His Cross; the Implication of the Cross

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Last week, we were supposed to go into the implication of the cross for us, for those who look at the cross. We have looked at what the cross is. We have looked at how to take the cross. So, we're trying to look at the implication of the cross or this matter of why take this cross, the implication, what the cross implies whenever we are taking it, what it is implying for us. We're going to try and break them down one after the other, looking at each one in its own category, in its own merit. But last week, we couldn't go into that. We had a specific burden that we shared with us on when God decides not to answer. That was what we looked at last week. I don't know whether brethren who are here have one or two things they want to say before we move on to continue from where we left the matter of the cross two weeks ago. Okay, so nobody has something to say. We can move on from where we left the matter in the issue of taking up the cross. We have been able to see what the cross is not, what the cross is, and how to take the cross. In a very simple language, if I am to ask us, how do we take the cross? What is the one word that is synonymous with taking the cross? What is the one word that is synonymous with taking the cross? Faith. The just shall live by his faith. It is the same thing to say the just shall daily take the cross. As long as he daily takes the cross, he will be able to follow Jesus. So now, what we want to look at is the implication for those who look at the cross. Certain things have been said about the cross, and we want to try and look at the implication for those who look to the cross. I want to begin it from the most basic level. I want to take our attention to 2 Corinthians chapter 5. That's a very popular scripture, but I felt let us begin from the most fundamental level, not skipping any of them. 2 Corinthians chapter 5, we take it from verse 17. My emphasis will be on verse 21, but I'm taking it from verse 17. It says, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation." So, we too, we are to go out to reconcile people to God. "That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation." First, I want you to look at something in verse 18. It says, "Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation." When it came to verse 19, he was trying to explain that. It says, "That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us what now? The word of reconciliation." Are you seeing something? In verse 18, what is it? The ministry of reconciliation. In verse 19, what is it? The word of reconciliation. It means for us to be able to reconcile men, what are we given? The ministry of reconciliation is not possible without the word of reconciliation. That is why the believer, the disciple of Jesus, is not just preaching a sermon. Rather, he's delivering a message. He's a messenger. He has been given a word. He has something he has been given. It is that thing that is ministry. Ministry is not an organization. Ministry is not a name. It's not Family Tent. The ministry of reconciliation, whatever ministry that you are given to reconcile the world, that ministry is actually a word that you are given. Ministry is what we speak. Now, so note, it is the word of reconciliation. By the time we move on, it now says verse 20, "Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us; we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God." It means we are not just sermonizing. We are carrying a word of reconciliation. We are speaking on behalf of somebody who gave us a word to speak. We are Christ's ambassadors. When it gets to verse 21, it says, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." Now the implication, therefore, for those who look to the cross is that righteousness is not something to be attained, but something that was given. I don't know whether I'm making sense. What we are saying is that for those who look to the cross, the righteousness, I mean, what is the chief concern of religion today? The chief concern of religion today is to be acceptable to God. You want to, men are trying to be acceptable to God. That is why people pick different religions. There is a being, a supreme being, and then you are trying to do everything to please that being. That is the focus of religion. But it is important for us to know that because the focus of religion can never bring man into what makes him acceptable to God, the cross is saying that you don't need to try to make yourself to be acceptable. Rather, in looking at the cross, that cross, in taking that cross, there is this thing you must hold to by faith. What are you holding to by faith? That I am, I have been made acceptable to God. I am not trying to attain righteousness. Righteousness is not something to be attained. Righteousness is something that is imputed. I am righteous. It has nothing to do with whether I do this or I do that. When I want to live this Christian life, I stand—the just shall live by faith. That's why I looked at that two weeks ago. There is this faith in the cross. What is the faith? That I'm righteous. I've been made acceptable. I'm not trying to be. No. In looking at the cross, how will you see that? Get it clear. You know that what was the problem of Israel in that wilderness? It was the serpent. The serpent was biting, and people were dying. Isn't it? We said the people prayed to God, prayed to Moses to take away the serpent, and God said the serpent will not be taken away. Rather, Moses made a bronze serpent. Now, the same thing we are finding. What is it that separate man from God? Why can't man access God? All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. So, what makes man enemy of God? Sin. So, if we want to reconcile man to God, what are we to do? We have to remove sin. Once we can remove sin, what happens to man? Man is on the side of God. What we are saying is this. It is not because something has to be done, that is why sin is taken away. That's what the cross is saying. The cross is saying that the reason why we are reconciled is that in the cross He was made sin. He was made sin. When He was made sin so that we can be made righteous. So, what happened was that in that cross, what happened? The sin, the enmity, which is sin, was taken away. It is not in anything; it is in the cross. It is not by want to, you don't need to do anything. And this has been a great struggle for people. People always want to do—there is nothing to be done. There is nothing. Sometimes, when I began to understand these things, at first they were mind-blowing because it first makes me to be afraid that, wait, is this thing really true? Let me get it clear. You know, when I began to understand these things better, in one of the meetings people were talking one day, and people were making analysis for a justification for why every time we want to pray, we must say whichever sin that will hinder the prayer, let's remove it. Do you know many people who do that? They don't understand the cross. The cross, what the cross did, is not to now make you to begin to live right. What the cross first did was that it removed the enmity. It removed—you are no more a sinner. Until that is properly understood, you will not be able to enter into so many things that God has provided. We don't, take the cross. You cannot access God correctly if you don't understand the cross. That's why He said, "Take the cross and follow Me." Following is a difficult thing because you'll always be conscious of sin; you'll be looking down. You'll be looking down. When you want to follow, you will look down. And as you're looking down, you'll be going down. Look up. Look up to the fact that look, the cross means He who knew no sin was made sin. This is what I'm trying to say. This is sin. This is what could not make us be on God's side because we are sinners. What God did to deal with this one is that God made Jesus sin and put Him up. Just like that snake. Snake was biting them. If you want to overcome this snake, what should you do? Look at this one. So, if you don't want to have your head down by this sin, if this one will not keep taking you away from God, what do you need to do? Look at this one. Look at it. As you look at this one, you will discover that you are no more a sinner. You are righteous. God imputes it; He deals with this. It's the same thing. He who knew no sin was made sin so that we are not struggling to enter into His presence. Rather, we have been brought into His presence. But only where? In the cross. If you look away from that cross, if you look away from that implication, what is going to happen? There will be a resurgence of, "I heard Your voice and I was hiding because I am naked." You will always see your nakedness. You will always see the nakedness. You will always see, and many times instead of people to have fellowship with God, the consciousness of sin could not bring true fellowship. Now, the issue is this. Why is it that the consciousness of sin could not bring true fellowship? Why? Is because, don't forget that the serpent, this is man on the cross. This is the one down. The more they look at this one, what will happen? What will happen to this one on the pole? What will happen from what we saw in the Old Testament? When he says, "If you look up, they will live." The more they don't look at this one, and they are terrified by this one, what will happen? What will happen to this one in their life? It has no effect. So, for most people today, the cross has no effect. Because of this sin consciousness, sin consciousness, "You know we are enemies of God. You know we are not acceptable to God. You know we are sinners. We cannot but eat sin. We cannot but drink sin. We cannot but—" So, you know what they are doing? Look at what they are doing. This is God, this is man. This is the enmity. So, this is what they have done. They still put the enmity. Since they are not looking at that one, that one has no effect. I want to ask you, how does a man who is not reconciled to God, how does he want to reconcile men? But in actual sense, the man had been reconciled that day he said, "Lord Jesus, I give my life to You." That day when he began his work with Jesus, this thing was actually removed. It was removed. That day when God told Moses, "Put a serpent on the pole," that day the power of this one was rendered useless. But you will only experience it when you look. So, when you don't look, the power of this one remains effectual. So, for most people today who want to walk with Jesus, the power of sin is effectual. Because they are only able to break this when they take this. Not that this does not break this, but if you don't take it, it cannot break it. That is why the just must live by what? Now, let me now put it the other way now for you. The only way to be just and be justified before God is faith. I'm talking about the cross. Can we put it in a simpler way now? Now, look at Romans chapter 5 verse 1. What's the first thing you see there? Romans 5:1. Therefore, which version is that? New King James. What does it say? "Therefore, having been justified by faith..." Not that we will be. Having been justified by faith, we have what? "We have peace with God." Not that we will have peace. You don't believe you are at peace with God. We have peace with God. There is nothing again to try. You don't need to try to do something to—you have peace with God. And that is why many people cannot pray boldly. Many people cannot—the liberation, the sonship, we still come as slaves. The way children access their parents, that boldness is not there for most believers. Because of this slavish sin makes us slave. He that sin is a servant of sin. So, we become slave. So, we cannot freely and boldly because we don't understand that, take the cross. Have you denied yourself? Take it. Take it. Don't be afraid. Take the cross. It is an instruction from Jesus. Take the cross and follow Me. Following is a difficult thing because you'll always be conscious of sin; you'll be looking down. Look up to the fact that, look, the cross means He who knew no sin was made sin so that we are not struggling to enter into His presence. Rather, we have been brought into His presence. But only in the cross. If you look away from that cross, if you look away from that implication, you will always see your nakedness. I'm talking about taking this cross. If you really understand this cross and what it makes you to become, you understand who you are and what it makes you to be. Because victory is not so much in our struggle; it's in knowing the truth. You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Victory over sin is not struggle; it's understanding. Knowing who you are. Understanding what you have been made. And as you know the truth, look at what the hymn writer said. "I need Thee every hour, most gracious God. No tender voice like Thine can peace afford." Look at the other stanza that says, "I need Thee every hour, come by near now, Lord. Temptations lose their power when Thou art near." You see, what makes, because we don't know how near we are, is why those certain things are not losing their power. They seem to hold us; they tie us. And the more we look down, sin will have power. Because the venom of that serpent is strong for those who are looking down. It will continue to kill them. We need to understand, get this thing clear. The working of sin. That is why I keep telling people, people say we get to a level that we can no more sin. Have you seen men talk like that? That we come to some level when you enter, whether they call it sanctification or you enter a realm where you can no more sin. It's a lie. As long as we are man, we can sin. Nobody is infallible. This one was not taken away. Victory was just given over it. I don't know whether I'm making sense to you. So, nobody come to a realm where, you know, we can no more sin. Nobody come to that realm. Rather, it's as we keep here that we keep working on this. The mystery of the victory is in looking at up. That's the mystery of the victory. The mystery of the victory is not in us. So, if we look away from this, you will be surprised that this will overtake you. That's why scripture will say let him who think he stand take heed lest he fall. Because it is not, for our daily living, it is not like we have been made to become sinless. No, we were made righteousness for us. So that we too are made right, justified, as we take the cross. We keep taking it. As we keep taking it, we keep experiencing that righteousness. We keep experiencing it. So that without Him we can do nothing. Once we remove Him, we are finished. So, nothing becomes your own as, I hope I'm making sense. So, it is in that cross, take it. If you take it, I am telling you, you will discover that many things that you are struggling with. Sometimes we struggle with bitterness, we struggle with this, we struggle with that, we struggle with so many things. Sometimes for days, you keep saying that this one, you know, this one is part of me, this sin. I'm not talking about human limitation. I'm talking about human sinfulness. You can walk victoriously over it. It is not taken away, but you can be victorious. That's the point we are making. And the victory is in knowing the truth and looking as you look at that. You know, Bible say we with an open face beholding as in a mirror the image of the Lord. As we're looking at that image, what happens to us? We are transformed. By what? What is transforming us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, get something clear. What effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. Okay, brethren. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you're a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, is a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this. So that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice, I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? "These things I write unto you so that you may not sin." I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." Now, please, what is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. This are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one? Have explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you are able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. "Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God." Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. There are so many liars today. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. This are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. "Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God." Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. "Ah, Father, you see this one that happened?" It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. There are so many liars today. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. This are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteousness, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteous. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteousness, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteousness is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteousness, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteousness, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteousness is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteous. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteousness, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteousness, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteous, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteous is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteousness, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteousness is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteousness, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. This thing that made us poor, it has made us wretched. We are weak, we are dying. But there is a good news. Agree that you have crossed over. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I give my life to You. I'm now a child of God. Okay, now agree that you are righteousness. Agree to this so that you can experience it. Becomes a difficult thing. And that is why you notice I have seen self-denial in several people. If you see the level of denial today, that is why you notice that Apostle Paul said something. I may give all my body to be burned, and yet still have not love. People have made all kinds of sacrifice, yet they are still sinners. They have denied themselves, they have not done this, they have not done that. All kinds of self-denial, but yet, because the only way to be righteousness is He was made. So, brethren, have you denied yourself? What is the next thing? Take the cross. Take it. I'm talking about the implication of the cross for those who look to it. Many of us are not looking to the cross. Look to the cross. Now, you know I was mentioning the matter of sin now or no sin, because that is what people have struggle. And I want to go yet a little further on this matter. I believe this place have established something in this place that is clear. Now, let's look at 1 John chapter 2. I want to read two into one so that we can understand it better. Initially the Bible don't have chapters, it doesn't have verses. It's just a letter. It's a continuous letter. Somebody divided into chapter, other person divided into verses. But forget the issue of a chapter and the verses now. We are looking at this letter. Two from verse 1. It says, "My little children, these things I write to you..." What things? I wrote something so that you may not sin. What did he write so that we should not sin? I will come back to that very soon. But if you go on, however, it says "if and if anyone sins," what did he say? "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." What is this he's saying in case there is sin? We have an advocate. Do you notice something here? That in case there is sin, the issue is not really first about repentance. Don't get me wrong. He who cover his sin shall not prosper. He who confess his sin and turn from there shall be shown mercy. But the first thing I'm showing you is that when there is sin, what is the first matter about sin? We have an advocate. So, once there is sin, what is it that give us the boldness to confess sin and turn away from sin? What give us the boldness? Somebody is already talking before you started talking. Somebody is already speaking. Ah, Father, you see this one that happened? It's already been. That's why come boldly. Let's now start again from 1:5 so we can see the context. "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." In other words, there is nobody who has a true fellowship with the Father and with the Son that walks in darkness. If you find anybody like that, it's a liar. The way we live, how we portray our life—if we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we are obviously lying through our teeth. We are not living what we claim. These are men who heard Him. God is light. There is no darkness in God. If anybody is having fellowship with God, that person cannot be walking in darkness. He'll be walking in light. And as he's walking in light, verse 7, "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin." Are you getting something? So, if we are in the light, what happens to the blood? It cleanses us from sin. Which sin is inside light? Are you seeing that even inside light, there is a continuous purification? You don't need to plead the blood. The blood is working. One blood is working constantly. The blood is not working for those in darkness. When you walk in the light, as He is in the light, what happens to the blood? It works on our behalf. I don't need to plead it if I'm in the light. The blood of Jesus, you don't need to plead one blood because one blood is working constantly. You must call your attention to which sin is He doing a cleansing from since I'm walking in light. I'm giving you an understanding. God is light. God said, "I have made Him sin who knew no sin that you might become righteousness." As long as I look up, it's not as if I have been perfected. Whatever remains unperfected is handled by the blood. As long as I keep taking the cross. As long as I keep taking the cross. I keep looking at it for my righteousness. I keep understanding that I've been made the righteousness of Christ. I keep changing from that glory to glory. But because I'm not exactly as He is, there are still a lot of things about me. The blood of Jesus keeps pleading my case. That is why I am here as a citizen. Not because of anything that I did, but because of the finished work of Christ. Salvation of God is so comprehensive that if you really understand, that is why if you begin to understand salvation into the full, you'll find it difficult not to live for God. If you really see what God did in Christ, the love of God will constrain you that you can no more live for yourself. Because when you are looking at it, there is no way I can ever be able to be like light in whom there is no darkness at all. There is no way I can ever be like God as long as I'm mortal. But He's in the light. Which light did He give me? Don't forget, if you go back to Luke, He says for those who dwell in the region of the shadows of death, light has come. Who came? It was Jesus. "I am the light of the world." God is light. So, when I walk in that light, in Christ, when I look at that light, light has come. A good news. I have victory over this world. As I look up, as I'm looking up from glory to glory, He's changing me. What is changing us? By the Spirit. So, it's a mystery. Righteousness is a mystery. And that is what we must appreciate. Because you must, like I keep telling people, anytime I take this aspect, is that you must appreciate that sin is a mystery. That you didn't commit sin, you didn't live when Adam lived. Yet you are a sinner in Adam. Is that not a mystery? How will you say that me that was born in the 90s become somebody that was in the garden and I was sinning with Adam? How do you, how do you comprehend that? There's no way to comprehend it. But one thing I see on a very practical basis is that I notice that sin is at work in me. Is that not true? So, I knew that when the Bible says all sinned when Adam sinned, I agreed because I see sin at work. But it's a mystery that I was born and I'm born that way. The same thing he did that is for everybody. It's a mystery. And that is why the great mathematicians, the intellectuals, they could not just come—they keep on saying that the foundation of the gospel is faulty. Because they could not, that one person can sin and everybody sin. No. One person can sin, God will register Adam for his sin. I'm not a sinner because Adam sinned. That is the place of intellectualism. But it is the same thing that we are also saying. That somebody obeyed God and I'm also with Him, I've been made right. The same mystery that operate for sin, the same mystery operate for righteousness. But I've discovered that we have believed that of sin because we have been experiencing it. But because this one, until you believe you cannot experience it, we don't know that it's also real. As sin is real, righteousness is real, in fact, if there's anything like realer, even greater than sin. Because this one, just something clear. This one, what effected this one, I've explained in one of our teaching before, was a living soul made out of dust. What effected this one is the Almighty God. So that the potency of this cannot be compared to this. But because by experience we have known this one so well, to release ourselves and embrace this one is a very difficult thing for man. For us to embrace righteousness because we have been so used to the working of sin, embracing that I am righteousness. Just like you believe that you are a sinner. Your believing that you're a sinner was because you see sin working in you. That's why you're able to believe this one. But when it comes to you have been made right, the one you have been living with all your life is that you have been sinning. Then I say no, now you are right. You know, it's no, I'm this one. I'm not this one. And you now know where the mystery is. Until you agree that you are this one, you cannot experience it. Until you agree that you are righteousness, you cannot have victory over unrighteousness. He was made sin. That is the cross. The message of the cross is a message of hope. The message of the cross is a message, it's a good news. It says the Spirit of the