¶ Living in Truth
hello , hello and welcome back to learning to live in truth . We are so glad to be back with you one more time . Amen , one more day . Hallelujah . The lord didn't have to give it to us , but he did . Amen , I hope you said thank you this morning . Amen , I hope that you said thank you , hallelujah . Hope you didn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed .
Y''all know what I mean . You know how we do sometimes , complaining and griping this hurt , that hurt . This ain't right , that ain't right . Blah , blah , blah , blah , blah , blah . Look , I challenge you today , just say thank you , amen when you wake up . If you didn't do it today , start tomorrow another way .
Just say thank you , father , thank you Dad , thank you Pop , thank you for waking me up another day , hallelujah , because somebody didn't get to wake up today . Amen , and you did , hallelujah , so let's keep that in mind .
Amen , when them eyelids open up , amen , despite how you feel , despite the conditions and circumstances , just say thank youelujah , start , choose to start your day off in a way that gives honor and reverence to god and watch how the rest of your day turns out . You heard me come on somebody . Hallelujah , amen , y'all ready to pray ? I'm ready to pray amen .
So let's go . Father , we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy . Thank you , god , for allowing us this day , in this time , to get into your word . I pray , god , that you would speak now in such a way that not one of us can miss it .
I pray that everybody's mind and heart is on you , ready to receive what it is that you have to say , father , for we turn it over to you . That'll have your way . We thank you now , god , and we pray it in the precious name of jesus christ . We do pray , amen , amen and amen , hallelujah . All right , y'all .
So we left off at verse 12 of first john , chapter 2 amen . If you haven't had an opportunity to listen to the others , you just kind of this is the last episode that was , y'all , excuse me , the last episode that has been published . Amen , I dare you to stop .
Go back uh monday's , monday's um episode where we begin uh , first john , chapter two , amen , uh , so that you can get the fullness of of what the lord has given all of us . Amen , hallelujah . And if this is your first time tuning in to learning to live in truth , amen . You can go back to last , to first john , chapter one .
You can start there because I got everything labeled amen . Or you can even go to facebook live learning to live in truth , amen . And you can check out some of those . Those are where I'm actually there . You can see me , see what I look like and all of that amen .
You'll see some with my husband on there and you know how we just you know our whole goal is to please the Lord , amen , and to be a help to you . Amen . At the end of 1 John , chapter 2 . Amen , and we talked a lot last yesterday about walking in the light . Amen , walking in and as the light . Amen , because Jesus is Amen .
This is what our Father does and this is what we ought to be doing , amen . So that's why we left off and we're going to pick up here . At verse 12 he said I write unto you , little children , because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake , amen . John says you know I'm writing to you because you've been forgiven , hallelujah .
Why do we live in such a way that says that we are not Amen ? We walk around with this posture that says I've been condemned , I'm ashamed of who I am and all of these things that are not in Christ , but of the enemy . Amen , you've been delivered from that . This is why he died . Amen , he died so we can live . Amen , you've been delivered from that .
This is why he died . Amen , he died so we can live . Amen . Live not just exist , but live in freedom . Hallelujah , amen . You have to know you've been forgiven , because to believe that he died , that he lived , he died and resurrected , it's to know that you've been forgiven , amen .
I know it's hard to grasp , because you know , because we are in this flesh , we are wrapped up in this flesh , but he forgave one time for all , amen . Yeah , we make mistakes along the way , so we go home to be with him , but he's then died . One man's obedience saved the whole world , amen .
Same as one man's disobedience caused sin among the whole wide world , amen . But the father had a remedy for that and that was his son . Amen , amen to God . Be the glory Jesus , hallelujah . In my spirit I'm just grateful , so grateful , amen .
Because I realized just in this moment , it's just heavy on me that you know , it is grace that we sit , we stand , we walk , that grace has kept us , grace has saved us from ourselves . We did not choose him , he chose us first , amen . Come on somebody , hallelujah , amen . We're going to get personal . We're going to get personal with the lord , amen .
We have to amen if we're gonna stay relational . Amen . I was just telling , uh , a friend of mine the other day , you know , because a friend of mine , another friend of mine , gave me , uh , a word at a , at a , when I had hit a dark , a dark , I would say , a stumbling stone in my spirit . Amen , well , you know when you're dealing with people .
But she said to me , she said be authentic with everyone , um , vulnerable with a few , and transparent with one amen . She said somebody else gave her that , hallelujah , but those three words are powerful . Amen , because authenticity is about being real . Amen .
Vulnerability is about being , um , being , let's just say , half-dressed , amen , being half-dressed , uh , with people that you know are for you and not against you , amen . And then that last one , transparency . It's about being totally naked before God . Amen , I call that purity , amen , just being , you know , all the way there with him and literally being his bride .
Amen , hallelujah . And this is where I mean , you know , it's not that hard , but it is a profound thing to understand the dynamics of all three . Hallelujah , amen . But you know , for the weight , for the weightiness of this conversation , amen . I'm coming on to the word amen . I wonder sometimes , lord , where are you taking me ?
Hallelujah , amen , where is you taking me ? But it is what it is , amen , hallelujah . We never apologize for who we are , amen . Some folk are deep , but then you got . Some people are just hilarious . I say I'm a little mix of all . Hallelujah , amen , but it is again what it is . Let's come on to the word Amen . So he says verse 13, .
I write unto you , fathers , because ye have known him . That is from the beginning . Amen . This is about identity . Amen . He said I write . He says I write unto you , fathers , because ye have known him . That is from the beginning . I write unto you , young men , because ye have overcome the wicked one .
I write unto you , little children , because ye have known the father . Amen . This whole verse is about identity . Amen . This is in so many ways he's using the man , servant John , to say look , this is your God ordained identity from the very beginning . Hallelujah . Some would say well , what about the woman ? Well , the woman came out of Adam .
The woman came out of man , amen . I'm talking about the male perspective and the female . Adam and Eve . Eve came , was birthed out of Adam . So when God talks about man , he's talking about male and female . He says I'm writing this to the male , to the men Look , I have ordained you to lead from the beginning .
Amen , young men , I've ordained you to have power over Satan . Amen , you're going to fall , but I've given you the authority to get up . Amen , you get up . Because of what Jesus did on the cross . Amen , hallelujah , little children , he said . I write this amen because , look , before I was a man , I was a child . Amen , hallelujah .
Amen , no child goes to hell . Amen , before he's able to be able to discern what is right or wrong , they have been ordained to the father to heaven . Amen , hallelujah . So this is how I can pick up that look , there is something inside of each and every one of us that knows the father , that knows that god is real .
Amen , regardless of of whether we can feel him or see him or whatever , have you , we know that there is something , there is someone bigger than us . Amen , a lot of people .
They like to give credit to mother nature and they like to say the universe , and they say this and they say that , at the end of the day , we all have an innate understanding that there is a father amen hall and a whole lot of folks say God Amen . But look , it's deeper than God Amen . There is the son , which is Jesus Amen .
Some don't want to acknowledge Jesus but hey , at the end of the day they have to go before him . Every last one of us have to go before our father Amen To go to our eternal home . Hallelujahelujah . So you don't have to acknowledge jesus , you can acknowledge buddha and allah and all of these people .
But at the end of the day , again , the word of god says every knee will bow and every tongue will confess amen , everyone , amen . So I don't have to worry about convicting you , finding , finding you guilty or anything like that , because every last one of us , according to the word of God , is going before him . Amen . Y'all better talk about it today .
Yeah , hallelujah . I'm going on with the scripture though y'all . He says I have written unto you . We're in verse 14 . I've written unto you , fathers , he says , because ye have known him . There is from the beginning .
I have written unto you , young man , he said , because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye have overcome the wicked one . Again , identity , identity , identity . It's screaming out loud Amen . He knows your weaknesses , he knows all of our weaknesses , but he also knows our strengths . Amen . He did not make you by accident .
He made you on purpose , for a purpose . Hallelujah , amen , when we look at the text he's speaking to , to the men . But again , the woman was birthed out of the man , amen .
And so when you see this , you can equate this to males and female , because he said I made male and female in my image and after my likeness , female being my image and after my likeness . Hallelujah , he's done that . Amen . So the whole fight you know , about men and women and who's stronger , and all of that , amen . Come on somebody .
Jesus , let's stop fighting . Amen , majoring on the minor and not focusing on what matters and not focusing on what matters . Our identity is in the father . Amen , he says , and we know him . Come on somebody . He said love , not the world , neither the things that are in the world . Amen . This is why we got to stop fighting .
Amen , because he says the things in this world and things that are so controversial . He said those things don't even matter . Amen , because he says the things in this world and things that are so controversial . He said those things don't even matter . Amen , he says . If any man loved the world , the love of the father is not in him .
See , it's a whole lot of fighting . But why are you fighting ? Amen , hallelujah , what is the point ? If it doesn't go back to Jesus , then you're fighting among yourself to prove something to the world . I'm telling you Hallelujah .
I don't know at all , but what I know is if it doesn't point to the cross , if it doesn't point to Jesus , then it's about you and that is the reality . Amen , this is what people don't want to say . Amen , at the end of the day , if you're fighting and it's not pointing back to Jesus , then what are you fighting for ?
And it definitely has something to do with you and the world if it's not pointing back to Jesus . As a born-again believer , everything that you do , it ought to point back to Jesus . Hallelujah , even when we fail , when we fall , when we make mistakes , we understand that all things are working for our good .
And so when we give our testimonies and our message about the messiness of our lives and the test and the trials and tribulations , it always , again , it points back to the cross , it points back to Jesus . Always , hallelujah .
I'm going to stop right there and I leave you with this thought it is what I'm saying and what I'm doing , pointing back to the cross . If you're taking notes , if you happen to be sitting at a table or something , you're taking notes , just write that down is what I'm doing . Pointing back , not just doing , but saying Is it pointing back to the cross ?
Huh , the cross is Jesus . Come on somebody . Hallelujah , amen . And I'm writing mine down right here as I'm recording Amen , because it's so , so important For us to take things that that can literally change our life , change our perspective , change our direction . Take it seriously Amen Is what I'm doing , slash saying Pointing back to the cross the cross is Jesus .
Hmm , come on , somebody , talk to me . Hallelujah . Pointing back to the cross the cross is Jesus . Hmm , come on somebody , talk to me . Hallelujah . You might not be able to talk to me , talk to yourself . You heard me . Amen , y'all , let's go ahead . Let's pray , father . We thank you so much again for your grace and your mercy .
Thank you , god , for allowing us this time to get into your word , be able to hear your voice . Have your way here , father . Have your way , god . I pray , lord , that you would speak so clear , so loudly , that not one of us can miss it . Father , we love you so very much here , as your sons and your daughters .
We pray that we could do the things that are pleasing and acceptable in your sight . Father , we thank you again and we love you . We pray for that oneness and pray for me Touch in such a way that they cannot miss you . We thank you , god , again , and we love you In Jesus Christ's name . We do pray , amen , amen and amen , hallelujah .
¶ Stay Encouraged for Next Episode
I pray that everyone was encouraged here today . Amen , I pray that everyone was encouraged here today . Amen , I pray that you were encouraged , hallelujah , and I hope that you will come back on . Let's see so . Monday , tuesday , wednesday we are on Thursday . It's the next episode , so I hope you'll come back here on Thursday , the following day .
Yeah , thursday , amen , to hear this , the coming word where we're going to be picking up at verse . Let's see verse 16 . Amen , verse 16 . Yeah , I don't think I finished verse 15 . Amen , so what I'll do is I'll go back Amen , I'll go back to 15 . And we'll pick up right there on tomorrow . Amen , verse 15 .
To really dig dig deep , I think I did half a verse Amen , and we got to complete the verse . Yeah , amen , hallelujah . So again , I love y'all and I appreciate your presence and I hope you'll come back with me on tomorrow . So much love , so many blessings from me to you . Y'all have a great day , great night , amen . I love you again in Jesus name . Amen .
Y'all have a good one .