If Only We Knew How Good God Is (Pt.3) (353) – June 6 2026

Let us thank the Lord today that His Word is not only forever settled in heaven (Ps 119:89), but it also purifies our soul.

Are you saved now? Are you one of God’s children? Do you remember, we were all once in darkness, in a filthy place, rolling around in sin like scarlet and crimson from Isaiah 1:18, we were like pigs in a pigsty. Filthy muddy from the bottom of our feet to the top of our head, enjoying the pleasures of our flesh, but seemingly lost. Never having experienced the cleansing power of the Love, Nature and the Blood of Christ Jesus, and how His Word is able to cleanse us of all of that filth. Even today, we are born again and we still make mistakes. It ‘s not the Lord’s will for us to keep sinning, His will is for us to be grow up into Christ. Being like Him by our obedience to His Word, to His commandments, and by the power of the holy Spirit we are transformed when we slow down and chew, meditate on His Word, according to Romans 12:1 and 2.

So if and when you slip up, and you feel dirty and guilty inside, in your soul, your mind, will and emotions…… let us read how the blood, the finished Works of Jesus, the Word of Life now benefits us when it comes to being set free from all sin and sickness. God has made provision by the blood of Jesus, the Word of God, the Word of Life, for us to be cleansed.

This program covers the following Scriptures from the Amplified Classic version (AMPC): Psalm 119:89, Romans 12:1-2, 1 John 1:1-10, Ephesians 5:25-26, Matthew 5:16, Romans 11:36, 2 Corinthians 5:17.

Pastor Marc teaches on this topic this week.

Transcript

(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai.)

This is Pastor Marc Whelan with Touch of God. Lord, we just thank you today for your presence here.

We thank you, we invite you. Thank you for being with us. Thank you, Lord, for your word.

Guide us into all truth, Lord, by your Holy Spirit. Let us learn. Let us become transformed by the renewing of our mind to your word.

To the way you think, to your understanding, to your wisdom. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Lord, we thank you today that your word is not only forever settled in heaven, as it says in Psalm 119 verse 89, but Lord, your word also purifies our soul.

So my question to you today is, are you saved? Are you one of God’s children? Do you remember that we were all once in darkness, in a filthy place, rolling around in scarlet and crimson sin? Like it says in Isaiah chapter 1 verse 18, we were like pigs in a pigsty, a filthy muddy from the bottom of our feet to the top of our head, enjoying the pleasures of our flesh, but desperately lost, never having experienced the cleansing power of the love nature and the blood of Christ Jesus and how his word is able to cleanse us from all of that filth. Even today, those of us who are born again, we can still make mistakes. It’s not the Lord’s will for us to keep sinning.

His will is for us to grow up into Christ, being like him, by our obedience to his word, to his commandments, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, we are transformed when we slow down and chew and meditate and contemplate his word, his sayings, his wisdom, according to Romans chapter 12 verses 1 and 2. So if and when you do slip up, and we have all felt that dirty, guilty feeling inside, in our souls, our minds, will and emotions, let us read how the blood, the finished works of Jesus, the word of life, now benefits us when it comes to being set free from all sin and sickness. God has made provision by the blood of his son Jesus, who is the word of God, who is the word of life, for us to be cleansed only by God’s mercy and grace. Let’s look in the Amplified Classic Version in the book of 1 John chapter 1 in the New Testament.

It says, We are writing about the word of life in him who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard, whom we have seen with our own eyes, whom we have gazed upon for ourselves and have touched with our own hands. And the life and aspect of his being was revealed, made manifest, demonstrated, and we saw as eyewitnesses, and are testifying to and declare to you the life, the eternal life, in him who already existed with the Father, and who actually was made visible, was revealed to us his followers. Verse 3. What we have seen and ourselves heard we are also telling you, so that you too may realize and enjoy fellowship as partners and partakers with us.

And this fellowship that we have, which is a distinguishing mark of Christians, is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ the Messiah. And we are now writing these things to you, so that our joy in seeing you included may be full, and your joy may be complete. And this is the message, the message of promise, which we have heard from him and now are reporting to you.

God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all, no, not in any way. Verse 6. So if we say we are partakers together and enjoy fellowship with him, when we live and move and are walking about in darkness, we are both speaking falsely and do not live and practice the truth which the gospel presents. So we see here in verse 6 that it is possible to say that you are partakers with the Lord, to say that you are a Christian, to say that you are a believer in the Lord, but yet behind the scenes walking about in darkness.

You are deceiving your own self. Let us turn about away from that darkness, because Jesus has paid preciously with his shed blood that he did not have to shed, for you and for me, that we may be delivered and set free from the law of sin and death, and that we may no longer be partakers of darkness with the devil and the demons and the evil influences and wickedness of this world, but we may be partakers of Christ’s salvation. So we should live and practice the truth which the gospel presents, according to verse 6. Verse 7. But if we really are living and walking in the light, as he himself is in the light, we have true, unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses, removes us from all sin and guilt, keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations.

Let’s pause there. So verse 7 is explaining to us that it is only the blood of Jesus Christ that can cleanse and remove us from all sin and guilt. So we can never achieve anything in our own strength that would remove sin and guilt from our lives.

If that was the case, then the Father would not have needed to send Jesus to go through all that pain and suffering and sacrifice for us. But he did, which means we were already doomed when we were born the first time, because we were born into a fallen world, into a fallen nature, caused by the terrible mistake back in the Garden of Eden at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So we need to be thankful to the Lord that while he did not have to send Jesus, he did send him so that you may have a choice to escape God’s wrath on Judgment Day, to no longer be a son of the disobedient, as it says in the Word of God, for which the wrath of God is saved up for, and we may be receiving of God’s free gift of eternal life through believing and being obedient to his Son Jesus, who is forever the Word of God.

Verse 8 If we say we have no sin, refusing to admit that we are sinners, we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the truth which the gospel presents is not in us, does not dwell in our hearts. So we need to be careful that we never say that we are not a sinner. Now let’s clarify, just because you got born again doesn’t mean that you and I will never ever make a mistake and sin.

Remember that when you become born again, you are not a robot that became completely erased and reprogrammed in that split second. You have a mind, will, and emotion that God did not change when you became born again. He didn’t change your physical body, and he didn’t change your soul.

What he changed out and replaced and regenerated was your spirit, your spirit man. And we praise the Lord for that amazing work. He has caused us and made us to be partakers of Christ’s salvation through the rebirth, the new birth by the power of the Holy Spirit.

So we are still in a process of being transformed. According to Romans chapter 12 verse 1 and 2, we should no longer be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind. That means reading the word of God, understanding it, chewing on it, contemplating it, meditating on it day and night.

That the word of God, which is the truth, shall set you free from your wrong thinking, the thinking that we all grew up with, the thinking that we took on because of the experiences of the world and other people telling us things when they did not know the truth themselves to a great extent. Now some of you may have been raised in Christian homes where mom and dad were in the word of God and praying and they were teaching you the gospel. That is a blessing to have parents that raise you in that way.

Others, not so fortunate. But the Lord has said that we are to preach the gospel to all creation. So some point in our lives we will come across someone who tells us about the Lord.

And what we need to do at that point is to make a decision. Should I change from my wicked ways and follow the Lord and receive that free gift of eternal life? Or do I want to carry on and gamble another hour in darkness? Because if I take my last breath and I have not made a decision for Christ, I’m going to hell. And there’s something about that word hell that almost we feel like we’re not supposed to mention it.

I wonder why that is. But it is the truth. We will not inherit the kingdom of heaven if we are not in Christ and if Jesus does not know us.

Remember He said to those, He said, Depart from me, I never knew you. So we have to be known by the Lord. Do not assume that just because God knows everything that He knows you.

He knows all about you. He knows your heart. But if there’s no relationship, He doesn’t really know you.

Verse 8 If we say we have no sin, refusing to admit that we are sinners, we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the truth which the gospel presents is not in us, does not dwell in our hearts. So we want to make sure that we are truthful to ourselves and do not lead ourselves astray. So we need to confess that we have sinned and that when we do slip up from time to time, we should immediately confess our sins to the Lord.

Now why do we need to do that? Because the very next verse tells us. Verse 9 If we freely admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just, true to His own nature and promises, and will forgive our sins, dismiss our lawlessness, and continuously cleanse us from all unrighteousness, everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action. How do you know that when you go through the course of your day, that you have not sinned on something, maybe something very, very small, it was so small that you did not even think about the fact that you may have sinned against the Lord.

Maybe we only contribute knowing that we are sinning to acts of fornication and using foul language and forms of crime and those kinds of obvious things. But the Lord is sovereign and holy. So we need to come to the Lord and make and form and deepen this relationship we have with Him.

Not only will the Holy Spirit, especially if you ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the sins that you may have forgotten about, but if you have a relationship with the Lord, you are in His presence, and His word will cleanse you of all unrighteousness, even the things that you may not even know that you need to be cleansed of, because that is the goodness of God. Because at the end of verse 9, it says, everything not in conformity to His will, purpose, thought, and action. Now that must be a lot of things.

To be conformed to the Lord’s will in purpose, thought, and action, that requires a lot to be correct. So we have a high risk of not attaining that constantly. So we need to be in a relationship with the Lord that when we understand the truth from reading the word of God, we can see where we are going wrong.

And this is not for us to be condemned, because if we are walking according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh, as it says in Romans chapter 8 verse 1 and 2, then there is no condemnation or guilt for us. We are walking according to the Spirit, with the light of the world, the Lord, in truth. But the goodness of God wants to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, things that we may know that we have done, things that we have confessed, and things that we don’t know.

Who of us does not want to remain clean? We never want to become dirty. If we are walking along the street, and it has been raining, and a car comes along and splashes a big puddle over us, and now we want to go home and clean ourselves to be rid of that muddy water. The Lord so much more wants to clean us, because he sees you the way he created you to become, completely pure and holy in his sight, someone who loves his son Jesus, and wanting to be obedient to his word and to his calling in your life.

Verse 10. If we say, claim, we have not sinned, we contradict his word, and make him out to be false and a liar. And his word is not in us.

The divine message of the gospel is not in our hearts. So we do not want to make God out to be false and a liar. So we need not ever say that we have not sinned, because we are going to be contradicting the word of God.

And the word of God is true. So we will be speaking a foul mouth falsity, and accusing God, and making God out to be false and a liar. So we need to make sure that we put the divine message of the gospel in our hearts.

Read about Jesus in the gospels. Understand the gospel. Read it.

Make sure that you are cleansed by the word of God, so that the Holy Spirit can also bring these scriptures and understanding to your remembrance. Ephesians chapter 5, verse 25 to 26. Verse 25 says, Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

Verse 26. So that he, that’s the Lord, might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. Now in this verse 26, it says, so that he might sanctify her.

He is a capital H, which means that’s the Lord doing the sanctification. In verse 25, it’s talking about husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. So in 26, it’s the Lord Jesus sanctifying our wives, and sanctifying us when we read the word and are being cleansed by the washing of water with the word.

So the word is like water that washes us clean. Only the word of God. Who is that? It is Jesus himself, the shed blood of Jesus, the word of God, the blood of Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit cleansing us of all unrighteousness with the word.

The word is the only thing that can take away the stain of sin. Nothing else. Imagine for a moment, a glass of water that is completely clean.

Then it becomes murky and filthy. You can no longer see through it. The water is dark inside.

Then comes Jesus and the sacrifice he has paid at the cross. As we make the decision for Christ, and we begin to read his word, and be in prayer and fellowship in conversation with him, we become cleansed. The washing of the word pours into and across and over our souls.

So what happens when you continually pour fresh water into the murky glass? If you let it continue to pour, it starts to become less and less murky, and you begin to see through parts of the water. And then finally, after a little bit of time, it becomes completely clear and pure once more. That is the power of the word of God and his Holy Spirit inside the believer.

If you want to become a believer today, if you want to be saved, if you want to become born again, you cannot do it by your own strength. But you do have the next move to make. And that move is to make a decision to receive and confess Jesus as your Lord, and nothing else in your life as Lord.

And believe that God raised him from the dead. Turn away from your wickedness and turn to Jesus. Ask him for forgiveness of your sins as you confess them, and he will cleanse you, and you will become born again, brand new, a new creation, according to 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17.

And then read the scriptures, read the Bible, read the book of James in the New Testament as a starter. Only five chapters, very easy to understand. And it’s the basic rules, if you like, of being a Christian, one of the Lord’s disciples.

So if we go all the way back, following our mistake in the Garden of Eden at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it caused us to separate from our Creator. But our Creator, God the Son, Jesus, created you and I to live for him, to point back to him, to give him the glory, and therefore the Father as well. But Jesus himself also says in Matthew 5, verse 16, Amen.

So the Lord is the light, but here he’s also saying, let your light so shine before men. Why is that? Because the Lord is now in you. You are in him, he is in you.

You are in Christ, and the Creator of the universe, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, they live in you, in your temple, inside of you. And now you get to share that light that is in you. You get to share Jesus and represent him to people in front of you who do not yet know him, because they are where you used to be, in darkness, hopelessly and desperately lost, blinded by Satan, so that they may never understand or receive the gospel.

But the Lord has made it possible for someone to receive his gospel, even in the darkness, because the light is not afraid of going into the darkness, and the darkness does not comprehend the light. The light goes into the darkness, and the darkness immediately leaves. Romans chapter 11, verse 36 says, For from him and through him and to him are all things.

For all things originate with him and come from him. All things live through him, and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in him. To him be glory forever.

Amen. So be it. You could spend quite some time meditating on this one verse, verse 36 in Romans chapter 11.

Just think about this verse. Read it in the version that you like to read, but let’s say as a family here that we will look at this verse for the next week, and think about the wonders of the Lord, and the fact that all things are from him, the Lord Jesus, through him and to him. For all things originate with him and come from him.

All things live through him, and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in him. To him be glory forever. Amen.

So be it. So all means all. That means you came from him and through him and to him.

You originated with him and come from him. You live through him and you center in and tend to consummate and to end in him. So let’s give the Lord the glory today that we came from a good God.

We came from a creator who had plans to create life, to have a relationship with humanity that he created, that humanity would point to the Lord and give him the glory in beautiful fellowship. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17. We referenced it earlier, but here is the verse.

Therefore if any person is engrafted in Christ, the Messiah, he is a new creation, a new creature altogether. The old previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come.

But you see, even while we are a new creation, we still have issues. We may be new in spirit, but we are not completely transformed in our soul, which is our mind, will and emotions. Our soul is a work in progress to the degree we want to read the Bible and accept it as truth and then live it out.

We are the ones with the foot on the accelerator or the gas pedal, and we decide how fast we want to go when we want to be transformed in a relationship with the Lord and his Word. We can put the car in neutral and never even turn on the engine, never even engage with the Lord. But what we need to do is at least engage with the Lord and read the Word.

Be slow in reading the Word. Contemplate and meditate, but have that relationship with the Lord in the secret place every day. Seek him with all your heart, and you will find him.

As we draw nigh unto him, he will draw nigh unto us. But see, the order of that is that we have to draw nigh unto him first before he draws nigh unto us. He will not force himself upon us, but as soon as we take interest, he immediately is there for us.

He desires to know you. He wants you to come close and spend time with him and walk this life with him that you may know your purpose, his plan for your life, and the path that he has for you as you trust in him with all your heart, lean not to your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge him. Then he will direct your path.

Proverbs 3, verse 5 and 6 If you would like us to pray for you, we would love to. Just go to our website, touchofgod.world That’s touchofgod.world and tap on the button that says Send Prayer Requests. We would love to hear from you, and so please do that.

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In the meantime, you have a blessed week. Amen.