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  NOTHING BETWEEN MY SOUL AND THE SAVIOR
  by Tim Conway
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of walking in the light
and maintaining fellowship with God, acknowledging that while believers
may still sin, the key is not to practice sin but to run to the Father
for forgiveness. It addresses the lie that Christ rejects us when we sin
and encourages confession and seeking forgiveness to maintain a close
relationship with God. The speaker highlights the need to prioritize
fellowship with God over hiding or ignoring sin, recognizing the depth
and beauty of true fellowship with the Savior.

Topics: "Walking in the Light", "Fellowship with God"
Scripture References: 1 John 1:7, 1 John 1:9, Romans 8:1, John 15:4, Psalm 32:5, James 4:8, 1 Peter 2:24, Proverbs 28:13, Hebrews 4:16, Psalm 51:10

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of walking in the light and
maintaining fellowship with God, acknowledging that while believers may
still sin, the key is not to practice sin but to run to the Father for
forgiveness. It addresses the lie that Christ rejects us when we sin and
encourages confession and seeking forgiveness to maintain a close
relationship with God. The speaker highlights the need to prioritize
fellowship with God over hiding or ignoring sin, recognizing the depth
and beauty of true fellowship with the Savior.

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CONTENT
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If you're in fellowship with God, as a practice, you walk in the light.
That doesn't mean you're perfect yet and there will be sin. It doesn't
mean you practice sin.

Practicing sin is to walk in the darkness. But there is sin. We
recognize there's sin.

And when we fall, we need to take it to our Father. We need to run to
our Father. Don't fall for the lies.

I'm telling you, this is one of Satan's favorite strategies is to come
at you and tell you that when you sin, Christ wants nothing to do with
you. But when you see your sin, you know your sin, look, you're going to
sin. I write to you that you don't sin.

Little children, this is what John's all about. I write to you that
you're not sinning. I want you to walk more fully, more fully, more
fully in the light.

But if you sin, what? You walk in the darkness and you have no
fellowship with Him and you don't know Him? No! We have a Christ. The
Christ. Jesus Christ.

He is the righteous One. He made propitiation for us. We can plead the
blood.

We can go and we can confess it. Our access is there. There's no
condemnation.

We have full, free access. You go to Him and just remember the
fellowship. Oh, this is fellowship.

To be in one with God and to recognize the sin I just did, the sin I
just committed against my wife, the sin I just committed against my
children, the thing I just did, the misuse of my tongue, God sees it for
what it is. The best thing to do, go out with Peter and weep bitterly
and confess it. And you know, the next thing you'll find is He'll come
alongside and He'll say, Joe, do you love Me? Yes, Lord, You know that I
love You.

Well, He sends us to His work. Remember this, brethren. He did not
design perfection to happen in this life.

And He did that on purpose. And because He did, part of our fellowship
with Him is going to be on a regular basis the picture of the man or the
woman with the head bowed before God confessing because they see their
sin as God sees it. They know it's exposed to Him and there's no sense
hiding it.

And they want fellowship more than they want to go on not acknowledging
that sin. If they know that it's going to grieve Him and bring some
snare in there and some shadow over the fellowship, I want my fellowship
more than I want to go on in my sin not confessing it. Do you not want
that? Nothing between.

Is that not what the song says? Nothing between my soul and the Savior.
Don't let it go there. Cherish this fellowship above everything else.

Oh brethren, I am telling you, there are depths that God has swept His
people in. This fellowship, some of you likely, you can't put words to.
I can remember Charles Simeon.

One of his friends came into his room and the lights were off and there
was the picture of the penitent. He had been there confessing his sorrow
for his sin. And God came to him in such ravishing fashion.

As his friend found him, all he could say is glory, glory, glory. That's
the only word that could come out of him. Don't you want that? Nothing
between, brethren.

Nothing between. This excerpt was taken from the full sermon. What Does
Fellowship with God Look Like? Part One.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/OZEBwefBFpE.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/tim-conway/nothing-between-my-soul-and-the-savior/
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