1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:02,951 If you're in fellowship with God 2 00:00:02,951 --> 00:00:07,340 as a practice, you walk in the light. 3 00:00:07,340 --> 00:00:09,121 That doesn't mean you're perfect yet, 4 00:00:09,121 --> 00:00:10,298 and there will be sin. 5 00:00:10,298 --> 00:00:11,895 It doesn't mean you practice sin. 6 00:00:11,895 --> 00:00:14,544 Practicing sin is to walk in the darkness. 7 00:00:14,544 --> 00:00:17,051 But there is sin. We recognize there's sin. 8 00:00:17,051 --> 00:00:18,564 And when we fall, 9 00:00:18,564 --> 00:00:20,156 we need to take it to our Father. 10 00:00:20,156 --> 00:00:21,750 We need to run to our Father. 11 00:00:21,750 --> 00:00:24,486 Don't fall for the lies. 12 00:00:24,486 --> 00:00:25,470 I'm telling you. 13 00:00:25,470 --> 00:00:27,790 This is one of Satan's favorite strategies - 14 00:00:27,790 --> 00:00:30,913 is to come at you and tell you when you sin: 15 00:00:30,913 --> 00:00:32,883 Christ wants nothing to do with you. 16 00:00:32,883 --> 00:00:34,398 But when you see your sin, 17 00:00:34,398 --> 00:00:35,670 you know your sin - 18 00:00:35,670 --> 00:00:37,141 Look, you're going to sin! 19 00:00:37,141 --> 00:00:38,990 "I write to you that you don't sin." 20 00:00:38,990 --> 00:00:41,491 Little children - this is what John's all about. 21 00:00:41,491 --> 00:00:43,051 I write to you that you not sin. 22 00:00:43,051 --> 00:00:44,897 I want you to walk more fully, 23 00:00:44,897 --> 00:00:47,133 more fully, more fully in the light. 24 00:00:47,133 --> 00:00:48,552 But if you sin... 25 00:00:48,552 --> 00:00:50,221 What? You walk in the darkness 26 00:00:50,221 --> 00:00:51,925 and you have no fellowship with Him 27 00:00:51,925 --> 00:00:53,183 and you don't know Him? 28 00:00:53,183 --> 00:00:55,480 No! We have a Christ! 29 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,234 The Christ - Jesus Christ. 30 00:00:57,234 --> 00:00:58,381 He is the Righteous One. 31 00:00:58,381 --> 00:01:01,041 He made propitiation for us. 32 00:01:01,041 --> 00:01:02,311 We can plead the blood. 33 00:01:02,311 --> 00:01:04,280 We can go and we can confess it. 34 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,251 Our access is there. 35 00:01:06,251 --> 00:01:07,683 There's no condemnation. 36 00:01:07,683 --> 00:01:09,791 We have full free access. 37 00:01:09,791 --> 00:01:11,041 You go to Him. 38 00:01:11,041 --> 00:01:13,011 And just remember the fellowship. 39 00:01:13,011 --> 00:01:16,804 Oh, this is fellowship 40 00:01:16,804 --> 00:01:18,780 to be at one with God 41 00:01:18,780 --> 00:01:21,680 and to recognize the sin I just did, 42 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,629 the sin I just committed against my wife, 43 00:01:23,629 --> 00:01:25,820 the sin I just committed against my children, 44 00:01:25,820 --> 00:01:26,896 the thing I just did, 45 00:01:26,896 --> 00:01:29,794 the misuse of my tongue - 46 00:01:29,794 --> 00:01:31,896 God sees it for what it is. 47 00:01:31,896 --> 00:01:34,500 The best thing to do - 48 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:37,372 go out with Peter and weep bitterly 49 00:01:37,372 --> 00:01:38,500 and confess it. 50 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:40,459 And you know, the next thing you'll find 51 00:01:40,459 --> 00:01:43,696 is He'll come alongside and He'll say, 52 00:01:43,696 --> 00:01:46,468 "Joe, do you love Me?" 53 00:01:46,468 --> 00:01:49,661 Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. 54 00:01:49,661 --> 00:01:52,929 Well, He sends us to His work. 55 00:01:52,929 --> 00:01:54,231 Remember this, brethren. 56 00:01:54,231 --> 00:01:56,510 He did not design perfection 57 00:01:56,510 --> 00:01:58,789 to happen in this life. 58 00:01:58,789 --> 00:02:02,319 And He did that on purpose. 59 00:02:02,319 --> 00:02:04,939 And because He did, 60 00:02:04,939 --> 00:02:07,179 part of our fellowship with Him 61 00:02:07,179 --> 00:02:10,210 is going to be on a regular basis 62 00:02:10,210 --> 00:02:12,906 the picture of the man or the woman 63 00:02:12,906 --> 00:02:15,613 with the head bowed before God 64 00:02:15,613 --> 00:02:18,282 confessing because they see their sin 65 00:02:18,282 --> 00:02:20,210 as God sees it. 66 00:02:20,210 --> 00:02:21,950 They know it's exposed to Him 67 00:02:21,950 --> 00:02:23,461 and there's no sense hiding it 68 00:02:23,461 --> 00:02:25,160 and they want fellowship 69 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:26,856 more than they want to go on 70 00:02:26,856 --> 00:02:29,311 not acknowledging that sin. 71 00:02:29,311 --> 00:02:31,510 If they know that it's going to grieve Him 72 00:02:31,510 --> 00:02:34,403 and bring some snare in there 73 00:02:34,403 --> 00:02:37,432 and some shadow over the fellowship, 74 00:02:37,432 --> 00:02:39,340 I want my fellowship more than I want 75 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:42,261 to go on in my sin not confessing it. 76 00:02:42,261 --> 00:02:43,912 Do you not want that? 77 00:02:43,912 --> 00:02:46,503 Nothing between - is that not what the song says? 78 00:02:46,503 --> 00:02:49,491 Nothing between my soul and the Savior. 79 00:02:49,491 --> 00:02:51,085 Don't let it go there. 80 00:02:51,085 --> 00:02:56,302 Cherish this fellowship above everything else. 81 00:02:56,302 --> 00:02:59,642 Oh brethren, I'm telling you 82 00:02:59,642 --> 00:03:02,162 there are depths that God 83 00:03:02,162 --> 00:03:08,761 has swept His people in to this fellowship. 84 00:03:08,761 --> 00:03:11,550 Some of you likely - 85 00:03:11,550 --> 00:03:16,251 you can't put words to. 86 00:03:16,251 --> 00:03:19,241 I can remember Charles Simeon. 87 00:03:19,241 --> 00:03:21,302 One of his friends came into his room 88 00:03:21,302 --> 00:03:22,490 and the lights were off 89 00:03:22,490 --> 00:03:24,556 and there was the picture of the penitent. 90 00:03:24,556 --> 00:03:26,461 He had been there confessing 91 00:03:26,461 --> 00:03:29,961 his sorrow for his sin. 92 00:03:29,961 --> 00:03:33,980 And God came to him in such ravishing fashion, 93 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:35,180 as his friend found him, 94 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:40,589 all he could say is, "Glory. Glory. Glory." 95 00:03:40,589 --> 00:03:43,391 That's the only word that could come out of him. 96 00:03:43,391 --> 00:03:44,608 Don't you want that? 97 00:03:44,608 --> 00:03:46,210 Nothing between, brethren. 98 00:03:46,210 --> 00:03:49,211 Nothing between.