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First, turn down to 1st, John 1:9.

When you find a place, please stand for reading God's.

Holy word.

Canada's 1st, John 1:9, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us, our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Have you ever made a promise to anyone?

I remember being a kid and being being told Promises by my my dad and grandparents and others and most the time they would keep the word but occasionally they want to keep their word.

And what does that do to a child?

When they are giving a promise in the chair and their parent doesn't come through.

It makes them question their their trustworthiness their truthfulness and maybe as a as a little toddler, you don't think about that.

But as you grow there's is kind of a moment that that comes comes about a child's life when they realize, you know what, Dad isn't perfect, he can't fix everything, he's not actually a superhero.

I remember my wife and I when my daughter was much younger, we talked about how let us never speak a promise to our daughter that we are not absolutely certain that that we can do cuz we don't ever want to be one's the the letter down.

I will be thinking our our country there's there's many things.

We we offer is promises or Sports Heroes and politicians they offer us promises and and what, what happens almost immediately promises.

Don't don't come to fruition.

And, and then you realize that they can't keep the word even if they intend to.

But we worship one who is able to keep his word.

And he alone is God.

And so the promise that he gives us that we find here, I'm in.

If you'd like, if you're the one that likes the bulletin inserts to fill in the blanks, here is your first he is faithful again.

He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

What you think about that for a moment?

The God is not capable of being unfaithful at what he has spoken, his word will come to pass.

Want you to think about the upper room?

Jesus, after they had completed, eating came to them and said, I am going to wash your feet.

Now, this was very offensive to his disciples and we may struggle to understand a little bit, why?

But this was a job that you couldn't make your slave do.

It was lower than the slave.

And so, this is something that Jesus being the Lord of all the king of all Kings, the righteous Messiah Heater.

Rightly says Lord, you will not, you will not wash my feet cuz he doesn't understand why Jesus is doing here.

He goes, he goes on.

Jesus goes on to say, if I can't wash your feet, you can have no part of me.

You can't be my disciple.

There's there's a lesson that is to be learned cuz they rightly recognize that if you have had a bath or a shower, you are clean on the outside except you rewind time and 2000 days.

We didn't have her fancy, leather, boots, and socks, and everybody walked around.

And if you were fortunate, you had sandals.

But even with sandals, the dirt would get in your feet as you sweat.

And would like a mud like substance would be on your feet.

So when you enter someone's home there, there would be a water basin of some kind so that you can wash your feet cuz that would be the part of you that was unclean.

And then, there is something here.

We need to see that when Jesus goes to the Cross, when he says, I will take upon your sins.

He means it that he went to the cross, and at the cross, your sins were dealt with.

And I want us to understand real.

Clearly, when Jesus is talking, here is one.

John is talking here in 1st John, he says he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness is kind of two things that are going on here at the cross.

Jesus does deal with our sins when we have repented truly and place our faith in Christ, our sins have been washed away.

They are no more.

God remembers them.

No more scripture says they are as far as the East is from the west, but then what happens we as Christians were still living with that sinful play?

We we still have that moments where things don't go your way, or are sports team or politician doesn't go the way we like or that slow truck pulls in front of you and all the sudden, all these sinful words, or thoughts come to your mind, or all kinds of things, and we send.

And so, we, we, we need to do something about this because if we are to follow Christ, truly we cannot be walking in the way of And so that the second portion is that we need to have our feet washed because the defeat represent our our walk with Jesus.

Okay, with you.

And I we'd still need ever feet wash from time to time because it does not mean that we're not saved or that God somehow the the Salvation Jesus offered on the cross is Nolan void.

But it means in our walk with the Lord, there are times where we messed up, we sin, we need to call it's in our world.

Today is gotten away from Mike and knowledge.

And what sin is What is sin?

Sin is the open Rebellion against the will of God.

Understand that when you send you can never just send and it not affect God.

You can send against your neighbor and you need to get right with your neighbor.

But first and foremost, you have sinned against God.

That person has been made in the image of God and then sending you a rebelled against God's will.

I want to start us that we are not under the law that the Old Testament was.

We've been set free in Christ.

We have been freed through his atoning, death on the cross.

And so when when we talked about that, great promise of Love Of Christ, that is what we mean.

But when we're talking with John is saying that we need to confess our sins.

This is a continuation.

This is a pattern that you and I should have in our lives.

So we should be be looking to wash that kind of metaphorical dirt of our sin off of our bodies.

So let's talk about confession for a moment cuz this is something the that there's all kind of viewpoints on throughout the church.

What does confession mean?

When I say confession?

I don't want you to think of the Roman Catholic Church in the end of the man in the funny clothes.

Getting in the booth, and you telling him what what you've done and then he says, they'll say this many Hail Marys and God will forgive, you know what, the Apostle John is telling us that if you confess your sin, he is faithful to forgive, doesn't say, you need to go to the pastor to confess your sin, or to the elders, you need to confess your sin to him through God and he is faithful to forgive.

And so when we we speak about confession, we we we need to understand what happens if we we do confess our sins, when we have wrong people and confess our sins, we enter back into that, right relationship.

That are walk is made new again with the Lord, as part of our sanctification process.

If we are unwilling to confess our sins, it shows that maybe we didn't get the first part right at all.

when when Jesus speaks about repenting and believing upon him, if we confess our sins, we we show that we have that repentant heart but we if we have this desire not to confess our sins and we we shall we might just be worldly, I want you to think about this.

When you, when you sin and let us all acknowledge that, that we we do sin.

When you sin?

What happens inside?

You feel good about it?

No. Usually there's there's an immediate response, a conviction from the Holy Spirit and that is a good thing.

We are warned that sin is pleasurable for a season.

But ultimately thin is a a fake attempt by Satan to to offer you something that is counterfeit in place of what God has given.

God has given us marriage and what is Satan offer?

He offers adultery offers pornography, he offers lust, all these things are less than what God has created marriage to be.

And so when we we we we talk about confession of sin, understand that the world the worldly idea of confession is to feel bad to feel guilt and shame.

And and this leads to depression and sitting in severe cases, suicide attempts, and things like that.

But true repentance and God that confession says God.

I know I am a wretched sinner.

I am the prophet Isaiah standing before a holy God and says, woe to me.

I am an unclean man.

With unclean words that lives in a nation of unclean people.

That that is what the prophet Isaiah with was getting that is how could God use him to Proclaim his message?

When he is going to sinner, that is the point.

You and I are sinners.

If, if the great prophet Isaiah was a sinner, how much more are you?

And I, as sinners, Look at the Apostle, Paul, he calls himself, the what the chief of what?