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Repentance For Sin Against God's Holiness
00:03:39
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| Back in your book, you talk about five-step prayer. | |
| Actually, David used the prayer. | |
| Can you talk about that? | |
| Yeah, you know, you know, in Psalms 32, that's a great psalm because David actually used, I used to teach, he used three different things to describe sin. | |
| Because we all think this sin is sin. | |
| Well, no, he talks about, he talks about sin, transgression, and this is the one I didn't know before, deceit and iniquity. | |
| And sin, and this is sin is us, is us sinning against the holiness of God. | |
| Wow. | |
| Okay, in other words, God's holy, and it's whenever I do something that violates his holiness. | |
| Transgression is a sin against the authority of God because it means to step across a line. | |
| And in the scripture, that particular infraction seems to carry a heavier judgment. | |
| That when people sinned against God's authority, delegated authority, whatever, but those are two different kinds of sins. | |
| One against the holiness, one against the authority. | |
| Deceit is a sin against somebody else when you search the word out. | |
| It means I hurt somebody else. | |
| I did something that worked against them, that violated them. | |
| And then iniquity is the sin that's in the bloodline. | |
| So those are the four things that the enemy will use in the court of heaven. | |
| So it's really a good habit just to walk through those on a regular basis and just say, Lord, I repent for any sin against your holiness. | |
| I repent for any sin against your authority. | |
| Any place I've rebelled against you. | |
| I repent against any sin against somebody else. | |
| And if I need to bring restitution to that person or whatever, I'll do it. | |
| But also repent for any sin that's in the bloodline. | |
| And so once you deal with that and you say, Lord, now let the blood speak. | |
| Well, what happens is the devil loses his case against you. | |
| It's just lost. | |
| And so those are four distinct sins that we can take into the courts and undo the cases of the devil against us. | |
| And then, of course, out of that, as I said earlier, Psalms 32, David actually spoke of repentance that the ungodly, or the godly rather, are the ones that repent. | |
| See, we think that it's the ungodly that need to repent. | |
| No, see, our life should be a life of repentance. | |
| It should be short. | |
| I just should live a life of repentance. | |
| Non-stop. | |
| Not because I think I'm a bad person. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| Jim's always taught us. | |
| I mean, from the time I met Jim 24 years ago, he always said, Lori, keep short accounts with God. | |
| That's right. | |
| Just keep them short. | |
| Just, you know, something's going on in your heart. | |
| Just keep it short. | |
| Constantly. | |
| And what you're saying. | |
| Deal with it. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And that's what you're saying. | |
| And see, we've always known that. | |
| If you add the court of heaven perspective into it, well, you realize that forgiveness is actually a legal issue. | |
| It's where whatever you've done, you're forgiven. | |
| It no longer has a legal right to demand something from you. | |
| That's what forgiveness is. | |
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Promise of Forgiveness
00:00:21
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| That I'm not going to hold that against you anymore. | |
| And so if you realize that, then I'm realizing, okay, when I do these things, now I can ask for a court decision to be rendered in my behalf that actually frees me. | |
| And I promise you, if you'll do that, all the condemnation and guilt that you carry will just evaporate. | |