
as we're looking for all of these answers with the
brilliance of humanity. If people were simply introduced to Jesus
(01:43):
Christ in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Canada, Europe, you name it,
and given the operation manual, it says, this is how
you live. What would happen? What would happen? That's our
(02:15):
calling as members of the family of God. It all
begins with learning how to pray. Really, the apostles saw
that when Jesus prayed, power came into his life, supernatural power,
amazing things in words and in miracles. And they watched
(02:40):
him and they said, Lord, we want some of that.
Teach us to pray like that. And Jesus gave to
those followers as he has given to us his prayer,
the Lord's prayer. Notice how it begins. It's how all
(03:05):
prayer must begin. Transcendence. We have to understand a little
bit with whom we are speaking with, whom we are
dealing with, whom we are listening to our Father ah Bah,
(03:26):
who are in heaven hollow it be thy name. It
starts with reverencing the name of God. Be careful how
we use God in humor's ways. His name. Be careful,
how we profane his name. Prayer begins with an awesome
(03:51):
reverence toward our Father of Art in heaven, and then
we pray hallowed, separate, Special be Thy name, Holy is
thy name. Then we ask Thy Kingdom come, Thy will
be done on earth it is in heaven. We're saying,
the kingdom will come. When does the Kingdom of God come?
The Kingdom of God exists when God is king and
(04:13):
Jesus's Lord. Wherever that is, there's a kingdom Jesus Lord,
there is a kingdom of God. The king is in control.
There's the Kingdom of God. And we're praying that the
Kingdom of Heaven will become the kingdom of this earth
and the affairs of this earth would be administered the
way the affairs of Heaven are administered. That is a big, supernatural,
(04:38):
out of this world prayer, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will
be done on earth as it is in heaven. And
then notice how practical the prayer gets. We could say, well,
Christianity is so other worldly it is, but yet it
(04:58):
is also of this world. World. Give us this day
our daily bread. You can't live without bread. Physical needs.
Give us this day the physical nourishment that we need.
(05:18):
And then after we ask to give bread, we ask
for forgiveness. Forgive us, forgive us, give, forgive proper order.
We have bread for this life. We have spiritual bread,
so we experience forgiveness. It's physical and spiritual that we
(05:38):
pray for. And what about this word forgiveness. Forgive us
our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
That's Matthew six. That's our verse today. Let's say it together.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass
(06:01):
against us. If you can kneel, if you can't, just
bow your head with me for a moment. Please, before
we pray, ask the Holy Spirit right now to bring
(06:27):
to your mind anyone that you haven't forgiven, any grudge
that you have, any bitterness towards someone you've entertained, any
desire for revenge, any idea that they will get what
(06:53):
they deserve. Does any names come to your mind? Some
of it may go back through the years. Abuse, They
embarrassed me, they exploited me, they use me. Any names
(07:16):
come to your mind, Names of individuals you haven't really
truly forgiven, parents, brother, sister, friends, anyone, Any name come
to your mind. Hold on to that name, keep it
(07:43):
in the front of your mind. As we study this
verse together, Father, I pray that you will speak and
let me get out of the way as you do
a healing work in the hearts and lives of many
of us gathered here. For this is our prayer in Jesus' name.
(08:09):
I'm in forgiveness. That's a big word, isn't it. Forgiveness.
Forgiveness has about it a mystery, and I think we
all wonder at times, has God really forgiven me? I mean,
all of these times I've gone back over and over.
(08:32):
Has he really does he keep on forgiving me? Am
I forgiven? And then we wonder have I really forgiven
other people? Have I forgiven them? Have I let them
off the hook? And then have people forgiven me? So
(08:52):
forgiveness is a big mysterious word. So we say forgive
us our or forgive us our trespasses, and some translations
said forgive us of our wrongs. I like it, forgive
us of our sins. I got that one. And you
can do a linguistic study of the word for sin
(09:15):
or trespasses or debts in the Bible. There's a lot
of words. It means to miss the mark. It means
to come up short. It means to step over the line.
It means to get out of the path. It means
to do your own thing. It means to rebel. There's
a lot of word and nuances of the word sin
(09:36):
and debts and trespasses and wrongs all the way through
the scripture. But we worry about the Lord's prayer. We say,
you know, in some churches they say debts, other churches
they say trespasses. What's that all about? I like one
simple explanation I read he said, it's a different between
(10:00):
the Scotchman and the Englishman. He says that you go
to a Scottish preparatory. In church, they say forgive us
our debts. Scotchmen are in the money and debt and
being skin flints and cheap, and so they're worried about
being a debt so they use the word debt. Go
to English church, Church of England, Piscopal Church, the say
(10:23):
forgive us our trespasses. The English are interested in property
in lines, and man, when you trespass, you go over
that line. So difference in being an Englishman and a
Scotchman debts and treadspasses. I like to use the word sin.
Forgive us our sin. Now, somebody might say, why do
(10:46):
we have to pray that? If we're a Christian. This
is a believer's prayer. So I want us to see
two simple, basic things that every Jesus followed he used
to have nailed down in their life. A lot of
things you can forget and wonder about. You'll need this.
You need to know how to get right with God,
(11:08):
and you need to know how to stay right with God.
Isn't that it can't get more basics than that? How
do you get right with God? You need three words
every person. If you don't have these words, write it
down your bible, you use lipstick, a pen, pencil, mass care.
Write it down. We need these three words the rest
(11:29):
of our lives if we're Jesus followers. First of all,
we needed to get right with God. We needed to
stay right with God. What are those words? Conviction? We
become a Christian when the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin.
I have stepped over the line. I have fumbled, I
(11:52):
have failed, I have struck out, I have lied, I
have deceived. Conviction of sin is where it all starts,
and the Holy Spirit does that. I can dangle everybody
here over the fires of hell for thirty minutes, say
ooh boy, I'm glad to get out of there. But
(12:13):
it is the Holy Spirit that brings conviction in my
life and your life. That's the first step of being Christian.
Conviction God to have that word. Then there is confession.
We're convicted of sin. We confess sin. Don't say forgive
me of my many sins. Spell it out, be specific,
(12:36):
be specific, confession of sin. And then what do we do.
We repent, We turn away from all known sin. We
move in the opposite direction. Now, this is how we
become a Christian. Those three words. You have to have them.
You get right with God. Conviction, the Holy Spirit does it. Confession,
(12:57):
and then we repent and we receive Christ. Bang we're
in the family of God. This in one sense, is
a judicial process. God is a holy God. He cannot
tolerate debts, trespasses, wrongs and sins. They have to be
(13:17):
dealt with. You see, God doesn't leave any loose ends
out there, so it has to be dealt with. We
know that Jesus Christ came on the cross, He took
all that I owe. He took every time I had
stepped over the line. He took all of my sins
and all of yours, and he died for us. He
(13:38):
paid the price. He is a substitute for you in
a court of law before Almighty God. He died on
your behalf. He took the judgment that you and I
deserve upon himself. This is what happens. This is how
we get right with God. Those three words. Let me
(13:59):
explain in a very simple way. There was a family
walking through the plains of Georgia, grass about this high,
taking a stroll large large valley, and they looked behind
them and they saw a brush fire had started, and
the wind was pushing that fire rapidly in their direction.
(14:21):
There was no way they could escape. Fire was moving
in nowhere to run, flames everywhere. But the father, who
was an outdoorsman, took a match and lighted a fire
where the family was, and they established a burned out place,
and they stepped back. The fire was coming and this
(14:42):
place burned out. So after the grass he was burned,
they got his family in the middle of that burned
out place, and when the fire was moving rapidly for them,
it just went around them. There was nothing to burn.
They were safe. It went over them. They were not
harmed or sinsed in any way because there was nothing
(15:05):
to burn. The fire moved over them. This is what
happens on the cross. We stand in judgment for our sin.
Jesus has already paid the price. There's no double jeopardy there,
and so we have to stay in that burned out
place with Christ at the cross, and the judgment passes
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over us because there's nothing for you and for me
to be judged about, because Jesus has paid the price.
He has paid it all. See, we're in that burned
out place. This is how we get right with God.
You got to have those three words conviction, confession, repentance.
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Now how do you stay right with God? Well, I
don't know about you, but since I became a Christian,
I'm not sined anymore. You know, I've just I've been perfect.
It's just been amazing to observe. That's not quite the
way it is, is it? So what do you do
about sin and life of Christian? You need those same
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three words to stay right with God. Conviction of sin.
The Holy Spirit does that confession of sin and repent
us from sin to get right. There's where we go
to stay right. There's where we go. And let's talk
about confession. You know, our problem with confession, Our problem
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is a little weak word. But let me tell you.
We don't own our sin. This is how we confess. Lord,
forgive me for losing my temper. I know I'm wrong,
but everybody in my family has a temper. Lord, forgive
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me for those lustful thoughts. But you made me like this. Lord,
forgive me for wanting the approval of people more than
I want your approval. But isn't most everybody like that?
You see we put these little if ans or butts
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in there. Listen, Confession is taking ownership of sin. I
made the choice. I stepped out of bounds. I went
in that direction. I am wrong. Don't put any defense up.
Confess that sin. By the way, how long has it
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been since you've confessed to sin something that you should
have done and you didn't do? You know, we don't confess, Lord.
You know, Lord, I forgive me because I didn't. Oh,
forgive me, Lord because I did. But evidently that's a
big deal because in Matthew twenty five, Jesus is there
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the sheep and the goats, And he says, hey, where
were you when I was naked? You weren't there? Why
he'd clothed? Where were you and I in prison? Where
were you when I was broken? Where were you when
I was hungry? Where was you? And I have all
these problems? And we say, Lord, we didn't know, We
didn't see, we didn't know. He said, you didn't open
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your eyes, the little ones, the people around you. You
should have known. What happens to us in this sense
of oh mission, what we admit? Why do we miss things?
We worked with people, we live with people, and suddenly
their lives move out in a disastrous way. They go
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into depression, they go in too all have all kinds
of problems that just explode their lives. And you know
what we say, You know I see them all the time,
and I didn't know. That's the excuse we give. Why
do we not pick up on this, It's because we
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don't really love folks. When you love something or someone,
you always have understanding. A mother loves her children. She
understands them because she's read all the books on child's psychology. No,
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because she loves If you love botany, you're going to
understand botany. Whatever we love, we understand. And therefore, because
we're not sensitive, we do not love, we do not see,
we do not feel. Oh we love. Well, they're in trouble.
I'm going to help them before they're in trouble. If
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we love, we understand, and then we can move in
ahead of time. So we pray for sins of o mission.
What we do do not do? We confess that as
well as sins of commission, and we pray. I pray, Lord,
give me quick eyes to see. Is that what we need?
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Quick eyes of love to see? Love has understanding, it's
just built in. So how do you get right with God?
Three words? Conviction? Holy Spirit? Does that confession, repentance? How
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do you stay right with God when we fumble and
step over the line as Christians? Same three words. You
got to have those words built in your life, your vocabulary,
your Christian experience. If you're going to get right, yes,
and if you're going to stay right now look at
the second part of this. Forgive us our sins, and
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then look at this we forgive those who sin against us.
By the way, this is the most important part of
the Lord's prayer. If we take the lords prayer we'd
write on the screen. It is this verse. It ought
to blinko boom boom. It ought to be large print,
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It ought to be emphasized. It's the most important part.
It is the heart of the prayer. You say, well,
how do you know that? It's because it's the only
part of the prayer that the prayer has completed. Jesus
in verse thirteen and fourteen, he explains this. He underscores
at the end, he says, I don't want you to
miss that. He's saying, if you're going to be forgiven
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by God, you'd better be in the forgiving business, as
God is in the forgiving business. Years ago, the famili
has moved away. Over ten years ago. There's a family
in our church. Father, mother, cute, little girl, little guy.
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The girl was thirteen, the boy was about seven. The
mother went to pick him up at school. As they
were going home, they stopped in front of the house.
The little girl, thirteen year old girl, got out and
went to the mailbox. She opened the mailbox and she
found in there a note, a note that was meant
for her mother. But the thirteen year old girl picked
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up the note. It was a note from her father's
mistress blessed of a man who preserves under trial, for
once he has been approved, he will receive the crown
of life, which the Lord has promised to those who
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love him. James one twelve. If you follow Cottage football,
you've heard a lot in the last couple of years
about transfer portal. Although it has a science fiction ring
to it, the transfer portal is merely a database that
has the names of student athletes who want to transfer
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to the greener grass of another school's program. It's a
player's escape plan when things aren't going as he thinks
they should. A criticism of the portal is that athletes
are not learning the porters of perseverance staying power in
spite of difficulty, resistance, or opposition. Many times, when the
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going gets difficult for us, we also look around for
a transfer portal, a quick fix to help us escape
life circumstances. The Biblical answer is to persevere, be steadfast.
If we practice staying power, the Lord has a crown
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waiting for you and for me.
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