Gospel—Tim Roach
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I have spoken to people.
Who have guilt on their conscience.
And they're and they don't know how to deal with it, and they're worried.
Because the guilt, it eats away at them. Guilt is a terrible thing to live with.
Tonight I want to talk about guilt. Let's start by seeing #15 first verse. Oh blessed gospel sound yet There is room.
It tells to all around, yet there is room, the guilty major all near.
Though vile they need not fear with joy they now may hear. Yet there is room first verse. Only the guilty may draw on the earth.
Oh blessed gospel song.
And also there's no death together in the resolution.
No, they may draw you.
Oh my, May you not fear for a Roy?
Here.
There is room.
Our God involved again. Thanks for the gospel meeting. Once again the gospel will be proclaimed, Lord willing that we remain here for the hour while we could pass through your mercies. For anyone who in the room may be lost in their sins. Father, we just ask that the message would be spoken clearly and that the guilty might draw near and be saved. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's sing #13.
Guilty, vile, and helplessly spotless lamb of Godless He full Atonement. Can it be? Hallelujah. What a savior. If you're suffering from guilt tonight, there's freedom from that guilt, the atonement of the Lord Jesus. The blood that was shed can take away the guilt that you are suffering from tonight. The guilt of your sins. Let's sing #13.
Man of sorrow.
And verse 9 says, If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that God has raised him. From the day thou shalt be saved. Confession confess and admit that you're a Sinner. Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. Maybe you believe on on Jesus, maybe you believe in God, but he is he your Lord? That's the question. Is he your Lord? Have you turned your life over to him?
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It says believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead.
Who is this person that can be raised from the dead? Who is Jesus Christ? God raised him from the dead. Do you believe that Jesus is gone or is he just some other man that lived here on this earth, lived and died? He did die, but there was a purpose for his death. He gave his life for you. He loved you and gave himself for you. There is a confession of a drunk when we lived in Malawi. There is a man.
Who came one morning about 3:00 in the morning knocking on brother Chuzu's door and says I can't sleep.
I have this guilt on my heart. I cannot sleep. There was another man who had come to him, and he was to this Wakilasta was his name and Wafilaso.
He was hiding something in his heart and he it was a burden on him. And there was guilt because this other man who claimed to be a Christian had done some very bad sin and he made moffil also hide that sin. Don't tell anybody because I will. I will give you money if you keep quiet. And so Mafioso kept quiet for many years, 810 years Mafilasso. He didn't say a thing, but this guilt was burdening down on his heart and he couldn't handle the guilt anymore. And he comes to brother choose who and knocks on the door.
Brother Chuzu, I'm hiding this sin, he confessed. The sin.
He thought that saved him. He thought he was saved because he confessed his sin to brother Tuzu and we talked to Mafilasso and said no, that doesn't save you. My philosophy was afraid to take the man's sin on himself. He said I have my own sin. I don't need your sin. I'll go to hell for my own sin. We said, well if you lost so you don't have to go to hell. You can be saved today. You can confess your sin and be saved.
And ask the Lord to save you. He's well. I already confessed my sin. I confessed it to choose him. No, that doesn't work. You can't confess your sin to the priest. You can't confess your sin to the new Pope Francis. It's not going to save you. You need to confess your sin to God.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. I want to talk about how to be saved. But before you can be saved, you need to be lost. You come to the Bible meetings, maybe you go to church and you and you learn a lot of the verses. You know some of the stories about the about the Lord Jesus and you think, oh, you're a good person, you're saved. You don't need to worry about this. So we need to get you lost before you can be saved. Because if you're not lost, you don't need to be saved.
But God says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. You are lost in your sin. You need to see your sin the way God sees your sin, so that you know you are a Sinner so that you can be saved.
If you are struggling with the guilt of your sin, you need to see your sin.
As God sees your sin, so you can see the need for repentance. Let's go back to chapter 3, Romans chapter 3.
Before an unbeliever can be saved, before you can be saved, you must see your own sin.
Romans 323 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. That includes you. You have sinned. You have come short of God's glory. If you want to go to heaven, you have to be as good as God. But that is impossible. You cannot be as good as God except the Lord. Jesus takes your sin away and takes that sin off your record books and gives you eternal life. That's the only way you can get to heaven. And so but your sin, your sin, blocks you from coming to God, and God cannot receive you in heaven.
With your sin. Because God is holy, God is holy.
But your goodness, what you think is good, it's really Vadnais because your goodness and your vadnais, they're both filthy, they're dirty, they're disgusting to God.
Sin cannot come into His presence, and so you need to see even the good things that you do. You need to see them as sin that keeps you away from the presence of God. I want to give you a story.
As an example, there is a man named Peter and there was he wanted to buy a house, he wanted to get married, he wanted the good things in life and so he just bought a house for his family. He was able to get a mortgage at no with no money down.
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And so he bought a big house with low interest rates. And so he he was able to get it without any money down. But if he wasn't able to get the house with no money down and low interest rate, he couldn't afford the house. So after he bought that house, Peter, then he got a raise. And then when he got a raise at his job, he then qualified for a car loan. So Peter, he went and bought a car, a new car. So now he had a new house. He had a new car.
And he was feeling pretty good. And then the credit card company saw that Peter had a couple loans until they started sending him invitations for credit cards. And so he couldn't resist this. So he went and he applied for a credit card and he got one. In fact, he got 2. And so he started buying things with his credit card. And this was easy money. He couldn't afford all the furniture that he put into his house. But with his credit card, it was no problem, He just gives the cashier a card.
They they put it into the register and they give him a receipt, he's got it.
Didn't he didn't have to take any money out of his pocket?
Then you got new carpet for his house. With the credit card, it's easy to survive.
In this world.
Peter bought a computer. He bought a sound system.
But he was not able to pay the whole amount.
So he uses credit card and then when the bill time, when pain came time to pay the bills, he couldn't pay off his credit card every month, so he just paid the minimum balance. And so his credit card kept getting bigger and bigger as he's put his expenses on there.
Well, that was OK for a while, but then Peter's adjustable rate mortgage came due and it came up for renewal and the interest rate went up a couple of points and the payment stayed the same. But the payment wasn't enough to cover even the interest and so the principle of the loan got bigger and bigger each month.
Peter was in trouble. The house he bought was now. He owed more on the House now than what the house was worth, and the house was losing value fast.
It happens all the time. In the last few years people are losing their houses. Peter was in trouble and it became difficult for him to pay his bills.
And so he thanked God that he still had his credit card. So Peter, he was able to take his family on a vacation. Let's go to 1St John Chapter 2.
First John Chapter 2.
And verse 16.
For all that is in the world.
The lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world.
You see, Peter, he was living the life of sin.
He succumbed to his lust and his pride, and that became his sin.
He didn't know he was covetous.
But he was.
He started out with everything that he wanted. He wasn't willing to just work his way up and increase slowly. He wanted everything right away, and he could get more with finance and credit.
Now, Peter, he couldn't afford to pay his bills.
Peter's sin of covetous put a lot of stress on his marriage.
He started to argue.
Then the bank began proceedings to foreclose on his house.
Peter still didn't think he was covetous.
Because Peter did not see his sin the way God sees his sin. And maybe you think you're OK because you've got everything figured out in life and you're and you're living your life to please yourself and you don't think it's sin, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
God did not call the righteous. He came to save the sinners. Maybe you think you're pretty good, but you're still a Sinner. God did not come to call you if you're good. He came to call you. When you see your sin, you need to see your sins. Let's go to Second Samuel, Chapter 11.
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Second Samuel, Chapter 11 I.
Ask you what is keeping you away from God? What sin do you have hiding in your life? Do you see your sin?
Your sin may be covetousness. Like Peter, it may be anger.
It may be sexual perversion or selfishness or pride. What is your sin? What is keeping you away from God?
People don't like to admit when they have sin in their life because they have the guilt and they don't want to admit that they have sinned because if they admit, they have sin.
They're gonna have guilt.
I want to talk here about David. David was a man. He saw his own sin.
But at first he did not see his sin.
David stole another man's wife. He committed adultery with her. Then he killed his her husband.
And he didn't see his sin.
Let's read two Samuel, Chapter 11. We'll start at verse one.
Then it came to pass after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabba. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. You see, David, he stayed in the city. He didn't want to go out and fight the battles on that day. Well, he sent Joab, the captain of the host, out with all the men, the fighting men of Israel, and they went out to fight the battles of the Lord.
But David, He should have been there. But he wasn't. He wasn't where he should have been. And he got himself into trouble. Verse 2. And it came to pass in an evening tide that David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the King's house. What was David thinking when he was laying, sitting there on his bed? I think he had some impure thoughts. And he gets up and he goes off and looks on the roof of the house.
And from the roof he saw a woman washing herself, and the woman was very beautiful.
To look upon.
Some of you maybe look on some beautiful women and you use *********** or you use the Internet to look on a beautiful woman, David. He was up on to the rooftop of his house looking down and he saw Bathsheba down there taking a bath and he was looking at her and he lust started to grow up in his heart. And in verse three he says, David sent and inquired after the woman and one said, is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Ilium, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite?
Well, David, now he knows who this woman is. He gets her address. He knows where she lives.
And he also knows that Uriah, her husband, is out at battle. He's not home.
And so he sends a message to Bathsheba. Come to my house. So she comes to David's house. He takes her to his bed when his wife wasn't around.
And he commits adultery with Bathsheba.
Bathsheba goes home.
David thinks it was OK.
Then a few days later, for probably a few weeks later, he gets a knock on the door. David, here's a message from Bathsheba.
I am with child. She was pregnant and it was David's child. Now what was David going to do?
So he sends a message out to Joab, the captain of the host. Send me back Uriah the Hittite. Tell him to come home. And so David had this plan. Uriah comes home. He tells Uriah, go back to your house. I'm giving you a leave of absence. Go spend some time with your wife. Take a vacation with your wife. He wanted to blame the child. Credit the wife, the child to Uriah the Hittite. But it was David's child.
Uriah, the Hittite who had more integrity.
Then David and he would not go home.
He knew that the armies of the Lord were out fighting the battles of the Lord, and he knew he should be with them. He knew he should not be home with his wife at that time. So he took his bedroll and he laid down at the King's house, at the King's door. David found out about this, and he was upset. And he calls Uriah, What are you doing? Go home, enjoy your wife. No, I cannot do this. So David had to have another plan. And he gets out his paper and he writes a note to to Joab the the captain of the Host.
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And he signs it and he seals it, and he wraps it up and and gives it to Uriah. Says Uriah, take this message to Joab and go back to the battles of the Lord. And so he takes the letter. He gives it to Joab. Joab reads the letter and it says, put Uriah right at the front of the hottest battle. I want Uriah dead. And so Joab folds up the paper, puts it in his pocket, and he makes a battle plan.
And he puts Joe Hiraiah, the Hittite, at the front of the battle and says go up to the wall of this city and fight against the city. And now if you go up against the wall of the city, people are throwing things down and they're shooting arrows down from the top of the the wall. And he puts Uriah the Hittite right up there at the front of the battle. And guess what, Uriah? He gets killed. He was shot with an arrow and he died. Well, the messenger comes back to David to tell him all about the the battle.
So what had happened? And he tells him.
That the the battle, it didn't go very well for us. We went up to the wall here and it got shot and.
Your servant says in verse 21.
Says thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead. Verse 22. So the messenger went, and came, and showed David all that Joe have sent for him. And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us in the evening into the field, and we're upon them even unto the evening, entering of the gate. And the shooter shot from off the wall upon thy servants, And some of the King's servants be dead. And thy servant Uriah the Hittite, is dead also.
David didn't like the fact that his men were killed. But when he heard the message that Uriah the Hittite was dead, also he had a little relief in his heart. Now he can continue with his plans with Bathsheba. And so there was a time of mourning when when they grieved for Bathsheba, grieved for her husband, the death of her husband and when that time was overlook in verse 26. And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead.
She mourned for her husband and when the morning was passed, David sent and fetched her to his house.
And she became his wife and bare him a son. But the thing that David did.
Displeased the Lord.
It was a terrible thing that David did. First, he committed adultery. First he looked on the woman.
Then he committed adultery and then he murdered Uriah.
Now he was. Now he felt he was free to marry this woman.
And so he married Bathsheba. And then it wasn't long after that.
Nathan the Prophet. He comes and knocks on the door of David. David answers the door and there's there's Nathan. And Nathan told David a story, a parable. A parable is a story that has a meaning to David. And so he told him this story and in verse one of Second Samuel, chapter 12.
Middle of the verse says there were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing save 1 little you lamb. So the rich man, he had many many animals, many sheep, many goats, many cattle. But the poor man had only one little lamb, And he bought the lamb and he nourished it up, and it grew, grew up together with him and with his children.
And so he had children, and he had this little lamb, and it grew up with the children, and they fed it, and it. It ate of the poor man of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. So he he appreciated this little lamb. It was like a pet. Some of you have a pet dog, or you have a pet cat, and you like that. Maybe some of you even have some some sheep. But this poor man had one little lamb, and that's all he had.
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Well, there came a traveler in verse four. There came a traveler to the rich man, and the rich man he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd. He wasn't going to take some of his many animals to to feed this traveler. And so it says.
He to dress, dress for the weight bearing man that was come unto him. He took the poor man's lamb and dressed it for the man that was come to him. And so he takes the poor man 1 little lamb, and he kills it and he cooks it and he serves it to the visitor who had come to his house. He didn't use his own meat, he used the poor man's food. Now the poor man had nothing. When David heard this verse 5 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man. And he said to Nathan.
The Lord liveth. The man that hath done this thing shall surely die, and he shall restore the Lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
David was angry. He was not happy that this man, this rich man, had done this injustice to the poor man.
And then Nathan said something to David. He said, David, you are that man.
David said what? At first he was shocked.
And then he realized that that story about the man and his poor, the poor man and his lamb, was a story about David and Uriah and Bathsheba. David was a rich man. He had everything he could want. But he lusted after another man's wife, and he took that other man's wife, and he killed Uriah. David realized the story was about him.
David said in verse 13 Second Samuel 12, verse 13 David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.
I have sinned against the Lord. David saw his sin.
Do you see your sin?
Or do you think it's just nothing? Maybe you haven't done something as bad as what David did?
But do you see your sin? David then prayed to God.
And if we go over to Psalm Chapter 51, we'll see the prayer of David Psalm 51.
And verse 3. And David he says here he's written this Psalm is about the time when he he was repenting from this sin.
With a with Bathsheba against Uriah. And he says, I acknowledge, for I know my my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. David saw what he had done. He saw that it was sin in the eyes of God.
David could hide this sin from the rest of the nation of Israel, the only other person who knew about it, and perhaps was Bathsheba.
But David could not hide his sin from God, and it may be that you have some hidden sin in your life.
And you think nobody knows about it? Your wife doesn't know about it. Your mom or your dad, they don't know about it. You have that sin hidden.
But you can't hide your sin from God.
When you open up yourself and you see your sin like David did.
If you do not hide anything from God, that is a big step towards forgiveness. Let's go to 1St John chapter one.
After you see your sins.
You need to admit it.
And to confess it, just knowing that you're a Sinner, it's not going to solve your problem. You need to admit that you're a Sinner. You need to confess your sin. There there was once a young man. He had a bad sickness, and it troubled him very much. And for a long time, this young man, he was afraid to tell his family about this sickness that he had because he was ashamed of his sickness. And one day he saw that his sickness was going to kill him.
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And so he was dying, and he went to his family and told them about his sickness and told them that he was dying. And so his family, they took him to the doctor, took him to the hospital, and there he uncovered all the details of his sickness to the doctor. And the doctor had some medicine that that would cure him. So he gave him the good medicine and the man became well.
This is like confessing our sin.
We are ashamed of our sin. Our sin is killing us. Our sin is taking us to hell.
To the lake of fire. Can you imagine yourself when God says I don't know who you are?
And he says to his angels, take him, take her, and cast him into the lake of fire.
Can you imagine yourself being taken and tied up by the hands and the feet and being thrown?
Into the lake of fire, into the outer darkness, into the pit of hell that was prepared for the devil and his angels.
That's the sickness that we have, the sickness of sin. The Lord Jesus. He has the right medicine to heal you from your sickness of sin. First John one verse 7.
The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin.
When we were in Malawi this last time, there were five of us there. And whenever, whenever somebody was getting ready to preach the gospel, they would always be told. Make sure you preach the blood, the blood. It's an important thing to preach about the blood of Jesus Christ. Why? Because of this verse. Look what it says. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from every sin. The blood of Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus died on the cross. He shed his blood.
Because he wanted to take your sin away. But it doesn't just happen. You need to admit that you're a Sinner. You need to see your sin. You need to see your guilt. You need to confess your sin and say Lord Jesus, I am a Sinner, just like Peter when he came up to the Lord and said depart from me. I am a sinful man, oh Lord.
Do you admit, can you admit that you are a Sinner and you're guilty before God and that you deserve to go to the lost eternity in the lake of fire? For the Lord Jesus, He doesn't want that. He doesn't want you to go to the lost eternity in hell. And so he has sent his son, the Lord Jesus Christ, into this world to become a man. And he was born here as a baby, and they called his name Jesus, because he was going to save his people from their sins.
And the Lord Jesus lived here, and he grew up to be a man, and as a man he preached. And then when he became to be about 33 years of age, he went into the city of Jerusalem, and there he came to his own people, And his own people received him not they didn't want him. And so they took him, and they crucified him.
On the cross of Calvary they didn't want the Lord of Glory. They hated him.
They killed him.
Do you want him? Do you want the Lord Jesus tonight, or do you just want to crucify him to yourself again?
Lord Jesus, he loves you, and he was willing to come and die on the cross and to suffer for your sins there.
So that you would have a way of escape, a way for you to have your sins taken away, and the blood of Jesus Christ can take your sin off of the record.
And you can be free from your sin. Let's go to Hebrews Chapter 11.
So we talk about seeing our sin.
We talk about confessing our sin. We talk about turning away from our sin.
But none of this is possible without believing on the Lord Jesus.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. You must have faith to be saved. And in Hebrews Chapter 11 and verse six it says, But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that comes to God must believe that he is and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Are you going to come near to God today? Are you going to believe that Jesus is God?
Are you going to believe that Jesus went to the cross and took the punishment for your sin? Are you going to believe that if you will come near to the Lord Jesus, he will reward you? But you must come to him? You must come and seek him diligently. You must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. You cannot come to to to God without faith.
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In Jesus Christ you cannot come to God.
Through Muhammad or Buddha or Hinduism or Mary.
For the priest, you cannot come to God with your own ideas.
First Timothy 2 and verse five. It tells us there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. You can only be saved through believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus makes it possible for you to be saved by faith.
Salvation by faith is a gift from God. We ought to like to get gifts.
We like to open them. Well, God has a gift for you. He has a gift for you. Ephesians 28928. It says by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. Salvation by faith is a gift from God and it's a gift that's offered to you tonight.
And you can only get that gift if you come be leaving believe on the Lord Jesus.
Confess that you are a Sinner and you need him to save you. You need to realize that you cannot save yourself. It doesn't matter how good you are, you cannot earn your way to heaven. Let's go to Jeremiah chapter 31.
Stop.
Jeremiah chapter 31 and verse 34.
I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more.
When you put your trust in the Lord Jesus.
God Forgives you, and then He takes away your sin.
God does this because Jesus paid for our sins.
His death on the cross is the sacrifice for our sins and when we believe on the Lord Jesus.
God washes our sins away with the blood of Jesus Christ. God Forgives our sins.
He remembers our sin no more.
When we were in Malawi, we handed out a lot of gospel tracts.
And I got a lot. I got a number of responses from those tracks.
And I get letters from pastors and from other people and they say.
We like these tracks. We want more of them. Can you send me, And I've gotten these ones, they want me to send them a a gospel message every day And somebody and some they want to know more, deeper gospel, more teaching from the Bible. So the first thing I write back to them and I say, OK, first I want you to answer a couple of questions. I want you to tell me how can a person be saved? And a lot of them answer that question fairly well. But then I asked them a second question and I say.
If you were if there's a man who is a believer, he knew the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior. He had eternal life. He was a child of God and he had an argument with his wife and he went off on the on the minibus and he came back and he and there was an accident and he died before he got home and he had not had time to reconcile with his wife. Where would that man go? Would he go to heaven?
Or to hell. And why? I always get the same answer. He would go to hell even though he was a child of God and he believed he would go to hell.
Is that the kind of a God that we have? A God that says if you believe you will have everlasting life and then he'll take it away from you if you sin again. That's not the God that I have. It is impossible for God to lie. If God would would take away my salvation because I forgot to confess one sin, this book is worthless. We may as well burn it in the fire.
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But God cannot lie, and he has written these things in the Word of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
And when He gives you eternal life, he wants you to know that you will never perish. It tells us in John chapter 10. I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. And nobody, not even yourself. You cannot take yourself out of the hand of God. You're in the hands of the Lord Jesus in your double safe, because you're in the hands of the Father and there are no greater hands in the universe. Nothing can take you out when you are saved. When he gives you eternal life, you can never lose.
Your salvation and God says in this verse here I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember.
Their sin no more. God will never bring your sin up again. It is sometimes difficult for us to understand. OK, I get saved on this day.
And so all my sin has been taken away, washed away in the blood of Jesus up until today.
But it's maybe hard for us to understand. How can God take away a sin that I haven't done yet?
Or if I sin tomorrow, is that sin covered by the blood of Christ? Or is it not? And do I have to get saved again? Does Jesus have to die again for that next sin? But so what's the story here?
The blood of Jesus cleanse that verse we read in First John 17. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from every sin. It doesn't matter when the sin was committed, today or tomorrow, that sin is covered. The Lord Jesus took them all on himself. How does God know what I might do tomorrow?
If I might sin, he knows the end from the beginning. We're told in Revelation. He's the Alpha and the Omega. He's the beginning and the ending. He knows the end from the beginning.
He knows your whole life. How did he know that I would even be born?
4050 years ago. How did he know that 2000 years ago he died? How did he know I was going to be born and I was going to be a Sinner and that I needed to be saved? But he knew that before he even created this world.
He is God. He knows, and he knew every sin that you would ever commit from the day you were born until the day you die in the future. He knows every sin.
And they were all put on Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ suffered and died for your sins. And his blood was shed, the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus says, I will remember your sin no more. They're gone.
He will never remember them. If God doesn't forget he's God, He can't forget, but he chooses to wipe them off with his blood to take them off your record so you don't have those sins on your record anymore. Let's go to Luke, chapter 13.
I want to talk a little bit about repentance, because repentance is an important part of the salvation experience. Because repentance and believing, they go hand in hand, believe and repent. And repentance I think is also part of the evidence that you are saved and so.
If you have not turned away from the habits of your sin, some of you may be are saved or think you're saved, but yet you go home tonight and you continue on in some of your sins. You don't stop them. You go back after the conference and you continue on with your sin, and it becomes a habit to you and the habit of sin. And so if you have not turned away from the habits of your sin, you have no guarantee that you are saved.
Some people say, Oh yes, some say, but their whole life dishonors God. How can this be? It is because they have not repented. And Luke chapter 3 and 13 and verse three it says, I tell you, nay, except you repent. You shall all likewise perish if you have not turned away from your sin.
You probably are not saved.
Whether a person is saved and has fallen into sin, or the person is not saved and he's lost in sin, repentance will follow the same pattern for either one, and I want to look at some of the points that give evidence of salvation or evidence of repentance. So let's go to Acts Psalm 51.
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We have to go a little faster because we're kind of running out of time here.
OK, first of all, when when there's true repentance, there's going to be an admission.
Of guilt and in Psalm 51 verse four it says this is David again. And David says I have sinned, I have done evil. David confessed it all, he didn't hide anything and when a person holds back the truth.
Or he tells you only part of the truth. Or he makes excuses. Or he finds faults with other Christians. Or he then he or she, He is not repentant, But when a person is truly repentant, he will confess the full extent of his sin. He won't confess just the part of a sin in which he got caught. Go over to Proverbs 28, Proverbs 28.
And verse 13.
And this is another point when there's when there's true repentance, a person desires to make a complete break from his sin.
So repentance is turning around on the basis of truth and going in the opposite direction, Turning around on the basis of truth and going in the opposite direction. That's repentance. And in Proverbs 28, verse 13 it says he that covers his sin shall not prosper, but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy. Forsaking sin follows the confession of sin.
Both the confession and the forsaking of sin shows true repentance.
The desire to forsake the sin and to get completely away from the sin.
And to stay away from the places that cause you to sin.
That will be noticeable to other people. Some people ask, well, how will you know that I'm repentant? It will be evident in your life. Go back to Psalm 51.
And this is their Third Point. When there's true repentance, the spirit will be broken. It will be humbled. And look what it says in Psalm 51 verse 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, a contrite that's humble. The broken and a contrite are a humbled heart. Oh God that will not despise. When there's true repentance, you will find that a person will show emotion. Sometimes people are are in unemotional.
But I believe when someone has committed sin and they get saved and there's repentance, I believe that there will be some emotion. Because one time he will have grief about his sin and he'll be concerned about his sin. He'll be humbled about his sin. Are you concerned about your sin tonight? Are you grieved about your sin? Are you humbled about your sin? Do you have a broken heart because of your sin?
When you repent, when there has been repentance, there has been forgiveness. Why Then you will be happy because you will be released from the burden of your sin. Do you want that freedom from the guilt of your sin?
With true repentance, a person will not be defensive. He will not blame others. He will not be angry. He will not be bitter or proud.
A person with a heart of shame and repentance. He does not make demands on other people. He doesn't make demands of God.
He doesn't expect to be treated in a certain way if he's truly repentant.
A broken.
And repentant person, and a humbled person with a broken spirit.
He's grateful just to be alive.
Let's go to Romans chapter one, chapter 5.
Romans chapter 5.
Another point about repentance.
Is that when you are saved?
You will be able to accept God's forgiveness.
And this gives and maybe you are saved, but you have something in your on on your conscience and maybe you live with guilt. You are saved and you and you have difficulty to overcome the ability to overcome the guilt. But when you accept, when you have truly repented and you have accepted the forgiveness of God, this gives you the ability to overcome the guilt.
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And there are some sins that leave a person with tremendous guilt. That's very difficult to overcome.
Especially sexual sins.
Or or some sins that might physically hurt somebody or emotionally hurt somebody. And so you need to claim God's forgiveness for yourself so you won't suffer from guilt.
Romans 5 verse one.
Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you want to have peace with God tonight? Maybe you're worried about your sins. You can have peace. You can have peace. When you come to know the Lord Jesus Christ. You believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you are saved. You are also justified. And that means that the blood of Jesus Christ has washed away the record of all your sin that you've ever committed. It's gone. It's covered with the blood of Jesus Christ. If the Lord Jesus were to look at my record of all the sin that I have ever done.
It would be covered with the blood of Christ to be wiped clean.
And when there's nothing on my record, I have no guilt. Yes, if you are guilty of doing something bad, you may be forgiven, but you still know that you did that thing and you still have maybe guilt when you're around the person and you and you shy away from them a little bit. But with God, he can justify you. That's what it means to be justified. He takes your guilt away. He takes the sin away, the blood washes the sin away, and he takes the guilt away with it. And he can't call you a Sinner anymore because you've been made the righteousness of God.
In him. And so we have been made righteous. The believer is righteous, so when your repentance is complete, you can claim forgiveness for your own if you still suffer from guilt.
If you're a believer and you still suffer from guilt.
Your repentance maybe isn't complete, or maybe you haven't. Maybe your faith has been slow to claim your forgiveness.
But when you claim your forgiveness from God, you will have peace with God, and that's what our verse says, being justified by faith.
We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
When you have.
True repentance God permits you to enjoy.
Your righteousness and your justification. Let's go over to last verse in Psalm 64.
Psalm 64 verse 10.
The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him, and all the upright in heart shall glory.
One thing that the prophet Nathan told David his friend is this. He says the Lord has put away your sin, you shall not die. You remember David when he he proclaimed the judgment on that man who who ate the lamb of the poor man. He said he will restore fourfold and he shall surely die.
God was gracious with David. God knew that David had repented, and he forgave him. And the Lord has he. And so Nathan said to David, you shall not die. But you know what? With sin there is consequences of sin. You know there is a man in Malawi.
One day he had one day. One time he had an affair with another woman.
One time, 10 years later, sometime in there, he had gotten saved.
And ten years later, he was planning a wedding. He was getting married.
The Lord had forgiven him. He was saved. He was going to marry a nice Christian girl.
Before he got the marriage, he had to go get a blood test.
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And it came back. He had HIV, AIDS.
The marriage was cancelled.
That man, he sinned in that way one time.
And he has to live with the consequences of his sin for the rest of his life.
All sins are forgivable when they are confessed.
And forsaken.
But some sins carry tremendous ramifications. You may suffer the consequences of your sin for the rest of your life.
David suffered the consequences of his sin. He suffered for the rest of his life, and he hated the day that he jumped into bed with Bathsheba.
To start with the child that David had with Bathsheba.
It died.
And then his whole life was filled with war and conflicts and deaths in his family. He had to suffer four of his children dying because he killed.
He murdered Uriah the Hittite and David suffered coup attempts.
On his Kingdom.
David suffered the consequences of his sin.
Until his death, the Lord didn't even let him build the House of the Lord. That was one of the consequences of his of his bloody, violent life.
But through all the consequences of David's sin, all the consequences that he had to deal with, David was at peace with God, knowing that he was righteous in the eyes of God.
David did not suffer from guilt. He was forgiven, he was justified and so he could write God. He had justified and God had taken his guilt away, and so he could write again. I'll read this verse. Psalm 64, verse 10. The righteous David's writing about about his experience here He says the righteous shall be glad in the Lord and shall trust in him, and all the upright in heart shall glory.
David knew that the God of Israel had forgiven him and had blessed him in grace.
Nathan had told him, David, you're not going to die at this time and so David was allowed to go on living.
Guilt free.
Would you like that? Would you like to live guilt free? Would you like to have your sin taken away off your record with the blood of Jesus Christ?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. You can do it tonight. You can do it right now, while you're sitting in your chair.
Say Lord Jesus.
I'm a Sinner. I've tried all I can do, but I can't be good. I can't do enough to save myself.
Lord Jesus, you have done it all.
Can you do that? Asked the Lord Jesus to save you.
If you want to be saved tonight, I'll be around for a little while. Come and talk to me. Or talk to the person who brought you here. Don't delay. You need to be saved tonight. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, will cleanse you from all your sin. Let's sing that. What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus #32 What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
And look at verse 2 for my cleansing this I see nothing but the blood of Jesus. For my pardon. This my plea. Do you want to be pardoned from your sin tonight? Do you want to have the guilt of your sin taken away?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. What can wash away my tear loving my?
No longer found thine stone. Not because the wild dreams are.
Let's pray on Friday night.
To love you.
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That makes me white, I swallowed.
No other, no flying long.
You have a choice. We either believe on the Lord Jesus and be saved tonight. If you want to do that, speak with me.
4 You can forget that choice.
Walk out that door and take your chance.
If you already know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
You can pray that somebody who is convicted of their sins.
Our God and Father, we give thanks for the gift of your Son, the Lord Jesus. We give thanks, Lord Jesus.
For being willing to go to the cross and to die there.
To take our sins upon yourself.
And to suffer and to be punished for our sin. Lord Jesus, we give thanks for all that you have done for us.
And then to be shaped so glow.
The blood of Jesus took pigs to our sin. Thank you, Lord Jesus.
We just pray for anybody who's concerned about their sin tonight with the concern about the guilt of their sin. Just ask that they would be saved tonight. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.