1 00:00:00,850 --> 00:00:03,330 Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:03,830 --> 00:00:05,370 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:05,370 --> 00:00:07,510 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:07,510 --> 00:00:10,250 Christian faith and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:10,250 --> 00:00:10,530 too. 6 00:00:11,070 --> 00:00:13,310 This week we have Parris Reedhead with his 7 00:00:13,310 --> 00:00:15,970 message So Great a Salvation, Hating Sin. 8 00:00:18,670 --> 00:00:21,310 Now we should turn to the little epistle 9 00:00:21,310 --> 00:00:22,210 of 1 John. 10 00:00:23,210 --> 00:00:25,950 You that are joining us this morning that 11 00:00:25,950 --> 00:00:27,630 will not have been with us in the 12 00:00:27,630 --> 00:00:31,590 other services may be interested in knowing that 13 00:00:31,590 --> 00:00:36,670 I've asked each of the people present to 14 00:00:36,670 --> 00:00:41,190 mark certain verses in 1 John so that 15 00:00:41,190 --> 00:00:42,090 they can use them. 16 00:00:42,250 --> 00:00:44,550 You know, today we have so many people 17 00:00:44,550 --> 00:00:49,950 that will come saying, I'm not sure about 18 00:00:49,950 --> 00:00:50,810 my salvation. 19 00:00:51,510 --> 00:00:52,810 I'm not sure I'm a Christian. 20 00:00:52,950 --> 00:00:54,430 I'm not sure I've been born of God. 21 00:00:54,830 --> 00:00:57,190 And to tell you the truth, there's a 22 00:00:57,190 --> 00:01:00,650 great deal of reason why many ought to 23 00:01:00,650 --> 00:01:01,250 be concerned. 24 00:01:02,390 --> 00:01:05,950 I've seen missionaries that have discovered they've not 25 00:01:05,950 --> 00:01:10,110 been born of God and pastors and deacons 26 00:01:10,110 --> 00:01:11,730 and Christian workers. 27 00:01:13,070 --> 00:01:17,110 Because during the lifetime there's been so much 28 00:01:17,110 --> 00:01:21,010 that one might term easy believism or shallow 29 00:01:21,010 --> 00:01:22,970 evangelism or something else. 30 00:01:23,730 --> 00:01:25,970 So people have a right to be concerned 31 00:01:25,970 --> 00:01:26,790 about it. 32 00:01:26,970 --> 00:01:29,650 And I've asked that folk mark this. 33 00:01:29,710 --> 00:01:33,150 Now, not just for your sake, but for 34 00:01:33,150 --> 00:01:34,570 the sake of those that will be coming 35 00:01:34,570 --> 00:01:35,090 to you. 36 00:01:35,610 --> 00:01:38,310 When someone says, I'm not sure I'm a 37 00:01:38,310 --> 00:01:39,490 Christian, what are you going to do? 38 00:01:40,330 --> 00:01:41,550 Pat them on the back? 39 00:01:41,910 --> 00:01:42,950 Smile at them? 40 00:01:43,530 --> 00:01:44,710 Why do you worry? 41 00:01:45,350 --> 00:01:47,470 Or are you going to have the same 42 00:01:47,470 --> 00:01:51,930 kind of concern that a doctor should have 43 00:01:51,930 --> 00:01:53,790 even though he's a friend of the family? 44 00:01:54,190 --> 00:01:57,210 If someone comes and says, I think I 45 00:01:57,210 --> 00:01:58,810 may have cancer. 46 00:01:59,570 --> 00:02:01,930 You don't want that doctor to just pat 47 00:02:01,930 --> 00:02:04,210 you on the back and smile at you 48 00:02:04,210 --> 00:02:06,270 and tell a joke, do you? 49 00:02:07,009 --> 00:02:09,509 Wouldn't you rather that the doctor would say, 50 00:02:09,570 --> 00:02:13,030 well, because we're friends, I'm going to use 51 00:02:13,030 --> 00:02:17,190 everything available to me in medical knowledge and 52 00:02:17,190 --> 00:02:20,070 equipment to help discover this. 53 00:02:20,070 --> 00:02:23,270 If you have it, we should not let 54 00:02:23,270 --> 00:02:24,930 one day go. 55 00:02:25,470 --> 00:02:27,270 If you don't have it, you should have 56 00:02:27,270 --> 00:02:30,250 the assurance that comes from knowing that. 57 00:02:30,970 --> 00:02:32,790 And so with people that say, I'm not 58 00:02:32,790 --> 00:02:34,230 sure I'm a child of God. 59 00:02:34,870 --> 00:02:38,430 We're viewing 1 John as God's little x 60 00:02:38,430 --> 00:02:39,670 -ray machine. 61 00:02:40,590 --> 00:02:43,530 And we ask the person to read each 62 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:44,410 of these verses. 63 00:02:44,970 --> 00:02:48,570 Because each verse is in the midst of 64 00:02:48,570 --> 00:02:53,490 a truth that deals exactly with that issue. 65 00:02:54,290 --> 00:02:58,250 In 1 John 5 and 10, we are 66 00:02:58,250 --> 00:03:01,630 told these things are written that you might 67 00:03:01,630 --> 00:03:04,510 know that you have eternal life. 68 00:03:05,190 --> 00:03:07,710 That's why they're written, so that you can 69 00:03:07,710 --> 00:03:08,030 know. 70 00:03:08,190 --> 00:03:12,070 Well, the first of these evidences of eternal 71 00:03:12,070 --> 00:03:15,690 life is the first chapter and the sixth 72 00:03:15,690 --> 00:03:16,350 verse. 73 00:03:16,350 --> 00:03:20,470 If we say that we have fellowship with 74 00:03:20,470 --> 00:03:24,930 Him and walk in darkness, we lie and 75 00:03:24,930 --> 00:03:26,010 do not the truth. 76 00:03:26,570 --> 00:03:30,310 So this person sitting across from you in 77 00:03:30,310 --> 00:03:34,110 the restaurant to whom you're speaking because they've 78 00:03:34,110 --> 00:03:36,810 asked you this question, you just turn your 79 00:03:36,810 --> 00:03:38,550 Testament or your Bible and say, well, read 80 00:03:38,550 --> 00:03:38,890 that. 81 00:03:39,130 --> 00:03:40,050 Well, what's it say? 82 00:03:40,930 --> 00:03:42,970 Well, if we say we have fellowship with 83 00:03:42,970 --> 00:03:44,870 Him and walk in darkness. 84 00:03:45,550 --> 00:03:48,670 Well, what does that mean? 85 00:03:48,790 --> 00:03:49,910 Well, just what it says. 86 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:51,230 How do you walk? 87 00:03:52,110 --> 00:03:53,950 Is it your purpose to walk in the 88 00:03:53,950 --> 00:03:55,870 light or are you still walking in darkness? 89 00:03:56,770 --> 00:03:57,750 They have a question. 90 00:03:58,450 --> 00:04:00,450 What does it mean to walk in darkness? 91 00:04:00,670 --> 00:04:03,130 And of course, you take them to Ephesians 92 00:04:03,130 --> 00:04:06,810 chapter 4 verse 17 through about the sixth 93 00:04:06,810 --> 00:04:10,010 verse of the fifth chapter and you have 94 00:04:10,010 --> 00:04:13,310 God's explanation of what it means to walk 95 00:04:13,310 --> 00:04:13,810 in darkness. 96 00:04:13,810 --> 00:04:16,990 Now put a number two next to the 97 00:04:16,990 --> 00:04:19,750 third verse of the second chapter. 98 00:04:20,870 --> 00:04:24,290 Hereby we do know that we know Him 99 00:04:25,370 --> 00:04:28,030 if we keep His commandments. 100 00:04:28,350 --> 00:04:30,790 He that saith I know Him and keepeth 101 00:04:30,790 --> 00:04:33,770 not His commandments is a liar and the 102 00:04:33,770 --> 00:04:34,930 truth is not in Him. 103 00:04:36,330 --> 00:04:37,550 How do you walk? 104 00:04:37,990 --> 00:04:40,190 What's your attitude toward the commandments? 105 00:04:40,410 --> 00:04:42,150 That's evidence number two. 106 00:04:42,150 --> 00:04:47,870 And then I have chosen to put three 107 00:04:47,870 --> 00:04:52,970 verses with a number three has to do 108 00:04:52,970 --> 00:04:54,250 with loving your brother. 109 00:04:54,810 --> 00:04:56,790 In this case, it's enough just to put 110 00:04:56,790 --> 00:04:59,790 a number three next to verse nine of 111 00:04:59,790 --> 00:05:00,970 the second chapter. 112 00:05:01,970 --> 00:05:04,450 He that saith he is in the light 113 00:05:05,530 --> 00:05:09,730 and hateth his brother is in darkness even 114 00:05:09,730 --> 00:05:10,630 until now. 115 00:05:10,630 --> 00:05:13,910 He that loveth his brother abideth in the 116 00:05:13,910 --> 00:05:14,090 light. 117 00:05:14,090 --> 00:05:16,510 What's your attitude toward others? 118 00:05:17,430 --> 00:05:18,350 Do you love God? 119 00:05:18,430 --> 00:05:19,870 You know to love God with all your 120 00:05:19,870 --> 00:05:22,630 heart and mind and soul and strength includes 121 00:05:22,630 --> 00:05:24,710 loving your neighbor as yourself. 122 00:05:25,630 --> 00:05:29,910 Hatred is the intention to harm somebody and 123 00:05:29,910 --> 00:05:33,170 love the intention to help and bless someone. 124 00:05:33,850 --> 00:05:35,130 Well, that's number three. 125 00:05:35,730 --> 00:05:39,910 Number four, we've put just opposite verse 15 126 00:05:39,910 --> 00:05:41,470 of the second chapter. 127 00:05:42,670 --> 00:05:44,310 The fourth evidence. 128 00:05:44,530 --> 00:05:47,470 Love not the world neither the things that 129 00:05:47,470 --> 00:05:48,510 are in the world. 130 00:05:49,110 --> 00:05:52,230 If any man love the world, the love 131 00:05:52,230 --> 00:05:55,870 of the Father is not in him. 132 00:05:57,150 --> 00:05:59,070 Well, that's pretty clear, isn't it? 133 00:05:59,170 --> 00:06:01,050 What's your attitude toward the world? 134 00:06:01,230 --> 00:06:03,450 Whom you love, you seek to please. 135 00:06:03,950 --> 00:06:05,730 You get your happiness from. 136 00:06:05,730 --> 00:06:07,210 Do you love God? 137 00:06:07,810 --> 00:06:08,910 Or do you love the world? 138 00:06:09,190 --> 00:06:11,090 That's the fourth evidence. 139 00:06:11,930 --> 00:06:16,070 And then the next evidence is found in 140 00:06:16,070 --> 00:06:21,890 the 24th verse of the second chapter. 141 00:06:22,470 --> 00:06:25,590 Let that therefore abide in you which you've 142 00:06:25,590 --> 00:06:26,730 heard from the beginning. 143 00:06:27,330 --> 00:06:29,710 If that which you've heard from the beginning 144 00:06:29,710 --> 00:06:33,310 shall remain in you, you shall also continue 145 00:06:33,310 --> 00:06:36,870 in the Son and in the Father. 146 00:06:37,050 --> 00:06:39,270 This is the promise He has promised us 147 00:06:39,270 --> 00:06:41,010 even eternal life. 148 00:06:41,750 --> 00:06:44,730 Are you continuing in that profession of faith 149 00:06:44,730 --> 00:06:47,250 you've made in that trust in the finished 150 00:06:47,250 --> 00:06:48,150 work of Christ? 151 00:06:48,610 --> 00:06:50,270 Or have you gone away? 152 00:06:51,190 --> 00:06:52,250 That's the issue. 153 00:06:52,410 --> 00:06:53,910 And that's the fifth evidence. 154 00:06:54,930 --> 00:06:55,610 Continuance. 155 00:06:56,050 --> 00:06:58,350 Go carrying on, standing firm. 156 00:06:59,210 --> 00:07:03,470 Now today we're coming to the sixth evidence. 157 00:07:03,910 --> 00:07:06,490 And I want you, because you're now up 158 00:07:06,490 --> 00:07:08,870 with us, I want you to put a 159 00:07:08,870 --> 00:07:12,970 six next to the tenth verse of the 160 00:07:12,970 --> 00:07:13,870 third chapter. 161 00:07:14,710 --> 00:07:20,150 This is the sixth evidence of being born 162 00:07:20,150 --> 00:07:20,850 of God. 163 00:07:21,730 --> 00:07:23,650 I guess you have to check the ninth 164 00:07:23,650 --> 00:07:28,010 verse and put the six next to ten. 165 00:07:28,010 --> 00:07:31,970 Whosoever is born of God does not commit 166 00:07:31,970 --> 00:07:34,870 or practice or do sin. 167 00:07:35,770 --> 00:07:39,230 For his seed remaineth in him, and he 168 00:07:39,230 --> 00:07:41,970 cannot do sin because he is born of 169 00:07:41,970 --> 00:07:42,450 God. 170 00:07:43,150 --> 00:07:46,210 In this the children of God are manifest 171 00:07:46,210 --> 00:07:49,490 and the children of the devil. 172 00:07:50,390 --> 00:07:54,010 Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, 173 00:07:54,670 --> 00:07:56,990 neither he that loveth not his brother. 174 00:07:57,890 --> 00:08:01,470 Now everything that we've seen in 1 John 175 00:08:02,610 --> 00:08:06,030 relates to those first three verses where John 176 00:08:06,030 --> 00:08:10,130 said, that which we have seen and heard 177 00:08:10,130 --> 00:08:13,350 declare we unto you that you might have 178 00:08:13,350 --> 00:08:15,050 fellowship with us. 179 00:08:15,690 --> 00:08:17,890 And truly our fellowship is with the Father 180 00:08:17,890 --> 00:08:20,650 and with His Son, Jesus Christ. 181 00:08:20,790 --> 00:08:22,790 And then he said, and these things write 182 00:08:22,790 --> 00:08:25,510 we unto you that your joy may be 183 00:08:25,510 --> 00:08:25,970 full. 184 00:08:26,810 --> 00:08:29,030 And if we're going to have fellowship with 185 00:08:29,030 --> 00:08:32,049 God, we've got to know about God. 186 00:08:32,169 --> 00:08:33,909 We've got to know something about Him. 187 00:08:34,549 --> 00:08:38,530 I regret that the beginning of the third 188 00:08:38,530 --> 00:08:43,410 chapter did not start with the 29th verse 189 00:08:43,410 --> 00:08:44,850 of the second chapter. 190 00:08:46,130 --> 00:08:47,630 We're going to do that. 191 00:08:47,730 --> 00:08:50,430 We're going to make verse 29 of chapter 192 00:08:50,430 --> 00:08:53,170 2 the first verse, even though it isn't 193 00:08:53,170 --> 00:08:54,410 in your Bible. 194 00:08:54,910 --> 00:08:56,150 I'm not changing that. 195 00:08:56,310 --> 00:08:58,370 I'm just including that and saying that's where 196 00:08:58,370 --> 00:08:59,310 we're going to begin. 197 00:09:00,370 --> 00:09:04,370 If you know that He is righteous, you 198 00:09:04,370 --> 00:09:08,710 know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born 199 00:09:08,710 --> 00:09:09,230 of Him. 200 00:09:10,030 --> 00:09:13,370 In the seventh verse of the third chapter, 201 00:09:13,510 --> 00:09:18,630 we're told that Christ is righteous. 202 00:09:20,870 --> 00:09:23,810 The Lord Jesus Christ is righteous. 203 00:09:24,030 --> 00:09:28,250 In this 29th verse, we're told that God 204 00:09:28,250 --> 00:09:29,230 is righteous. 205 00:09:29,930 --> 00:09:33,530 You see, it says, everyone that doeth righteousness 206 00:09:33,530 --> 00:09:35,490 is born of Him. 207 00:09:35,630 --> 00:09:37,830 Nowhere are we said to have been born 208 00:09:37,830 --> 00:09:39,770 of the Son. 209 00:09:40,350 --> 00:09:42,010 We're born of the Father. 210 00:09:42,830 --> 00:09:47,290 So what we're discovering here is more about 211 00:09:47,290 --> 00:09:49,030 the Father and about the Son. 212 00:09:49,090 --> 00:09:50,990 If we're going to have fellowship with God 213 00:09:50,990 --> 00:09:53,710 and our fellowship is with the Father and 214 00:09:53,710 --> 00:09:56,190 with the Son, we'd better know all we 215 00:09:56,190 --> 00:09:57,550 can know about them. 216 00:09:58,290 --> 00:10:00,830 So what John is telling us here is 217 00:10:00,830 --> 00:10:05,630 that God, God the Father, is righteous. 218 00:10:06,670 --> 00:10:08,790 And I said in the seventh verse, the 219 00:10:08,790 --> 00:10:11,370 Apostle says the Lord Jesus is righteous. 220 00:10:12,330 --> 00:10:15,250 Now here's the argument that the Apostle makes. 221 00:10:15,810 --> 00:10:17,030 God is righteous. 222 00:10:18,490 --> 00:10:22,210 Everyone doing righteousness is born of Him. 223 00:10:25,090 --> 00:10:28,570 That's his logical argument. 224 00:10:29,430 --> 00:10:35,650 Now if I do not do righteousness, it 225 00:10:35,650 --> 00:10:37,630 is evidence that I am not born of 226 00:10:37,630 --> 00:10:38,070 God. 227 00:10:39,470 --> 00:10:41,230 So someone is saying, am I a child 228 00:10:41,230 --> 00:10:41,730 of God? 229 00:10:42,970 --> 00:10:45,350 God says, do you do righteousness? 230 00:10:45,350 --> 00:10:47,430 Do you practice righteousness? 231 00:10:47,750 --> 00:10:48,670 God is righteous. 232 00:10:49,510 --> 00:10:51,270 And everyone that's born of Him has been 233 00:10:51,270 --> 00:10:53,790 made a partaker of the divine nature. 234 00:10:54,650 --> 00:10:56,690 So if someone says that they're a child 235 00:10:56,690 --> 00:10:59,510 of God and they've been born again and 236 00:10:59,510 --> 00:11:02,430 they don't practice righteousness, the argument John makes 237 00:11:02,430 --> 00:11:05,710 is they're not telling the truth because God 238 00:11:05,710 --> 00:11:06,310 is righteous. 239 00:11:07,550 --> 00:11:10,610 And therefore everyone born of Him will do 240 00:11:10,610 --> 00:11:11,290 righteousness. 241 00:11:12,390 --> 00:11:14,570 If I do it, if I do righteousness, 242 00:11:14,570 --> 00:11:19,690 if I practice righteousness, there is evidence that 243 00:11:19,690 --> 00:11:20,830 I'm born of God. 244 00:11:22,310 --> 00:11:25,790 Now there are a great many in the 245 00:11:25,790 --> 00:11:28,110 day of our Lord and ever since and 246 00:11:28,110 --> 00:11:33,950 certainly today, a great many who pronounce themselves 247 00:11:34,420 --> 00:11:35,570 to be righteous. 248 00:11:36,150 --> 00:11:37,590 And we're not counting that. 249 00:11:38,690 --> 00:11:42,490 For instance, Christ said to the Pharisees, you 250 00:11:42,490 --> 00:11:48,470 are the ones declaring yourselves righteous before men. 251 00:11:50,730 --> 00:11:54,090 You see, the Pharisees thought that if they 252 00:11:54,090 --> 00:11:58,390 made a claim, then what they claimed was 253 00:11:58,390 --> 00:11:59,030 a reality. 254 00:11:59,410 --> 00:12:01,190 The claim made them what they claimed. 255 00:12:02,210 --> 00:12:04,150 It doesn't work that way, I'm afraid. 256 00:12:04,770 --> 00:12:06,210 It just doesn't happen that way. 257 00:12:07,290 --> 00:12:08,590 They thought so. 258 00:12:08,710 --> 00:12:10,830 They said because we declare ourselves to be 259 00:12:10,830 --> 00:12:12,530 righteous, therefore we're righteous. 260 00:12:13,190 --> 00:12:15,510 No, not so, said our Lord Jesus. 261 00:12:16,910 --> 00:12:21,950 When Klaus Harms, on the anniversary of the 262 00:12:21,950 --> 00:12:27,510 Reformation, the Lutheran Reformation, prepared the 95 theses 263 00:12:27,510 --> 00:12:30,770 that he put on the door at the 264 00:12:30,770 --> 00:12:34,910 cathedral, one of his theses was this. 265 00:12:36,250 --> 00:12:41,030 People used to pay for the forgiveness of 266 00:12:41,030 --> 00:12:41,730 their sins. 267 00:12:41,950 --> 00:12:45,310 In other words, they bought indulgence from the 268 00:12:45,310 --> 00:12:45,650 priest. 269 00:12:47,010 --> 00:12:49,870 But nowadays, people have advanced. 270 00:12:51,110 --> 00:12:52,730 They don't want to part with the money, 271 00:12:52,870 --> 00:12:53,390 I guess. 272 00:12:53,770 --> 00:12:57,510 So what they do is every sinner just 273 00:12:57,510 --> 00:13:01,110 forgives his own sins or he declares himself 274 00:13:01,110 --> 00:13:01,770 to be righteous. 275 00:13:02,770 --> 00:13:06,650 And, of course, that, according to this good 276 00:13:06,650 --> 00:13:10,210 man, is an evidence of the declension into 277 00:13:10,210 --> 00:13:11,170 which we've come. 278 00:13:12,390 --> 00:13:15,570 Oh yes, many do pronounce themselves righteous. 279 00:13:15,830 --> 00:13:19,910 Then there's another company that consider themselves safe 280 00:13:20,770 --> 00:13:24,430 because they're resting in their baptism as infants. 281 00:13:25,350 --> 00:13:28,270 And so they assume themselves to be acceptable 282 00:13:28,270 --> 00:13:28,790 to God. 283 00:13:29,950 --> 00:13:33,250 And then there are other multitudes, multitudes of 284 00:13:33,250 --> 00:13:37,310 people who'd followed the instructions of some religious 285 00:13:37,310 --> 00:13:45,170 leader and they now have assumed themselves to 286 00:13:45,170 --> 00:13:46,350 be righteous. 287 00:13:47,310 --> 00:13:50,050 That's a dangerous thing to do because God 288 00:13:50,050 --> 00:13:53,970 is righteous and they that do righteousness as 289 00:13:53,970 --> 00:13:56,410 He prescribes it are born of Him. 290 00:13:57,410 --> 00:14:01,010 You see, the problem rides on this. 291 00:14:02,010 --> 00:14:05,010 The world doesn't understand God. 292 00:14:05,850 --> 00:14:07,210 We have it right here. 293 00:14:08,130 --> 00:14:09,930 It's very clear. 294 00:14:11,550 --> 00:14:14,110 Behold what manner of love the Father hath 295 00:14:14,110 --> 00:14:16,490 bestowed upon us that we should be called 296 00:14:16,490 --> 00:14:18,430 the sons of God. 297 00:14:19,290 --> 00:14:24,530 Therefore, the world knoweth us not because it 298 00:14:24,530 --> 00:14:25,850 knew Him not. 299 00:14:26,870 --> 00:14:28,830 And therefore, those that have been born of 300 00:14:28,830 --> 00:14:33,850 God, those that are truly His, are going 301 00:14:33,850 --> 00:14:35,790 to have a little bit of a problem. 302 00:14:36,070 --> 00:14:38,710 God may see them as righteous and God 303 00:14:38,710 --> 00:14:41,070 may accept them, but the world has a 304 00:14:41,070 --> 00:14:42,150 different standard. 305 00:14:43,690 --> 00:14:47,930 The world knows what we were because many 306 00:14:47,930 --> 00:14:50,490 times we've been born of God and yet 307 00:14:50,490 --> 00:14:53,990 there are those around who recall how we 308 00:14:53,990 --> 00:14:57,130 lived before we came to know the Lord. 309 00:14:58,090 --> 00:15:01,050 They're going to realize that once we were 310 00:15:01,050 --> 00:15:04,990 traitors against God and rebels and anarchists and 311 00:15:04,990 --> 00:15:08,750 enemies that we walked according to the course 312 00:15:08,750 --> 00:15:11,650 of this world, according to the prince and 313 00:15:11,650 --> 00:15:13,450 the power of the air, the same spirit 314 00:15:13,450 --> 00:15:15,750 that continues to work in them. 315 00:15:16,610 --> 00:15:18,070 And they're going to say, well, what difference 316 00:15:18,070 --> 00:15:19,190 is there about you? 317 00:15:19,190 --> 00:15:19,550 No. 318 00:15:21,070 --> 00:15:25,510 The world has no way of knowing God 319 00:15:25,510 --> 00:15:29,830 and because the world doesn't know God, it 320 00:15:29,830 --> 00:15:32,770 doesn't know those that are born of God. 321 00:15:33,090 --> 00:15:38,290 It doesn't have the grounds for understanding what 322 00:15:38,290 --> 00:15:39,850 has happened to us. 323 00:15:40,470 --> 00:15:43,950 The world has this idea promulgated by a 324 00:15:43,950 --> 00:15:47,770 lot of preachers of the universal fatherhood of 325 00:15:47,770 --> 00:15:49,790 God and the brotherhood of man. 326 00:15:50,570 --> 00:15:53,330 No concept of redemption or regeneration. 327 00:15:54,970 --> 00:15:57,270 The world did not know our Lord Jesus 328 00:15:57,270 --> 00:15:57,850 Christ. 329 00:15:58,010 --> 00:15:59,490 That's a historical fact. 330 00:16:00,350 --> 00:16:03,630 And since it never knew Him, didn't know 331 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:06,390 who He was, didn't understand who He was, 332 00:16:06,850 --> 00:16:09,270 today the world doesn't know those that are 333 00:16:09,270 --> 00:16:09,750 His. 334 00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:13,370 But we shouldn't be grieved about that. 335 00:16:14,750 --> 00:16:18,010 Don't grieve because the world doesn't understand you 336 00:16:18,010 --> 00:16:19,890 as a child of God born into the 337 00:16:19,890 --> 00:16:21,830 Father's family through faith in Christ. 338 00:16:22,490 --> 00:16:24,550 I think you ought to be grieved if 339 00:16:24,550 --> 00:16:26,350 the world did understand you. 340 00:16:26,930 --> 00:16:29,850 The fact that it doesn't, that's alright. 341 00:16:30,130 --> 00:16:32,050 People that you work with, the people that 342 00:16:32,050 --> 00:16:34,550 know you and that you meet out in 343 00:16:34,550 --> 00:16:38,210 the normal course of activities, they don't understand 344 00:16:38,210 --> 00:16:40,450 this thing that's taken place in your life. 345 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:48,180 But they're certainly going to know the difference 346 00:16:48,180 --> 00:16:49,160 that He's made. 347 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,940 Perhaps the best time in the world for 348 00:16:51,940 --> 00:16:56,540 you to tell someone of what's taken place 349 00:16:56,540 --> 00:16:59,200 in your life is when they come to 350 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,980 you and say, what's happened to you? 351 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:04,859 I've known you then, I've known you since, 352 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:05,800 but you're different. 353 00:17:06,579 --> 00:17:07,980 What's happened to you? 354 00:17:08,940 --> 00:17:12,940 Best opportunity in the world to tell someone 355 00:17:12,940 --> 00:17:13,940 about Christ. 356 00:17:13,940 --> 00:17:16,859 And if they don't see a difference, all 357 00:17:16,859 --> 00:17:18,720 the talking in the world you're going to 358 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:20,940 do isn't going to mean anything to them. 359 00:17:22,180 --> 00:17:23,560 They've got to see it. 360 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:25,700 They don't understand it. 361 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,300 We've established that. 362 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,940 But they recognize there is a difference and 363 00:17:31,940 --> 00:17:34,180 they'd like to, or many of them at 364 00:17:34,180 --> 00:17:36,400 least, would like to know more about it. 365 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,140 So we have to, in this same portion, 366 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,840 John's going to tell us more about those 367 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:44,760 who are born of God. 368 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,220 In this second verse of the third chapter, 369 00:17:48,620 --> 00:17:53,500 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, 370 00:17:53,580 --> 00:17:55,320 and it does not yet appear what we 371 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,380 shall be. 372 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:58,920 But we know that when He shall appear, 373 00:17:59,020 --> 00:18:01,300 we shall be like Him, for we shall 374 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:04,000 see Him as He is. 375 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:08,120 Now we still look like other people, and 376 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:10,520 as I've pointed out, the world does not 377 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,000 really understand anything about us. 378 00:18:14,060 --> 00:18:16,820 It laughs at the idea that we are 379 00:18:16,820 --> 00:18:18,580 children of God. 380 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:22,420 You see, God has not yet made a 381 00:18:22,420 --> 00:18:26,780 public display of His children. 382 00:18:27,980 --> 00:18:29,540 One day He's going to do it. 383 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,080 We're going to have a body like unto 384 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,860 the body of glory of our Lord Jesus 385 00:18:35,860 --> 00:18:36,340 Christ. 386 00:18:37,150 --> 00:18:39,460 We have an incorruptible inheritance. 387 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:45,280 We'll have white robes, and we'll be all 388 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,080 that He has planned for us to be, 389 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,280 and then there'll be the setting forth of 390 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:52,240 the children of God. 391 00:18:52,300 --> 00:18:53,100 But not yet. 392 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,820 We're still as we were in many respects, 393 00:18:57,980 --> 00:19:00,860 and the world doesn't understand how we can 394 00:19:00,860 --> 00:19:04,760 claim to be born of God and still 395 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,660 be so much like the rest of the 396 00:19:08,660 --> 00:19:09,760 people in the world. 397 00:19:10,340 --> 00:19:14,820 But we know that when He appears and 398 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:17,840 we see Him, we're going to be changed 399 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,920 into His likeness. 400 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,760 We'll be like Him. 401 00:19:23,460 --> 00:19:25,700 You see, here on earth, this time, we 402 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:28,600 are in, shall I say, a state of 403 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,320 humiliation in the same way Christ was when 404 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:32,100 He was here. 405 00:19:33,060 --> 00:19:34,720 He was said to be a root out 406 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,880 of the dry ground and no beauty that 407 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,160 anyone should desire Him. 408 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,780 But He's been glorified, and when we see 409 00:19:44,780 --> 00:19:47,340 Him, we're going to be as He is. 410 00:19:47,380 --> 00:19:49,840 They're going to appear like the Lord Jesus 411 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:50,400 Christ. 412 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,560 That's when it will be made manifest, that 413 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,900 one great final manifestation. 414 00:19:57,120 --> 00:19:59,480 Then the children of this world will see 415 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,580 that those whom they've despised and disregarded, often 416 00:20:03,580 --> 00:20:07,840 persecuted, are indeed the children of God. 417 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,440 Now, if you have been born of God, 418 00:20:12,180 --> 00:20:15,880 if you are a child of God, the 419 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:19,900 evidence is going to be supported by the 420 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:22,420 fact that since you know He is righteous, 421 00:20:23,860 --> 00:20:26,280 and you've been born of Him and made 422 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:30,320 a partaker of His nature, that one day 423 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,300 you're going to be like Him when you 424 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:33,860 see Him as He is. 425 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:40,240 You are going to certify the genuineness of 426 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,640 your faith in Christ by your continuing to 427 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:49,320 purify yourself even as the Lord Jesus Christ 428 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:49,880 is pure. 429 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:51,960 Now you say, well, how can you purify 430 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:52,600 yourself? 431 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:57,960 Well, you do it by obeying the Word, 432 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,500 taking heed according to the Word. 433 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,360 Doing righteousness means that you obey the Scripture, 434 00:21:07,180 --> 00:21:11,080 that you are careful to obey the Scripture. 435 00:21:11,260 --> 00:21:12,900 You say, well, we're not under law. 436 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,340 No, we're not under the law of mosaic 437 00:21:17,340 --> 00:21:22,440 offerings and sacrifices and all that pertain as 438 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,360 shadows and types of Christ. 439 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,720 But everything in the New Testament that's in 440 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,460 the imperative mood is a command of the 441 00:21:32,460 --> 00:21:33,260 Holy Ghost. 442 00:21:35,990 --> 00:21:39,010 And we are expected to give heed to 443 00:21:39,010 --> 00:21:39,870 the Word of God. 444 00:21:39,950 --> 00:21:42,110 We are told that the Word is to 445 00:21:42,110 --> 00:21:45,930 have free course and be glorified in us. 446 00:21:46,510 --> 00:21:48,890 And the Word is glorified in us when 447 00:21:48,890 --> 00:21:50,110 we obey it. 448 00:21:50,990 --> 00:21:55,110 How much time do you give in reading 449 00:21:55,110 --> 00:21:59,910 the Word with the purpose of changing your 450 00:21:59,910 --> 00:22:05,870 attitudes, your relationships, your activities to match the 451 00:22:05,870 --> 00:22:06,230 Word? 452 00:22:07,690 --> 00:22:09,990 Well, it's important for you to know that 453 00:22:09,990 --> 00:22:13,230 because we are told that every man that 454 00:22:13,230 --> 00:22:16,210 has this hope of seeing Him and being 455 00:22:16,210 --> 00:22:22,110 like Him continues to purify himself even as 456 00:22:22,110 --> 00:22:23,110 Christ is pure. 457 00:22:24,490 --> 00:22:25,970 You've sung it. 458 00:22:26,670 --> 00:22:29,250 Have you ever really thought about those words 459 00:22:29,250 --> 00:22:31,190 when you sang them? 460 00:22:32,550 --> 00:22:35,150 Oh, to be like Thee. 461 00:22:35,770 --> 00:22:41,670 Oh, to be like Thee, blessed Redeemer, pure 462 00:22:41,670 --> 00:22:43,150 as Thou art. 463 00:22:43,910 --> 00:22:45,610 Come in Thy fullness. 464 00:22:45,610 --> 00:22:48,690 Come in Thy pureness. 465 00:22:49,790 --> 00:22:55,010 Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart. 466 00:22:56,090 --> 00:22:58,790 Well, that's the cry of the one who's 467 00:22:58,790 --> 00:23:00,150 been born of God. 468 00:23:00,690 --> 00:23:05,320 Oh, to be like Thee, blessed Redeemer. 469 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,380 Purifies himself even as He is pure by 470 00:23:10,380 --> 00:23:14,360 taking heed according to the Word, by reading 471 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:16,900 it, by studying it. 472 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,300 It's so very, very important for us to 473 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:22,260 understand that. 474 00:23:24,380 --> 00:23:25,660 And there is no exception. 475 00:23:26,260 --> 00:23:28,100 No exception at all. 476 00:23:29,540 --> 00:23:36,020 He who stops purifying himself has dropped this 477 00:23:36,020 --> 00:23:37,420 hope from his heart. 478 00:23:40,620 --> 00:23:42,800 You can't have it both ways. 479 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,620 You can't have it, that he that has 480 00:23:46,620 --> 00:23:50,880 this hope in him purifies himself. 481 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,280 On the one hand, and say, he that 482 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,420 stops purifying himself still has this hope in 483 00:23:57,420 --> 00:23:57,660 him. 484 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,100 It doesn't work that way. 485 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,620 It's got to be that he that has 486 00:24:03,620 --> 00:24:05,540 this hope in him purifies himself. 487 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:11,260 And conversely, he that has stopped purifying himself 488 00:24:11,260 --> 00:24:13,140 has dropped this hope from his heart. 489 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,940 And the evidence, therefore, is that if you're 490 00:24:16,940 --> 00:24:21,460 born of God, you have this continuous desire 491 00:24:22,140 --> 00:24:24,100 to bring your life in accord with the 492 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:27,400 Word of God, to purify yourself by the 493 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:27,720 Word. 494 00:24:27,980 --> 00:24:31,080 How shall a young man cleanse his way, 495 00:24:31,420 --> 00:24:33,820 purify himself, said David? 496 00:24:34,780 --> 00:24:39,220 By taking heed thereto according to Thy Word. 497 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,620 And so it is, then, that the evidence 498 00:24:43,620 --> 00:24:46,180 that we're born of God is this continuous 499 00:24:46,180 --> 00:24:54,160 desire in every relationship, in every aspiration, in 500 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,900 all of our motivations, in our plans, in 501 00:24:58,900 --> 00:24:59,800 our words. 502 00:25:01,060 --> 00:25:04,920 Well, now, you say, my goodness, you're saying, 503 00:25:05,540 --> 00:25:06,820 what if I fail? 504 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:09,220 What if I do? 505 00:25:09,460 --> 00:25:12,800 What happens when I'm overtaken by a fault 506 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,860 and let aside into temptation? 507 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,320 What's that mean? 508 00:25:18,670 --> 00:25:20,450 You mean to say that there's a place 509 00:25:20,450 --> 00:25:23,270 in grace that I'll never be tempted anymore? 510 00:25:24,290 --> 00:25:25,910 No, I don't mean that. 511 00:25:27,090 --> 00:25:28,710 I know a lot of folks are looking 512 00:25:28,710 --> 00:25:31,490 for it, but they aren't going to find 513 00:25:31,490 --> 00:25:32,430 it. 514 00:25:33,170 --> 00:25:35,690 If there ever came a place in the 515 00:25:35,690 --> 00:25:38,910 Christian life or a state of grace where 516 00:25:38,910 --> 00:25:42,010 you couldn't be tempted, do you know what 517 00:25:42,010 --> 00:25:42,670 that would mean? 518 00:25:43,390 --> 00:25:45,790 That would mean that you were holier than 519 00:25:45,790 --> 00:25:46,930 your wonderful Lord. 520 00:25:48,030 --> 00:25:51,970 Because He was tempted in all points, like 521 00:25:51,970 --> 00:25:53,550 as we are, yet without sin. 522 00:25:54,530 --> 00:25:56,310 See, temptation is not sin. 523 00:25:57,850 --> 00:26:00,770 Temptation is the proposition presented to the mind 524 00:26:00,770 --> 00:26:03,010 to satisfy a good appetite in a bad 525 00:26:03,010 --> 00:26:05,030 way, and sin is the decision to do 526 00:26:05,030 --> 00:26:05,230 it. 527 00:26:05,770 --> 00:26:07,950 And there's no time in our pilgrimage when 528 00:26:07,950 --> 00:26:10,550 we aren't subject to temptation and no place 529 00:26:10,550 --> 00:26:12,690 in our life on earth that we're not 530 00:26:12,690 --> 00:26:14,630 capable of yielding to temptation. 531 00:26:15,490 --> 00:26:17,750 By the same token, there's no temptation that 532 00:26:17,750 --> 00:26:20,010 we have to yield to, because with every 533 00:26:20,010 --> 00:26:22,610 temptation He's made a way of escape that 534 00:26:22,610 --> 00:26:23,850 we may be able to bear it. 535 00:26:23,910 --> 00:26:27,930 So we've got protection there, but should it 536 00:26:27,930 --> 00:26:28,250 be? 537 00:26:29,070 --> 00:26:31,750 We do not avail ourselves of that way 538 00:26:31,750 --> 00:26:33,750 of escape and we fall into sin. 539 00:26:35,130 --> 00:26:38,610 The evidence that you are His, that you 540 00:26:38,610 --> 00:26:40,750 have been born of God, is that when 541 00:26:40,750 --> 00:26:44,930 you discover what you've done or said or 542 00:26:44,930 --> 00:26:51,850 thought in terms of purpose, whenever you realize 543 00:26:51,850 --> 00:26:54,950 what it is that's come between you and 544 00:26:54,950 --> 00:26:59,050 the Lord, you deal with it, because your 545 00:26:59,050 --> 00:27:01,710 hope of seeing Him means you're going to 546 00:27:01,710 --> 00:27:04,630 purify yourself as He is pure, and the 547 00:27:04,630 --> 00:27:08,890 purifying means that you're going to immediately do 548 00:27:08,890 --> 00:27:10,690 everything the Scripture says to do. 549 00:27:13,020 --> 00:27:14,600 What does the Scripture say to do? 550 00:27:14,860 --> 00:27:17,240 Well, do you remember when the people at 551 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,860 Corinth got into trouble at the Lord's table 552 00:27:19,860 --> 00:27:21,220 and sinned? 553 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:24,600 And Paul said in writing to them, Judge 554 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,740 yourself that you be not judged, for he 555 00:27:29,740 --> 00:27:32,660 that is judged is chastened of the Lord, 556 00:27:32,780 --> 00:27:34,620 that he should not be condemned with the 557 00:27:34,620 --> 00:27:35,020 world. 558 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:41,200 Now, judge yourself means that the moment that 559 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,240 you discover that what you said and what 560 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,620 you wanted and what you purposed and even 561 00:27:47,620 --> 00:27:51,400 what you continued to think about, because sometimes 562 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,380 sin gets in the mind the same way 563 00:27:54,380 --> 00:27:56,780 a candy gets on a child's tongue and 564 00:27:56,780 --> 00:27:58,840 it's sort of rolled over and the sweetness 565 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,920 sucked out without having acquired the outward actions 566 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,800 or the penalties that imposes, God looks on 567 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,360 the thoughts and the intents of the heart. 568 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,300 So what happens when we discover that? 569 00:28:11,820 --> 00:28:14,000 Judge it immediately. 570 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:17,360 This is what the Word of God says 571 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:17,900 about it. 572 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,400 Judge it to be what God's Word declares. 573 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,580 Then the second thing is, forsake it. 574 00:28:25,260 --> 00:28:26,080 Done with it. 575 00:28:26,180 --> 00:28:27,000 Finished with it. 576 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:27,840 No defense. 577 00:28:28,740 --> 00:28:29,880 No plan to continue. 578 00:28:30,380 --> 00:28:31,340 Forsake it. 579 00:28:31,340 --> 00:28:33,760 For let the wicked forsake his way and 580 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,580 the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him 581 00:28:36,580 --> 00:28:38,420 return unto the Lord and he'll have mercy. 582 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,680 And then to confess it. 583 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,260 Say with God exactly what God says. 584 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,000 And this is how we purify ourselves when 585 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,020 there comes into our life that which has 586 00:28:52,020 --> 00:28:52,820 grieved God. 587 00:28:53,660 --> 00:28:55,720 And he that hath this hope in him 588 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,560 of seeing him and being like him will 589 00:28:58,560 --> 00:28:59,760 purify himself. 590 00:29:01,300 --> 00:29:03,300 It used to be back down in the 591 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,380 south that every August after the corn was 592 00:29:06,380 --> 00:29:07,400 laid by. 593 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,040 Any of you farmers know what that means? 594 00:29:10,180 --> 00:29:13,040 When the corn got so high you couldn't 595 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,740 cultivate it anymore without breaking the stalks over. 596 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,640 And so that was the last cultivation. 597 00:29:19,380 --> 00:29:21,980 Between the time the corn was laid by 598 00:29:23,020 --> 00:29:26,380 and it had to be cut, they'd have 599 00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:27,620 brush arbor meetings. 600 00:29:28,220 --> 00:29:30,460 They'd go down in somebody's woods where there 601 00:29:30,460 --> 00:29:33,720 was a stream for fresh water and they 602 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,340 would cut poles and lay them across the 603 00:29:36,340 --> 00:29:39,780 branches and then they would cut branches and 604 00:29:39,780 --> 00:29:41,200 lay them across the poles. 605 00:29:42,060 --> 00:29:44,120 And then they would cut logs down, split 606 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,240 them in two and auger a couple of 607 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,320 holes and put some branches in them and 608 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:49,340 those were the seats. 609 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:52,060 And then they'd cut off a big tree 610 00:29:52,060 --> 00:29:55,180 up to the front halfway through, fall it 611 00:29:55,180 --> 00:29:57,040 in such a way that it became a 612 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,240 pulpit and they'd already set up. 613 00:30:00,380 --> 00:30:03,000 People would come with their wagons and horses 614 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,260 and their tents and they'd have a brush 615 00:30:07,260 --> 00:30:10,900 arbor meeting and all the families would be 616 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:14,740 there tending around and preachers would come and 617 00:30:14,740 --> 00:30:15,520 would preach. 618 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,180 And an altar was a split log on 619 00:30:19,180 --> 00:30:22,280 branches and they brought a few bales of 620 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,700 straw or loads of straw and they spread 621 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:29,980 that down, down the aisles and then preachers 622 00:30:29,980 --> 00:30:32,400 would preach and call the people to repentance 623 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,740 and some of the folks got the idea 624 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,280 that when they sinned in September there wasn't 625 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,240 anything they could do about it till the 626 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,620 next August at the brush arbor meeting. 627 00:30:45,820 --> 00:30:47,420 That was when you took care of these 628 00:30:47,420 --> 00:30:47,980 things. 629 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,480 So like getting your foot infected in September 630 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,100 and limping around on it, losing it, till 631 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:57,100 the next August when you could treat it. 632 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,060 See, sin sets in an infection. 633 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,600 Well now the one that's looking for Christ, 634 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,280 yearning to see Him, knowing He's going to 635 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,800 be like Him, purifies Himself, He isn't going 636 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,200 to wait from September till the next August. 637 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,760 He can't afford to do that. 638 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,700 He's going to purify Himself, He's going to 639 00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:20,940 do exactly what the Scripture says to do 640 00:31:20,940 --> 00:31:23,640 at the moment that He discovers that He's 641 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,280 got a problem. 642 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,780 That's what the text teaches us here. 643 00:31:29,660 --> 00:31:34,480 Everyone having this hope, oh the world is 644 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,120 full of people that have some kind of 645 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,720 hope, maybe they've invented the foundation, but this 646 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,280 hope rests on Christ who shed His blood, 647 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,140 who poured out His soul unto death. 648 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,780 And we're going to purify ourselves. 649 00:31:50,940 --> 00:31:53,520 He is pure, we're His, we're going to 650 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:54,440 be like Him. 651 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,220 Our Lord's purity is an eternal state. 652 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,820 This is what He is by nature. 653 00:32:02,340 --> 00:32:06,200 Ours is a constant purifying, an action. 654 00:32:07,260 --> 00:32:10,180 We keep striving to be like the Lord 655 00:32:10,180 --> 00:32:11,120 Jesus Christ. 656 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,140 Everyone, and then we proceed to say, whosoever 657 00:32:15,140 --> 00:32:19,580 does sin, I'm using this because it gives 658 00:32:19,580 --> 00:32:24,200 the idea of continuance, whosoever committeth, keeps on 659 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:29,040 practicing sin, transgresses also the law, for sin 660 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,660 is the transgression of the law. 661 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,060 Now, we've already seen in the past the 662 00:32:36,060 --> 00:32:37,480 nature of the law. 663 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,820 The law is thou shalt love the Lord 664 00:32:40,820 --> 00:32:43,160 thy God with all thy heart and mind 665 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,720 and soul and strength. 666 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,120 That's the first and great commandment, and the 667 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,760 love of that commandment is the intention to 668 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,420 please God in everything. 669 00:32:54,380 --> 00:32:57,440 And if you've been born of God, you 670 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,020 have repented of your sin, and your sin 671 00:33:00,020 --> 00:33:04,360 was the intention to please yourself, and now 672 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,580 you've turned your back on that, and you've 673 00:33:06,580 --> 00:33:10,620 made a commitment to please God in everything. 674 00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:17,960 And therefore, the whole law is summed up 675 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,240 in that one commandment. 676 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,100 Do only that which will bring joy and 677 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:27,420 satisfaction and gladness and happiness to the heart 678 00:33:27,420 --> 00:33:28,100 of God. 679 00:33:28,620 --> 00:33:32,520 So if you find someone that claims to 680 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,260 be a child of God, but he is 681 00:33:35,260 --> 00:33:40,320 transgressing that, he's living to please himself, well, 682 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:45,460 we have it here, whosoever committeth sin transgresseth 683 00:33:45,460 --> 00:33:49,400 also the law, for sin is the transgression 684 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,200 of the law. 685 00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:59,000 Everyone doing sin gives concrete evidence that he 686 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,220 hasn't been born of God. 687 00:34:00,820 --> 00:34:04,900 His will is still set to do evil. 688 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:09,100 In Ecclesiastes chapter 8 and verse 11 we 689 00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:12,100 are told, because the judgment upon sinners isn't 690 00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:17,159 executed speedily, the heart is set to do 691 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:17,540 evil. 692 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,860 Is your heart set to please God? 693 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,340 Have you fixed your heart to please God? 694 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:25,960 Well, that's what the issue is. 695 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,540 That's what he's talking about. 696 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:28,300 Why? 697 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,699 Because we are told in that verse that 698 00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:36,520 Christ came into the world. 699 00:34:36,739 --> 00:34:41,960 He was manifested to take away our sins 700 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,880 and in Him is no sin. 701 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,219 Our sin was the committal of the will 702 00:34:48,219 --> 00:34:49,520 to please ourself. 703 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,159 Our sins were what we had done in 704 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:57,220 obedience to that governing principle of pleasing ourself. 705 00:34:58,060 --> 00:34:59,640 Now Christ came. 706 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,100 Remember what the angel said that night of 707 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:02,640 His birth. 708 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:03,720 Listen. 709 00:35:04,220 --> 00:35:05,120 Hear the song. 710 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:06,820 You get the echo of it. 711 00:35:07,460 --> 00:35:13,450 Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He 712 00:35:13,450 --> 00:35:17,570 shall save His people from hell and take 713 00:35:17,570 --> 00:35:19,170 them to heaven when they die. 714 00:35:20,410 --> 00:35:24,650 Was that what the angel said about our 715 00:35:24,650 --> 00:35:24,970 Lord? 716 00:35:26,090 --> 00:35:29,410 Why have we preachers been focusing on that 717 00:35:29,410 --> 00:35:31,370 and forgot what the angel did say? 718 00:35:33,390 --> 00:35:37,150 The angel said, Thou shalt call His name 719 00:35:37,150 --> 00:35:42,010 Jesus, for He shall save His people from 720 00:35:42,010 --> 00:35:43,850 their sins. 721 00:35:46,070 --> 00:35:48,830 That's what He came to do. 722 00:35:49,390 --> 00:35:51,410 Do you mean to say that He could 723 00:35:51,410 --> 00:35:54,830 love the world and give His life for 724 00:35:54,830 --> 00:35:54,970 it? 725 00:35:55,110 --> 00:35:58,210 Die and go into death, be raised from 726 00:35:58,210 --> 00:36:02,070 the dead and not accomplish what He came 727 00:36:02,070 --> 00:36:02,470 for? 728 00:36:03,950 --> 00:36:06,390 I certainly don't believe that. 729 00:36:07,350 --> 00:36:10,150 He accomplished what He came for. 730 00:36:11,270 --> 00:36:13,870 He came into the world to destroy the 731 00:36:13,870 --> 00:36:16,710 power of sin, to pardon the guilt of 732 00:36:16,710 --> 00:36:19,970 sin, to cleanse from the pollution of sin, 733 00:36:20,430 --> 00:36:24,290 and He made full and perfect and complete 734 00:36:24,290 --> 00:36:27,510 provision to do everything He came for. 735 00:36:27,510 --> 00:36:32,350 Do you think it can be stated that 736 00:36:32,350 --> 00:36:38,870 He either cannot or will not do that 737 00:36:38,870 --> 00:36:40,610 which was the object of His coming? 738 00:36:41,930 --> 00:36:44,690 Well, you might think so, should you choose, 739 00:36:44,830 --> 00:36:45,950 but I don't think so. 740 00:36:46,070 --> 00:36:48,170 I don't hold it for a moment. 741 00:36:50,030 --> 00:36:52,370 Since He came with the purpose of taking 742 00:36:52,370 --> 00:36:56,310 away the sins, it's plain that anyone who 743 00:36:56,310 --> 00:36:59,070 is doing the sin, anyone who is practicing 744 00:36:59,070 --> 00:37:06,130 lawlessness, scorns Christ's sacrifice for sins, or if 745 00:37:06,130 --> 00:37:08,110 he doesn't scorn it, he views it as 746 00:37:08,110 --> 00:37:10,330 a license so he can go on to 747 00:37:10,330 --> 00:37:13,210 practice sin and somehow escape from the consequence 748 00:37:13,210 --> 00:37:13,810 of it. 749 00:37:15,210 --> 00:37:19,130 No, the Lord Jesus accomplished what He came 750 00:37:19,130 --> 00:37:19,550 for. 751 00:37:20,150 --> 00:37:22,230 He came to save His people from their 752 00:37:22,230 --> 00:37:22,590 sin. 753 00:37:23,610 --> 00:37:28,110 And everyone that's in Him, everyone that's born 754 00:37:28,110 --> 00:37:31,630 again, we read in verse 6, whosoever abideth 755 00:37:31,630 --> 00:37:35,110 in Him doth not go on sinning. 756 00:37:37,270 --> 00:37:39,470 And anyone who goes on sinning has not 757 00:37:39,470 --> 00:37:41,550 seen Him nor has he known Him. 758 00:37:43,250 --> 00:37:46,130 Oh, you know, if I had written this, 759 00:37:46,410 --> 00:37:49,610 I might get a little afraid of the 760 00:37:49,610 --> 00:37:51,150 face of the people. 761 00:37:51,830 --> 00:37:55,210 But since I'm reading what God by the 762 00:37:55,210 --> 00:37:57,610 Holy Ghost gave through John that's been part 763 00:37:57,610 --> 00:38:01,710 of the Bible ever since then, I have 764 00:38:01,710 --> 00:38:02,270 to read it. 765 00:38:02,470 --> 00:38:05,050 Now, listen, if you'd have caught me a 766 00:38:05,050 --> 00:38:10,590 few years ago, I had some clever, neat, 767 00:38:11,250 --> 00:38:18,050 tricky little explanations that got all around this. 768 00:38:18,750 --> 00:38:21,490 I was like somebody going through the blackberry 769 00:38:21,490 --> 00:38:24,270 patch and I dodged the bushes and I 770 00:38:24,270 --> 00:38:26,510 never got raked by one of the thorns. 771 00:38:27,470 --> 00:38:29,390 I knew how to get right through it. 772 00:38:29,730 --> 00:38:31,350 Come out on the other side and say, 773 00:38:31,410 --> 00:38:32,830 well, that's not so bad. 774 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:39,480 The only thing was, I had given lip 775 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,220 service to what was inspired by the traditions 776 00:38:43,220 --> 00:38:45,900 of the elders and the teaching of my 777 00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:48,220 fathers that made the Word of God of 778 00:38:48,220 --> 00:38:48,820 none effect. 779 00:38:51,630 --> 00:38:53,890 Well, I've had to unlearn a lot since 780 00:38:53,890 --> 00:38:54,250 then. 781 00:38:54,250 --> 00:38:58,520 And you're catching me now at a point 782 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,260 where my unlearning isn't complete yet, but it's 783 00:39:01,260 --> 00:39:02,280 well on the way. 784 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,700 And I'm going to have to tell you 785 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:07,380 what the explanation of these scriptures are in 786 00:39:07,380 --> 00:39:08,280 1 John 3. 787 00:39:08,380 --> 00:39:09,440 Do you know what they are? 788 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:15,380 It means just exactly what it says. 789 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,600 Now, you can either like that or not 790 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,720 like that as you wish, but that doesn't 791 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:26,220 change it in my opinion. 792 00:39:26,220 --> 00:39:28,800 God meant it because He said it and 793 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,560 He said it because He meant it. 794 00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:32,620 And the only way to deal with it 795 00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:35,100 is to accept that God said what He 796 00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:36,640 meant and meant what He said. 797 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:41,200 And He said, everyone remaining in Christ does 798 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,440 not go on practicing sin and everyone keeping 799 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,920 on practicing sin has not seen Him nor 800 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,480 has he known Him. 801 00:39:52,920 --> 00:40:00,390 Everyone into whom Christ has come in response 802 00:40:00,390 --> 00:40:05,150 to receiving faith and who remains in Christ 803 00:40:05,150 --> 00:40:09,470 by faith simply does not keep on doing 804 00:40:09,470 --> 00:40:11,030 or practicing sin. 805 00:40:11,990 --> 00:40:17,870 Not to do sin implies a decisive break 806 00:40:17,870 --> 00:40:20,010 with sin. 807 00:40:20,010 --> 00:40:25,790 Now, I have a memory of my own 808 00:40:25,790 --> 00:40:30,430 past days, years ago when I said, because 809 00:40:30,430 --> 00:40:31,210 I read it. 810 00:40:32,250 --> 00:40:34,090 Oh, I read a lot of nice things 811 00:40:34,090 --> 00:40:35,170 that weren't true. 812 00:40:36,150 --> 00:40:40,110 I read somewhere that everyone sins a thousand 813 00:40:40,110 --> 00:40:42,930 times a day in thought, word, and deed. 814 00:40:47,350 --> 00:40:50,230 And I figured about then that if I 815 00:40:50,230 --> 00:40:52,690 was going to sin a thousand times a 816 00:40:52,690 --> 00:40:56,010 day in thought, word, and deed, I might 817 00:40:56,010 --> 00:40:58,830 just be clever enough to work in something 818 00:40:58,830 --> 00:41:00,310 I enjoyed now and then. 819 00:41:02,230 --> 00:41:04,570 And it became a license. 820 00:41:05,090 --> 00:41:07,130 But it wasn't long until the Spirit of 821 00:41:07,130 --> 00:41:09,030 God through the Word of God showed me 822 00:41:09,030 --> 00:41:12,810 that antinomianism is a disease of the mind 823 00:41:12,810 --> 00:41:14,510 and of the heart and of the spirit. 824 00:41:15,050 --> 00:41:16,890 I got under deep conviction. 825 00:41:18,290 --> 00:41:22,010 Listen, sin is the transgression of the law. 826 00:41:23,630 --> 00:41:25,810 And the law is before us in the 827 00:41:25,810 --> 00:41:27,770 word of God and the will of God. 828 00:41:29,950 --> 00:41:32,510 And God does not treat as sin the 829 00:41:32,510 --> 00:41:35,410 failure to measure up to the infinite predispositions 830 00:41:35,410 --> 00:41:38,070 of God or the infinite perfections of angels. 831 00:41:38,270 --> 00:41:42,090 We're talking about transgression of the law. 832 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,240 And we're saying that anyone who goes on 833 00:41:56,240 --> 00:42:03,000 sinning implies that he has never made a 834 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,020 decisive break with his past and he's still 835 00:42:07,020 --> 00:42:07,760 dead in his sins. 836 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,740 All right, verses 7 to 10, we learn 837 00:42:12,740 --> 00:42:17,120 how to recognize those who are born of 838 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:17,720 God. 839 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,960 Now there's always a possibility of deception. 840 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,120 In verse 7 it says, Little children, let 841 00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,840 no man deceive you. 842 00:42:31,020 --> 00:42:32,760 Don't be taken in. 843 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,220 Everybody talking about heaven ain't going there. 844 00:42:36,780 --> 00:42:39,100 If I can quote some of my southern 845 00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:44,520 friends from a few hundred years ago, in 846 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:48,600 chapter 2, verses 18 and 19, shows that 847 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,460 there were and there are anti-Christian deceivers 848 00:42:52,460 --> 00:42:54,220 who seek to lead astray. 849 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:56,560 Now some of these in the 8th verse 850 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,240 the first chapter says they don't have any 851 00:42:58,240 --> 00:42:58,520 sin. 852 00:42:58,620 --> 00:42:59,240 They couldn't sin. 853 00:43:00,180 --> 00:43:03,240 And some claim they cannot be saved from 854 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:03,820 sin. 855 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,260 And there are others that argue that, well, 856 00:43:07,340 --> 00:43:10,400 sin won't do you any harm if you're 857 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,780 in the family of God because nothing can 858 00:43:12,780 --> 00:43:13,880 happen to you anyway. 859 00:43:14,180 --> 00:43:17,260 But the verse here says, Don't be deceived. 860 00:43:18,900 --> 00:43:23,400 Everyone continuing to sin has not seen him 861 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,160 nor has he known him. 862 00:43:26,860 --> 00:43:30,180 Oh, I get the idea that this is 863 00:43:30,180 --> 00:43:33,260 intended to be understood just the way it's 864 00:43:33,260 --> 00:43:33,560 written. 865 00:43:33,740 --> 00:43:37,000 My little children, let no man deceive you. 866 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,360 He that doeth righteousness is righteous. 867 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,920 He that commiteth sin is of the devil. 868 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,940 He that keeps on practicing sin. 869 00:43:50,150 --> 00:43:54,690 Conduct is a result of what a person 870 00:43:54,690 --> 00:43:55,150 is. 871 00:43:56,310 --> 00:43:59,310 And a person who is practicing doing righteousness 872 00:43:59,310 --> 00:44:02,110 has been born into the family of God 873 00:44:02,110 --> 00:44:04,370 and made a partaker of the divine nature. 874 00:44:04,950 --> 00:44:09,590 And the person that is practicing sin is 875 00:44:09,590 --> 00:44:13,490 doing exactly according to his father, the devil. 876 00:44:14,510 --> 00:44:17,770 The devil maintains sin in the world by 877 00:44:17,770 --> 00:44:19,910 controlling all those who serve him and he 878 00:44:19,910 --> 00:44:25,230 continued holds his followers in sin. 879 00:44:26,030 --> 00:44:29,350 And largely often because he keeps telling them 880 00:44:29,350 --> 00:44:31,550 that there isn't any possibility of their being 881 00:44:31,550 --> 00:44:32,790 saved from sin. 882 00:44:33,970 --> 00:44:37,450 And regrettably, there are preachers today who were 883 00:44:37,450 --> 00:44:39,890 like I was for years and are telling 884 00:44:39,890 --> 00:44:40,850 them that that's true. 885 00:44:40,970 --> 00:44:42,910 There's no way they can be saved from 886 00:44:42,910 --> 00:44:43,170 sin. 887 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,240 Alright, the purpose of Christ's coming. 888 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:50,460 We are told in the 8th verse in 889 00:44:50,460 --> 00:44:53,040 the second part of that verse, for this 890 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,700 purpose the Son of God was manifested that 891 00:44:56,700 --> 00:45:00,880 He might destroy the works of the devil. 892 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,820 The Lord Jesus Christ was born of the 893 00:45:04,820 --> 00:45:08,980 Virgin Mary, lived a sinless holy life. 894 00:45:09,860 --> 00:45:12,580 He came to loose the bonds of sin 895 00:45:12,580 --> 00:45:16,360 and release people from the power and influence 896 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:17,980 and control of sin. 897 00:45:18,620 --> 00:45:21,440 He was manifest in the flesh, in His 898 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,740 human nature that He might destroy the works 899 00:45:24,740 --> 00:45:25,400 of the devil. 900 00:45:28,130 --> 00:45:31,190 Now, He was raised from the dead and 901 00:45:31,190 --> 00:45:33,810 the resurrection of Christ from the dead is 902 00:45:33,810 --> 00:45:36,930 the testimony to the universe that the Lord 903 00:45:36,930 --> 00:45:38,990 Jesus accomplished what He came for. 904 00:45:40,010 --> 00:45:42,430 And those who are born of God, who 905 00:45:42,430 --> 00:45:46,250 pass from death unto life, share this life 906 00:45:46,250 --> 00:45:48,690 of Christ and exhibit it as the victory 907 00:45:48,690 --> 00:45:49,990 of their risen Lord. 908 00:45:51,610 --> 00:45:54,790 Now, everyone that has been born of God 909 00:45:54,790 --> 00:45:57,850 does not go on doing sin. 910 00:45:57,910 --> 00:45:59,270 Do you see it right there? 911 00:46:00,070 --> 00:46:03,010 Whosoever is born of God does not keep 912 00:46:03,010 --> 00:46:06,810 on practicing sin for he who has been 913 00:46:06,810 --> 00:46:09,270 born of God has been made a partaker 914 00:46:09,270 --> 00:46:11,230 of the divine nature by the Holy Spirit 915 00:46:11,230 --> 00:46:16,530 and therefore he cannot continue practicing sin for 916 00:46:16,530 --> 00:46:19,230 God's seed remains in him and he can't 917 00:46:19,230 --> 00:46:21,110 because he is born of God. 918 00:46:22,350 --> 00:46:24,010 Boy, isn't that marvelous? 919 00:46:24,830 --> 00:46:25,730 Isn't that wonderful? 920 00:46:26,570 --> 00:46:30,430 Isn't that a great emancipation proclamation to the 921 00:46:30,430 --> 00:46:31,090 human heart? 922 00:46:32,310 --> 00:46:33,750 It seems so to me. 923 00:46:35,610 --> 00:46:40,600 That's why Paul writing to that church at 924 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,820 Corinth in the second letter, 13th chapter, 5th 925 00:46:43,820 --> 00:46:47,660 verse said to the Corinthians, examine yourself whether 926 00:46:47,660 --> 00:46:48,720 you be in the faith. 927 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:50,680 Prove your own selves. 928 00:46:51,180 --> 00:46:53,680 Do you not know your own selves how 929 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:58,040 that Christ be in you except you be 930 00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,200 reprobate? 931 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,820 Therefore, anyone who has been born of God 932 00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:05,500 cannot go on practicing sin. 933 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:07,420 It doesn't say he couldn't fall. 934 00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:08,400 We dealt with that. 935 00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:10,380 He isn't going to go on practicing. 936 00:47:10,380 --> 00:47:12,220 His purpose is to please God. 937 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,940 Now, I want you to see the conclusion 938 00:47:14,940 --> 00:47:18,380 here in the first part of this 10th 939 00:47:18,380 --> 00:47:18,840 verse. 940 00:47:21,540 --> 00:47:25,500 In this, the children of God are manifest 941 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:27,800 and the children of the devil. 942 00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:31,280 How can the person know whether they're born 943 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:31,880 of God? 944 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:33,960 What's the evidence of eternal life? 945 00:47:34,260 --> 00:47:38,240 Because of their hatred for sin and because 946 00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:41,980 of their purpose to please God and it's 947 00:47:41,980 --> 00:47:45,120 in this we are told that the children 948 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,180 of God are manifest and the children of 949 00:47:48,180 --> 00:47:48,600 the devil. 950 00:47:49,740 --> 00:47:54,840 So with that in our understanding, with that 951 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:59,780 before us, we've got the sixth evidence of 952 00:47:59,780 --> 00:48:00,880 eternal life. 953 00:48:01,940 --> 00:48:04,080 Examine your own heart. 954 00:48:04,540 --> 00:48:07,700 Oh, to have gone through all of these 955 00:48:07,700 --> 00:48:10,560 scripture verses and to have the Spirit of 956 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,260 God bear witness with your spirit. 957 00:48:12,380 --> 00:48:15,040 Yes, this is what you were, but now 958 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,740 you are light in the Lord. 959 00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,920 In 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 6 we 960 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,840 read, God, who commanded the light to shine 961 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,960 out of darkness, has shined into our hearts 962 00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,580 to give the light of the knowledge of 963 00:48:32,580 --> 00:48:36,040 the glory of God in the face of 964 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:37,080 Jesus Christ. 965 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,820 There, that's the testimony. 966 00:48:41,020 --> 00:48:43,100 That's the work of the Spirit of God 967 00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:44,920 through the word of God. 968 00:48:46,770 --> 00:48:51,010 Heavenly Father, we're grateful that we have thy 969 00:48:51,010 --> 00:48:53,730 word and as we've given our hearts to 970 00:48:53,730 --> 00:48:55,950 it this hour, we ask that it may 971 00:48:55,950 --> 00:48:58,590 have been buried there like good seed and 972 00:48:58,590 --> 00:49:02,170 will spring forth a hundredfold to the glory 973 00:49:02,170 --> 00:49:03,050 of Christ. 974 00:49:03,250 --> 00:49:07,430 Let blessing come to those that have listened 975 00:49:07,430 --> 00:49:09,890 and those who will permit the word of 976 00:49:09,890 --> 00:49:12,750 God to have free course and be glorified 977 00:49:12,750 --> 00:49:13,270 in it. 978 00:49:13,650 --> 00:49:18,680 We ask for thanksgiving in Jesus' name. 979 00:49:18,700 --> 00:49:20,260 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 980 00:49:20,260 --> 00:49:21,440 and Classic Sermons series. 981 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,200 This week you heard Parris Reedhead with his 982 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,680 message, So Great is Salvation, Hating Sin. 983 00:49:27,380 --> 00:49:28,540 Tune in next week to hear E.A. 984 00:49:28,620 --> 00:49:31,800 Johnston talk about the Cappuccino Church on From 985 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,540 the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.