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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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A SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU THAT
ARE STREAMING ONLINE TO STUDY
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WITH US. WE KNOW
THAT THERE ARE THOUSANDS
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OF YOU AROUND THE WORLD THAT
CONTINUALLY AND FAITHFULLY JOIN
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US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER.
ALSO, A SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU
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THAT ARE JOINING US
RIGHT HERE THIS MORNING LIVE.
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WE HAVE A SPECIAL SURPRISE FOR
YOU AND YOU CAN JUST SIT BACK,
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PUT AWAY YOUR HYMNALS
THIS MORNING, AND LISTEN.
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WE HAVE ALICIA AND MATTHEW
DELLON WITH US. THEY ARE BROTHER
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AND SISTER AND THEY
PLAY PIANO JUST WONDERFULLY.
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THIS MORNING THEY WILL BE
PLAYING FOR US 'HOW EXCELLENT IS
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THY NAME' AND
'DOWN FROM HIS GLORY'.
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>>LET'S PRAY. DEAR LORD,
WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT
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YOU'VE DONE FOR US. WE THANK YOU
THAT WE CAN COME HERE AND LEARN
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OF YOU AND BE YOUR STUDENTS, SO
PLEASE SPEAK THROUGH PASTOR DOUG
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TODAY. DRAW US CLOSER TO YOU,
LORD, THAT WE CAN DO YOUR WILL
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AND THAT WE CAN CONTINUE
YOUR WORK AND THAT YOU WILL SOON
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COME. I PRAY THESE THINGS
IN YOUR NAME, JESUS. AMEN.
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OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR,
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SENIOR PASTOR HERE
AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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>>THANK YOU JOLYNE AND THANK YOU
TO THE DELLONS - I APPRECIATED
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THAT VERY MUCH.
THAT WAS INSPIRING.
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GOOD MORNING
FRIENDS, HAPPY SABBATH.
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CHURCH FEELS DIFFERENT NOW
THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE TWO TEN
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COMMANDMENTS BEHIND US ANYMORE,
HUH? AFTER TWELVE WEEKS.
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BUT WE ARE IN A VERY INTERESTING
LESSON STUDY RIGHT NOW DEALING
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WITH THE SUBJECT OF
'REVIVAL AND REFORMATION'.
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AND, FOR OUR FRIENDS THAT
ARE WATCHING, WE HAVE A SPECIAL
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STUDY GUIDE - A SERMON BOOK WE'D
BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU FOR FREE
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AND IT'S CALLED
'RICHES OF GRACE' BY JOE CREWS.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING TODAY
ABOUT REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION
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AND JUST SOME OF THE VERY
BASIC COMPONENTS OF SALVATION.
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ASK FOR OFFER #152 - THAT'S ALL
YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK AND THEN
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PROMISE TO READ IT AND WE'LL
SEND IT TO YOU. AND OUR LESSON
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TODAY, AS I MENTIONED, IS LESSON
#6 IN THE SERIES WHERE WE'RE
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TALKING ABOUT REVIVAL AND
REFORMATION AND THE LESSON
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TODAY, IN
PARTICULAR, IS TALKING ABOUT
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'CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE'.
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AND I'VE JUST GOT TO TELL YOU
RIGHT NOW THAT YOU DON'T HEAR
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VERY MANY SERMONS - YOU DO SOME
PLACES - BUT YOU DON'T HEAR VERY
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MANY SERMONS THESE DAYS ON
REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION EVEN
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THOUGH THIS SUBJECT WAS REALLY
FOUNDATIONAL TO JESUS AND THE
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APOSTLES AND
EVEN JOHN THE BAPTIST.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE
AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 28, VERSE 13
- IT'S FROM THE NEW KING JAMES
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VERSION IN YOUR
LESSON - PROVERBS 28:13.
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I'LL APPRECIATE IT IF YOU
READ THIS OUT LOUD WITH ME.
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ARE YOU READY? "HE WHO
COVERS HIS SINS WILL NOT
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PROSPER BUT WHOEVER CONFESSES
AND FORSAKES THEM WILL HAVE
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MERCY." NOW THIS
IS PRETTY STRAIGHT.
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IT DOESN'T JUST SAY CONFESS.
IT SAYS, CONFESS AND FORSAKE.
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A LOT OF CHURCHES STOP WITH THE
IDEA THAT YOU JUST CONFESS THEM
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AND THEN YOU GO ON
AND CONTINUE TO DO THEM.
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BUT WHAT THE LORD WANTS US
TO DO IS CONFESS AND FORSAKE AND
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THAT'S REALLY WHAT IS AT
THE HEART OF GENUINE REPENTANCE.
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SO WHY DON'T WE START - I'M
GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY LOOK UP A
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VERSE FOR US AND I THINK WE'VE
GIVEN OUT SOME SLIPS OF PAPER
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WITH SOME VERSES TO A FEW
VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE HIDING IN
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OUR MIDST RIGHT NOW. LUKE
5, VERSE 32 - WHO GOT THAT?
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RIGHT UP FRONT HERE.
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
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HOLD YOUR HAND UP MIKE AND THE
MICROPHONE AND THE CAMERA CAN
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FIND YOU. AND DOES
SOMEBODY HAVE ACTS 2:38?
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ARE THEY BOTH FROM THE SAME
SIDE? ACTS 2:38 - OVER HERE,
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OKAY? RAY, YOU THINK YOU CAN
FIND THAT PERSON THAT'S GOT THAT
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SCRIPTURE? OKAY. LET ME
JUST READ SOME VERSES TO
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YOU AND I THINK THE
BIBLE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
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MATTHEW CHAPTER 3 - FIRST
BOOK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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ONE OF THE FIRST SERMONS THAT
GOES OUT, "IN THOSE DAYS, JOHN
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THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN
THE WILDERNESS OF JUDEA, AND" -
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WHAT DID HE SAY? -
"REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF
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HEAVEN IS AT HAND." SO
JUST RIGHT AT THE VERY -
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RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE, AS THEY
SAY, THE CANNON FIRES THE FIRST
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AMMO IS 'REPENT'. THE
MESSAGE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST -
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FIRST WORD IN THE
FIRST SENTENCE IS 'REPENT'.
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AND THEN WHEN JESUS IS BAPTIZED
THEN HE BEGINS PREACHING AND HE
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BEGINS HIS
MINISTRY, WHAT DOES HE SAY?
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FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO
PREACH AND TO SAY, FIRST WORD,
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FIRST SENTENCE, FIRST MESSAGE OF
JESUS, 'REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM
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OF HEAVEN...' IS
THE MESSAGE OF JOHN THE
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BAPTIST SIMILAR TO
THE MESSAGE OF JESUS?
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JOHN THE BAPTIST SAYS, 'REPENT
FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT
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HAND.' JESUS
SAYS, 'REPENT FOR THE
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KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.'
SO SHOULD THIS BE IMPORTANT?
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GO AHEAD, READ THAT
FOR US, LUKE 5:32, MIKE.
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>>"I HAVE NOT COME TO CALL
THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS,
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TO REPENTANCE."
>>SO AGAIN, WE'VE GOT THE
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MESSAGE OF
JESUS. WHY DID HE COME?
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'I HAVE COME' - HERE
IT GOES, ARE YOU READY?
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- 'TO CALL SINNERS TO
REPENT.' WHAT IS REPENTANCE?
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WELL, REPENTANCE IS NOT JUST A
SORROW FOR SIN, REPENTANCE IS A
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SORROW FOR SIN AND A WILLINGNESS
TO TURN FROM IT. SO, THAT'S WHY
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WE DON'T HEAR AS MUCH
ABOUT REPENTANCE THESE DAYS.
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REPENT MEANS 'REMORSE, REGRET,
CONTRITION FOR PAST CONDUCT OR
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SIN; TO FEEL SUCH REGRET SO AS
TO HAVE A CHANGE OF ONE'S MIND
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REGARDING IT AS IN REPENTING OF
INTEMPERATE BEHAVIOR; TO MAKE A
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CHANGE FOR THE BETTER AS A
RESULT OF REMORSE OR CONTRITION
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FOR ONE'S SINS; AND, VERY
SIMPLY, REPENTANCE REPRESENTS A
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U-TURN ON THE ROAD TO
DESTRUCTION AND IT MEANS,
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'YOU TURN'. SO
YOU'RE GOING THIS WAY AND
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YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY
AND YOU'RE OUT OF GOD'S WILL.
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THE HOLY SPIRIT REVEALS TO YOU
WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS WRONG AND
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YOU ARE SORRY AND YOU TURN AND
YOU SAY, 'I'M NOT GOING TO DO
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THAT ANYMORE,
I'M GOING TO DO THIS.
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I'M GOING TO NOW GO THIS WAY.
I'M GOING TO DO GOD'S WILL.'
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AND SO REPENTANCE IS NOT
JUST A CHANGE OF THINKING.
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IT BEGINS WITH A
CHANGE OF THINKING.
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REAL REPENTANCE
IS A CHANGE OF DOING.
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IT MEANS THAT YOU
ARE SORRY ENOUGH TO STOP.
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SO, IF YOU'VE GOT A CHILD AND HE
CONTINUES TO SHOPLIFT EVERY TIME
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YOU GO TO THE SUPERMARKET
AND YOU'VE GOT TO SHAKE HIM DOWN
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WHENEVER YOU GET TO THE CAR AND
FIND OUT WHAT HE'S PUT IN HIS
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POCKETS AND YOU TELL HIM,
'JOHNNY, THIS IS NOT RIGHT.'
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AND 'YOU'VE GOT TO
STOP.' AND HE SAYS, 'OH MOMMY,
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I'M SORRY. I REPENT.' AND THE
NEXT TIME YOU GO TO THE MARKET
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HIS POCKETS ARE FULL OF STOLEN
CONTRABAND AGAIN, DID HE REPENT?
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HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SORRY HE
GOT CAUGHT, BUT THAT'S NOT REAL
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REPENTANCE. NOW,
MAKE A NOTE OF THAT.
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THERE'S TRUE AND
FALSE REPENTANCE.
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ACTUALLY, I'M GETTING AHEAD
OF MYSELF. THAT'S IN OUR LESSON.
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SO BEFORE WE GET THERE, TURN
WITH ME - ACTS 5 - THIS IS UNDER
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'REPENTANCE: GOD'S GIFT'.
ACTS 5, VERSE 30 AND WE'LL READ
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THROUGH VERSE 32. I HAVEN'T
FORGOTTEN YOUR SCRIPTURE,
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ELIZABETH, WE'LL GET TO THAT IN
A MOMENT. ACTS 5:30 THROUGH 32,
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PETER'S PREACHING HERE AND
HE SAYS, "THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS
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RAISED UP JESUS WHOM YOU
MURDERED BY HANGING ON A TREE.
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HIM GOD HAS EXALTED TO HIS RIGHT
HAND TO BE PRINCE AND SAVIOR, TO
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GIVE REPENTANCE TO
ISRAEL AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS."
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NOTICE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN
REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS.
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ALSO NOTICE HE SAYS,
'TO GIVE REPENTANCE.'
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REPENTANCE IS A GIFT THAT
GOD GIVES. AND PETER SAYS,
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'WE ARE WITNESSES OF
THESE THINGS AND SO ALSO IS THE
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HOLY SPIRIT WHOM GOD HAS
GIVEN TO THOSE THAT OBEY HIM.
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GOD GIVES HIS SPIRIT
TO THOSE THAT OBEY HIM.
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THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES
THE GIFT OF REPENTANCE.
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NOW THE REASON IT'S IMPORTANT
FOR US TO REMEMBER THIS - YOU
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KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US 'REPENT
AND BE CONVERTED THAT YOU MIGHT
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BE WASHED FROM YOUR SINS.'
REPENTANCE IS CONNECTED WITH
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FORGIVENESS FOR SINS.
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A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, YOU KNOW,
IF I COULD JUST GET A NOTE FROM
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THE DOCTOR THAT SAYS YOU'RE
GOING TO DIE IN SIX MONTHS, I'LL
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KNOW THAT IN FIVE AND A HALF
MONTHS I PROBABLY SHOULD REPENT.
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BUT YOU MIGHT NOT
BE ABLE TO REPENT.
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REPENTANCE IS SOMETHING THAT IS
A GIFT FROM GOD AND WE SOMETIMES
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THINK WE GET TO
CHOOSE WHEN WE REPENT.
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IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT BRINGS
CONVICTION FOR SIN AND A DESIRE
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TO TURN AND
REPENT OF THOSE SINS.
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AND WHEN YOU ARE UNDER
CONVICTION AND WHEN THE HOLY
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SPIRIT IS GIVING YOU THAT GIFT
OF REPENTANCE IS THE TIME FOR
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YOU TO SUBMIT
AND FOLLOW THROUGH.
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YOU MAY NOT HAVE THAT
DESIRE OR THOSE IMPULSES LATER.
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AND I'VE OFTEN SEEN THAT
PEOPLE THAT MAYBE TRIFLED WITH
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SALVATION AND WITH, YOU KNOW,
THE IMPORTANCE OF SERVING GOD
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AND COMING TO CHURCH - YOU
GO VISIT THEM DURING THEIR FINAL
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SICKNESS AND THEY JUST SEEM
TO HAVE NO INTEREST. IT'S LIKE
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THEY'VE LOST THE DESIRE
OR THE CAPACITY TO REPENT.
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AND SO IT'S A DANGEROUS THING
TO THINK THAT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE
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MOOD YOU WILL CHOOSE WHEN YOU'RE
GOING TO REPENT. IT IS A GIFT.
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IT SAYS HERE THE HOLY SPIRIT
GIVES IT AS A GIFT AND SO WE
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NEED TO LISTEN
WHEN GOD GIVES IT TO US.
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IN THE BOOK 'ACTS OF THE
APOSTLES' PAGE 36 - THIS WAS IN
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YOUR LESSON - IT SAYS,
"THE DISCIPLES WAITED FOR THE
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FULFILLMENT OF THE PROMISE"
- THIS IS SPEAKING OF BEFORE
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PENTECOST - "THEY HUMBLED THEIR
HEARTS IN TRUE REPENTANCE AND
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CONFESSED THEIR UNBELIEF.
AS THEY CALLED TO REMEMBRANCE
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THE WORDS THAT CHRIST HAD SPOKEN
TO THEM BEFORE HIS DEATH THEY
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UNDERSTOOD, MORE
FULLY, THEIR MEANING.
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AS THEY MEDITATED UPON HIS PURE,
HOLY LIFE THEY FELT THAT NO TOIL
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WOULD BE TOO HARD, NO SACRIFICE
TOO GREAT IF ONLY THEY COULD
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BEAR WITNESS IN THEIR LIVES
TO THE LOVELINESS OF CHRIST'S
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CHARACTER." BUT YOU
NOTICE, BEFORE THE HOLY
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SPIRIT FELL, IT
SAYS 'THEY HUMBLED THEIR
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HEARTS IN TRUE REPENTANCE
AND CONFESSED THEIR UNBELIEF.'
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PART OF REAL REPENTANCE IS
HUMILITY. TO HUMBLE YOUR HEART
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AND REALIZE PRIDE IS
INCOMPATIBLE WITH REPENTANCE.
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I THINK MARTIN LUTHER IS THE
ONE WHO SAID, 'GOD CREATES FROM
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NOTHING SO WE MUST FIRST BECOME
NOTHING BEFORE HE CAN MAKE
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SOMETHING OUT OF US.'
GOD CREATES FROM NOTHING.
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HE SPOKE AND OUT
OF NOTHING HE MADE.
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AND SO WE MUST BECOME NOTHING
OR HE CAN MAKE NOTHING FROM US.
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ACTS 17 - IT SAYS HERE, 'TRULY
THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD
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OVERLOOKED, BUT NOW HE COMMANDS
ALL MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT.'
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THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE
HE WINKS AT - HE OVERLOOKS.
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BUT NOW HE COMMANDS MEN
EVERYWHERE TO REPENT BECAUSE HE
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HAS APPOINTED A DAY IN
WHICH HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD IN
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RIGHTEOUSNESS BY THE MAN WHO HE
HAS ORDAINED AND GIVEN ASSURANCE
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OF THIS TO ALL BY
RAISING HIM FROM THE DEAD.
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IN OTHER WORDS, IF WE WANT TO BE
FORGIVEN, WE MUST BE WILLING TO
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REPENT AND TURN FROM OUR SINS.
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ ACTS
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CHAPTER 2 FOR US
ELIZABETH - VERSE 38.
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>>"THEN PETER SAID TO THEM,
'REPENT AND LET EVERY ONE OF YOU
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BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS
CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF OUR
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SINS AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE
THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT."
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>>DOES BAPTISM DO US ANY GOOD
IF IT'S NOT FIRST PRECEDED BY
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REPENTANCE? IT SAYS,
'REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED.'
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BAPTISM IS A SYMBOL OF OUR
SINS BEING WASHED AWAY BUT FIRST
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THERE MUST BE A SORROW FOR SIN
AND A REPENTANCE BEFORE THERE'S
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THIS WASHING. AGAIN,
YOU LOOK IN LUKE CHAPTER 3,
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VERSE 8 IT SAYS,
"THEREFORE BEAR FRUITS WORTHY OF
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REPENTANCE, AND DO NOT BEGIN
TO SAY TO YOURSELVES, 'WE HAVE
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ABRAHAM AS OUR FATHER.'
FOR I SAY TO YOU THAT GOD IS
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ABLE TO RAISE UP CHILDREN
TO ABRAHAM FROM THESE STONES."
00:21:38.36\00:21:41.50
JOHN THE BAPTIST IS PREACHING,
HE'S CALLING PEOPLE TO COME TO
00:21:41.50\00:21:44.80
BE BAPTIZED, BUT WHEN THEY COME
TO BE BAPTIZED HE SAYS, 'FIRST
00:21:44.80\00:21:48.43
BEAR FRUITS OF REPENTANCE IN
YOUR LIFE. DON'T THINK TO SAY,
00:21:48.43\00:21:52.80
'WELL, I AM A FOURTH-GENERATION
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST.
00:21:52.80\00:21:55.73
I AM A THIRD GENERATION
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST.
00:21:55.73\00:21:58.30
I HAVE SOMEHOW COLLECTED A
QUANTUM OF MERIT BY VIRTUE OF
00:21:58.30\00:22:03.43
BEING IN THE CHURCH FOR
GENERATIONS. MY FATHER'S
00:22:03.43\00:22:08.66
A PASTOR.' THAT COULD
WORK AGAINST YOU, ACTUALLY.
00:22:08.66\00:22:12.86
THE IDEA - 'OH, MY UNCLE'S
A DEACON' OR 'MY AUNT'S A
00:22:12.86\00:22:16.03
DEACONESS' OR, YOU KNOW,
WHATEVER YOU MIGHT SAY AS THOUGH
00:22:16.03\00:22:18.83
THERE'S SOME KIND OF
GENETIC HERITAGE THAT MAKES YOU
00:22:18.83\00:22:21.83
QUALIFIED TO BE
BAPTIZED AND BE SAVED.
00:22:21.83\00:22:25.96
'I'VE BEEN ON
THE BOOKS FOR YEARS.'
00:22:25.96\00:22:28.66
IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. IT
REALLY DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.
00:22:28.66\00:22:32.83
I MEAN, IT'S WONDERFUL IF YOU'VE
GOT A HERITAGE YOU CAN, YOU
00:22:32.83\00:22:35.36
KNOW, CALL 'ANCESTRY.COM' AND
TELL THEM, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO
00:22:35.36\00:22:39.80
LIVING A GODLY LIFE, GOD
DOESN'T LOOK AT YOUR PEDIGREE.
00:22:39.80\00:22:43.60
YOU NEED TO BRING FORTH
FRUITS MEET FOR REPENTANCE.
00:22:43.60\00:22:49.40
THERE NEEDS TO BE THE FRUIT -
JESUS SAID, 'YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY
00:22:49.40\00:22:52.30
THEIR' - WHAT?
THEIR FAMILY TREE? -
00:22:52.30\00:22:55.90
'YOU'LL KNOW
THEM BY THEIR FRUITS.'
00:22:55.90\00:22:58.03
DO WE HAVE THE
FRUITS OF REPENTANCE?
00:22:58.03\00:22:59.96
AND SO SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'I'VE
COME, I'D LIKE TO BE BAPTIZED.
00:22:59.96\00:23:02.43
I WENT THROUGH A BAPTISMAL STUDY
AND EVERYONE IN MY CLASS IS
00:23:02.43\00:23:05.60
GETTING BAPTIZED AND,' - YOU
KNOW, JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID DO
00:23:05.60\00:23:09.70
YOU HAVE THE FRUITS OF
TRANSFORMATION IN YOUR LIFE?
00:23:09.70\00:23:13.20
THERE SHOULD BE A DIFFERENCE.
00:23:13.20\00:23:15.03
AGAIN YOU READ, ACTS 26, SAME
PRINCIPLE, PAUL IS PREACHING TO
00:23:15.03\00:23:18.66
KING AGRIPPA - ACTS 26, VERSE
19, "THEREFORE, KING AGRIPPA, I
00:23:18.66\00:23:24.23
WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT TO THE
HEAVENLY VISION, BUT DECLARED
00:23:24.23\00:23:27.50
FIRST TO THOSE IN DAMASCUS AND
IN JERUSALEM, AND THROUGHOUT ALL
00:23:27.50\00:23:30.26
THE REGION OF JUDEA, AND THEN TO
THE GENTILES, THAT THEY SHOULD
00:23:30.26\00:23:34.33
REPENT, TURN TO GOD, AND DO
WORKS BEFITTING REPENTANCE."
00:23:34.33\00:23:40.63
NOW IF YOU FORGOT EVERYTHING
I'VE SAID, NOTE THAT POINT.
00:23:40.63\00:23:44.60
IF YOU'VE REALLY REPENTED
OF YOUR SINS YOU SHOULD DO THE
00:23:44.60\00:23:47.83
WORKS FITTING OF REPENTANCE.
THERE SHOULD BE A DIFFERENCE
00:23:47.83\00:23:52.26
IN WORKS. AM I
TWISTING THE SCRIPTURES OR
00:23:52.26\00:23:54.70
IS THAT WHAT IT'S
SAYING? ISN'T THAT WHAT IT SAYS?
00:23:54.70\00:23:57.56
ISN'T THAT WHAT JOHN
THE BAPTIST WAS SAYING?
00:23:57.56\00:23:59.86
SO THE IDEA THAT SOMEHOW YOU
COULD JUST GET BAPTIZED AND HAVE
00:23:59.86\00:24:02.60
YOUR NAME ENTERED IN THE CHURCH
AND YOU HAVE NOT REPENTED OF
00:24:02.60\00:24:04.70
YOUR SINS, PETER SAID, 'REPENT'
- ELIZABETH JUST READ THAT -
00:24:04.70\00:24:09.83
'REPENT FIRST AND BE BAPTIZED
EVERY ONE OF YOU AND YOU SHALL
00:24:09.83\00:24:13.36
RECEIVE THE GIFT
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.'
00:24:13.36\00:24:17.20
YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IF
WE'RE REALLY GOING TO TALK ABOUT
00:24:17.20\00:24:19.26
REVIVAL - IF WE WANT TO BE
DIFFERENT AS A RESULT OF A FOCUS
00:24:19.26\00:24:23.50
ON REVIVAL, THE EVIDENCE OF
REVIVAL - JUST, YOU KNOW RIGHT
00:24:23.50\00:24:28.63
AT THE TOP OF THE LIST IS A
SORROW FOR SIN AND A TURNING
00:24:28.63\00:24:31.96
AWAY FROM IT AND YOU MAKE
ROOM FOR THE WORKING OF THE HOLY
00:24:31.96\00:24:35.16
SPIRIT IN YOUR LIFE. NOW THE
HOLY SPIRIT COMES IN DEGREES.
00:24:35.16\00:24:40.56
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THE
SPIRIT WILL DO IS HE'LL COME
00:24:40.56\00:24:42.40
AND BRING CONVICTION BECAUSE
YOU CAN'T EVEN REPENT WITHOUT
00:24:42.40\00:24:45.46
THE HOLY SPIRIT.
THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS A
00:24:45.46\00:24:47.73
CONVICTION OF SIN AND WHEN WE
SUBMIT AND HUMBLE OURSELVES AND
00:24:47.73\00:24:51.80
LISTEN AND REPENT AND SAY,
'LORD, BY YOUR GRACE I'M GOING
00:24:51.80\00:24:55.30
TO TURN FROM THOSE THINGS OR
THAT THINKING OR THAT PRACTICE'
00:24:55.30\00:25:00.30
- WHATEVER IT HAPPENS TO BE.
YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE CHANGES.
00:25:00.30\00:25:03.90
THERE'S GOING TO BE REFORM.
YOU KNOW I LIKE THAT THE LESSON
00:25:03.90\00:25:07.16
HERE IS CALLED
'REVIVAL AND REFORMATION'.
00:25:07.16\00:25:10.00
IF YOU READ IN ROMANS CHAPTER 12
HE SAYS, 'DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO
00:25:10.00\00:25:16.93
THE WORLD BUT BE TRANSFORMED
BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND.'
00:25:16.93\00:25:20.76
AND SO WE HAVE TO TURN AWAY FROM
THIS CONFIRMATION TO THE WORLD
00:25:20.76\00:25:24.93
AND PRAY THAT GOD'LL TRANSFORM
US SO THAT WE'RE REALLY
00:25:24.93\00:25:27.83
DIFFERENT AND THEN
YOU'LL HAVE THE JOY OF THE LORD.
00:25:27.83\00:25:31.90
SO HOW IMPORTANT IS
IT FOR US TO REPENT?
00:25:31.90\00:25:34.83
IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE THE GIFT
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, REPENT AND
00:25:34.83\00:25:37.00
YOU SHALL. BY THE
WAY, THAT'S A PROMISE.
00:25:37.00\00:25:39.93
2 PETER 3, VERSE 9, "GOD IS NOT
WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH
00:25:39.93\00:25:46.13
BUT THAT ALL SHOULD
COME TO REPENTANCE."
00:25:46.13\00:25:49.26
NOW DO YOU NOTICE THAT?
YOU'VE GOT ONE OR THE OTHER.
00:25:49.26\00:25:51.73
YOU'VE EITHER GOT REPENTANCE AND
LIFE OR STUBBORNNESS AND DEATH -
00:25:51.73\00:25:58.93
NON-REPENTANCE AND DEATH.
SO REPENTANCE IS A GATEWAY TO
00:25:58.93\00:26:03.03
RECEIVING FORGIVENESS AND
HAVING THAT NEW BIRTH - THAT NEW
00:26:03.03\00:26:09.83
EXPERIENCE. JESUS
SAID - OH, THIS IS KIND OF
00:26:09.83\00:26:12.60
A - LET ME JUST GIVE YOU
THE BACK DROP FOR THIS STORY.
00:26:12.60\00:26:17.73
IN SPEAKING WITH THE CROWDS
THERE HAD BEEN A COUPLE OF
00:26:17.73\00:26:20.93
EVENTS THAT WERE IN THE
HEADLINES OF SOME CATASTROPHES
00:26:20.93\00:26:24.20
IN JUDEA. ONE WAS THERE
WAS A RIOT IN THE TEMPLE.
00:26:24.20\00:26:29.26
SOME OF THE JEWISH ZEALOTS HAD
REBELLED AND THEY DIDN'T WANT
00:26:29.26\00:26:33.23
THE ROMAN GUARDS GUARDING THE
OUTSIDE OF THE TEMPLE - I'M NOT
00:26:33.23\00:26:35.60
EXACTLY SURE WHAT BROUGHT IT
ON BUT PILATE SENT SOLDIERS INTO
00:26:35.60\00:26:39.10
THE TEMPLE AND THERE WAS A RIOT
AND IN THAT RIOT A NUMBER OF
00:26:39.10\00:26:45.13
PEOPLE WERE
SLAUGHTERED BY THE SOLDIERS.
00:26:45.13\00:26:47.96
AND THEY SAID, 'JESUS, HAVE YOU
HEARD ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE THAT
00:26:47.96\00:26:50.60
WERE SLAUGHTERED
BECAUSE OF THIS TEMPLE RIOT?'
00:26:50.60\00:26:52.93
AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER
INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED WHERE
00:26:52.93\00:26:55.76
THERE WAS A WALL THAT SUDDENLY
BUCKLED AND FELL - JUST TOO MUCH
00:26:55.76\00:26:59.66
PRESSURE - TOO MANY PEOPLE
ON IT - AND 18 PEOPLE DIED.
00:26:59.66\00:27:02.86
AND THEY WERE THINKING, WHEN
THEY SAID THIS TO JESUS, 'THOSE
00:27:02.86\00:27:06.00
PEOPLE MUST HAVE BEEN GREAT
SINNERS BECAUSE THEY DIED IN THE
00:27:06.00\00:27:09.76
RIOT OR THEY DIED
WHEN THE WALL FELL.'
00:27:09.76\00:27:12.90
AND JESUS SAID, 'DO YOU THINK
THEY WERE SINNERS ABOVE OTHERS
00:27:12.90\00:27:16.13
IN JERUSALEM?' OR
THOSE WHOSE BLOOD WERE
00:27:16.13\00:27:19.46
MINGLED WITH THEIR SACRIFICES
BECAUSE THEY WERE SACRIFICING AT
00:27:19.46\00:27:21.83
THE TEMPLE WHEN THE
SOLDIERS CAME IN AND THEY WERE
00:27:21.83\00:27:24.33
SLAUGHTERED AND THE PEOPLE
THOUGHT, 'OH, THEY MUST HAVE
00:27:24.33\00:27:26.90
BEEN BIG SINNERS
FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.'
00:27:26.90\00:27:29.13
AND JESUS SAID, 'I TELL YOU NO.
BUT UNLESS YOU REPENT, YOU WILL
00:27:29.13\00:27:35.36
ALL LIKEWISE PERISH.' NOW, IF
YOU DON'T BELIEVE PASTOR DOUG,
00:27:35.36\00:27:39.50
I HOPE YOU BELIEVE THE WORDS
OF JESUS - THAT'S RED LETTER -
00:27:39.50\00:27:42.20
THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS -
IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE,
00:27:42.20\00:27:45.26
'UNLESS YOU REPENT YOU
WILL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH.'
00:27:45.26\00:27:49.93
SO DO WE NEED TO KNOW
WHAT REPENTANCE MEANS?
00:27:49.93\00:27:52.36
IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.
AND THAT MEANS REAL REPENTANCE,
00:27:52.36\00:27:58.40
WHICH IS A REAL SORROW FOR SIN.
YOU MIGHT SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG,
00:27:58.40\00:28:01.63
BUT I LIKE MY SIN.'
WELL, TELL THE LORD AND START
00:28:01.63\00:28:04.43
PRAYING. SAY,
'LORD, PUT WITHIN ME A
00:28:04.43\00:28:06.20
HATRED FOR SIN. LET ME
SEE HOW MUCH IT COST YOU.
00:28:06.20\00:28:08.43
LET ME SEE HOW MUCH IT
HURT YOU. CHANGE MY HEART.
00:28:08.43\00:28:11.33
HELP ME TO LOOK AT
SIN THE WAY YOU DO.'
00:28:11.33\00:28:14.16
I USED TO PRAY THAT - 'LORD,
HELP ME SEE THESE THINGS THROUGH
00:28:14.16\00:28:16.23
YOUR EYES.' BECAUSE WE OFTEN
LOOK AT SIN THE WAY THE WORLD
00:28:16.23\00:28:18.40
LOOKS AT IT AND THE
WORLD'S KIND OF BLASÉ ABOUT SIN.
00:28:18.40\00:28:21.50
BUT GOD SEES SIN AS THE TOXIC,
UGLY, VENOMOUS, POISON THING
00:28:21.50\00:28:25.76
THAT IT REALLY IS AND
WE NEED TO SEE IT THAT WAY.
00:28:25.76\00:28:29.60
WE NEED TO BE WILLING TO JUST
TURN AWAY FROM IT INSTINCTIVELY,
00:28:29.60\00:28:33.53
KNOWING THAT IT'S DEADLY.
AND SO MAYBE PART OF YOUR
00:28:33.53\00:28:37.36
REPENTANCE IS TO PRAY THAT
GOD'LL HELP YOU JUST HAVE A
00:28:37.36\00:28:39.60
CHANGE OF MIND AND
SEE IT THE WAY HE SEES IT.
00:28:39.60\00:28:43.33
SO HERE'S TRUE
REPENTANCE REALLY DEFINED.
00:28:43.33\00:28:46.50
WE'RE UNDER THE SECOND DAY NOW -
THE SECOND SECTION - AND JUST TO
00:28:46.50\00:28:50.50
HELP YOU GET READY TO
GO, SOMEONE LOOK, UP FOR ME
00:28:50.50\00:28:53.70
EZEKIEL 14:6.
WHO'S GOT EZEKIEL 14?
00:28:53.70\00:28:58.40
OVER HERE, OKAY, WE'LL GET
TO YOU HEATHER IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:28:58.40\00:29:01.76
IN THE MEANTIME I'M GOING
TO READ - TURN IN YOUR BIBLES -
00:29:01.76\00:29:03.90
2 CORINTHIANS 7,
VERSES 9 THROUGH 12.
00:29:03.90\00:29:08.83
NOW JUST TO GIVE YOU THE
BACKGROUND FOR THIS VERSE, IN 1
00:29:08.83\00:29:12.50
CORINTHIANS PAUL WRITES A LETTER
TO THE CHURCH OF CORINTH AND
00:29:12.50\00:29:16.26
THERE WAS ALL KINDS OF SIN THEY
WERE TOLERATING AND AMONG SOME
00:29:16.26\00:29:20.86
OF THE SCANDALOUS THINGS THAT
WERE HAPPENING IN THE CORINTHIAN
00:29:20.86\00:29:23.03
CHURCH, THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS
SLEEPING WITH HIS STEP-MOTHER
00:29:23.03\00:29:26.73
AND THE CHURCH WAS KIND OF JUST
LOOKING THE OTHER WAY AND IT WAS
00:29:26.73\00:29:28.86
BEING PARADED AND PAUL SAID,
'YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF
00:29:28.86\00:29:31.30
YOURSELVES. YOU OUGHT TO
SPEAK OUT. THAT MAN SHOULD
00:29:31.30\00:29:33.40
BE PUT OUT OF THE
CHURCH. MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM.
00:29:33.40\00:29:35.63
DOESN'T THE CHURCH
STAND FOR ANYTHING?
00:29:35.63\00:29:36.96
EVEN THE PAGANS ARE MOCKING
YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR IMMORALITY.'
00:29:36.96\00:29:40.80
SO AFTER PAUL GOT ON THEM THEY
REALIZED, 'YEAH, HE'S RIGHT. WE
00:29:40.80\00:29:44.03
NEED TO DO SOMETHING.' AND
SO THEY DEALT WITH THE ISSUE.
00:29:44.03\00:29:47.30
THEY REPENTED OF THEIR SIN AND
THEIR INDIFFERENCE AND THEN PAUL
00:29:47.30\00:29:50.60
IS TALKING ABOUT THAT NOW
IN 2 CORINTHIANS 7, VERSE 9.
00:29:50.60\00:29:55.50
"NOW I REJOICE, NOT
THAT YOU WERE MADE SORRY,
00:29:55.50\00:29:58.86
BUT THAT YOUR
SORROW LED TO REPENTANCE."
00:29:58.86\00:30:02.76
YOU KNOW WHY REPENTANCE
ISN'T A POPULAR SUBJECT?
00:30:02.76\00:30:06.30
BECAUSE IT INVOLVES SADNESS
AND A LOT OF CHURCHES TODAY ONLY
00:30:06.30\00:30:09.26
PREACH GIDDY,
HAPPY, FEEL-GOOD SERMONS.
00:30:09.26\00:30:12.63
BUT YOU READ IN THE BIBLE IT
TALKS ABOUT HUMBLE YOURSELVES,
00:30:12.63\00:30:16.80
REND YOUR CLOTHES, LET THEIR BE
WEEPING AND SORROW AND THE BIBLE
00:30:16.80\00:30:20.83
TALKS ABOUT BEFORE GOD CAN LIFT
YOU UP, HUMBLE YOURSELF IN THE
00:30:20.83\00:30:23.86
SIGHT OF GOD AND
HE WILL LIFT YOU UP.
00:30:23.86\00:30:25.90
BEFORE YOU GE THE LIFTING UP
THERE MUST BE THE PUTTING DOWN.
00:30:25.90\00:30:29.10
IN OTHER WORDS, WE NEED TO BE
SORRY FOR OUR SINS AND THEN HE
00:30:29.10\00:30:32.50
HEALS. HE FORGIVES
AND THEN YOU FEEL BETTER.
00:30:32.50\00:30:35.00
BUT THE WAY A LOT OF CHURCHES
ARE PRESENTING THE GOSPEL IS
00:30:35.00\00:30:37.86
'GOD IS GOING TO MAKE YOU FEEL
GOOD WHILE YOU'RE STILL GUILTY.
00:30:37.86\00:30:41.36
GOD WANTS TO SAVE
YOU FROM YOUR GUILT.
00:30:41.36\00:30:43.90
AND SO IF YOU ARE LIVING IN
KNOWN OPEN SIN, YOU OUGHT NOT
00:30:43.90\00:30:47.13
FEEL GOOD AND GOD HAVE MERCY ON
PASTORS THAT TRY TO MAKE SINNERS
00:30:47.13\00:30:50.90
COMFORTABLE IN THEIR SIN,
RIGHT? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE
00:30:50.90\00:30:55.56
COMFORTABLE IN YOUR SIN.
YOU'RE DYING AND YOU SHOULD BE
00:30:55.56\00:30:59.13
MADE UNCOMFORTABLE SO THAT YOU
TURN FROM YOUR SIN AND YOU LIVE.
00:30:59.13\00:31:04.96
TO TRY TO COMFORT A PERSON
ON THEIR WAY TO DESTRUCTION WHEN
00:31:04.96\00:31:08.36
THEY CAN GET OFF THE ROAD OF
DESTRUCTION - YOU'RE NOT HELPING
00:31:08.36\00:31:11.16
THEM. YOU'RE PUTTING A PERSON TO
SLEEP WHILE THEY'RE ON A RAFT ON
00:31:11.16\00:31:16.16
A RIVER GOING TOWARDS A
WATERFALL. YOU WANT TO WAKE THEM
00:31:16.16\00:31:20.33
UP. AND HE SAID, 'IT'S GOOD THAT
YOU SORROW WITH GODLY SORROW.'
00:31:20.33\00:31:26.26
AND IT LED TO REPENTANCE "FOR
YOU WERE MADE SORRY IN A GODLY
00:31:26.26\00:31:30.03
MANNER THAT YOU MIGHT
SUFFER LOSS FROM US IN NOTHING.
00:31:30.03\00:31:34.00
FOR GODLY SORROW
PRODUCES REPENTANCE LEADING TO
00:31:34.00\00:31:37.90
SALVATION." YOU
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:31:37.90\00:31:40.00
ISN'T THAT WHAT PAUL'S
SAYING? IT'S A GOOD SORROW.
00:31:40.00\00:31:43.13
IT'LL LEAD TO REPENTANCE
RESULTING IN SALVATION.
00:31:43.13\00:31:47.93
AND THEN YOU FEEL GOOD
WHEN YOU'RE SAVED, RIGHT?
00:31:47.93\00:31:50.23
"RESULTING IN A
SALVATION NOT TO BE REPENTED OF.
00:31:50.23\00:31:54.03
BUT THE SORROW OF THE
WORLD PRODUCES DEATH."
00:31:54.03\00:31:57.53
SO JUST TO MAKE A PERSON FEEL
GUILTY SO THEY GO OUT AND HANG
00:31:57.53\00:31:59.90
THEMSELVES LIKE JUDAS - THAT'S
THE WRONG KIND OF REPENTANCE,
00:31:59.90\00:32:03.06
RIGHT? "THE SORROW OF THE WORLD
PRODUCES DEATH. FOR OBSERVE THIS
00:32:03.06\00:32:09.20
VERY THING, THAT YOU
SORROWED IN A GODLY MANNER.
00:32:09.20\00:32:12.03
WHAT DILIGENCE IT PRODUCED
IN YOU, WHAT CLEARING OF
00:32:12.03\00:32:14.13
YOURSELVES, WHAT INDIGNATION,
WHAT FEAR, WHAT VEHEMENT DESIRE,
00:32:14.13\00:32:17.60
WHAT ZEAL, WHAT VINDICATION!
IN ALL THINGS YOU PROVED
00:32:17.60\00:32:20.93
YOURSELVES TO BE CLEAR IN THIS
MATTER. THEREFORE, ALTHOUGH I
00:32:20.93\00:32:24.86
WROTE TO YOU, I DID NOT DO IT
FOR THE SAKE OF HIM WHO HAD DONE
00:32:24.86\00:32:27.43
THE WRONG, NOR FOR THE SAKE OF
HIM WHO SUFFERED WRONG, BUT THAT
00:32:27.43\00:32:30.80
OUR CARE FOR YOU IN THE SIGHT
OF GOD MIGHT APPEAR TO YOU."
00:32:30.80\00:32:34.33
ULTIMATELY, IT WAS FOR THE GLORY
OF GOD THAT HIS WORD AND HIS
00:32:34.33\00:32:38.20
TRUTH AND HIS
CHURCH MIGHT BE VINDICATED.
00:32:38.20\00:32:40.66
HEBREWS 12 - AND IN A
MOMENT WE'LL GET TO EZEKIEL.
00:32:40.66\00:32:44.53
HEBREWS 12, VERSES 1 AND 2,
"THEREFORE WE ALSO, SINCE WE ARE
00:32:44.53\00:32:47.70
SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A CLOUD
OF WITNESSES, LET US LAY ASIDE
00:32:47.70\00:32:51.60
EVERY WEIGHT," - WHEN WE LOOK AT
THE EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF ALL
00:32:51.60\00:32:54.46
THOSE GODLY MEN AND WOMEN -
THE PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS AND
00:32:54.46\00:32:57.96
KINGS - WHO, THROUGH FAITH,
OVERCAME GREAT OBSTACLES AND
00:32:57.96\00:33:01.00
REPENTED OF THEIR SINS, CAN YOU
THINK OF SOME BIBLE HEROES THAT
00:33:01.00\00:33:04.50
NEEDED TO
REPENT? LET'S NAME SOME.
00:33:04.50\00:33:09.86
DAVID - DAVID USUALLY GETS
MENTIONED FIRST, YOU KNOW WHY?
00:33:09.86\00:33:13.66
BECAUSE HE WAS SO GOOD AND
THEN HE DID SOMETHING SO BAD.
00:33:13.66\00:33:17.40
IT SEEMED SO OUT OF CHARACTER.
SUCH A GOOD VICTORIOUS KING.
00:33:17.40\00:33:21.30
SO CLOSE TO GOD. WROTE
ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL SONGS
00:33:21.30\00:33:23.70
TO PRAISE GOD THEN HE TOOK HIS
GOOD FRIEND'S WIFE, COMMITTED
00:33:23.70\00:33:28.46
ADULTERY WHILE HIS FRIEND
WAS FIGHTING HIS BATTLES OUT OF
00:33:28.46\00:33:31.23
TOWN, THEN HAD
HIS FRIEND KILLED.
00:33:31.23\00:33:33.73
THAT'S BAD - THAT'S REALLY BAD.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES
00:33:33.73\00:33:38.36
LOST HIS TEMPER AND KILLED THE
EGYPTIAN TASKMASTER, WELL YOU
00:33:38.36\00:33:42.36
SORT OF THINK HE KIND
OF HAD IT COMING TO HIM.
00:33:42.36\00:33:44.90
HE WAS A SLAVE DRIVER, RIGHT?
AND HE WAS TRYING TO LIBERATE
00:33:44.90\00:33:48.80
HIS PEOPLE. BUT WITH
DAVID IT WAS REALLY BAD.
00:33:48.80\00:33:53.36
BUT DID DAVID
OVERCOME? DID HE REPENT?
00:33:53.36\00:33:57.56
NOW I KNOW
YOU'VE GOT A MICROPHONE.
00:33:57.56\00:33:59.06
I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN. LET'S
LOOK AT PSALM 51 FOR A SECOND.
00:33:59.06\00:34:02.83
SOMEONE MENTIONED DAVID AND THIS
IS A GOOD PLACE TO JUST PAUSE.
00:34:02.83\00:34:08.73
AFTER DAVID SINNED WITH
BATHSHEBA, YOU KNOW THERE WAS A
00:34:08.73\00:34:13.53
PERIOD OF TIME - SEVERAL MONTHS
ANYWAY - HE WAS SOMEHOW STIFLING
00:34:13.53\00:34:17.20
HIS CONSCIENCE.
KILLED HIS FRIEND, COMMITTED
00:34:17.20\00:34:21.43
ADULTERY, TOOK HIS WIFE
AFTER HE HAD HIM MURDERED.
00:34:21.43\00:34:25.93
SHE'S NOW PREGNANT AND
GREAT WITH CHILD AND HE FIGURES,
00:34:25.93\00:34:29.93
'WELL, YOU KNOW,
ENOUGH TIME WENT BY.
00:34:29.93\00:34:32.00
GOD MUST HAVE JUST WINKED AT
THIS AND FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT AND
00:34:32.00\00:34:34.23
I GUESS
EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE OKAY.'
00:34:34.23\00:34:35.93
JUST BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE
EVERYTHING IS GOING OKAY DOESN'T
00:34:35.93\00:34:39.03
MEAN GOD HAS FORGOTTEN YOUR SIN.
IF YOU HAVE NOT REPENTED OF YOUR
00:34:39.03\00:34:42.60
SIN, DAYS AND WEEKS AND MONTHS
AND EVEN YEARS MAY HAVE GONE BY,
00:34:42.60\00:34:45.76
BUT IF YOU HAVE NOT REPENTED OF
YOUR SIN YOU ARE UNDER A CLOUD
00:34:45.76\00:34:49.93
OF JUDGMENT AND IT'S A
FEARFUL THING. FINALLY GOD,
00:34:49.93\00:34:56.16
IN HIS MERCY, SENT NATHAN.
DAVID NEEDED TO BE SORRY BEFORE
00:34:56.16\00:34:59.46
HE COULD REPENT
AND BEFORE HE COULD BE
00:34:59.46\00:35:01.10
FORGIVEN SO NATHAN CAME
AND TOLD A STORY TO HELP DAVID
00:35:01.10\00:35:05.26
SEE THROUGH GOD'S EYES WHAT
HE HAD DONE AND HOW TERRIBLY
00:35:05.26\00:35:08.10
OFFENSIVE IT WAS.
DAVID BEING A SHEPHERD - GOD
00:35:08.10\00:35:11.30
PICKED A PERFECT STORY.
NATHAN COMES, YOU KNOW DAVID IS
00:35:11.30\00:35:14.90
SITTING IN JUDGMENT - HE'S
LISTENING TO DIFFERENT CASES AND
00:35:14.90\00:35:17.36
NATHAN THE PROPHET COMES AND HE
OSTENSIBLY IS PRESENTING A CASE
00:35:17.36\00:35:20.50
TO THE KING FOR JUDGMENT.
THE KING WAS THE SUPREME COURT.
00:35:20.50\00:35:24.23
THEY HAD JUDGES SCATTERED AROUND
ISRAEL, BUT IF YOU HAD A REALLY
00:35:24.23\00:35:26.50
DIFFICULT CASE, THE
KING WAS THE SUPREME COURT.
00:35:26.50\00:35:28.83
AND SO HE SAID, THERE IS A
CERTAIN MAN IN YOUR KINGDOM AND
00:35:28.83\00:35:32.53
THE FAMILY WAS POOR AND ALL THEY
HAD WAS ONE EWE LAMB BUT, YOU
00:35:32.53\00:35:36.96
KNOW THEY LOVED THE LAMB TOO
MUCH TO BUTCHER IT AND TOOK CARE
00:35:36.96\00:35:39.86
OF IT AND IT EVEN STAYED IN
THEIR HOUSE AND THEY NAMED IT.
00:35:39.86\00:35:42.40
IT WAS LIKE PART OF THE FAMILY
AND DAVID COULD RELATE TO THAT.
00:35:42.40\00:35:46.50
YOU KNOW HE LAYED DOWN HIS
LIFE TO SAVE SOME SHEEP BEFORE.
00:35:46.50\00:35:49.86
AND HE SAID, 'BUT HE HAD A
WEALTHY NEIGHBOR WITH A BIG
00:35:49.86\00:35:51.83
RANCH AND HUNDREDS OF SHEEP AND
THE WEALTHY NEIGHBOR HAD A GUEST
00:35:51.83\00:35:55.26
THAT CAME TO VISIT AND INSTEAD
OF TAKING FROM HIS FLOCK TO
00:35:55.26\00:35:58.33
SLAUGHTER AND PRESENT SOMETHING
TO THE GUEST, HE VIOLENTLY TOOK
00:35:58.33\00:36:02.26
AWAY THIS ONE MAN'S FAMILY PET
- THEIR LAMB - KILLED IT AND FED
00:36:02.26\00:36:07.00
IT TO HIS GUEST.' DAVID
JUST ABOUT JUMPED OFF THE
00:36:07.00\00:36:10.40
THRONE AND HE GOT ANGRY
AND HAD FIRE IN HIS EYES.
00:36:10.40\00:36:13.66
HE SAID, 'WHOEVER DID THIS,
THEY'RE GOING TO DIE AND THEY'RE
00:36:13.66\00:36:16.53
GOING TO PAY FOUR-FOLD.
WHAT A TERRIBLY EGREGIOUS, MEAN,
00:36:16.53\00:36:20.00
OUTRAGEOUS, SELFISH
THING TO DO.' AND NATHAN SAID,
00:36:20.00\00:36:24.33
'YOU'RE THE MAN.' HE HAD TO
BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT HE HAD DONE.
00:36:24.33\00:36:31.60
DAVID HAD A HAREM OF WIVES.
URIAH HAD ONE, BEAUTIFUL WIFE
00:36:31.60\00:36:36.76
THAT HE LOVED. AND
HE TOOK HIS ONE WIFE,
00:36:36.76\00:36:40.23
KILLED HIM, AND
STOLE HIS WIFE FROM HIM.
00:36:40.23\00:36:46.33
AND FINALLY DAVID SAID,
'AH!' AND HE BROKE DOWN.
00:36:46.33\00:36:51.40
HE FINALLY HAD GODLY SORROW
AND HE SAID, 'I HAVE SINNED.'
00:36:51.40\00:36:56.20
AND NATHAN SAID,
'YEAH, YOU DID SIN.
00:36:56.20\00:36:57.73
YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER
FOR YOUR SIN.' AND DAVID SAID,
00:36:57.73\00:37:01.16
'I DESERVE TO DIE.' AND NATHAN
SAID, 'GOD'S FORGIVEN YOUR SIN
00:37:01.16\00:37:03.43
BECAUSE YOU'VE REPENTED NOW.'
BUT LISTEN TO WHAT DAVID SAYS IN
00:37:03.43\00:37:07.20
PSALM 51, JUST SO YOU
HAVE THE BACKDROP OF THIS.
00:37:07.20\00:37:10.56
OH, BY THE WAY, NOT ONLY DID
DAVID REPENT OF HIS SIN, PART OF
00:37:10.56\00:37:16.46
THE CONSEQUENCE WAS THAT FIRST
PREGNANCY WITH BATHSHEBA, GOD
00:37:16.46\00:37:22.33
SAID BECAUSE OF THE SCANDAL
CONNECTED WITH WHAT YOU'VE DONE
00:37:22.33\00:37:26.26
- ALL ISRAEL EVENTUALLY FOUND
OUT ABOUT IT - THAT THAT CHILD
00:37:26.26\00:37:30.40
IS GOING TO DIE. AND
DAVID SPENT SEVEN DAYS ON
00:37:30.40\00:37:34.70
HIS FACE PRAYING FOR THAT BABY.
NOW, I'VE PRAYED ON MY FACE
00:37:34.70\00:37:40.40
BEFORE BUT NOT SEVEN
DAYS - NOT EVEN 24 HOURS.
00:37:40.40\00:37:43.23
PEOPLE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE SIN
OF DAVID AND THEY SAY, 'OH, YOU
00:37:43.23\00:37:45.70
KNOW, DAVID'S COMMITTED
ADULTERY AND GOD FORGAVE HIM.
00:37:45.70\00:37:48.33
I GUESS I CAN COMMIT ADULTERY
AND I'LL PRAY LATER AND GOD'LL
00:37:48.33\00:37:50.86
FORGIVE ME. IT'S
NOT THAT BIG A DEAL.'
00:37:50.86\00:37:53.00
PEOPLE WANT TO SIN LIKE DAVID
- IN THE CHURCH - BUT THEY DON'T
00:37:53.00\00:37:55.90
WANT TO REPENT
LIKE DAVID. RIGHT?
00:37:55.90\00:37:59.90
I HAVEN'T SEE TOO MANY
SPEND SEVEN DAYS ON THEIR FACE
00:37:59.90\00:38:02.50
PRAYING, CRYING
BECAUSE OF THEIR SIN.
00:38:02.50\00:38:05.36
DAVID REALIZED HIS
SIN WAS HURTING OTHERS.
00:38:05.36\00:38:09.40
IT WAS HURTING THE
KINGDOM AND HE REALLY REPENTED.
00:38:09.40\00:38:12.06
NOW LISTEN TO PSALM 51 WITH THAT
BACKGROUND, "HAVE MERCY UPON ME
00:38:12.06\00:38:17.16
O GOD, ACCORDING TO YOUR
LOVINGKINDNESS; ACCORDING TO THE
00:38:17.16\00:38:20.40
MULTITUDE OF YOUR
TENDER MERCIES, BLOT OUT MY
00:38:20.40\00:38:23.13
TRANSGRESSIONS. WASH
ME THOROUGHLY FROM MY
00:38:23.13\00:38:26.33
INIQUITY, AND CLEANSE ME FROM
MY SIN. FOR I ACKNOWLEDGE MY
00:38:26.33\00:38:29.93
TRANSGRESSIONS AND MY
SIN IS EVER BEFORE ME.
00:38:29.93\00:38:33.13
AGAINST YOU, YOU ONLY HAVE I
SINNED, AND DONE THIS EVIL IN
00:38:33.13\00:38:35.90
YOUR SIGHT - THAT YOU MAY BE
FOUND JUST WHEN YOU SPEAK, AND
00:38:35.90\00:38:39.23
BLAMELESS WHEN YOU JUDGE."
- DAVID KNEW HE HAD BROUGHT
00:38:39.23\00:38:41.56
REPROACH ON GOD'S NAME BY
HIS SIN - "BEHOLD, I WAS BROUGHT
00:38:41.56\00:38:45.80
FORTH IN INIQUITY, AND IN
SIN MY MOTHER CONCEIVED ME.
00:38:45.80\00:38:48.93
BEHOLD, YOU DESIRE TRUTH IN
THE INWARD PARTS," - BY THE WAY,
00:38:48.93\00:38:52.00
SOME PEOPLE HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD
THIS VERSE TO TRY TO TEACH SOME
00:38:52.00\00:38:54.93
KIND OF ORIGINAL SIN.
DAVID IS JUST SAYING 'I'M BORN
00:38:54.93\00:38:57.83
WITH THE FALLEN DNA OF ADAM
AND EVE - WITH SELFISHNESS.'
00:38:57.83\00:39:02.33
"BEHOLD, YOU DESIRE TRUTH IN THE
INWARD PARTS, AND IN THE HIDDEN
00:39:02.33\00:39:06.23
PART YOU WILL
MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM.
00:39:06.23\00:39:08.16
PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I
SHALL BE CLEAN; WASH ME, AND I
00:39:08.16\00:39:10.96
SHALL BE WHITER THAN
SNOW" - WHY DID HE SAY 'HYSSOP'?
00:39:10.96\00:39:14.00
WHAT DID THEY USE TO SPREAD THE
PASSOVER BLOOD ON THE DOOR AND
00:39:14.00\00:39:17.06
THE WINDOW? HYSSOP - THEY
WOULD DIP IT IN THE BLOOD.
00:39:17.06\00:39:20.30
AND SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE
BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THAT'S A
00:39:20.30\00:39:22.86
TYPE OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
"PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP AND
00:39:22.86\00:39:25.86
I WILL BE CLEAN. WASH ME
AND I'LL BE WHITER THAN SNOW." -
00:39:25.86\00:39:29.16
REVELATION - DOESN'T IT SAY
THAT THE REDEEMED'S ROBES ARE
00:39:29.16\00:39:32.13
WASHED AND MADE WHITE
IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB? -
00:39:32.13\00:39:35.66
"MAKE ME HEAR JOY AND
GLADNESS, THAT THE BONES YOU
00:39:35.66\00:39:37.93
HAVE BROKEN MAY REJOICE."
- YOU NOTICE, YOU HUMBLE
00:39:37.93\00:39:40.70
YOURSELF - YOU WILL EVENTUALLY
HAVE THAT JOY AND GLADNESS BUT
00:39:40.70\00:39:44.83
DON'T EXPECT JOY AND GLADNESS
WHILE YOU ARE STILL IN YOUR SIN.
00:39:44.83\00:39:48.43
GOD WANTS YOU TO HAVE AN
ABUNDANT LIFE, BUT DON'T ASK FOR
00:39:48.43\00:39:51.20
THE ABUNDANT LIFE WHILE
YOU'RE LIVING IN REBELLION.
00:39:51.20\00:39:54.66
- "THAT THE BONES WHICH
YOU HAVE BROKEN MIGHT REJOICE.
00:39:54.66\00:39:58.76
HIDE YOUR FACE FROM MY SINS,
AND BLOT OUT ALL MY INIQUITIES.
00:39:58.76\00:40:02.50
CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O
GOD," - YOU NOT ONLY WANT TO BE
00:40:02.50\00:40:05.73
FORGIVEN FROM YOUR SIN, YOU WANT
A CLEAN HEART SO YOU'RE A NEW
00:40:05.73\00:40:08.33
CREATURE DOING NEW THINGS, AMEN?
- "CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART,
00:40:08.33\00:40:13.16
O GOD, AND RENEW A
STEADFAST SPIRIT WITHIN ME.
00:40:13.16\00:40:16.63
DO NOT CAST ME AWAY FROM YOUR
PRESENCE AND DO NOT TAKE YOUR
00:40:16.63\00:40:19.23
HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME."
- WHAT'S ONE OF THE GREAT
00:40:19.23\00:40:22.40
DANGERS OF LIVING IN REBELLION?
GOD WITHDRAWS HIS SPIRIT.
00:40:22.40\00:40:27.03
WHEN SAMPSON PERSISTED IN HIS
REBELLION WHAT HAPPENED TO THE
00:40:27.03\00:40:30.90
POWER AND THE SPIRIT
THAT HE NORMALLY HAD?
00:40:30.90\00:40:34.36
HE JUMPED UP THINKING HE WAS
GOING TO FIGHT THE PHILISTINES
00:40:34.36\00:40:36.40
AND HE WAS POWERLESS.
"RESTORE UNTO ME THE JOY OF YOUR
00:40:36.40\00:40:41.23
SALVATION AND UPHOLD ME BY
YOUR GENEROUS" - OR YOUR FREE -
00:40:41.23\00:40:44.73
"SPIRIT." ANOTHER
REASON THAT WE WANT TO
00:40:44.73\00:40:47.20
REPENT AND BE SAVED, IT SAYS,
"THEN I WILL TEACH TRANSGRESSORS
00:40:47.20\00:40:50.76
YOUR WAYS AND SINNERS
WILL BE CONVERTED TO YOU."
00:40:50.76\00:40:54.00
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A REAL
REVIVAL? WOULD YOU REALLY LIKE
00:40:54.00\00:40:56.46
TO SEE THOUSANDS POURING INTO
THE CHURCH AND BE CONVERTED?
00:40:56.46\00:41:00.10
REAL REPENTANCE LEADS TO SINNERS
BEING CONVERTED BECAUSE WHEN
00:41:00.10\00:41:06.66
WE'RE REALLY FORGIVEN - WHEN WE
HUMBLE OURSELVES, WE TURN FROM
00:41:06.66\00:41:09.23
OUR SINS, WE REPENT, HE THEN
GIVES US THE JOY OF SALVATION.
00:41:09.23\00:41:13.00
PEOPLE WANT THAT JOY - THEY COME
TO OUR CHURCH BECAUSE THEY WANT
00:41:13.00\00:41:16.00
THAT JOY - THEY ARE THEN
CONVERTED. AND SO - BUT IT
00:41:16.00\00:41:19.63
BEGINS WITH REAL REPENTANCE.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:41:19.63\00:41:22.76
I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL
THIS, BUT LET'S GO BACK - I'M
00:41:22.76\00:41:25.20
GOING TO RUN OUT OF TIME.
I'VE GOT A LOT MORE TO SAY.
00:41:25.20\00:41:28.56
LET'S GO BACK TO - I WAS GOING
TO HAVE YOU READ FOR US EZEKIEL
00:41:28.56\00:41:32.70
- WHAT WAS IT? -
YEAH, GO AHEAD, TURN ON
00:41:32.70\00:41:35.76
HEATHER'S
MICROPHONE - EZEKIEL 14:6.
00:41:35.76\00:41:39.40
>>EZEKIEL 14:6, "THEREFORE
SAY TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,
00:41:39.40\00:41:44.03
'THUS SAYS THE
LORD GOD, 'REPENT.
00:41:44.03\00:41:46.46
TURN AWAY FROM YOUR IDOLS AND
TURN YOUR FACES AWAY FROM ALL
00:41:46.46\00:41:49.70
YOUR ABOMINATIONS.''"
>>IS IT CLEAR THAT REPENTANCE
00:41:49.70\00:41:54.00
INVOLVES TURNING
AWAY FROM THE SIN?
00:41:54.00\00:41:57.13
LIKE THEIR SIN AT
THAT CASE WAS IDOLATRY.
00:41:57.13\00:41:59.23
HE SAYS, 'REPENT AND TURN AWAY
FROM THE ABOMINATIONS AND YOUR
00:41:59.23\00:42:02.80
IDOLS.' LOOK, FOR
INSTANCE, IN EZEKIEL
00:42:02.80\00:42:06.40
18:30 AND I'LL READ THROUGH
VERSE 32, "'THEREFORE I WILL
00:42:06.40\00:42:11.56
JUDGE YOU, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL,
EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS
00:42:11.56\00:42:13.90
WAYS,' SAYS THE LORD GOD.
'REPENT, AND TURN FROM ALL YOUR
00:42:13.90\00:42:17.90
TRANSGRESSIONS, SO THAT INIQUITY
WILL NOT BE YOUR RUIN.'"
00:42:17.90\00:42:22.00
THE IDEA THAT, BECAUSE OF THE
GRACE OF GOD, WE CAN CONTINUE IN
00:42:22.00\00:42:25.10
KNOWN SIN AND IT DOESN'T
MATTER, THAT IS A FALSE GOSPEL.
00:42:25.10\00:42:28.83
THAT IS A DOCTRINE OF DEVILS.
REAL REPENTANCE MEANS YOU TURN.
00:42:28.83\00:42:34.40
IF WE CONTINUE IN SIN HE SAYS,
"'INIQUITY WILL BE YOUR RUIN.
00:42:34.40\00:42:38.66
CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL THE
TRANSGRESSIONS WHICH YOU HAVE
00:42:38.66\00:42:41.73
COMMITTED, AND GET YOURSELVES A
NEW HEART'" - NOW THAT'S THE NEW
00:42:41.73\00:42:44.96
COVENANT, RIGHT? A NEW HEART.
YOU FIRST FIND THE NEW COVENANT
00:42:44.96\00:42:47.83
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, BY
THE WAY, "'GET YOURSELVES A NEW
00:42:47.83\00:42:50.80
HEART'" - GOD SAYS,
'I'LL CREATE A NEW HEART.
00:42:50.80\00:42:53.06
YOU'LL BECOME A NEW CREATURE.'
HE GIVES US NEW DESIRES - "'GET
00:42:53.06\00:42:58.26
YOURSELVES A NEW HEART AND A NEW
SPIRIT. FOR WHY SHOULD YOU DIE,
00:42:58.26\00:43:01.43
O HOUSE OF ISRAEL? FOR
I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE
00:43:01.43\00:43:03.60
DEATH OF ONE WHO
DIES.' SAYS THE LORD GOD.
00:43:03.60\00:43:05.93
'THEREFORE, TURN'" - THAT'S
REPENTANCE - "'TURN AND LIVE!'"
00:43:05.93\00:43:09.83
HE WANTS US TO
TURN FROM OUR SINS.
00:43:09.83\00:43:11.76
HERE'S A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK
'STEPS TO CHRIST' PAGE 38 - ON
00:43:11.76\00:43:14.93
THIS SUBJECT - "TRUE CONFESSION
IS ALWAYS OF A SPECIFIC
00:43:14.93\00:43:21.53
CHARACTER AND
ACKNOWLEDGES PARTICULAR SINS.
00:43:21.53\00:43:24.80
THEY MAY BE OF SUCH A NATURE AS
TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE GOD ONLY.
00:43:24.80\00:43:27.96
THERE MAY BE WRONGS THAT SHOULD
BE CONFESSED TO INDIVIDUALS WHO
00:43:27.96\00:43:30.80
HAVE SUFFERED INJURY THROUGH
THEM OR THEY MIGHT BE OF A
00:43:30.80\00:43:33.13
PUBLIC CHARACTER THAT SHOULD
BE PUBLICLY CONFESSED, BUT ALL
00:43:33.13\00:43:36.10
CONFESSIONS SHOULD BE DEFINITE
AND TO THE POINT, ACKNOWLEDGING
00:43:36.10\00:43:39.40
THE VERY SINS OF
WHICH YOU'RE GUILTY."
00:43:39.40\00:43:41.56
NOW, THAT
SOMETIMES TROUBLES PEOPLE.
00:43:41.56\00:43:43.30
WHEN WE - BY THE WAY, REPENTANCE
AND CONFESSION GO HAND IN HAND.
00:43:43.30\00:43:48.03
THEY'RE SEPARATE IN THE SENSE
THAT IT'S THE SAME SPIRIT THAT
00:43:48.03\00:43:51.73
DRIVES THEM BUT THEY'RE
SEPARATE IN THAT THEY'RE UNIQUE.
00:43:51.73\00:43:54.83
REPENTANCE IS - OR CONFESSION IS
THE VERBAL SIDE OF REPENTANCE.
00:43:54.83\00:44:02.66
SO WHEN YOU TURN FROM YOUR SINS
- AND THERE'S SINS YOU MAY HAVE
00:44:02.66\00:44:06.83
TURNED FROM BEFORE BUT YOU
DIDN'T CONFESS THE SIN TO GOD.
00:44:06.83\00:44:10.73
I DON'T THING YOU CAN REALLY
EVER GET VICTORY UNTIL YOU
00:44:10.73\00:44:12.70
CONFESS SOMETHING. AND IT
SAYS HERE WE SHOULD BE SPECIFIC.
00:44:12.70\00:44:19.50
WHEN ISAIAH SAID, 'WOE IS
ME. I AM UNDONE. I AM A MAN OF
00:44:19.50\00:44:24.43
UNCLEAN LIPS AND I DWELL IN
THE MIDST OF A PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN
00:44:24.43\00:44:27.00
LIPS.' HIS SIN WAS UNCLEAN
LIPS. HE MENTIONS HIS SPEECH.
00:44:27.00\00:44:32.93
BY THE WAY, THE BIBLE SAYS 'OUT
OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART
00:44:32.93\00:44:35.00
THE MOUTH SPEAKS' SO TYPICALLY
IT'S WHEN WE'VE GOT AN UNCLEAN
00:44:35.00\00:44:39.06
HEART YOU'VE GOT
THE UNCLEAN LIPS.
00:44:39.06\00:44:40.56
SO HE MENTIONS
SOMETHING SPECIFIC.
00:44:40.56\00:44:42.43
IF YOU READ IN THE REPENTANT
PRAYER OF DANIEL - DANIEL
00:44:42.43\00:44:45.76
CHAPTER 9 - HE TALKS ABOUT THE
SINS OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND THEY
00:44:45.76\00:44:48.76
TALK ABOUT THE IDOLATRY AND
NEHEMIAH TALKS ABOUT THE SABBATH
00:44:48.76\00:44:52.43
BREAKING AND THE INTERMARRIAGE
WITH UNBELIEVERS AND THERE'S
00:44:52.43\00:44:56.40
JUST - THERE'S A BROAD SPECTRUM.
00:44:56.40\00:44:57.90
BUT YOU'LL NOTICE
THERE'S SPECIFIC SINS.
00:44:57.90\00:45:00.70
IN THE DEDICATION PRAYER OF
SOLOMON, WHEN THEY DEDICATED THE
00:45:00.70\00:45:03.56
TEMPLE, HE TALKS ABOUT THE
SPECIFIC SINS - GOING AFTER
00:45:03.56\00:45:06.66
OTHER GODS - AND WHEN YOU
CONFESS - IS THERE ANYONE HERE
00:45:06.66\00:45:12.40
WHO CAN REMEMBER EVERY
SIN THEY'VE EVER COMMITTED?
00:45:12.40\00:45:16.46
I'M NOT RAISING MY HAND,
I'M SCRATCHING MY HEAD. I CAN'T.
00:45:16.46\00:45:21.06
DOES THAT MEAN IF YOU CAN'T
REMEMBER EVERY SIN YOU'VE EVER
00:45:21.06\00:45:25.03
COMMITTED THAT
YOU CAN'T BE FORGIVEN?
00:45:25.03\00:45:28.36
WE'RE IN TROUBLE IF THAT'S TRUE.
I THINK GOD IS WANTING US TO BE
00:45:28.36\00:45:32.30
SPECIFIC, BUT BE SPECIFIC WITH
AT LEAST THE MAJOR CATEGORIES.
00:45:32.30\00:45:36.70
TAKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - IT'S
A GOOD TEMPLATE FOR REPENTANCE.
00:45:36.70\00:45:42.06
YOU CAN LOOK AT THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS AND JUST SAY,
00:45:42.06\00:45:44.43
'LORD, FORGIVE ME FOR
USING YOUR NAME IN VAIN.'
00:45:44.43\00:45:49.70
'OH, PASTOR DOUG, I'VE
NEVER MURDERED ANYBODY.'
00:45:49.70\00:45:52.13
BUT JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'RE ANGRY
WITH YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER IN
00:45:52.13\00:45:54.93
YOUR HEART, YOU'RE GUILTY
OF ANOTHER KIND OF MURDER.'
00:45:54.93\00:45:58.10
'I'VE NEVER COMMITTED ADULTERY'
- BUT JESUS SAID YOU CAN COMMIT
00:45:58.10\00:46:00.96
ADULTERY BY LUSTING
AFTER ANOTHER MAN OR WOMAN.
00:46:00.96\00:46:05.63
IT CAN HAPPEN IN THE HEART.
LORD, FORGIVE ME FOR THOSE
00:46:05.63\00:46:09.13
IMPURE THOUGHTS OR FOR
ADULTERY. 'I'VE NEVER STOLEN!' -
00:46:09.13\00:46:13.13
WELL, DID YOU EVER
NOT PAY YOUR TITHE?
00:46:13.13\00:46:15.10
THE BIBLE SAYS YOU CAN ROB
GOD. MAYBE YOU HAVE STOLEN.
00:46:15.10\00:46:18.73
AND, BY THE WAY, PART OF
REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION IS YOU
00:46:18.73\00:46:22.10
STILL HAVE SOMETHING IN
YOUR GARAGE YOU STOLE FROM YOUR
00:46:22.10\00:46:24.03
NEIGHBOR? 'OH, I
JUST BORROWED IT.'
00:46:24.03\00:46:25.86
WELL, YOU'VE HAD IT FIVE YEARS
- IT'S CALLED STEALING AT THIS
00:46:25.86\00:46:27.73
POINT, RIGHT? WHEN
YOU BORROW SOMETHING
00:46:27.73\00:46:30.63
PERMANENTLY
IT'S CALLED STEALING.
00:46:30.63\00:46:33.20
YOU CAN SAY, 'LORD, FORGIVE
ME FOR TAKING MR. JONES' RAKE.'
00:46:33.20\00:46:39.20
WELL, IT'S STILL IN YOUR GARAGE.
DON'T ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOU FOR
00:46:39.20\00:46:41.63
TAKING HIS RAKE, GO KNOCK
ON HIS DOOR AND BRING IT BACK.
00:46:41.63\00:46:44.43
TELL HIM YOU'RE SORRY. ISN'T
THAT WHAT REPENTANCE IS - AND
00:46:44.43\00:46:48.26
CONFESSION? AND YOU THEN CONFESS
TO HIM, 'I AM SO SORRY. I'VE
00:46:48.26\00:46:52.03
BEEN MEANING - I JUST FORGOT.'
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TELL HIM.
00:46:52.03\00:46:54.60
BRING IT BACK AND HE'LL PROBABLY
SAY, 'OH, I BOUGHT ANOTHER RAKE
00:46:54.60\00:46:57.00
A LONG TIME AGO BUT
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.'
00:46:57.00\00:46:59.20
AND AT LEAST
YOU'RE CLEARING YOUR SOUL.
00:46:59.20\00:47:03.00
SO AS YOU PRAY - AND I
RECOMMEND EVERYBODY DOES THIS.
00:47:03.00\00:47:07.56
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO EXPERIENCE
- TO THE SAME DEGREE THAT YOU
00:47:07.56\00:47:14.26
REPENT OF YOUR SINS - TO
THAT EXTENT I THINK YOU CAN
00:47:14.26\00:47:17.50
EXPERIENCE RELIEF
AND JOY AND MERCY.
00:47:17.50\00:47:23.03
YOU CAN'T REMEMBER EVERY SIN
YOU'VE COMMITTED BUT SAY, 'LORD,
00:47:23.03\00:47:26.83
SEARCH ME AND TRY ME. SEE IF
THERE BE ANY WICKED WAY IN ME.
00:47:26.83\00:47:30.43
LEAD ME IN THE WAY EVERLASTING.'
GO OFF BY YOURSELF SOMEWHERE.
00:47:30.43\00:47:33.50
GO TO YOUR CLOSET WHERE YOU PRAY
OR YOUR BEDROOM - WHEREVER IT
00:47:33.50\00:47:36.23
HAPPENS TO BE AND GET ONE OF
THOSE YELLOW TABLETS OF PAPER
00:47:36.23\00:47:39.76
AND KNEEL DOWN AND SAY,
'LORD, SHOW ME MY SIN. IS THERE
00:47:39.76\00:47:43.86
SOMETHING I HAVE NOT REPENTED
OF?' AND PRAY. BE SINCERE AND
00:47:43.86\00:47:47.00
SAY, 'LORD, I WANT TO BE CLEAR
WITH YOU. I WANT TO KNOW THAT
00:47:47.00\00:47:50.16
I HAVE APPLIED THE BLOOD OF
THE LAMB. SEND ME YOUR SPIRIT' -
00:47:50.16\00:47:55.40
AND TAKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
AND LOOK AT THEM - WE JUST WENT
00:47:55.40\00:47:58.46
THROUGH THIS WHOLE
SERIES ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:47:58.46\00:48:00.96
THERE'S A LITERAL SIDE - THERE'S
THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT OF THE
00:48:00.96\00:48:03.16
LAW AND I THINK YOU'LL FIND
IN JUST ABOUT EVERY CASE THERE'S
00:48:03.16\00:48:07.20
SOMETHING THAT YOU NEED TO
ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOU FOR.
00:48:07.20\00:48:10.66
IF YOU CAN'T REMEMBER AND YOU
PRAY, DON'T WORRY, BECAUSE IT'S
00:48:10.66\00:48:15.10
THE HOLY SPIRIT'S JOB TO BRING
THOSE THINGS TO YOUR MIND IF
00:48:15.10\00:48:17.70
IT'S SOMETHING YOU
NEED TO BE CLEAR OF.
00:48:17.70\00:48:19.96
AND HE DOESN'T WANT TO DO IT TO
MAKE YOU FEEL GUILTY, HE WANTS
00:48:19.96\00:48:23.13
TO DO IT TO MAKE YOU FEEL
JOY AND TO EXPERIENCE REAL
00:48:23.13\00:48:26.60
FORGIVENESS. YOU
WANT TO DO A THOROUGH WORK
00:48:26.60\00:48:29.76
OF PLOWING UP THE FALLOW
GROUND, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT.
00:48:29.76\00:48:34.43
A THOROUGH WORK - LET ME SAY IT
ANOTHER WAY - TO THE EXTENT OF
00:48:34.43\00:48:40.73
THE OFFENSE THERE SHOULD
BE A CORRESPONDING REPENTANCE.
00:48:40.73\00:48:45.63
IT'S - YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY THIS
BEFORE, IF I'M WALKING OUT OF
00:48:45.63\00:48:48.43
THE CHURCH AND I ACCIDENTALLY
STEP ON YOUR TOE, I'LL PROBABLY
00:48:48.43\00:48:51.86
TURN TO YOU AND SIMPLY SAY,
'EXCUSE ME. I'M SORRY.' RIGHT?
00:48:51.86\00:48:57.56
AND I KNOW IF YOU'VE GOT A
BUNION AND IT REALLY HURT I'LL
00:48:57.56\00:48:59.60
SAY, 'I'M VERY, VERY SORRY.'
BUT IF I'M RUSHING TOWARDS THE
00:48:59.60\00:49:04.26
DOOR AND I KNOCK YOU DOWN, AND
YOU BREAK YOUR ELBOW AND I JUST
00:49:04.26\00:49:09.86
LOOK OVER MY SHOULDER AND SAY,
'EXCUSE ME' - IS THERE SOMETHING
00:49:09.86\00:49:13.10
WRONG WITH THAT? I DON'T
KNOW IF I EVER TOLD YOU -
00:49:13.10\00:49:16.63
GOD'S BEEN GOOD TO ME.
I'VE BEEN HIT BY CARS WHILE
00:49:16.63\00:49:20.50
RIDING A BICYCLE THREE TIMES
IN MY LIFE - NEVER BROKE A BONE.
00:49:20.50\00:49:25.26
BUT I REMEMBER ONE GUY HIT ME -
IN MIAMI BEACH - HE HIT ME WITH
00:49:25.26\00:49:27.93
HIS CAR, KNOCKED ME DOWN, I'M
THERE ON THE STREET AND HE SAID,
00:49:27.93\00:49:31.26
'ARE YOU OKAY?'
AND I SAID, 'YEAH.'
00:49:31.26\00:49:32.63
AND HE DROVE OFF. I
THINK HE WAS - WHEN HE SAID,
00:49:32.63\00:49:36.16
'ARE YOU OKAY?' - I
WASN'T REALLY OKAY, IT HURT.
00:49:36.16\00:49:39.20
I MEANT, 'I'M ALIVE.'
WHEN HE SAID 'ARE YOU OKAY?'
00:49:39.20\00:49:42.23
I THOUGHT, 'YEAH, I'M ALIVE.'
YOU KNOW, AND HE JUST DROVE OFF.
00:49:42.23\00:49:46.16
I THOUGHT, 'WELL, YOU COULD HAVE
STUCK AROUND A LITTLE LONGER AND
00:49:46.16\00:49:49.36
SAID A LITTLE MORE.' BUT I GUESS
HE WAS AFRAID TO - INSURANCE
00:49:49.36\00:49:53.46
AND PEOPLE WERE GOING TO
SHOW UP. BUT THAT WASN'T RIGHT.
00:49:53.46\00:49:58.36
WELL, WHEN YOU SAY - THE
PREACHER SAYS, 'IF YOU'D LIKE TO
00:49:58.36\00:50:03.10
ACCEPT JESUS COME FORWARD, SAYS
THE SINNER'S PRAYER, AND NOW YOU
00:50:03.10\00:50:05.56
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.'
THAT'S A LITTLE TRITE.
00:50:05.56\00:50:08.10
I THINK THAT'S A STARTING POINT
BUT THAT'S NOT REAL REPENTANCE.
00:50:08.10\00:50:13.16
JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR
YOU AND YOU'RE GOING TO SAY,
00:50:13.16\00:50:16.83
'EXCUSE ME LORD.
THANKS FOR FORGIVING ME'?
00:50:16.83\00:50:20.10
YOU THINK ABOUT THE BURDEN
OF SIN THAT HE SUFFERED FOR YOU.
00:50:20.10\00:50:23.90
YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND THAT TAKES,
YOU KNOW, A THOUSAND LASHES FOR
00:50:23.90\00:50:26.90
YOU AND YOU SAY, 'HEY THANKS.
APPRECIATE IT. YOU'RE THE MAN.'
00:50:26.90\00:50:32.10
ISN'T THAT KIND OF SHALLOW?
BUT THAT'S THE WAY PEOPLE TREAT
00:50:32.10\00:50:35.90
REPENTANCE WHEN THEY COME TO
JESUS. A LOT OF CHURCHES SAY,
00:50:35.90\00:50:40.23
'YOU COME AND YOU SAY THESE SIX
WORDS IN THIS PRAYER AND YOU'VE
00:50:40.23\00:50:43.36
NOW GOT EVERLASTING LIFE.'
I WANT TO PRAY THE SINNER'S
00:50:43.36\00:50:46.20
PRAYER, 'DEAR LORD,
THANK YOU FOR DYING FOR ME.
00:50:46.20\00:50:48.93
THANK YOU FOR
EVERLASTING LIFE, AMEN.'
00:50:48.93\00:50:51.36
IT MIGHT BE A STARTING POINT
AND JESUS CAN USE THAT - DON'T
00:50:51.36\00:50:53.96
MISUNDERSTAND - BUT I DON'T
THINK THEY'VE REALLY BEEN TAUGHT
00:50:53.96\00:50:56.50
WHAT REPENTANCE IS YET.
REPENTANCE SOMETIMES INVOLVES
00:50:56.50\00:51:01.43
TEARS, SORROW, GRIEF FOR
YOUR SIN - A SENSE OF SHAME.
00:51:01.43\00:51:08.53
THERE OUGHT TO BE
A BROKEN HEARTEDNESS.
00:51:08.53\00:51:12.10
AND SO, IN YOUR STUDYING WITH
PEOPLE AND - PREACHERS - I'M
00:51:12.10\00:51:16.30
APPEALING THAT PASTORS BE
CAREFUL NOT TO CHEAPEN THE
00:51:16.30\00:51:18.80
GOSPEL BY CHEAPENING WHAT
REPENTANCE IS AND WHEN YOU
00:51:18.80\00:51:23.50
CONSIDER THE DEPTH OF HOW MUCH
JESUS SUFFERED THAT OUGHT TO
00:51:23.50\00:51:27.90
GIVE US THE CONTEXT FOR
WHAT REPENTANCE OUGHT TO BE.
00:51:27.90\00:51:31.80
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? REPENTANCE
AND CONFESSION - YOU KNOW, IT
00:51:31.80\00:51:35.63
SAYS IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 1, 'WASH
YOU, MAKE YOU CLEAN, PUT AWAY
00:51:35.63\00:51:39.40
THE EVIL OF YOUR DOING. CEASE
TO DO EVIL. LEARN TO DO GOOD.'
00:51:39.40\00:51:42.36
HE TALKS ABOUT
WHAT THIS REPENTANCE IS.
00:51:42.36\00:51:44.86
THERE'S A WRONG KIND
OF REPENTANCE - WE ALREADY
00:51:44.86\00:51:46.93
MENTIONED WHERE JUDAS SAID HE
WAS SORRY, THREW DOWN THE SILVER
00:51:46.93\00:51:50.60
AND WENT OUT AND HUNG HIMSELF.
GOD DOES NOT WANT YOU TO DO
00:51:50.60\00:51:52.53
THAT. WE KNOW ABOUT THE PHARAOH.
WHEN DID THE PHARAOH REPENT?
00:51:52.53\00:51:56.53
DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE
SAYS THAT THE PHARAOH REPENTED?
00:51:56.53\00:51:58.60
DID THE PHARAOH REPENT OF HIS
SIN OR DID THE PHARAOH REPENT OF
00:51:58.60\00:52:02.23
THE PLAGUE? WHENEVER A NEW
PLAGUE WOULD COME, EVENTUALLY
00:52:02.23\00:52:06.90
THE PHARAOH WOULD SAY, 'OH,
CALL MOSES. ALRIGHT, I'M SORRY.
00:52:06.90\00:52:10.43
TAKE AWAY THE PLAGUE.'
PHARAOH WAS NOT SORRY ABOUT HIS
00:52:10.43\00:52:14.40
STUBBORN HEART ENSLAVING GOD'S
PEOPLE AND HIS SIN, HE WAS JUST
00:52:14.40\00:52:19.40
SORRY ABOUT THE FROGS OR THE
LICE OR THE DARKNESS OR WHAT IT
00:52:19.40\00:52:22.43
HAPPENED TO BE AT
THE PARTICULAR TIME.
00:52:22.43\00:52:25.26
AND AS SOON AS THE PLAGUE WAS
GONE, WHAT HAPPENED TO PHARAOH'S
00:52:25.26\00:52:28.56
REPENTANCE? HE
WASN'T SORRY ANYMORE.
00:52:28.56\00:52:33.70
THAT'S THE WRONG
KIND OF REPENTANCE.
00:52:33.70\00:52:36.50
AND I'VE ILLUSTRATED BEFORE, IF
YOU ARE MAKING COOKIES ONE DAY
00:52:36.50\00:52:40.43
AND YOU TELL YOUR CHILDREN
'DON'T EAT ANY OF THE COOKIES
00:52:40.43\00:52:43.30
THAT ARE COOLING ON THE
TRAY UNTIL AFTER DINNER.
00:52:43.30\00:52:46.40
BUT YOU LEAVE THE KITCHEN - THE
TELEPHONE RINGS - AND YOU'VE GOT
00:52:46.40\00:52:49.16
THESE TWO KIDS, EIGHT AND
TEN YEARS OLD, JOHNNY AND JANE -
00:52:49.16\00:52:52.76
THAT'S ALWAYS WHAT THEIR NAMES
ARE - AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE
00:52:52.76\00:52:57.06
COOKIES STEAMING THERE AND
THERE'S A FEW COOKIE CRUMBS SO
00:52:57.06\00:53:00.26
JANE REACHES OUT AND SHE PICKS
UP THE ONE OR TWO COOKIE CRUMBS
00:53:00.26\00:53:03.63
THAT ARE THERE AND SHE SAYS,
'THAT'S NOT A WHOLE COOKIE, IT'S
00:53:03.63\00:53:05.53
JUST A CRUMB.' WELL NOW
THERE'S NO CRUMBS FOR JOHNNY.
00:53:05.53\00:53:08.50
HE FEELS BAD SO HE BREAKS A
COOKIE TO MAKE A CRUMB AND SO HE
00:53:08.50\00:53:12.66
EATS THAT CRUMB AND HE'S CREATED
MORE CRUMBS IN THE PROCESS AND
00:53:12.66\00:53:15.80
BEFORE YOU KNOW IT THEY
ATE A COUPLE OF COOKIES.
00:53:15.80\00:53:19.93
SO MOM COMES BACK IN THE KITCHEN
AND SHE'S LOOKING AT THEM.
00:53:19.93\00:53:22.96
SHE SEES THE CHOCOLATE AROUND
THE EDGES OF THEIR MOUTHS.
00:53:22.96\00:53:24.86
SHE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING.
AND JANE STARTS TO FEEL BAD.
00:53:24.86\00:53:27.63
SHE SAYS, 'MOM, I'M
SORRY. I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT.
00:53:27.63\00:53:30.53
YOU ASKED US
NOT TO. I APOLOGIZE.
00:53:30.53\00:53:32.56
I ATE A COOKIE.' THAT'S
REPENTANCE. SHE'S SORRY.
00:53:32.56\00:53:35.50
SHE DOESN'T KNOW THAT MOM
ALREADY KNOWS, BUT SHE'S SORRY
00:53:35.50\00:53:37.90
THAT SHE DISOBEYED. AND
JANE SAYS, 'JOHNNY ATE ONE TOO.'
00:53:37.90\00:53:43.13
AND HE SAYS, 'I'M SORRY.'
WELL, HE'S SORRY THAT HE WAS
00:53:43.13\00:53:46.26
EXPOSED. HE'S NOT
SORRY THAT HE DISOBEYED.
00:53:46.26\00:53:50.76
IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF SORROW.
SO WHAT BRINGS US TO REPENTANCE?
00:53:50.76\00:53:57.13
THERE'S A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK
'STEPS TO CHRIST' I THINK IS
00:53:57.13\00:53:58.76
HELPFUL HERE, "ONE RAY FROM THE
GLORY OF GOD" - THIS IS 'STEPS
00:53:58.76\00:54:03.90
TO CHRIST' PAGE 29 - "ONE RAY
FROM THE GLORY OF GOD, ONE GLEAM
00:54:03.90\00:54:08.03
OF THE PURITY OF CHRIST
PENETRATING THE SOUL MAKES EVERY
00:54:08.03\00:54:11.96
SPOT OF DEFILEMENT PAINFULLY
DISTINCT. IT LAYS BARE THE
00:54:11.96\00:54:15.70
DEFORMITY AND THE
DEFECTS OF THE HUMAN CHARACTER.
00:54:15.70\00:54:19.06
IT MAKES APPARENT THE UNHALLOWED
DESIRES AND INFIDELITY OF THE
00:54:19.06\00:54:25.13
HEART, THE IMPURITY OF THE LIPS.
THE SINNER'S ACTS OF DISLOYALTY
00:54:25.13\00:54:29.23
IN MAKING VOID THE LAW OF GOD
ARE EXPOSED IN HIS SIGHT AND THE
00:54:29.23\00:54:33.23
SPIRIT IS STRICKEN AND AFFLICTED
UNDER THE SEARCHING INFLUENCE OF
00:54:33.23\00:54:36.70
THE SPIRIT OF GOD. HE LOATHES
HIMSELF AS HE VIEWS THE PURE,
00:54:36.70\00:54:41.03
SPOTLESS CHARACTER OF CHRIST."
SO ONE OF THE THINGS YOU CAN DO
00:54:41.03\00:54:44.83
TO INITIATE THE RIGHT KIND OF
REPENTANCE IS YOU DRAW NEAR TO
00:54:44.83\00:54:49.70
THE LIGHT. YOU
DRAW NEAR TO JESUS.
00:54:49.70\00:54:54.10
THE CLOSER YOU COME TO THE
SPOTLESS CHARACTER OF CHRIST, BY
00:54:54.10\00:54:57.36
CONTRAST, YOU WILL BECOME
AWARE OF WHAT YOUR SINS ARE.
00:54:57.36\00:55:01.03
AS LONG AS YOU STAY IN THE
SHADOWS AND YOU COMPARE YOURSELF
00:55:01.03\00:55:03.86
AMONG YOURSELVES AND BY
YOURSELVES AND YOU SAY, 'WELL,
00:55:03.86\00:55:06.20
EVERYBODY IN THE CHURCH
IS DOING IT. EVERYBODY" -
00:55:06.20\00:55:07.80
YOU MIGHT BE ON YOUR
WAY TO DESTRUCTION AND BE
00:55:07.80\00:55:10.76
AMONG THOSE THAT WILL SAY,
'LORD, LORD, I WENT TO CHURCH.
00:55:10.76\00:55:13.00
I WAS FOURTH GENERATION AND
HE'LL SAY, 'I DON'T KNOW YOU.
00:55:13.00\00:55:16.23
YOU WERE JUST COMPARING YOURSELF
WITH WHAT EVERYONE IS DOING, BUT
00:55:16.23\00:55:19.10
NOT TO ME.' THE
STANDARD FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:55:19.10\00:55:21.66
IS CHRIST AND HIS WORD. IT'S
NOT THE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH.
00:55:21.66\00:55:25.36
AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE
STANDARD OF HOLINESS IS, LOOK AT
00:55:25.36\00:55:28.46
JESUS. JAMES 4, VERSE 7, I LIKE
THIS, "THEREFORE, SUBMIT TO GOD.
00:55:28.46\00:55:36.96
RESIST THE DEVIL. HE WILL
FLEE FROM YOU. DRAW NEAR TO GOD.
00:55:36.96\00:55:41.30
HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU.
CLEANSE YOUR HANDS YOU SINNERS.
00:55:41.30\00:55:45.60
PURIFY YOUR HEARTS YOU DOUBLE
MINDED." - IT'S A CHANGE IN
00:55:45.60\00:55:49.30
ACTION, THE HANDS AND A CHANGE
IN THE HEART - "LAMENT AND MOURN
00:55:49.30\00:55:54.26
AND WEEP" - DOES IT STOP THERE?
NO - "LET YOUR LAUGHTER BE
00:55:54.26\00:55:59.16
TURNED TO MOURNING AND YOUR
JOY TO GLOOM. HUMBLE YOURSELF
00:55:59.16\00:56:03.53
IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD AND HE
WILL LIFT YOU UP. SO THE JOY -
00:56:03.53\00:56:08.93
THE BEING LIFTED UP -
IT'S GOING TO FOLLOW THE REAL
00:56:08.93\00:56:11.90
SORROW FOR HEART. YOU KNOW,
IN ORDER FOR THERE TO BE A CROP
00:56:11.90\00:56:15.46
YOU NEED BROKEN CLOUDS.
AND IN ORDER FOR THERE TO BE A
00:56:15.46\00:56:19.20
CROP SPIRITUALLY, YOU
SOMETIMES NEED A BROKEN HEART.
00:56:19.20\00:56:21.90
IT'S AFTER MARY WEEPS THAT THEN
SHE DISCOVERS HER RISEN LORD AND
00:56:21.90\00:56:27.06
THERE'S A GREAT JOY AND IT'S
SOMETIMES AFTER THE SORROW FOR
00:56:27.06\00:56:30.96
OUR SIN AND HUMBLING OURSELVES
THAT GOD WASHES OUR EYES WITH
00:56:30.96\00:56:34.43
TEARS, SO TO SPEAK, THEN WE
SEE CLEARLY AND OUR HEARTS ARE
00:56:34.43\00:56:39.13
RESTORED AND MADE NEW. WELL, I'M
OUT OF TIME. THERE'S MORE TO SAY
00:56:39.13\00:56:43.16
ON THIS SUBJECT BUT WE GOT MOST
OF IT. I HOPE YOU'LL CONTINUE
00:56:43.16\00:56:46.03
TO STUDY THE REST OF THE LESSON
AND I'LL POST MY NOTES ONLINE
00:56:46.03\00:56:49.86
AT THE 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' WEBSITE.
I KNOW OUR ONLINE MEMBERS KNOW
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