#142 LTLT S5 EP 16: Living in Truth Sin Breaks the Law: Reflecting on 1 John 3:4-7

Hallelujah , all right , y'all , y'all ready ? I am ready . Let's go ahead and pray before we get into the word of god . Father , god , we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy . Thank you , god , for allowing us this day . Thank you for allowing us the opportunity To be able to get into your word .

I pray , god , that you would open up our eyes , that we might be able to see . Open up our ears that we can hear what it is that you have to say to us on today . I pray that each and every one of us Would get our revelation . I pray that we would get the understanding that we need , that we might be able to apply it .

Yeah , father , I just pray that on this day , this day will be a day that we would always remember . I just give you all the glory and we give you all the praise you all the glory and we give you all the praise . Uh , we pray this prayer in the mighty name of jesus christ . We do pray , amen , amen and amen , hallelujah .

All right , y'all hope y'all are ready , because I am ready to get into the word . Just to mention the music in the background Amen . The relaxed movement . The relaxed movement On YouTube . You can subscribe to their channel . This is copyright free music that you can play while you're meditating and studying and doing exactly what I'm doing .

Hallelujah , know that you cannot use it to make some money . You heard me Hallelujah , you can't use it to make no money . You heard me hallelujah , you can't use it to make no money . So take that with a grain of salt . Again , the relax movement on youtube . Amen , amen . All right , y'all let's get into it . We left off with first john , chapter three .

First john chapter three . If you're home sitting , make sure you grab your bibles , grab your journal , grab you some paper , take your notes . Amen . If you're just riding along in your car , just be intentional about what you're listening to . Hallelujah , um , this , this chapter starts off .

Just , it really dives into you know , making sure that you know who your father is . Don't allow yourself to get mixed up in all kinds of stuff . Amen , because people will tell you have a whole lot of the right words , but actions oftentimes do not follow . Amen . So John lets us know and he tells us . He says to us don't let nobody deceive you .

Amen , do not let the antichrist deceive you . Come on somebody . Hallelujah , because in chapter two we were talking about , he was making us aware beware of the antichrist . Uh , abiding in christ , amen . And now here we're in this chapter . We already started verses one through three , so you can go go back for Thursday's episode , which was number 15 .

Number 15 , which would be number 141 , in regard to exactly where in the show that it is at , it is episode number 141 . Um , season 5 , episode 15 . No , I'm sorry , 15 , 14 , y'all . Excuse me , get my words all mixed up , lol . All right , y'all . Come on . We in verse 4 . Verse 4 it says Whosoever committed sin transgresseth also the law .

It says , for sin is the transgression of the law . Okay , now let's just go real slow . I want everybody who don't know , if you don't know , if you're reading King James Version and you're like , why do I always see that T-H ? T-h symbolizes I-N-G In our regular ABC learning ?

Yeah , t-h is actually I-N-G , so it makes the word progressive and makes it never ending . So if you change that T H to I N G , so that would say whosoever commits sin , transgresses , or whomever committing sin , transgressing also the law , for sin is the transgression of the law . So sin is when you break the law .

So he says whomever commits sin , you break the law . Yeah , so well , what is the law ? The law is , uh , quote , unquote . You could say the rules you abide by . Yeah , he says as long as you sin , if you're sinning , then you break the law . Yeah , so , um , this goes to everybody and anybody .

Yeah , um , especially , I just hear real loudly in my spirit about legalism , because you have people who will throw the bible at you and say , well , you're not supposed to do this , you're not supposed to do that . The bible says this and the bible says that's now , that is true , the bible does say this and the bible does say that .

But just as uh , jesus confronted the pharisees I believe it was in the book of John he said to them you know , while you make accusations toward me , he says you are breaking the law yourself because you're making the accusation toward me . The reality is this the same ditch that somebody else might dig for you or put you in .

They have already dug it for themselves . I mean , yeah , uh , at the end of the day , while people are throwing the bible at you and throwing , you know what you're supposed to do .

What you're supposed to do , that , the thing that they're not supposed to be doing , they they're doing yeah , because when you decided , okay , well , this is a law and it says this and this is what's going to happen , you decided that I'm guilty . You decided that you make the standard True .

Enough , it might be in the Bible , but it's not up for us to decide whether somebody is going to heaven or hell . At the end of the day , our responsibility is to love our brothers and our sisters in Christ . It is not up to us to decide whether they're guilty or not . Guilty , yeah , at the end of the day .

And so therefore , you know , just because somebody knows or can tell you exactly what the Bible says , and can recite the Bible and do this , that and the other doesn't make them right or justified in condemning you .

Yeah , this is why you got to make sure that you stay close to Jesus , because there's a whole lot of things , a whole lot of things that people say and do that looks right , but in the sight of God it's not right and they don't have the right to do it . Everybody sin and everybody falls short of the mercies of God .

And here he says to us that anybody who commits sin breaks the law . He says verse 5 , and you know that he was manifested to take away our sins , and in him is no sin . So he says because we all sin or have sin some point in our life , he says this is why he came . He came to take away our sins . Jesus came for that reason .

So there is no perfect person in this world . And those who walk around not identifying with Jesus and don't want to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior here's the thing . He's the only one that can take away the sin . Amen . He is the only one that can take away the sin . Amen , he is the only one that can take it away .

Clearly he says and ye know that he was manifested To take away our sins . This is why he came . So if you have and had no sin , then why did he have to come to you ? Because we all know that Jesus is personal , amen , he's a personal God .

So , therefore , when he comes to you , knocking at the doors of your heart , that lets us know look , you have sin in your life and I want to help you . I want to deliver you from it . Yeah , why else would Jesus come to you ? Not just coming to you just to come to you because , oh , I just picked you and I want to .

He came to each one of us because we had sin in our life , and the thing about it is you got to understand is that sin separates us from God , and Jesus comes as the propitiation , which means the intercessor and the interceded .

He comes on behalf of us so that we could still make it to heaven , because as long as you have sin in your life and in your heart , it keeps a wall between you and him , but we have such a loving God he looks even beyond that wall while we're here on the earth , and it was up to you to accept him as the substitute for your sin , because when Jesus ,

or when God , looks at us , all he sees is his son , hallelujah . He doesn't see our flaws . He doesn't see the things that we do wrong . I'm talking about those of us who have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior , jesus Christ . He doesn't see the things that we do wrong .

All he sees is what Jesus did on the cross for you and me Amen , hallelujah , jesus . He swallowed up the sin . Well , any sin that you committed in the past , any sin that you committed right now , today , any sin that you will commit in the future , jesus already swallowed it all up and he took it all to hell . Amen .

And when he came back out of the belly of hell , he came back bringing forth a new life . Amen . So you have permission to live a life in Jesus . It's only by Jesus , amen . Jesus covers all . Hallelujah , he gets rid of all . And here's the beauty of Jesus is that when you come into Jesus , you don't intentionally go back to who you were .

You might have some stumbling stones in your life that make you fall back , but those stumbling stones Jesus uses as purification for you to sanctify you . Come on , somebody , talk to me , hallelujah . I hope that that makes sense . He says whosoever .

This is verse 6 . He says whosoever abideth in him , sinneth , not amen . You don't run around going around intentionally sending , sending , because , hey , I got jesus so I can do what I want to . You don't do that . You don't even take on the attitude because you're grateful for what Jesus did on the cross for you .

He says whosoever sinneth have not seen him , neither known him . He says look , if you look , the proof of the pudding that you've received Jesus is that you don't go out there and intentionally , intentionally sin . You don't go out there and just do it because you can . Yeah , amen .

But at the same time , we serve such a loving God that he allows us to live . Amen , hallelujah , understanding that grace covers our imperfections . Hallelujah , amen , don't . Here's the thing . Here's the thing , and it's really really big , because the reality is there are people out there who manipulate the scriptures .

They say , oh well , the Bible says this and the Bible says that , that I can go out here and do what I want to do and cover and be covered by grace . That is true , but here's the thing .

The thing is , when you go rewind , when you go back and look at uh , verse , verse three , he says and every man that have his , this hope in him , purify of himself , even as he is pure purity is about your heart . It is nothing but your heart .

Now , again , we do go out there and we sin , yeah , and the thing about it is is that the heart is what matters most . Yes , the heart . Because I'm telling you , as a child of God , we understand , you understand that the things that I do , things I don't do , some things I do , it hurts Jesus and we don't want to do that .

We understand all that he suffered on the cross for us . So we don't run around just doing it because we can yeah , we don't . We don't just doing it because we can yeah , we don't . We don't just do it because we can . Yeah , and you know , here's the thing too . You got to know that the desires of your heart , they come from him .

Yeah , amen , not to be abused . And I'll use , I'll just use . I'll use alcohol , for one example , and even marijuana , for example . Okay , I'm not sitting there saying , oh , you should go out there and get high , and you should go out there and get drunk because you know grace is gonna keep you . But the bible does say be not drunk .

And marijuana , used in the right way , can heal and not necessarily harm . Because there are people out here in this world who smoke marijuana . Um , they get high , but it keeps their mind relaxed , keeps their body relaxed so that it does not respond to its nature .

There's a young lady that I know watched her all her life grow up with having seizures , having seizures , and medically they have given her uh , they've prescribed her marijuana to ease the pressure off of her brain , to keep her from having seizures . So you know , the religious nut might say , oh well , you smoking marijuana , you're going to hell .

But no , you got to know that God created everything for purpose and on purpose . It's just , people abuse the blessings of God . Same thing with alcohol , alcohol or a glass of wine every day . They say one glass of alcohol or wine every day . It said it makes you , it keeps your blood flowing properly .

Now again , people abuse the privilege , people abuse the blessing . Yeah , what is wrong with a social drink ? Because he says , clearly , be not drunk . What is wrong with that ? Nothing's wrong with it . Do not abuse the blessings of God . Hallelujah , hallelujah , amen . Look , look , look , look , look . I'm telling you religion will mess you up .

Religion will mess you up if you're not in Him . Jesus allows us to live . You hear me , there are boundaries that he gives us individually , individually . So my boundaries that he's placed on my life ain't necessarily yours . I teach this all the time . It ain't necessarily yours . And the boundaries that are around you are not necessarily mine .

Religion will make will create stumbling stones for the mass . Jesus doesn't do that . He wants us to come to him personally . He wants to be intimate with us , and so , therefore , we get to know him . He already knows us , but we get to know him and we get to know his heart .

And when we get to know his heart and we look at our own life , the scripture clearly says again verse 3 says and every man that hath this hope which is the hope is in verse 2 he says we shall be like him , for we shall see him as he is . And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself , even as he is pure . Hallelujah , jesus is pure .

And so Jesus knows how to filter out all of the muck and the mire in our lives . He knows how to filter out the things that are not good for us . He knows how to prune out the things that are dead in us . Hallelujah , amen . So , at the end of the day , folks that are analyzing your life have to step back , because God knows what is happening in you .

Hallelujah . He said little children , let no man deceive you . He that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous . Yeah , I got to stop right here for the time's sake .

Amen , and pick up in verse 8 on tomorrow , but I hope that you hear this , I hope that you receive this word on today Amen , look , at the end of the day , no man has the right to sit back and place his judgment on you . No man , I don't care how right they might be , how wrong they might be .

There is only but one one , just god , in this earth , in this world , yeah , one , yeah , hallelujah . And he shapes us in the manner that he desires . Hallelujah , amen . Let no man deceive you . Amen , let no man deceive you . If he's righteous , the things that he does is going to be righteous . His words are going to be that of righteousness .

Don't let him fool you . Amen , it is what it is . Hallelujah , amen . Those that are not hey , god's going to deal with all of us , each , every , each and every one of us in the way that he desires . Amen , but just do not , do not , do not , do not , let anyone deceive you . Amen , all right , hallelujah , let's pray .

Father , we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy . Thank you for allowing us this time to be able to be in your word . I thank you so much for your grace and your mercy . Thank you for allowing us this time to be able to be in your word . I thank you , god , for using your servant .

Pray , god . Everyone that is here , everyone that stayed for their entirety , uh , has been blessed by what they've heard . I pray , god , that you will continue to draw us to you , continue to bring us understanding of your truth , continue to shape us and make us for this journey that we are on . We love you so much . It's so very grateful , so thankful .

We also pray for that one that said pray for me . I pray , god , that you would intercede on the behalf , god , of of those who are crying out to you and don't necessarily know you . I pray , god , that you would draw all unto you , that they would know that your son died on the cross for them , that they might live .

Father , we love you again and we pray that this prayer and all of our prayers Are pleasing in your sight . In Jesus Christ name , we do pray Amen , amen , amen and amen , hallelujah . You're going to be listening to this episode here on Labor Day and I pray that this day you would relax , amen , and receive the joys that all rest in God .

Amen , as this Labor Day is a day for those who work to really just be at peace and relax . Amen , although there are some that are still working , amen On this holiday . Either way , whether you're working or not , receive the blessings of the Lord on today , amen , it ain't got to be so bad . Amen In Jesus is rest , amen , whether you're working or not .

Rest in him . Hallelujah , make sure that you join me on tomorrow to pick up in this first John , chapter three , verse eight , hallelujah . I love you so much . So much love and blessings from me to you . Y'all have a great , blessed day , blessed night , amen , amen .