Title: Am I Condemned If I'm Rude to My Wife? Meta: Suppose a true Christian dies after committing a sin and they never get to confess it – would they go to heaven or hell? They answer is: they would go to heaven and not hell. Yet to this some say, “So we can sin that grace may abound?” But Paul is adamant that the true Christian cannot continue in sin, because as a new creation in Christ they already sin more than they want to. Tags: justification,condemned,salvation 1 00:00:00,768 --> 00:00:04,527 Suppose that I get up this morning 2 00:00:04,527 --> 00:00:07,737 and I'm a little bit unkind and rude to my wife 3 00:00:07,737 --> 00:00:10,951 and I don't really even think about it. 4 00:00:10,951 --> 00:00:13,146 And I go off to work, 5 00:00:13,146 --> 00:00:14,384 and it dawns on me, 6 00:00:14,384 --> 00:00:18,222 that was sin. 7 00:00:18,222 --> 00:00:20,743 It wasn't intentional, but it was sin. 8 00:00:20,743 --> 00:00:23,773 The Bible talks about that, you know? 9 00:00:23,773 --> 00:00:25,521 Unintentionally sinning. 10 00:00:25,521 --> 00:00:26,796 There is such a thing. 11 00:00:26,796 --> 00:00:28,620 A lot of it. 12 00:00:28,620 --> 00:00:31,336 And you realize it was sin. 13 00:00:31,336 --> 00:00:33,007 And I call my wife up 14 00:00:33,007 --> 00:00:35,203 and ask her forgiveness. 15 00:00:35,203 --> 00:00:37,775 Or when I see her, I ask her forgiveness. 16 00:00:37,775 --> 00:00:40,746 I ask God to forgive me. 17 00:00:40,746 --> 00:00:43,697 Now, I committed a sin, 18 00:00:43,697 --> 00:00:45,648 and maybe it was two or three hours 19 00:00:45,648 --> 00:00:47,157 before I even realized... 20 00:00:47,157 --> 00:00:50,755 what if I had died in between there? 21 00:00:50,755 --> 00:00:55,815 Would I have gone to heaven or hell? 22 00:00:55,815 --> 00:00:57,170 Somebody nodded. 23 00:00:57,170 --> 00:01:00,026 If you nod, that doesn't answer my question. 24 00:01:00,026 --> 00:01:04,081 You'd go to heaven. 25 00:01:04,081 --> 00:01:05,763 You realize what that means? 26 00:01:05,763 --> 00:01:07,483 That means that during the time 27 00:01:07,483 --> 00:01:08,924 that you committed that sin 28 00:01:08,924 --> 00:01:11,688 till the time that you realized and confessed it, 29 00:01:11,688 --> 00:01:12,827 during that whole time, 30 00:01:12,827 --> 00:01:14,755 you remained in a justified state. 31 00:01:14,755 --> 00:01:18,038 The sin was not imputed to you. 32 00:01:18,038 --> 00:01:20,952 It wasn't on your account. 33 00:01:20,952 --> 00:01:22,952 Now, suppose I knew. 34 00:01:22,952 --> 00:01:25,855 Suppose I was unkind to my wife 35 00:01:25,855 --> 00:01:27,754 and I knew that I'd been unkind to her. 36 00:01:27,754 --> 00:01:28,774 It was a known sin. 37 00:01:28,774 --> 00:01:30,006 I go out the door, 38 00:01:30,006 --> 00:01:33,300 I close it a little bit too hard. 39 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:36,249 And go off in a huff to work. 40 00:01:36,249 --> 00:01:37,750 I know none of you have ever 41 00:01:37,750 --> 00:01:42,140 experienced that as husbands. 42 00:01:42,140 --> 00:01:44,161 And all morning long, 43 00:01:44,161 --> 00:01:46,935 it's bothering you and bothering you, 44 00:01:46,935 --> 00:01:49,138 you know that was wrong. 45 00:01:49,138 --> 00:01:50,645 And you call your wife 46 00:01:50,645 --> 00:01:52,100 and you ask her forgiveness 47 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:53,623 and you ask God's forgiveness. 48 00:01:53,623 --> 00:01:55,545 Now, that was a known sin. 49 00:01:55,545 --> 00:01:58,778 Suppose you had died between the time 50 00:01:58,778 --> 00:02:00,121 that you committed it 51 00:02:00,121 --> 00:02:02,793 and the time you confessed it. 52 00:02:02,793 --> 00:02:04,952 Where would you go? 53 00:02:04,952 --> 00:02:06,729 I hope you'd say you'd go to heaven. 54 00:02:06,729 --> 00:02:09,330 You'd go to heaven. 55 00:02:09,330 --> 00:02:13,449 Now think of what that means. 56 00:02:13,449 --> 00:02:16,049 Their sins and their iniquities 57 00:02:16,049 --> 00:02:17,818 I will remember no more. 58 00:02:17,818 --> 00:02:18,975 I blotted them out. 59 00:02:18,975 --> 00:02:22,939 They're gone. 60 00:02:22,939 --> 00:02:25,995 That's incredible. 61 00:02:25,995 --> 00:02:27,127 The Jews look at that, 62 00:02:27,127 --> 00:02:28,860 and they say man, if that's true, 63 00:02:28,860 --> 00:02:32,195 then let us sin that grace might abound. 64 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:35,526 And if that's what's going on in your heart. 65 00:02:35,526 --> 00:02:38,583 You see, the Pharisees said, 66 00:02:38,583 --> 00:02:41,576 well, that will give a license to sin. 67 00:02:41,576 --> 00:02:43,111 Do you know why? 68 00:02:43,111 --> 00:02:45,017 Because Pharisees read their Bible 69 00:02:45,017 --> 00:02:46,380 because they have to, 70 00:02:46,380 --> 00:02:48,719 and they go to church because they have to, 71 00:02:48,719 --> 00:02:50,556 and they hate being around Christians, 72 00:02:50,556 --> 00:02:53,240 but they have to. 73 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,783 See the difference? 74 00:02:57,783 --> 00:03:00,209 Why is it that it bothered me all morning? 75 00:03:00,209 --> 00:03:02,070 Because I'm a child of God. 76 00:03:02,070 --> 00:03:06,589 And I remain a child of God. 77 00:03:06,589 --> 00:03:08,107 You say, but maybe that will 78 00:03:08,107 --> 00:03:09,422 give a license to sin. 79 00:03:09,422 --> 00:03:11,191 If you're a true Christian, 80 00:03:11,191 --> 00:03:14,340 you already sin more than you want to. 81 00:03:14,340 --> 00:03:17,996 Isn't that true? 82 00:03:17,996 --> 00:03:19,654 Because God says when their sins 83 00:03:19,654 --> 00:03:21,753 and their iniquities I'll remember no more, 84 00:03:21,763 --> 00:03:23,867 He says I'll write My laws on their hearts. 85 00:03:23,867 --> 00:03:25,759 And He puts something inside of you 86 00:03:25,759 --> 00:03:28,695 that wants to be like Him. 87 00:03:28,695 --> 00:03:30,572 That's the difference between religion 88 00:03:30,572 --> 00:03:34,780 and being a Christian. 89 00:03:34,780 --> 00:03:37,061 Now the flesh is gravitating all the time 90 00:03:37,061 --> 00:03:38,007 towards evil; 91 00:03:38,007 --> 00:03:40,302 that's not who you really are 92 00:03:40,302 --> 00:03:41,458 as a child of God. 93 00:03:41,458 --> 00:03:42,960 That's part of who you are, 94 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,607 but that's not the deepest truth 95 00:03:44,607 --> 00:03:45,311 about you. 96 00:03:45,311 --> 00:03:49,555 The deepest truth is: you want the Lord. 97 00:03:49,555 --> 00:03:54,219 He's made you new in the innermost being. 98 00:03:54,219 --> 00:03:59,304 So, the Christian is no longer under condemnation.