I want to speak to you if you're a Christian and you're discouraged because of a battle with sin that you currently can't seem to win.

Who knows what it is? It might be a struggle with some habitual sin or behavior that you feel like, man, this is just so dishonoring to the Lord.

I'm so discouraged that I haven't been able to conquer this particular lust yet.

And when we experience this as followers of Jesus, we can start to feel condemned, as though God is not for us, as though our situation is hopeless.

And so I want to give you encouragements, four encouragements in particular, about what God is doing after you've sinned

to bring you back to him.

One of the verses that's been so encouraging for me in my relationship with the Lord is in 1 John chapter 2 verse 1.

And what John says there is that after you've sinned, God is advocating for you.

In particular, Jesus, the son of God is your advocate. Listen to this passage.

This is 1 John 2, verse 1. My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not

sin, but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. How often do we think

after we've sin, man, God is in heaven just shaking his head. He probably wants nothing to do with me.

I've failed once again. And yet, John says, actually, that's not what Jesus is doing.

If anyone sins, you have someone in your corner, John says.

You have Jesus as your great advocate before the Father who is pleading your case.

He's rooting for you.

And this is massively encouraging because if you think, if you think, man, I'm struggling with

sin and God himself is against me, you're going to be hopeless. But if you recognize in the battle

against sin that God is for you and that Jesus is your advocate pleading your case before the

father, there's a massive amount of hope. When you sin, Jesus is advocating

for you. And he isn't just advocating for you. Here's another beautiful thing that we find.

The Lord Jesus Christ, as the great high priest of his people, is also praying for you. That is praying for you to conquer sin,

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