Alright, good morning everybody.
A lot of faces.
Alright, I do want to share something is I don't always have jokes.
It's not always about joking.
You know, sometimes it's serious and this is one of those moments.
You know, in Hawaii they have a thing that nobody's allowed to laugh really loud.
So they say you got to give a little aloha.
So that's not a joke.
It's not a joke.
It's being very serious.
Anyways, as Pastor Nathan said, my name is John and I do have the privilege to give the
message this morning.
The title of my message, I don't really give titles, but I have a title for you guys.
The title of the message is What is Truth?
You know, Jesus said in John 832, you will know the truth and the truth will set you
free.
And we know that today there claims to be many truths in this world.
Many many truths.
You know, the world says your truth isn't my truth.
And they say it's okay, just don't offend me.
Don't say anything that disagrees with me because my truth is my truth and your truth
is your truth.
And we know that's not true, right?
They can't be multiple truths.
So I mean, it's just like try driving down the street at 85 miles per hour on a 25.
Cop pulls you over and they say, you know, you're going 85.
No, I wasn't.
That's your truth.
That's not my truth.
See how far you get.
But they will never do that.
They will never try to test that.
But you know, society or the world, they mix all these things up.
They mix up subjective truth with objective truth.
Now, subjective truth is based on our feelings and opinions.
You know, for example, is like the Democratic Party.
Now the Democratic Party, they say, well, you know, we have the truth.
Everything that we do, it's all true.
They say vote blue no matter who.
They say just, you know, we're for the people.
We want to do everything for the people.
And they say that's true.
And then we have the Republican Party.
Now the Republican Party says, you know, we're for the people and we have the truth.
You know, we're the business side.
We like to keep everything going.
You know, we want to support everybody.
And you know, one Republican president once said, Republicans believe every day is the
Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15th.
And for those of you who don't know what April 15th is, hell on earth.
I'm just kidding.
But it is coming.
That's tax season for those of you who don't know.
But then we have objective truth, right?
Now objective truth is what exists and can be proved by its physicality.
For example, Dairy Queen is the best ice cream because if you try it, it's actually the best
ice cream.
No, that's not objective.
The objective truth is if I say my car is gray, we can all just get up, go outside,
and look and check and make sure my car is gray.
I didn't mention Dairy Queen because I love Dairy Queen, by the way.
I just want to throw that out there.
But when it comes to religion, what is truth?
What is truth when it comes to religion?
I do want to point out something.
Christianity is not a religion.
It's a relationship with Jesus Christ.
It's a relationship.
It's not a religion.
But there's many different religions and cults out there that say we have the earth, but
they have the truth.
You know, the Jehovah's Witnesses, they say that we are the true followers of Jehovah God.
They say that Jesus Christ is not God.
They say Jesus Christ is actually Michael the Archangel.
We know that's not true.
It's completely false.
And then once you try to talk to them about it, you bring up John 1-1 and then of course,
what do they do?
They just bring up all these false things.
That's what cults and religion and other different religions do.
They like to add things to the Bible.
Instead of take things from the Bible and teach it, they either add or subtract the
things from the teachings.
And that's what they do.
And then we have the Latter-day Saints or the Mormons.
You know, they say Jesus is a created being.
You know, they say that Jesus in heaven was trained by God.
He was trained and taught by God to do all these things.
And so what God did was when Jesus was a baby in heaven, he would teach him all these things
and say, you know, you're going to be God one day.
So he trained Jesus until God said, oh, you know what?
He's ready.
And so what they do, Jesus, I'm going to make you God of earth.
And so then they go from there.
And that's what they say.
Joseph Smith, who's the founder, he actually wrote in a book called Teachings of the Prophet
Joseph Smith.
He said, you have got to learn how to be God's yourselves and to be kings and priests to
God the same as all gods have done before you.
That's completely false.
He's claiming that we're all going to be God's one day of our own planets.
That's completely incorrect.
Then, of course, we have the Seventh-day Adventists who say that they also have the truth.
Now the Seventh-day Adventists, they say that Saturday is the true Sabbath day, which we
not we don't go against because, you know, that's what the Jewish culture teaches.
The Sabbath day is on Saturday.
And they say going to church on Sunday only started in 321 A.D.
They say that a guy named Constantine is the one that made the law to go to church on Sunday.
And they say that's false.
They say that for those of you who go to church and worship Jesus on Sunday, you are actually
receiving the mark of the beast.
And that's completely false.
And that's what they try to say.
And to that I say, well, I'm going to read Romans 14 verses 5 to 6.
It says, one person judges one day to be more important than another, another day.
Someone else judges every day to be the same.
Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.
Whoever observes the day observes it for the Lord or for the honor of the Lord.
Whoever eats, eats for the Lord.
Since he gives thanks to God and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not
eat it.
And he gives thanks to God.
So it doesn't matter on what day.
We just choose to worship on Sunday, which is the day that Jesus rose.
We saw that last week.
And so that's what they say.
But let's go ahead and turn our Bibles to John chapter 8.
If you guys got your Bibles, John chapter 8.
In John chapter 8, actually all throughout John, the Jews believed that they had the
truth.
You know, the Jews said that the truth is in the law.
In John 19, during Jesus' sentence, which again we saw last week from Resurrection Sunday,
on the sentencing of Jesus by Pilate, the Jews were singing, crucify, crucify.
Pilate responded, take him and crucify him yourselves since I find no grounds for charging
him.
And the Jews respond, we have the law.
According to that law, he ought to die.
So the Jews said that, well, we have the law and now we can judge Jesus by the law.
But they completely missed the fact that Jesus Christ came to fulfill the law.
And they tried to live a different law.
But here, we're going to start in John chapter 8, verse 30.
Now John chapter 8, verse 30, Jesus was speaking to some of the Jews and around this time,
Jesus was performing many miracles and signs and he was doing all these things.
He was giving sight to the blind.
You know, he was healing the sick.
All these miracles.
So naturally, once all these things happened, what did the Jews do?
What did the people do?
They gathered around.
They wanted to see what was going on.
So starting in verse 30 to 31, it says, as he was saying these things, many believed
in him.
And Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, if you continue in my word, you really
are my disciples.
Jesus talking to the Jews who started to believe him after they started seeing all these signs
and wonders and all these things, they started actually listening to Jesus.
They started believing him.
And Jesus said, here, continue in my word.
What does it mean to continue in Jesus' word?
You can take that, you know, when it says continue in my word, you could also say teachings.
What does it say or what does it mean?
Continue in Jesus' words.
Jesus is saying to remain in his words, to be present, to endure in his word.
So what does that look like?
Well, some of you may remember that when we first became Christians, most of us were on
fire for the Lord, right?
We wanted to do everything.
We wanted to talk about Jesus.
We wanted to give Jesus.
We wanted to always give the gospel.
That's what we wanted to do.
I remember when I first became a believer, I told everybody about who Jesus was because
I thought it was the greatest thing.
For the first five years of my marriage, my wife told me she was trying to tell me I wasn't
saved when we got married.
And she tried to tell me all the time.
I'm like, okay, don't care.
But then all of a sudden, Jesus spoke, hey, I'm like, oh, hey, you know what?
Let me tell everybody who Jesus was.
Even when I was working, it didn't matter.
You know, I would talk to the higher bosses that I had, hey, do you know who Jesus is?
Even though they would say never talk about religion.
Cool.
But do you know who Jesus is?
And I would always do that.
And even at that time, I was a manager of my own store.
And so once we hired people, I didn't tell them if you knew Jesus in the interview, but
I would like, cool, if I hired them, hey, guess what?
You're going to know about Jesus today because that's what I thought.
But they always say that there's one thing you should never do when you're with family
or family get together or whatever.
Never talk about politics or religion.
I didn't care.
I live life on the edge, by the way, if you guys didn't know.
I live a rough life.
No, just kidding.
But when Jesus says, continue in my word, continue in my teachings, that meant, you
know, for me, what it looked like for me is I continued to read my Bible.
You know, I studied my Bible constantly.
I wanted to know more about the Bible.
I wanted to know more about Jesus.
That's what it looks like when you continue in the word.
You want to know and live your life and know who Jesus is and know what Jesus did for our
lives.
That's what it looks like continuing in the word.
You know, I took Jeremiah chapter 15 verse 16 to heart.
It says, your words were found and I ate them, if you didn't notice.
Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart.
I took that to heart.
I really did because the words became a delight to me when I listened to them.
That's what the word does.
That's what Jesus does.
Becomes the delight and the joy of our hearts.
But there's one thing that Jesus didn't say.
He did not say continue in my word until you're about five years into being a Christian or
ten years into being a Christian.
No, Jesus didn't say that.
Jesus said to continue.
That word continue means meno in the Greek, which means to continue the process, not to
perish.
So Jesus is always saying to continue, always continue forever in the words.
And sometimes as we're Christians, you know, we tend to say we're a little too busy, right?
We say, oh, I'm too busy to go to church this week.
I'll go next week.
And I'm not condemning anybody.
But you know, some of us say, you know, it's we get too busy to do all these things.
We're too busy to volunteer for the media and to control the lyrics and the lighting
and all that.
You know, Second Peter three eighteen says, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.
We should want to know more Jesus.
We should want to know and grow closer to Jesus and his glory.
Then Jesus says, if you continue in my word, you really are my disciples.
Now, what is a disciple?
I'm glad you guys asked.
There's a community group for men and women that are going through a transforming discipleship.
You also learn that, but I'll give you a little little sneak peek.
A disciple is a learner, a pupil of the things concerning Jesus Christ.
In other words, a disciple is one who responds in faith and obedience to follow Jesus Christ.
It's literally a lifelong process.
It's a process that will take up until the day we see Jesus face to face.
So in our text here, Jesus was telling the Jews who believed in him, he said to continue
in my word forever, continue to to just listen to my teachings, follow everything that I've
done.
And once you do these things, you will I will know that you are my disciple.
So when we abide and follow Jesus and we obey the calling that he has on our lives, we can
understand how to become a disciple of Jesus Christ.
And we can see a little bit of that.
But being a disciple of Jesus is more, it's much more than just believing.
You see later in chapter eight, the one the ones who started believing, the ones that
were looking at all the signs, all the miracles later on at the end, they started trying to
crucify Jesus.
They tried to kill him.
And you know, it's the one thing that we can pull out from here is don't trust Jesus when
it benefits you only.
Don't just listen and trust in to Jesus and follow and continue in his word when when
life is really bad.
You know, trust Jesus in the good.
Don't just be like, oh, well, I'm having a hard time.
You know, I'm you know, I have a family member who's sick or, you know, I'm just going through
whatever.
Trust in Jesus even during the good times.
Jesus doesn't want to just hear the bad problems.
He wants you to rejoice with him in the good.
And Jesus wants you.
He always wants to know you.
He wants to always be with you.
Good and bad.
That's what he wants.
But when it talks, when it comes here, he wants us to believe and have faith in him.
Now believing is the acceptance of truth from facts.
In other words, believing is acknowledging something is true.
Now if we read in James 2 19, Jesus talking to the church, he says, you know what, even
demons believe in God, even the demons believe in God and they listen to God.
But Jesus wants us to also have faith in him, you know, because if the demons believe in
them like, why can't we?
I mean, we have people today, there's atheists who don't believe, but I'm like, even the
demons believe.
But now what is faith?
According to Hebrews 11 1, faith is the reality of what is hoped for and the proof of what
is not seen.
Now having faith in Jesus means so much more than just trusting him to him.
In Mark 5, there was a woman who was bleeding for 12 years.
She did everything she could.
She went to many physicians.
Even the physicians couldn't even help her.
She probably spent all the money that she had.
She was going to everybody to heal her because she kept bleeding for 12 years.
And so what did the Jews do?
The Jews around the town says, well, you know what, you're unclean.
There's nothing we can do.
We don't want you around here.
So she was kicked around and she was pushed around.
And what did she do?
There's Jesus.
There's a man going around doing miracles, signs and wonders.
I need something.
There's something for me there.
So what did she do?
We all know the story.
She went through the crowd, walking through the crowd with Jesus and she touched Jesus.
She touched Jesus' robe and instantly, the Bible says instantly she was healed.
And Jesus said in Mark 5, 34, he said, daughter, your faith has saved you.
Go in peace and be healed from your affliction.
So it's the faith that saved her.
She had the, ultimately what it was, was the faith.
Jesus wants us to do the same as that woman did, is to believe and have faith, trust Jesus.
Now faith is literally something that we cannot see.
Jesus wants us to trust him in every walk.
It says faith is not a physical thing that you can't see, but it does give you something
physical.
Faith, there is an action with faith and that faith is keep walking.
Keep walking in faith.
And that's what, you know, that's what they say.
Then when we go to verse 32, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
So back to our original question, what is truth?
When we continue in Jesus' word and Jesus' teachings, when we believe that he is the
Messiah, and when we believe that he died on the cross for our sins only to defeat death
and sin, only to raise three days later, and not only that, but to be seen by over 500
people, that is truth.
That is truth.
And the truth will set us free.
You know, in John 14, 6, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus is the only way to the Father.
Jesus said these words and these words are true.
So when Jesus is truth and he speaks the words of truth, what does that mean?
Jesus is truth and the words are truth.
So it says Jesus is truth.
John 1, 17 says, for the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus
Christ.
Well, we know that grace means it's an unearned gift.
It's an unearned gift because of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ has done for us.
The truth that came through Jesus Christ is that he took on all the sins of the world,
so we wouldn't have to do that.
He took our sin, so we wouldn't have to die that horrible death and to feel that complete
separation of God.
So we can also have that hope in heaven.
And then John 18, verses 37 and 38, Jesus testified before Pilate.
Says, you are a king then, Pilate asked.
You say that I am a king, Jesus replied.
I was born for this and I have come into the world for this, to testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.
What is truth, Pilate, or said Pilate.
Jesus here was declaring, I am the truth.
I am the truth, Jesus said.
Trust and truth is standing right in front of you.
So if we look at Jesus' life, he proved that not only is he truth, but he lived the way
of truth.
He lived a sinless life.
He is the example of how we should live.
He is the true example of how we should live.
Now there is a lot of, as I mentioned, there is a lot of cults and religions that say that
we have the truth, right?
I mentioned that.
I went to Costco a few months ago and I met this guy from this cult called World Mission
Society Church of God.
And I am not going to explain too much about them, but if you guys want to research that
after or come talk to me after, that is fine.
But this guy is from a cult who believes that Jesus Christ is in Korea and you should pray
to this guy and there is a mother God.
She is also in Korea.
And then they go and meet them.
So what I did is I kind of looked like a weirdo that day because I heard him talking to somebody
and I am like looking around, like trying to get him to talk to me.
I am acting like I am looking at the table that he is at, but I was hoping he would talk
to me.
And so finally he did.
And so he said, hey, do you know the Bible?
Are you a Christian?
I sure am.
Why you ask?
And then we got into it.
And then that is what he told me.
He says, yeah, God, yeah, Jesus, he is in Korea.
Mother God is also there too.
Mother God is there.
And I am like, no, that is completely false.
But they believe that you have to put your trust and your faith in that man in Korea.
That trust and faith in that woman in Korea, mother God.
They say that is the only way you can be saved.
No matter what you do, no, that is completely false.
It is Jesus Christ.
That is the name I am going to proclaim.
I am not going to proclaim another name in Korea.
But you cannot expect to stand outside grocery stores, right?
You cannot go to the grocery stores, stand out there to five to six hours a day with
your magazines on the rack and not even talk to anybody.
You are just hoping that somebody will approach you.
And you cannot say, well, I am doing the Lord's work.
I am putting my faith and trust in Jesus.
I am doing the Lord's work by just standing here.
You know, I am doing something.
But that is not what God wants.
God does not want you just to stand out there.
God wants you to give the truth.
He wants you to trust in the truth.
God does not care about that.
He cares only if you know the only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ.
That is what he wants everybody to know.
But here at Hosanna, we all should know this, right?
And if you do not know this, you are going to learn it for the first time.
The mission here at Hosanna is know the truth, live the truth, share the truth.
So what does that mean?
Know Jesus, live Jesus, share Jesus.
Now knowing the truth, knowing the truth looks like this.
Knowing the truth of what Jesus Christ has done for our lives.
He has died on the cross, as I mentioned, for all of our sins.
Raising again three days later.
Defeating death and sin.
That is truth.
It has been, you know, there is so much evidence that proves that Jesus Christ died, that there
was a man named Jesus Christ.
Not only biblical truth, but there are biblical evidence, but there is also historical evidence.
And that all comes to truth.
That is truth.
Jesus said in John 321, but anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light.
Jesus Christ is that light.
Jesus proclaimed that in John 812.
Jesus declares, I am the light of the world.
Anyone who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
So when we walk in darkness, Jesus will be there.
And that is what the truth is.
That is what, you know, knowing the truth is that Jesus Christ is that light.
Now live the truth.
If we live according to the new command that Jesus gave all of us in John 1334, Jesus said,
love one another just as I have loved you.
You are also to love one another.
To know Jesus Christ's love surpasses knowledge.
And just that, just to see all that, just to see everything that Jesus has fulfilled,
that's the fullness of God that Jesus has done.
That's the complete fullness of God.
In the next verse, Jesus says, by this, anyone will know that you are my disciples if you
love one another.
It goes back again to disciple.
Jesus talks a lot about that.
You know, we see that Jesus talks about loving one another and disciples and all that.
So we should be Christ-centered.
We should be followers of Christ, living the way that Jesus would want us to live.
Not lying, not cheating, not stealing.
First Corinthians 11.1 says, Paul said this to the church, he says, imitate me as I also
imitate Christ.
Paul was saying that he's living like Christ.
He's imitating Christ.
And we should be doing the same.
We should walk in the same way that Christ did.
I mean, you know, Christ did everything, you know, he died on the cross for us.
We should want to live a sinless life.
We should want to not lie, cheat, steal.
We should, you know, imitate Christ all the time, all the time.
First Peter 2.21, Peter said this to the believers, for you were called to this because Christ
suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his steps.
Again, following Christ's steps.
Live the way that Christ wants us to live.
And then finally, the last scripture that I have for living the truth is 1 John 2.6.
The one who remains in him should walk just as he walked.
John is saying walk is just as Jesus walked.
It's simple.
I mean, well, it's not simple to walk that way, but it's simple that that's what the
truth is, is imitate Christ, walk as Christ walked.
And that's what it looks like when we live the truth.
Now sharing the truth, sharing the truth is vital.
It's something that, that's the most important thing because in Matthew 28 verses 19 and
20, Jesus gave all of us that command.
He said, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them, baptizing them
in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe
everything I have commanded you.
And remember, I am with you always to the end of the age.
So Jesus tells us to give the gospel and gospel means the good news.
We're to give the gospel to everyone.
We are to not just hold the gospel close and say, the gospel is so close to me.
I'm not going to give it.
No, no, that's, that's not what Jesus is saying.
Jesus says, once you know the gospel, give the gospel, give the gospel to everybody.
Everyone you know.
And like I said, when I first became a believer, that's what I wanted to do.
Give the gospel to everybody, tell everybody what the truth is.
And now what is the gospel?
The gospel is Jesus died on the cross for our sins, rose again three days later, you
know, and to be seen by over 500 plus people.
That's the gospel.
Psalm 96, three says, declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among all
peoples.
The Psalmist writing about the King of the, King of the earth declared.
So it's declare the Lord's name with praise.
Jesus is Lord.
We should proclaim that we should shout that.
And we are to share that to the world, proclaim the truth to the world, share the truth for
it says for God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in
them should not perish, but have eternal life.
That too is the gospel.
That is also the gospel.
But again, don't be afraid to proclaim and to declare that Jesus is Lord of all.
Don't be afraid.
And first John two, four, uh, says the one who says I have come to know him and yet doesn't
keep his commands is a liar.
And the truth is not in him.
So what do we have at the end of John eight?
Jesus tells the Jews who were arguing with him.
He says, you know what, you guys are the father or your father is the devil.
And Jesus declares that there is no truth that can come from, come from him.
And John declares in his epistle there, he says, no lie can come from the truth.
No lie can come from the truth.
So when we know the truth and live the truth and share the truth, we will be set free by
the son of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
When we, when we're in verses 33 to 35, it says this, we are descendants of Abraham.
They answered him and we have never been enslaved to anyone.
How can you say you will become, uh, you'll become free?
Jesus responded, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
A slave does not remain in the household, but a son does remain forever.
So the Jews right here was responding negatively.
When Jesus said you will be set free, they responded negatively.
They responded with, we're descendants of Abraham.
We have never been enslaved.
Well, the Jews missed the point.
It seems that they actually forgot what their descendants went through when they were enslaved
by the Egyptians and then the Assyrians, the Babylonians.
And it seems like they also forgot that they were enslaved by the Romans at this point.
So it's like, well, they were in bondage and how dare they say that we've never been enslaved
by anybody.
But sometimes we, we get the same way, right?
Sometimes we're so far into sin that we don't even realize what we're doing.
You know, we, we tend to forget that and we forget a lot of the things that Jesus and
that God has done for us because we're so far into our sin and we even forget the blessings
that God is doing for us in that moment.
And that's what the Jews were forgetting here.
The Jews were, they were so far into thinking that they weren't enslaved to anybody.
But in fact, they, at the end of Jesus being crucified, they said, Caesar is our king.
And it's like, what?
No, that's not true.
And then verse 34 says, truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin of is a slave of
sin and a slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.
You know, we, you know, in second Samuel 12, the prophet Nathan came to King David and
he says, Hey, David, there's a problem.
You know, there's a rich man who has a very large flock and many, many herds.
And he says, this man is very, very rich.
And then he says, but there's also a poor man, a poor man who has one sheep or one lamb
and that lamb is like a daughter to that man.
And so Nathan tells David says, there's a traveler who's, you know, the traveler came
to town and says, Hey, prepare some food.
And the rich man says, I don't want to give up any of my sheep.
You know, take that one from that, that poor guy.
So they took that one and sacrificed it.
And David, you know, the poor man was, he was very, very sad.
He was very distraught.
And then when David heard this, he says, he was furious.
He's like, that man must be put to death.
And then that's when the prophet Nathan says, that man is you, that man is you.
He says, you know, that's, that's what David was.
David got his, one of his soldiers wives pregnant and he tried to, you know, and he put him
in the ward and got him killed.
And that was David.
We can too relate to that.
Sometimes when we're so far into sin, as I mentioned before, once that, once we're in
the middle in the act of sin and the, we have the light shine on us, we hate it, right?
We hate when that sun is shining on us because we're so far into our sin and we're just doing
whatever, whatever you guys are dealing with.
And then once Jesus Christ comes into your life and starts shining, Hey, what are you
doing over there?
And once somebody comes around and says, Hey, I'm trying to correct you.
That's that light shining.
And then they hate it.
We have to remember one thing.
We are not the only ones that are getting hurt.
It's also the ones who feel the repercussions of our sins are also our loved ones as well.
We have to remember when we're going through those sins, they're the ones who feel it as
well.
But it's same thing.
It's like a thief breaking into somebody's house, stealing all this stuff and doing everything.
But as soon as it happens to him, it's the end of the world.
How dare they?
But it's like, that's what you're doing.
But you know, if you're stuck into sin today, just remember if first John one nine tells
us if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
If we're stuck into our sin today, just trust in the Holy Spirit and pray in the Holy Spirit.
Pray that the Holy Spirit guides our lives.
When we do that, we won't be doing what our sinful nature craves.
We will be doing what Jesus intended us to do.
And then Jesus says this back to our text.
Jesus says, a slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain.
What Jesus is saying is that we cannot free ourselves if we're slaves.
We cannot free ourselves, but the only one who can free us from this slave or being slaves
is the son.
And that son is Jesus Christ.
Only Jesus can free us from our sins because the son remains in the house of God.
And the only truth that can be made and the happen is from Jesus Christ.
So if we're stuck in our sins, if we're slaves to sins, seek Jesus, continue and confess
Jesus and confess Jesus because what does Jesus say in verse 36?
So if the son sets you free, you really will be free.
Since Jesus is the only one that can set us free, we will be free indeed.
So what now?
What can we take from this?
We know the truth.
All right, well, what do we do?
Well, Jesus Christ is the truth.
The son sets us free.
So what do we do?
Paul says this in Romans 6 22, but now since you have been set free from sin and have become
enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification and the outcome
is eternal life.
It's beautiful.
We have been sanctified in Christ Jesus.
Now sanctified means that we've been set apart from something and that being set apart from
something is of sin.
His blood makes us holy and righteous.
Not because we deserve it, but because Jesus loves us.
Jesus doesn't want us to stay stuck.
Jesus doesn't want to stay stuck into our sins and he wants us to repent.
He wants us to repent from our sins and turn from our sins.
You say, John, I'm too far into my sin.
There's I'm way too far.
I can't, I can't get out of my sin.
There's nothing I can do.
And to that I would say, well, Jesus died for your sin today.
Jesus died for your sin yesterday.
He died for your sin last week and he's even, he even died for your sin that you're going
to commit or that we're all going to commit.
And John 3 17 says, for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but
to save the world through him.
And that's, that's important.
That's very important.
But in conclusion to all of this is Christ is the truth.
Jesus paid it all.
All to him we owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain and he washed it white as snow.
Let's pray.
Father, we just thank you so much for sending your son.
Thank you for sending your son so we can, so we can be free indeed, Lord.
Lord, I just pray that if anybody's in here that is struggling with sin, Lord, I just
pray that we just all can confess our sins, Lord.
And if they need somebody to talk to, Lord, I just pray that they talk to somebody.
Lord, I just thank you for everything.
Thank you for blessing all of us.
Please bless everybody in this room.
I pray that everybody in this room takes the truth and they proclaim the truth and they
give the truth, Lord.
I pray that everyone here knows the truth, lives the truth and shares the truth.
Lord, please fill us, bless us and be that light unto our path as always and please bless
this church as well.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Pastor Nathan.