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Welcome to Day 1216 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Disciples Accept God's Forgiveness and Study - Worldview Wednesday


Wisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before.

Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase wisdom and create a living legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1216 of our trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday.  Creating a Biblical Worldview is important to have a proper perspective on today’s current events.

To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must also have a proper understanding of God and His Word.  On our Worldview Wednesday episodes we are in a series in which we are covering another detailed review of a book from one of today’s most prominent Hebrew Scholars Dr. Micheal S. Heiser. We are taking a deep dive and will share Dr. Heiser's insights into the question, which is also the title of his book “What Does God Want?”
Disciples Accept God’s Forgiveness and Study


Last week we studied how disciples fast and worship. This week we will explore two more specific responsibilities for a disciple.
The first one is disciples confess sin and accept God’s forgiveness.
One of the things a disciple has to come to grips with as soon as their journey of following Jesus begins is that they will fail. None of us is sinless like Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:21-22; 1 John 3:5), nor can we hope to be. The Bible is clear on this point. The disciples sinned (Mark 14:30, 68, 72). One of them, John, wrote later in life 1 John 1:7-10, "But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts."

It's wonderful to know, though, that our membership in God's family is not due to our performance. Our good works cannot put God in our debt. He never owes us everlasting life on account of any merit we might think we have. Our performance (or lack thereof) did not move him away from us. God loved us as we are reminded in Romans 5:8, "But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners." Consequently, we must remember that since salvation could never be gained by moral perfection, it cannot be lost by moral imperfection.

In light of our imperfection, the true disciple of Jesus must stay focused on the kindness and love of God. Look again at the passage from John's letter. It tells us exactly what to do when we fail God, either by doing something that isn't consistent with imitating Jesus or leaving something undone that is consistent with being like him, "But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness."



When we sin and fail, we must acknowledge it. That's what confession means. We must not hide, excuse, or rationalize our sin. God wants us to admit it. Why? We need to be humbled. We need to remember that salvation is about what someone else—Jesus—did for us, not what we earn. Confession acknowledges that we are children of God because of Jesus. We can be sure that our sin will not separate us from God; we will not be kicked out of the family (Romans 8:31-39)....