06-07-2020 (Online Church Service)

Prayer in Romans 8 and the Holy Spirit’s Help in Prayer

Praise the Lord for our meeting already today, and all the wonderful prayer requests and the prayers that have gone up. I always get to hear Glenda play right before I preach, and she is anointed. She walks with the Lord, and that makes such a difference, and she plays beautifully.

Thank you, Glenda, for that. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. We'll get started here. Lord, we just thank you for this time of our service. We ask you to speak to our hearts through your Word, and may your Holy Spirit amplify and enlarge the meaning of it in our hearts to the extent that we can hold it all.

You know exactly what that extent is, and so help us to grow so that we can hold even more truth about our Lord and love for you and for each other. Lord, we ask you to bless this time, and may you be our teacher in Jesus' name.

Amen. All right, so let's review a little bit as we go through the book of Romans verse by verse. We hit this passage in Romans chapter 8 verses 26 through 28, and it's on prayer. In fact, I've listed about 10 topics on prayer that I have taught many times through the years.

It's hard for me to believe it's pushing 40 years. I've been in the ministry now. I feel 18. If I could figure out how to do this without me showing, you might believe I was, right? But I guess that's because if you think about it, our soul and spirit don't age.

We just get better with time, right? But our body goes the other direction because of the fall and the curse and all of that, but it's all part of God's will. And so the good thing is we can grow to know the Lord better and better every day, and that is our goal.

My job is to cause you to study more, so I hope I can accomplish that today. But here are 10 really good topics on prayer that we've taught many times, but we're really on the 10th one because that's the one that's right here in our passage in Romans 8, 24 through 28.

And so that's kind of where we are. I want to remind you that the context of this passage on prayer was what we studied right before it, and it's an interesting verse or a couple of verses there in the middle of Romans chapter 8 where it says, waiting for the adoption to with the redemption of our body.

That is a reference to the end times, to the rapture of the church, the second coming, and then the rapture, and everything that the Bible has to teach about that. Now, I think that's interesting context that we find our passage on prayer in.

And I think, by the way, that this is the greatest passage on prayer in the whole Bible. I think it is the unifying factor for everything taught on prayer in the whole Bible, so I'm excited about it. And we got started really well on this last couple of Sundays.

Today, we'll just continue, and today be very practical application. I think you'll see that in a minute. So out of those 10 things we've already brought into play here, number 3 and number 9, number 3, praying as an envoy, has to do with concepts like this, where Jesus said, if you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.

Well, there's a prayer promise, right? But what does it mean to ask in his name? And then 1 John 5 .19 says, this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

So those two things are, I mean, they're great promises, right? If you do, though, if you ask in his name and you ask his will, your prayer will be answered yes. Okay, how many of our prayers have been answered?

And how many times we heard people say, well, God always answers our prayer, but a lot of times he just answers it no. That's true, but it's because we're not in that arena. We're not praying as an envoy.

So how do we do that? Well, we know that if we do it, the prayer will be answered yes. And so that's kind of what number 10 is going to reveal to us, the power of prayer while in the presence of God. This lesson on prayer reveals to us how to get number three, praying as an envoy to work for us and to actually come into play.

Now, last time and this time, we're actually moving into number nine there, the prayers of David and using his great prayers as examples of some of these teachings on prayer. So last Sunday, we began on the prayers of David.

And today we're going to talk about that a little bit more. Now, just to continue to review, we had a parallel passage we studied a couple of Sundays ago in 1 Corinthians 2 .13, which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teach, but which the Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

And remember, that was a parallel passage from the part we were studying there in Romans 8 .26. And we're still studying this where it says, Likewise, the Spirit also helps our infirmities, our inability to pray right, right?

For we don't even know what we're supposed to pray for as we ought to. We don't know how to pray in God's will, but that's what we need to do to get the yes answer. And the Bible says we don't know how to do it.

So the Holy Spirit has to help us. And there's the great key. The Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And as we look at the Greek, that means sighs. It does not mean gibberish.

So this is not a passage on modern tongue speaking. That's a whole different topic. I've only spent about 40 years studying that topic, but we're not going to go there today. But that's not what this is talking about.

This is actually talking about the fact that we can't speak the Father's infinitely huge language. We don't have enough adjectives in our vocabulary to praise God. We really don't. But the Holy Spirit does.

And so when we pray, he amplifies and translates into God's infinite language, a language that we don't speak, but that's what the Holy Spirit does. And he takes God's mind and brings that into a language we do speak and speaks to our hearts and lets us be part of God's work.

It's a family business. It's all God's work. Everything we're doing is God's work. We're just his kids, and he loves us working with him. Without the Holy Spirit, we could never do that. We could never serve the Lord, nor could we pray or understand anything the Lord's telling us.

We just wouldn't understand the language, but we do. As the Holy Spirit brings God's language, puts it into our language, and we hear his words through the Word of God, but also as the Holy Spirit speaks in our hearts through intelligent language that we understand and moves us, not only through language, but also often through closed doors and open doors and feelings of peace or lack thereof and all the different ways that the Holy Spirit can speak to us in his still, quiet voice.

So we've talked about these things, and in this Corinthians passage, we see here that it says, Now we have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us.

And we saw these different points that we've already talked about. The Spirit searches the deep things of God. See, remember how this passage teaches us that, look at verse 11 there. For what man knows the things of a man except the Spirit of that man?

You don't. And nobody knows the mind of God except God's Spirit, and that is the Holy Spirit. No one knows except him. And so he goes and takes the mind of God and brings that to us, or we would not know the mind of God.

Now remember, by way of review, we've talked about two types of will of God, the will of God taught in the Bible. One is the revealed will, which is God's Word. That's this book right here that God sent us from a place that's not a place where there is no time, not within time, and he put it into time and into space and gave it to us, and not only did he breathe it, he said he'd preserve it to the last generation.

So we have God's Word, and that's his revealed will, but then there is God's secret will, which is something you don't know yet, but you step into it every step you take. And so we talked about that a little bit.

So what happens here is the Holy Spirit searches the deep things of God. That's what verse 10 says here. This is review still. And he reveals that to us when it's time for us to pray for these events.

Now, you know, you say, well, we can't know the future. Well, in a sense, you can. You've got the book of Revelation. You've got the book of Daniel. There's a lot of future things that God has revealed to us, but even things that aren't specifically mentioned in the written Word, he can reveal to us by his Spirit when it's time for us to be a part of it.

And so he will tell us how to pray. The Holy Spirit will bring what God is about to do into our heart and mind, and he will adjust our prayer life to match that, because what do we do? We start out praying what we need and what we want, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But sometimes we're asking amiss when we pray selfishly. But God knows we will. So that's where we start. But this mechanism that's talked about in Romans chapter 8, and then here this parallel passage in 1 Corinthians 2, 9 through 14, is saying that what we need to be open to and ask the Holy Spirit to do is to adjust our prayer into the will of God as we pray.

And he will. He will do that. And as he does that and he brings the mind of God to us and we pray with what God is going to do and is doing, then our prayers are answered, yes. And that is a great thing to know and a great key to prayer.

Why does God do this? Well, verse 12 tells us why. That we may know the things that are freely given to us by God so that we can know these things. And God wants us to have answered prayers, and he wants us to be right in the middle of his work because we're his children and it's a family business.

So these are all things we've talked about. I think it's fascinating. Now, then we came in and we compared this parallel passage to a passage in the Old Testament, Psalm 40, verse 5. David says, Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are toward us.

They cannot be reckoned up in order unto you. If I would declare and speak of them, there are more than can be numbered. Now, you think about this. The Father has so many wonderful thoughts and works that are coming our direction into our life as we are part of his will, his secret will, as we move forward.

Then as we look back, we see what his will was. As we move forward, we're stepping into his secret will of how history will play out. It's all been predetermined. It is all foreordained. God has already been to the end and seen it.

He's been to your future and he's been there with you and gone through it with you already. God is not bound by time. As we understand these things, it's wonderful to understand that there are wonderful works which God has already done.

From the Father's viewpoint, he's the eternal now. So it's like done. But to us, it's our future. And so he has thoughts, our direction, of what his will for our life is. And the whole passage that we've studied in Romans chapter 8 and here in 1 Corinthians 2, 9 through 10, is showing us that the Holy Spirit, one of his ministries, is to take that wonderful mind of God and bring the part that's applicable for now to us so that we know how to pray in God's will.

Then we talked about last time, how do we even know the Old Testament applies to us? Because we're about to go into some Old Testament passages. And here's two verses in the New Testament. Basically, they both talk about the fact that the things that were written of old, of foretime, as the King James says, the Old Testament was written for our learning, those of us who live in this age, at the end of the age.

And those things happened to those folks in the Old Testament so that they could be object lessons through which God could teach us spiritual truths. So all of it is for us. And so when we understand how the Old Testament can give us more colors and more depths of meaning to the great New Testament doctrines, we go back to the Old Testament, we see those doctrines played out in people's lives through object lessons.

All of it's there. And you begin to look for those things, the Old Testament just comes alive. I mean, it's amazing. So then we went into this passage in Psalm 86, and this is what we did last time. We talked about truths that we can see in this object lesson.

Now, this is David's real life. This is King David really living his life, but it pictures so many spiritual things for us. For example, when we see David's enemies, they're real people trying to kill him, right?

And it pictures our enemies, which are the world, the flesh, and the devil, which are very real, but on a spiritual side, right? We have physical enemies too, but the spiritual side is what drives them, and it's a picture of those spiritual truths.

But here in this passage, we saw these things last Sunday. If you want to have prayers answered, pray like David. First thing David did was he would remind God who God is, and you'll see that in this passage.

I don't have time to go through it and teach it again, but we taught it last Sunday. Everything's archived. You can go back, click on it, watch it if you didn't get to see it. But secondly, David would tell the Lord what he would do.

Lord, if you'll answer my prayers, here's what I'll do, all right? He said, I'll walk in your word. I'll unite my heart with you, and I'll praise and glorify God if you'll answer my prayers. So David reminds God who he is and what God has promised him, but also, in other words, what God's word has promised, but also he reminds him what he will do.

And then thirdly, he reminded God that God is merciful. That's always important, especially when we've sinned, right? Reminds God of his enemies, too. David says, Lord, those who hate you hate me, and they're after me, and they want to kill me.

Please protect me. And then he reminds God again who God is at the end. Now, you think about that, how David sandwiched his prayer in between reminding God who God is and reminding God who God is and reminding God what his promises have said, and you say, well, you shouldn't do that.

Well, why don't you look at David's life and see if you got his prayers answered? And the truth is, that's a great model for how to pray, and prayer is asking. So David ends up asking, and then I love that last part down near the bottom in verse 17 where David said, show me a token.

Just give me a little sign, a little something that I know is you in my life. I know it's you doing something in my life showing that you're with me. And boy, that is so cool, and God does that all the time.

It can be very little things that only we see, but we go, okay, I know you're with me. There's nothing wrong with asking the Lord to do that. That's not the same as coming to Jesus and saying, show us a miracle and we'll believe in you.

That crowd, those are evil people that say that. Jesus said, the only sign I'm going to give you is I'm coming out of the grave in three days, and that's the only sign they needed. But this is different.

This is a token in answer to prayers. Lord, show me something, maybe not the grand thing I'm praying for, but just a little token that you're hearing me. Man, that's awesome. That's powerful. David did it.

We should do it. So we talked about that last time. All right, so now let's think back about the actual passage that we're studying here in Romans 8, 26. Likewise, the Spirit also helps our infirmities, for we know not what we ought to ask for like we ought to, but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings, sighs, which cannot be uttered by us because it's in the Father's language.

It's an infinite language. We're finite. And he that searches the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he makes intercession for the saints according to God's will. Now that's how we get our prayers answered.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. That's our prayers getting answered and things working out for good when we love him and we're called according to his purpose.

And notice the context that famous verse is in. It's in the context of answered prayer. And it's because the Holy Spirit made intercession for us according to God's will. In other words, he guided our prayer away from our selfish prayer towards an in God's will prayer.

We submit ourselves and say, here's what I want, Lord, but I'm willing to take what you want. I'm willing for your will to happen in my family, with my loved one here, in my life. I yield everything to you.

Now, Holy Spirit, show me and adjust my prayers. And when he adjusts those prayers, you will be given faith as a gift from heaven that your prayer is about to be answered and that it will 100 of the time.

Now that I've experienced it. I gave an example of it in earlier lessons on this. I won't give another one right now for sake of time, but you can go back and catch the archives, listen to earlier sermons.

But we all have examples in our lives of answered prayers that occurred like that. So we don't know how to ask. The Holy Spirit intercedes for us according in God's language. And the Holy Spirit knows God's heart and he knows my heart.

And he makes intercession according to God's secret will. And then prayers are answered and things work for good. That's really, in a nutshell, what we've been teaching and learning in this little section.

So then we go into the Old Testament and we continue to look at David as an example. And so if you have a Bible, turn to 2 Samuel 7, 25, or your phone, or look at the screen, whatever you want to do. But I love it when you see God's Word because you know it's not David's Word, right?

It's the Word of God. Now look what it says here. 2 Samuel 7, 25,. And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning your servant, which means David, and concerning his house, establish it forever and do as thou hast said.

Now let's talk about what do we see here in this passage, all right? What is David doing here? And let thy name be magnified forever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel, and let the house of thy servant, David's house, be established before thee.

For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, has revealed to your servant. Now look what's happening here. We've been talking about doctrinally. What does doctrine mean? A teaching, right? What is the Bible teaching about how prayer works when it's really working?

Is the Holy Spirit goes to the mind of God and no man knows the mind of God, but the spirit of the man. Well, if it's God, then the spirit of God, that's the Holy Spirit. And he takes that mind of God back to the man because the Holy Spirit knows the man's heart too.

That's David in this case, or you and me in our case, right? And what does he do? He brings God's will to David so that David might pray properly. Do we see that in verse 27? Now this is practical. This is real.

This is happening here in David's life. For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, you have revealed to me, saying, I will build you a house. Therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

What just happened? The Holy Spirit brought to David and said, here's what God's going to do. He's going to let you build a house for yourself. He's going to let you start building a house for him, the temple.

And so pray for that. Think about that. See, we've grown up being taught that prayers originate with man on the earth and go up to God and God has to answer him because he's obligated. That's nowhere in the Bible.

Prayers actually, true prayers actually originate in heaven and the Holy Spirit brings them to us on the earth and shows us what to pray and we pray it and then we're working with God and what God is going to do.

We're working with God and God's plan. We're working with God and God's family business. And our prayers are the same as good works in this sense. When we do good works, we're simply working God's work on this earth with him.

It's not us. We can't do anything without him. This little Greek prefix, sum, comes before so many words of things we're supposed to do and it'll say sum, sum Christ. It means together with Christ. There's very, I don't know if there's anything we can do except together with Christ because he said without me you can do nothing.

Well, prayer is the same way but we just never looked at it that way. All right, so, excuse me a minute. So, now we see it played out in David's prayer life. Therefore, has me, your servant, found in my heart to pray this because you brought it to me and told me to pray it.

You told me you're going to do it. So now I'm going to pray for it. Now, isn't that the same thing that we've been studying already only we see David doing it. So, first David consults the word of God.

See that in verse 25? And now, O Lord God, the word that you have spoken concerning me and concerning this house, establish it. So, you've promised me you're going to build a temple. You promised me also that you're going to give me a house and a throne and that someone of my progeny is going to be on that throne forever.

So, now establish that, Lord. So, remember he's doing the same thing we already studied. He's reminding God who he is and reminding God of what God's already promised, isn't he? Now, he reminds God of what he's promised.

You see it clearly in the second part of verse 25. Concerning thy servant and concerning his house, establish it forever. This is what you promised. So, I'm asking you to do it. So, he is praying according to God's revealed will, isn't he?

And now David prays according to God's word. That's the revealed will and we see it in verse 26. And let thy name be magnified forever saying, the Lord of hosts is the God of Israel and let the house of your servant David be established before thee.

So, you've told me, you've revealed to me in your word that that's what you're going to do. So, I'm praying for it to happen. So, now David is praying according to God's revealed will. Finally, David prays according to God's secret will that the Holy Spirit revealed to him in verse 27, the first part of it.

It says, For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel has revealed to thy servant saying, I will build thee a house. Now, that was the Holy Spirit telling David, the Father's heart is to build you a house so that David knows to pray, Lord, build me a house and let me build your house and build me a house and a throne and let my children reign on that throne.

And David prayed according to God's will in the second part of verse 27. Now, isn't that something? So, that's exactly what we're taught to do. David did it and David's prayer is answered, is it not? Look at Isaiah 9, 6.

This looks like a Christmas season verse, doesn't it? We use that every Christmas. Isaiah 9, 6, For unto us a child is born. Who's that? Well, that's David's lineage, isn't it? Moving out into David's future.

That's Jesus, the Messiah, born of the lineage of David. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder. This was David's prayer. Lord, let someone from my family reign, as you said you would, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God.

How can anyone say Jesus is not God? We know that the child who was born, the son who was given is Jesus, and now it says his name will be called the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. I think our Jehovah's Witness friends are wrong, and our Mormon friends are wrong.

Jesus is not a created being. He is the Everlasting Father. He's also the Prince of Peace. Go figure that out. Well, spend the rest of your life studying the Trinity. You won't fully understand it, but you can understand more of it all the time.

Don't ever stop studying it and just say, well, it's a mystery. I can understand it. Once you say it's a mystery, you'll stop studying it. It's something you can learn more and more about. And then it says, of the increase of who?

This person, this son of David, this person out in the future who's of David's lineage, Jesus Christ is his name. Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. Upon the throne of David, here's David's prayer being answered, and upon his kingdom to order it, to establish it with judgment and justice from henceforth and forever.

It's an eternal kingdom. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. Now, we move. We see here in the New Testament another record of David's prayer being answered. Here's the angel speaking to Mary who still doesn't understand these things yet, and the angel is reassuring her.

And he comes to Mary and says to her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in your womb and bring forth a son and shall call his name Jesus. He shall be great.

He shall be called the Son of the Highest. The Lord God shall give unto him, look at this, the throne of his father David. There's David's prayer being answered. Why? Because the Holy Spirit went to the mind of God who no man can know unless the Holy Spirit does this.

But he does do this, and he brings the mind of God to the mind of David and says, Pray for this. This is God's will. This is what's going to happen. But God wants you to be part of it, so he wants you to pray for it.

Pray for it in time and space, and it will come to pass. And it did. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom. There shall be no end. Then said Marian to the angel, How shall this be, seeing I have not known a man?

That's called the virgin birth, and liberal theologians hate that. Liberals and unbelievers hate that, but it's a fact just as sure as any of the rest of Scripture. A virgin gave birth to the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

Hallelujah. And then we go all the way out to the last book of the Bible, Revelation 11 and verse 15. And the seventh angel sounded. How many last trumps can there be? Well, let me give you a clue. The rapture doesn't happen until the last trump, the seventh trump.

And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven saying, look at this, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.

There's David's prayer being answered. Why? Because he prayed in God's will, and Jesus said, Whatever you ask in God's will shall be answered. He prayed in Jesus' name because it was the God who sent the prayer to him to pray it.

So that's what praying in Jesus' name means. Listen, if you don't have the Holy Spirit bringing God's mind to your heart and adjusting your selfish prayer to be a prayer in the will of God, then you cannot pray in Jesus' name.

You just can't do it. You can't pray according to his will. But if you do pray according to his will and in Jesus' name, it will be answered yes. Isn't that awesome? Well, this is how it works. These are the mechanics, but here's a practical application.

We're watching David do it. And David does it, and David gets his prayer answered. So 2 Samuel 8. Now, we're going to go into a passage here, so you're going to have to switch a little bit. But notice where we were.

We were in 2 Samuel 7. Context is everything when we're trying to understand God's Word, when we're trying to understand what God is actually saying. It's not so much what the Bible says. It's what the Bible means that we need to understand.

The only way we know what it means is by context. So here we see all this in chapter 7 of Samuel where David gets his prayer answered. Then we go into chapter 8. And we're going to see that now that David knows how to get his prayers answered, we see a more very practical application of how to pray and why it's so important.

And here's what we need to understand as we set this up. Okay, in Psalm 25 18, we see David teaching us about spiritual warfare praying. Now, one of my mentors, my first great mentor was Dr. Erwin Freeman.

You've heard me talk about him a lot. A Jewish believer who had four earned doctorates, two in theology, one in psychology, one in Christian counseling. He and his wife, Pat, had the largest Christian counseling service in Fort Worth, Texas for about 25 years.

And he was my mentor. And he was actually my seminary. And now I own all of his books because his wife gave them to me when Brother Rocky, what we called him, because his dad was Al Capone's driver, believe that or not.

Rocky was in the mafia before he was saved. But when he got saved, like he told me, he said, Brother David, when I got saved, I didn't just get saved. I also became an evangelist. But he, she gave me all of his books when Brother Rocky went to heaven.

And they're all marked up. I love reading through them where Brother Rocky had studied so much. But he was a great student of spiritual warfare. In fact, far as I know, he's the only Southern Baptist exorcist I've ever known.

And I sort of say that tongue-in-cheek. But the fact is, through his counseling ministry, he had many Christians who came to him that had demons. And a lot of preachers teach that's impossible. No, it's not impossible.

It shouldn't happen to us. And unless we allow it, it won't happen. But there are Christian people who allow it. And then it happens. And he dealt with them. And he knew how to deal with them. He had studied under a man named Ernest Rockstat from Oklahoma, an older man who had learned from missionaries, coming in from the missionary fields in India, Africa, and other places in the world, and who wrote a book or a booklet, many booklets, on spiritual warfare.

And Brother Rocky studied under this man and knew how to deal with it. Pastors all over Texas and all over the country called Brother Rocky to come and help them deal with spiritual warfare in their churches because they didn't know how to deal with it.

And man, I've got some amazing stories on that. But anyway, here we see David talking about it. And this is where people like Dr. Freeman and Dr. Rockstat learned these things from Scripture, but also from missionaries who practically used it on the field.

But look at this. Psalm 2518. Look upon mine affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins. So David, as he's being attacked by physical enemies trying to kill him, that is a picture of us being attacked by our spiritual enemies, the world, the flesh, and the devil.

All right? We have physical enemies that they inspire, too, to come after us sometimes, like David did. But first thing David did when he recognized he was under spiritual warfare attack was he confessed his sins to the Lord.

He said, Lord, apply the blood of the future Messiah to me. Cleanse my mind and my conscience. Look at my affliction, how I'm being attacked. Look at how the people that hate you hate me also, and they're trying to kill me.

Please look at that. And while you're doing it, please forgive my sins. Well, we don't have to ask the Lord to forgive us our sins like David did because he was still looking forward at the cross, and they had a sacrificial system that merely atoned for their sins, covered it over, and rolled it forward every year until we got to the death of Jesus when it was all placed on him.

And once he came out of that grave, ladies and gentlemen, we don't have to have our sins atoned for. It's removed now. So we don't need to ask Jesus to forgive us of our sins. We stand in a position of forgiveness.

We stand as the Father looking at us as if we've never sinned, and that's the best definition for justification I've ever seen, just as if I'd never sinned. That's how the Father sees us because of what Jesus did for us, the finished work of Christ took our sins away.

But 1 John 1 -9 says we are supposed to agree with God that something that we just did is sinful, and then he cleanses us. Why do we need that? Because our conscience finds it hard to believe that we are forgiven.

We are forgiven. We stand forgiven, and we need to agree with God. That's what the Greek word confess means. It doesn't mean ask him to forgive you. It means agree with him what you just did was not right for a Christian to do, and then he cleanses our conscience, and we can move forward.

Don't dare get involved with spiritual warfare until we do this. That's lesson number one. Okay? Now what else do we see? Now that he's confessed his sins and agreed with God that they're wrong, now I understand David said forgive me, but he lived before the cross.