 When you become a Christian you will not get from the moment of your conversion to the pearly gates without messing up Everybody's gonna mess up somewhere. I wish I could tell you that wasn't true Someone once told me that the best definition of Christianity was falling down and getting up falling down and getting up falling down and getting up All the way to heaven. We all gonna fail. Is that true? Yes, it is Hey smart Christians welcome back this message is really for those of us who are believers who understand the truth of Being an actual Christian not for the people who don't think that They're in a position to where they mess up or where they have false There are some who even think that they do not sin Obviously they're sinning by even making up that lie the Bible says that you are a lie when you say that So this net message isn't necessarily for them But for those of us who understand that we struggle the Bible is full of believers who mess up From the beginning of the pages to the end. I mean it starts off with what a big mess up Now they weren't necessarily believers not that we know of but the people that we know that we count as believers that have faith Abraham Moses Elijah Jonah David these are people who believe the Lord and what messed up and in many cases messed up Royally, but then we go to the New Testament. We see New Testament believers people who have the Holy Spirit Literally inside of them also messing up. How about Paul? How about Peter? We all do but the difference is and There should be a difference between when we mess up and the world We all are gonna mess up as a matter of fact There's often times you won't be able to tell the difference between us when we mess up and when the world mess up because again We all mess up But is there a difference well, obviously there's a difference we mess up though We don't have a lifestyle of messing up. We don't have a lifestyle of sin We don't make that our life when we do mess up it bothers us Which is what the Bible refers to as a repentant heart It grieves us because it also grieves literally the spirit in us So when we mess up it should bother you when you tell a lie it bothers you when you lust at someone after someone It bothers you when you're jealous or envious of someone It should bother you when you're angry with someone it should bother you and guess what? There are times where you have these thoughts and then you even act on those thoughts, right? Well after coming to your senses it should bother you and again We all mess up We all fall the difference between the difference between us and the world when they fall and we fall when we fall We extend our hand to the only person who can deliver who can save us who can pick us up and Hopefully these are instances where we commit ourselves to learning more of him growing closer to him And so that very same mess up that very same thing that kind of hindered us We don't do it again. Are we gonna live this world? Perfectly without messing up. No, no, no not gonna happen. We're gonna mess up from now until the time that we've got skin Let me read what John says in 1st John This is the message that we have heard from him and proclaimed to you that God is light and in him is no darkness at all If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness We lie and do not practice the truth But if we walk in light as he is in the light We have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his son cleanses us from all sin So his blood is cleanses even if we walk though walking the light His blood has cleansed us not from only sins past But also these current sins that we may still struggle with let's keep reading If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous If we say we have not sin we make him a liar and his word is not in us So in other words, even in spite of walking We are still going to sin if we say we don't have sin if we say we do not sin We are a liar now. Do we live a lifestyle of pattern of sin? No, we don't but we are still going to have those issues That's just how it's going to be But here's the greater issue And this is what happens people will tell you the devil will tell you that you are no longer a believer You are no longer a christian when you mess up And what happens when you fail is this two things the devil will do first of all He will tell you there's no way you could ever do whatever and then you'll do it And then he'll come in behind you and say there's no way you could ever be forgiven for what you did He's wrong on both accounts Satan is going to try to tell you or through other people That what you've done was too much as though what god As though god had no clue that you being a believer would mess up so bad That he didn't shed enough blood to cover that sin That he didn't offer enough forgiveness that he is payment that his payment wasn't enough To pay for the debt that you incur if you are a true christian Even after the sin you are still a true christian He didn't say and I give unto them eternal life and if they don't mess up they can come to heaven That's not what it says Eternal life listen to me starts the moment you believe not when you die The moment you accept jesus christ eternal life begins and eternal life cannot be interrupted Going back to first john again. Look at what he says in chapter five verse 11 He says and this is the testimony that god gave us eternal life And this is life in his son verse 12 whoever has the son Has life whoever does not have the son of god does not have life So he says if you've got the son, what do you have present tense? You currently have life and 13 also solidifies it He says I write these things to you who believe in the name of the son of god that you may know That you have eternal life Eternal life is not something that you get at 8 a.m And then 9 30 a.m Or the next day you no longer have it that would not be eternal life that would be temporary life That would be one of our life that will be one day life that would be one year life So if you have it if you currently have it you have eternal life win right now for how long forever through eternity That's the truth of it. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Don't let the devil tell you otherwise Though we do sin we have an advocate and he is always Currently and in the future will intercede will advocate will mediate for us even though as christians We will mess up. He understands that we ought to understand that we don't live that lifestyle It bothers us. It pains us. It grieves us But by that same token he has paid the debt And since he has paid the debt the bible says because of that we have eternal life Amen