Confidence In His Coming (1 John 2:28-3:10)

WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:04.759 If you're able to remain standing, please do as. We give our attention 2 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:11.029 now to first John, Chapter Two, Verse Twenty Eight, sort of spilling 3 00:00:11.070 --> 00:00:17.710 over into the next chapter, Chapter Three. So I'll begin begin reading in 4 00:00:17.870 --> 00:00:31.140 First John to twenty eight. Let's give attention to God's word, and now 5 00:00:31.260 --> 00:00:37.090 little children abide in him so that when he appears, we may have confidence 6 00:00:37.609 --> 00:00:42.130 and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. If you know that 7 00:00:42.250 --> 00:00:47.490 he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been 8 00:00:47.530 --> 00:00:52.359 born of him. See what kind of love the father has given to us 9 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:58.679 that we should be called children of God, and so we are. The 10 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:02.600 reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him 11 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.349 beloved. We are God's children now, and what we will be has not 12 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:11.989 yet appeared. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like 13 00:01:11.189 --> 00:01:17.109 him, because we shall see him as he is, and everyone who thus 14 00:01:17.189 --> 00:01:23.340 hopes in him purifies himself, as he is pure. Everyone who makes a 15 00:01:23.459 --> 00:01:29.700 practice of sinning also practices lawlessness. Sin Is Lawlessness. You know that he 16 00:01:29.739 --> 00:01:33.969 appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 17 00:01:34.409 --> 00:01:40.049 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning. No one who keeps 18 00:01:40.129 --> 00:01:45.890 on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no 19 00:01:46.049 --> 00:01:53.280 one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous as he is righteous. Whoever 20 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:57.319 makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been 21 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:02.510 sinning from the beginning. The reason the son of God appeared was to destroy 22 00:02:02.629 --> 00:02:07.709 the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of 23 00:02:07.870 --> 00:02:13.389 sinning, for God's seed abides in him and he cannot keep on sinning because 24 00:02:13.430 --> 00:02:17.139 he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the 25 00:02:17.180 --> 00:02:22.460 children of God and who are the children of the devil. Whoever does not 26 00:02:22.620 --> 00:02:27.780 practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love 27 00:02:27.900 --> 00:02:57.680 his brother. You may be seated when the Lord Jesus Christ returns. We 28 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:01.430 know that it will be a Great Day of judgment, and we know that 29 00:03:01.590 --> 00:03:08.430 for several reasons. One is that judgment has most clearly been delayed. Wickedness 30 00:03:08.590 --> 00:03:15.900 and many ways still continues on. Suffering continues on, people struggle in this 31 00:03:15.139 --> 00:03:24.099 life in ways that are not consonant with the ways of heaven that are described 32 00:03:24.780 --> 00:03:30.009 in the book of revelation. For example, there's still something that we're waiting 33 00:03:30.050 --> 00:03:37.449 for, and that is something that is ushered into partially by the judgment of 34 00:03:37.610 --> 00:03:42.199 God. We also know that the judgment is yet ahead of us, because 35 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:46.840 the Lord has not yet returned, and when he returns he will come as 36 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:51.360 judge. We also know that it is coming. It will be very great, 37 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:55.870 partly because of the judgment that's prefigured in the Old Testament. The thunder 38 00:03:57.030 --> 00:04:00.150 and the rumblings, the flashings of light that were on Mount Sinai, the 39 00:04:00.270 --> 00:04:04.550 blast of the trumpet, all of that was a precursor to what was to 40 00:04:04.629 --> 00:04:10.939 come, not on one mountain but on every mountain. The word of God 41 00:04:11.219 --> 00:04:17.779 says that when Jesus returns, the world will be shaken, the mountains will 42 00:04:17.860 --> 00:04:24.930 melt like wax, the stars in the sky, the sun and the Moon, 43 00:04:25.129 --> 00:04:30.569 the heavenly bodies, these things will be shake and up like dust out 44 00:04:30.569 --> 00:04:40.480 of a rug on the floor. You can imagine, then, what it 45 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:46.160 would feel like to see the coming of Christ and not be his friend. 46 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:56.829 Terrifying, terrifying. Revelation describes that people will wish that the rocks were falling 47 00:04:56.910 --> 00:05:00.110 upon them, they will hide away, they will try to escape, but 48 00:05:00.389 --> 00:05:06.420 no one will escape. When Christ comes, he will come to judge and 49 00:05:06.620 --> 00:05:14.259 make war. Revelation says when Christ returns, he comes to cast out all 50 00:05:14.379 --> 00:05:21.529 the wicked forever and to protect his righteous people for all eternity. That's a 51 00:05:21.610 --> 00:05:29.410 day that you want to have confidence about. It's a day that, looking 52 00:05:29.449 --> 00:05:32.370 into the future, you want to be able to know beyond the shadow of 53 00:05:32.529 --> 00:05:39.560 any doubt that you will not be one of the wicked cast out forever into 54 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:45.759 darkness and wrath. But it'll be a day when you stand before the Lord 55 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:55.350 is one of his glorious saints, Clothed in Light Righteousness, lifted up by 56 00:05:55.550 --> 00:06:00.350 his spirit, vindicated, raised by is very angels, we are told, 57 00:06:00.509 --> 00:06:09.740 from all the corners of the earth. You want to have confidence about that 58 00:06:09.939 --> 00:06:18.850 day. John says this little children abide in him so that when he appears, 59 00:06:19.009 --> 00:06:26.410 we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 60 00:06:26.490 --> 00:06:34.600 And so John Wants you and me to understand something about that confidence, 61 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:40.920 to understand what it means to have it and how we can have it. 62 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:47.269 He says that those who have it are those who abide in him, those 63 00:06:47.350 --> 00:06:57.550 who live sit dwell in Jesus. How can you have confidence? How can 64 00:06:57.589 --> 00:07:01.660 you know whether you abide in Jesus or not. That's largely what the rest 65 00:07:01.699 --> 00:07:12.019 of this passage is about. What John says is really simple. Says examine 66 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:17.329 your works, examine your life. Do you practice righteousness or do you not? 67 00:07:19.089 --> 00:07:24.610 It's not a very complicated thing, I think. Sometimes I've read this 68 00:07:24.810 --> 00:07:29.610 and wished it was more complicated. Honestly, I wish they that there was 69 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.720 more to it than this, but it is very simple. A Go to 70 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:39.560 the last verses by this it is evident. He says. It's evident. 71 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:43.399 Who are the children of God and who are not, or, to put 72 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.029 it even more bluntly, who are the children of the devil? He says. 73 00:07:47.870 --> 00:07:53.470 One loves his brother, one does not. One Practices Righteousness, one 74 00:07:53.750 --> 00:08:01.500 does not. Is this a test that you're passing? Before we get to 75 00:08:01.620 --> 00:08:05.620 that, let's ask this. Is this a worthy test? Well, we 76 00:08:05.699 --> 00:08:09.819 should just say yes, it's in God's word. He says. It's the 77 00:08:09.939 --> 00:08:13.889 test. It's the test. But there are some reasons that we can give 78 00:08:15.050 --> 00:08:22.850 and and some some foundations that God's own word gives that do assure us of 79 00:08:22.970 --> 00:08:30.120 its worthiness, even beyond its very presence as his word. One is that 80 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:35.039 because he is righteous himself, this is what the Day of judgment is all 81 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:41.549 about, after all, righteousness, holiness, separating light from darkness, good 82 00:08:41.710 --> 00:08:50.669 from evil, godliness from ungodliness. and Jesus is righteous. We are to 83 00:08:50.909 --> 00:08:56.340 abide in him and he is the righteous one. We know that from his 84 00:08:56.580 --> 00:09:03.379 divinity, born of God. We know that from his actions. As you 85 00:09:03.220 --> 00:09:07.740 comb through the gospels, or you comb through the prophecies about him, or 86 00:09:07.820 --> 00:09:15.210 you comb through the expositions about his life after he ascended into heaven, you 87 00:09:15.289 --> 00:09:20.289 will never find a single action, a thought, a moment where Jesus slipped 88 00:09:20.409 --> 00:09:28.679 in sin. We fall all the time, we're constantly dealing with our own 89 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:35.159 sins, but Jesus is never that way. Jesus is the light and walks 90 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:41.549 in light every moment. He walks perfectly according to the will, will of 91 00:09:41.669 --> 00:09:48.909 God. We know it from Jesus's righteousness that he is Rightel or his divinity 92 00:09:48.029 --> 00:09:52.470 that he is righteous. We know it from his actions. We also know 93 00:09:52.590 --> 00:09:58.179 it from his mission. We read that he came into the world, we 94 00:09:58.419 --> 00:10:03.700 came at he came into the world to put to death the deeds of the 95 00:10:03.779 --> 00:10:11.049 flesh, to stop the sinning that goes on. He came to purify a 96 00:10:11.169 --> 00:10:13.850 people for himself or, as Paul says, an Ephesians, to take his 97 00:10:15.129 --> 00:10:22.440 bride and present her before himself as spotless and perfect. This was Jesus's mission, 98 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:28.720 this is what he desired to do. The reason, we read the 99 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:33.519 Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. This is 100 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:39.389 what Jesus was all about, righteousness, crushing the head of the serpent. 101 00:10:43.190 --> 00:10:50.299 And finally, we know that that mission was accomplished. Jesus rose victorious over 102 00:10:50.500 --> 00:10:58.659 the wages of sin, death. Jesus rose victorious over the evil one who 103 00:10:58.700 --> 00:11:07.210 sought to crush him. Jesus rose victorious over death, over sin, over 104 00:11:07.289 --> 00:11:15.289 the devil. All of this proves to us that he most certainly is the 105 00:11:15.370 --> 00:11:20.480 righteous one and, as God on a mission. He we know, and 106 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:26.240 we ought to believe, that that mission is something that he accomplished and could 107 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:31.990 do nothing other than accomplish. What does that say about us? Well, 108 00:11:33.070 --> 00:11:35.629 we, as John says, and as the whole word of God testifies to, 109 00:11:37.149 --> 00:11:41.590 our part of that mission. He went to put to death, that 110 00:11:41.789 --> 00:11:46.870 the deeds of the devil, so that he could save us. We are 111 00:11:46.950 --> 00:11:52.220 called children of God because God has caused us to be born of him. 112 00:11:52.340 --> 00:11:56.779 This is what John Says in his Gospel, that we are born not of 113 00:11:56.860 --> 00:12:03.649 the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. We ought 114 00:12:03.690 --> 00:12:09.490 to be righteous because he is righteous. He is on a mission of righteousness. 115 00:12:09.809 --> 00:12:13.850 He has called us to be righteousness. He is purifying us, even 116 00:12:13.889 --> 00:12:22.639 as he himself is pure. So is practicing righteousness a worthy test of determining 117 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:28.919 who have been born of God and who have not? Yeah, it definitely 118 00:12:30.070 --> 00:12:39.269 is. By your fruit you will know them. John is not being ironic 119 00:12:39.710 --> 00:12:45.179 here. He's not saying, well, you have to be righteous and no 120 00:12:45.379 --> 00:12:50.740 one is righteous and so no one has been born of God. No, 121 00:12:50.980 --> 00:12:56.340 he's trying to give us a helpful way to discern who we are and who 122 00:12:56.419 --> 00:13:03.129 we are not. So that means we have to think carefully about the standard 123 00:13:03.210 --> 00:13:09.649 that he sets out. What does it mean to practice righteousness? Well, 124 00:13:09.809 --> 00:13:16.360 doesn't mean someone who lives perfectly righteousness at every moment, in every time and 125 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.120 in every way. If we did that, we wouldn't need salvation, we 126 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.519 wouldn't have any fear of or of shame, where would be no shrinking at 127 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.269 jdgment. We'd simply go before God and say, you know, I'm perfect 128 00:13:30.669 --> 00:13:33.990 right, but of course we know we can't do that. God says that 129 00:13:35.230 --> 00:13:39.789 no one is righteous, no one does what is right before him. We 130 00:13:39.990 --> 00:13:43.460 all sin in the wages of those sin are the wages of that sin is 131 00:13:43.539 --> 00:13:48.539 death. So he must mean something else here, and indeed he does. 132 00:13:50.100 --> 00:13:54.940 What he means when he talks about practicing righteousness is that this is our habit, 133 00:13:54.929 --> 00:14:00.090 this is our way of life, this is our practice. It's those 134 00:14:00.129 --> 00:14:07.049 who practice righteousness are those that do something that is true of them in a 135 00:14:07.129 --> 00:14:13.840 kind of natural way. In other words, those who practice righteousness are those 136 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:20.279 that are not just a few days into a new New Year's resolution. It's 137 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.149 not something you do one day a week at Church or just part of your 138 00:14:24.190 --> 00:14:28.750 day while you're at work. Now, those who have been born of God 139 00:14:28.789 --> 00:14:35.190 and practice righteousness, it's a part of who they are. No, they're 140 00:14:35.269 --> 00:14:39.220 not perfect. Yes, they struggle, yes, they have doubts, there's 141 00:14:39.460 --> 00:14:46.700 all kinds of difficulties, but they're marked by the marks of their savior. 142 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:54.610 It's who they are. Take animals as an example. A giraffe as a 143 00:14:54.690 --> 00:15:00.409 giraffe because it's been born of a giraffe. Now, maybe you weren't there 144 00:15:00.769 --> 00:15:03.370 on the day that the giraffe was born at the zoo. And yet you 145 00:15:03.490 --> 00:15:09.159 can look at the GIRAFFE and say with confidence, Yep, that's a giraffe. 146 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.759 Why? Because it looks like a Giraffe, it acts like a Giraffe, 147 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:18.759 it has all the signs of being a Giraffe, the same as true 148 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.350 of any other animal, a dog or or a cat, or pick something 149 00:15:22.389 --> 00:15:30.070 more complicated like a chimp. A chimpanzee may put on clothes, may learn 150 00:15:30.269 --> 00:15:35.149 some words, or some kind of words, it might have even human like 151 00:15:35.389 --> 00:15:41.539 expressions, but you would never mistake a chimp for a human. Why? 152 00:15:43.620 --> 00:15:48.940 Because chimps make a practice of chimpness. They don't act like humans, they 153 00:15:48.980 --> 00:15:56.850 don't look like humans. They're different creatures. It's who they are there. 154 00:15:56.929 --> 00:16:00.730 It's permeates everything that they do. They might step away from them, from 155 00:16:00.769 --> 00:16:04.320 it a moment, they might seem to pretend out of it, they might 156 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:11.039 even act not according to their nature or not according to what you would expect 157 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:17.519 from time to time, but they always return quickly to who they are. 158 00:16:19.909 --> 00:16:26.110 Versus eight and nine in this past. It's tell us that not just that 159 00:16:26.190 --> 00:16:33.419 this should happen, but that it must happen. It's impossible any other way. 160 00:16:33.860 --> 00:16:37.740 You're either born of the devil or you're born of God. You produce 161 00:16:37.940 --> 00:16:45.139 the fruit of one or you produce the fruit of another. Is this true 162 00:16:45.259 --> 00:16:51.289 of your life? Is Righteousness what you live for? Is it what you 163 00:16:51.450 --> 00:16:53.889 die for? Is it what you think about? Is it what you strive 164 00:16:55.049 --> 00:17:00.809 for? Is it a regular part? Does it permeate what you do and 165 00:17:00.970 --> 00:17:06.079 when you walk away from it, when you sin, does it feel wrong? 166 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:11.400 Do you feel bad? Do you want to return? Do you feel 167 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:18.309 the need to repent? If that's true of you, then righteousness is a 168 00:17:18.430 --> 00:17:26.390 part of who you are. A second way you can tell that you've been 169 00:17:26.509 --> 00:17:32.420 born of God, John Says, is that you feel somewhat out of place 170 00:17:33.259 --> 00:17:37.299 in the world. There is this hope that is set before us, this 171 00:17:37.779 --> 00:17:45.849 thing that we're waiting for, a coming that we're wanting confidence in. Do 172 00:17:45.970 --> 00:17:48.210 you feel a little out of place in this world? And I don't just 173 00:17:48.450 --> 00:17:52.329 mean that, well, I never felt like I fit in, but I 174 00:17:52.450 --> 00:17:59.960 mean, and that's a logical terms, terms of different registers, terms of 175 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:04.119 this world and the next, this age in the next. Let's go back 176 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:10.279 to animals. Drop a bear in the middle of the city and sure he'll 177 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:14.630 walk around, he'll dig through trash cans. He might even enjoy himself for 178 00:18:14.710 --> 00:18:18.269 a little bit, but it will be obvious right that he's not at home. 179 00:18:21.109 --> 00:18:25.549 Christians are people who ought to get along in the world, have peace 180 00:18:25.670 --> 00:18:30.819 with their neighbors, participate in a variety of the world's activities, enjoy the 181 00:18:30.980 --> 00:18:34.819 foods and the blessings that God has given them. But at the same time, 182 00:18:34.980 --> 00:18:41.140 Christians are those that are never fully settled. They're like travelers at a 183 00:18:41.259 --> 00:18:45.490 hotel. You can kind of see that they're itching to get somewhere net somewhere 184 00:18:45.529 --> 00:18:56.799 else where. I hear Heaven Home, the Psalmist, one of the psalms, 185 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:03.920 speaks about this longing for the courts of the Lord. It's a lot 186 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:08.680 of temple imagery. My soul longs, yes, even faints, for the 187 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:14.390 courts of the Lord, for the House of God, blessed as the one 188 00:19:14.589 --> 00:19:21.750 and whose heart are the highways to Zion. This desire to travel that way, 189 00:19:22.029 --> 00:19:29.859 to be there, to be close. Do we feel that way about 190 00:19:30.059 --> 00:19:36.980 the Lord's dwelling place? Hebrews nine tells us that we don't need to feel 191 00:19:37.059 --> 00:19:41.210 this way anymore about the old earthly temple, because Jesus has entered into the 192 00:19:41.289 --> 00:19:47.970 heavenly one is our faithful high priest and we enjoy that temple now. Through 193 00:19:48.049 --> 00:19:52.809 faith in Him we find the true worship of God, we find the forgiveness 194 00:19:52.849 --> 00:19:56.680 of sins, a sense of his presence. But there's also a waiting, 195 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:00.880 isn't there? A waiting for the full revelation of that temple, of that 196 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:07.079 people, of that city, for all the things of this world to be 197 00:20:07.390 --> 00:20:11.630 stripped away and shaken out, the veil to be torn down so that home 198 00:20:12.750 --> 00:20:22.259 finally and fully arrives? One of the earliest letters after and outside of the 199 00:20:22.299 --> 00:20:27.460 New Testament is this what I love called the epistle to diagnosis, and in 200 00:20:27.619 --> 00:20:34.579 this letter the writer rights that for every Christian, every or for Christians, 201 00:20:36.650 --> 00:20:42.490 every country is his fatherland, but every fatherland is foreign. It means that 202 00:20:42.609 --> 00:20:48.089 of Christian can live anywhere in the world and say this place is home, 203 00:20:48.809 --> 00:20:52.119 this is my fatherland or motherland, it's the place that I know, it's 204 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:56.799 the place that I love. There's not just one place in all the world 205 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:02.160 that is the place of God. Christians can live and dwell and worship anywhere 206 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:08.390 and call at home, and yet at the same time every fatherland is foreign 207 00:21:10.869 --> 00:21:15.710 for the Christian, though he or she can live anywhere and be with God 208 00:21:15.829 --> 00:21:19.259 and worship God and dwell and God abide in him. As John says, 209 00:21:21.900 --> 00:21:26.579 there's a sense in which we're waiting for something else. Isn't there something more 210 00:21:27.420 --> 00:21:33.529 home? This is why, as John says, the world does not recognize 211 00:21:33.569 --> 00:21:40.289 us. Another sign of who we are is people born of God. We 212 00:21:40.410 --> 00:21:47.480 are if we are Christians like Jesus. Jesus has been born from above, 213 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:51.680 and so have we. He has a kingdom that's not of this world, 214 00:21:51.720 --> 00:22:00.480 and we're citizens of that kingdom. Living here is resident aliens. This new 215 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:04.150 life that we live as children of God and not as children of the devil 216 00:22:04.230 --> 00:22:12.390 is remarkably different, significantly different, but it is a process. We have 217 00:22:12.670 --> 00:22:17.980 been born, yes, yes, we have, but we have not yet 218 00:22:18.019 --> 00:22:23.180 all become what we will finally be. First John Three to says, and 219 00:22:23.380 --> 00:22:29.660 what we will be has not yet appeared. But we know that when he 220 00:22:29.819 --> 00:22:33.130 appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he 221 00:22:33.450 --> 00:22:38.089 is. This is the hope for us who know that we have been born 222 00:22:38.170 --> 00:22:44.720 of God, whose fruit of that birth is being born in our lives. 223 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:48.440 We who practice righteousness, we who long for heaven, we who feel a 224 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:56.240 little bit unsettled and alienated in this world. Of course, at the same 225 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:00.349 time we know how much the flesh still clings to us. We know how 226 00:23:00.470 --> 00:23:07.029 distracted we become, how quickly our eyes divert away from Jesus to the shiny 227 00:23:07.150 --> 00:23:15.019 things of the world. But don't lose heart about your imperfections. Don't lose 228 00:23:15.220 --> 00:23:21.819 heart over your sins. It's not that they don't matter. They do. 229 00:23:22.259 --> 00:23:26.410 Jesus died for them, after all, he suffered for them. They matter 230 00:23:26.450 --> 00:23:32.970 a great deal and we ought to put them to death. But I say 231 00:23:33.170 --> 00:23:37.450 don't worry about them, or rather, don't lose herd or don't despair over 232 00:23:37.569 --> 00:23:42.319 them, because of what John is saying here. The story is not yet 233 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:52.079 over. Your pains, your diseases, your struggles with sin, you're suffering. 234 00:23:52.240 --> 00:24:00.869 It's real, but it's not final. How can we be born of 235 00:24:00.950 --> 00:24:06.710 God? How can the hope of Heaven and the practice of righteousness be ours? 236 00:24:08.829 --> 00:24:15.180 John One twelve says, but to all who did receive him, who 237 00:24:15.259 --> 00:24:21.140 believed in his name, he gave the righteousness to become children of God. 238 00:24:22.299 --> 00:24:29.410 As simple as the evidences are, so is the simplicity of the good news 239 00:24:29.569 --> 00:24:38.359 that I just read. How can you be born of God by believing in 240 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:45.319 Jesus, by trusting in him? It was his mission, after all. 241 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:52.480 It was his mission that he came to die for us, to cause us 242 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:56.269 to be born, to purify us and to set us on a road for 243 00:24:56.390 --> 00:25:03.269 heaven. It's a mission that he accomplished, so trust in him. Jesus 244 00:25:03.349 --> 00:25:11.980 is coming. Let that give you hope. Do you want confidence at his 245 00:25:11.220 --> 00:25:19.299 coming? Will then, beloved, be confident in Him. Let's pray