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| "JESUS: WHY HE CAME" JOHN 18April 7, 2003 |
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\\ /"Pilate said, 'So You are a king!’ Jesus answered, 'You are the one saying I am a king.
This is why I was born and came into this world, to tell people the truth.
And everyone who belongs to the truth listens to Me.'" / John 18:37 (NCV)
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We’re living in a time when it’s tough to tell fact from fiction, the truth from a lie, right from wrong.
There are more shades of gray than there have ever been.
We don’t have a standard truth by which we can judge what’s real and what’s not.
What should we believe in and what’s false?
Not only did Jesus tell us here, “I have come to tell you the truth,” on another occasion Jesus said, “I am the truth.”
We can line our life up next to Jesus and we know whether we're in line or out of line, whether or not whether we’re living a lie or living near the truth.
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*Truth #1 - The truth of it is, I cannot hide my _________________ from God.*
Have you ever tried to hide something from God? I was reading in the newspaper not too long ago about a woman who had to spend time in a Jamaican prison.
She was from Florida.
She had tried to smuggle two pounds of cocaine into Jamaica.
She tried to smuggle it by hiding it in her hair and the authorities were tipped off because her hair was so big.
Why is it that we believe we can smuggle our sins past God?
What makes us think that we can sneak something past the all-seeing eyes of God? Past the all-hearing ears of God? Past the all-knowing mind of God?
Why do we think that?
We’ve been doing it from the beginning.
We believe that we can just pass something by God and He’ll never see it, He’ll never know.
Back at the beginning of time when God created Adam and Eve the Bible says that He put them in the Garden of Eden and they were naked and they weren’t ashamed.
They were living in perfect innocence.
Then when they decided to disobey God, they immediately felt shame.
Sin led to shame.
Shame led to secrets.
Secrets made them feel like they needed to cover up.
So the Bible says in the cool of the evening God came to the Garden and He asked people the first question, “Where are you?”
I tried to imagine what would that moment be like?
God might have said, “What’s that you’re wearing?” /This old thing?/
Like God wouldn’t notice that they’re trying to cover up their shame and their sin and their secrets.
We try just as ineffectively to deal with the sin in our lives.
We do all kinds of things to try to deal with the sin problem in your life and my life.
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THREE INEFFECTIVE WAYS TO DEAL WITH SIN IN OUR LIFE:
1. ____________ It
This is living in a place called denial.
In your own experience, based on your own observations, don’t you have to agree that there’s evil in this world?
And it resides in the life of other people?
How many times have you stood with your mouth open – stunned – by what you’ve seen somebody else do?
How many times has somebody else’s mouth been open – stunned – by what they’ve seen you do.
We have to acknowledge, based on our own experience.
But if that wasn’t enough, the Bible tells us we have all sinned.
None of us have lived our lives perfectly.
All of us have decided to do things our way instead of God's way.
Everybody in this room!
And to try to ignore our sin is very ineffective if we ever hope to take care of the sin issue in our life.
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This is what is behind every New Year’s resolution you’ve ever made.
Every time you make the declaration, “I will never do that again,” you’re thinking by your own willpower you could do good from that point forward.
Can you?
Just by sheer determination solve all the problems in your life?
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Do you know what’s true?
In a crowd this size there are people today who believe, “God doesn’t know how I’m living.
God doesn’t know what I’m thinking.
God doesn’t know what I’m doing.
God doesn’t know the secrets in my life.”
If this Bible story teaches us anything it teaches that God knows all about your past, He also knows what’s going on in your life today.
That’s why we say in our recovery groups around here all the time, you’re only as sick as your secrets.
You can’t get well.
You cannot have your spiritual thirst quenched until you’re ready to say, “God, I'll just admit it.
I know I can’t hide anything from You so I’m going to be truthful about it.”
That’s why I’ve given you a first step you can take toward the truth.
Be honest with yourself and be honest with God.
*/Take a First Step Toward Truth: Be _________ with yourself and be ________ with God!/*
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*Truth #2 - The truth of it is, Jesus knows ____________________, and still loves me/./*
The very reason we try to hide our sins from God is because we believe that God won’t like us if He discovers everything about us.
So we think if I could just hide parts of my life then God will still like me.
Does the Bible teach us that the moment God discovers things about us He stops loving us or caring about us?
Is that what the Bible really teaches?
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It was of this husband and wife and they’re on a Friday night date.
They’re holding hands and they’re walking through the mall window-shopping having a great time.
The man hears a voice that says, “Hey, mister!”
Reflexively he looks around and says, “What?”
He hears the voice say, “You’re not smart and your wife’s ugly.”
He’s shocked by that and he’s trying to figure out who said it.
He can’t see anybody.
Then he has this thought, “This is one of those candid camera things.”
So he’s really cool.
He got his wife’s hand and they’re just walking.
He hears the voice again, “Mister!”
He looks around.
“You’re not smart and your wife’s ugly!” Now he’s starting to get a little irritated.
About that time they pass a pet store there in the mall.
At the door on a perch is this little parrot.
He sees the parrot.
It says, “Hey, mister!”
He talks to the parrot and says, “What?”
The parrot says, “You’re not smart and your wife’s ugly.”
He’s really offended.
He goes into the pet store manager and says, “Your parrot offended me, offended my wife and I want to know what you’re going to do about it.”
The pet store manager said, “I’m so embarrassed.
That parrot has offended everybody today.
I'll take care of it right now.”
He goes out to the parrot, grabs the parrot by the throat, smacks his little beak, sets him back down on the perch.
The parrots just holding on.
The manager goes back into the man and woman and says, “Please accept my apology.”
The man says, “You did far more than I thought you’d do.
Sure we’ll accept your apology.”
He takes his wife’s hand and they’re walking out of the pet store.
As they past the parrot the parrot whispers, “Hey mister!”
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