Bite Sized-Pastor Kipp Penrod

Thank you for listening to this message from LifeHouse Church.

Good morning.

Good morning.

It is good to see you at LifeHouse.

You know, as we were worshipping God, I thought crossed my mind, I don't know how many you

came into the doors this morning, maybe came through the front doors or maybe even started

in a parking lot.

But how many of you came through the front doors expecting God to do something?

Yeah, about three of you.

Awesome.

All right.

Listen, expectation is faith.

And when you come to God's house, you should expect to meet God.

When you go to prayer at your home, you should expect to meet God.

When you get in His Word, you should expect to meet God there.

You should listen.

God is a giving God.

He wants to give you something today, something in your head, something in your heart, right?

Something that you might need even physically.

And He's there to do that.

And I don't know why I feel prompted to say this this morning, but you just listen, gear

up now.

It's not too late.

Amen.

I mean, it's good when it's not too late.

It's not too late.

Just come.

Sit there this morning.

Stand later.

But expect God to do something in your life.

I believe that with all my heart.

Yeah, I think God just is sitting up there waiting sometimes for us to expect Him to

do something and expect Him to step in and He'll do it.

He meets us every time.

God always meets faith.

I'll never stop saying that as long as I live.

You can see it all through His Word and it's just true.

Amen.

Amen.

That was a mini sermon.

That's not going to cost you a thing.

All right.

Well, listen, more than once, I've heard this saying, I've heard that the only people who

really like change are babies when their diapers are full.

They're the only ones that like change.

And while I believe that is generally true, I actually am a little more from the school

of thought that the only people or the only thing that people like about change is if

it is bite sized.

OK, people like change if it's bite sized, if it's small enough that they can chew on

it, right?

If it's sample size in nature, people are kind of OK with change.

It's a little bit like going to the ice cream shop.

How many of you thinking about ice cream right now?

Just said it right.

If you go to the ice cream shop and it's a good ice cream shop, you can walk in the

door and there's going to be a glass case and there's going to be all these flavors

of ice cream.

Right.

There's vats of it.

You can go down to Leo's or Massey's here in Carlisle and you might see flavors of ice

cream and you know, and you'll stand in if you're going to change it up.

I know some of you won't because you eat the same thing every time you go there.

But if you're going to change it up, you got a sense of adventure, you go in and there's

a change that's going to take place.

How many know you stand there and stare for a while?

Right.

They like, do I get the rocky road?

Do I get the chocolate?

You know, the vanilla dipped in chocolate.

Do I get the jalapeno cornbread ice cream?

Yeah, come on.

Like who?

It's a real thing.

All right.

Is it raspberry chocolate that I get?

And you'll stand and stare.

And when you finally decide you're going to actually make a change, you'll say, can I

have a little bit of that?

And they bring out this little itty bitty spoon.

It's about this big.

Right.

You put a little bit in there and you throw that thing in your mouth and you got a napkin

in one hand, right.

The sample in the other.

And you take a taste of that thing because it's a change, right.

It's bite size.

And you know, if you don't like it, you can do one of two things.

You can either swallow fast and chuck the spoon or you can act like you're coughing and

spit into the napkin.

Right.

And chuck that right back out of your mouth.

But that's how we like things.

We like things in a bite size.

Right.

Easy to swallow kind of change, you know, and low commitment.

Low commitment.

Say low commitment.

Right.

Easy out in the change.

You like quick, quick route of escape in whatever we're doing.

We like bite size change.

Retailers have caught on to this food retailers.

If you go into somewhere like Sam's Club, you and you wander around the store long enough,

they'll have somebody will be standing behind a little kiosk and they'll have little sample

cups.

Right.

And they're trying to get you to change the food that you're eating and they'll give you

a little sample of some something or other.

Right.

Listen, if you walk around Sam's Club long enough, you can have a meal.

You just keep going around in circles.

Right.

Keep trying to samples out and they're on to it because they know people like change

as long as it's bite sized.

Tell somebody beside you, I like bite size change.

Just admit it.

Confess it.

Right.

Come on.

I like bite size change.

And the new thing is my friend, as long as it's bite size.

But Jesus tells some scribes and Pharisees that if you're going to have Jesus, if Jesus

is the new thing in your life, it can't be sample size and it can't be bite size.

If you got your Bible this morning, I want you to turn to Luke chapter five.

We're going to go to verse 27, Luke chapter five, verse 27.

And I'll give you just a moment to get there.

Give you a second to flip pages.

Luke chapter five, verse 27.

I say that three times because I know when I used to sit out there, they'd say it once

and I was like, I know he said Luke, but I can't remember where I was supposed to go.

Luke five, twenty seven.

If you're listening online, thank you for being with us this morning at East Shore.

Luke five, twenty seven says this after these things, he went out and saw a tax collector

named Levi sitting at the tax office and he said to him, follow me.

So he left all rose up and followed him.

And Levi gave him a great feast in his own house and there was a great number of tax

collectors and others who sat down with them and their scribes and their Pharisees complained

against his disciples saying, why do you, Jesus, right?

Why does Jesus eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?

Jesus answered and said to them, those who are well have no need of a physician, but

those who are sick.

I've not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

And they said to him, why did the disciples of John fast often?

They start questioning Jesus and the disciples and making prayers and likewise those of the

Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.

And he said to them, can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom

is with them?

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them.

Then they will fast in those days.

And then he spoke a parable to them, just like Jesus does.

He tells them a story and he says this.

No one puts a piece of a new garment on an old one.

Otherwise the new makes a tear and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not

match the old.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins or else the new wine will burst the wineskins

and be spilled and the wineskins will be ruined.

But new wine must be put into new wineskins and both are preserved.

And no one having drunk old wine immediately desires new for he says the old is better.

I'm asking you bow your heads and pray.

Father we thank you for this day.

God for your word Lord that is so powerful.

And Lord we ask today, God that you will guide us and direct us.

Lord help us to see what you say in your word.

And Holy Spirit I pray you speak into hearts and minds this morning and we give you praise

and glory in Jesus name.

And everybody said together amen.

Sometimes we may be very comfortable with a bite-sized portion of change.

We'll take the old thing and we'll slap a new thing that's just small enough that we're

okay with it.

We'll take the new patch and put it on an old garment.

We'll slap the old thing into the new thing and we think it's going to do the trick.

We might take a little bit of the new and put it in the old container.

We might mix them together.

We might feel like it's more palatable if I can get a little bit of the new in with a

whole bunch of the old that I've got going on right here.

And Jesus talking to these groups of scribes and Pharisees, these kind of hypocritical

religious leaders that Jesus was doing, he's letting them know I'm doing a new way of ministry.

And you guys are having trouble getting the old mixed with the new.

You're having a difficult time because they were watching Jesus.

They're looking at Jesus and Jesus is meeting with sinners.

He's meeting with tax collectors who were hated and despised in their culture.

Imagine this, Jesus actually built a relationship with these people.

He actually sat down and had a meal with them.

He actually learned who they were to bring them to God.

Can you imagine?

Relational evangelism.

Isn't that something?

And the Pharisees and the scribes say, this is brand new.

We don't do this.

We don't do it this way.

We do it the old way.

They stay over here and we stay over here.

And Jesus told this group of stuffy, unaffected religious leaders, new wine requires a new

container.

Tell someone that.

New wine requires a new container.

New wine requires a new container.

Jesus was the new wine.

He's talking about himself and he was letting these crusty, hard-hearted scribes and Pharisees,

hypocritical religious leaders know that if you're going to consume the new wine, if you're

going to take me, Jesus, I'm God's son, if you're going to take me in, then some things

got to change and it can't be just a little bit.

It can't be just a little bit on the inside.

As a matter of fact, I am brand new.

I've got the new covenant.

I'm the New Testament.

I am the new promise between God and man.

I am the new way.

I am the bread of life.

I am the way, the truth, and the life.

That's what Jesus said.

I'm the new way, the new plan to reconcile God back to man.

All those things, I'm new.

If you're going to drink the new wine, if you're going to take me in, then you've got

to change the wine skin.

It has to become new inside and out.

New wine requires a new wine skin.

Bite-sized change won't cut it.

A little sip of the new mixed in with all that old won't work.

You've got to understand Jesus was speaking in something that they would understand.

He's given them the parable.

He's given them a little picture.

We don't do this so much anymore because we have modern conveniences and we have glass

containers for liquid and those kind of things.

Back in that time, when they had new wine, when they had squeezed the grapes, they would

put it into wine skins.

Wine skins were leather pouches.

They were leather containers that contained the wine, the new wine.

They would put new wine in there and they would do it with new leather because fermentation

causes gases to be released.

When they would seal this, the gases would release and the wine skin had to stretch.

It had to be soft leather where it would stretch out as the gases were released.

If they put it in an old wine skin, if they put it in something that was crusty, and how

many of you saw an old piece of leather that gets stiff and it's been used and it's been

worn and it's dried out and it's just hard.

If they would take that same wine, that new wine, and put it in an old wine skin and it

would begin to ferment, it would begin to expand and expand and eventually it would

split and the wine would be spilled out and the wine skin would be ruined and the wine

would be ruined.

For these scribes and these Pharisees that Jesus was talking to, He said, look, you can't

shove just a little bit of me inside and stick with all the old ways that you're doing things.

You can't make religion, and listen, for the scribes and Pharisees, they weren't really

following God.

They had made this whole religious system.

In some respects they were, but in other ways, they were caught up in the prestige of who

they were in amongst the temple and who they were in their education and they were all

caught in this and they didn't understand.

They weren't even after people who were lost.

That's why they were cutting on Jesus while He's out there talking to people who didn't

know God.

And Jesus told them, guys, this isn't going to work.

If you want God, if you want me, if you want new life, if you want the new covenant, if

you want the new way to God, it's all got to change inside and out.

Jesus on the inside of me means that there's going to be evidence on the outside of me.

If there's change, new wine inside of me, it's going to show up in a spiritual expansion

in my life.

If Christ is in me, I'm going to spiritually expand and it's literally going to begin to

spill out over me.

It's going to begin.

You're going to there's going to be evidence of that on the outside.

You're going to see me begin to expand spiritually.

You're going to see me begin to grow.

It's not a bite size, sample size, kind of like a little dab will do you.

I remember that right.

Little dab will do you kind of change.

It's not that at all.

It's all new.

And we can't claim to have Jesus on the inside and don't see any outside renewal taking place.

It's just not true.

Second Corinthians 511 says this because we understand our fearful responsibility to the

Lord.

We work hard to persuade others.

This is Paul writing to the Corinthians.

God knows we are sincere and I hope you know this too.

Are we commending ourselves to you again?

No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us so you can answer those who brag about

having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart.

If it seems we're crazy, it is to bring glory to God.

And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit.

Either way, Christ's love controls us.

Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our

old life.

The old wine skin, the old sinful man.

He died for everyone so that those who received this new life will no longer live for themselves.

Instead they will live for Christ who died and was raised for them.

Jesus paid the price for your sin.

He prays for the covering of your sin.

But we die to that old life.

Jesus on the inside shows up on the outside.

There's evidence of that taking place.

If there's new wine inside of you, it's going to expand you spiritually and some of that

old crusty stuff is going to bust off of you and something new is going to take place on

the outside.

Verse 16 says this, so we've stopped evaluating others from a human point of view.

At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view.

How differently we know him now.

This means anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.

Say a new person.

Other translations say a new creation.

The old life is gone and a new life has begun.

The old life's history.

It's gone.

My life in Jesus does not look like my old life in the world without Jesus.

There's change.

There's a noticeable difference that begins to take place.

And Paul told the Corinthians if you want new wine in Jesus, if you want Christ in your

life, there's going to be evidence it's going to show up.

What's on the inside is going to come on in the outside and there's no dabble in this.

There's no bite size to it.

You can't stay the same.

Romans 6.5 says this, for we have been united together in the likeness of his death.

Certainly we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this that the old man

was crucified with him.

How many know what happens at crucifixion?

Y'all are church people.

Alright, come on.

Do you know what happens when something's crucified?

It dies.

We know that from Jesus dying on the cross, right?

And the old man was crucified with him.

That old man needs to die off.

Just like Jesus died on the cross, there's crucifixion.

That body of sin might be done away with it.

We should no longer be slaves to sin.

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, knowing that

Christ having been raised from the dead dies no more.

Death no longer has dominion over us.

For the death that he called, he died to sin once and for all.

But the life he lives, he lives to God.

Likewise, say likewise.

Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin.

But alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord, therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal

body that you should obey it in its lusts.

New wine requires a new wine skin.

Not bite-sized change.

There's not a bite-sized change.

If we see change on the outside, or no change on the outside, and Jesus is on the inside,

we should start to question ourselves.

If we say Jesus is on the inside and there's nothing different going on on the outside,

maybe something's wrong.

If we don't got an urge in us to begin to reject sin on the outside because Jesus is

on the inside, maybe something's off.

The old man of sin, maybe he's not dying away, but maybe we're feeding that man of sin.

We don't crucify that old man.

How many of you got to do that on the regular?

This isn't a one-shot deal.

Jesus comes and washes us clean.

It's his blood.

But man, I got to crucify this flesh over and over again.

I don't know if you've ever got carnal, but once in a while I get carnal.

That means I get sinful in nature.

Did you ever get really angry and just say some things you really shouldn't have said?

Amen?

Anybody do that this morning?

Come on, confession's good for the soul.

Sometimes you got to, listen, we got to crucify that old man.

There's no such thing as a camo Christian.

I don't know if you know that or not.

You wear camo in the woods so that you blend in, so that you look like a tree.

So when you crawl up in a tree, you got camo and you just look like the tree that's around

you.

There's no such thing as a camo Christian.

What's on the inside's got to come out on the outside.

If Jesus is on the inside, something's going to look different on the outside.

There's no camo Christians.

It's not a thing.

It's not in scripture, right?

We've got to grab hold of this reality because if I don't, if I don't let Jesus change all

of me, it will ultimately tear me up.

It will ultimately tear me up.

The wine skin will tear.

Everything will begin to spill out.

I won't die to that old sinful self.

I don't let God begin to transform me from the inside out.

I will live in a state of hypocrisy.

I'll live in a state of hypocrisy.

I'll live in a state where Jesus is on the inside, but I am willfully sinning on the

outside and it'll tear you up eventually.

It'll begin to tear you apart.

You'll blow up inside.

When you're struggling with this dichotomy, right?

I know we're always in that struggle, but if we've got Jesus on the inside and we're

intentionally sinning on the outside, that hypocrisy will begin to build up inside of

you and it'll begin to rip you up.

You're saying, well, Pastor, does that mean that you're saying if I have any sin in my

life, right, that I'm going to blow up?

No, not at all, right?

The word of God says all of us sin and fall short of the glory of God.

It tells us that in Romans.

What I am saying is my attitude towards sin should change, right?

It should shift.

I should begin to hate sin because it separates me from God, right?

If I don't hate sin, why don't I?

If I've developed this heart where I'm no longer hating sin and the thing is separating

me, why am I not hating what separates me from God, right?

It's where we're at in our spirit, our attitude.

Do I just accept that I'm continuing on in sin and I keep working the things that are

not godly in my life or do I begin to die to some of those things?

And if you don't, if we don't make that shift, it will eventually tear you up.

The wine skin will tear because you're mixing the old with the new.

If I could give you a picture of this, how many of you have ever driven by like an old

field somewhere and there's an old rusty car sitting out in the middle of the field?

Raise your hand if you've ever done that.

You go by a farmer's field somewhere and there's this car and it might have been from the 70s,

way back in the 70s or way back in the 50s or way back in the 80s, that kind of thing.

So and it's sitting out in the middle of the field and it's got rust all over it and it's

rusted through and some of the panels and there's holes in it and from the outside,

right?

Something and it rusted through and eventually the rust made its way maybe to the frame of

the car or something mechanical in the car and it was never serviced and it began to

rust out and sooner or later it just died and they stuck it on blocks or they drug it

down to the middle of a field or that's where it quit and it's just sitting there rusting

it, right?

Age wasn't the issue.

Age wasn't the problem with the car because there's a lot of beautiful old cars running

around that were maintained.

The problem was that the rust wasn't dealt with, right?

The rust on the outside wasn't dealt with.

It wasn't knocked off.

It wasn't maintained.

Somebody along the way, right?

Somebody was going down the road and they're like, I hear something whistling.

You know, there's a hole in my car somewhere, right?

And they get out and look and they see the rust, you know what they do?

They get in and turn the radio up.

Yeah.

And they just keep on going, right?

And it just keeps eating the panel away and then it works its way to the frame.

Rust is a violation of the car's structural integrity.

Sin will be a violation of your spiritual integrity.

If you let it remain, it'll grow.

If you don't deal with it, it'll continue to grow.

It'll continue to grow and sooner or later you're going to get in this struggle and

something's going to tear if you don't deal with it because unchecked sin separates us

from God.

We got to die to sin.

We got to kill it off before it kills us.

I need to cop an attitude with the rust in my life.

I need to get angry about the rust in my life and come on, push it away.

How many of you got to get an attitude sometimes about sin?

You got to say, I'm not talking about the sinner, I'm talking about the sin in our own

lives.

We got to say no.

You got to get ruthless in removing it.

Charlie's sitting right here in front.

He owns an auto body shop, shameless plug.

He's got an auto body shop.

But do you know what they do to cars that are all rusted when they come in?

One of the first things they do to prep, and I know this because I used to work in a garage

a hundred years ago, they get a grinder out and a grinder is a high speed mechanism that

has a hard grinding wheel on it and it runs at thousands of rpms per minute.

And they grab a hold of that thing and they go to the rust and they begin to grind.

And you'll see sparks flying and there's rust flying and they've got goggles on and shields

and gloves on because it's a violent thing.

And they're just grinding that rust right off that car.

You got to get serious about removing the sin.

You got to get the rust out of your life.

They use another method.

Sometimes they'll sandblast the car.

And what that is, is it's an air hose.

It's a high pressure air hose that sucks up sand and it draws up into this nozzle and

you shoot it at the car.

And man, if you have a good sandblaster, when you hit that rust, it pulverizes it.

It blows it apart.

It takes it right down to the metal.

It's clean.

In our lives, we've got to be aggressive about removing sin.

Be radical about knocking the rust out of our lives.

Relying on the Holy Spirit.

Asking God to forgive us and let the blood of Jesus remove the sin of our lives.

We got to get radical.

And God's got some methods for getting radical with this thing.

You know what the first one is?

It's confession.

Oh, confession.

Confession.

How many know confession?

Confession is a radical thing.

Oh, it is.

Confessing our sin.

Speaking our sin out loud is hard.

Admitting what's going on in our lives and speaking that out is difficult, but it is

powerful.

It is powerful.

When we confess to Christ, when we confess to another individual who's a trusted person,

another believer that we can trust and that they'll pray together with us and not judge

us, right?

They'll just come together beside us.

When you begin to confess that, you know what happens with confession?

You expose the metal, right?

You expose the rust.

You expose the sin.

You put it out there and it's the first step of grinding that rust out of your life.

And it's confession.

And then you go to step two in the preparation.

Which, you know, in this aggressive approach to get rid of sin in our lives, it's repentance.

Right?

Repentance means I was going this way and I repented.

I confessed.

I repented.

Now I'm going this way.

Right?

I was heading this direction in sin and now I decided, you know what?

Jesus said, that's not the way to go.

So I'm going to go this way in righteousness.

It's a complete opposite change.

So you confess and then you repent.

And can I help you out a little bit on the repentance side?

It's not an easy thing to do on your own.

It's a hard thing to do on your own.

As a matter of fact, probably if this sin's been going on in your life for a while and

you've struggled with it and you've hung on to it and you can't seem to get rid of it,

you know why?

You probably need some help getting rid of that thing.

Right?

You know what?

This crazy thing I've observed in life, cars don't grind the rust off themselves.

Strange thing.

I've never seen a car pick a grinder up and grind the rust off its own body panel.

Right?

It needs someone else.

So when you get to confession and then you get to repentance, that same person maybe

that you confess with and you trust and they can walk beside you, you need to walk and

repent with that.

You got to stay accountable.

Right?

You got to have somebody asking you, hey man, you still messing with that thing?

Right?

You still going that direction?

Because it's going to tear you up eventually.

The hypocrisy in your life, you're going to bounce back and forth.

You're going to be like a wave of the sea.

Right?

James talks about that.

You're going to go back and forth and it'll rip you up.

Don't do it.

See sin separates us from a sinless God.

And a lot of people, they struggle with that.

A lot of times I'll say, well sin separates you from a sinless God.

And they're like, well that's not very nice.

You know, why do I understand that?

I don't get that.

Well that's really funny because in our society we completely accept that.

You know, if you sin in society, right?

If you go rob a bank, if you go kidnap somebody, if you get caught murdering somebody, guess

what happens to you?

You get separated.

You get put in jail, right?

And everybody's going hallelujah, right?

The murder is off the street.

And you get separated.

Sin separates us from God.

It did at the beginning.

Go to the Garden of Eden.

It separated Adam and Eve from God.

Knock that thing out of your life.

Get away from it.

Get somebody on board with you because it will separate us from God.

It's not bite-sized change.

It really isn't.

God calls us to radical change, man.

But new wine must be put in a new wine skin and both are preserved.

Last thought for the day.

Last thought about bite-sized change.

The Word of God says in verse 39, it said, no one having drunk old wine immediately desires

new for he says the old is better.

People may need bite-sized samples before they buy the meal.

People who do not know Jesus, I'm not talking about people who have accepted the Lord.

People who do not know Jesus as Lord and Savior, they might need some samples of Jesus.

How many know you're the sampler?

You are the sample.

They might need a sample.

Before they fill up with Jesus, before they say Jesus is going to come into my life and

they're going to turn it all over to them, right?

And inside and out it's going to get all brand new.

They might need a little taste of who he is.

They might need a little taste of what he's about.

They might need just a smidge of what he can do in their life.

They're going to need a bite-sized sample of who Jesus is and you're the bite-sized

sample, right?

And it might convince them to go all in.

It might convince them to like, hey, this is what you need in your life.

I remember years ago for the first probably 40 years of my life, I think it was around

40 some, my wife will help me with the numbers on this, but probably the first 40 some years

of my life, I didn't drink any coffee at all.

And in fact, if somebody offered me a coffee and I had sipped some before I'm like, you

know, drinks that garbage, you know, it's black coffee.

You know, I didn't drink any coffee at all and I just didn't want anything to do with

it.

I want to spend one dime on buying a coffee.

And then one time I was out with my friend named Larry and Larry said, you know what?

You need to try this.

I'm like, I don't know.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I've never had one before.

It's awful.

It's terrible.

He goes, no, you got to try my coffee.

And I'm like, ah, you know, and so he made me this Fufu vanilla latte, something or other

coffee, right?

Never had one before.

I always got that black stuff.

You know, he made me some Fufu thing.

And I took a sip of that thing.

I'm like, this is all right.

You know, I'm like, what is different with this?

And I took some samples of that thing and I took a few more sips.

And then I drank the whole thing.

And then we got multiple coffee makers.

This happened to my wife a little later in life with iced coffee.

And then we bought multiple different kind of coffee makers.

And I built a coffee bar in my kitchen.

I have a whole countertop dedicated to coffee.

All right.

And it has cabinets below with all the coffee stocked inside of it.

Sometimes people need a sample.

They need a sip of Jesus.

If they don't know Jesus.

If Jesus is not Lord of their life, you need to give them a sample because until they get

a sample, until they get a bite size of Jesus, they're not ready to go all in.

And you've got to, right?

Whoever's had the old wine, who's ever lived in the old sin, they don't know what it is

to live a new life.

They don't know what it is to experience Jesus.

They don't know what it is to have the joy of the Lord inside of them.

They don't know what it is to be free, right?

If you've never been free, you don't know what it is to be free.

And you got to give them a sample.

You got to give them a taste of freedom in Jesus Christ.

You got to give them a taste of what it is to have God's joy in your life and in your

spirit.

And then, then they'll go all in.

They'll drink the whole thing.

And then they can begin to knock the stuff, right?

Jesus will come in, wash them clean.

But how about you know it's an ongoing work in our lives.

We'll step back into it again and you're going to have to start knocking it off.

And listen, when you get saved, the Holy Spirit comes into your life and the word of God tells

us that it gives you power over sin.

What you were powerless to do before Jesus, you have the power to do in Jesus.

And He said, knock it off, right?

Just start chipping it off.

Get rid of it.

And when it comes back and you step into it again, just knock it off.

Ask Jesus, forgive you because it's His blood and only His blood that can cleanse you and

make you free and cover you in sin.

But there's something on your part that you got to do.

You got to start stepping in.

Amen.

I'm going to ask you to stand this morning.

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