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Praise God that she's coming out of that.

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As you know, Brian is sick.

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But you know what?

I'm going to probably embarrass him but you know he could have stayed home this morning though.

But you chose to come and help out.

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I just like to thank pretty for all he does, you know?

Like when Brian called me the other night and need to step up to the plate, I had to learn how to use the software that Brady uses in.

I'm telling you.

Got y'all have no idea what he does.

Thank you for him.

So let's pray and then we'll get started.

Father, we thank you so much for the day and we thank you Lord for your word by which we can draw close to you and know you better.

Lord, we ask that as we open your word Lord that you would open our hearts to hear from you.

We ask you to speak to us and and Ross close to you Lord, as the song said By the way, just looked all these things happen.

Jesus name.

So few years ago, I heard Jay Vernon McGee, read this poem, I've shared it with y'all before on Sunday night, when I was teaching on the parable of the sower.

But I think it's great.

It's written by a lady named Phyllis McGinley and so it says the Reverend doctor Harcourt folk agree, nodding their heads and solid satisfaction is just the man for this community tall young or Bane and capable of action.

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Must begin all things, but sin, he rarely mentions sin.

So, unlike the Reverend doctor tonight, or today, if I might about sin and sin in the context of David, beautiful prayer of repentance in Psalm 51, those of you who've been coming to our Monday night group, when we shared our favorite Old Testament passages.

If you remember, Psalm 51 was my favorite son and I pray this prayer almost everyday.

So let me start by asking you a question.

Does God judge sin?

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Question God judges, unrepented sin.

Thank God that we don't get the Judgment that we deserve.

He forgives our sins if we're truly repentant and that really Makes all the difference whether we're repented or not.

if we are truly repentant, that's really the center of Jesus gospel, he came To take the punishment for our sins, the punishment is dead sin, brought death into the world, into the perfect creation up until that time the perfect creation.

John put it this way in 1st.

John 1 verse 18 said, if we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful.

And just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we say we have not send, we make him a liar and his word is not incident in a Cuts me to the heart because of what happened on the on the night.

I was saved and I share this with you before, so bear with me.

That day Memorial Day.

I was driving down from New Jersey, back to Fort Bragg.

I was working Fort Bragg in North Carolina, that's about a 10 hour drive and it's not the easiest drive, it goes through Washington DC.

and, So I was really, really tired of you.

I had visited my father's grave at Arlington that afternoon, but a nickel on the grass.

I don't go into why that why you put a nickel on the grass for a fighter pilot.

Anyway, I had dropped on the grass and I've been struggling all day.

Spiritually, my dear friend, Julie and witness the gospel to me.

The night before again.

And I thought, I consider myself a Christian believer.

I had for many years, I believed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the death of my heart.

I believe in it.

But I have not made Jesus, the Lord of my life.

I share this with you before that's key.

He needs to be Lord, needs to be the center of our lives.

And so, I was struggling with all these things back and forth and then got down to Fort Bragg and I was praying.

And I heard him say, How can you expect me to hear your prayer when you continue in your sin?

I wish I could tell you that that night was the end of my life of sin.

It was not of my life of struggling, against my sin by the power of God's spirit.

so that's it, going to This whole idea of said, now we know from Genesis 3 that sin brought death into the world, it brought all manner of evil in the world and because of that, because of the sin of, of Adam and Eve in the garden, we are all born with this sinful nature.

We can't help that as that great Theologian, Bob Dylan, it ruin in the blood.

We can't help that but unfortunately all of us are also Sinners by our choice.

We choose to spend each and every day.

And God knows that.

He knows we can't help the sinful nature that was inherited from the curse and he knows that we can help.

Our sense of choice.

But he knows we're going to fail.

So, we made a way that we can be forgiven of our sins.

But he does expect us to struggle against arson.

Paul talked about in Romans 7, the struggle between the Flesh and the spirit and God, and not enabled Us by the, by the indwelling of his spirit, in your heart to struggle against, it's only by his power.

And that's what David is talking about, in this, in this song that we're all familiar.

With the story.

If you're not, you can go to 2nd Samuel chapter 11, chapter 12 and you can read about it.

But David was in his Palace in the springtime and he saw Bathsheba bathing suit for her, And then he used his power as the king.

To have her brought to him in the Bible.

Euphemistically says he lay with her, right?

And then a few days later or however, long it was later.