I mean are you understand like God doesn't He doesn't Photoshop He's not an
instagramer He's not a Facebooker He He just like this is what this is like I
love this guy and and here's everything he did it was like God how could he be a
man after Your heart when he he killed Uriah I mean he wouldn't be able to
be an elder on anybody's church team do you know what I'm saying he wouldn't
qualify as the Bethel elder but we do it like he's a murderer and an adulterer
doesn't qualify can't have our podium and God goes I like the guy
okay I like Him too
this authenticity like why is God involved I'm sure there's a lot more reasons than
then I have in mind but one of the reasons this authenticity leads to
confession which brings wholeness in first John 1:9 it says if we confess our
sins help me He's faithful and just to forgive our sins and help me cleanse me
from all unrighteousness the the first step of wholeness the first step like
you can't take another step until you confess your sins I'm saying there's
this piece of authenticity when I finally say I did that I was wrong how
many no that didn't fix everything but it began the process of wholeness God
said if you'll confess I will put you on the process where I will cleanse you
from all unrighteousness what is cleansed from unrighteous mean it means
the core root reason why you said maybe it was insecurity maybe it was fear
maybe it was hatred God goes I'm gonna drive that thing out of you but it's
gonna begin with you are gonna start it by authenticity you're gonna be real and
you're gonna admit I was wrong now I wanted to say that some people get
addicted to confession follow me there is a kind of burden lifted when you tell
the truth about your brokenness about your sin there is and probably all of us
know people they've learned that when I'm honest
about my sin ha a weight is lifted but how many understand that confession
needs to lead to repentance so I can get addicted to confession but I never
actually get I just keep lifting the burden but then I keep living the
lifestyle so confession confession breaks the power of sin but repentance
connects me to the power of grace and Paul said this in 2nd Corinthians 7:10
for sorrow that is according to the will of God produces repentance without
regret leading to salvation but the sorrow of the world produces death and
so we understand that repentance like first we confess great but we're not
whole yet now we repent and let me tell you a
repentance it means to change someone no to change your mind but it comes from
two words and I don't know anything about Greek this is just a study I did I
barely know English well you can laugh but when I was born I spoke in tongues
my parents taught me English
you know just little settle for a while the work the Greek word repentance comes
from two words the first one is meta and it means after
or afterwards and the second one is - is is N O E O and it means to understand or
to perceive in other words repentance means after I sinned I understood my sin
differently I no longer want to do that when I lied to my wife after I sinned I
realized I repented I understood it afterwards
I understood that that breaks my relationship with my wife and therefore
I don't want to do it anymore are you with me so repentance doesn't
mean I'm so sorry Oh repentance means oh I see that was
wrong and it's destructive are you with me and then the third part
of this repentance is Jesus said it in Matthew chapter 3 He said bring forth
fruit of repentance what does that mean I love Danny silk idea he says who
didn't you know you dropped like sin is like I dropped a five-gallon bucket of
paint repentance is like who did I get it on like the fruit is I go clean up my
mess does that make sense and so on these are the steps and this is what
authenticity is releasing in us this this spirit of authenticity that the
Lord is releasing is causing people to confess to repent and to bring forth
fruit of repentance