Nothing Between My Soul and the Savior - Tim Conway

Confessing our sin can be humiliating to us, but it is not anywhere near as hurtful as letting our fellowship with God be hindered through our refusal to confess sin. Our desire for fellowship with God must trump any reasoning we try to create to not acknowledge our sin.

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If you're in fellowship with God

as a practice, you walk in the light.

That doesn't mean you're perfect yet,

and there will be sin.

It doesn't mean you practice sin.

Practicing sin is to walk in the darkness.

But there is sin.
We recognize there's sin.

And when we fall,

we need to take it to our Father.

We need to run to our Father.

Don't fall for the lies.

I'm telling you.

This is one of Satan's
favorite strategies -

is to come at you and
tell you when you sin:

Christ wants nothing to do with you.

But when you see your sin,

you know your sin -

Look, you're going to sin!

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

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

I write to you that you not sin.

I want you to walk more fully,

more fully, more fully in the light.

But if you sin...

What? You walk in the darkness

and you have no fellowship with Him

and you don't know Him?

No! We have a Christ!

The Christ - Jesus Christ.

He is the Righteous One.

He made propitiation for us.

We can plead the blood.

We can go and we can confess it.

Our access is there.

There's no condemnation.

We have full free access.

You go to Him.

And just remember the fellowship.

Oh, this is fellowship

to be at one with God

and to recognize the sin I just did,

the sin I just committed against my wife,

the sin I just committed
against my children,

the thing I just did,

the misuse of my tongue -

God sees it for what it is.

The best thing to do -

go out with Peter and weep bitterly

and confess it.

And you know, the next thing you'll find

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

"Joe, do you love Me?"

Yes, Lord, You know that I love You.

Well, He sends us to His work.

Remember this, brethren.

He did not design perfection

to happen in this life.

And He did that on purpose.

And because He did,

part of our fellowship with Him

is going to be on a regular basis

the picture of the man or the woman

with the head bowed before God

confessing because they see their sin

as God sees it.

They know it's exposed to Him

and there's no sense hiding it

and they want fellowship

more than they want to go on

not acknowledging that sin.

If they know that it's going to grieve Him

and bring some snare in there

and some shadow over the fellowship,

I want my fellowship more than I want

to go on in my sin not confessing it.

Do you not want that?

Nothing between - is that
not what the song says?

Nothing between my soul and the Savior.

Don't let it go there.

Cherish this fellowship
above everything else.

Oh brethren, I'm telling you

there are depths that God

has swept His people in
to this fellowship.

Some of you likely -

you can't put words to.

I can remember Charles Simeon.

One of his friends came into his room

and the lights were off

and there was the picture of the penitent.

He had been there confessing

his sorrow for his sin.

And God came to him
in such ravishing fashion,

as his friend found him,

all he could say is,
"Glory. Glory. Glory."

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

Don't you want that?

Nothing between, brethren.

Nothing between.