DAILY TRUTH - Growing In The Grace Of Godly Grief
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Summary
In this episode, Pastor Ken teaches on the benefits of being a Christian born again. He uses the analogy of a fire hose and a mirror, and how as we grow closer and closer to Christ, the water of the Word is washing away the filth and the grime that still remains.
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i've used this illustration before i'll use it once more i can't i'm sure there's a better one
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but i've used it so long at this point if it ain't broke you know don't fix it so imagine that
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following jesus it could be illustrated by christ in one hand holding a full body mirror
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and in the other a fire hose and you and i filthy after wallowing in the mud in our sin
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are now being closer and closer pulled to Christ.
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And it's not even just that we're walking towards him.
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the the fire hose the the water of the word is is is rinsing him washing him being washed in the
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word that the the filth and the grime is actually in the objective sense being removed you are
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becoming more christ-like you are getting better you are being conformed day by day into the image
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of Christ. This is true, undeniably true. But in the very same breath, as you get closer to Jesus
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in the fire hose, the pressure increases and is blasting away the grime and the filth to where
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you're actually becoming more, not less, but more clean, you're also getting closer to the mirror
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or you're getting a clearer and clearer view of the filth and the mud that still remains.
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and i don't know about you but that has been my experience in following jesus
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year after year after year that is actually at times hard to even believe that i'm being
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sanctified and in the objective sense growing being conformed into the image of christ's
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likeness because that second half of the story the other side of the coin the subjective sense
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of perception, I'm becoming so much more aware and not only aware, but grieved and burdened
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by the sin that still remains. And not only the sin that still remains, but past sins that I know
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are dead and been buried with Christ and fully forgiven. Even the memory of past sins, I'm now
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aware much more fully of how serious those sins were. And the moment that I committed those sins,
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I recognized that they were sins. I recognized that I needed forgiveness, but I didn't realize
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how serious the sin really was. And now later in life, a year later, in some cases, you know,
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over a decade later, I look back and I'm like, whoa, I knew it was wrong. I knew I needed
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forgiveness. I confessed that sin to the Lord. I confessed it to saints, to others. I've been
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assured of Christ's pardon and forgiveness. I've repented and by God's grace been restored. That's
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not the man I am any longer. And yet even a past sin grieves me in some ways more today
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than the day that I committed the sin. Not because I'm under condemnation, not because it isn't
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forgiven, and not because I haven't improved, not because I'm still that mare, but because
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the softness, by God's grace, the softness of my heart to be pierced and grieved by sin
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is much more profound at this point of my life than it was when I was younger.
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And all that is grieving on the one hand, but on the other, should be a profound and
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deep encouragement because it is one of the surest fruits of real salvation that you have
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in fact been born again but you do in fact belong to jesus because you no longer merely
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acknowledge failure and sin but you're grieved by it