SUNDAY SERMON - The Dangers Of Minimizing Sin ｜ Psalm 32
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Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered; Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit; For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away, through my groaning all day long; For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; Forday and night, my strength was dried up, as by the summer, the heat of summer. I acknowledged my sin to you, and you forgave the transgressions of my sin; I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and He forgave them; and He covered my iniquities; and let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; and you will counsel you with an eye upon you; be not like a horse, or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle; or it will not stay near you.
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it's very likely that I'm going to break this up into two parts
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because the first five verses deal entirely exclusively with confession and so I want to
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make sure that we're thorough in understanding confession from the word of God and the blessings
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that ensue from confessing our sin to the Lord with truthfulness so I'll read our text in its
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entirety and then I'll go ahead and begin preaching the sermon would you join me in standing now for
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the reading of God's word when I finish reading the text I'll say this is the word of the Lord
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at which point I would like very much if you would respond by saying, thanks be to God.
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Once more, our text for today is Psalm chapter 32.
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Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
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For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
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My strength was dried up as by the summer, the heat of summer.
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I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity.
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I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,
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Therefore, let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you
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Surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
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I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.
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Be not like a horse or a mule without understanding,
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Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
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Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.
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All right, please be seated and join me as I pray.
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And Father, we recognize in agreement with the testimony of your word, namely the book of Romans.
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that says that all have sinned and fallen short of your glory.
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And Father, we agree with the testimony of your word
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that we indeed have sinned and fallen short of your glory.
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Not only have we sinned before you were so merciful to save us,
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We are not entitled or deserving of any gift of grace from you.
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We're not entitled to a revelation of your truth.
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Your word reveals to us who you are, what you've done, and what it is you require.
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By our own willful rebellion, by our own sin, by our own falling short of your glory,
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we have forfeited whatever right we may have previously possessed
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in order to be entitled to a revelation of your truth.
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We don't deserve to know who you are or what you've done or what you even require.
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And so, Father, we recognize your word today for what it truly is.
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The revelation of your truth to fallen humanity is a gift that none of us deserve.
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from us as a proper and right response. And Father, we pray that all this would take place,
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not merely that knowledge would be an end in itself, but so that this knowledge would serve
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as the necessary means propelling us into not only right knowledge of you, but right love for you.
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The heart cannot love what the mind does not know. So would you fill our minds with your truth today
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And Father, we also recognize that your son Jesus himself,
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And so Father, we pray that this knowledge would provoke love
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We pray this ultimately that you might be glorified in all the earth,
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but we also pray this for the good of those people
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that you're saving across the globe, in our city
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even in this very room, especially among our children.
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We pray these things in the name of your son Jesus, amen.
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stop being self-righteous, stop being a Pharisee,
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that was the need of the hour it's not today it's not and if you think it is you're fooling yourself
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it's not there are a few people in that corner and they just make all the news headlines to make
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it seem like it's the majority it's not we know it's not that's the minority once upon a time
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perhaps the majority and that message needed to be preached but today that's not the majority
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The majority problem within conservatives and Christians in our nation
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is not self-righteous, pharisaical, judgmental behavior.
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No, it's complacency, cowardice, affirming, bowing the knee.
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And I believe it's the majority problem because of bad doctrine and guilty consciences.
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Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven.
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not the one whose transgression continues to hang above their head that's not blessing
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that's cursing think of deuteronomy what the lord says if you don't be careful to obey all my
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commands cursed will you be when you go out cursed when you come in you'll be the tail and not the
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head you'll be cursing your doing and cursed in this and cursing just following you around like
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a shadow, like a dark cloud. The one who does not confess his transgression and is not forgiven
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is cursed everywhere they go. In everything they do, they're cursed, cursed, cursed.
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But by direct contrast, our text says, blessed, not cursed, blessed. And one translation of the
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word blessed. Blessed, it contains much more than this, but this is one portion, one sector of what
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it means to be blessed. Happy. Happy. Light. Have you ever just been so weighed down by your
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conscience by guilt, you just, you can't enjoy anything any longer? I think of Pilgrim's Progress
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when the law, the book of the law comes to Christian, the main protagonist in the story.
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he's working the field, he finds the book of God's law, God's word is revealed to him,
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he reads it, and he's miserable. Immediately, a burden appears upon his back. Guilt. Right?
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Because there's a revelation of sin that comes from the reading of the law. We do this every
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Lord's Day in our liturgy. He realizes, I'm a sinner, but he has not yet received the salve
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of the gospel right he's had the scalpel of the law you need both but but then but then the gospel
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salve that heals the wound has not yet been applied and so he's burdened and he's weary and
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he's heavy look at our text chapter 32 verses 3 and 4 look at look at how David describes how he
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felt when he was hiding his sin. Have you ever felt this? For when I kept silent, when I was
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hiding, concealing my sin, when I did not confess, to confess is to open your mouth, it's to speak,
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but when I was silent, what was it like? What did it feel like? It felt like my very bones.
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He's saying, my core, the core of my being was corroding, deconstructing, wasting away.
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It was dried up like a plant that withers in the heat of summer.
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I was groaning and moaning in pain and agony and misery all day.
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And all day and even at night, your hand laid heavily upon me.
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Not the hand of a father that rests gently on the shoulder of his son,
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conveying a pleasure and pride but no the hand that presses down the pressure a weight
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i felt crushed i felt like i was dying i felt dried up parched lifeless crushed by the lord
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that was christian's experiment john bunyan's book pilgrim's progress it said that everything
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that he used to love, that he used to derive a sense of pleasure and enjoyment from, lost all of
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its joy. It said that it's not just that he was miserable, but then he was able to distract himself
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with other things. No, no. The book says, Pilgrim's Progress says that he no longer could get any joy
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from his own children. That he couldn't get joy when he would eat meals or drink. He lost his
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appetite. Have you ever been there because of sin, concealed sin you can't even eat? I've been there.
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Not something that has to be applied over the course of years
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It's not applied over months or years to extend your life.
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No, it is a cure that happens immediately the moment that we obey,
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that extends not only your life, but grants to you eternal life, a joyous life.
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And the hand of the Lord that was pressing now begins to wrap around you and hold you close.
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No longer pressing with conviction and weight and pressure, but rather holding you softly, lovingly, affirming and encouraging you.
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The very Spirit of God testifying within you, reminding you, bearing witness, Abba Father.
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See, even for the Christian, although it's impossible to lose your salvation,
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fall underneath the fatherly displeasure of God.
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I don't believe this is a description of David pre-conversion.
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No, this is a description of David as he's concealing his sin.
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As a Christian, as a lover of God, but concealing his sin underneath fatherly displeasure.
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You look to the Lord to see in his countenance blessing and encouragement and approval, and there's none to be found.
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And not because you're not saved, not because you lost your salvation, not because he's no longer your father, but he's displeased.
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But see, as a father, everything he does is ultimately for his glory and the good of his children.
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Even his displeasure is to drive you to the cure.
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it's as though the first commandment that he gives,
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but there is a couple prescriptive, prescriptions,
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Verse six gives the commandment in the positive sense.
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offer prayer to you at a time that you may be found.
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of the fatherly displeasure of God as his hand presses you.
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Don't stay out in the heat being parched and thirsty.
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if you're godly, adopted as a child of the Lord,
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Go to him quickly, immediately, and cry out to the Lord.
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because of the context, the overarching context of Psalm 32
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It's immediate obedience, but it's also full obedience.
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Obey all the way and ride away with a cheerful heart or cheerful attitude.
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And again, confessing to the Lord is not informing him.
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See, the better way that we could describe it is this.
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To confess your sin to the Lord is to agree with him.
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Don't think of confession in terms of informing.
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Think that when I confess, I'm not informing God.
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I'm agreeing with God in regards to the sin that he already sees, he already knows,
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but what I'm doing is I'm agreeing with what he says about the severity of my sin.
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See, our confessions are often late and little.
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We confess long after the fact, and we only confess a portion.
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we know that we are actually disagreeing with God.
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Because every time we disagree with God, we contradict God,
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do you know one of the things that we're doing?
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but then we feel the weight and the conviction of verse 10.
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If we say we have not sinned, we're not just disagreeing with God, but by disagreeing with
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God, we make him a liar. We're calling him a liar. And this is a sure tell sign that his word is not
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in us. It's not. The word of God is not dwelling within us. Why? Because the word of God is true.
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And when we disagree with God, we're harboring lies. What fellowship does light have with
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darkness. Truth with lies and deception. The Word of God can't be richly dwelling within you
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if you are actively fostering and harboring the indwelling of lies.
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Relieve yourself. Unburden yourself. You can do it today. The Lord is not far.
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do it go let all the godly go to the lord and pray confess their sins in a time when he may
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be found brothers and sisters there is no better time i promise you he can be found right now
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he can be found the implication of when can he be found the implication is this you know what
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david means by that when he can be found he means now because that's the only sure time
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because we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow.
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that we minimize our sin when we confess to the Lord,
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what we're doing is not just minimizing our sin,
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When we minimize our sin, does God make light of sin?
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So to make light of sin is to disagree with God and what he says about sin.
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And by contradicting, you're saying my testimony is true and yours, which contradicts my testimony, is false.
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And when we make him out to be a liar by harboring lies, how can we expect to harbor lies?
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to have the truth of his word dwelling within us.
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It may still be something that we can quote upon our lips, but it's not living in us.
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We're killing the word within us by feeding lies.
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It would be like going in your backyard with your grass.
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That's how you know you moved to Texas and you're not in California.
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There's going to be rocks or there's going to be dirt or there's going to be clay.
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there's going to be succulents a million succulents because nothing grows you know but
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but here we get excited about grass because it's a place where there's plants and there's life and
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there's growth and and i mean that in a literal plant sense i also mean in a political and
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cultural and religious sense and all this there's life there's life now in terms of grass
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it would be ridiculous to go in your backyard with some kind of spray that kills the grass
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and then fertilize the weeds that would be entirely backwards right that's not what you do
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You want to somehow sustain the grass and kill the weeds.
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But what we do when we don't confess our sins to the Lord is precisely the opposite.
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We're feeding the lies, our disagreement with God, making him out to be a liar,
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our minimization of sin, our hiding of sin, concealing of sin,
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while feeding that, nourishing that, fertilizing lies, falsehoods,
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and then we spray the weed killer that's meant for the lies on the word, on the truth.
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And I think that's what David's describing when he says, I was wasting away.
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Because the very thing that inwardly sustains him and gives him so much joy and life is the word of God.
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Think about how many times so far as we've been preaching through the Psalms that we've dealt with David's delight in the law of God.
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And the law of God, it works as a guide that keeps him on the path of life.
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and by ultimately spraying weed killer on the law of God,
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and condemning and making God himself out to be a liar,
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He is killing the very thing that sustains him.
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And so of course, naturally the result would be
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And this is not just the experience or the picture,
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suppressing the truth and deeds of unrighteousness.
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The non-Christian can do nothing but that.
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but because Jesus is good at leading his people.
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for he cannot deny himself, is what the word says.
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It's his faithfulness that brings the Christian out of the valley of the shadow of death,
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that brings the Christian out of the heat. And that's precisely what we see in verse 9.
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So I may just preach it all. But that's what we see in verse 9. See, verse 6 is the positive
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command. There's only two times we see a command, right? Prescription. Everything else is descriptive.
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But there's two prescriptions, commands. Verse 6 stated in the positive. Go to the Lord now. Go
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and confess. Giving us something positive to do. You go and confess to the Lord. Do it quick and do
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it all. Fully and quickly. Verse nine is actually not another command. There's not two commands in
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this text. It's all about confession. So keep that theme in mind. Verse nine is the same command now
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stated in the negative. It's now stated in the other direction. So verse six, this is the positive
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thing that you should do. Go to the Lord quickly and confess your sins. Verse nine, this is the
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thing that is very stupid that you should not do. Don't be like a mule. I had a great joke with this,
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but then I realized that a mule and a donkey are actually two different types of animals.
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So I can't say the zinger that I had. Don't be a, but it's just scientifically incorrect. I got to
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follow the science. So, so don't be a mule, which is not a donkey, but there are some similarities.
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Don't be like a mule or a horse without understanding.
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Don't be like a mule that stays out there and dies.
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Because it's forced. It's curved by bit and bridle. Apart from that, apart from the bit and bridle, apart from the master taking ownership over the horse, over the mule, exerting his will upon the will of the mule and winning that battle of wills, apart from the master overriding the will of the mule and forcing him by bit and bridle to come inside,
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it would have. What it intended to do, what it meant to do is stay away. See, it says,
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or it will not come near to you. Don't, this is a description of the Christian underneath
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the fatherly displeasure of God in moments of concealing sin, in moments of not confessing.
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That's what a Christian's like. He's wasting away. He's dying. God's hand is heavy upon him.
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the master, what he'll do is he doesn't just leave you.
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It's a complete perfect contrast to Romans 1.
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His judgment is progressively handing people over further to their sin.
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But the mule, that is the unconfessing Christian, truly has been born again,
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but right now is actively choosing not to confess their sin.
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For the Christian, notice God doesn't hand them over further to their sin.
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He's not going to let you perish, even if that's what you want.
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You're not your own. You were bought with a price.
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You belong to the master. You're not your mule. You're his.
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And so he puts a bit and bridle in your mouth,
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and he yanks you into the stable, whether you like it or not.
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And he causes you to drink water, and he causes you to be fed,
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and that's what god does with his own that's what the father does with his own he doesn't leave us
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he doesn't forsake us he doesn't give up on us but brothers and sisters the message of psalm 32 is
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this don't force his hand will he do that for you if you are his child yes but he should never have
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to come to him quickly when he can be found don't be the mule staying out in the heat
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in our text it's very clear verse 6 and verse 5 especially david said so i confess my sin to the
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lord and he forgave my transgression if we're not careful first john chapter 1 verse 9 seems to
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to convey the same the same message and if we're not careful what we'll read from that at a quick
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glance without being thorough is this i need to confess then god will forgive and that is not
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biblical. Not for the Christian. For the Christian, all forgiveness of sin, complete and perfect
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parting for all past, present, and future sins is accomplished by Christ on the cross and fully
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applied to the Christian at the moment of conversion, at the moment of salvation. So we don't need to
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What we need to do is confess our sin to the Lord
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to receive his forgiveness in the subjective sense.
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Instead of fatherly pleasure, it's fatherly displeasure.
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Instead of a sense of peace and joy and forgiveness
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1 John talks about when your own heart condemns us.
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are the times when I have not yet confessed my sin.
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so all that being said confess your sin fully and quickly to the lord when he can be found
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when can he be found now whatever moment it is do it then don't delay don't wait don't put it off
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he may not be found later because you may not be found later but he can be found now go quickly
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and go fully don't reserve don't minimize because by minimizing you are disagreeing with what god
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says about sin. He says it's serious. If you minimize, you're saying it's not serious, meaning
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you're saying, God, you're wrong, aka you're a liar. And the word of God is not in you, according
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to 1 John, meaning it's not thriving within you. It's not living within you because you're suppressing
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the truth of God's word and fostering lies. And what happens when you do that? The very word of
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God within you is the source of what gives you life and peace and joy. And so your experience is
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precisely the image that David gives us in verse three and four, you begin to waste away, to wither
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heavy, miserable, underneath the conviction of the Lord. Still your father, objectively,
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still forgiven, objectively, still atoned for, objectively.
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But in every sense that you can feel and experience, it's precisely the opposite.
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he doesn't feel like your father because you've displeased him and you won't go to him
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you don't feel forgiven because you haven't asked for forgiveness and confessed your sin
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you don't feel peace because you're not at peace his hand is heavy upon you so let me conclude by
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just reading a little bit of this first paragraph of my notes because it was the best part that i
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wrote and i haven't used any of it so i'll just use this part the focus of psalm 32 verses one
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through five is confession forgiveness and communion it's the restoration of relationship
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get that brothers and sisters you confess your sins what to be forgiven in an objective sense
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nope you're forgiven from the moment of salvation but to sense and experience the forgiveness of
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god in the subjective sense and here's the other thing forgiveness is not the end it's a means to
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it see this is one area where reformers we we constantly get it wrong right justification
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justification right we're always talking about the gospel justification salvation grace alone
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you know, through faith alone and Christ alone.
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of reminding me that it's not just justification,
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step two, feel a sense of forgiveness. No, step one, confess. Step two, feel forgiveness so that
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sweetness of communion, sweetness of intimacy, sweetness of relationship is restored through
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father and son. That's what we're going for. That's the goal. In Psalm 32 verses one through
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two, we see that the forgiven man is a blessed man. He's a happy man. Blessed is the one whose
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transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, blesses the man against whom the Lord counts no
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iniquity, meaning he's not holding your sin against you, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. You're
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not hiding and minimizing. In Psalm 32, verse 5, we're provided with the method, the remedy, the cure
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for attaining forgiveness, the sense, subjective sense of forgiveness, and restored relationship,
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communion. It's this, I acknowledge my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity. To confess our sin
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Therefore, to confess our sin is to acknowledge,
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and earnestly desire the necessary grace required
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Tragically, there are many, even in the church,
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that they are absolved of any real sense of moral responsibility. See, these individuals will go to
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great lengths in order to reconstruct narratives in the minds of all those around them so that
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someone else is always at fault. Instead of acknowledging their sin, they claim that their
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only true fault was allowing toxic people into their lives. Usually, insert as an example of
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toxic person, an abusive leader. An abusive leader. Oh, this leader was abusive. I think he might have
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been abusive, an abusive leader. Why is that so popular right now? Because the church is, for the
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first time, really began to take seriously the biblical qualifications for elders to not be
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domineering. Nope. Nope, that's not why. It's not the church leading the way through scripture,
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it's the church following the culture that's being led by Me Too, that's being led by critical race
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theory. Critical race theory, just take away the R, right? It ultimately comes from critical theory.
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Somebody needs to write a book one day, maybe I'll do critical church theory.
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Because critical race theory is just, as it pertains to ethnicity, subdividing people into
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intersections, into groups of oppressors and oppressed. And who's the oppressor? Always
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whoever is seen in society at that time to have power. So now take it away from race and apply it
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to the church. Not critical race theory, critical church theory. Not CRT, CCT. What would be the
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group that has power. In a church that's becoming more and more like the culture, that's accepting
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these false narratives, who, if they begin to apply those kinds of categories to their community,
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their church setting, who's the group with power? It's the church leaders. It's the elders. It's
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especially the lead pastor. That's got to be the oppressor. And no, that wasn't conviction and
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And now all the things that I did that were actually wrong,
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Really, my only failure, my only failure is we should have confronted him.
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That was our failure is that over years we let him get away with his sin,
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But if we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.
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No one says, no one says we have not sinned in such plain terms.
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Because it's an impossible narrative to sustain.
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What that actually means, 1 John 1.10, what it actually means is this.
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it's not that someone literally says we have not sinned with us who could say that with a straight
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face without bursting out laughing it's a joke it's a joke so so what what is actually said
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what what line is actually used i've never really said okay pitiful preacher chief of sinners chief
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of sinners chief of sinners must be a lot of sin could you give me an example well chief just chief
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of sinners. And man, we really, we feel convicted. We feel bad. We feel guilty. We really, for years,
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we sinned in this community by what? By not confronting and correcting the real sinner,
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the real oppressor, the one who had the power, the one who had the power, the one who was in
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charge, the leader. That's critical church theory. Alive and well. Alive and well. I mean, one of the
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big reasons why Mike Stone didn't win the presidency for the SBC is because of a Twitter
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a Twitter ploy engaged against him because he talked to a woman who approached him and he was
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busy in between different things he needed to get to other things in between the sessions she came
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up to him she was an abuse survivor and I believe that's probably true but I have to say alleged
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because I don't know all the facts but it's probably true she wasn't abused by him but she
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went and talked to him he he was there his wife was right next to him talking to some other people
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she overheard the whole thing he was kind he was gentle by every eyewitness testimony by his own
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wife and people were nearby but but then he moved on to go talk to someone and quickly afterwards
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she started crying and if there's anything that I've learned especially as a man in our egalitarian
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feministic world I learned very early on my dad taught me this actually I remember one time
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confronting a girl and I probably didn't do it exactly right but she cried and multiple people
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in the church were upset with me. And I remember my dad said, when it comes to women, when they cry,
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they win. And you just have to learn that lesson. He was right. When they cry, they win. So this
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woman cried. And Mike Stone got plastered as, he's not like Christ. He doesn't care for the woman
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caught in adultery. Do we really want, see, he's not, what is it? He's not empathetic. He may be
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really conservative and courageous, but what the SBC needs is an empathetic leader, right? That's
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that's the church largest protestant denomination leading the culture no that's the church literally
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one year after following the culture that's literally what literally exactly what happened
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down to even the percentages of who won the vote exactly what happened with pagans in our nation
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in 2020 was mirrored precisely to the t by the sbc a year later in 2021 no difference what's the
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difference, right? It's like, how many people does it take to screw on a light bulb? Here's a joke
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for you. What's the difference between the Southern Baptist Convention and America as a whole? Nothing.
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Nothing. Not a thing. We need an empathetic leader. An empathetic leader.
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And that's what happens. And I want you to see this in real terms. Critical race theory,
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critical church theory. Either way, this is how it plays out. This is how the enemy
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deceives. And people believe it. People believe it because here's the deal. The person who gets
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scapegoated, the person who gets blamed, they're usually sent away. Somehow, someway. Maybe they
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choose to go. You never know the full story, but they're sent away. And so their narrative isn't
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heard. It's only the people who won. History is written by the victors. That's their whole ploy
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with. America is like, well, American history makes America look really good, but that's just
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because America is an oppressive, colonizing, you know, dominant imperialistic force that, you know,
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wins all of its battles, you know, and so they get to write the history books. But there is a sense
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of truth in that. The people who win, the people who stay, they're the ones who get to select the
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narrative. And if you repeat it enough times, and there's no one, right, one is thought wise,
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Proverbs 18, one is thought wise until another cross-examines him. But if there is no one else
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to cross-examine. If every eyewitness who actually could, they actually have the information to
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cross-examine, are gone, then your narrative reigns supreme. And ultimately, the result is this.
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I'm a pitiful preacher. I'm the chief of sinners. And I have sinned. And the one example of sin
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that I'll ever give is my failure to correct this other guy's sin who's a lot more sinful than me.
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that is to conceal sin that is to make god out to be a liar his bones will be broken
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a man like that his bones will begin to break within he is heavy underneath god's hand
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parched don't be that man that's a mule that man is a mule he's a donkey he's a horse
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But if he belongs to Jesus, because God is so merciful, God will by force take that man with bit and bridle and bring him in to fellowship.
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Don't confess to the Lord because he squeezes it out of you.
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when he can be found. Today, today is the day of salvation, that sense of forgiveness and all that
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to the chief end, which is communion. To be seated back at the father's table, eating of his banquet,
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laughing with him, enjoying him in restored relationship with your God.
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