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1 John 1:5-10
I wanted to start with a question today.
What is it that holds the most value to you personally?
Is it your wife?
Your husband?
Your kids
Your cars
Your money
Maybe Your relationship with God?
Hold that thought.
Keep it there cause we are going to come back to it.
You know when I was inquiring to become a chaplain
I remember that one requirement
2 years ministry experience
I believe at the time I had like 13 years ACTIVE
So I was racking my brain and I
Decided I would try to gain an internship
Local church while going to seminary
So the first church I went to I got a great response.
The pastor was very open to the idea
In fact he already had one intern helping him
Was very excited to take me on
So I told him i’d be back in two weeks.
Susan and I were going to California to show off little Sydney to grandma
So we set a start date
Well as soon as I got back I noticed things had changed.
The church had a new pastor
And the entire deal was off.
See what had happened was the pastors wife was caught cheating with the pastors best friend.
It was heart breaking.
Keep in mind this is a pastor
So everything is very public
Plus it was a small town
Everyone knew
I mean it was incredibly embarrassing for both parties
I mean what a way to potentially discourage me
Now what was truly unique about this story
What was life changing for me
Was the fact that this pastor forgave his wife and accepted her back as if nothing happened.
I mean he had every right to just drop her.
First off he’s a pastor so this was very very public.
It wasn’t a big town so you can imagine the news spread fast.
I mean talk about embarrassment.
But the one thing I really remember about this scenario was what that pastor told me.
I remember we were sitting down for a breakfast together
He was apologizing for not being able to carry on with the internship
Obviously this was the last thing on my mind
But Remember asking him, where do you go from here?
He said he was going to stay with his wife
That he was going to forgive his wife
I was baffled,
How is this even possible
I mean he lost his career
His friends
He eventually had move
His entire life was collapsing before my eyes
You know what he told me
He said if Christ can forgive me, then I can forgive my wife.
I’ll tell you.
That hit me.
To understand what true forgiveness is.
And that’s what this passage is about.
The forgiveness of God,
That relationship with God
You see you can’t be at one with God
When you’re filled with hatred and anger
When you’re filled with sin
And that’s what I want to talk about today.
Understanding our relationship with God
Understanding what keeps us from gaining that peace that so many pastors talk about
And finally understanding what forgiveness truly is.
Lets open in prayer
John opens up here with a statement
That’s not only powerful
Not only life changing
But the message you’re about to hear
Comes from THE ONE
Confirmed and validated by THE ONE
That He is so excited about
This messiah
This individual they had been waiting thousand of years for
This is coming from Him
Rather than just ignoring the validation piece that John is giving
Let’s acknowledge something here
What John saying
You can Trust
In what is being said here
You can be confident
That John is about to express
absolute truth
And why is that so important?
Because every where we go
People attack the authenticity of the Bible
In fact every major religion
Every world view
Every major belief
Attacks the Bible
The authority and the claims of the Bible
Once you start questioning the Bible
Once you lose trust in its truth
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