The Epic Life - Bob Hallman

04. You've got a Friend (1 John 2:1-2)

I hung out with a bunch of different groups. I didn't just hang with one group and so I would kind of bounce around. But I'd even go to parties. I'd be with all kinds of people that liked me and that I like.
And I'd still just this emptiness inside. And I'd turn on James Taylor. And you know, when you're done, and you need help, and you know his music. And he's talking about a friendship that is committed when the bottom's falling out and everybody else has left you, you've got a friend.
Unfortunately, James sings in a lot of his music and he doesn't have any friends. He struggles with a lot of loneliness himself. Even when I've listened to him at concerts, I went to a couple of his concerts, and he shares it.
A lot of this stuff comes right out of his own agony. Of course, that's where people write their music and whatever they're doing, literature, music, poems, whatever. It's coming out of their own experiences most often. But I'll never forget that music because it really prompted me to understand how important it was for me to have a faithful friend.
 
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03 Sin is Such an Ugly Word (1 John 1:8-10)

We've been going through the book of 1st John.
 
And we've looked at the Gnostic heresy. We won't go into a lot of that. I am trusting that some of you that have come from other parts of the country are well -taught and are somewhat familiar with Gnosticism.
 
But I am going to touch on it just a little bit, some more aspects of Gnostic heresy that will help us to understand why John was writing the things he did in this passage and why it was so important
 
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02 Can Someone Please turn on the Light? (1 John 1:5-7)

Do you remember those days when you were afraid of the dark and you wanted the little light on? So, I've got to turn the light on. And in fact, if I don't and I forget and I go out the door and he forget, I'll hear this cry, "Daddy, you know, I need the light on." And so I have to come back up, and he's just not comfortable until the light Is on.
 
And you know, I thought about that this week as I was looking at this passage, and I thought, you know, I not only remember what it was like to want the light on when I was a little boy, but interestingly enough, as an adult now, I'm saying, "Could somebody please turn on the light?" But I'm saying it for a different reason.
 
I'm not saying it because I'm scared of the dark, but because our culture has-- the consequences are.
 
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01 Just the Facts, Nothing but the Facts (1 John 1:1-4)

You know, I was meeting with the Father, and I was meeting with some friends this week and non -Christian friends, people that we've met here since we've come to the islands, and one of the things that has struck me in my conversation, not just with them, but with a number of unbelievers that I've been speaking to since we've arrived, and the thing that the one theme that keeps coming through is that these folks are looking for something authentic. They want something that's genuine. They want something that's true. They want something that's really life -changing
 
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7. A Righteousness From God (Romans 3:21)

Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood through faith to demonstrate His righteousness.
 
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6. No One Is Righteous (Romans 3:1)

There is none who does good, no, not one. Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have practiced deceit the poison of asks is under their tongue under their lips Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness their feet are swift to shed blood destruction and misery are In their ways and they know the way of peace but have not and the way of peace excuse me They have not known there is no fear of God before their eyes Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who were under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God.
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4. To Judge or Not To Judge (Romans 2:1)

Paul has made a powerful statement that "Mankind is guilty before God in chapter one." He's posited that God has revealed himself and we have rejected him.
Step by step, God continues to reveal himself and continues to present the gospel through the prophets and his word and the scriptures and the testimony of the saints. And yet, there is this tendency for us to push beyond the barrier and the boundaries of his love. And because of that, he says he gave mankind over to the next level of sin, and when they pushed those boundaries, he pushed them over or gave them over to another boundary level of sin.
 
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3. The Wrath of God Revealed (Romans 1:18-32)

It's such an important component of the Gospel is understanding God's indignation toward sin. And so let's take a look at the text itself, and then we'll consider its application to our life this morning.
Beginning at verse 18 of chapter one in Romans,  "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Because what may be known of God as manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Because although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened professing to be wise they became fools and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four -footed animals and creeping things. 
 
Therefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever
 
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2. Unleashing the Gospel | Romans 1:8-17

Pastor Bob’s preached his last sermon series in 2017 in the book of Romans. Due to his cancer diagnosis, he was unable to finish the entire book but you can hear an older version of subsequent chapters (include the link).  
 
His last sermon from Romans 3, “A Righteousness from God” is especially powerful!  He uses the cancer diagnosis process as an illustration explaining God’s process of diagnosing and providing a remedy for our sinful condition.
 
Well, this letter to the church in Rome reveals several things about the apostle. Not only did he have a zeal of a prophet, he had the mind of a scholar, the determination of an apostle, but he also had the heart of an under shepherd.
 
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1. Intro To Romans | A Righteousness From God (Romans 3:21)

Pastor Bob’s preached his last sermon series in 2017 in the book of Romans. Due to his cancer diagnosis, he was unable to finish the entire book but you can hear an older version of subsequent chapters Romans — The Epic Life  
 
His last sermon from Romans 3, “A Righteousness from God” is especially powerful!  He uses the cancer diagnosis process as an illustration explaining God’s process of diagnosing and providing a remedy for our sinful condition.
 
What a joy it is to come to that place of accepting my true condition. You know, I don't need any pretense about my life. I don't need to hide. I don't need to present someone greater than I am. I don't need to try to impress you. or to try to somehow bolster myself up and make myself courageous in some way as it relates to who I am. Now I can just be me. And it's like, it's kind of a rough thing. It's like a dual -edged sword. On the one hand, it takes brokenness and a surrender to come to that place of saying, I'm the worst sinner I know. And then it also just gives me this incredible freedom. I've never really known before where all the pressure's off. You know, all the phoniness, all pretense. I'm not saying I'm without any of that, but it's falling away the more I know Christ. And it's such a glorious thing to be able to walk into that.
 
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