Day 27

5:00 - v.1 - That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; -

5:10 - v.2 - (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) -

8:50 - Luke 22:42 - Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. -

9:20 - Jesus was still ministering from the cross - John and His mother.

10:20 - He yielded to death.

10:35 - I had thought that God just sustained Him on the cross.

10:40 - He did it as a man empowered by God. He felt pain. God defeated the devil through a man

11:10 - Resurrection - Death couldn't hold Him because satan killed an innocent man.

11:30 - The Power of Innocence - Power of walking in the blood and knowing you are free from sin - walking as a child of God. Keeps the enemy away.

12:25 - Grasp this stuff personally. Not just knowledge. Put it on and wear it.

➡ 13:00 - These were just side notes. Let's read...

13:15 - v.3 - That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. - which we have seen and heard - He was not writing by faith. He was there.

13:40 - v.4 - And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. - Joy

13:45 - v.5 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. -

13:50 - v.6 - If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: - Walking in darkness - If you don't allow the gospel to change you but stay in the same mindsets, mentalities, motives... He's not just talking about practices of sin. Incorporating truth into your life without the change of life.

14:35 - Walking in the light - Walking in love. You can't separate the two. God is light and in Him there is no darkness. Why? Because God is unfailing love.

15:30 - v.7 - But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. - Unity of purpose.

16:10 - His blood cleanses us from all sin. We are not who we used to be.

16:50 - Everything changes when you throw away the consciousness of sin and let the blood make you brand new.

17:00 - If praying a prayer to go to heaven is all that you are doing then you are selling all of this short. If your only motive is what God can do for you then you miss all of this.

18:10 - v.8 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. - He is not saying that you are always going to sin. He just said that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. All he is saying is if we say that we have no need of the blood... "Why do I need the blood to cleanse me of sin? I don't have sin." Read it in context.

18:45 - Pastor had this verse as a question in his heart.

19:00 - This verse is used as an objection to preaching righteousness.

19:15 - Free from sin / remission of sin - is a challenge for some to accept. "Yeah, but brother we are all sinning."

19:30 - Some people think that we are sinning when we breathe.

20:00 - No, Get born again. People are consumed with the consciousness of sin. Then when will I ever bear righteous fruit? Because the tree can't change. It's hopeless.

20:15 - Make a tree good and it's fruit will be good.

21:15 - Example: Rich young ruler - coveting. He was righteous in his own sight. Jesus was telling him why he needs a Savior.

22:00 - Some people think like that. "I've been a good person." Failing to acknowledge sin.

22:30 - v.9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. - Confess, not deny. Cleanses us from ALL unrighteousness. He is going to make you righteous if you confess that you have sinned.

22:45 - v.10 - If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. - If we stay in denial and say that we don't need this blood. I'm already righteous.

23:15 - 1 John 2 - v.1 - My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: - He is separating you from the identity of sin and not be consumed and enslaved to sin any more.

24:00 - What he's not saying. I'm writing this to you so that you don't sin but you are always going to sin. That doesn't make sense at all. Read in context.

25:10 - Participant comment - radical shift of thinking.

25:45 - We're afraid to reckon (see) ourselves as dead to sin. We give it power. Reckon yourself dead to sin - Rom. 6:11 . In 1 Peter 2:24 it say that He bore our sin in His body so that we having died to sin...

26:15 - Sin consciousness should be over. But we are afraid to rise up and declare that because of the potential to sin. So we leave sin in it's powerful place and stay intimidated. We lose our identity through that confession. And we don't live like we could.

27:00 - Common objection: Are you saying you don't sin? That's not even the topic. Righteousness, freedom, deliverance, redemption...

27:00 - They make this objection because they live so sin conscious. Defending their old identity. We've accepted a lie.

28:00 - Righteous consciousness produces good fruit. Walk pure. Not be conscious of sin.

31:00 - Malchus wasn't qualified. Injustice but healed. Jesus fixes him with no conditions and goes with them to die.

49:25 - Mt. 7:14 - Could you explain "narrow is the way" and how that reconciles to what you preach?

59:55 - The two roads - In this scripture I see - Selflessness vs. Selfishness - Those are the two roads.

1:10:30 - Participant's comment - Resurrection with Christ - whether we willingly laid down our lives. Lives of holiness.

1:13:25 - v.3 - And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. -

1:13:45 - v.4 - He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. -

1:15:10 - v.4 - Your life lived reveals that you know Him. When you really know Him there is an automatic inspiration to follow Him because He is so amazing. To know Him is to love Him. And if you love Him you will keep His commandments.

1:16:15 - v.3 - To know Him is to be inspired to obey Him. The revelation of who God is is your inspiration. And that totally separates obedience from legalism or "ought to." That's what separates you from the bondage mentality of feeling like you need to save the whole world (@34:20). But there is still a level of expression. Why? Because you know Him and knowing Him is your inspiration.

1:17:10 - Things that take the place of knowing Him - knowledge, service, ministry.

1:17:40 - Inspired all the more to seek Him and commune. Intimacy.

1:18:00 - Legalism - People that don't have intimacy live more legalistically and compare to one another by what we are doing. But who we are should inspire our doing.

1:18:35 - v.5 - But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. -

1:18:55 - v.6 - He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. - Do you hear any limitation in that? (I can walk as He walked!) Jesus said, "Follow me" because we can. Things that would hold you back are not true. They want to yoke you up.

1:21:00 - Legalistic living - heart not like His - just TRYING to love one another. "I'm trying to love you but you stretch me."

➡ 1:22:00 - We covered this the first week: Christ has become the wisdom of God for us. Wisdom is Jesus.

1:24:35 - Sin-consciousness keeps us from appreciating the love of God for what it is. And you'll just try to pay Him back with your life. Fail miserably and not have a good impression of yourself. And wonder why He loves you.

1:25:00 - Many sincere people live in that. Sincere and God fearing but in identity crisis. They have no ability to see themselves differently unless the truth would come and make them free.

1:25:25 - Enemy's false teaching integrated into the gospel. Designed to steal, kill, destroy now that Jesus has come.

1:26:35 - Enemy was played like a pawn. Killed the Son of God. Opened the door to redemption. So he does everything to subvert the message.

1:26:55 - Strategies - Appearance of godliness without the power. Confession without transformation. If the message doesn't bring transformation then it's not the message that He preached.

1:28:20 - What other people don't believe can't change what I see.

1:28:45 - Feeling the pleasure of the Lord. I feel that right now. When you surrender human intellect to His wisdom.

1:30:10 - v.7 - Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. -

1:30:30 - v.8 - Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. - True in Him and in you. Don't miss that.

1:42:45 - v.9 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. - Sounds harsh.

1:43:30 - v.10 - He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. - No cause for stumbling - Live offense free - We should be heading there. No cause for stumbling. Why? Because I love you. It's not conditional. Is God stumbled by our former lives? It brought out the best in Him. Where sin abounded, grace abounded much more - Rom. 5:20.

1:54:00 - v.10 - Abide - live, dwell and remain. Put on love and there is never a problem. That is so liberating. The only way I can be offended is self-centered thinking.

1:55:10 - Trust - [Scenario of offense and apology] - "I don't know if I can trust him." The Bible says to put no trust in flesh - Ps. 118:8. But we're to live trustworthy. If I demand trust out of him, I am already insecure. Insecure - I would have to watch you everyday to make sure that you are fulfilling that trust. Called to live trustworthy. Watching him to see where he messes up. But eventually this drives a wedge in the relationship.

1:57:20 - At what point do you cut him off? Thinking bad of the person.

1:58:05 - Release faith towards them. Releasing the best. Because you have spent time with God. This should be normal everyday kingdom living.

1:59:00 - Don't be threatened at the accountability of this teaching. You want to be like Him.

1:59:10 - How do you get past thoughts that you don't want to have about a person? - The same way that you cast down vain thoughts and imaginations that rise against the knowledge of God. Are those thoughts in agreement with the knowledge of God in that area? No. So as soon as they come, proclaim truth over the situation and say what God would say. That keeps your mind in agreement with truth.

1:59:45 - Your mind is where the trap tries to take place. That's where satan puts the snare. Thoughts that get you functioning outside the sphere of truth. And if you don't keep on top of them, they slowly become a belief system and have a place in your life.

2:00:30 - [Example scenario of thoughts not in agreement with truth] Crush it with truth. Or else it becomes a stronghold.

2:03:30 - Getting mad when something offensive happens against a loved one.

2:04:15 - Unresolved gossip creates doubts. It's there to taint the truth. See less than their value.

2:05:00 - Knock rumor out with truth. Call to accountability those spreading rumors. How they are hurting people.

2:06:00 - Reestablishing the integrity of the target of the rumor. Settle the matter. Don't spread it.

2:07:20 - Let's just call them right now. They won't do that again.

2:08:30 - How do you help pull someone together when people are talking about them? (gossip) - Be careful when everybody is speaking well of you. We have to be bigger than what is being said about us.