The Sunday School Lesson Living a Sanctified Life by David McGee
Aug 22, 2010
Living a Sanctified Life (44:58)
Referenced Scriptures: 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2
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Central Truth:
With Christ as savor and advocate christians can live victorious over sin.
Key Verse: (1 John 1:7)
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Chris His Son cleanses us from all sin.
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1 John 1:5-10
5) This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6) If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don‘t tell the truth.
7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
8) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10) If we say that we haven‘t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John 2
1) My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
2) And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
3) This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
4) He who says, "I know him," and doesn‘t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5) But whoever keeps his word, God‘s love has most assuredly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
6) he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
7) Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
8) Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
9) He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
10) He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
11) But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn‘t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12) I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name‘s sake.
13) I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
14) I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
15) Don‘t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father‘s love isn‘t in him.
16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn‘t the Father‘s, but is the world‘s.
17) The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God‘s will remains forever.
18) Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the end times.
19) They went out from us, but they didn‘t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
20) You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know the truth.
21) I have not written to you because you don‘t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
22) Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
23) Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn‘t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
24) Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
25) This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
26) These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
27) As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don‘t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
28) Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29) If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
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We are living in a sanctified life and sometimes when you hear that word sacred occasion. I'm sorry the statement of certain public picking. So anyhow, there are certain individuals that get you. You think of whatever you think of Bob all holiness or sanctification or things like that because they dress a certain way or they wear close a certain way and and and the idea is that holiness is is a separation through God, but it in and it is an attitude of the heart, not necessarily what you wear is no fun in your hair and ill things like that but if you know, to each their own. I just don't go there used to 's lives growing up the church had lot of rules water regulations. You know over this though that don't go there by what the Bible school and the ladies wore blue dresses with white collars and they were to the neck and below the headline below. The bill needs a beloved hemline fact that their beloved needs and the guys wore white shirts and ties and they were always buttons and long sleeve you weren't allowed to have anything else but that and of course the all almost all of the teachers, professors, whatever the ladies would never didn't cut their hair as that was, in all assignments of the somewhere along the line, but so anyhow, we look at this and we look at our army with God, and that living is sanctified life. This is one. Hopefully as we look at the Scriptures today were able to see that it's it's a relational experience with God that relates to our activity. How we act, we say what we do things like that. So let's so read the Scripture in first John one seven, which is the key verse if we walk in the spirit as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin. The central truth. There is when Christ as Savior and advocate residents can live victorious over sin with Christ. I said when the struts I first John one five and chapter two verse one this is the message we have heard from him and declare to you, God is light and him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light with fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus his son purifies us from all sin. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar, and his word does not place has no place in our lives in chapter two, my dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin that anybody does in you have one who speaks to the father in our defense, Jesus Christ the righteous one is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. We know that we have come to know him, if we obey his commands the man who says I know him but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word. God 's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him. Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did, yet I am writing you a new commandment is through the scene and him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining whoever loves his brother lives in the line and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. Do not love the world or anything in the world and anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him for everything in the world. The cravings of sinful man, the lust of the eyes and the boasting of what he has and does comes not from the father but from the world the world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. For as we are saying for many individuals, sanctification and holiness can't drop images of rules and regulations that restrict their freedom. I felt if we are in fact an open environment. Throw in some way I solved holiness and I like to what we been saying over the last few weeks. Holiness is wholeness, and whenever we think of wholeness. What is the wholeness of our character as a whole is it. If you are without flaw nine oh. Some of you are, but if you have a viewer without flaw. What would you be like for your character be like if you have no doubt about your relationship with God, nor no doubts about who you are what you could do what would you do what creates doubts what created that separation from who we are as a person will create that separation from God 's desire to walk work in our lives by. So we know that we don't live in a perfect world and were not perfect people, so we do fail, and we do sin and Satan is a you know, the deriving does not seem so knowing to do and not enough knowledge to do it and not doing it. That's that sound like the right thing. So if we think of holiness, then where does it work is originated and originates in our heart with our relationship with God, and wholeness when we think of holiness. Sometimes it is as we are saying it. It conjures up lots of my having what you think of when everything am holding. I think being that I think about what will the blood in her hair, not the hair and long dress. Okay, I'm sorry that's yelled. I couldn't yeah, that's my upbringing, you know, we were at and again, and it's nothing but there's now I these people that know everyone has what makes feels like it's like the guy and in northern Maine. He would never have a TV in his house and he did a note is like editing in the barn and not an house not. He didn't have a TV and he wanted to in an anarchy. Rebels on the people 's homes in on these very watched television, even while anything I I argued with God about this because I really felt that God told me that I was not avid television. My house and then he said, while why God can I not have wife and I can have one and they can in the answer became to him was that the guy was that the probe was the answer came to the just left me the head of their eight at your faith habit to yourself that Scripture thoughts about having to yourself that for his life and his purpose that was what was right for him and his relationship with God, and where he was at his relationship with God. He was he was not in his own mind in his relationship was not allowed to have developed. Okay, because that's what he felt God spoke to him and he couldn't pass judgment on anybody also had one day so the same thing as with young someone thinks of the all the holiness isn't in the NL and is in that type of separation, then the name. Maybe that's what they need to have in her life and you know you think I'm wrong right now, nationality, without preaching against and then had one in the closet. Now that's sent right right and for some individuals, you know, but I had to funerals this weekend and both of them new River valleys had any religious background and had built so someone criticize me for the way that I preach, but you know, as I know some that would treat units like you got in there, you got a captive audience didn't say, and no don't let anybody out, though someone yell gives her heart, the Lord and you know, I don't think that that's a place for but I think it's a place for presenting the truth of allowing God 's love and presenting the word in such a way that it makes sense. You know, I like the spirit of the rest. So everyone has their own way of doing it. It's like chocolate sin in it for chaplain ministry is totally different than pastoral care ministry and faster. The other just to different avenues of ministry. The guys who are biker chaplains don't connect with no pastors who are running churches. They just don't eldest two different approaches to ministry. It also appear the chaplain at the racetrack. L build bridges bridging is going to the racetrack as a guide, a chaplain or with the horses and jockeys young, so each one has their own specific ministry. So that's why whenever we think of holiness that we need a cigarette in the context of completeness all this completeness that we are complete in Christ, and that relationship that we have with God is one that is feeling us as a person and taking us in our relationship closer to God. It is it something that we look at it and say okay, here's the rules just like the Pharisees, Pharisees said, is what I'm doing and I'm good if we do that, then we taken away from what God wants us to be are so in these images that we have that are wrong come from a bad theology of the past which holiness was conceived as primarily a list of behaviors to be a boy or to be imitated. So if you do this you go to heaven if you don't you go to hell. Now I can't stop never worked false notions of freedom, as though to be free is to be able to do anything one wants so the other side of it is nevertheless and I thought it in the nose complete freedom and last night it and complete frame ages go do everyone else like God. I enjoy saving people from their sins. And let's go on sinning so that God can be happy, so both of these extremes come from a wrong perspective. McCumber world wrong approach. In this lesson, John deals with both misconceptions and instead portrays holiness as a life of genuine freedom that enables individuals to achieve their complete potential as a human being, so we enjoyed sharing your wine freedom and the freedom that we have in Christ is the son sets free is free and the and the freedom that we have in Christ does not make us not bring us into bondage of sin, so whenever we whenever we are standing as a deteriorated. It's they talk about being a poison is like a snake venom itself the word mu disintegrates and disintegrated tissues and disintegrated the ball notified about relating the individual hot, bit by a snake in there the whole handles lost her arm off the life, but it was all deteriorated before and because the minimum deteriorated and not a is aware the muscle tissue and to the point that it almost felt so sad is that way I'll deterioration of the soul and deterioration of our character, so that would become well from sinful soul the freedom that John offers involved living in the truth about God oneself and the world. So for areas south understanding our self understanding world in which we live and how that we had freedom, no, there's nothing free about freedom. If you have freedom and possibly something right so so what is it that the truth of God 's word about ourselves and about going on. John suggests that freedom is about making wise choices that part was headed towards wise choices and the wise choices is based upon the wisdom of the word, not the jumping to conclusions, but not that the choices on what the word says about our life and what we are to do and how we are to Glaxo. Whenever we are talking about sanctification separation from sin. What is a wise choice for the guy that couldn't have a TV. This choice is wise choice was not found, but is also his wife, Joyce was not the best at another on others who did I so wise choice wise choices emerge from abiding in the truth rather than in this action to what is the truth. What is the truth of God 's word, so the entrance of the path of freedom is God 's faithfulness to forgive one of the reasons that we create rules. We create the rules is because we want to find a way to please God. Okay, we can please God by following rules. We serve God, and we love him, and because we love him. We have the freedom to choose the rule of the Jews, how these rules are broad in our life and aware free to understand hobgoblins and brought into our life. So we have freedom to choose and we don't create the laws we follow the and we don't follow them to say hey look at me, look what I've done. We follow them as an example of being like Christ. So if we are like Christ, then we have the freedom to choose. We are here for a higher purpose in a higher purpose is to serve the father would Jesus leverage your good will of the father, what are we here for we are here to do the will of Jesus the son if we are doing the will of the sun. We are glorified not looking and say okay hey look at me I'm able to keep all these role look at the way I dress look Rigo, but when I do. If you know what we've done. We have created a way that when we think we make God happy. God is happiest is that what I don't like that worry. You cannot make God happy. He already if we receive what he has far life, then we become an fellowship with him and we received that happiness in our life so those who rejoice, I see they those who recognize the truth of their own sinful behavior and how that God offers forgiveness that we that we find that just as we cannot save ourselves from our sins. We cannot live a life of holiness honorable. We need God to work in our life to bring that about in our life, so, so, just as we can't save ourselves and said we need God 's grace, his words, his spirit to help us to live a holy life, which in turn has benefits for us, which is wholeness and completeness, and ill while I thought so. So as individuals begin the journey of holiness, they will discover freedom to love deeply, because it will be the love will not be grounded and instructions about who they are, who got it. So you're able to log more why because you are following God 's rules. Not sure and you are able to love those who are lovable, forgive those who signally unforgivable latkes of what who got it so what are your thoughts mulling this is not the absence of doing evil, and I write all of his holiness is not the absence of doing able right now as I entered the far relationship with God is based upon the external and we are we are saying this is you I'm I'm I'm holier I'm I'm a Christian, because just look what I don't do not happen in the same token, you can have complete freedom while I'm free and I can go this and I can go do that, then I can go anywhere or do a one-time running. I haven't was not any. So it's like trying to find that that walk with God that is at his is about our heart and about the relational experience and you know how how then do we arrived there out in the week, and I think it interviews through the Scriptures, and now that we have that relationship with God, and how the descriptors and direct us. You know what would Jesus do you know those five the things that were trying to be like Christ and trying to live in that type of life. Ill Pharisees got all over Jesus Ghazi Weddington, as sinners and Republicans house. No while they wouldn't do such a thing. But Jesus would know so. So they were no felon in Jesus. He was not. He was ceremonially unclean, you know, you got to go clean yourself up now being been given contaminated so the other thoughts I know I do it again. There I like to say about the some of the day that the new churches and again, it's we got up our own problems, but the why is it that it's only the women that are the ones that are set out okay. You just certainly what about the guys. What are they doing and how are they living a holy life and are they taking it in ourselves. What are they doing to fix a exhibit the same character. The third that the woman is supposed to be doing it again. You can doesn't have to be holiness traditions. It can be other traditions where it all the woman as a slave. Basically, I'm from we went to him up after school. This is back in nineteen seventy three about seventy seventy five somewhere near it was the end we we stayed with this young couple, the status church at twenty one thousand six hundred ninety people in church on Sunday morning. Thank solves that. That was real big thing back in seven so we went there after school and so we stay with this couple and they were just graduated from there. There's their seminary, and so on, and the guy walked in sat down the chair wife came in. She knelt about the proper shoes put on his slippers, she enough and he was. He was King. All of this religion that has been there if that's always not having this week that this this particular church and denomination that was ill woman was there to serve and how was it invalid. That's why she was here and that mom now. Well, some I don't I I know we don't demand when we have now and when I spoke to both spit on the floor down of you, yet you don't drink you don't you don't take the women who do you know that but I'm not a rule person could tell I think that if God doesn't God doesn't give you the rules, then there's no need for me to get into I've ever Lord parent. This is up in northern Maine. There we had that for recruitment in the convent and in all of the churches that supported us while we were there. They want to know what I was doing to make sure that I cleaned up the Catholics in a battle was I getting them was I getting them saved, and was I yell making them ill Pentecostals like we should be and know while they were baptized in the Holy Spirit, God did that, you know, we were in a prayer group and they sat around and they sexually had known I would do a little Bible study with them and had like the surgery priests and separate nuns and ten or twelve thousand people and we held a prayer group in the convent and a baby in the other nuns babysit Rachel so I mean it was it was a very unique situation, but more apparently was one of the heap. He received about the always we're driving the own of your company and he received about the Holy Spirit driving down the road was filter okay, so anytime that help you are saying Oslo what you tell them about what they're not supposed to do while I figure we get close enough to God, God will tell and Lorne was setting in the bar drinking his beer any setting there and he is in the business environment is to grab all the beer I looked at it a cellular bar and he looked around decision a lot. I don't belong here, and put it down and walk away and he told the other people that the other people 's as yet. We may feel, and I think they so, it was like if you present. If you get close enough to God. You don't have to say though that this don't do that. Don't go there. You never know, and that is better than the so you're saying okay you know what you're supposed to where you know what you're supposed to do and you should be doing this and you should be doing that now. Let's trace the word you choose the word, but the Spirit can make the heart that you will listen to God. I will listen to God they were in trouble in a hide behind something, you know that the TV in the closet enough and not hiding that hiding those sins and install the ideas that if God doesn't convict you been listening to me is the again visit in house by the work that Eminem know anything about this or why when you go to bar them in a bar all their life in the church all their life. Why when you go the bar and but that attention it into your heart. What Rob God knows the thoughts and intentions in your heart so that's where that's where we always how is that it go back there. God knows what I meant. And that's my specialty security because sometimes people take it totally wrong way and I didn't mean it that way and sometimes it isn't no something that isn't my fault. Sometimes it is. But sometimes it isn't my fault, the way people take things so now sometimes an additional get upset at being offended with engine fitted down to determine since you being offended only wakens himself. How then we should get in the lesson, but the addition is eleven sale. How then do we accept this, his walk with God. How then does holiness. The separation in our head. And I think of it as a is a hard thing to to to grasp sometimes because I'm a fun one. What am I supposed to be doing well. What would God. What would make God happy my rating. God is God sad with me while Verizon, God is sad with us as whenever we grieve his spirit reaming him is like when. When someone loves you, you love someone and they misinterpret what you want them to do or you don't do what they do they know is right like God knows what is right for us his Holy Spirit will prompt, since for Hyattsville, who give us that prompted young. That's why I think teaching and preaching on it so valuable because it helps us get a concept totally picture of what God wants us to do. If we follow that what's going on the yard where finding a place to be be close to God in anal on the disciples who is the one with closest to Jesus was John John the beloved John's one rugs for sale Gospel of John, first second third John book Revelation and in and in it the Last Supper, where John is setting by Jesus with his head on his shoulder on his chest at close, and I think when you're that close is not worried about being holy word about pleasing and being close to Jesus that you would not want to hurt him and ended anyone you do. John first of Jesus, just like the other ones we had to deal with it and come back the right perspective, because he had a wrong perspective. Jesus does set up a kingdom, and even die. No, and then we rose came back. Everything turned around like in a and in and I is not a and that I is a not inseparable with my gun away and funeral yesterday, her husband said we do know is greater for double value that we curse the blues drinking innovative in an innovative and see what he and you will you person Memorial that the web in all it is. And I think that this is the most. This whole concept is then inverse I think Mercedes as if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in so if we we look and ourselves and say, you know what I member. I'm never my nephew, Mark, when you look at my sister longer Catholic, you know so marked with the confession was his first confession, and you got a note marks four years old now, but when he was little, because into the impression in any dinner for an hour in and he comes out. This medicine will. What did you do it. I didn't do anything mom that phrase just kept asking the question, though I do that now. I did the best I have a thing to confess that you ask Sally at bay with it home out on the one guy want it. I will send so that and that the wind when Jesus shows up with us. We show up with Jesus. Jesus shows up with us will have the ability to automatically push the repels Ali Abell is is already like bristly like a cat. You don't solve it. Just because razz itself up, you know, and here they were doing you showed up in their already bristling ill and will wonder why there was didn't do anything, just be there be Jesus. There, and what if we suddenly have no sin, we deceive ourselves the truth is not enough if we confess our sin. There are three and fear if my business is doing is telling us that if conditional, that upon the upon arriving here in. We say we have no sense of ethic and if we think we don't have sent word problem okay the number two if we can present selling. We know that we have said now the second step is if we confess it is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So if we recognizably say, and if we confess our sins, and if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and you don't tell God needs a liar. So, if we see it. The traditional thing so if we if we follow through with these things. What we do, were studying art getting our right relationship in place to live for God. And if we are breaking his commands. We need to pay attention to that, because we're the ones who are taking away our wholeness when we stand. We take away the holistic completeness that God has for us to be so sin is not only hurting our relationship with God. Sin is hurting us. That's why God wants us to be forgiven. It is a Sony can be happy it's over. You cannot you I could be whole. So God has you and I mind when he said you need forgiveness, your name, restoration, you need the word of God is saying this is what is good for you. This is what I have plans for you and everything that I wanted to do in your life I want. It's all in there and how you go to bring it out is in its completeness and get away from the sandalwood. This is trying to track from who you are, UK you are want. Your potential. And once it does is take away from the wholeness. So God says let's get rid of anything that will rob you of your holders and you'll find holiness and that relationship so is looking out for us as a parent who look out for the child. Take care loses his advice for not only got four death nails, amen, amen, joblessness, everyone. It now Saturday, Sundays, here's my next Sunday, we are having a baptismal service in the reason that it's so quick is that Jan Wolcott therefore finished in their yard. Finish and are inhabited. And while sleuthing the baptismal service next Sunday right after church. So were going to bring your own chair and ran to have hot dogs and sloppy Joe's death I thought a four course meal enough by then. Nine then after they think they can. The baptismal mendicants, women, whenever those, like this one. Yes, if you be baptized, immersed in water. Let me now Brad and I will do the honors guide are available online. Once the need is so but have any questions about baptism we know we talk about next Sunday morning tunes on this one. We do that it will bring up I saw make sure I make the announcement church to father again, thank you for blessing this day. Your word to our hearts, our life to service to you. Draw close to make us whole. Oh God, through your Word. Your spirit, your touch upon our lives inWe are living in a sanctified life and sometimes when you hear that word sacred occasion. I'm sorry the statement of certain public picking. So anyhow, there are certain individuals that get you. You think of whatever you think of Bob all holiness or sanctification or things like that because they dress a certain way or they wear close a certain way and and and the idea is that holiness is is a separation through God, but it in and it is an attitude of the heart, not necessarily what you wear is no fun in your hair and ill things like that but if you know, to each their own. I just don't go there used to 's lives growing up the church had lot of rules water regulations. You know over this though that don't go there by what the Bible school and the ladies wore blue dresses with white collars and they were to the neck and below the headline below. The bill needs a beloved hemline fact that their beloved needs and the guys wore white shirts and ties and they were always buttons and long sleeve you weren't allowed to have anything else but that and of course the all almost all of the teachers, professors, whatever the ladies would never didn't cut their hair as that was, in all assignments of the somewhere along the line, but so anyhow, we look at this and we look at our army with God, and that living is sanctified life. This is one. Hopefully as we look at the Scriptures today were able to see that it's it's a relational experience with God that relates to our activity. How we act, we say what we do things like that. So let's so read the Scripture in first John one seven, which is the key verse if we walk in the spirit as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin. The central truth. There is when Christ as Savior and advocate residents can live victorious over sin with Christ. I said when the struts I first John one five and chapter two verse one this is the message we have heard from him and declare to you, God is light and him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light with fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus his son purifies us from all sin. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar, and his word does not place has no place in our lives in chapter two, my dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin that anybody does in you have one who speaks to the father in our defense, Jesus Christ the righteous one is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. We know that we have come to know him, if we obey his commands the man who says I know him but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word. God 's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him. Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did, yet I am writing you a new commandment is through the scene and him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining whoever loves his brother lives in the line and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. Do not love the world or anything in the world and anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him for everything in the world. The cravings of sinful man, the lust of the eyes and the boasting of what he has and does comes not from the father but from the world the world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. For as we are saying for many individuals, sanctification and holiness can't drop images of rules and regulations that restrict their freedom. I felt if we are in fact an open environment. Throw in some way I solved holiness and I like to what we been saying over the last few weeks. Holiness is wholeness, and whenever we think of wholeness. What is the wholeness of our character as a whole is it. If you are without flaw nine oh. Some of you are, but if you have a viewer without flaw. What would you be like for your character be like if you have no doubt about your relationship with God, nor no doubts about who you are what you could do what would you do what creates doubts what created that separation from who we are as a person will create that separation from God 's desire to walk work in our lives by. So we know that we don't live in a perfect world and were not perfect people, so we do fail, and we do sin and Satan is a you know, the deriving does not seem so knowing to do and not enough knowledge to do it and not doing it. That's that sound like the right thing. So if we think of holiness, then where does it work is originated and originates in our heart with our relationship with God, and wholeness when we think of holiness. Sometimes it is as we are saying it. It conjures up lots of my having what you think of when everything am holding. I think being that I think about what will the blood in her hair, not the hair and long dress. Okay, I'm sorry that's yelled. I couldn't yeah, that's my upbringing, you know, we were at and again, and it's nothing but there's now I these people that know everyone has what makes feels like it's like the guy and in northern Maine. He would never have a TV in his house and he did a note is like editing in the barn and not an house not. He didn't have a TV and he wanted to in an anarchy. Rebels on the people 's homes in on these very watched television, even while anything I I argued with God about this because I really felt that God told me that I was not avid television. My house and then he said, while why God can I not have wife and I can have one and they can in the answer became to him was that the guy was that the probe was the answer came to the just left me the head of their eight at your faith habit to yourself that Scripture thoughts about having to yourself that for his life and his purpose that was what was right for him and his relationship with God, and where he was at his relationship with God. He was he was not in his own mind in his relationship was not allowed to have developed. Okay, because that's what he felt God spoke to him and he couldn't pass judgment on anybody also had one day so the same thing as with young someone thinks of the all the holiness isn't in the NL and is in that type of separation, then the name. Maybe that's what they need to have in her life and you know you think I'm wrong right now, nationality, without preaching against and then had one in the closet. Now that's sent right right and for some individuals, you know, but I had to funerals this weekend and both of them new River valleys had any religious background and had built so someone criticize me for the way that I preach, but you know, as I know some that would treat units like you got in there, you got a captive audience didn't say, and no don't let anybody out, though someone yell gives her heart, the Lord and you know, I don't think that that's a place for but I think it's a place for presenting the truth of allowing God 's love and presenting the word in such a way that it makes sense. You know, I like the spirit of the rest. So everyone has their own way of doing it. It's like chocolate sin in it for chaplain ministry is totally different than pastoral care ministry and faster. The other just to different avenues of ministry. The guys who are biker chaplains don't connect with no pastors who are running churches. They just don't eldest two different approaches to ministry. It also appear the chaplain at the racetrack. L build bridges bridging is going to the racetrack as a guide, a chaplain or with the horses and jockeys young, so each one has their own specific ministry. So that's why whenever we think of holiness that we need a cigarette in the context of completeness all this completeness that we are complete in Christ, and that relationship that we have with God is one that is feeling us as a person and taking us in our relationship closer to God. It is it something that we look at it and say okay, here's the rules just like the Pharisees, Pharisees said, is what I'm doing and I'm good if we do that, then we taken away from what God wants us to be are so in these images that we have that are wrong come from a bad theology of the past which holiness was conceived as primarily a list of behaviors to be a boy or to be imitated. So if you do this you go to heaven if you don't you go to hell. Now I can't stop never worked false notions of freedom, as though to be free is to be able to do anything one wants so the other side of it is nevertheless and I thought it in the nose complete freedom and last night it and complete frame ages go do everyone else like God. I enjoy saving people from their sins. And let's go on sinning so that God can be happy, so both of these extremes come from a wrong perspective. McCumber world wrong approach. In this lesson, John deals with both misconceptions and instead portrays holiness as a life of genuine freedom that enables individuals to achieve their complete potential as a human being, so we enjoyed sharing your wine freedom and the freedom that we have in Christ is the son sets free is free and the and the freedom that we have in Christ does not make us not bring us into bondage of sin, so whenever we whenever we are standing as a deteriorated. It's they talk about being a poison is like a snake venom itself the word mu disintegrates and disintegrated tissues and disintegrated the ball notified about relating the individual hot, bit by a snake in there the whole handles lost her arm off the life, but it was all deteriorated before and because the minimum deteriorated and not a is aware the muscle tissue and to the point that it almost felt so sad is that way I'll deterioration of the soul and deterioration of our character, so that would become well from sinful soul the freedom that John offers involved living in the truth about God oneself and the world. So for areas south understanding our self understanding world in which we live and how that we had freedom, no, there's nothing free about freedom. If you have freedom and possibly something right so so what is it that the truth of God 's word about ourselves and about going on. John suggests that freedom is about making wise choices that part was headed towards wise choices and the wise choices is based upon the wisdom of the word, not the jumping to conclusions, but not that the choices on what the word says about our life and what we are to do and how we are to Glaxo. Whenever we are talking about sanctification separation from sin. What is a wise choice for the guy that couldn't have a TV. This choice is wise choice was not found, but is also his wife, Joyce was not the best at another on others who did I so wise choice wise choices emerge from abiding in the truth rather than in this action to what is the truth. What is the truth of God 's word, so the entrance of the path of freedom is God 's faithfulness to forgive one of the reasons that we create rules. We create the rules is because we want to find a way to please God. Okay, we can please God by following rules. We serve God, and we love him, and because we love him. We have the freedom to choose the rule of the Jews, how these rules are broad in our life and aware free to understand hobgoblins and brought into our life. So we have freedom to choose and we don't create the laws we follow the and we don't follow them to say hey look at me, look what I've done. We follow them as an example of being like Christ. So if we are like Christ, then we have the freedom to choose. We are here for a higher purpose in a higher purpose is to serve the father would Jesus leverage your good will of the father, what are we here for we are here to do the will of Jesus the son if we are doing the will of the sun. We are glorified not looking and say okay hey look at me I'm able to keep all these role look at the way I dress look Rigo, but when I do. If you know what we've done. We have created a way that when we think we make God happy. God is happiest is that what I don't like that worry. You cannot make God happy. He already if we receive what he has far life, then we become an fellowship with him and we received that happiness in our life so those who rejoice, I see they those who recognize the truth of their own sinful behavior and how that God offers forgiveness that we that we find that just as we cannot save ourselves from our sins. We cannot live a life of holiness honorable. We need God to work in our life to bring that about in our life, so, so, just as we can't save ourselves and said we need God 's grace, his words, his spirit to help us to live a holy life, which in turn has benefits for us, which is wholeness and completeness, and ill while I thought so. So as individuals begin the journey of holiness, they will discover freedom to love deeply, because it will be the love will not be grounded and instructions about who they are, who got it. So you're able to log more why because you are following God 's rules. Not sure and you are able to love those who are lovable, forgive those who signally unforgivable latkes of what who got it so what are your thoughts mulling this is not the absence of doing evil, and I write all of his holiness is not the absence of doing able right now as I entered the far relationship with God is based upon the external and we are we are saying this is you I'm I'm I'm holier I'm I'm a Christian, because just look what I don't do not happen in the same token, you can have complete freedom while I'm free and I can go this and I can go do that, then I can go anywhere or do a one-time running. I haven't was not any. So it's like trying to find that that walk with God that is at his is about our heart and about the relational experience and you know how how then do we arrived there out in the week, and I think it interviews through the Scriptures, and now that we have that relationship with God, and how the descriptors and direct us. You know what would Jesus do you know those five the things that were trying to be like Christ and trying to live in that type of life. Ill Pharisees got all over Jesus Ghazi Weddington, as sinners and Republicans house. No while they wouldn't do such a thing. But Jesus would know so. So they were no felon in Jesus. He was not. He was ceremonially unclean, you know, you got to go clean yourself up now being been given contaminated so the other thoughts I know I do it again. There I like to say about the some of the day that the new churches and again, it's we got up our own problems, but the why is it that it's only the women that are the ones that are set out okay. You just certainly what about the guys. What are they doing and how are they living a holy life and are they taking it in ourselves. What are they doing to fix a exhibit the same character. The third that the woman is supposed to be doing it again. You can doesn't have to be holiness traditions. It can be other traditions where it all the woman as a slave. Basically, I'm from we went to him up after school. This is back in nineteen seventy three about seventy seventy five somewhere near it was the end we we stayed with this young couple, the status church at twenty one thousand six hundred ninety people in church on Sunday morning. Thank solves that. That was real big thing back in seven so we went there after school and so we stay with this couple and they were just graduated from there. There's their seminary, and so on, and the guy walked in sat down the chair wife came in. She knelt about the proper shoes put on his slippers, she enough and he was. He was King. All of this religion that has been there if that's always not having this week that this this particular church and denomination that was ill woman was there to serve and how was it invalid. That's why she was here and that mom now. Well, some I don't I I know we don't demand when we have now and when I spoke to both spit on the floor down of you, yet you don't drink you don't you don't take the women who do you know that but I'm not a rule person could tell I think that if God doesn't God doesn't give you the rules, then there's no need for me to get into I've ever Lord parent. This is up in northern Maine. There we had that for recruitment in the convent and in all of the churches that supported us while we were there. They want to know what I was doing to make sure that I cleaned up the Catholics in a battle was I getting them was I getting them saved, and was I yell making them ill Pentecostals like we should be and know while they were baptized in the Holy Spirit, God did that, you know, we were in a prayer group and they sat around and they sexually had known I would do a little Bible study with them and had like the surgery priests and separate nuns and ten or twelve thousand people and we held a prayer group in the convent and a baby in the other nuns babysit Rachel so I mean it was it was a very unique situation, but more apparently was one of the heap. He received about the always we're driving the own of your company and he received about the Holy Spirit driving down the road was filter okay, so anytime that help you are saying Oslo what you tell them about what they're not supposed to do while I figure we get close enough to God, God will tell and Lorne was setting in the bar drinking his beer any setting there and he is in the business environment is to grab all the beer I looked at it a cellular bar and he looked around decision a lot. I don't belong here, and put it down and walk away and he told the other people that the other people 's as yet. We may feel, and I think they so, it was like if you present. If you get close enough to God. You don't have to say though that this don't do that. Don't go there. You never know, and that is better than the so you're saying okay you know what you're supposed to where you know what you're supposed to do and you should be doing this and you should be doing that now. Let's trace the word you choose the word, but the Spirit can make the heart that you will listen to God. I will listen to God they were in trouble in a hide behind something, you know that the TV in the closet enough and not hiding that hiding those sins and install the ideas that if God doesn't convict you been listening to me is the again visit in house by the work that Eminem know anything about this or why when you go to bar them in a bar all their life in the church all their life. Why when you go the bar and but that attention it into your heart. What Rob God knows the thoughts and intentions in your heart so that's where that's where we always how is that it go back there. God knows what I meant. And that's my specialty security because sometimes people take it totally wrong way and I didn't mean it that way and sometimes it isn't no something that isn't my fault. Sometimes it is. But sometimes it isn't my fault, the way people take things so now sometimes an additional get upset at being offended with engine fitted down to determine since you being offended only wakens himself. How then we should get in the lesson, but the addition is eleven sale. How then do we accept this, his walk with God. How then does holiness. The separation in our head. And I think of it as a is a hard thing to to to grasp sometimes because I'm a fun one. What am I supposed to be doing well. What would God. What would make God happy my rating. God is God sad with me while Verizon, God is sad with us as whenever we grieve his spirit reaming him is like when. When someone loves you, you love someone and they misinterpret what you want them to do or you don't do what they do they know is right like God knows what is right for us his Holy Spirit will prompt, since for Hyattsville, who give us that prompted young. That's why I think teaching and preaching on it so valuable because it helps us get a concept totally picture of what God wants us to do. If we follow that what's going on the yard where finding a place to be be close to God in anal on the disciples who is the one with closest to Jesus was John John the beloved John's one rugs for sale Gospel of John, first second third John book Revelation and in and in it the Last Supper, where John is setting by Jesus with his head on his shoulder on his chest at close, and I think when you're that close is not worried about being holy word about pleasing and being close to Jesus that you would not want to hurt him and ended anyone you do. John first of Jesus, just like the other ones we had to deal with it and come back the right perspective, because he had a wrong perspective. Jesus does set up a kingdom, and even die. No, and then we rose came back. Everything turned around like in a and in and I is not a and that I is a not inseparable with my gun away and funeral yesterday, her husband said we do know is greater for double value that we curse the blues drinking innovative in an innovative and see what he and you will you person Memorial that the web in all it is. And I think that this is the most. This whole concept is then inverse I think Mercedes as if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in so if we we look and ourselves and say, you know what I member. I'm never my nephew, Mark, when you look at my sister longer Catholic, you know so marked with the confession was his first confession, and you got a note marks four years old now, but when he was little, because into the impression in any dinner for an hour in and he comes out. This medicine will. What did you do it. I didn't do anything mom that phrase just kept asking the question, though I do that now. I did the best I have a thing to confess that you ask Sally at bay with it home out on the one guy want it. I will send so that and that the wind when Jesus shows up with us. We show up with Jesus. Jesus shows up with us will have the ability to automatically push the repels Ali Abell is is already like bristly like a cat. You don't solve it. Just because razz itself up, you know, and here they were doing you showed up in their already bristling ill and will wonder why there was didn't do anything, just be there be Jesus. There, and what if we suddenly have no sin, we deceive ourselves the truth is not enough if we confess our sin. There are three and fear if my business is doing is telling us that if conditional, that upon the upon arriving here in. We say we have no sense of ethic and if we think we don't have sent word problem okay the number two if we can present selling. We know that we have said now the second step is if we confess it is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So if we recognizably say, and if we confess our sins, and if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and you don't tell God needs a liar. So, if we see it. The traditional thing so if we if we follow through with these things. What we do, were studying art getting our right relationship in place to live for God. And if we are breaking his commands. We need to pay attention to that, because we're the ones who are taking away our wholeness when we stand. We take away the holistic completeness that God has for us to be so sin is not only hurting our relationship with God. Sin is hurting us. That's why God wants us to be forgiven. It is a Sony can be happy it's over. You cannot you I could be whole. So God has you and I mind when he said you need forgiveness, your name, restoration, you need the word of God is saying this is what is good for you. This is what I have plans for you and everything that I wanted to do in your life I want. It's all in there and how you go to bring it out is in its completeness and get away from the sandalwood. This is trying to track from who you are, UK you are want. Your potential. And once it does is take away from the wholeness. So God says let's get rid of anything that will rob you of your holders and you'll find holiness and that relationship so is looking out for us as a parent who look out for the child. Take care loses his advice for not only got four death nails, amen, amen, joblessness, everyone. It now Saturday, Sundays, here's my next Sunday, we are having a baptismal service in the reason that it's so quick is that Jan Wolcott therefore finished in their yard. Finish and are inhabited. And while sleuthing the baptismal service next Sunday right after church. So were going to bring your own chair and ran to have hot dogs and sloppy Joe's death I thought a four course meal enough by then. Nine then after they think they can. The baptismal mendicants, women, whenever those, like this one. Yes, if you be baptized, immersed in water. Let me now Brad and I will do the honors guide are available online. Once the need is so but have any questions about baptism we know we talk about next Sunday morning tunes on this one. We do that it will bring up I saw make sure I make the announcement church to father again, thank you for blessing this day. Your word to our hearts, our life to service to you. Draw close to make us whole. Oh God, through your Word. Your spirit, your touch upon our lives in