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[3507.30 --> 3512.06] If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault.
[3512.06 --> 3516.08] Now, first of all, notice Jesus is addressing.
[3516.32 --> 3516.60] It says,
[3516.72 --> 3519.28] If your brother or sister sins.
[3520.02 --> 3526.68] First, Jesus redefines relationship and changes who your family is.
[3526.68 --> 3531.86] In Matthew 12, if you flip over just a couple pages.
[3532.98 --> 3539.18] In Matthew 12, at verse 48, Jesus says,
[3540.18 --> 3543.44] Who is my mother and who are my brothers?
[3544.16 --> 3545.92] And pointing to his disciples, he said,
[3545.92 --> 3548.10] Here are my mother and my brothers.
[3548.10 --> 3554.60] For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and my sister and my mother.
[3556.70 --> 3562.12] To be a believing disciple of Jesus is to gain a new family.
[3563.56 --> 3569.20] Listen to Paul, the Apostle Paul, in Ephesians 2, verse 19.
[3570.10 --> 3570.60] He says,
[3570.60 --> 3589.38] The word that's originally written in Greek there, the word meaning household, can also be translated family.
[3590.54 --> 3596.44] In fact, some scholars even include in the range of meaning of that word, related by blood.
[3596.44 --> 3603.16] And so for Christians, it is the blood of Jesus that makes us one family.
[3604.86 --> 3613.92] Explaining this new spiritual reality, Paul says just before in chapter 1 of Ephesians, in verse 4 and 5, he says,
[3613.92 --> 3620.36] For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
[3620.36 --> 3627.74] In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ.
[3629.32 --> 3634.60] We have all been adopted by God through Jesus and to each other.
[3635.58 --> 3637.72] Adoption is the gospel.
[3638.26 --> 3639.90] And let's be really clear about this, right?
[3639.98 --> 3642.82] Not as less than another, right?
[3642.96 --> 3645.88] After the adoption happens, it's over.
[3647.10 --> 3648.84] He's not an adopted son.
[3648.84 --> 3650.30] He is a son.
[3651.96 --> 3654.34] You are not my adopted sister.
[3654.74 --> 3655.70] You are my sister.
[3656.18 --> 3656.80] Full stop.
[3657.98 --> 3667.42] And as brothers and sisters, mothers and father, all of you, all of us, one to the other, we gather together.
[3668.38 --> 3670.06] Families gather.
[3670.06 --> 3673.80] And part of why we gather.
[3674.52 --> 3684.02] Part of why we gather is because I, for one, and I suspect all of you, need help remembering who you are.
[3684.02 --> 3690.32] I forget that I have been predestined in love for adoption to sonship.
[3690.48 --> 3696.78] I forget that before the foundation of the world, I was chosen to be holy and blameless in his sight.
[3697.16 --> 3701.98] And yes, surprising to all of you, except for maybe my wife, I sin.
[3704.48 --> 3705.44] I sin.
[3705.44 --> 3707.80] I am declared holy.
[3707.90 --> 3708.12] Amen.
[3708.94 --> 3710.44] I am born again blameless.
[3711.16 --> 3712.78] Amen and amen.
[3713.12 --> 3717.08] But there are times in my life when it doesn't look like that is true.
[3718.12 --> 3724.80] And I need you, my gathered Jesus family, to point that out and to hold me accountable.
[3730.14 --> 3731.40] We all need that.
[3732.90 --> 3733.14] Right?
[3733.14 --> 3733.72] Right?
[3735.44 --> 3735.84] Right?
[3735.96 --> 3736.78] That's a real question.
[3737.70 --> 3738.30] Okay, thank you.
[3738.66 --> 3739.54] Not the only one.
[3740.60 --> 3740.76] Right?
[3740.78 --> 3744.70] We may not always want it, but we all need it.
[3746.50 --> 3752.88] And part of why we gather in worship, but also perhaps especially why we gather in small groups
[3752.88 --> 3757.90] and in Bible studies and as mentors and mentees in different ministries like Coffee Break,
[3757.90 --> 3764.42] which is primarily young women, but not only young women's ministry that takes place on Tuesday mornings
[3764.42 --> 3769.84] here at church with coffee and Bible study, primarily why the seniors group gathers together.
[3771.10 --> 3771.20] Right?
[3771.28 --> 3778.66] Part of why we gather is because as a family in the household of God, we are called to be
[3778.66 --> 3785.26] holy and blameless, even as we are already by grace through faith made holy and blameless.
[3785.26 --> 3792.62] And for each of us to live that out well and to do so more and more ever increasingly comprehensively
[3792.62 --> 3796.02] in every corner of our lives, we need each other's help.
[3796.76 --> 3798.18] We need accountability.
[3800.10 --> 3802.54] Because, and listen here, right?
[3802.54 --> 3811.26] No one, no one is more winsome to you in justifying your own sin than you are.
[3813.02 --> 3814.12] Follow what I mean there?
[3815.76 --> 3821.02] We are all really, really good at justifying ourself.
[3821.54 --> 3825.64] It's really easy to say, oh, no one's getting hurt.
[3826.72 --> 3827.90] And it's only a little bit.
[3828.76 --> 3830.04] It's only on the weekends.
[3830.04 --> 3832.42] Sometimes, I deserve this.
[3833.94 --> 3834.06] Right?
[3834.14 --> 3836.56] Sometimes we are really good at saying, that's not greed.
[3836.90 --> 3838.28] That's just business savvy.
[3839.84 --> 3841.20] Or that's not pride.
[3841.72 --> 3842.98] I'm just really competent.
[3844.68 --> 3845.16] Right?
[3845.22 --> 3850.60] Whatever it is, and you know how easy it is to justify yourself.
[3850.60 --> 3856.86] And that's why we need someone who is not us to tell us and to point out our blind spots.
[3856.86 --> 3861.16] Because we get blind to these things in our own hearts and to hold us accountable.
[3863.40 --> 3865.70] But, please hear this.
[3866.24 --> 3868.20] Because this is critically important for accountability.
[3869.44 --> 3876.46] If you are going to call out someone's sin, which in case you haven't heard that yet, that's what we're talking about.
[3876.46 --> 3878.12] That's what this text is telling us to do.
[3878.66 --> 3878.88] Right?
[3878.88 --> 3884.36] What is foundational to our purpose for gathering is calling out each other's sin.
[3884.54 --> 3891.26] If you were going to call out the sin of a brother or sister, you better make sure that it's actually a sin.
[3892.18 --> 3892.62] Right?
[3892.64 --> 3894.52] And not something that you would just do differently.
[3895.94 --> 3896.38] Right?
[3896.38 --> 3900.56] Or not something that you would just choose otherwise if it was your choice.
[3902.06 --> 3902.52] So hear me.
[3902.58 --> 3904.18] We have to call sin a sin.
[3904.24 --> 3905.10] And we cannot be afraid.
[3905.22 --> 3907.30] We must call sin and sin.
[3907.58 --> 3914.24] But we must do so being sure that we have scripture to back it up and to prove it.
[3914.24 --> 3919.12] And so before you go holding anyone to account for their sin, check your own heart.
[3919.40 --> 3920.70] And then check the word.
[3920.90 --> 3922.74] And then pray for insight and clarity.
[3923.34 --> 3925.76] And then do it all again.