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Spiritual Depression Pt. 6: Vain Regret

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our study of spiritual depression. We're up to part five. Part five is that one sin, and again we're using the book by Dr.

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Martin Lloyd -Jones, and that's a picture of the good doctor. All right, it's just a review.

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Remember what is spiritual depression. Psalm 42 .5 is a great description of what it means, you know, why are you in despair, oh my soul, why

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I become disturbed, etc. And then this has been kind of something that we just want to keep be reminded of, is that most

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Christians of all times and in different circumstances at some point in their life find themselves downcast, unhappy, and in despair.

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I mean that's just the way life is. Life happens as they say. All right, so trouble in the life of a

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Christian is not a new phenomenon. That's one of the principles that we've been looking at right along.

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In previous chapters, we've examined the dangers of firstly a superficial view of the

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Christian life. Remember we saw how that certainly can lead someone to being depressed.

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If they only have a superficial view, they don't understand the deeper things, and that's kind of a general principle that's going to run through the whole book.

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In fact, a superficial view of the Christian life is one of the, I would even say, the major causes of spiritual depression.

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The existence of the epistles is proof that there has been trouble and even depression that existed even in the early church.

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The epistles were written to address issues in the early church. Just think of how many of the epistles we can determine were written to address certain problems in the church.

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So this is a quote. Remember, whenever you see the white, that's a direct quote from the book.

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So this is from Martin Lloyd -Jones. The fact is that there are always Christian people who are in difficulties for various reasons, and you cannot read the

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New Testament epistles without seeing the truth of what I am saying. If simply to believe and to accept salvation is everything, then these

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New Testament epistles would never have been needed. Indeed, in a sense, you would not need the church at all.

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You understand what he's saying. If it was just like when you were saved, if there was instant sanctification and you never experienced any trouble, then you wouldn't need the epistles.

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The epistles are meant for that purpose, and you wouldn't even really need the church, in one sense.

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Of course, we know we need the church, but in one sense because the church is the body and we are called to stand by one another, to exhort one another, that's part of the counseling process, is that all of us, the whole church, is supposed to be there for the rest of the body.

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Then he says, the fact that you are unhappy or troubled is no indication that you are not a Christian.

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Indeed, I would go further and say that if you have never had any trouble in your

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Christian life, I should very much doubt whether you are a Christian at all. So if you've had a little trouble in your life, smile.

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That's good news. In fact, that happened right in our church.

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There's one particular brother whom you would all know if I were to name him, and if he were here, he wouldn't mind me naming him, but I'm not going to do it anyway.

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But he came in and he was particularly downcast, and going through a period like this and doubting his salvation, and as there was the two or three of us brothers that were sitting and talking to him, and as he's talking, we all started smiling.

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He says, what are you smiling about? He says, because you're just proving that you are a Christian. The more you're talking about what you're saying, the fact that he was so concerned about his salvation was an indication that he really had it, and that conversation actually helped change his whole attitude around.

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So the principle. Well, chapter 5 deals with the problem of past sin.

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If you notice, I called this chapter,

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That One Sin. We've looked at several different aspects, but this is important because it deals with the problem where somebody has one particular sin.

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It may be more than one, but usually it's one particular sin, and this is a very common situation in the

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Church of Jesus Christ. Somebody comes to faith, and that there's something in their past, in their background, that they can't let go of, and this condition tends to be different than those that we've already seen.

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These are people who understand the basic doctrines. So for example, if you were to talk about the depravity of men, they agree wholeheartedly because they're looking at themselves as being depraved.

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They can articulate justification by faith, but they are depressed and unhappy over a past sin.

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It may even be only one event, or it could be a particular sin that is ongoing, but the same sin.

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And so they're depressed and unhappy because they can't get this, they can't shake it loose, they can't get free from the idea that they have committed this particular sin.

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This is a particularly dangerous one. I know of at least one case personally, and if I was to think about it some more, where somebody actually attempted suicide because they felt that they could not be forgiven for the particular sin that they had committed.

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So this is a particularly dangerous one. This again is a quote, generally it is some one thing, some big thing, that is the thing to which they constantly hark back.

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They harp upon it and they cannot leave it. They are always analyzing it and scrutinizing and condemning themselves because of it, and the result is that they are unhappy.

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Sometimes it is something they have said, some word which they have once spoke.

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Now in the book, if you've read the chapter, you know that Martyn Lloyd -Jones uses the example of a man who was 77 years old when he came to Christ, and he had committed blasphemy against Christ.

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He used Christ's name in a way and called him a particularly offensive name in his past life.

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Now the interesting thing is this man had lived a very evil and immoral life, but he felt that yes,

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God forgave him from all of that, but he couldn't forgive him of the sin of blasphemy against Christ. So he understood he was forgiven from all of those, but he wrestled with the sin of blasphemy and could not let go of it, and that's when he came to Dr.

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Jones. It kept haunting him and he would dwell upon it. He was depressed, rather unhappy.

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Any pastor who has been a pastor for any length of time will tell you that this is not an uncommon situation in the church.

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Every pastor deals with this at one point or another. So the cause.

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What is the cause of this? Well, first and foremost is spiritual warfare.

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I'm gonna harp on this over and over again because I think far too often we forget about this.

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We know it. Everybody knows Ephesians 6, you know, putting on the armor, but when life's real -life problems come to us, we have a tendency of just looking for the material and the physical realm.

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How can I solve these problems? And you're forgetting that the cause, ultimately, is spiritual warfare.

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Don't forget that the main enemy of the church is Satan himself, all right? And while he was defeated at the cross, he is still a powerful adversary.

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That's why he's mentioned in the epistles, you know. We understand, and this again is one of the reasons why doctrine is so important.

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We know that Satan is defeated on the cross because the scripture tells us.

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If you look around the world and try to make your assumptions about Satan from what you see in the newspapers, on the news and all, you might come away and say, boy, it certainly doesn't look like it.

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It doesn't look like he's been defeated, but the scripture tells us exactly in what sense he was defeated and in what sense that he can continue to harass the church.

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He knows he can't take your salvation from you. Remember, Satan knows his doctrine, okay?

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So his object, then, is to render Christians ineffective in the battle, all right, because he knows he can't rob you of your salvation.

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But if he can keep you miserable and ineffective, what kind of a gospel witness do you have? Now, this is true in all causes of spiritual depression, so no matter, even the ones we're going to look at in the future, remember this is always one of the causes, and especially an underlying cause.

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Don't forget 1st Peter 5 .8, be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

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That's how he operates in this, the church age, okay?

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But you have to remember, he is a defeated foe, all right?

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He can only go so far. He can't even touch you without permission, all right? And Peter would know this very well, right?

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Why would Peter know it very well? Yes, because Christ told him, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat.

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And what did Jesus say? He didn't say, well, don't worry about it, I'm not going to let him. He says, no, but I prayed for you, that when you're restored, you would encourage your brothers.

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But there's a second cause. First is, obviously, the underlying cause is spiritual warfare, but there's a second cause, and that is a failure to understand the extent of the doctrine of salvation.

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See, it's one thing to understand that you're saved.

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In fact, let me just, a brief aside here. One of the factors involved in the church today is that there are so many people who are truly saved, know they are truly saved, but they don't understand, number one, how they were saved, nor the extent of their salvation and what that means in their daily life.

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Here's what I mean. Most often, somebody in this position can articulate clearly the basic doctrines.

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They can tell you, yes, I'm saved. I prayed as I repented.

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God saved me. He forgave me of my sin. I know that I'm to be sanctified.

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They can tell you all of that, but they fail to understand and apprehend the extent of it.

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So Martin Lloyd -Jones says something very interesting at this point. We're talking about the cure, and when you first see this, you're going to go, wait a minute.

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Stop praying and start thinking. How often you ever hear a pastor say that?

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Well, now, of course, prayer is always a part of this solution. He's not saying don't pray about the matter, but the reason he says this is that sometimes when people are praying and they continue to pray about the same thing, it's actually fostering them dwelling on it in an unbiblical way.

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You realize that prayers can be unbiblical, even the act of praying. In fact, let me give you a prime example of how where I've actually told people not to pray.

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I had a woman in the counseling room, and she sat there and explaining the difficulty she was having, and she said, so pastor,

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I am going to divorce my husband, and I said no, and I gave her all the biblical reasons, showed her in the

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Scriptures where it is. In her particular case, it was definitely not a case that she could divorce in a biblical way, and she said, well,

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I'm going to pray about it. And I looked at her, and I said, don't pray about it, because that would be a sinful prayer.

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When the Bible speaks, you don't pray to see if you're going to obey it. You just do it, whether you like it or don't like it, or if you understand it or don't understand it.

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So that's the point that he's saying here. There comes a point where you have to stop praying and start doing, okay.

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In this particular case, prayer is not enough by itself. Action is needed in the form of working out your doctrine, and again, this is another reason why

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Christians need the church. If you're left to yourself,

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I can rationalize almost any action.

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I was good at it before I was saved. In fact, I was excellent at it. You need to be involved in the community of believers so that when your thinking starts to go askew, you get a brother comes up, slaps you upside the head, and says, stop thinking that way.

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That's not biblical. By the way, that's a figurative slap upside the head.

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I don't want everybody going on slapping us. Oh, the pastor told us to do this. And he uses the example of the

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Apostle Paul to show just how wrong this thinking is.

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The thinking is that I have committed a sin that is so egregious that I can't be useful in the kingdom, and that's why they're depressed.

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So he uses the example of the Apostle Paul, who is the perfect example for this.

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First Timothy 1, starting in verse 12, I want you to follow along carefully. Now this is

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Paul to Timothy. Remember who Timothy? Timothy is a young pastor. I thank

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Christ Jesus our Lord who has strengthened me because he considered me faithful, putting me into service.

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The Apostle Paul is counseling young Timothy, and he's thanking

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God for him considering him faithful, putting him into service. Why would he thank him for putting him into service?

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He says, for even though I was formerly a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a violent aggressor, that's about as bad as you can get.

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Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our

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Lord was more than abundant with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.

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Notice where he puts back. Paul, for his usefulness in the service, he's not saying, but I turned my life around.

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I went through a 12 -step program, or a 7 -step program, or 32 .5 % program.

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He says, I was shown mercy. It was the grace of the Lord. This is what we really need to keep focusing on.

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The church, every time something new develops, the church develops another, quote, program to move people along in their sanctification.

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For my money, that's like adding to the scripture. It demeans our doctrine of scripture because we were promised in scripture that in the word we have everything that is necessary for life and godliness.

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It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom

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I am foremost of all. Any dissension from that?

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Paul considered himself the worst. Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me the foremost,

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Jesus Christ might demonstrate his perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in him for eternal life.

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So here's the first thing. You're struggling with this? Maybe you have something that you, a persistent sin in your background, or maybe even just one particular act, and you just can't get it out of your mind and say, how could

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God ever forgive me for this? Paul says, wait a minute. Whatever you did, I've done worse, and look what he did to me.

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In fact, I think I broke it down into the essence of Paul's argument.

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First of all, he's saying, there's no bigger sinner than me. When I read that the first time,

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I said, no, you're right, you're wrong, Paul, I got your beat. Well, we should all have that attitude, and God has seen fit to use me in a wonderful way.

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Look how he used the Apostle Paul, the chief of sinners. If he can use me in this way, he can use anybody.

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So if you're sitting here being depressed, and you're saying, well, God can't use me because of who

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I was, you're in direct contradiction with the Apostle Paul. He said, if he can use me, he can use anybody.

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There's no sin too great, okay. See, the reasoning of a person who is going through this type of depression is that some sins are greater and may not be forgivable.

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And I'm not going to get into the unpardonable sins, the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, because the chances are most of you don't even really know what it is, nor could you really have committed it.

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But that's a whole sermon. The example of the

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Apostle Paul blows that reasoning out of the water. Paul stands right up, he says, look who

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I am. He says, and if God can use me in this way, he can use anybody.

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And here's what the good doctor says. Now, says the Apostle, I am a test case, and whatever you may think about yourself, put it up against my case and see where you stand.

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That is the first argument. You think of his case and say to yourself, if he obtained mercy, if he could be forgiven,

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I must think again of this sin in my life. Now you see why he said stop praying and start thinking.

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Not thinking about anything, but thinking about Scripture. Now the second part of the curve is related to the first.

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We must stop thinking in terms of our particular sin or sins, but instead think of our relationship to God.

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Do you realize that if you start dwelling on your particular sin, even if it's only a one -time thing or one particular persistent sin, where are you putting your focus?

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It's all about me. And even though we say, oh, I'm saved by the grace of God, but, oh,

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I committed this one sin. And that's why I love the way

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Chris Arnson signs off Iron Sharpens Iron. I think he still does the same way. He says, just remember that Jesus Christ is a greater

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Savior than you are a sinner. Remember, we're speaking of Christians, not unbelievers.

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This whole chapter very specifically, the doctor says, no, I'm talking about people who are truly saved.

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These are real Christians, not make -believers. So, see, we have a tendency to rate sinners on a sliding scale.

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We all do this, especially if we see somebody who's sinning in what we think is a greater way than us, that makes us feel better.

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Who prayed that way? How about the Pharisee? I thank you, Lord, that I'm not like that lowly publican over there.

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You see how subtle this type of thinking? How many times have you said, I'm not as bad as that guy?

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How could he possibly have done that? As soon as you start saying that, boy, you're on a slippery slope down the

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Pharisee Highway. Therefore, we look at some conversions as being more remarkable than others.

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You want to know the greatest when, let's see, I've been in ministry 28 years now, and I can't even imagine how many baptisms

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I've performed. One of the blessings of being a pastor, and especially doing baptisms, is you get to listen to all the testimonies of conversion.

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And I can't tell you how many times I've had a young man, young girl come in, and they say, well,

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Pastor, I don't have much of a story, because I grew up in a Christian home, I was saved, and never really got into any sin.

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That's a great testimony! That's what we should be all striving for, so that if we have

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Christian families who are raising their kids in a Christian home, leading them to Christ at an early age, and we're preventing them from getting into all of this garbage that's out there.

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That's the best testimony in the world, and I always tell them that. That's the best testimony, and I love it, my heart rejoices when

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I hear that. It's great to hear of the mafia hitman responsible for 50 deaths, and then miraculously he was saved and everything else.

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Do you know what that guy's got to deal with? There's a guy who could very easily go into spiritual depression.

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He needs the church, but the young couple, the young kids that come up through the church, and they've never had to experience that.

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What a blessing! So, we've got to rid ourselves of this type of thinking.

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It's the same amazing grace that saves a hardened criminal and the law -abiding grandmother who bakes oatmeal raisin cookies.

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You knew I had to put that in there.

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While we may categorize sins, and there is a sense in which there are sins that are more heinous than others, and I believe that hell is graded in that way, that there are going to be some people who are treated more harshly than others.

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I think the Bible is clear on that, but all sin is an offense to God, and what we have to start doing is putting our thinking where God is at the center.

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It's not how bad of a sinner we are, it's how great a God he is. So we must look at all sin if we are to avoid especially this type of depression, and this is what we see in Scripture.

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When Joseph is tempted by Potiphar's wife, how did he respond? How could

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I then do this great evil and sin against God? Notice he didn't say,

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I sinned against Potiphar. I mean, he did initially talk about, you know,

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I can't do that to Potiphar, but where is the sin? The sin is always against God. That's his major concern.

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It wasn't so much the relationship with Potiphar, although that was important to him, but ultimately, how can

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I do this to God? We see the same attitude in David after he sinned with Bathsheba.

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Psalm 51 is the Psalm where David repents. Notice how he begins, against you, you only have

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I have sinned. Well, what about Uriah and Bathsheba and her whole family and the nation?

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Is David saying that that's not important? No, but he's getting to the heart of it.

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The main thing is I've sinned against God, and that's where I have to keep my focus.

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Now, there are other things. I mean, David repented. There are other people that he'd have to go to in restitution and those type of things.

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The third step in the cure is to recognize that there's always an element of unbelief in this type of sin.

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Now, again, we're talking about true believers, though, but there's still an element, and again, this is probably true of all types of depression.

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First John 1 .9, we quote this, I think, every Sunday morning. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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If a person is struggling with one particular sin being unforgiven, he's questioning the truthfulness of that verse, and I've actually sat in the counseling room with the believers.

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God can't forgive me of that. I say, you just call God a sinner.

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He's every sin, forgive us our sin, to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So if you struggle with that, it's a form of unbelief.

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Still under the cure, Martin Lloyd -Jones alludes to Peter's vision of the unclean animals in Acts 10 to make his point.

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Everybody knows the story, right? Peter's having a little snooze on his balcony, has a dream, the sheet comes down, all the unclean animals, and God says, take and eat.

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He says, no, not me, Lord. I would never touch one of those things. I'm a good little Jew. I don't mean that in a disparaging way.

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He was. And then what happens?

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God rebukes him. And what does he say? What God has cleansed is truly clean.

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Don't tell me, Peter, what you can eat, what you can't eat. I tell you what you can eat, what you can't eat.

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It's an act of belief. Do you believe the Word of God? When God forgives the sin of a repentant man, he is truly forgiven.

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Who the Son sets free is free indeed. He does not have to continually ask for forgiveness of that one sin.

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This is the point in particular that Lloyd -Jones was making when he says stop praying.

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There comes a point where your prayer is actually a sinful prayer. If I ask

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God to forgive me for a particular sin, and then I go back the next day and say,

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I want you to forgive me for that sin. I don't feel like I've been forgiven. People say things like this.

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That's wrong. No, if I asked him to forgive me, he's forgiven me, and it's sinful to bring it up again.

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To do so is to question the Word of God. That too is unbelief.

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And then here's another quote. Another trouble with these people is that they not seem to realize fully what our

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Lord did on the cross on Calvary's Hill. They do believe in his sacrificial atoning death, but they do not work out its implications.

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This is what I was talking about earlier. They have not fully grasped the doctrine. They know enough to be saved.

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I am speaking of Christians, he says, but they are in a state of depression because they do not realize fully what this means, which means they do not fully grasp the extent of the doctrine of justification.

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What is the doctrine of justification? Well, even though they believe it and can articulate it, they miss the extent.

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If you ask them, what do you mean when you say you've been justified? What did 99 % of Christians say?

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It means that I've been forgiven of my sin. I've been saved. That's not the whole doctrine.

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Our sins have been forgiven, and we have been declared righteous through Christ.

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And when God does that to us, he does it once and forever. You are hidden, you, yourself, and your whole personality and life stand in the righteousness of Christ before God.

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I say, therefore, with reverence and on the authority of the Word of God, that God sees your sins no more.

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He sees the righteousness of Christ upon you, lay hold of that. This is

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British for, take that. Do you get the idea?

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And this is something that I think a lot of Christians just don't get. As God looks at me right now,

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I'm still sinning, but he doesn't see that. What he sees is the righteousness of Jesus Christ, which has clothed me since I became saved, and that's true of every believer.

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That's an amazing thing, and we really need to come to grab that and grasp that and apprehend it and have it become part of our thinking, which leads to another important doctrine that is often neglected, the doctrine of our union with Christ.

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And you very seldom hear this one talked about. He says, ultimately, it comes to this, that the real cause of the trouble is failure to realize our union with Christ.

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Many seem to think that Christianity just means that we are delivered in the sense that our sins are forgiven.

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That would be enough. That's more than we deserve, but that is only the beginning.

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But one aspect of it, essentially, salvation means union with Christ, being one with Christ.

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As we were one with Adam, we are now one with Christ. That's why when

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Paul was confronted by Christ on the road to Damascus and Jesus asked him, what did he say to him?

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Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Well, Jesus was in heaven at that point.

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How could Paul be persecuting him? Whatever he did to the church was said to be done to Christ because of our union with Christ.

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He says, let me sum it up this way. You and I, and to me this is one of the great discoveries of the

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Christian life, I shall never forget the release which realizing this for the first time brought to me.

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You and I must never look at our past lives, we must never look at any sin in our past life in any way except that which leads us to praise

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God and to magnify his grace in Christ Jesus. I challenge you to do that.

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So if you're focusing on any of your past sins in any way other than praising God and glorifying

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God, which would mean if you're sharing with somebody and you want to use yourself as an example, just as Paul used himself as an example, that would be a way.

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But if it's in any way bringing you down, depressing you, making you unhappy because of something you did, you're in the wrong.

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And I'm just going to close with these verses.

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This is Paul. Now this is in 1 Corinthians 15, which every believer, as soon as you hear 1

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Corinthians 15, what should immediately pop into your mind? The gospel, in particular the resurrection, because he gives the gospel in the first couple of verses and then he goes in to talk about the resurrection and whatnot.

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But this is Paul talking about how the proof for the resurrection of Christ was that he appeared alive to people on earth.

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And after talking about 500 people at one time and to Peter and to James, he says, and last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared to me also.

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Now look at what follows that. For I am the least of the apostles and not fit to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church.

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But by the grace of God, I am what I am. The grace of God.

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And his grace toward me did not prove vain, but I labored even more than all of them, yet not

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I, but the grace of God with me. Great verses. Questions?

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Yes, Ted. Just a comment on the restraining of Satan in the world and in our lives.

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The great picture in Pilgrim's Progress of the lion in the way and he's walking and he goes forward, but he discovers that there are chains on the line.

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That they can only go so far. Yes. And also, did that woman go ahead and get the divorce?

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That would be, no, I don't remember exactly because there's been, actually that happened to me more than once.

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So it happened so many times that it was almost, I almost was spiritually depressed it happened so often.

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Maria. Interesting that Ted brought up Pilgrim's Progress because I was actually thinking of the

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Giant of Despair. When he can only be hopeful and Christian, but he can't kill them or destroy them.

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He has to implore them to commit suicide and because they don't, they escape.

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Good. Pilgrim's Progress is such a great allegory of the

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Christian life. I mean, it's nothing, no literature other than the Bible. It's better than that.

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Yes, Anthony. Paul in Romans chapter 6 verses 9 through 11 uses the word no five times and this is,

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I think it's back to stop praying and you gotta go back to what Paul says. Don't you know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ were baptized into his death?

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We know that our old self was crucified. We believe that we will live with him. We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again.

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So you must also know yourselves as dead to sin and lie to Christ. It's no, no, no. Yeah, yeah.

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Any other questions? Comments? Yes. I've only read up to chapter two so far.

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I'm a little behind reading the book, but is he pointing out that anxiety also plays a part in this?

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Yes, yes. Anxiety is like a first cousin to spiritual depression.

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I mean, most people who are depressed are also anxious, and so the cure is really the same.

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Sure. Any other questions?