Sept. 23, 2024

Evening Confession

Evening Confession

Ending a depressing and discouraging day with a time of confession.

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Ending a depressing and discouraging day with a time of confession.

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. This is where

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I would say good evening everyone, but I am removing

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the word good from my vocabulary. I think there was

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a broadcast of what the other day where I wouldn't

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say good morning, I would just say morning. Well. I

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don't want to say good evening. I just want to

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say it is well. It is Sunday, September the twenty second,

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twenty twenty four, it is currently nine forty eight pm

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Central time, and I'm coming to you live from the

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Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. How

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are you doing? How was your day?

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How is church?

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Have you had any conversations today about things going on

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in the Christian world? Did you hear any discussion about

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certain things going on in the Christian world? Did you

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have any discussions or hear any thoughts or words or

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things said about a very specific individual who has been

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removed from ministry because of sin? Have you heard about

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that today? In some ways, if you heard no discussion

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about it, if no one mentioned it, maybe in some

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ways that is is that a well? I don't want

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to use the word good. That's a thing it Maybe

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it was a positive I don't know, or maybe it's

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actually a negative. If you didn't hear anything about it,

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if no one is talking about it, if no one

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is mentioning it, is that a good thing or is

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that a bad thing? I'm very conflicted. I just know this.

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This entire day has been one of I just feel depressed.

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I just feel discouraged.

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I just feel.

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I I don't want to be hyperbolic, but there's just

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a point. I just feel like I just want to

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give up. And maybe I just want to give up

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because maybe it says more about me than it does

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anything else.

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I don't know. But if you.

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Listen to my messages this morning, Sunday School and Sunday Morning, right,

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we talked about sin and lordship salvation for Sunday School,

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we talked about Romans chapter two, verse one that therefore

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for the morning worship, And if you listen to all

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of that, you know that there was one major thing

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that was impacting everything I said, and that is well

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the recent development of a very famous pastor being removed

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from ministry. Most are saying he is now permanently disqualified.

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His ministry is forever over because of a specific sin. Now,

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it's kind of interesting since the sin has not really

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been outlined. Since the sin has not been really defined,

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I think everyone is just assuming what the sin is,

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and then everyone is pronouncing their judgment. And as I've

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read all the comments and I have kept up with

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how this is being talked about, I'm just going to

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tell you I've become more and more discouraged and more

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and more depressed. Because basically, you can put the category,

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you can put the comments into a couple of categories,

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and the two main categories is, well, this proves the

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man was never saved. This proved this man committed a sin.

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He was never saved. He's not of the he's not

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one of the real you know, of the regenerate people

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of God. He's he's not saved. And that has just

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been so heartbreaking to see. But the other one is

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even more convoluted and complicated because I saw numerous comments, Well,

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if he would have just asked God for help, if

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he would have just trusted God, God is there to

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give us strength to say no to temptation, and God

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is there to keep us from sin. Well, if God

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is there to keep us from sin, well, then no

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one should sin. So it's it's either the man wasn't

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saved or the man was saved, but he just did

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not turn to God because God will keep us from

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sin as if we can be perfect, which both both

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and and then and then the comments go away all

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over the place. So it's just been sad. Now I'm

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still not going to mention the man's name because I

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have no desire to do that. I just I just

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don't see the value in that, right, because how I

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want to.

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In some ways I could.

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I could mention the name now because it's everywhere right, right,

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So maybe I'm just doing it just for a maybe

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maybe to try to demonstrate something. Maybe I'm trying to

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teach a lesson. Maybe what I'm trying to demonstrate is, yes,

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everyone's talking about it, but just throwing more things upon

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it is not of any value.

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What I'm trying to do.

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Is like, here's the situation. You know about it, I

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know about it. We don't need to dig into all

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of the particulars. What we need to do is what

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can we learn from it? What can we learn about?

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What can we learn? What benefit can we gain from it?

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Because in the reality is it's not about us. It's

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about that individual and all the pain that arises from sin. Look,

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sin always brings pain and destruction. It always does, it

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always does, right, Sin always brings pain and destruction. And

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so right now there's people hurting. Right now, there's people suffering,

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and that's just that's not good, like that should bother us.

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It's like when you read the comments, some people will

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mention some of the suffering, but then they want to

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pick some Well, this person is probably suffering more than

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this person, and it's like everyone's taking side, everyone has,

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you know, they're the you know, they stand on the

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moral high ground.

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They're condemning, and it's just so ugly. It's just all

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it's just it's disgusting.

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It's ugly, and I just want us to find a

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way to take something from this. So I tried to

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talk about it a lot this morning, again from a

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theological perspective, and really challenged us and challenged us. Now

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I did see and you may have a different opinion

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about this. The person who has been removed from ministry,

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he was scheduled to be speaking at a conference. He

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was supposed to be the first speaker at the conference.

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This conference who was being held by, well, the seminary

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that this man was very much connected to and a

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part of, and I think he teaches at or I

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can't remember his specific role, but he's definitely he was

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listed as part of the you know, a part of

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the staff for this particular seminary, right, okay, And so

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so he's very much there. So the people there, the

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people hosting the conference. It's the seminary who's hosting the conference,

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so they all know who this man is.

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This man was scheduled to be there.

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All the people who were there know knows who the

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man was because they were showing up at a conference

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where he was going to be the first speaker. So

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everyone knew exactly what was going on. And so I

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watched their opening statement, and I was somewhat baffled and saddened.

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One they did not mention the man's name. They said, Hey,

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the man who was supposed to speak, right, that man

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has been permanently disqualified from ministry because of sin.

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They wouldn't say his name, which was.

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Kind of bizarre, Like everyone there knows. I mean, like

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when I'm speaking on the microphone, there's people who don't

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have a clue who I'm talking about. So there's no

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point in mentioning the name. But there everyone knew that.

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Everyone knows. Everyone knows, and they just they wouldn't even mention.

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They wouldn't say, our brother, our brother in Christ has fallen,

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our brother in Christ has hurt his family. His family

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is hurting his his I don't know his entire family structure.

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But they didn't even mention. They didn't meant no. They

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just said, he is permanently disqualified and he has basically

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disgraced the name of Christ.

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So they wanted to immediately.

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Establish his disqualification.

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That's what they wanted to establish.

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He's disqualified and he's disgraced the name of They did

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not mention his name. And then immediately after this announcement,

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they pray and they did not even pray for him.

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They didn't pray for his family, they didn't pray for him.

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It was if the man no longer exists. He's just

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the man who's disqualified, and he's the man who disgraced.

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He's not a brother who's fallen.

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He's not someone we're going We're gonna do everything in

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our power to show love, mercy, grace, to bring about restoration.

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There was no speaking of restoration.

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No, no, he's just the man who.

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Is permanently disqualified and who disgraced basically the name of Christ.

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And what we need today is men who are not

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like that, men who will be faithful. Basically was the message.

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Don't be like him, the man with whom we will

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not say.

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And it was so weird to watch. I was like,

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even in your.

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Prayer, you can't pray for him, you can't pray for

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his family, you can't pray for the people who are

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specifically hurt the other person involved in the sin.

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No, we're no, no.

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And I was just kind of like even theer I

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was watching a YouTube video. They were showing the opening

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segment of the conference, and then someone was reviewing it,

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and even the person reviewing it was kind of like that,

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don't mention his name, they don't even pray for him.

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Even they were kind of like it was kind of cold.

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It was kind of.

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There was no grace, there was no mercy, there was

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no love, there was no compassion.

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It was almost like, don't be like him. The end,

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you be different.

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When someone is broken and fallen. Now, I don't know,

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maybe the man's not broken. Maybe the man but I mean, Mike,

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from my understanding, he's the one who acknowledged it. He's

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the one who came forward. So then that would seem

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to admit that he acknowledges it sin And I'm assuming

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there's some brokenness over it. I don't know, but it

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was just weird. If you're going to mention it. There

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was no like, let's pray for everyone involved. You don't

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have to just pray for one, pray for everyone involved.

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And if you don't want to pray for anyone, I mean,

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I don't know.

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It was just so. It just made me so sad. Look,

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I've always been.

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There's two there's.

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I have to be honest.

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Right. On one hand, I could I could think that

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the way I think about this kind of situation or

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any other situation is because I'm just aware of my

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own failure, my own sin, my own unworthiness, my own

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like I'm so aware of my own Maybe that maybe

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that shades my perspective, right, Maybe that impacts my perspective.

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Maybe that somehow, you know, gives me the wrong. Maybe

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maybe you could say you come across too weak, or

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you come across to you. But I don't know, I mean,

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aren't we supposed to is that their love, isn't their compassion?

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Isn't there any hope? Is it? Just like, Okay, here's

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the five sins, and if you commit these five sins,

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you are forever, forever doomed, You are forever ever disqualified.

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Is that the way it is?

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Since the Bible doesn't really I know people will try

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to go to verses, but if you really break it down,

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it it doesn't say hey now, it can't say when

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you're when you're in the middle of it. I can understand,

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and I do believe that maybe in some circumstances that

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you have obviously we could all. I just think every

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situation is unique and different. In every situation has to

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be taken into consideration. I think there has I just

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I know we just like to pronounce dogmatic declarations from

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our throne of infallibility, But I think the reality is,

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can't we all see ourselves as sinners?

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Can't we all?

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I just don't know, And I was so fearful of

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this that this is the way it would go down.

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He's just going to be a footnote in the pages

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of Christian history. I mean, look, how Rabbi Zacharias has

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just wiped off the face.

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Of the earth.

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I mean, basically, not by no means, am I'm justifying

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anything he did. I'm not justifying it, and not I'm pleased,

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I want, I'm not justifying anything.

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People, whenever you.

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Try to offer mercy or grace, it's oh, you're almost

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immediately accused of justifying or excusing. But I just like,

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here's the conference he was supposed to speak at a

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conference that it sounds like he had spoken up year

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after year after year after year after year. This man,

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I mean, the man's a part of the very seminary

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hosting the very conference, and their their approach was, we

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will not say his name. We will just say he's

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permanently disqualified and he disgraced basically the name of Christ,

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and don't be like him. Now, let's pray, all right, guys,

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let's get to the conference. I mean, what wouldn't it

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have been like, haymen, because it was a men's conference. Amen,

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our brother has fallen and he has hurt other people.

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There's people in pain, there's people filled with humility and shame.

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Let's pray for our brother. Now, men, I have no

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idea what's going on in your life? And you have

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no idea what's going on in mind. I don't know

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you struggles. You don't know my struggles. I don't know

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your private failures. You don't know my private failures. I

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know we're here for a conference. How about we set

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aside the beginning of this conference and let's all stand

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and publicly do a public confession of our sin, a

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general confession. Then maybe let's spend about ten or fifteen

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minutes in silence as we cry out to God and

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speak to God about our spiritual weaknesses, our sins, the

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things we're struggling with. Maybe maybe that could have been powerful. Right.

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I'm not saying that my way is the right way.

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I'm not.

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That's the whole thing.

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I just I just it's like if you've ever driven

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through an area where a tornado just happened, right, and

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everything is destroyed, like it's a huge tornado, and you

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and you pull in and you see the people just

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walking through the rubble. Their houses are destroyed, their property

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is scattered all over the place, and you're just kind

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of walking through it. You can see that they're shocked.

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There's pain, there's dismay. All their memories are destroyed, their

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homes are gone. They don't they don't know what to do. Well.

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Sin is kind of it just destroys everything, and the

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people are just hurt. And I know we like to

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stand and point the finger and go oo, or we

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take sides. Well, that person sin, so he hurt that person.

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So I'm on this Maybe the only we should be

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on all of their sides that we want to help,

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we want to comfort, We will not make it worse,

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and we're going to do everything we can to show

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love and compassion, especially when already everyone's already talking about it.

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Now we don't have to add to that.

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names or anything, because I don't want to add to it.

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I want but at the same time, I want to.

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Talk about that, all the theology and all the craziness

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that being spoken of.

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So what I want to do tonight.

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Is really this sitting here on my table, we talked

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about this book. I haven't once I've got it, I

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haven't had the opportunity to do much with it. There's

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always so many other things I'm trying to do, or

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I may do one broadcast and not get to the others.

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But the name of the book is Psalms and Thirty

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Days by Trevin Wax from Hallman. It's beautiful, green, hard

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bound book. I love the cover Psalms and Thirty Days.

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And basically what this is is a non Catholic use,

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so basically the concept of the Liturgy of the Hours.

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I'm not going to go all the way back through it,

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but I just had it sitting here and I was

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just thinking about the day and this tragedy, this sin,

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this failure, the pain, the suffering, thinking about my own failure,

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my own sin, just thinking about, you know, I did

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you know two hours of teaching, did it really matter?

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Did I cover it? Was it even helpful? Just you know,

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and just really just struggling with the reality of sin.

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Sin is such a reality in the Christian life. I

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said it today that the Christian life is a life

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of sin, and I know that goes against everyone's theology,

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but facts proved me out here. So I picked up

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the book and I was like, you know, man, I

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haven't done anything with this book yet. And so we

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opened it up and it has day one morning prayer.

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I'm like, okay, and then it has you know, a

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Day one midday prayer, I'm like, okay, And then I

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turned the page and I saw Day one Evening Prayer,

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and then I saw Confession of Sin, and I'm like,

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that's what I need. That's what we all need. I've

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said it over and over and over, whenever we hear

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of sin and anyone else, we should first look before

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we even think or want to discuss it. We should

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look to ourselves and see our own sin. As Christians.

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We should be so broken by the law of God

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which shows us our sin and our failure to keep

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it no one can keep it or in a perpetual

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state of sin, we should be so humbled by it.

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And true humility is almost is the impossible task of

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living a lit where you're more aware, more convicted, and

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more concerned by your own sin. You aren't so worried, concerned,

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or bothered by anyone else's because we have our own.

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So I'm just going to utilize this book for what

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we'll call evening prayer. At this point that would be

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probably fast approaching nighttime prayer, but we'll call it evening prayer.

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And it begins with a call to prayer. And that

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call to prayer is Mark chapter thirteen. Now it only

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wants us to read thirty five to thirty six, But

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I'm going to read thirty two to thirty seven. Mark

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Chapter thirteen thirty two through thirty seven. I'm setting the

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book aside because it uses a different translation, and I'm

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just going to use the King James Mark thirteen thirty two.

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But of that day and that hour, no with no man, No,

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not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son

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but the Father.

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Right the day of.

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The return of the Son of Man. Take ye, heed,

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watch and pray for you know not when the time is. Look,

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I don't know when the time is. I don't know

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when the time is of Christ return. I don't know

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the time is of my death. I don't know. You

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don't know. I don't know if I have one more year,

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six more months, five more years. All I know is

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every passing minute is one minute closer to the end

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of my book, to the end of my story. We

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all know that. So we need to take heed. We

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need to be paying attention. We watch and pray for

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we don't know when the time is for. The Son

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of Man is a man taking a far journey, who

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left his house and gave authority to his servants to

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every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch watch.

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He therefore, for you know, not when the Master of

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the house cometh at even or at midnight, or at

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the cock crowing, or in the morning, I don't know

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which hour. Don't know if it's going to be late

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at night, don't know if it's going to be in

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the morning, don't know if it's going to be in

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the evening, don't know if it's going to be in

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the afternoon. This is kind of this verse kind of

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creates the concept of the hours of prayer. I mean,

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the Jews already had them. This is kind of a

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New Testament carrying that idea over right in the early Church,

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the liturgy of the hours, morning prayer, office of readings,

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afternoon prayer, evening prayer, nighttime prayer. Okay, we could go

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through all of that. That's what this book on the

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Psalms and Thirty Days is based off of. Right, So

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this is evening prayer. And why should we be praying

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in a sense at morning, afternoon, evening night. Why should

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we be praying at multiple hours throughout the day? Lest coming,

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speaking of Christ, suddenly he find you sleeping. We should

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not be found asleep. We should be found with our

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focus on him, we should be. But we know how

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that works. And what I say unto you, I say

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unto all. Watch watch well, I know I don't. I

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know you probably don't. I know we don't pray probably

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when we should. I know we all fall short. And

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that's why right underneath that call to prayer we have

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this confession. Now for the confession of sin tonight, they

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borrow it from the Book of Common Prayer, And here

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is the confession, Most Merciful God, we confess that we

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have sinned against you in thought, word, indeed, by what

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we have done, and by what we have left on done. Now,

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before I read all of this, I'm going to stop

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right there. Throughout church history, many worship services begin with

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this type of general confession of sin, and many Protestant

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churches we don't do that, and many non Catholic churches

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we don't do that. We need to get back to

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a general confession of sin and every service because philologically,

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you know what you're telling the people, you've sinned.

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You've sinned you, and.

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We need to get back as believers every night having

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a general confession of sin.

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You know what it tells me.

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It tells me I have sinned because Christianity is on

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this never ending like I even saw in comments, well,

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a regenerate man would never commit that sin. A regenerate

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man commits sin every single day, a regenerate woman, a

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regenerate child, a regenerate teenager. We commit sin every single day.

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And for some.

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Weird reason, Christians have this never ending obsession with this.

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Idea that no, no, no, no no.

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When I became a Christian, I became a new creation.

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The oldest passed away all things that become new, and

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we almost obliterate that and not understand that that's my

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position and practice. I sin every day. That's why every day,

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at the end of every day, I could do this

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in the morning, I could do this in the afternoon,

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I could do this in the evening, and I could

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do this at night. Most Merciful God, we not just me,

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but I am definitely including me.

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So let me make this more personal.

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Most Merciful God, me me, I Lord, I confess that

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I have sinned against you, ladies and gentlemen. I send

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against God today. I will probably sin against God before

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I go to sleep. I will sin against.

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God in the morning.

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I will sin against God tomorrow afternoon. I will sin

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against God tomorrow evening. I will sin against God tomorrow night.

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And what if for sin I want to say, I'm

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going to stop that one. There's still going to be sin.

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And how does this sin look? What does my sin

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look like? Well, I've sinned against God in my thinking

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and my thoughts. I have sinned against God in my words.

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I have sinned against God in my deeds, by what

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I have done and by what I have left undone.

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Now let me read that all together, Most Merciful God,

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I confess I'm going to use I'm going to make

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it personal. Most Merciful God, I confess that I have

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sinned against you and thought word. Indeed, by what I

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have done and by what I have left undone, I

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have not loved You with my whole heart. I didn't

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love God with my whole heart today. I don't love

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God with my whole heart right now, speaking to you,

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I will not be loving God with my whole heart

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tomorrow when I do a broadcast. I wasn't loving God

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with my whole heart when I was preaching today. I

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have never loved God with my whole heart. Because I

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still have a sinful nature that loves.

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Me more than I love God.

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Over and over and over and over again, I have

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not loved my neighbor as myself. I am truly sorry,

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and I humbly repent for the sake of your son,

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Jesus Christ, Have mercy on me and forgive me. I

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am sorry for all my sin, and I repent in

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the sense that I'm acknowledging and changing my mind and

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just more acknowledging that it's a sin. Yes.

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Do I want to turn from it? Yes?

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But guess what, no matter how many sins I turn from,

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I'm going to be confessing tomorrow that, in many cases,

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the exact same sin. You know why, Because no matter

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how much I try to turn from it, I have

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a sinful nature that will prevent me from ever getting

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to perfection or holiness. So therefore I'm always going to

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be confessing a sin, because I'm always in sin. Now,

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this confession is a little bit more positive than maybe

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I would want to be. It says, have mercy and

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forgive us that I might delight in your will and

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walk in your ways to the glory of your name.

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Amen.

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Now I wish that I could, you know, start doing that,

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But as much as I want to, I'm never going

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to even come even close. That's why we confess. We confess.

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Then it has this verse. You know it. This is

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the first time this verse really meant anything to me.

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The first time I really understood this verse, the first

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time it really had a profound impact on me, was

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the first time I walked into a Lutheran church. This

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is when the first time I really begin to understand

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law and gospel. Even though I kind of abandoned that

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understanding for a long time, it still had a profound

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impact on me. And I'm going to make it personal again.

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If I confess my sins, he is faithful and righteous

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to forgive me of my sins and declanse me from

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all unrighteousness one John one nine. If we will confess

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our sins, he is faithful and just, faithful and righteous

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to forgive us our sins and decleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Then it has the evening psalms. I won't read them.

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It has the Gloria Glory be to God, the Father, God,

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the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, as it was

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in the beginning, is now and will be forever world

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without end. Amen. Then it has the Lord's prayer, our

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Father in heaven, How will be your name, your kingdom Come.

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Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us

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our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. Lead us

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not into temptation, but deliver us from evil from the

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evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power

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and the glory forever. Amen. And then it has this

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concluding blessing, The Lord Almighty grant you and me a

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peaceful night and a perfect end. Some in history would say,

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the Lord Almighty grant us a peaceful night.

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And a perfect death.

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Same concept that I don't think they use the word

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perfect death, but they use the word similar. But the

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Lord Almighty grant us a peaceful night and a perfect end. Amen. Now,

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why can we have a peaceful night? Why can I

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have a perfect end? Because my sins are forgiven in

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Christ Jesus. And because when I go to sleep tonight,

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no matter if I committed a thousand sins, I am

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declared perfect and righteous because I'm in Christ and I'm

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saved by an imputed righteousness. This one pastor who's been

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removed He's not the only one who is suffering from

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sin this evening, all of us are. His situation is

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more public, and you know people are dissecting it. But

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let's just end by saying this, and let's just ask God. Lord, God,

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we come before you this evening. I pray for this

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pastor his family, for everyone involved, for all who are hurting.

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We're all feeling pain, are all feeling all the negative feelings.

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I just pray somehow peace and your mercy, your grace

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can somehow bring peace and healing and restoration to a

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very very painful situation. But Lord, there are people everywhere

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suffering the consequences of sin, because we all sin. There's pain,

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there's suffering, there's heartache everywhere throughout the world. Lord, because

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of sin. Lord, our only hope is in your son.

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I pray that everyone, whether they were sinned against or

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whether they the one was doing the sinning, that we

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would all find peace and hope in your son and

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his finished work. Because our only hope is what your

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son has done for us, not in what we can do,

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hope to do, stop doing, or trying to make more

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promises that we will do better. All we can do

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is run to the foot of the cross of your

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son and be covered in his blood, and have his

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perfect rife righteousness accredited to our account because of faith alone. Lord,

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let someone find peace in this, Let someone find hope

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in this, and let this horrible situation where people will

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judge condemn, let us use it to focus on our

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own sin. In Jesus name, we pray, Amen, God bless