Have You Been Cleansed??

My listeners when God Forgives you, Heb 8:12  “I will be merciful when they fail, and I will erase their sins and wicked acts out of My memory as though they had never existed.” My Listeners, He remembers your Sin no more.  Your Cleansed!  Set Free to serve Him. 

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Now, this is my commandment, Jesus speaking, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing, but I have called you friends for all things that I heard from my father, I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. These things I command you that you love one another. That is John fifteen verses twelve through seventeen. Well, hello everyone and welcome to Fill the Lamp. I'm Neil Parks. We are in the book of John and in chapter fifteen and it is a wonderful teaching for all people to understand why Christ has forgiven them. Because of their abiding in him Jesus Christ is telling us, and those who are not forgiven because of their rejection to surrendering and abiding into the Creator that created them. You see, my listeners, we've been bought with a price that Jesus paid with the shedding of his blood as payment for all of our sins. Now with that said, therefore, we are no longer our own as people. We are his for eternity if we accept and abide in him. Well, folks, you know one of the things that I don't hear taught much about is that the twelve disciples he Jesus went to them and picked them to follow him. They didn't chase after him and ask to be saved. Now I know they didn't have a clue who he was in their minds. They were Jewish and their feelings was just to follow the Torah. That's the first five books of Moses' writings, and all will work out in the end. That was their thinking. Just be a good person, right? Question mark? Well, sadly enough, not only Jewish folks, but all people on planet Earth have those similar feelings. Whereas by conceding to follow Jesus they were taught back then as to who Christ was, and the need for all people to surrender. You see, my listeners, our need to be taught big word and follow is the most prevalent understanding we could ever have. Now Jesus is starting to prep his disciples here as to his leaving them. Jesus is very bluntly commanding big word to give someone an order or orders with authority. Now my listeners, I must remind you that as we are listening and learning as to how he was sharing and teaching these men, we must understand that this has not changed for us in two thousand years, here in twenty twenty six. We must read and listen to apply it for this moment in time right now He is speaking to us. So here in chapter fifteen verses twelve through seventeen. Let's read again and we'll start again here in verse fourteen, where he says you are my friends if you keep on doing the things which I command you to do. These things I command you that you love one another. It's a command. Peace I leave with you, Jesus says, My peace I give to you. And not as the world gives do I give to you no, no, no. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. And that was in John fourteen, verse twenty seven. Now these men had no earthly reason to have peace, and yet they had been supplied a peace birthed in the perfect wisdom and all powerful authority of Gesu, God Himself. Jesus did not just give them peace, He gave them his peace. As he held out peace, he did not downplay the fires they would face. If you were of the world he's talking here, the world would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world. Therefore here it is the world hates you. That's John fifteen nineteen. The world will hate you, Jesus is telling them. You too will drink the bitter cup of suffering. Matthew twenty twenty three is telling us there. They the world will deliver you up to Tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my sake. That's Matthew twenty four nine. Yet let not your hearts be troubled. You see, my listeners, only a God in utter control of all things everything could hold out peace in days like that back then, and I've got to tell you just like it is right now within this world that we live in in 2026. Just look around you and see it. It's all over the place. Hate, killings. Jesus says, I have said all these things to you, talking to his apostles and us in 2026. I've said all these things to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart, folks. He's saying I have overcome the world, and when life begins to overwhelm you, remember all that Christ overcame for you and me, and have peace. Believe in all He is for you. Love one another relentlessly, and abide in His great love, a love on display in each painful step he took to have you. Paul writes in Romans ten seventeen. Paul says, so then faith comes by hearing, and hearing the word of God. Oh, Paul was maybe the biggest doubter back in his day. And not only a doubter, but Paul was a murderer of all followers of Jesus. Think about it. So why do I bring Paul up? Because you see, you can't get much grosser in life when we live in than to kill guiltless Christian people back then because of their faith. Paul gets knocked off his high horse in Damascus and then he becomes a follower of Jesus. He was forgiven. Forgiven, Paul and transformed. And then God used him to reach out to who? The Gentiles. You see, my listeners, when God forgives you and me, read it in Hebrews eight twelve, he says I will be merciful when they fail, and I will erase their sins and wicked acts out of my memory, as though oh as though they had never existed. He's telling us that when God forgives us, He remembers your sin and my sin no more. Is that not incredible? Is that not loving? At that point you and I have been cleansed and set free to serve him. So let us close here today with John fifteen five, where Jesus saying, I am the vine and you are the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in him bears much fruit, abundant fruit. However, apart from me, cut off from the vital union with me, you can do nothing. I say. Let's pray. Father God, we come before you humbly, Lord. Oh, we come humbly, knowing that you're the only way there is to take. You are the way, the truth, and the life. I lift up every listener here today, Lord. I lay them up to you, Father God, forgive them. Forgive them as you sit on the cross. Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do. Lord, I pray that all Christians would understand that we are branches of the vine and we must bear fruit. Apart from you, we are nothing but a branch that is cut off and thrown into the fire. I lift my listeners up to you, Lord, and I pray that they would come humbly to you in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Well, my friends, I loved having you with me today, and until next time, Marinatha, I'm Neil Parks.