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Opening Illustration
“The story is told of two men who were trying to escape from an erupting volcano.
As the fiery molten rock gushed out of its gaping crater, they fled in the only direction open to them.
All went well until they came to a stream of hot, smoking lava about thirty feet across.
Sizing up their situation, they realized that their only hope was to get over that wide barrier.
One of the men was old; the other was healthy and young.
With a running start, they each tried to leap to safety.
The first man went only a few feet through the air before falling into the bubbling mass.
The younger, with his greater strength and skill, catapulted himself much farther.
Though he almost made it, he still missed the mark.
It did not matter that he out-distanced his companion, for he, too, perished in the burning lava.
Sin is falling short of a standard, the glory of God.
Though some may fall short of the standard by far more than others, all fall short nevertheless.”
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An this takes us to our study for today.
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So, please turn your Bibles to the 1 John.
We will be conducting our study in Chapter 1 and focus on verses 8 through 10.
Our message this morning called “Sin & Forgiveness”
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Opening Prayer
Before we consider our text, please join me in prayer...
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Let’s turn to our text for today:
Reading of the Text
So, let’s look at our first point...
1) All Have Sinned
Verse 8: If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If you recall from our previous study...
The false teachers John is warning about made claims to have a relationship with God yet walked in darkness.
John made it clear that light and darkness do not have any fellowship.
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Now these false teachers didn’t stop at that.
They also claimed to reach a level of sinlessness.
This is a sure sign of heresy and false teaching as it goes against the truth found in Ecclesiastes 7:20:
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So, other than with our Lord.
Other than with our Savior.
Other than with Jesus Christ...
No one.
That is, absolutely no one is sinless...
Just like it says in Psalms 130:3:
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The reality is that even Christians are not perfect.
That is, all Christians are not perfect.
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So, John the Baptist and King David and Moses and Paul and Peter and even Jesus’ mother Mary were not perfect.
That means Clement of Rome and Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther and John Calvin and Johnathan Edwards were not perfect.
The means that Martin Loyd Jones and Billy Graham and R.C. Sproul were not perfect.
That means current pastors like John Piper and Charles Stanley and John MacArthur are not perfect.
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That even means...
As shocking as it may sound...
And as hard to believe as it is...
Your current pastor is not perfect.
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The Scriptures are clear on this topic.
All have sinned.
Just look at what it says in Romans 3:23:
To claim other wise is to deceive ourselves.
To claim otherwise is to lack the understanding that we are sinners saved from God’s wrath.
To claim otherwise s to not see the need for a Savior.
To claim otherwise is to lack the understanding of the Gospel message.
And as this passage says...
To claim otherwise is to reveal that you do not have the truth in you.
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The truth found in Scripture says that no one is righteous by their own merits.
We are all in need of a Savior to wash us and renew us.
Remember what Jesus said in Luke 5:32:
This means that Jesus came to call those who know they are sinners and need repentance...
And not those who too are sinners but do not acknowledge their sin.
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Paul in Romans makes the point clear that all are sinners whether one be of Jewish or gentile background.
Church, take a look with me at Romans 3:9-26:
So, although we are sinners...
By grace, which is a free gift...
We are forgiven.
We are saved from what we deserve.
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That is really incredible, Church.
To be forgiven by a Holy God.
Recall with me the beautiful words found in Psalm 86:5:
Along with this passage please meditate on Ephesians 1:7-8:
In addition to God forgiving us...
We must remember to forgive others what they did to us for He forgave us of a greater debt that we could never pay.
Meditate on Ephesians 4:32:
This is to be on our minds at all times as it is so imperative to the life of a believer.
Remember what Christ said in Matthew 6:14-15:
We cannot hold a grudge against others and refuse to forgive others if we claim that God has listen to our cries and forgiven us our sins.
For how many of us take joy in what God says in Hebrews 8:12:
And also how joyful are we to hear what our Lord says in Psalm 103:12:
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I am just a sinner like you...
Sharing with you the wonderful truth found in God’s Word.
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We as those forgiven now live a totally different life than we previously did.
We are made brand new.
We no longer live wicked lives.
We no longer live as slaves to our sins.
But we are not sinless or perfect.
And the goodness found in us now is only credited to the grace God gave us.
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So, understanding this truth, we must make a practice to confess our sins.
And this takes us to our next point.
2) We Must Confess Our Sins
Verse 9: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we are truly born-again...
Then we understand that we are sinners that deserve God’s wrath.
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We also understand that by God’s mercy and grace we do not get what we deserve...
So, when we do sin we are compelled out of love to God to confess our shortcoming.
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You see Beloved, the term “confess” means to say the same thing or have the same attitude toward sin as God does...
It means to acknowledge God’s perspective about sin and not our own perspective or the world’s view of sin.
We are to be mortified of our sin because it is an act of treason commited against the one true God...
The words of Daniel seem very appropriate here.
Daniel 9:5 says:
But, the God who saved us and had mercy on us when we deserved Hell fire.
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