I've seen lots of believers who pretend they're in 10th grade when they're in the fourth grade, when they're in the kindergarten, it's true, acting, I've been into homes where I love asking little children in the homes you know where there are two children in a home, do you fight with each other and I have never till today seen a dishonest kid, they always, I've seen dishonest adults but all those children say yes uncle, we fight with each other, I don't stop there, I say do you ask forgiveness from each other, what do you fight, yes, I say there's great hope for you, you'll really turn out well, don't lose that honesty because as you grow up, you'll be tempted to say no, we don't fight with each other, we love one another, when you don't, isn't that how a lot of husbands and wives behave, isn't that how they behave, not like children who are honest, I'm not saying we should confess our sin in public, don't misunderstand me but there is a innocence that we lose, it's a honesty that we lose as we grow up and we got to battle that and recover it again, when Jesus said if you want to enter the kingdom of heaven, you got to be like a little child and there's one thing a little child doesn't have, pretense, you look at a baby in a cradle, it has zero pretense, it's not pretending to be spiritual or holy or wholehearted or godly or anything or handsome or clever or nothing, if you want to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus said you must be like little children, so that's the other danger we face of pretense, new covenant churches, the dangers we face, another thing I want to mention is you know when we preach holiness, we can try to proclaim, reach some unrealistic standards which we can never attain to till Christ comes again and then get condemned because I don't reach there, we must root ourselves in scripture, for example to think that I will never sin from now on till the end of my life, it's an unrealistic standard because you find the balance in scripture, see 1 John chapter 2 and verse 1, my little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you don't sin, definitely that is the standard, that is new covenant church standard, I'm telling you these things so you don't sin, any type of sin, anger, bitterness, unforgiving spirit, complaining, grumbling, jealousy, any type of sin, I'm writing to you that you don't sin, but little children, some of us may sin, all of us, if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, why put that, but if anyone sins, because that is a possibility till the end of our life, to learn to walk in victory over sin is like a child learning to walk, when we are born, none of us knew how to walk from day one, it took us one, one and a half years before we learned to walk, that's a picture of overcoming sin, but even then we are not steady on our feet, but then a time comes when we are really strong on our feet, we can run without falling, but is there anyone here who can say, I think I'm among the oldest here, 77, I can't say I will never fall, I can trip on a stone and fall today, so that's the balance, I've learned to walk, I'm not like a six -month -old child, not learning, not knowing how to walk, I know how to walk, I've understood victory, but I can slip up and fall, but if I fall, I won't even lie down there for one second, I get up, like I heard a brother say, you shouldn't get up, you must bounce up, you know, like a ball, how long does a ball stay on the ground when it hits the ground, I like that expression, when I fall, I bounce up, if you don't bounce up, you'll be discouraged, lie down there and say, oh, I preached such high standards, but it was bad, that is another danger, because you put some unrealistic standard before yourself that I will never say, that can happen, you know, we can sometimes go beyond scripture, there's an expression of that in 2nd John, I don't know whether you noticed it, 2nd John verse 9, verse 9, 2nd John, it's only one chapter there, verse 9, if anyone goes too far and does not stay within the boundaries of the teaching of Christ, have you ever understood what it refers to, that is going too far, he won't have God with him, I like that, let me paraphrase it, if you go beyond the boundaries of the teaching of Christ and go far beyond, go outside that circle, you won't be having God with you there, you'll be yourself, and the devil, if he can't hold you back, he'll push you too far, to hold you back is to say, tell you, oh, well, grumbling, complaining, that's not serious, that's keeping you back, going too far is going to some unrealistic standard, saying like, I will never sin again for the rest of my life, what happens after that is, you know, that there are different movements in history that have preached holiness, one of the great movements that preached holiness was John Wesley's Methodist Church, the great emphasis on holiness, but some people proclaimed a holiness there, where they said, the Holy Spirit burns up the flesh inside me, and I'm entirely sanctified, and then what happened when they sinned after that, the actors would pretend that they had not sinned, what about the honest people, there were some honest people, they said, what to do now, because I was sanctified last week, and now I'm doing this stupid thing, so they had to find another name, they called it a mistake, it was not a sin, I've overcome all sin, but I made a mistake, but the problem there is, the blood of Christ does not cleanse mistakes, you have to live with it for the rest of your life, if you confess it as a sin, it's cleansed, but if it's a mistake, you've got to live with it, and probably you'll be lost, you see how people were very clever, they preached holiness, and they realized what they preached was an unrealistic standard, and they were not honest enough to say, that is my mistake, there was, I don't know whether you know about the Seventh -day Adventist group, that was founded by a man called William Miller in the 19th century, and I don't remember the exact dates, but he said something like, Christ is going to come in 1844, or some year there, back there, and he didn't come, so he gave another date, I don't know whether it was 1841 and 44, or something like that, he gave another date after some calculations, and Christ still didn't come, the guy was honest, he said, I'm sorry folks, I made a mistake, there are people who said that in the 20th century through 1964, and 1994, and different type of things, okay, but there was another lady there in the Seventh -day Adventist system, who, she's almost considered the leader of the Seventh -day Adventist now, and she said, no, no, no, Christ has come, where is he?