WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: No Condemnation Publishing Date: 2025-06-22T06:04:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/no-condemnation/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:22.840 Okay, guys, so when the Sunday school kids come in after, at some point, it's Danny's 00:00:22.840 --> 00:00:29.560 birthday so we got to make sure we sing for him, yeah? So just remind me if I forget. And 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:36.160 it was Yaya's birthday last week, but Danny's birthday is today, so we'll sing for him. 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:51.160 The topic today, strangely, is no condemnation. And that comes from Romans 8.1, which says, 00:00:51.160 --> 00:00:55.920 Therefore now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. That's what 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:02.920 it says. But before we even look at Romans 8.1, let's look at how we can define condemnation. 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:25.840 So here's how we can define it. It is the permanent or conditional act of judging you. 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:54.800 Guilty, unfit for use, doomed to penalty, or anger. And it results in shame and loss. 00:01:54.800 --> 00:02:09.320 And can only be repaired by and requires self abasement, as in humbling yourself to a point 00:02:09.320 --> 00:02:22.440 of almost humiliation, self abasement before you can be absolved for what you've done. 00:02:22.440 --> 00:02:30.680 Yeah? So let's just look at that. It's either the permanent, as in it won't change. Condemnation 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:36.760 can be, in the Old Testament, it was this way that people felt. In the New Testament, 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:43.520 strangely enough, we still feel this way. That's why we need to talk about it. So the permanent 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:49.520 or conditional act, as in it's either a permanent thing where you feel condemned and you never 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:54.560 come out of it, or it's conditional, as in you feel condemned but if you do this, this, 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:01.360 and this, it'll be removed. And so it's either the permanent or the conditional, it's not 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:11.920 conditional, conditional act of being judged, being judged as guilty, being judged as unfit 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:18.360 for use, being judged as in there are penalties you'll have to pay, or being judged as in 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:29.240 there's anger against you. And it results in quite a lot of shame, it results in loss. 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:33.880 And how do you repair it? Repairing requires self-abasement where you've got to grovel 00:03:33.880 --> 00:03:39.560 or you've got to do something that you may or may not understand, may or may not like, 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:46.440 may or may not own up to. It requires self-abasement before you can be absolved of that guilt. 00:03:46.440 --> 00:03:55.920 That's the weight of condemnation. And everybody suffers through it. It was supposed to be 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:02.040 an Old Testament thing and sacrifices were meant to remove the sense of guilt. We've 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:12.920 had the ultimate sacrifice given for us but we labor under this. This is why it's so hard 00:04:12.920 --> 00:04:17.880 to come to God like that. You've got to do the song and the dance before you come to 00:04:17.880 --> 00:04:24.480 God. It's almost like, I mean I used to confess my sins and triplicate because I thought you've 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:28.480 got to talk to the Father, then the Son, then the Holy Spirit. Some days my sins would take 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:35.580 like three hours, man, by the time you get through the triumvirate of Godhead. And so, 00:04:35.580 --> 00:04:39.320 this was very long ago by the way, I stopped that some time ago, yeah, just in case you 00:04:39.320 --> 00:04:45.260 think that's how I spend my time. So this is what condemnation looks like and the weight 00:04:45.260 --> 00:04:52.880 is heavy. Because I don't know if there's a day in our lives when we don't feel a sense 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:59.000 of, can't approach God freely like a child approaches his parent because there's this 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:02.080 sense that, but I messed up here, I messed up here, I did that knowingly, I did that 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:08.480 unknowingly, I haven't changed in this area, I know I'm going to mess up again in this 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:13.480 area. So there's this constant struggle which makes it so hard to approach God, which makes 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:17.760 it so hard to do anything for God because you don't know if he'll back you up, which 00:05:17.760 --> 00:05:21.680 makes it so hard to even ask him for things because what if he's sovereign and he's got 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:27.320 some problem with some of the stuff I've done. It's strange how we labor under it 00:05:27.320 --> 00:05:33.040 and the more we labor under it, the more traditional and legalistic we get. And the more charismatic 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:40.040 you are, the more disguised those traditions are. At least if you were non-charismatic, 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:45.760 the traditions are laid out, do this, do this, do this and you will get this. With charismatics, 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:49.920 you never know, should I jump a little higher, clap a little louder, read a little more, 00:05:50.160 --> 00:06:01.160 sing more songs, you never know. As usual, when I'm preaching, I always think that this 00:06:01.880 --> 00:06:06.640 is the problem that only I have because your faces don't reveal anything. Yeah? You guys 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:13.640 should play poker, we could make a lot of money as a church. So we labor under conventional 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:26.920 condemnation, we labor under condemnation from when we are young, from when we are young. 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:37.600 And so it's become a habit because here's what I remember, if you misbehaved, Daniel's 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:44.880 lion would not have its mouth shut and the whale would not puke you out. And there would 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:51.880 be no fourth man in the fire and you would burn like crazy with your two other friends. 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:56.520 This was the way they kept you in line in Sunday school, stop it, Daniel's lion will 00:06:56.520 --> 00:07:01.520 eat you up and you immediately go quiet. Yeah? Imagine doing that to Judah, takes the fun 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:08.520 out of the lion. Pardon? Yeah, rapture, that was the scariest thing man. I went with my 00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:14.920 folks to a super store one day and suddenly my parents disappeared and I'm going from 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:21.920 aisle to aisle looking for them. And I'm even thinking, but I'm better than them. And then 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:29.560 that made it worse because, oh you proud little brat, like your parents have disappeared and 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:34.240 all you can think is you're better than them, why haven't you gone? And then I kept looking 00:07:34.440 --> 00:07:39.920 aisle after aisle and they weren't there man. And then I'm, strangely enough, I'd watched 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:45.600 those three movies and in those movies you think all the clothes will be wrapped and 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:51.280 kept there. So I'm looking for my mom's, I'm looking for my mom's sari and my dad's shirt. 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:57.040 This is terrible, we were so scared. There was a sense that, oh my God, if you mess up, 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:00.400 what's going to happen? And one of the questions that I would often get when I first started 00:08:00.400 --> 00:08:05.840 pastoring was, what if when Jesus comes, two minutes before that I have sinned and I didn't 00:08:05.840 --> 00:08:12.840 get time to confess it? It's usually not a Baptist question, it's a Pentecostal question. 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:17.400 You get this question and then you have to tell them, don't worry, if you don't confess 00:08:17.400 --> 00:08:24.280 it, it's okay. No, no, but what if? This is how we labor under it. Now it sounds funny, 00:08:24.280 --> 00:08:31.280 but the strange thing is yesterday and day before you went through this. What is dust 00:08:31.280 --> 00:08:42.280 is it takes away your confidence to approach God as Father. And condemnation makes lousy 00:08:42.280 --> 00:08:47.440 soldiers, eh? If every soldier who's in war thinks, I think I did something wrong, the 00:08:48.040 --> 00:08:55.040 general may shoot me from behind. How are you going to fight, man? You wear Jehovah-Nissi. 00:08:55.040 --> 00:09:08.040 We can't live like that. Spiritual warriors have to be people that have no, they live 00:09:08.040 --> 00:09:16.040 under this banner called no condemnation. Otherwise, how will you fight? This is why 00:09:16.040 --> 00:09:23.040 we go through that routine of I need to pray and then I need to do some worship and then 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.800 I need to speak in tongues and I need to say a few hallelujahs and finally approach God 00:09:28.800 --> 00:09:35.040 saying I'm only a worm. After all that, you still have to start with I'm only a worm. 00:09:35.040 --> 00:09:40.360 It's terrible. So we need to realize that this is a serious problem for all of us and 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:47.360 we have to break out of it. So we labor with condemnation right from when we are young. 00:09:48.160 --> 00:09:55.160 So what happens is when anyone says anything, even if it is, even when the judge is right, 00:09:55.680 --> 00:10:00.080 as in they judge what you're doing and they find that it's not good, or when they correct 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:07.080 me or when there's discipline involved or when there is the need to be forgiven, what 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:15.080 happens then is we don't even know how to process anybody who judges us, corrects us, 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:22.080 disciplines us because we immediately go into this thing called condemnation. It becomes 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:30.160 very hard then to help Christians because the moment you say something, they feel condemned. 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:38.160 You've lost. What if I judge you? What if I judge him and I say hey, but you did this 00:10:40.400 --> 00:10:46.520 and you're wrong. What if I judge him? If he goes into condemnation mode saying Jacob 00:10:46.520 --> 00:10:52.360 condemn me, but that's how you and I react too. As soon as we are judged, as soon as 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:58.360 we are corrected, that's the mode we go into. Why? Because from when we've been young, there's 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.440 a sense of condemnation that is continuously upon us. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:06.960 See, Satan's been thrown out from heaven, Revelation 12.10, that the accuser of the 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:11.720 brothers who accuses him day and night has now been thrown out of heaven. So what does 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:16.460 he do? He comes down to the earth and he begins to do the same thing. He used to accuse people 00:11:16.460 --> 00:11:23.460 in heaven. He accused Joshua, the high priest, in Zechariah 3. He says to God, look at this 00:11:24.460 --> 00:11:30.460 guy. Throw him out of here and God says give him a new turban, give him new clothes. His 00:11:30.460 --> 00:11:37.460 clothes are soiled. He is guilty, but God changes it. So accusation is the vehicle that's 00:11:40.820 --> 00:11:47.820 used for condemnation. But because I'm so used to condemnation, if you say anything negative 00:11:48.220 --> 00:11:54.300 about me, I immediately go into, I'm feeling condemned. And so there's just no way to judge 00:11:54.300 --> 00:12:01.300 you, to correct you, to help you because we go into, I feel condemned. 00:12:03.580 --> 00:12:10.580 Any questions before we go on? Do we really live, I've asked this about two years ago, 00:12:11.580 --> 00:12:18.580 do we really live as forgiven, restored people? When you started today, when you started yesterday, 00:12:24.740 --> 00:12:31.740 did you live as a forgiven, restored person? Some of you have mortgages, right? Some of 00:12:32.740 --> 00:12:39.740 you have loans, some of you have debts. What if American Express and Visa and MasterCard 00:12:42.020 --> 00:12:47.780 came to you or came to me and said, you know what, just forget all the debts, start from 00:12:47.780 --> 00:12:54.780 zero. What would happen to you? I guarantee you, you wouldn't be sitting like this. To 00:12:55.780 --> 00:13:02.780 begin with, you would buy all the T-shirts that are left. There'd be this relief of, 00:13:02.780 --> 00:13:09.780 oh my God, that's a mortgage off my back. Can you imagine the relief? That's what restored, 00:13:14.100 --> 00:13:18.940 forgiven people look like, but we don't know how to walk in that because we're constantly 00:13:18.940 --> 00:13:25.940 laboring under a God who has something that he has on us. Any questions? No? Okay, so 00:13:41.260 --> 00:13:48.260 condemnation is affected, condemnation is affected through accusation. So condemnation 00:13:48.940 --> 00:13:54.900 is affected. I'm not even talking about me accusing you. I'm talking about that little 00:13:54.900 --> 00:13:58.780 voice that comes and says, hey, you think God is going to give you this? Remember how 00:13:58.780 --> 00:14:04.620 you spoke to your wife? Remember how you by mistake said a word you shouldn't say? Remember 00:14:04.620 --> 00:14:11.620 how you stayed for 40 seconds or 40 minutes long around that TV show that you shouldn't 00:14:11.940 --> 00:14:18.940 have watched? Remember how you broke the law and kind of cheated the government on some 00:14:21.380 --> 00:14:27.740 form or some tax? Remember how you spoke untruths? Remember how many times you lied today? Remember 00:14:27.740 --> 00:14:32.180 how many times you've profited where you should not have profited? Remember how many times 00:14:32.180 --> 00:14:36.900 you were miserly, how stingy you were? Remember how many times nobody knew the thoughts in 00:14:36.900 --> 00:14:43.900 your mind but God saw it? And as this begins to gather, what confidence do we have before 00:14:46.140 --> 00:14:53.140 God, man? How do you approach a God like that? What about physical pain or sickness? What's 00:14:57.780 --> 00:15:03.220 the whisper? Haven't you prayed enough? Guess God ain't going to heal you because there 00:15:03.220 --> 00:15:10.220 is sin in your life. How about parenting? You see kids and you think to yourself, man, 00:15:12.620 --> 00:15:17.900 I really messed up and you have labored under that for years because your kid didn't turn 00:15:17.900 --> 00:15:23.220 out the way you dreamt of it or that you expected it to and you labor under it. And there's 00:15:23.220 --> 00:15:30.220 this continuous voice saying you messed up. This is what condemnation looks like. Unrelenting, 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:38.220 eh? And what does it rob? It robs people from behaving like they just had their mortgage 00:15:39.940 --> 00:15:46.940 forgiven. A restored, forgiven people will have a different relationship with the Father 00:15:46.940 --> 00:15:53.940 or we struggle with this. Any questions, guys? It's affected through accusation. Revelation 00:15:55.300 --> 00:16:02.300 12.10, it says that Satan has no traction in heaven because he who used to accuse the 00:16:04.860 --> 00:16:11.860 brothers and the sisters of sin, he has no power over them. He has no power over the 00:16:16.940 --> 00:16:21.940 brothers continuously before God has been thrown out. You see his accusation in Job. 00:16:21.940 --> 00:16:27.260 You see his accusation in Job 1, verse 9 and 10. You see his accusation against Joshua, 00:16:27.260 --> 00:16:32.340 the high priest. And look at the guys he picks, eh? He's picking the... If he can pick on 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:38.660 them and get them to warp, imagine what he can do with you and I. He picks Job, the most 00:16:38.660 --> 00:16:43.920 righteous man in the world. He picks Joshua. Joshua's the high priest. These are the kind 00:16:43.920 --> 00:16:50.920 of guys he picks. What chance do Vivek and I have? Oh, I should show you a video of Vivek 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:04.000 and I. Remind me, eh? Vivek, remind me, eh? Yeah, so he smothers you with accusation on 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:11.000 earth. And here's what condemnation does. Condemnation dulls the goodness of God. Condemnation 00:17:20.980 --> 00:17:27.980 dulls the goodness of God. It heightens self-focus. It centers on sin. It centers on the good 00:17:34.220 --> 00:17:41.220 side, not righteousness. It renders us fearful and it fuels speculation. Does God really 00:17:54.040 --> 00:17:59.520 like me? Will he back me up? These are some of the things condemnation does on a daily 00:17:59.520 --> 00:18:06.520 basis and most believers engage or most believers inflict themselves with condemnation or with 00:18:17.600 --> 00:18:24.600 labored, unsure prayer. We inflict ourselves with condemnation. We inflict ourselves with 00:18:29.520 --> 00:18:36.520 condemnation. Is it even possible tomorrow to walk the entire day without feeling condemned 00:18:38.540 --> 00:18:45.540 even if you sin? Is it possible tomorrow to walk without condemnation, not feeling any 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:58.440 guilt even if you sin? Sounds contradictory. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that. 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:07.240 Because here's what God is saying. Therefore, Jacob, there is no condemnation for you because 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:18.400 you are absolutely in Christ. I mean, don't allow a person to be in a place of condemnation 00:19:29.800 --> 00:19:36.400 and it's an emergency. Don't allow that person to have a moment to obsess and to ranging 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:43.400 into such a bad place. He really wants to be done. He wants to be condemned. And I season 00:19:50.360 --> 00:19:57.160 out from the depths of my� paso to come out there and Christ made a concern with me without 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:04.160 This is how we live. At the end of the day, it sounds funny right now, but this is what we go through every day. 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:21.160 I want to live tomorrow without feeling any condemnation, even though I know that I will not live a perfect life tomorrow, that I will mess up. 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:30.160 This is how children live. This is why the kingdom is made up of children. 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:43.160 So, a child was wrong. In the good old days, you'd get a spanking, you wore thick pants always, and that was the end of it. 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:51.160 And then they ran around merrily after. It was not, oh, I feel condemned, my parents don't love me, I want to watch Home Alone again. 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:57.160 Nothing like that. I'm sorry, this is not supposed to be funny, but it's going funny. 00:20:57.160 --> 00:21:03.160 But the point is this, at the end of the day, I should not be laboring like that. 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:11.160 I should be like a joey or a juda or any child that can walk on two feet. Yeah? 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:27.160 Romans 8.1. 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:52.160 Therefore, there remains no accusing voice of condemnation against you 00:21:52.160 --> 00:22:02.160 if you have joined your life to Christ. 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:09.160 If you haven't joined your life to Christ, yeah, this gift is not for you. 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:18.160 So if you're not a believer, if you haven't submitted your life to Christ, you will be condemned. 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:34.160 But there remains no accusing voice. Can you spend the day tomorrow not feeling accused by God? 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:40.160 Even when your spouse turns to you and says, how can you do that? 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:47.160 And we'll talk about how living under no condemnation makes you better, not worse. 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:54.160 Therefore, there remains no accusing voice of condemnation against you if you have joined yourself or your life to Christ. 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:58.160 That's what Romans 8.1 says. 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:27.160 And then in Romans 8.33 it says, if God has declared you not guilty, who, why, I'm changing the words, why do you declare yourself guilty? 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:31.160 We can't even compute this. We can't even think like this. 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:42.160 Because guilt is such a part of our life that if God says, Josh, you're not guilty, Josh will immediately say, but I am not. I am. 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:48.160 How sad is that? 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:53.160 So this is on one side. On the other side is, what if Josh does something wrong? 00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:56.160 I go up to him and I say, hey, Josh, why are you doing this, man? 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:02.160 And immediately if his mind goes to, oh, Jacob's condemning me, that's absurd. 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:07.160 Because there are people that do that. The moment you say anything to that, I'm feeling condemned. 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:10.160 The condemnation is not from the Lord. No, I'm not condemning you. I'm judging you. 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:16.160 And after judging you, I want to correct you. And after correcting you, if you don't change, then may God discipline you. 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:20.160 And then after he disciplines you and it's anger-free discipline, may he forgive you. 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:26.160 And after he forgives you, may he restore you. That whole process has to work out. 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:34.160 So people can take this and change it into something so ugly when it was supposed to be beautiful. 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:44.160 You can't do that either because then you shut the entire world out. 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:52.160 You know, when God says, if I have justified you, why entertain accusation? 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.160 You should read verse 33. It then goes on to say, who says this? 00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:03.160 The God who died and rose again and now is sitting at the right hand of the Father interceding for you. 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:10.160 You know, if I come to you and say something to you that judges you and corrects you, 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:14.160 you've got to ask this question of anyone who does that to you, any of the leaders in this church. 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:20.160 You've got to ask the question, when they come and correct us or when they come and instruct us or when they come and judge us, 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:26.160 are they really interceding for us also? Do they have my best interest at heart? 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:33.160 Do they go home and pray? Do they get up thinking, I wish this could change in the person's life? 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:41.160 If your leader is like that, then stop feeling condemned and man up. 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:48.160 But if you think your leader is out to get you, out to chop your legs out, doesn't care for you, is cursing you once they get home, 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:52.160 then leave the church. 00:25:52.160 --> 00:26:01.160 Don't, but leave the church. 00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:06.160 So that's, because every message can be spun any which way you want. 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:12.160 I don't want that to happen. 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:18.160 If God has declared, man, I watched Chosen, season five, and I scratched my head thinking, 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:27.160 how in the world does Jesus go up with a whip in his hand and go up to guys who are like big time bishops and stuff like that? 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:37.160 And you should hear him say the things he says to them. He calls them brood of vipers, serpents, you whitewashed tombs. 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:46.160 And I'm thinking to myself, we are here compared to that, man. We're very nice people. 00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:52.160 That was just a side observation. 00:26:52.160 --> 00:27:05.160 Imagine going up to someone and calling them brood of vipers, whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside, bones on the inside. 00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:14.160 He must have been something else, man. And where is he doing it? In the most public place in the universe, Jerusalem at the temple. 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:20.160 When? When there are thousands of pilgrims around. Why? Because it's Passover. 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:38.160 Where does this man get his boldness from? 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:46.160 If God has justified you and declared you not guilty, why do I bring myself again into this place of guilt? 00:27:46.160 --> 00:28:03.160 Here's what no condemnation allows you to do. No condemnation allows you to forget what you did. 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:13.160 You know, one of my cousins came here to visit me from Toronto. My mother's, brother's, daughter's. 00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:18.160 I borrowed a phone from someone, one of those fancy, this was before Apple existed. 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:23.160 It was one of those fancy phones that goes like this and like this and stuff like that, like these old Samsung phones that Don has. 00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:29.160 So it was one of those phones, but really amazing phone. Like it was so much better than my phone. 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:34.160 And so I borrowed it from a friend and they took it with them to Victoria. 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:40.160 And they went to Victoria and they were coming back from Victoria and they haven't turned up. 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:46.160 It's two hours later, still haven't turned up. You know why? Because she lost the phone. 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:55.160 And she was so scared of what will happen when she comes back and has to tell me that she lost the phone. 00:28:55.160 --> 00:29:01.160 And then somehow she got on the ferry, got on the bus, came back here and told me she lost the phone. 00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:07.160 And I said, oh, too bad. That's okay. And then she didn't know what to do. 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:13.160 She was expecting anger. She was expecting condemnation. She was expecting that she'll have to pay a price. 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:21.160 Do you know how freeing it is to come to someone who you know will not condemn, who will not be angry and who will not expect you to pay a price? 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:28.160 Is that your God? Is that your spouse? Is that your best friend? 00:29:31.160 --> 00:29:35.160 Is that your pastor? Let's throw him in also. 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:49.160 A friend of mine once told a story here in Sunday school class. There was an inventor. He had four sons. 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:59.160 And the four kids once go into the storeroom and they start playing. And their dad had told them, do not go into the storeroom. 00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:04.160 I got stuff that I've invented. Don't go into the storeroom. But they go into the storeroom, they play. 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:10.160 And when they're playing, there's a big can of paint and they topple the can. 00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:14.160 And the paint just splatters all over the wall, on the carpet everywhere. 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:23.160 Four kids know that they're in deep trouble. One kid runs to his bed, pulls the blanket over his head, 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:27.160 and thinks that if he stays under the blanket, everything will be okay. 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:35.160 The second kid goes to his room and is facing the carpet saying, I'm worthless. I'm disobedient. I'm terrible. 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:41.160 Dad said, don't do this. I kept doing it. I'm a worm. And he keeps doing this. 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:49.160 The third kid decides, it's not my fault. I wasn't the first one who went into that room. It was the two others. 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:53.160 I've got to go tell dad that it's them. It's not me. 00:30:53.160 --> 00:31:01.160 And the fourth kid gingerly walks into dad's study. And he goes and tugs at his dad's shirt and says, 00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:06.160 I did something wrong. I went into the storeroom. You told me not to go there. 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:16.160 And I was playing with my brothers and we tilted a can of paint and it's all over the place. I'm really sorry. 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:22.160 And the dad picks up the boy, puts him on his knee, and he says, you know I'm an inventor, right? 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.160 He says, yeah. He says, you know my greatest invention? 00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:33.160 The kid says, no. He says, I'm the one who invented paint remover. That's what I'm famous for. 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:38.160 And so they go and they pick this small can full of paint remover. 00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:42.160 And he takes this kid and then he goes and there's one kid under the blanket he calls him to. 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:46.160 Then there's another kid that's facing the floor blaming him so he calls him to. 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:50.160 Then the third kid who's blaming everything including Adam and Eve, he calls him to. 00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:56.160 And they all go. They all go into this room where there's paint splattered all over. 00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:00.160 And he takes this little can and he throws it over anything that has paint on it. 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:04.160 And they watch as it instantly disappears. 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:08.160 And I heard this story the first time. I thought to myself, man I've been all those kids. 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:13.160 But I've been the three kids more than the one kid. 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.160 We've got to stop this nonsense. 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:22.160 This is not how restored, forgiven people live. 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:26.160 Did the kid feel bad? Yes. Did he go up to his dad? Yes. 00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:28.160 Did he say he was sorry? Yes. 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:45.160 But that kid had somehow caught on that I will not walk under this cloud of condemnation. 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:49.160 No condemnation. You forget what you did. 00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:56.160 How short is your memory? Because Jesus' memory is super short. 00:32:56.160 --> 00:33:01.160 Jesus' memory is super short. 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:12.160 As far as the east is from the west, that's how far I have removed your transgressions from you. 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:17.160 He's got a super short memory. 00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:30.160 Go ahead. 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:34.160 Stop it, Sheldon. Just look at my face. Can't you see the condemnation on it? 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:36.160 Can't you hear my tone? 00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:39.160 You don't need to come and ask that question in the middle of a service. 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:43.160 That's it, man. Don't sit up front. Sit somewhere in the back. 00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:46.160 This is what happens to our kids sometimes. 00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:49.160 It's just this moment of irritation and annoyance. 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.160 We've got a hundred other things happening. 00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:54.160 Sometimes it's your voice. Sometimes it's a facial expression. 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:56.160 Sometimes it's actual action. 00:33:56.160 --> 00:34:00.160 And our kids get so used to it. 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:03.160 They meet it everywhere. 00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:05.160 They see it at school. They see it with their friends. 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:08.160 They see it in the playground. And they see it at home. 00:34:08.160 --> 00:34:12.160 It is so hard for us not to be like this, guys. 00:34:12.160 --> 00:34:18.160 Is it possible for you as parents to be able to deal with your child without condemning the child? 00:34:18.160 --> 00:34:28.160 It is not easy. You'll have to relearn it. 00:34:28.160 --> 00:34:30.160 You'll have to relearn it. 00:34:30.160 --> 00:34:34.160 And it really messes up our relationship with the father 00:34:34.160 --> 00:34:43.160 We superimpose how we've been with our parents on him. 00:34:43.160 --> 00:34:47.160 So when you deal with your kids, it's the same thing. 00:34:47.160 --> 00:34:49.160 Can you make an extra effort not to condemn? 00:34:49.160 --> 00:34:53.160 Can I make an extra effort not to condemn you? 00:34:53.160 --> 00:34:57.160 I might be judging you. I might be instructing you. I might be correcting you. 00:34:57.160 --> 00:35:02.160 But can the facial expression get a little nicer? 00:35:02.160 --> 00:35:15.160 Or can I use words that won't trigger you? 00:35:15.160 --> 00:35:21.160 Because when Satan stops accusing us, one of the things he does is he uses me as his mouthpiece to accuse you 00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:24.160 in a way that is condemnatory. 00:35:24.160 --> 00:35:31.160 And the same thing that may work with Aaron, and he feels like, man, I really got a whooping and I feel all strong. 00:35:31.160 --> 00:35:36.160 You do the same thing with Michelle and she'll say, let's not go to this church again. 00:35:36.160 --> 00:35:38.160 Why? Because each person is different. 00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:41.160 And as a parent, do you have the ability to do that? 00:35:41.160 --> 00:35:51.160 Because God does that different with each of us. 00:35:51.160 --> 00:35:58.160 Hey, some of us are laboring under the condemnation that our dads and our moms put on us. 00:35:58.160 --> 00:36:03.160 Moms are more blackmailed. Dads are condemnation. 00:36:03.160 --> 00:36:05.160 You're laboring under it. 00:36:05.160 --> 00:36:14.160 We have an opportunity today to say no more. 00:36:14.160 --> 00:36:18.160 Everything they said that I keep hearing again where I feel condemned, no more. 00:36:18.160 --> 00:36:20.160 I'm not going to stay in this. 00:36:20.160 --> 00:36:28.160 You've got an opportunity if you think you've been condemned by me to stand up and say no more. 00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:30.160 Not right away. You can do it later. 00:36:30.160 --> 00:36:41.160 Oh, sorry. I'm just kidding. Cliff, I was just kidding. 00:36:41.160 --> 00:36:43.160 Forget what you did. 00:36:43.160 --> 00:36:52.160 Second, you confess when no condemnation is on, you confess what you did easier. 00:36:52.160 --> 00:36:56.160 You know, it's so easy to, like the story of that fourth kid, 00:36:56.160 --> 00:37:04.160 it's so easy to go and confess something that you've done wrong when you know you're not going to be condemned. 00:37:04.160 --> 00:37:07.160 You're sorry for it. You're going talking about it. 00:37:07.160 --> 00:37:18.160 You're so sure that you're not going to come out of there as if you've been shamed. 00:37:18.160 --> 00:37:28.160 Third, you pour out no condemnation on others. 00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:31.160 Doesn't matter that they may have harmed you. 00:37:31.160 --> 00:37:34.160 Doesn't matter that they may have spoken ill of you. 00:37:34.160 --> 00:37:36.160 It doesn't matter that they may resent you. 00:37:36.160 --> 00:37:39.160 It doesn't matter that they go stalk behind your back. 00:37:39.160 --> 00:37:47.160 You now figure out how to pour out no condemnation on them. 00:37:47.160 --> 00:37:50.160 And remember, expression matters. 00:37:50.160 --> 00:37:56.160 Our expressions give away condemnation even before our words do. 00:37:56.160 --> 00:37:58.160 You should see me when someone cuts me off in traffic. 00:37:58.160 --> 00:38:04.160 I look to see whether the person is smaller or a female, and then I go. 00:38:04.160 --> 00:38:07.160 I hope they can see me rolling my eyes. What am I trying to do? 00:38:07.160 --> 00:38:10.160 Disdain them, condemn them, saying, what kind of driver are you? 00:38:10.160 --> 00:38:15.160 It's pathetic. And I'm driving to church, by the way. 00:38:15.160 --> 00:38:22.160 It's pride. It's disdain. It's condemning someone. 00:38:22.160 --> 00:38:27.160 Of course, it's only my problem. 00:38:27.160 --> 00:38:33.160 And it looks like it's Don's problem also. 00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:43.160 No condemnation, it allows me to be bold or radical always. 00:38:43.160 --> 00:38:46.160 It allows me to be bold or radical always. 00:38:46.160 --> 00:38:58.160 If you know that your boss will back you up after you just lost him a million dollars, 00:38:58.160 --> 00:39:03.160 that should give you courage. 00:39:04.160 --> 00:39:06.160 You just burnt his Tesla down by mistake, 00:39:06.160 --> 00:39:19.160 and he still sends you on an errand in his ID4 VW. 00:39:19.160 --> 00:39:27.160 It gives you such boldness. Any questions, guys? 00:39:27.160 --> 00:39:30.160 Okay. 00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:33.160 When we break bread today, and I want to take time to break bread, 00:39:33.160 --> 00:39:37.160 and there's no clock on the wall. 00:39:37.160 --> 00:39:41.160 When we break bread today, I just want you to end this in your life. 00:39:41.160 --> 00:39:46.160 I just want you to say no more. 00:39:46.160 --> 00:39:50.160 And if it comes back, you know that game where you take a thing 00:39:50.160 --> 00:39:53.160 and you knock those things that come out of those things? 00:39:54.160 --> 00:39:57.160 Vakomol. 00:39:57.160 --> 00:40:09.160 Just do that every time it comes up. 00:40:09.160 --> 00:40:12.160 Okay, you have a question. Go ahead. 00:40:30.160 --> 00:40:34.160 Yeah. Let's assume HIP condemns me for something. 00:40:34.160 --> 00:40:38.160 And let's assume he condemns me in two things. 00:40:38.160 --> 00:40:43.160 Let's assume one of them is true, and one of them is not true. 00:40:43.160 --> 00:40:47.160 My immediate response should be, yes, he's condemned me, 00:40:47.160 --> 00:40:54.160 but I've got to quickly run to my father and get my face back again. 00:40:54.160 --> 00:40:57.160 As in, father, he said these two things. 00:40:57.160 --> 00:40:59.160 I've got a feeling that there's truth in that thing, 00:40:59.160 --> 00:41:01.160 and the other thing, I'm not too sure. 00:41:01.160 --> 00:41:05.160 But I'm not going to throw it out because I'm not the only one who hears the Holy Spirit. 00:41:05.160 --> 00:41:09.160 There are things about me that are like blind spots where I will not hear the Holy Spirit. 00:41:09.160 --> 00:41:13.160 I'm open to both things, but I think HIP is right in this and wrong in this. 00:41:13.160 --> 00:41:18.160 But before I even deal with it, can I come to you and look at your face 00:41:18.160 --> 00:41:21.160 because your face and your word is a mirror. 00:41:21.160 --> 00:41:27.160 Now that I've been restored in terms of you not condemning me, you justifying me, 00:41:27.160 --> 00:41:30.160 you not using the harsh words or the kind words he used, 00:41:30.160 --> 00:41:35.160 now that I've gotten my face together, let me go examine what HIP has said. 00:41:35.160 --> 00:41:37.160 How do I examine it? 00:41:37.160 --> 00:41:40.160 Multiple ways. One, father, was it true? 00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:44.160 Two, hey, Zia, you're my best friend. 00:41:44.160 --> 00:41:47.160 What do you think about what he said? 00:41:47.160 --> 00:41:54.160 Three, sometimes you know that a person is right inside you even though you don't want to admit it. 00:41:54.160 --> 00:41:58.160 Four, go to the nature of God and the Word of God and see what you're doing, 00:41:58.160 --> 00:42:01.160 what he's accused you of, matches with it or not. 00:42:01.160 --> 00:42:05.160 But the first thing I have to do, there are many times I go to someone's house, 00:42:05.160 --> 00:42:09.160 go to meet somebody and you come out of there and I often tell the Lord, 00:42:09.160 --> 00:42:14.160 Father, I feel like so disheveled or so beaten up after that meeting. 00:42:14.160 --> 00:42:18.160 I'm driving home and I usually say to the Lord while I'm driving home, 00:42:18.160 --> 00:42:24.160 Father, before I deal with it, I need my face restored. 00:42:24.160 --> 00:42:31.160 And the only way I can have my face restored is if I look at you because I know you as a father. 00:42:31.160 --> 00:42:37.160 Otherwise, immediately the thing that will happen is who does he think he is? 00:42:37.160 --> 00:42:43.160 Resentment, finding fault, dismissing what he said. 00:42:43.160 --> 00:42:47.160 Anything he says, go out of the window. Why? Because my face is not restored. 00:42:47.160 --> 00:42:52.160 If my face is not restored, then the usual response to condemnation is either 00:42:52.160 --> 00:42:59.160 punch back or accept it all. 00:42:59.160 --> 00:43:07.160 It's critical to go and look at your father's face and know that, ah shucks, 00:43:07.160 --> 00:43:15.160 that, you know, in that movie, part one, part two, this is part one, it was much nicer. 00:43:15.160 --> 00:43:20.160 Part two I didn't watch. You know which movie now? 00:43:20.160 --> 00:43:25.160 Still don't know? 00:43:25.160 --> 00:43:34.160 In that movie there's a line and I love that line. 00:43:34.160 --> 00:43:41.160 In that movie there's this line. It's not worth, I'm not recommending that movie, please. 00:43:41.160 --> 00:43:48.160 I'm just saying there's a line in that movie where this guy says to his people, 00:43:48.160 --> 00:43:55.160 do not touch him for he has my countenance. 00:43:55.160 --> 00:44:02.160 Do not touch him for he has my countenance. 00:44:02.160 --> 00:44:05.160 I love that line. 00:44:05.160 --> 00:44:10.160 I have his countenance. Meaning I don't have his face. 00:44:10.160 --> 00:44:14.160 What the guy is trying to say is my favor is upon him. My face is upon him. 00:44:14.160 --> 00:44:17.160 My countenance is smiling at him. Do not touch him. 00:44:17.160 --> 00:44:20.160 I have his countenance. 00:44:20.160 --> 00:44:23.160 It doesn't matter who says what. It doesn't matter when you accuse yourself. 00:44:23.160 --> 00:44:26.160 Because here's this beautiful verse in 1 John 3.12. 00:44:26.160 --> 00:44:31.160 1 John 3.12 says, and even after that, if your heart condemns you, 00:44:31.160 --> 00:44:35.160 know that there is a God who's greater than your heart. 00:44:35.160 --> 00:44:38.160 It's not saying that you are wrong or right. 00:44:38.160 --> 00:44:42.160 It is saying there is a God who does not condemn. 00:44:42.160 --> 00:44:48.160 Look at him first. 00:44:48.160 --> 00:44:54.160 Because he is saying, Jacob, you have my countenance. 00:44:54.160 --> 00:45:04.160 Which doesn't mean he won't deal with the mess that hip is accusing me of. 00:45:04.160 --> 00:45:15.160 And not all accusations are untrue. 00:45:15.160 --> 00:45:27.160 We call them accusations, but not all of them are untrue. 00:45:27.160 --> 00:45:31.160 If you want to engage in spiritual warfare, 00:45:31.160 --> 00:45:41.160 if you carry in your conscience condemnation, it's very hard to go into war. 00:45:41.160 --> 00:45:47.160 That's why, unfortunately, people fast before going to cast out a demon 00:45:47.160 --> 00:45:51.160 or before going to deal with some evil spiritual power. 00:45:51.160 --> 00:45:53.160 People fast. Why do they fast? 00:45:53.160 --> 00:46:00.160 Because they think if they fast that somehow it will make them holier. 00:46:00.160 --> 00:46:05.160 It's absurd. 00:46:05.160 --> 00:46:09.160 Demons don't run because my stomach is empty. 00:46:09.160 --> 00:46:18.160 They run either because of your intimacy with God, your purity, or your authority. 00:46:18.160 --> 00:46:28.160 And your purity is a sign of your intimacy, and your intimacy intimidates the enemy. 00:46:28.160 --> 00:46:32.160 If you want to fast, fast when you're not casting out demons. 00:46:32.160 --> 00:46:35.160 And then when the day comes, you don't have to do anything. 00:46:35.160 --> 00:46:38.160 You operate out of who you are. 00:46:38.160 --> 00:46:44.160 These are traditions and legalisms that have gotten in the way, and we made doctrine out of them. 00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:50.160 Because Jesus did not say, this kind comes out only through prayer and fasting. 00:46:50.160 --> 00:46:53.160 He actually said, this kind comes out only through prayer. 00:46:53.160 --> 00:46:57.160 Read any Bible, it'll say in italics that the rest was added on much later. 00:46:57.160 --> 00:47:02.160 It's not found in any of the original manuscripts. 00:47:02.160 --> 00:47:04.160 I'm not discouraging fasting. 00:47:04.160 --> 00:47:22.160 I'm just saying sometimes the traditions we keep up is so that we don't feel condemned. 00:47:22.160 --> 00:47:31.160 In the Old Testament, the law commanded things. 00:47:31.160 --> 00:47:36.160 Moses' law commanded things. God gave the law through Moses, it commanded things. 00:47:36.160 --> 00:47:45.160 And if you broke them, law breakers were condemned. 00:47:45.160 --> 00:47:49.160 Very simple. Cause and effect. 00:47:49.160 --> 00:47:54.160 You do this, this will happen. And it would happen. 00:47:54.160 --> 00:48:18.160 But the law also pointed one day to a sacrifice that would make you righteous. 00:48:18.160 --> 00:48:20.160 That's what the law did. 00:48:20.160 --> 00:48:22.160 And so then God sends his son. 00:48:22.160 --> 00:48:27.160 And here's the crazy thing, guys. 00:48:27.160 --> 00:48:41.160 God condemns my sin in his flesh. 00:48:41.160 --> 00:48:47.160 God condemns my sin in his flesh. 00:48:47.160 --> 00:48:55.160 God condemns my sin in Christ's flesh. 00:48:55.160 --> 00:49:03.160 Why do I want to struggle under it anymore? 00:49:03.160 --> 00:49:06.160 God condemns my sin in his flesh. 00:49:06.160 --> 00:49:09.160 Whatever happened to him, happens to me. 00:49:09.160 --> 00:49:13.160 Sin was condemned in his flesh, sin is condemned in my flesh. 00:49:13.160 --> 00:49:17.160 But he takes it on as a substitute and a representative. 00:49:17.160 --> 00:49:25.160 Why should I labor tomorrow under any feeling of condemnation? 00:49:25.160 --> 00:49:37.160 Anything that I do tomorrow to remove condemnation is actually not receiving fully the finished works of Christ on the cross. 00:49:37.160 --> 00:50:06.160 Anything I do tomorrow in some kind of odd repentance or extra song or sackcloth or ashes or any kind of wormishness or any kind of groveling that I do tomorrow is actually a dismissal or a receiving in vain of the finished works of the cross. 00:50:06.160 --> 00:50:16.160 Any questions, any thoughts, any arguments, any disagreements? 00:50:16.160 --> 00:50:19.160 Appeasement is not a Christian quality. 00:50:19.160 --> 00:50:22.160 Appeasement is not a Christian virtue. 00:50:22.160 --> 00:50:25.160 We do not appease God. 00:50:25.160 --> 00:50:28.160 The only appeasement God needed was through his son. 00:50:28.160 --> 00:50:30.160 We do not appease God. 00:50:30.160 --> 00:50:31.160 We love him. 00:50:31.160 --> 00:50:47.160 If you have to appease your wife, a time will come when loving her will be difficult. 00:50:47.160 --> 00:50:55.160 Appeasement is doing things to make the other person happy so that the person will not be upset with you anymore. 00:50:55.160 --> 00:50:58.160 But you have a happy God who does not condemn you. 00:50:58.160 --> 00:51:13.160 So why appease him? 00:51:13.160 --> 00:51:19.160 Yeah. 00:51:19.160 --> 00:51:21.160 I didn't hear you. 00:51:21.160 --> 00:51:28.160 Yeah, no, I heard the story, but the last line. 00:51:28.160 --> 00:51:40.160 Yeah, but but but even that, in a sense, has we moved on from even that story because the tax collector was beating his breast and saying, woe is me, while the Pharisee was saying, I deserve a seat. 00:51:40.160 --> 00:51:48.160 I'm saying there is no more woe is me. 00:51:48.160 --> 00:51:56.160 You have to think of think of this as what if you were a father or a mother and you have to think of this as what if you were a child. 00:51:56.160 --> 00:51:58.160 So you saw Liam come up today, right? 00:51:58.160 --> 00:52:05.160 Now he may he messes up and he's going standing before Aaron and Michel and Aaron, I'm really bad. 00:52:05.160 --> 00:52:06.160 I'm really sorry. 00:52:06.160 --> 00:52:15.160 It'll break his heart, man. 00:52:15.160 --> 00:52:20.160 So on one hand, yes, he was justified, but even the ways of justification are not different. 00:52:20.160 --> 00:52:21.160 The kids are back. 00:52:21.160 --> 00:52:26.160 Where's Danny? 00:52:26.160 --> 00:52:31.160 Is this a ploy by the Sunday school teachers to make me end my teaching? 00:52:31.160 --> 00:52:36.160 It's not working. 00:52:36.160 --> 00:52:44.160 Okay, let me start ending. 00:52:44.160 --> 00:53:10.160 Legally, legally, my union with Christ establishes a forever verdict, a forever verdict, not guilty. 00:53:10.160 --> 00:53:13.160 It's a forever verdict. 00:53:13.160 --> 00:53:19.160 I am not guilty. 00:53:19.160 --> 00:53:20.160 That's legally. 00:53:20.160 --> 00:53:24.160 It's a it's legally binding in the universe. 00:53:24.160 --> 00:53:26.160 It's as sure as gravity. 00:53:26.160 --> 00:53:30.160 It is as sure as the sun rising and the sun setting. 00:53:30.160 --> 00:53:33.160 It is as sure as sowing and reaping. 00:53:33.160 --> 00:53:37.160 It is as sure as summer and winter. 00:53:37.160 --> 00:53:39.160 Those are the things God says in the Bible. 00:53:39.160 --> 00:53:40.160 These are sure things. 00:53:40.160 --> 00:53:50.160 And he's saying, Jacob, legally, because of what Christ did and because you are in Christ, I have established a forever verdict over your head. 00:53:50.160 --> 00:53:54.160 And it says not guilty. 00:53:54.160 --> 00:54:09.160 So try not to labor under it tomorrow and then day after and then day after. 00:54:09.160 --> 00:54:36.160 We don't do anything to maintain our no condemnation status. 00:54:36.160 --> 00:54:41.160 You wouldn't do anything because there is no condemnation. 00:54:41.160 --> 00:54:44.160 You receive the spirit. 00:54:44.160 --> 00:54:45.160 You read Romans eight. 00:54:45.160 --> 00:54:49.160 It talks about it because there is no condemnation because everything has been forgiven. 00:54:49.160 --> 00:55:00.160 You receive the spirit and because you receive the spirit, you can live for him. 00:55:00.160 --> 00:55:08.160 You could just begin to think along the lines of Gosh, there's nothing that God condemns me for. 00:55:08.160 --> 00:55:09.160 There is no condemnation. 00:55:09.160 --> 00:55:16.160 He'll never make me feel guilty. 00:55:16.160 --> 00:55:25.160 So when you suffer physical pain and the devil turns up and says, oh, your thoughts begin to say or Job's friends begin to say it's punishment. 00:55:25.160 --> 00:55:27.160 You're under God's condemnation. 00:55:27.160 --> 00:55:29.160 That's why you're suffering so much. 00:55:29.160 --> 00:55:34.160 So I'm not under condemnation. 00:55:34.160 --> 00:55:35.160 I trust you, Christ. 00:55:35.160 --> 00:55:37.160 Some of us will have to say this tomorrow. 00:55:37.160 --> 00:55:39.160 Some of us will have to say this tomorrow. 00:55:39.160 --> 00:55:41.160 Well, God, I just felt condemned again. 00:55:41.160 --> 00:55:42.160 I just felt guilty again. 00:55:42.160 --> 00:55:44.160 I am not under condemnation. 00:55:44.160 --> 00:55:46.160 Sure, I messed up a call. 00:55:46.160 --> 00:55:49.160 I'll talk to you about it, but I will not carry guilt for a moment. 00:55:49.160 --> 00:55:51.160 I have your countenance. 00:55:51.160 --> 00:55:52.160 I know your faith. 00:55:52.160 --> 00:55:54.160 Your face is good towards me. 00:55:54.160 --> 00:56:03.160 I refuse to come for a second under a shadow that condemns me because every shadow that condemns you will cast a shadow on the face of God. 00:56:03.160 --> 00:56:10.160 Every shadow that condemns you will cast a shadow on the face of God where you will not see his smile. 00:56:10.160 --> 00:56:12.160 You will not see his favor. 00:56:12.160 --> 00:56:21.160 You will see his frown. 00:56:21.160 --> 00:56:27.160 So let's say I do something that during this meeting I said something and it's affected Fuyo. 00:56:27.160 --> 00:56:30.160 And I suddenly see his face falling. 00:56:30.160 --> 00:56:34.160 And I realize that in my joking I've said something that has affected Fuyo. 00:56:34.160 --> 00:56:36.160 I immediately recognize it. 00:56:36.160 --> 00:56:39.160 I need to go fix it later. 00:56:39.160 --> 00:56:43.160 But I will not now preach thinking, oh my God, God's not going to come through now. 00:56:43.160 --> 00:56:44.160 The anointing has gone. 00:56:44.160 --> 00:56:46.160 My teaching won't be as strong. 00:56:46.160 --> 00:56:48.160 I better confess it right now publicly. 00:56:48.160 --> 00:56:50.160 Maybe if I confess it publicly, it will go away. 00:56:50.160 --> 00:56:52.160 Maybe God will take care of it. 00:56:52.160 --> 00:56:54.160 All these thoughts are crowding in. 00:56:54.160 --> 00:56:56.160 No, I saw his face fall. 00:56:56.160 --> 00:56:57.160 I'll have to go talk to him. 00:56:57.160 --> 00:57:00.160 But then before I talk to him, I look at the father's face. 00:57:00.160 --> 00:57:04.160 And his face is still favorable towards me. 00:57:04.160 --> 00:57:08.160 And he recognizes that Jacob recognized what happened to Fuyo. 00:57:08.160 --> 00:57:19.160 And I will help him go and talk to Fuyo. 00:57:19.160 --> 00:57:24.160 If you don't think this is from the Bible, speak now. 00:57:24.160 --> 00:57:29.160 If you think this is cheap grace of some sort, speak now. 00:57:29.160 --> 00:57:31.160 If you want to oppose this, speak now. 00:57:31.160 --> 00:57:36.160 Because what if all I'm saying is false? 00:57:36.160 --> 00:57:45.160 But if you don't speak now, then you must begin to live like this. 00:57:46.160 --> 00:57:51.160 We cannot compute this because we don't behave like this with people. 00:57:51.160 --> 00:57:56.160 The moment Anna says something that hurts him, he may not say anything to Anna, 00:57:56.160 --> 00:58:00.160 but his face falls and then he's upset. 00:58:00.160 --> 00:58:01.160 But that's not how God is. 00:58:01.160 --> 00:58:07.160 God doesn't... 00:58:07.160 --> 00:58:11.160 God recognizes that our Shastra, the Shanti, knew instantly what he did wrong. 00:58:11.160 --> 00:58:17.160 And he's going to deal with it first with me and then with whoever he harmed. 00:58:17.160 --> 00:58:20.160 And if I don't, then he begins to push me, prod me, saying, 00:58:20.160 --> 00:58:24.160 you need to go and talk to Fuyo. Why are you avoiding it? 00:58:24.160 --> 00:58:29.160 But his face, I've got his confidence. 00:58:29.160 --> 00:58:33.160 Do you know what boldness that gives me? 00:58:33.160 --> 00:58:41.160 I've just affected Fuyo, yet I can minister to Echo. 00:58:41.160 --> 00:58:45.160 Worship leaders are the worst. 00:58:45.160 --> 00:58:54.160 They are some of the most sensitive, touch-me-not people you can find in a church. 00:58:54.160 --> 00:58:59.160 You usually know where a worship leader is by the first two songs he chooses. 00:58:59.160 --> 00:59:08.160 If the first two songs are about purifying, oh God, let me be as gold, you know he's had a bad day. 00:59:08.160 --> 00:59:15.160 The first... not Tuni, Tuni is exceptional. 00:59:15.160 --> 00:59:23.160 But usually the first two songs usually reveal what happened in the worship leader's life the last two days. 00:59:23.160 --> 00:59:28.160 If it has ever purified my heart, you know he's trying to ask God to forgive him. 00:59:28.160 --> 00:59:32.160 And he's hoping it'll happen quickly so that he can go to the next fast song, 00:59:32.160 --> 00:59:36.160 because he has to dance and jump and look happy. 00:59:36.160 --> 00:59:39.160 Right? 00:59:39.160 --> 00:59:46.160 Okay. 00:59:46.160 --> 00:59:53.160 So can you, can you who have children that you think you didn't raise well, 00:59:53.160 --> 00:59:56.160 can you stop condemning your parenting? 00:59:56.160 --> 01:00:03.160 Can you, if you messed up in ministry because of different reasons and you're not doing much, 01:00:03.160 --> 01:00:08.160 can you stop condemning yourself for what you did? 01:00:08.160 --> 01:00:09.160 Here's another one. 01:00:09.160 --> 01:00:15.160 Can you stop condemning yourself because you are being tempted sexually? 01:00:15.160 --> 01:00:21.160 The number of men and women who feel condemned because they are tempted sexually, 01:00:21.160 --> 01:00:24.160 don't even go through the process. 01:00:24.160 --> 01:00:29.160 They just happen to look at a woman wrongly, happen to look at a guy wrongly, read a book, saw a movie, 01:00:29.160 --> 01:00:34.160 watched one of those reels on Facebook or Instagram or whatever, 01:00:34.160 --> 01:00:42.160 and you spend 10 seconds, 15 seconds and my God, the condemnation we go through because of that. 01:00:42.160 --> 01:00:52.160 Can you stop feeling condemned because you're being tempted sexually or tempted to pride? 01:00:52.160 --> 01:00:56.160 Can you, can you go to this father who isn't frowning at you? 01:00:56.160 --> 01:01:02.160 This sounds so weird to put it this way because it sounds like a different God. 01:01:02.160 --> 01:01:06.160 Our God usually frowns immediately. 01:01:06.160 --> 01:01:09.160 To go to him and say, father, messed up again. 01:01:09.160 --> 01:01:12.160 Well, thank you for being so inviting. 01:01:12.160 --> 01:01:17.160 Thank you for holding me as you talk to me. 01:01:17.160 --> 01:01:20.160 I said this before, but in the Visual Matthew series, 01:01:20.160 --> 01:01:26.160 when Jesus says to Peter, get thee behind me, Satan, he actually holds Peter. 01:01:26.160 --> 01:01:27.160 That's how they depict it. 01:01:27.160 --> 01:01:30.160 I thought it's so brilliant in terms of the nature of God. 01:01:30.160 --> 01:01:35.160 He holds Peter and as he holds him, he says, get thee behind me, Satan. 01:01:35.160 --> 01:01:39.160 That someone can handle. 01:01:39.160 --> 01:01:43.160 It was loud enough because someone recorded it and it wasn't Peter, 01:01:43.160 --> 01:01:46.160 but he held him as he said that. 01:01:46.160 --> 01:01:54.160 This is the same kind of God who holds you while he instructs you, corrects you, disciplines you. 01:01:54.160 --> 01:01:57.160 Your parents have done that sometimes. 01:02:01.160 --> 01:02:06.160 Even when you're tempted, can you not feel condemned? 01:02:06.160 --> 01:02:09.160 So Jacob, doesn't this give people the license to go ahead and sin? 01:02:09.160 --> 01:02:12.160 Absolutely. 01:02:12.160 --> 01:02:14.160 So? 01:02:14.160 --> 01:02:18.160 God's not going to take that choice away, but my God, his love is overpowering. 01:02:18.160 --> 01:02:20.160 When you meet someone who does not condemn you, 01:02:20.160 --> 01:02:28.160 you usually want to please that person, not try and work out things. 01:02:28.160 --> 01:02:36.160 If I find you forgiving, if I find you non-condemning, I assure you, it frees me to serve you. 01:02:36.160 --> 01:02:39.160 It frees me to love you. 01:02:39.160 --> 01:02:48.160 More than anything else, it frees me to be fearless in my confessing and talking to you about what I did wrong. 01:02:48.160 --> 01:02:53.160 I love it when I see husbands who have the boldness to go up to their wives 01:02:53.160 --> 01:03:02.160 and talk fearlessly about something that they've messed up in. 01:03:02.160 --> 01:03:06.160 What a gift your spouse is if your spouse doesn't condemn you, 01:03:06.160 --> 01:03:11.160 but argues, feels upset, feels hurt, but does not condemn. 01:03:11.160 --> 01:03:13.160 Is it possible to feel hurt and not condemn? 01:03:13.160 --> 01:03:16.160 Yes! 01:03:16.160 --> 01:03:28.160 A person who feels hurt and does not condemn will actually forgive you the moment you say you're sorry and you mean it. 01:03:28.160 --> 01:03:36.160 This is a beautiful thing, no condemnation. 01:03:36.160 --> 01:03:40.160 You know why I preach this so passionately right now? 01:03:40.160 --> 01:03:43.160 Because I want to live this tomorrow. 01:03:43.160 --> 01:03:48.160 In my talking to you, I want the same thing to happen to me, 01:03:48.160 --> 01:03:52.160 where there won't be a day that I live from today on, and it seems impossible. 01:03:52.160 --> 01:04:00.160 But what if? What if it is possible for Jacob never to feel condemned again before God? 01:04:00.160 --> 01:04:04.160 Can you imagine the next 50 years? 01:04:04.160 --> 01:04:07.160 Okay, don't go that far. 01:04:07.160 --> 01:04:11.160 Can you imagine that? 01:04:11.160 --> 01:04:13.160 I've gotten the other part right. 01:04:13.160 --> 01:04:17.160 I can go to God if you condemn me. I can fix my face. 01:04:17.160 --> 01:04:19.160 But I don't know how to do it with God. 01:04:19.160 --> 01:04:21.160 I labor. I feel guilty. 01:04:21.160 --> 01:04:23.160 I feel like what if God doesn't back me up? 01:04:23.160 --> 01:04:26.160 I feel like how can I minister if this thing is not sorted out? 01:04:26.160 --> 01:04:31.160 I feel like I've got to go talk to him about it. Without talking to him about it, it won't work out. 01:04:31.160 --> 01:04:35.160 Traditions, traditions, traditions. Fiddler on the roof. 01:04:51.160 --> 01:04:59.160 Condemnation-free grace can either cause you to be lawless and exploit his goodness, 01:04:59.160 --> 01:05:07.160 or it'll draw you so deep into his love that you'll have this eagerness to turn away from sin and guilt, 01:05:07.160 --> 01:05:15.160 and you'll have this joyful satisfaction of living for him. 01:05:15.160 --> 01:05:20.160 So as we go and break bread, what are you saying? 01:05:20.160 --> 01:05:23.160 Oh God, I am going to live uncondemned. 01:05:23.160 --> 01:05:35.160 I am going to live uncondemned. 01:05:35.160 --> 01:05:40.160 I'm going to live uncondemned. 01:05:40.160 --> 01:05:47.160 I will repent, but I will live uncondemned. 01:05:47.160 --> 01:05:56.160 And I'm going to resist the torment of condemnation. 01:05:56.160 --> 01:05:58.160 No longer. Why? 01:05:58.160 --> 01:06:10.160 Why? Because I'm a restored, forgiven, guilt-free person. 01:06:10.160 --> 01:06:18.160 And that's your verdict. 01:06:18.160 --> 01:06:36.160 Turn to Romans 8.1. 01:06:36.160 --> 01:06:44.160 I'm going to read from the Passion Translation, just so we, not because it's a fabulous translation, 01:06:44.160 --> 01:06:47.160 but it helps us understand what we're talking about. 01:06:47.160 --> 01:06:49.160 Romans 8.1 from the TPT. 01:06:49.160 --> 01:06:52.160 So now the case is closed. 01:06:52.160 --> 01:06:56.160 Beautiful, eh? 01:06:56.160 --> 01:07:01.160 So now the case is closed. 01:07:01.160 --> 01:07:12.160 There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life union with Jesus, the Anointed One. 01:07:12.160 --> 01:07:18.160 Go to verse 33. 01:07:18.160 --> 01:07:22.160 31. So what does all this mean? 01:07:22.160 --> 01:07:29.160 If God has determined to stand with me, tell me, who then could ever stand against me? 01:07:29.160 --> 01:07:36.160 For God proved his love by giving me his greatest treasure, the gift of his Son. 01:07:36.160 --> 01:07:42.160 And since God freely offered him up as a sacrifice for me, he certainly won't withhold anything else from me. 01:07:42.160 --> 01:07:43.160 Verse 33. 01:07:43.160 --> 01:07:49.160 Who then would dare to accuse those whom God has chosen in love to be his? 01:07:49.160 --> 01:07:53.160 God himself is a judge who has issued the final verdict over them. 01:07:53.160 --> 01:07:58.160 Not guilty! 01:07:58.160 --> 01:08:03.160 Scared you, eh? 01:08:03.160 --> 01:08:06.160 Not guilty. 01:08:06.160 --> 01:08:10.160 Did I wake up your children? 01:08:10.160 --> 01:08:12.160 Who then is left to condemn us? 01:08:12.160 --> 01:08:16.160 Certainly not Jesus, the Anointed One, for he gave his life for us. 01:08:16.160 --> 01:08:18.160 And even more than that, he has conquered death. 01:08:18.160 --> 01:08:22.160 He's now risen, exalted, enthroned at the right hand of God. 01:08:22.160 --> 01:08:35.160 He most certainly cannot condemn us, since he continually is praying for my victory. 01:08:35.160 --> 01:08:37.160 Is the bread and grape juice given? 01:08:37.160 --> 01:08:40.160 Can I get one? 01:08:40.160 --> 01:08:42.160 Is that yours? 01:08:42.160 --> 01:08:49.160 Okay. 01:08:49.160 --> 01:09:07.160 Father, today as we partake of the bread and the grape juice, the bread and the wine, 01:09:07.160 --> 01:09:19.160 the moment we eat and drink this, we want to live what he did on the cross. 01:09:19.160 --> 01:09:26.160 We've labored under this for very, very long. 01:09:26.160 --> 01:09:33.160 I just pray that prayers go up from the congregation, talking about what we've heard and what we feel and how this should work. 01:09:33.160 --> 01:09:35.160 I just open it up to the church, Father. 01:09:35.160 --> 01:09:40.160 People just praying loudly to you, saying, this is what I'm going to do. 01:09:40.160 --> 01:09:43.160 Feel free, guys. 01:09:43.160 --> 01:09:49.160 You know, the idea is to remember the benefits of his death. 01:09:49.160 --> 01:09:53.160 We have to recall the benefits of his death and proclaim the benefits of his death. 01:09:53.160 --> 01:09:55.160 So feel free. 01:09:55.160 --> 01:10:02.160 With regard to what we heard today. 01:10:02.160 --> 01:10:04.160 Freely approach him. 01:10:04.160 --> 01:10:08.160 Never do the song and dance ever again in your life. 01:10:08.160 --> 01:10:13.160 Refuse it. 01:10:13.160 --> 01:10:16.160 Never do it again. 01:10:16.160 --> 01:10:22.160 Condemn it. 01:10:22.160 --> 01:10:29.160 I ask the first person I go to to restore my faith before I then deal with whatever may be true or false. 01:10:52.160 --> 01:10:59.160 I ask the first person I go to to restore my faith before I then deal with whatever may be true or false. 01:10:59.160 --> 01:11:06.160 I ask the first person I go to to restore my faith before I then deal with whatever may be true or false. 01:11:06.160 --> 01:11:13.160 I ask the first person I go to to restore my faith before I then deal with whatever may be true or false. 01:11:13.160 --> 01:11:20.160 I ask the first person I go to to restore my faith before I then deal with whatever may be true or false. 01:11:21.160 --> 01:11:23.160 Doesn't matter what you've come out of. 01:11:23.160 --> 01:11:25.160 Doesn't matter where you've made your bed. 01:11:25.160 --> 01:11:27.160 Psalm 139. 01:11:27.160 --> 01:11:28.160 Where can I run from you? 01:11:28.160 --> 01:11:30.160 I go to the deepest darkness, you're there. 01:11:30.160 --> 01:11:44.160 I take the wings of the morning, you're there. 01:11:44.160 --> 01:11:45.160 Yeah, man. 01:11:45.160 --> 01:11:49.160 I will not hide like Adam did in the garden. 01:11:49.160 --> 01:11:50.160 I hear his footsteps. 01:11:50.160 --> 01:11:52.160 I'm not going to hide and confess my sins. 01:11:52.160 --> 01:11:55.160 I'll run to his footsteps and bow at his knee. 01:11:55.160 --> 01:11:56.160 Do you know who did that? 01:11:56.160 --> 01:11:58.160 Peter. 01:11:58.160 --> 01:12:00.160 The guy denied Christ. 01:12:00.160 --> 01:12:06.160 He sees him and he jumps out of the boat half naked, runs to him and falls at his feet. 01:12:06.160 --> 01:12:07.160 Not hide. 01:12:07.160 --> 01:12:09.160 No more hiding for us. 01:12:09.160 --> 01:12:12.160 We are restored, forgiven, accepted people. 01:12:12.160 --> 01:12:14.160 Yeah. 01:12:14.160 --> 01:12:15.160 Got to live this. 01:12:15.160 --> 01:12:16.160 We go into Richmond. 01:12:16.160 --> 01:12:17.160 We go into Richmond. 01:12:17.160 --> 01:12:20.160 We go in as a restored, forgiven, new people. 01:12:20.160 --> 01:12:22.160 Different mindset. 01:12:22.160 --> 01:12:24.160 What else? 01:12:32.160 --> 01:12:33.160 You know, Father, that thing. 01:12:33.160 --> 01:12:34.160 What thing? 01:12:43.160 --> 01:12:44.160 It doesn't say he forgets his sins. 01:12:44.160 --> 01:12:45.160 He says he does not remember. 01:12:45.160 --> 01:12:46.160 Beautiful. 01:12:58.160 --> 01:13:02.160 He does not remember anything wrong that I've done in the last many hours. 01:13:02.160 --> 01:13:04.160 He does not remember them. 01:13:04.160 --> 01:13:05.160 They do not stand against me. 01:13:05.160 --> 01:13:07.160 He never reckons my sins against me. 01:13:07.160 --> 01:13:09.160 They are not in his account. 01:13:09.160 --> 01:13:10.160 There's nothing. 01:13:10.160 --> 01:13:11.160 It's a clean slate. 01:13:14.160 --> 01:13:18.160 He delights in my authenticity and in my sincerity. 01:13:18.160 --> 01:13:19.160 He? 01:13:19.160 --> 01:13:21.160 He delights in my authenticity. 01:13:21.160 --> 01:13:22.160 Yeah. 01:13:22.160 --> 01:13:26.160 He delights in my authenticity and in my sincerity. 01:13:26.160 --> 01:13:28.160 I'm like a child before him. 01:13:28.160 --> 01:13:31.160 His face is always smiling on you. 01:13:31.160 --> 01:13:33.160 Yeah, man. 01:13:33.160 --> 01:13:36.160 You know, we can't picture God's face smiling on you. 01:13:36.160 --> 01:13:42.160 If you can't picture that, look at how some of these parents interact with their children. 01:13:44.160 --> 01:13:49.160 He keeps me at the center. 01:13:49.160 --> 01:13:50.160 Precious. 01:13:50.160 --> 01:13:52.160 Jacob, you're so precious to me. 01:13:52.160 --> 01:13:55.160 Jacob, you're so precious to me. 01:13:55.160 --> 01:13:59.160 I mean, why should Aaron come up when I ask Liam to come up? 01:13:59.160 --> 01:14:01.160 Why? 01:14:01.160 --> 01:14:08.160 He runs towards me. 01:14:08.160 --> 01:14:09.160 Always. 01:14:09.160 --> 01:14:12.160 He sees me a mile away before I can even open my mouth. 01:14:12.160 --> 01:14:14.160 This is the degree of non-condemnation. 01:14:14.160 --> 01:14:21.160 The boy is coming back from the pigsty planning a speech that will help him work as his father's servant. 01:14:21.160 --> 01:14:25.160 And the father sees him at a distance and doesn't even allow him to open his mouth. 01:14:25.160 --> 01:14:28.160 God knows the sincerity of my heart. 01:14:28.160 --> 01:14:32.160 Part of the reason he doesn't condemn is because he sees your heart. 01:14:32.160 --> 01:14:38.160 He just saw how badly Dilna messed up, but he also sees Dilna's heart and he says, come, my boy. 01:14:39.160 --> 01:14:44.160 We only see his mess. 01:14:55.160 --> 01:14:57.160 There's more. 01:14:57.160 --> 01:15:01.160 He favors me always. 01:15:01.160 --> 01:15:03.160 He favors me always. 01:15:03.160 --> 01:15:08.160 He doesn't sound right. 01:15:08.160 --> 01:15:11.160 Maybe think like that. 01:15:19.160 --> 01:15:21.160 More. 01:15:21.160 --> 01:15:24.160 Resets and fresh starts. 01:15:24.160 --> 01:15:29.160 Every day, every couple of hours, fresh start. 01:15:30.160 --> 01:15:33.160 His arms are stretched towards me. 01:15:33.160 --> 01:15:35.160 His arms are stretched towards me. 01:15:35.160 --> 01:15:37.160 It doesn't matter which way I turn. 01:15:37.160 --> 01:15:41.160 He takes a chair and plonks it right in front of me and says, face to face, face to face. 01:15:41.160 --> 01:15:45.160 Not in that voice, but it's like unavoidable. 01:15:45.160 --> 01:15:47.160 It doesn't matter which way you turn. 01:15:47.160 --> 01:15:52.160 He takes a chair and we did this once in Acts 29 where it doesn't matter where you go. 01:15:52.160 --> 01:15:53.160 God has a chair. 01:15:53.160 --> 01:15:56.160 He takes a chair and if he turns this way, right here. 01:15:56.160 --> 01:15:57.160 If he turns that way, right here. 01:15:57.160 --> 01:15:58.160 You can't escape him. 01:15:58.160 --> 01:16:01.160 He loves face to face. 01:16:07.160 --> 01:16:10.160 Even though we have a choice. 01:16:10.160 --> 01:16:11.160 Yeah. 01:16:11.160 --> 01:16:12.160 Crazy. 01:16:12.160 --> 01:16:17.160 He knows what you're going to do wrong and yet he's not condemning you. 01:16:17.160 --> 01:16:23.160 Because he also knows his son lives in you and you're changing, that you're only getting better. 01:16:23.160 --> 01:16:28.160 He sings over me. 01:16:28.160 --> 01:16:37.160 You know, there was a time in March where there's a thing called antiphonal singing 01:16:37.160 --> 01:16:43.160 where someone sings and then the rest of the choir sings in response. 01:16:43.160 --> 01:16:49.160 And there was a time in March this year where I would sing something. 01:16:49.160 --> 01:16:51.160 I would sing something. 01:16:51.160 --> 01:16:55.160 I could literally hear God saying, okay, these are the words that I would respond with. 01:16:55.160 --> 01:16:57.160 And I'd write it down. 01:16:57.160 --> 01:16:59.160 Where he sings over you. 01:16:59.160 --> 01:17:01.160 And so it became a game then. 01:17:01.160 --> 01:17:05.160 I'd start a song and then I'd ask him, so what do you want to sing back? 01:17:05.160 --> 01:17:10.160 It was just for a month and a half. 01:17:10.160 --> 01:17:15.160 He sings over you. 01:17:15.160 --> 01:17:16.160 What else? 01:17:16.160 --> 01:17:22.160 I'm sorry I'm sticking with this because there's still so much more to say. 01:17:22.160 --> 01:17:24.160 Plus there's no clock on the wall. 01:17:24.160 --> 01:17:25.160 Go ahead, Hib. 01:17:25.160 --> 01:17:28.160 Why do you say that? 01:17:28.160 --> 01:17:38.160 Sometimes we want things a certain way, our way, and it doesn't go your way until years later. 01:17:38.160 --> 01:17:45.160 And we realize, yeah, it wouldn't have been good if I had got that a couple years ago. 01:17:45.160 --> 01:17:47.160 Yeah. 01:17:47.160 --> 01:17:49.160 And it's not, God does not punish. 01:17:49.160 --> 01:17:56.160 He disciples, He disciplines, He does not punish. 01:17:56.160 --> 01:18:00.160 When He disciplines, it's anger free. 01:18:00.160 --> 01:18:02.160 Wrath was reserved for Christ. 01:18:02.160 --> 01:18:03.160 Does He get angry? 01:18:03.160 --> 01:18:05.160 He gets upset. 01:18:05.160 --> 01:18:07.160 But does He ever discipline you with anger? 01:18:07.160 --> 01:18:08.160 Never. 01:18:08.160 --> 01:18:09.160 Does He ever lash out at you? 01:18:09.160 --> 01:18:13.160 Never. 01:18:13.160 --> 01:18:14.160 Here's another one. 01:18:14.160 --> 01:18:24.160 Some of you may feel that God hasn't given you a fair shake, not been favoring you and stuff like that. 01:18:24.160 --> 01:18:27.160 And that there's enough reason for you not to trust Him. 01:18:27.160 --> 01:18:31.160 And God's saying to you, you have my countenance. 01:18:31.160 --> 01:18:33.160 You have my countenance. 01:18:33.160 --> 01:18:34.160 Start again. 01:18:34.160 --> 01:18:36.160 Like Sheldon's saying, start afresh. 01:18:36.160 --> 01:18:39.160 Two or three more and then we're done. 01:18:39.160 --> 01:18:41.160 Go ahead. 01:18:41.160 --> 01:18:47.160 Not seeing every bad thing in my life as a consequence. 01:18:47.160 --> 01:18:51.160 That's another very Pentecostal thing, huh? 01:18:51.160 --> 01:18:55.160 He offers life in its fullness every day. 01:18:55.160 --> 01:18:58.160 He offers life in its fullness every day. 01:18:58.160 --> 01:19:01.160 Splendid zest, light, space. 01:19:01.160 --> 01:19:04.160 Psalm 27 verse 1. 01:19:04.160 --> 01:19:08.160 His faithfulness and mercy follow me. 01:19:08.160 --> 01:19:10.160 Stop following me. 01:19:10.160 --> 01:19:13.160 Faithfulness and mercy following me. 01:19:13.160 --> 01:19:17.160 His goodness comes from the faithfulness. 01:19:17.160 --> 01:19:18.160 His goodness comes from the faithfulness. 01:19:18.160 --> 01:19:19.160 Yeah. 01:19:19.160 --> 01:19:20.160 Why? 01:19:20.160 --> 01:19:23.160 Why does His covenant stand firm with you? 01:19:33.160 --> 01:19:36.160 Because He's my Father. 01:19:36.160 --> 01:19:38.160 Because it's who He is. 01:19:43.160 --> 01:19:44.160 He's my Father. 01:19:44.160 --> 01:19:45.160 He's my Father. 01:19:48.160 --> 01:19:50.160 All righty. 01:19:50.160 --> 01:19:52.160 Before the cups begin to melt. 01:20:00.160 --> 01:20:03.160 Let's do this before we eat and drink. 01:20:03.160 --> 01:20:06.160 Pick a song and sing it to Him. 01:20:06.160 --> 01:20:08.160 We've done this before. 01:20:08.160 --> 01:20:10.160 Each one picks whatever song they want. 01:20:10.160 --> 01:20:15.160 And at the count of three, just sing it to Him before we drink. 01:20:15.160 --> 01:20:16.160 He sings over us. 01:20:16.160 --> 01:20:18.160 Let's sing over Him. 01:20:18.160 --> 01:20:21.160 We are singing together. 01:20:21.160 --> 01:20:23.160 It's just that the songs are different. 01:20:23.160 --> 01:20:25.160 We're eating and drinking together. 01:20:25.160 --> 01:20:27.160 It's just that the song is different. 01:20:29.160 --> 01:20:32.160 So on the night He was betrayed, He took bread. 01:20:32.160 --> 01:20:34.160 He gave thanks and He said, 01:20:34.160 --> 01:20:38.160 This is my body which is broken for you. 01:20:38.160 --> 01:20:44.160 I was condemned for your sin in my flesh. 01:20:44.160 --> 01:20:47.160 Please don't labor under it again. 01:20:47.160 --> 01:20:52.160 The same man after supper, he took the cup, he gave thanks and he said, 01:20:52.160 --> 01:20:57.160 This is my blood with which I write a new agreement with you. 01:20:57.160 --> 01:21:03.160 As far as the east is from the west, that's how far I have removed your transgressions from you. 01:21:03.160 --> 01:21:07.160 And I declare a forever verdict upon you. 01:21:07.160 --> 01:21:09.160 Not guilty. 01:21:09.160 --> 01:21:13.160 You have my countenance. 01:21:13.160 --> 01:21:16.160 You have my countenance. 01:21:16.160 --> 01:21:17.160 Pick a song.