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[729.44 --> 736.14] If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us. |
[736.98 --> 740.40] Now, these false teachers, they had gone so far as to say, |
[740.48 --> 742.08] this feels like such a bold thing to say, |
[742.54 --> 746.32] not only are we not currently sinning, they're saying, but we have never sinned. |
[747.20 --> 747.84] Everything's good. |
[748.00 --> 748.96] We have fellowship with God. |
[749.28 --> 750.54] There's no sin in our lives. |
[750.76 --> 752.00] We're at peace with where we're at. |
[752.40 --> 753.10] Everything's fine. |
[753.10 --> 760.12] And I can just imagine how John was feeling because nothing cuts at the need for Jesus |
[760.12 --> 762.12] more than getting rid of sin, right? |
[762.32 --> 763.54] Why would Jesus need to come? |
[763.98 --> 766.60] What's the purpose of the gospel if people are saying, well, we haven't sinned. |
[766.98 --> 768.28] There is no sin within us. |
[768.70 --> 770.58] And that's what happens when you depart from the scriptures |
[770.58 --> 773.44] and you start letting your own heart lead the way, |
[773.78 --> 776.66] you'll find yourself holding all sorts of strange teachings, including this one. |
[776.66 --> 782.38] But here's my question, and this now circles back to Sid's stolen sermon from last week. |
[785.14 --> 790.62] Is this not that far off from our cultural assumption about what it means to be a human? |
[791.30 --> 795.38] You know, Sid rattled off a number of phrases in our culture about how we see ourselves, |
[795.48 --> 797.98] and some of those phrases were, you do you, right? |
[798.82 --> 799.94] You do what you want to do. |
[800.00 --> 801.24] Don't worry about what other people are saying. |
[801.60 --> 803.18] Follow your own heart. |
[803.18 --> 806.74] And behind those statements, and many others like it, |
[806.94 --> 810.68] is the assumption that what's within here is trustworthy and good, |
[810.86 --> 812.66] and the bad stuff is all out there. |
[812.72 --> 814.10] And I think that's actually fairly accurate. |
[814.24 --> 817.68] Most people, if you grow up in Canada, you think humans are fundamentally good. |
[817.92 --> 821.96] We make mistakes, but that's usually because we have bad parents or bad teachers or bad culture, |
[822.08 --> 823.30] but it's actually not from within. |
[824.36 --> 828.02] And John's got some of the strongest language to share |
[828.02 --> 830.34] with people who think they are not sinful. |
[831.46 --> 833.08] Do you hear what he said in those passages? |
[833.18 --> 837.40] If we claim to not be sinning or to never have sinned, he says, |
[837.76 --> 844.18] we make God out to be a liar, and His Word is not within us. |
[844.84 --> 847.60] That's what John says to someone who can boast about not having sin |
[847.60 --> 849.92] and to not being in the process of sinning. |
[851.50 --> 853.98] And to restate what Sid said so well last week, |
[854.62 --> 859.54] the invitation of the Scriptures for Christians is to be honest. |
[859.54 --> 865.68] It is to have an honest self-assessment of the power of the flesh, |
[866.20 --> 869.22] the destructive desires, and the disordered ambitions |
[869.22 --> 872.22] that ruin our lives and ruin others' lives. |
[872.92 --> 874.94] That's why, you know, I think of Romans 7, |
[875.08 --> 876.74] which, you know, Sid already preached on last week. |
[877.12 --> 878.96] I'm sneaking in what I wanted to say again here. |
[879.82 --> 880.96] You know, where Paul just says, |
[880.96 --> 883.24] what a wretched man that I am. |
[883.34 --> 885.38] Who can rescue me from this body of death? |
[885.60 --> 888.88] Now that is an honest assessment of the human condition. |
[889.76 --> 891.42] And it's when you get to that place |
[891.42 --> 894.60] that you see the beauty and the power of the gospel. |
[896.04 --> 898.34] But I want to point our attention to what John says. |
[898.76 --> 899.64] After verse 8, |
[900.02 --> 901.30] you're claiming to be without sin, |
[901.48 --> 902.50] you make God a liar, |
[902.62 --> 903.78] and you are not living in the truth. |
[903.82 --> 905.34] But then what does he say in verse 9? |
[905.34 --> 908.60] This is now how we deal with our sin. |
[908.66 --> 909.28] You ready for it? |
[910.06 --> 912.58] If we confess our sins, |
[913.12 --> 914.74] he is faithful and just |
[914.74 --> 916.58] and will forgive us our sins |
[916.58 --> 919.84] and purify us from unrighteousness. |
[921.82 --> 923.46] John introduces us |
[923.46 --> 925.14] to one of the most basic |
[925.14 --> 928.22] and important historic practices in the church. |
[928.34 --> 929.00] You know what that is? |
[929.94 --> 930.52] Confession. |
[931.78 --> 934.34] It's what we do when we start to see the mess. |
[934.34 --> 936.14] It's what we do when we realize |
[936.14 --> 938.00] what's within us is dark and disordered, |
[938.14 --> 939.56] and what we don't do is hide it, |
[939.90 --> 940.70] conceal it, |
[941.00 --> 941.86] lie about it, |
[941.96 --> 942.84] not talk about it. |
[942.88 --> 944.88] We actually bring it into the light |
[944.88 --> 946.52] through confession. |
[948.14 --> 949.62] That's how we find healing |
[949.62 --> 951.94] and mercy and grace. |
[953.88 --> 955.76] Now the Bible actually has a lot to say |
[955.76 --> 958.56] about when you hold your sin within |
[958.56 --> 960.22] and you don't confess it. |
[960.64 --> 962.78] The sort of suppression of the stuff within. |
[962.78 --> 965.30] And Psalm 32 and Psalm 51, |
[965.54 --> 966.58] both powerful psalms. |
[966.68 --> 967.40] You know, in Psalm 32, |
[967.52 --> 967.96] David says, |
[968.08 --> 969.64] when I didn't confess my sin, |
[969.92 --> 971.60] I wasted away. |
[972.28 --> 973.00] There's a sense of like, |
[973.04 --> 973.78] you just find yourself |
[973.78 --> 974.94] imploding a little bit. |
[974.98 --> 976.06] You find yourself just weakened |
[976.06 --> 977.16] by the power of sin |
[977.16 --> 979.60] and also the struggle of concealing it. |
[981.00 --> 982.32] Let me read for you a quote |
[982.32 --> 983.72] that comes from Jijic Bonhoeffer, |
[983.84 --> 985.86] and I just love his honesty in this quote |
[985.86 --> 988.40] about sin and its effect on our lives. |
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