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[988.40 --> 989.78] He writes, |
[989.88 --> 992.68] sin demands to have a man by himself. |
[993.76 --> 995.74] It withdraws them from the community. |
[996.46 --> 998.86] The more isolated a person is, |
[999.18 --> 1001.26] the more destructive will be |
[1001.26 --> 1002.84] the power of sin over him. |
[1003.96 --> 1005.58] Sin wants to remain unknown. |
[1006.26 --> 1008.04] It shuns the light. |
[1008.78 --> 1010.58] In the darkness of the expressed, |
[1010.80 --> 1014.60] it poisons the whole being of a person. |
[1014.60 --> 1018.14] Now, just be honest with me. |
[1018.68 --> 1019.66] Can you relate to that? |
[1021.32 --> 1022.96] Can you relate to sort of the weight |
[1022.96 --> 1024.02] of unconfessed sin? |
[1025.06 --> 1026.78] You know, I grew up in a Dutch culture, |
[1026.88 --> 1027.60] a Dutch subculture, |
[1027.80 --> 1029.62] and there's a word that people often use |
[1029.62 --> 1030.42] to describe Dutch people, |
[1030.54 --> 1031.14] which is stoic, |
[1031.24 --> 1031.60] which is like, |
[1031.64 --> 1032.68] no matter what's going on, |
[1032.72 --> 1033.16] you just like, |
[1033.24 --> 1034.14] you hold it together. |
[1034.64 --> 1036.44] And I think one of the downsides to that |
[1036.44 --> 1038.22] is you can almost try to conceal |
[1038.22 --> 1041.22] or bury the brokenness, right? |
[1041.58 --> 1043.06] There's just stuff going on in your life |
[1043.06 --> 1043.66] that is shameful, |
[1043.66 --> 1044.30] that's difficult, |
[1044.50 --> 1045.94] that's really destructive, |
[1046.14 --> 1046.80] and you're just like, |
[1047.06 --> 1048.18] we're just going to push that |
[1048.18 --> 1049.56] really deep down. |
[1049.84 --> 1051.30] No one's going to know about that. |
[1051.36 --> 1053.02] I'm not going to talk to anyone about that. |
[1053.16 --> 1053.88] And as a result, |
[1053.98 --> 1056.22] you just live with profound shame. |
[1057.18 --> 1058.94] You live with profound sense |
[1058.94 --> 1060.02] of being unworthy. |
[1060.16 --> 1061.20] You live in all sorts of pain |
[1061.20 --> 1062.30] that you're not even sure what to do with |
[1062.30 --> 1064.30] because you've just buried your sin. |
[1065.64 --> 1066.72] And John says, |
[1067.46 --> 1068.86] find the freedom through confession. |
[1070.48 --> 1072.06] Bring the sin to the light. |
[1074.10 --> 1075.50] That's where you're going to find the forgiveness. |
[1076.64 --> 1078.04] That's where you're going to find the grace. |
[1079.24 --> 1081.62] And I'm a huge advocate of daily confession. |
[1081.84 --> 1083.04] I know a number of people in our church, |
[1083.12 --> 1084.48] even when we do community prayer, |
[1084.86 --> 1086.38] we do the acts prayer, |
[1086.64 --> 1087.62] adoration, confession, |
[1087.96 --> 1088.50] thanksgiving, |
[1089.56 --> 1090.22] supplication. |
[1091.44 --> 1092.78] And so you do this daily confession. |
[1092.94 --> 1093.24] You sort of, |
[1093.36 --> 1094.26] as one writer puts it, |
[1094.34 --> 1094.58] you know, |
[1094.66 --> 1096.48] every day we're filled with all sorts of stuff |
[1096.48 --> 1097.34] that we're not proud of, |
[1097.38 --> 1098.66] and we do things we're not proud of. |
[1098.66 --> 1098.96] And we just, |
[1099.30 --> 1100.32] the act of confession |
[1100.32 --> 1102.08] is sort of taking the trash to the road. |
[1102.50 --> 1103.44] I like that image of like, |
[1103.60 --> 1104.58] you just gather it up |
[1104.58 --> 1104.86] and you're like, |
[1104.92 --> 1105.42] all right, Lord, |
[1105.56 --> 1106.54] this is the mess. |
[1106.74 --> 1107.70] Have mercy on me |
[1107.70 --> 1109.16] according to your great love, |
[1109.30 --> 1110.82] according to your unfailing mercy. |
[1111.34 --> 1111.86] Renew me. |
[1111.94 --> 1112.36] And Jesus, |
[1112.50 --> 1113.86] who loves to heal us, |
[1114.44 --> 1115.98] who loves to purify us, |
[1116.06 --> 1116.96] meets us in his grace. |
[1118.04 --> 1119.04] But confession |
[1119.04 --> 1120.40] is both vertical |
[1120.40 --> 1122.42] and it's horizontal. |
[1123.26 --> 1124.42] And I think what's been lost |
[1124.42 --> 1127.14] in a very individualized Western church |
[1127.14 --> 1129.42] is learning how to confess our sins |
[1129.42 --> 1130.22] to one another |
[1130.22 --> 1131.66] and with one another. |
[1132.98 --> 1134.14] And let me just read for you |
[1134.14 --> 1135.76] these sort of prodding words |
[1135.76 --> 1137.04] of James 5, 16. |
[1137.34 --> 1138.48] We did this in our sermon series |
[1138.48 --> 1139.18] a few months ago |
[1139.18 --> 1140.78] and this kind of grabbed me. |
[1141.34 --> 1141.76] He writes, |
[1141.92 --> 1142.16] therefore, |
[1142.54 --> 1143.22] actually I'm just going to say, |
[1143.28 --> 1144.66] I both love and hate this verse |
[1144.66 --> 1145.42] at the same time. |
[1146.00 --> 1146.88] It's so beautiful |
[1146.88 --> 1148.32] and it is so deeply challenging. |
[1148.44 --> 1148.74] He writes, |
[1149.12 --> 1150.68] therefore confess your sins |
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