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00:00:01 testing uh morning church uh today's scripture reading is taken from 1 John chapter 1:8 to chapter 2:2 I'll be reading from the NIV if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness if we claim we have not sin we have made him out to be a liar and his word is not in US my dear children I write this to you so that you will not sin but if anybody does sin we
00:00:42 have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous one he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world this is the word of the Lord okay good morning church uh let me turn this on and get myself in order uh before I start can you bring back the the previous chart on the uh the schedule please yes all right just for a little bit of housekeeping um next uh Friday we have a good Friday service and uh brother yidian is going to uh share the word with us and then on
00:01:35 Sunday next Sunday is a Resurrection Sunday and Dr Peter will share the message with us and after that we'll continue our studies and our preaching series on uh the first episode of uh John all right for those who do not know me my name is Victor uh I started to join FBC about 2 and a half years ago uh my wife is not here with me she is in uh Germany right now because our eldest daughter is expecting her second child so we are looking forward to be a grandfather uh grandparents again second time so she's du sometime this week so
00:02:14 it could be anytime soon so I kind of excited and uh looking forward to uh to join them sometimes uh uh uh end of the month actually all right uh before we start let's have a quick word of prayer shall we uh Father in Heaven I just want to commit myself to you uh father help me to honor your word and father as we look into your word you make may you convict us of our sin and that we may honor Christ in everything that we do and we pray Lord that the name of Christ may be glorified this morning in Jesus
00:02:49 name amen all right so we continue our studies or our sermon message on uh uh first John uh before I do that I just want to have a quick recap and give you a brief introduction of this epistle um is this working uh there we go all right okay one of the uh first century heresies in the early church is what we call the narcissism okay it's based on the Greek word naris means to know all right that is that these people claim they have great knowledge Superior knowledge right they have good knowledge on
00:03:32 spiritual things and this is kind of like a mix of Greek philosophies Jewish legal legalism Greek philosophy and E mysticism so it kind of mix religion so to speak okay and one of the main tenants of this noism is dualism and what it means is that to their perspective anything physical is evil and whatever is is spiritual is pure and good so this is the predominant heresy that the hly church has to deal with and this heresy is toxic and is dangerous to the Christian faith for two reason okay number
00:04:18 one let me get that is doctrinal all right because they believe that because they believe that anything that is physical is bad all right whatever spiritual is good in that way where what happened is that they deny that Jesus is actually God In the Flesh so because physical is evil therefore they could not imagine that God would come in the flesh so they deny that Christ okay Jesus is a Christ all right but doctrinal is not the only issue that the church is facing another issue is morality okay what this naism teaches is
00:04:59 that because the body is physical the spirit is good we can do whatever we want in the body it doesn't matter the spirit is pure and Paul not only John has to deal with it the Apostle Paul has to deal with it as well in the Church of Corinthians where he Paul challenged the Corinthians said you cannot commit sin in the body because we are the Temple of the Holy Spirit God's spirit dwell in us right so Paul has to deal with it and John has to deal with that in this first epistle as well and we see that very
00:05:38 clearly right at the GetGo the opening statement okay of the Apostle John John is to reveal Jesus coming in the physical body he said that that which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes we which we have looked upon and have touched with our hands concerning the word of life so here Paul from the GGO is telling the people that Jesus the son of God Came In the Flesh we seen it we heard him and we even touch him and Paul and John is the best testimony of that
00:06:22 because he was with Christ from the very beginning right after John make that introduction he present three sets of argument to challenge the teaching of this Gnostic all right I'm just going to go them very quickly all right John used the term if we say in the NIV say if we claim you can find three of this statement in the first chapter okay so basically John is quoting what this Gnostic are teaching he said if we say we have fellowship with god with him while we walk in darkness okay we lie and do not practice the truth so that is
00:07:05 the wrong teaching that these people are teaching and John challenged that and immediately he present the truth he said but if we walk in the light as he's in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his son cleans us from all sin and after that he present the next argument all right that if we say we have no sin we deceive ourself the truth is not in us and then consistently he present the next truth is that if we confess our sin he is faithful and just and forgive us our sin
00:07:45 and cleans us from all unrighteousness and then he present argument number three if we say we have no sin or not sin sorry we make him a liar and his word is not in us and then he present the truth okay but if anyone does not does sin we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the sons of right the the the righteous he is the propitiation for our sins not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world all right so John presented three arguments all right so argument number one I think uh brother John John Lee
00:08:33 spoke about that last week all right we are people who think that they fellowship with God but in actuality they were not all right so John talk about it so uh last week so I going to skip that and I'm going to argument number two okay if we say we have no sin so this is a very very unpopular topic all right um there's a mega church uh in the in the US in Lakewood Houston and the founder and Pastor was is Joe Austin right Joe Austin in one of his interviews says he doesn't like to talk about sin because sin caus people to L A
00:09:14 self-esteem so he say he wants to be positive he want people to come to church and feel good and uh and leave the church feeling good so I say sin is not a topic that he would like to talk about okay and so the church grew it became a mega church and I think believe today he has like 40,000 people in his church right so if you want to build a mega church like Joe Austin we should not talk about Sin in a church all right so what we going to talk about today we're going to talk about Sin all right first
00:09:47 what is sin all right what we know about Sin what does the bible tell us about Sin okay in the basic meaning is that sin means to miss the mark okay to miss the standard okay sin basically means our failure to live up to God's standard or perfect Holiness all right the Bible said there is no distinction no matter who you are whether you're Chinese Indian or no matter who you are there's only one standard and all of us fall short of that standard and John used the term 17 times in his epistle so if
00:10:26 Apostle John is alive today he probably will not be welcome in that mega church all right but sin is not only just uh Missing God's standard it also means violating God's law all right God has a set of laws and people if people ignore the law and do whatever they want they want to do or the words we call it anti- nomism those who doesn't want any law you know that's a violation of Law and that according to scripture is sin okay sin is also rejecting God's way okay God has certain way for us and if
00:11:05 we decided to go our own path decided to reject God's plan for us and that is also a sin okay sin is also failing to do what is right and the Apostle John gave as an example in first uh in chapter 3:1 17 say if anyone has the world goods and see his brother in need yet closes his heart against him how does God's love abide in him and jam say whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it for him it is sin so from all this description if you are honest to yourself you will say that yes we have
00:11:48 all sin okay what is our problem okay our problem is sin itself all right some people usually think that they are good they are generally good I'm not as bad as other people that tends to compare themsel to the worst so when you compare yourself to the worst you always feel good about yourself all right and then people think that the good deeds offset the bad Deeds so people think that if I do enough good maybe I could gain some favor from God all right so maybe God would all look some of my my not so bad
00:12:31 Deeds all right and there are some who blame others for their bad Deeds now if you were to marry to my wife you would do what I'm doing right or they blame it on your parents I was not raised in a good family that's what who I am they blame it on the environment they blame it on others which is nothing new right when God confronted Adam he say well you gave me this woman and he caused me to sin and the woman say well it's not me it's a talking snake so people pass blame all right all right then there some people
00:13:13 com confess their Sinners but they will not commit confess all the sin they said there is one sin that I'm not willing to give up okay and we have people like that okay they think that well this is not too bad and they're not willing to give that up and some people minimize sins they say well it's just a mistake everybody does it it's acceptable it's not that bad all right but what John said said if we say we have no sin we deceive ourself the truth is not in us the truth is we are all sinner you say
00:13:51 you are no sin you're just lying because based on that definition we are all sinner so what is the right thing to do is if we confess our sin he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all righteousness unrighteousness so what does the word confess mean okay so we have this idea when you go to Roman Catholic Church you go to the confession booth and you confess your sin to the to the priest but the true meaning of the word confess is is from the Greek word homo loo which mean to speak the same it comes from two
00:14:28 Greek word okay homo means um the same all right loio mean to speak to speak the same basically it means to say the same thing so when when we confess our sin basically we agree with God that we have Sinn against him right we agree with what God say about Sin and we agree that we have violated his word okay the Bible described David as a man after God's Own Heart right the passage that we read this morning is about David's confession and David is called a man after God's heart because of his willingness to to confront his own sin
00:15:11 and to confess his sin to God say I know my transgression my sin is ever before you against you and you only I have sinned so it say that I sin against God but what was David's sin he commit the sin of murder he commit a sin of adultery but to David those are sin against God yes is against individual but it's also a sin against God and he and David um pray and ask God for forgiveness all right but confession is more than just okay to agree with God there must be a heart that's willing to repent and to change
00:15:55 right that's what confession is we agree that God Is Right right and then we also agree what is the right thing to do and we must be willing to do that so when in one of the passage I didn't have it with me when when David after he confessed he asked God to search his heart to find if there is anything Wicked in him sometimes we commit sin unknowingly and David have this heart even though after he confessed he asked God to continue to search his heart if there's anything uh that is that he has that he has not yet
00:16:29 confess so confession should be our daily discipline when we pray to God all right and the scripture also say whoever conceal his transgression will not Prosper but he who confesses and forsake them will obtain mercy so it's not enough just to confess to agree with God but there must be a heart that willing to change and then God say you will obtain Mercy all right argument number three that John presented said if we say we have not seen okay what is the difference between we have no sinen and we have not sinen
00:17:12 all right I want to share a little bit of a story here with me uh many years ago uh I will say many uh when my eldest daughter was still in uh doing her study in a university um so my wife and I decided to play a joke on her all right so I would go and look for her in the campus without telling her okay I'll make a trip to the university where she study and not telling her about it and so we did we played out it wasn't an apple fruit joke uh we went we managed to loc at her I gave her a call I said Rachel
00:17:56 I'm here say what I said where are you said I'm here at the campus so I gave her a surprise visit all right and and Clementine were not able to to join us so she was back home in in Qatar so we called uh Rachel in CL insist that we have a FaceTime call so we have a FaceTime call and and cl so excited he took a snapshot of us together okay so it it was a fun fun thing that we did to our uh to Rao um but that's is not the story I want to share today but what I want to share is what comes after that
00:18:35 all right so uh kids I know there's a lot of young people here so if you go to university you think that you are aware for your family think again okay your family may come visit you without telling you knock knock surprise right so this is what we did but but anyway um so after I've managed to uh to to find Rachel we uh we walk together to her apartment and uh as we walk I saw a church right outside her apartment so I told Rachel hey he said isn't that convenient to have a church right outside uh your apartment and she looked
00:19:14 at me and said that that's a rainbow church so I asked what do you mean rainbow Church said you don't know what a rainbow church is no is it that the church for the lesbian and the gay say oh that kind of rainbow okay so I said let's visit the church next Sunday you know I'm I'm curious what they preach from the PO and richel look at me I say no she doesn't want to have anything to do with the church but it raised my curiosity because I never seen a physical know rainbow church so I decided to go to their website and I
00:19:51 found out they actually have a Facebook page so I look at their Facebook and I found this picture that they posted now in the Facebook of the church so the city of Cincinnati where my my my daughter was is a liberal City okay the university that she's attending the University of Cincinnati is also very liberal okay so it's not a surprise that we see this kind of church inside the campus the guy on the red Shir is actually the pastor and you can see the sign that they put up none Judgment Day is near God loves you just to where you
00:20:28 are you can do anything you want but what does that mean it basically means if you redefine sin okay then it's no longer sin because you redefine it okay this is what people do nowadays by re finding it for example like you know homosexual lifestyle is an alternative lifestyle it's alternate way of living so nothing wrong with it it's not a sin okay adultery it's not a sin it's an fair is a is a consensual act between two consenting adult it doesn't hurt anyone it's not a sin killing unborn baby it's not that bad it's
00:21:10 called woman health care right so you name it you ter it it's not a sin anymore so what he say it's not a sin man you redefine sin so even you commit the act it is not a sin a few weeks later after I came back uh r took this picture as he passed the church okay and that is bad okay now people are not only redefining sin they redefine who God is okay so what happened is that when people start to ignore the word of God and start to create God in his own image okay then Things become very wrong all right so
00:21:59 what did what did John say he say if we have not sin when we redefine sin what it does we make God into a liar his word is not in US basically to deny the word of God is to deny the person of God because the word of God comes from God himself okay and John later on in the end of his epistle it says that God is the only true God the God is true God cannot lie that is is not part of God attribute may be say God is truth he will always speak the truth and nothing but the truth God is not a liar if we
00:22:38 disagree with him we make God into a liar right so here I want to pay attention you should if you look at the argument number one argument number two all right John is very precise he present argument number one immediately he present the truth he present argument number two and then he immediately present the truth but in the third argument we can see the Apostle John put up an exhortation okay I don't want you all to miss that okay it's so easy to read this and then we just skip it over all right
00:23:17 and looking what is the truth that John want to say but here we can see John speak or John wrote with a very passionate pastoral heart said my little children I'm writing this thing to you so that you may not sin because he said this heresy is so bad that before John was even come up with the truth he just tell them say you know it is so wrong to think that you can walk with God and still walk in sin it is so wrong to think that you have no sin against a holy and righteous God it is so wrong to
00:23:57 redefine sin and to to deny the person of God okay even before he was able to present the truth he have to write this exaltation to the the audience now I'm writing this to you so that you don't fall into this time of this kind of sin we see that in in in in in the letter of the Apostle I just don't want you to miss that a lot of time we read the text of the scripture we fail to feel okay the feeling of the author and the Apostle Paul also have the same passion all right I want to share briefly about
00:24:32 um Paul's uh letter to the the Corinthians the second letter of Paul to the um Corinthian this is one of Paul's most personal letter that he wrote to the Church of Corinthians all right the church in Corinth after John uh Paul uh wrote the first letter he wrote another letter before the Second Corinthian and he told the Corinthians that he would visit them all right but somehow the the the the plan changed Paul did not go and visit Corinth uh as he have written to them so some of the Believers there were uh
00:25:15 accused okay Paul as being insincere they accused Paul for being a false Apostles so the second letter that Paul wrote to the Corinthian is his very personal letter where he defend his apostleship and on top of that Paul also share about his weaknesses he talk about him like a broken jar broken crushed persecuted he spoke about him went through um uh the rod being robbed suffer Shipwrecked he spoke about his petition to God to remove the thorns in the flesh and God says no right so it is a very passionate letter that Paul wrote
00:26:05 to the Corinthians but I just want to pay attention to this portion of scripture in Chapter 2 okay Paul is speaking about one of the church members who actually accused him of being a false Apostles and the church apparently took action and punished that individual and Paul says telling the Corinthians I want you to go back to forgive that person and restore him back say I don't want him to be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow okay again we can see the heart of the Apostles even though they right to defend themsel yet
00:26:51 they have the heart to care for the people that that that they care most all right and I just want to bring attention to the last word he said that we would not uh to be outwitted by Satan for we are not ignorant of his design or his scheme what is Paul talking about why do we need to restore a brother who has fallen into sin okay number one okay Satan designed a Satan scheme okay before we sin we know that Satan tempts us to fall into sin and after we sin he accuses us right the Bible tell us that Satan is the
00:27:35 accuser of the brothers so why does Satan want to accuse us okay Satan is how they call it you know when when we fall into sin Satan will not leave it alone and suffer the consequences he will continue to accuse us it's just like you know you go to the boxing match and some when somebody fell down you don't do anything you allow the person to stand up but not Satan when the person fall down he'll continue to kick him why does Satan want to do that so that the person will never rise up again that's why the accusation is there
00:28:18 that's why Paul is writing to the Corinthians when a brother is Forgiven restore him back so that he will not suffer excessive sorrow and John is telling the same thing too okay that when we sin Satan will want to accuse us the reason he wants to accuse us is so that we will never get out from the sin and we become an effective Christian to God God cannot use us when Christians are defeated all right okay one example is found in uh the book of Zechariah a little bit of background uh the um uh the Israelite were Exile
00:29:02 into Babylon and now they came back to the land of Israel because God allowed them open the door for them to come back and the first thing they did was to restore the temple worship they build the temple to build the get in Jerusalem and then they also bring back the high priest okay in the old Covenant the role of the high priest is very important because they intercede between God and man so here we have this vision of Satan accusing the high priest of God okay the high priest of Joshua so again what is
00:29:35 Satan's goal is to discourage Joshua the high priest if Joshua the high priest is not able to perform his duty then they lost the intermediator between God and man so Satan Warn and the nation of Israel will not be able to restore their worship with God so what God did was God removed the filthy Garment of the high priest and restore him okay that's what God do God did for Joshua to restore him and this is exactly what um the Apostle John uh told us said if anyone does sin we have an advocate with the father Jesus
00:30:24 Christ the righteous okay the word advocate all right is a Greek word paracletos or literary paraclet okay it comes again from two word par alongside or Calo to call to call alongside this term was used four time in the Gospel of John referring to the Holy Spirit who come to our side to comfort us but here John is using it for Christ telling him that Christ is someone who will come alongside us to defend us when we fall into sin all right again he says that Christ is not Advocate but he's also the
00:31:07 righteous a just Advocate what does John mean by saying that Christ is a righteous Advocate how can God be righteous if you say he Victor I forgive your sin but to those to others say no I'm not going to forgive him so where is the balance is God righteous to declare me right and and not declare other people's right what does that mean right and John explained that in the next verse he said that Christ is the righteous Advocate because he is also the propitiation for our sin not only for ours but also for the sins of the
00:31:47 whole world the New Living Translation translated this way say he himself is the sacrifice that atone so the propriation talk about the sacrif I that Christ made to atone for our sin all right let's do a little bit of Bible study before we uh we close our our studies our message today um quick Bible study okay the justice of god require the death of The Sinner all right in the old Covenant all right God allowed okay the blood of animals to atone for the sins of the people all right so in Leviticus he said the life of the flesh
00:32:31 is in the body okay it is the blood when the blood is spilled it atone for the sin it covers it it uh for the sin it pays for the sin of the people and God instituted annual holidays for Israelite okay one of that holiday is the day of atonement or normally known as yon kipo okay during that day that solemn day all right right the high priest would go into the holy and holies and he sprinkle Bread on of the animal uh in the uh Mercy Seat in the most holy place and that atone you can find that in
00:33:13 Leviticus chapter 16 but the book of Hebrews give us that explanation as well all right it say in the first Covenant that's refer to the Covenant that God made with Israel okay talk about the Tabernacle that is has two section I know it's very worthy but I try to just explain it there are two section in the Tabernacle one we call it the holy place that's where the the uh the bread is the sh bread where the uh um uh what call it the the candle or the lampstand and also the uh the incense all right but that is
00:33:48 what we call the the holy place where the the priest would Minister and then there's another section called the most holy place in that most holy place is the Ark of the Covenant and on top of the AR of Covenant is a cover like a made of gold with the with the image of celebrate on top okay so what happened is that you know the the the the the first part of the the first section okay where the the lamb standand is where the bread is and where the the incent is the priest will go there and minister so you
00:34:21 can see here in in a verse six priest plural okay all the priest is able to go there to light up the candle and burn the incent is where they they perform their rituals but on the most holy place where the Ark of Covenant is where the mercy seed was only the high priest allowed to enter and he can only enter there once a year and it is during that day of atonement that the high priest were able to go there and he put put the blood animal blood on it and atone for the people's sin right and this is image
00:34:58 that I took from the ESB ESV Study Bible it's a bit fuzzy because I I enlarg it but here you can see the first section and the second section and the second section is where the Ark of the Covenant and the mercy seed of God is located and this is another image of that Ark of Covenant and The Mercy Seat okay the but the writer of Hebrew also tell us that every year the nation of Israel would do that but he say it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin so what happened when Christ came
00:35:38 see when Christ came he came as a high priest but Christ does not go into the temple or the Tabernacle that was built by the Israelite said but what Christ did was he went to a perfect tent that is not met with hands it is the the Heavenly tent all right and he entered there once for all into the holy places not by means of goats blood of goats and cows but by means of his own blood securing Eternal Redemption so basically God provide a means for the Israelite to atone the sin with the blood of animals but when
00:36:21 Christ came he did not go into that Temple rather he went to the Heavenly Temple again the writer explained Christ has to enter not into holy places made with hands but the copies of the true things what what the writer of Hebrews telling us is that what God the blueprint that God gave to Israel is actually a replica of what they have in Heaven All right so what happened is that when Christ died on the cross he does not spill his bread binkle his bread into the mercy seat at the temple or at the Tabernacle
00:36:58 but rather Christ sprinkled his blood at the mercy seat in the Heavenly places because Christ is perfect and his blood is pure and when he sprinkle he sprinkle in The Mercy Seat in the Heavenly places and because of that his atonement was perfect and he only had to do it once for all time to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself so Christ with one sacrifice satisfies God's demand for sin and Paul in John of Romans chapter 3 says the same thing all right he said that justified by Grace as a gift to the
00:37:44 Redemption that is Christ whom God put forward as a propitiation okay the word propitiation actually means Mercy Seat but the English translated as propitiation but literally it means Mercy Seat okay Christ blood was spilled in The Mercy Seat in the Heavenly places and it satisfied God's demand for sin for the payment of sin and this was show God righteousness because in his Divine forbearance he had passed over former sin it was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be the
00:38:22 just and justifier of one who have faith in Christ so what does all this means okay what does John is saying okay say when we sin we have an advocate someone will come alongside us and he is going to defend us how is he going to defend us he defend us because he's basically standing for justice I have paid for that person's sin you can no longer charge him okay in in in our common law we also have what we call the law of double jeopardy maybe the lawyer in our M can correct me you cannot charge and
00:39:01 punish the person for the same crime twice if I caught stealing I went to jail and I pay my fine when I come out of jail you cannot charge me for the same crime again I already paid for that all right so what John is saying is that Christ is the righteous Advocate because he has paid when I stand Before the Throne of God Jesus Will said he is not guilty I have paid for his sin and because I have paid I'm no longer required to pay it's the law of Double Jeopardy someone has PID and he PID in food and Christ died on the cross he
00:39:39 said it is finished it's all done okay so that's why Christ is just when he stand in the presence of God and defend us this is a promise that we have from God all right let me close with a conclusion as the worship team can come up all right nothing is this world is guaranteed okay nothing in this world is is is guaranteed but I can guarantee a few things all right number one we will all sin against God that's what the epistle John says don't deny it the Gnostic deny it people deny it but don't
00:40:22 deny it you will sin as long as you live in this flesh and bones you will commit sin and I can guarantee you the moment you step out of the church before you come back on Friday for for Friday's service you would have Commit many sins all right me included that's one guarantee second guarantee we will all stand Before the Throne of God one day okay that is something I can guarantee you one day every one of us you got to stand in front of God Okay the third guarantee Satan will be there and he will accuse us of our sin all right
00:41:08 so you have Alternatives all right who is Christ to you will he defend you or do you have to defend yourself okay that is the question that you have answer but you can find the answer today okay if you believe in the Bible if you agree with God that you are sinner you have to confess your sin before God you have to agree with God and you have to agree that Christ indeed has paid for your sin and you just do that Christ promis that he will forgive us of our sin he is faithful and he is just and he
00:41:54 will forgive us of all our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness and not only that he will defend us on the day we stood in the presence of God before his throne and that is the promise given to us as Christian uh Paul wrote this to us said therefore there's no no condemnation for those who are in Christ why is there no condemnation because Christ had took our judgment and he suffer the condemnation on our behalf and how about Satan accusation Paul says who shall bring any charge against God elect it is God who
00:42:35 Justified who is to condemn Christ Jesus is the one who died more than that he was raised he was at the he is at the right hand of God who is indeed interceding for us even today Christ is at the right hand of God every day we sin Christ is defending us Christ is interceding to us and this is the promise that God gave to us and the only requirement is we agree with God that we are Sinner and we need him right thank you thank you Victor thank you for the lovely message can we all arise to [Music]
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00:45:45 and my god with Christ my savior and my God one with him shall I cannot die my soul is purchased with his blood my life is HD when Christ on high with Christ my savior and my god with Christ my savior and my [Music] God we continue our service with the um the Lord's supper and I hope you all have your element but let's not open it right now let's do that together so it w't be a too distracting to everyone uh in FBC I believe you practice the Open Table meaning that if you have met the a public confession of your faith and your
00:46:44 trust Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior uh you're welcome uh to join us as we speak about this morning Christ is our Advocate and Christ want us to come clean without sin so before we partake and uh of this Holy Communion let us um spend some time and and uh confess our sin so can I have my slide back please all right I took this from the uh the common book of prayer so let us pray this prayer together before we partake okay let's read together most merciful god we confess that we have sinned
00:47:26 against you in thought word and deed by what we have done and by what we have left undone we have not L you with all our heart we have not loved our neighbors as ourself we are truly sorry and humbly repent for the sake of your son Jesus Christ have mercy on us and forgive us that we may Delight in your will and walk in your ways to the glory of your name amen please be seated all right Jesus knew his time his hour has come and hours before he was to be crucified he spent that evening with his disciples all right and he instituted
00:48:20 what we call the Lord's Supper okay so let let's let's open up the uh the break together right hours before Jesus went to the Cross he knew knew that he's going to uh suffer he knows that he's going to be beaten he knows that he's going to be weeped his body will be broken all right he knew it that's why on that night he instituted this L supper we call it all right what Jesus Is Telling is that you know I'm going through this suffering because I'm doing it for you you and I deserve what Jesus had gone
00:49:32 through but we did not do not have to go to it because Christ has done it for us he suffer physical pain that we deserve but he went through it that's why he instituted this thought supp so that we will do it to remind ourself what Christ has done for us so let us take this bread together get Jesus said take itat this is my body do this in remembrance of me let's take this together and the SCP say he took a cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them saying drink of it all of you this is my blood of the Covenant which
00:50:29 is pour out for many for the godness forgiveness of sin and what Jesus did was when he died on the cross he shed his blood like we said like the text in Hebrew says Christ did not shed his blood on the cross only on in Calvary but rather he sprinkled his blood in the Holy place in the Heavenly places and satisfy God's demand for sin and Jesus said this is the blood that I shed for you to satisfi God's demand for sin I did it for you so when we do it we do it in remembrance of what Christ has done for
00:51:10 us so let us drink and give thanks to God let's pray together our gracious father we thank you Lord for your love to us and we thank you Lord that you sent your your son Jesus Christ your perfect son who come in the flesh so live a perfect life and die on the cross that he did not deserve he paid the price for all our sin and today we Rejoice father because he's sitting at your right hand and he's he interceding for us and we look forward for the day that he will stand and he would defend us and for that
00:52:02 father We Are Forever grateful so we thankful Lord for your grace and your love to us in Jesus Christ's name we pray amen uh before we uh close for the B benediction let us all stand all right and today if you feel that you are overwhelmed with sin and you feel defeated and you like to speak to any of the elders please step forward after after the uh service we would like to speak to you and if you make a new commitment to uh to trust Christ we like to speak to you as well so so please do that after the service so let us stand
00:52:37 for the benediction this morning all right it's taken from Jude 24th to 25 okay my slides okay and now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless Christ is able to do that because he's our Advocate and our propitiation to present us to in of his glory with great joy the only God our savior through Jesus Christ Our Lord be glory and Majesty dominion and Authority before all time and now and forever amen okay you may be seated
