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If you're in fellowship with God

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as a practice, you walk in the light.

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That doesn't mean you're perfect yet,

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and there will be sin.

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It doesn't mean you practice sin.

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Practicing sin is to walk in the darkness.

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But there is sin.[br]We recognize there's sin.

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And when we fall,

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we need to take it to our Father.

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We need to run to our Father.

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Don't fall for the lies.

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I'm telling you.

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This is one of Satan's[br]favorite strategies -

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is to come at you and[br]tell you when you sin:

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Christ wants nothing to do with you.

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But when you see your sin,

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you know your sin -

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Look, you're going to sin!

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"I write to you that you don't sin."

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Little children - this is[br]what John's all about.

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I write to you that you not sin.

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I want you to walk more fully,

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more fully, more fully in the light.

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But if you sin...

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What? You walk in the darkness

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and you have no fellowship with Him

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and you don't know Him?

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No! We have a Christ!

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The Christ - Jesus Christ.

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He is the Righteous One.

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He made propitiation for us.

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We can plead the blood.

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We can go and we can confess it.

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Our access is there.

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There's no condemnation.

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We have full free access.

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You go to Him.

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And just remember the fellowship.

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Oh, this is fellowship

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to be at one with God

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and to recognize the sin I just did,

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the sin I just committed against my wife,

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the sin I just committed[br]against my children,

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the thing I just did,

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the misuse of my tongue -

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God sees it for what it is.

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The best thing to do -

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go out with Peter and weep bitterly

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and confess it.

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And you know, the next thing you'll find

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is He'll come alongside and He'll say,

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"Joe, do you love Me?"

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Yes, Lord, You know that I love You.

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Well, He sends us to His work.

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Remember this, brethren.

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He did not design perfection

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to happen in this life.

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And He did that on purpose.

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And because He did,

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part of our fellowship with Him

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is going to be on a regular basis

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the picture of the man or the woman

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with the head bowed before God

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confessing because they see their sin

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as God sees it.

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They know it's exposed to Him

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and there's no sense hiding it

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and they want fellowship

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more than they want to go on

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not acknowledging that sin.

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If they know that it's going to grieve Him

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and bring some snare in there

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and some shadow over the fellowship,

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I want my fellowship more than I want

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to go on in my sin not confessing it.

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Do you not want that?

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Nothing between - is that[br]not what the song says?

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Nothing between my soul and the Savior.

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Don't let it go there.

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Cherish this fellowship[br]above everything else.

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Oh brethren, I'm telling you

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there are depths that God

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has swept His people in[br]to this fellowship.

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Some of you likely -

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you can't put words to.

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I can remember Charles Simeon.

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One of his friends came into his room

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and the lights were off

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and there was the picture of the penitent.

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He had been there confessing

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his sorrow for his sin.

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And God came to him[br]in such ravishing fashion,

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as his friend found him,

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all he could say is,[br]"Glory. Glory. Glory."

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That's the only word that[br]could come out of him.

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Don't you want that?

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Nothing between, brethren.

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Nothing between.