Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021332
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:49 A SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU THAT ARE STREAMING ONLINE TO STUDY 00:53 WITH US. WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE THOUSANDS 00:55 OF YOU AROUND THE WORLD THAT CONTINUALLY AND FAITHFULLY JOIN 00:58 US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. ALSO, A SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU 01:03 THAT ARE JOINING US RIGHT HERE THIS MORNING LIVE. 01:07 WE HAVE A SPECIAL SURPRISE FOR YOU AND YOU CAN JUST SIT BACK, 01:13 PUT AWAY YOUR HYMNALS THIS MORNING, AND LISTEN. 01:17 WE HAVE ALICIA AND MATTHEW DELLON WITH US. THEY ARE BROTHER 01:22 AND SISTER AND THEY PLAY PIANO JUST WONDERFULLY. 01:27 THIS MORNING THEY WILL BE PLAYING FOR US 'HOW EXCELLENT IS 01:30 THY NAME' AND 'DOWN FROM HIS GLORY'. 01:36 (MUSIC) 09:32 >>LET'S PRAY. DEAR LORD, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT 09:36 YOU'VE DONE FOR US. WE THANK YOU THAT WE CAN COME HERE AND LEARN 09:40 OF YOU AND BE YOUR STUDENTS, SO PLEASE SPEAK THROUGH PASTOR DOUG 09:43 TODAY. DRAW US CLOSER TO YOU, LORD, THAT WE CAN DO YOUR WILL 09:48 AND THAT WE CAN CONTINUE YOUR WORK AND THAT YOU WILL SOON 09:51 COME. I PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR NAME, JESUS. AMEN. 09:56 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, 09:59 SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 10:05 >>THANK YOU JOLYNE AND THANK YOU TO THE DELLONS - I APPRECIATED 10:09 THAT VERY MUCH. THAT WAS INSPIRING. 10:11 GOOD MORNING FRIENDS, HAPPY SABBATH. 10:15 CHURCH FEELS DIFFERENT NOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE TWO TEN 10:18 COMMANDMENTS BEHIND US ANYMORE, HUH? AFTER TWELVE WEEKS. 10:23 BUT WE ARE IN A VERY INTERESTING LESSON STUDY RIGHT NOW DEALING 10:27 WITH THE SUBJECT OF 'REVIVAL AND REFORMATION'. 10:31 AND, FOR OUR FRIENDS THAT ARE WATCHING, WE HAVE A SPECIAL 10:35 STUDY GUIDE - A SERMON BOOK WE'D BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU FOR FREE 10:40 AND IT'S CALLED 'RICHES OF GRACE' BY JOE CREWS. 10:43 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING TODAY ABOUT REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION 10:47 AND JUST SOME OF THE VERY BASIC COMPONENTS OF SALVATION. 10:51 AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE 10:54 COPY - 'RICHES OF HIS GRACE' - JUST CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR 10:57 SCREEN. IT'S 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S 866-788-3966. 11:04 ASK FOR OFFER #152 - THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK AND THEN 11:08 PROMISE TO READ IT AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. AND OUR LESSON 11:12 TODAY, AS I MENTIONED, IS LESSON #6 IN THE SERIES WHERE WE'RE 11:17 TALKING ABOUT REVIVAL AND REFORMATION AND THE LESSON 11:21 TODAY, IN PARTICULAR, IS TALKING ABOUT 11:23 'CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE'. 11:25 AND I'VE JUST GOT TO TELL YOU RIGHT NOW THAT YOU DON'T HEAR 11:30 VERY MANY SERMONS - YOU DO SOME PLACES - BUT YOU DON'T HEAR VERY 11:34 MANY SERMONS THESE DAYS ON REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION EVEN 11:40 THOUGH THIS SUBJECT WAS REALLY FOUNDATIONAL TO JESUS AND THE 11:45 APOSTLES AND EVEN JOHN THE BAPTIST. 11:48 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM 11:52 PROVERBS CHAPTER 28, VERSE 13 - IT'S FROM THE NEW KING JAMES 11:56 VERSION IN YOUR LESSON - PROVERBS 28:13. 11:59 I'LL APPRECIATE IT IF YOU READ THIS OUT LOUD WITH ME. 12:02 ARE YOU READY? "HE WHO COVERS HIS SINS WILL NOT 12:07 PROSPER BUT WHOEVER CONFESSES AND FORSAKES THEM WILL HAVE 12:12 MERCY." NOW THIS IS PRETTY STRAIGHT. 12:15 IT DOESN'T JUST SAY CONFESS. IT SAYS, CONFESS AND FORSAKE. 12:21 A LOT OF CHURCHES STOP WITH THE IDEA THAT YOU JUST CONFESS THEM 12:24 AND THEN YOU GO ON AND CONTINUE TO DO THEM. 12:26 BUT WHAT THE LORD WANTS US TO DO IS CONFESS AND FORSAKE AND 12:31 THAT'S REALLY WHAT IS AT THE HEART OF GENUINE REPENTANCE. 12:35 SO WHY DON'T WE START - I'M GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY LOOK UP A 12:39 VERSE FOR US AND I THINK WE'VE GIVEN OUT SOME SLIPS OF PAPER 12:42 WITH SOME VERSES TO A FEW VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE HIDING IN 12:46 OUR MIDST RIGHT NOW. LUKE 5, VERSE 32 - WHO GOT THAT? 12:51 RIGHT UP FRONT HERE. LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 12:52 HOLD YOUR HAND UP MIKE AND THE MICROPHONE AND THE CAMERA CAN 12:56 FIND YOU. AND DOES SOMEBODY HAVE ACTS 2:38? 13:03 ARE THEY BOTH FROM THE SAME SIDE? ACTS 2:38 - OVER HERE, 13:06 OKAY? RAY, YOU THINK YOU CAN FIND THAT PERSON THAT'S GOT THAT 13:10 SCRIPTURE? OKAY. LET ME JUST READ SOME VERSES TO 13:13 YOU AND I THINK THE BIBLE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. 13:17 MATTHEW CHAPTER 3 - FIRST BOOK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 13:20 ONE OF THE FIRST SERMONS THAT GOES OUT, "IN THOSE DAYS, JOHN 13:25 THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS OF JUDEA, AND" - 13:29 WHAT DID HE SAY? - "REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF 13:32 HEAVEN IS AT HAND." SO JUST RIGHT AT THE VERY - 13:38 RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE, AS THEY SAY, THE CANNON FIRES THE FIRST 13:43 AMMO IS 'REPENT'. THE MESSAGE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST - 13:46 FIRST WORD IN THE FIRST SENTENCE IS 'REPENT'. 13:50 AND THEN WHEN JESUS IS BAPTIZED THEN HE BEGINS PREACHING AND HE 13:54 BEGINS HIS MINISTRY, WHAT DOES HE SAY? 13:56 FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO PREACH AND TO SAY, FIRST WORD, 14:00 FIRST SENTENCE, FIRST MESSAGE OF JESUS, 'REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM 14:05 OF HEAVEN...' IS THE MESSAGE OF JOHN THE 14:07 BAPTIST SIMILAR TO THE MESSAGE OF JESUS? 14:10 JOHN THE BAPTIST SAYS, 'REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT 14:12 HAND.' JESUS SAYS, 'REPENT FOR THE 14:14 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.' SO SHOULD THIS BE IMPORTANT? 14:18 GO AHEAD, READ THAT FOR US, LUKE 5:32, MIKE. 14:22 >>"I HAVE NOT COME TO CALL THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS, 14:25 TO REPENTANCE." >>SO AGAIN, WE'VE GOT THE 14:27 MESSAGE OF JESUS. WHY DID HE COME? 14:29 'I HAVE COME' - HERE IT GOES, ARE YOU READY? 14:32 - 'TO CALL SINNERS TO REPENT.' WHAT IS REPENTANCE? 14:38 WELL, REPENTANCE IS NOT JUST A SORROW FOR SIN, REPENTANCE IS A 14:43 SORROW FOR SIN AND A WILLINGNESS TO TURN FROM IT. SO, THAT'S WHY 14:49 WE DON'T HEAR AS MUCH ABOUT REPENTANCE THESE DAYS. 14:52 REPENT MEANS 'REMORSE, REGRET, CONTRITION FOR PAST CONDUCT OR 14:57 SIN; TO FEEL SUCH REGRET SO AS TO HAVE A CHANGE OF ONE'S MIND 15:02 REGARDING IT AS IN REPENTING OF INTEMPERATE BEHAVIOR; TO MAKE A 15:08 CHANGE FOR THE BETTER AS A RESULT OF REMORSE OR CONTRITION 15:12 FOR ONE'S SINS; AND, VERY SIMPLY, REPENTANCE REPRESENTS A 15:16 U-TURN ON THE ROAD TO DESTRUCTION AND IT MEANS, 15:21 'YOU TURN'. SO YOU'RE GOING THIS WAY AND 15:25 YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY AND YOU'RE OUT OF GOD'S WILL. 15:27 THE HOLY SPIRIT REVEALS TO YOU WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS WRONG AND 15:30 YOU ARE SORRY AND YOU TURN AND YOU SAY, 'I'M NOT GOING TO DO 15:34 THAT ANYMORE, I'M GOING TO DO THIS. 15:35 I'M GOING TO NOW GO THIS WAY. I'M GOING TO DO GOD'S WILL.' 15:38 AND SO REPENTANCE IS NOT JUST A CHANGE OF THINKING. 15:42 IT BEGINS WITH A CHANGE OF THINKING. 15:44 REAL REPENTANCE IS A CHANGE OF DOING. 15:46 IT MEANS THAT YOU ARE SORRY ENOUGH TO STOP. 15:52 SO, IF YOU'VE GOT A CHILD AND HE CONTINUES TO SHOPLIFT EVERY TIME 15:57 YOU GO TO THE SUPERMARKET AND YOU'VE GOT TO SHAKE HIM DOWN 16:00 WHENEVER YOU GET TO THE CAR AND FIND OUT WHAT HE'S PUT IN HIS 16:02 POCKETS AND YOU TELL HIM, 'JOHNNY, THIS IS NOT RIGHT.' 16:07 AND 'YOU'VE GOT TO STOP.' AND HE SAYS, 'OH MOMMY, 16:11 I'M SORRY. I REPENT.' AND THE NEXT TIME YOU GO TO THE MARKET 16:13 HIS POCKETS ARE FULL OF STOLEN CONTRABAND AGAIN, DID HE REPENT? 16:19 HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SORRY HE GOT CAUGHT, BUT THAT'S NOT REAL 16:23 REPENTANCE. NOW, MAKE A NOTE OF THAT. 16:26 THERE'S TRUE AND FALSE REPENTANCE. 16:27 ACTUALLY, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. THAT'S IN OUR LESSON. 16:30 SO BEFORE WE GET THERE, TURN WITH ME - ACTS 5 - THIS IS UNDER 16:35 'REPENTANCE: GOD'S GIFT'. ACTS 5, VERSE 30 AND WE'LL READ 16:40 THROUGH VERSE 32. I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN YOUR SCRIPTURE, 16:44 ELIZABETH, WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MOMENT. ACTS 5:30 THROUGH 32, 16:48 PETER'S PREACHING HERE AND HE SAYS, "THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS 16:53 RAISED UP JESUS WHOM YOU MURDERED BY HANGING ON A TREE. 16:56 HIM GOD HAS EXALTED TO HIS RIGHT HAND TO BE PRINCE AND SAVIOR, TO 17:01 GIVE REPENTANCE TO ISRAEL AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS." 17:06 NOTICE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS. 17:09 ALSO NOTICE HE SAYS, 'TO GIVE REPENTANCE.' 17:13 REPENTANCE IS A GIFT THAT GOD GIVES. AND PETER SAYS, 17:17 'WE ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS AND SO ALSO IS THE 17:20 HOLY SPIRIT WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN TO THOSE THAT OBEY HIM. 17:24 GOD GIVES HIS SPIRIT TO THOSE THAT OBEY HIM. 17:27 THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES THE GIFT OF REPENTANCE. 17:29 NOW THE REASON IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO REMEMBER THIS - YOU 17:33 KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US 'REPENT AND BE CONVERTED THAT YOU MIGHT 17:36 BE WASHED FROM YOUR SINS.' REPENTANCE IS CONNECTED WITH 17:38 FORGIVENESS FOR SINS. 17:40 A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, YOU KNOW, IF I COULD JUST GET A NOTE FROM 17:44 THE DOCTOR THAT SAYS YOU'RE GOING TO DIE IN SIX MONTHS, I'LL 17:48 KNOW THAT IN FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS I PROBABLY SHOULD REPENT. 17:53 BUT YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO REPENT. 17:56 REPENTANCE IS SOMETHING THAT IS A GIFT FROM GOD AND WE SOMETIMES 18:00 THINK WE GET TO CHOOSE WHEN WE REPENT. 18:03 IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT BRINGS CONVICTION FOR SIN AND A DESIRE 18:10 TO TURN AND REPENT OF THOSE SINS. 18:12 AND WHEN YOU ARE UNDER CONVICTION AND WHEN THE HOLY 18:15 SPIRIT IS GIVING YOU THAT GIFT OF REPENTANCE IS THE TIME FOR 18:18 YOU TO SUBMIT AND FOLLOW THROUGH. 18:20 YOU MAY NOT HAVE THAT DESIRE OR THOSE IMPULSES LATER. 18:26 AND I'VE OFTEN SEEN THAT PEOPLE THAT MAYBE TRIFLED WITH 18:30 SALVATION AND WITH, YOU KNOW, THE IMPORTANCE OF SERVING GOD 18:33 AND COMING TO CHURCH - YOU GO VISIT THEM DURING THEIR FINAL 18:36 SICKNESS AND THEY JUST SEEM TO HAVE NO INTEREST. IT'S LIKE 18:42 THEY'VE LOST THE DESIRE OR THE CAPACITY TO REPENT. 18:47 AND SO IT'S A DANGEROUS THING TO THINK THAT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE 18:52 MOOD YOU WILL CHOOSE WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO REPENT. IT IS A GIFT. 18:58 IT SAYS HERE THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES IT AS A GIFT AND SO WE 19:01 NEED TO LISTEN WHEN GOD GIVES IT TO US. 19:04 IN THE BOOK 'ACTS OF THE APOSTLES' PAGE 36 - THIS WAS IN 19:07 YOUR LESSON - IT SAYS, "THE DISCIPLES WAITED FOR THE 19:10 FULFILLMENT OF THE PROMISE" - THIS IS SPEAKING OF BEFORE 19:13 PENTECOST - "THEY HUMBLED THEIR HEARTS IN TRUE REPENTANCE AND 19:18 CONFESSED THEIR UNBELIEF. AS THEY CALLED TO REMEMBRANCE 19:21 THE WORDS THAT CHRIST HAD SPOKEN TO THEM BEFORE HIS DEATH THEY 19:25 UNDERSTOOD, MORE FULLY, THEIR MEANING. 19:27 AS THEY MEDITATED UPON HIS PURE, HOLY LIFE THEY FELT THAT NO TOIL 19:31 WOULD BE TOO HARD, NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT IF ONLY THEY COULD 19:34 BEAR WITNESS IN THEIR LIVES TO THE LOVELINESS OF CHRIST'S 19:37 CHARACTER." BUT YOU NOTICE, BEFORE THE HOLY 19:39 SPIRIT FELL, IT SAYS 'THEY HUMBLED THEIR 19:41 HEARTS IN TRUE REPENTANCE AND CONFESSED THEIR UNBELIEF.' 19:45 PART OF REAL REPENTANCE IS HUMILITY. TO HUMBLE YOUR HEART 19:51 AND REALIZE PRIDE IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH REPENTANCE. 19:59 I THINK MARTIN LUTHER IS THE ONE WHO SAID, 'GOD CREATES FROM 20:02 NOTHING SO WE MUST FIRST BECOME NOTHING BEFORE HE CAN MAKE 20:05 SOMETHING OUT OF US.' GOD CREATES FROM NOTHING. 20:08 HE SPOKE AND OUT OF NOTHING HE MADE. 20:10 AND SO WE MUST BECOME NOTHING OR HE CAN MAKE NOTHING FROM US. 20:15 ACTS 17 - IT SAYS HERE, 'TRULY THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD 20:22 OVERLOOKED, BUT NOW HE COMMANDS ALL MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT.' 20:28 THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE HE WINKS AT - HE OVERLOOKS. 20:31 BUT NOW HE COMMANDS MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT BECAUSE HE 20:34 HAS APPOINTED A DAY IN WHICH HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD IN 20:36 RIGHTEOUSNESS BY THE MAN WHO HE HAS ORDAINED AND GIVEN ASSURANCE 20:40 OF THIS TO ALL BY RAISING HIM FROM THE DEAD. 20:43 IN OTHER WORDS, IF WE WANT TO BE FORGIVEN, WE MUST BE WILLING TO 20:47 REPENT AND TURN FROM OUR SINS. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ ACTS 20:51 CHAPTER 2 FOR US ELIZABETH - VERSE 38. 20:55 >>"THEN PETER SAID TO THEM, 'REPENT AND LET EVERY ONE OF YOU 20:59 BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF OUR 21:03 SINS AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT." 21:08 >>DOES BAPTISM DO US ANY GOOD IF IT'S NOT FIRST PRECEDED BY 21:11 REPENTANCE? IT SAYS, 'REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED.' 21:16 BAPTISM IS A SYMBOL OF OUR SINS BEING WASHED AWAY BUT FIRST 21:19 THERE MUST BE A SORROW FOR SIN AND A REPENTANCE BEFORE THERE'S 21:24 THIS WASHING. AGAIN, YOU LOOK IN LUKE CHAPTER 3, 21:28 VERSE 8 IT SAYS, "THEREFORE BEAR FRUITS WORTHY OF 21:33 REPENTANCE, AND DO NOT BEGIN TO SAY TO YOURSELVES, 'WE HAVE 21:36 ABRAHAM AS OUR FATHER.' FOR I SAY TO YOU THAT GOD IS 21:38 ABLE TO RAISE UP CHILDREN TO ABRAHAM FROM THESE STONES." 21:41 JOHN THE BAPTIST IS PREACHING, HE'S CALLING PEOPLE TO COME TO 21:44 BE BAPTIZED, BUT WHEN THEY COME TO BE BAPTIZED HE SAYS, 'FIRST 21:48 BEAR FRUITS OF REPENTANCE IN YOUR LIFE. DON'T THINK TO SAY, 21:52 'WELL, I AM A FOURTH-GENERATION SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST. 21:55 I AM A THIRD GENERATION SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST. 21:58 I HAVE SOMEHOW COLLECTED A QUANTUM OF MERIT BY VIRTUE OF 22:03 BEING IN THE CHURCH FOR GENERATIONS. MY FATHER'S 22:08 A PASTOR.' THAT COULD WORK AGAINST YOU, ACTUALLY. 22:12 THE IDEA - 'OH, MY UNCLE'S A DEACON' OR 'MY AUNT'S A 22:16 DEACONESS' OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER YOU MIGHT SAY AS THOUGH 22:18 THERE'S SOME KIND OF GENETIC HERITAGE THAT MAKES YOU 22:21 QUALIFIED TO BE BAPTIZED AND BE SAVED. 22:25 'I'VE BEEN ON THE BOOKS FOR YEARS.' 22:28 IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. IT REALLY DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. 22:32 I MEAN, IT'S WONDERFUL IF YOU'VE GOT A HERITAGE YOU CAN, YOU 22:35 KNOW, CALL 'ANCESTRY.COM' AND TELL THEM, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO 22:39 LIVING A GODLY LIFE, GOD DOESN'T LOOK AT YOUR PEDIGREE. 22:43 YOU NEED TO BRING FORTH FRUITS MEET FOR REPENTANCE. 22:49 THERE NEEDS TO BE THE FRUIT - JESUS SAID, 'YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY 22:52 THEIR' - WHAT? THEIR FAMILY TREE? - 22:55 'YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS.' 22:58 DO WE HAVE THE FRUITS OF REPENTANCE? 22:59 AND SO SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'I'VE COME, I'D LIKE TO BE BAPTIZED. 23:02 I WENT THROUGH A BAPTISMAL STUDY AND EVERYONE IN MY CLASS IS 23:05 GETTING BAPTIZED AND,' - YOU KNOW, JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID DO 23:09 YOU HAVE THE FRUITS OF TRANSFORMATION IN YOUR LIFE? 23:13 THERE SHOULD BE A DIFFERENCE. 23:15 AGAIN YOU READ, ACTS 26, SAME PRINCIPLE, PAUL IS PREACHING TO 23:18 KING AGRIPPA - ACTS 26, VERSE 19, "THEREFORE, KING AGRIPPA, I 23:24 WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION, BUT DECLARED 23:27 FIRST TO THOSE IN DAMASCUS AND IN JERUSALEM, AND THROUGHOUT ALL 23:30 THE REGION OF JUDEA, AND THEN TO THE GENTILES, THAT THEY SHOULD 23:34 REPENT, TURN TO GOD, AND DO WORKS BEFITTING REPENTANCE." 23:40 NOW IF YOU FORGOT EVERYTHING I'VE SAID, NOTE THAT POINT. 23:44 IF YOU'VE REALLY REPENTED OF YOUR SINS YOU SHOULD DO THE 23:47 WORKS FITTING OF REPENTANCE. THERE SHOULD BE A DIFFERENCE 23:52 IN WORKS. AM I TWISTING THE SCRIPTURES OR 23:54 IS THAT WHAT IT'S SAYING? ISN'T THAT WHAT IT SAYS? 23:57 ISN'T THAT WHAT JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS SAYING? 23:59 SO THE IDEA THAT SOMEHOW YOU COULD JUST GET BAPTIZED AND HAVE 24:02 YOUR NAME ENTERED IN THE CHURCH AND YOU HAVE NOT REPENTED OF 24:04 YOUR SINS, PETER SAID, 'REPENT' - ELIZABETH JUST READ THAT - 24:09 'REPENT FIRST AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU AND YOU SHALL 24:13 RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.' 24:17 YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IF WE'RE REALLY GOING TO TALK ABOUT 24:19 REVIVAL - IF WE WANT TO BE DIFFERENT AS A RESULT OF A FOCUS 24:23 ON REVIVAL, THE EVIDENCE OF REVIVAL - JUST, YOU KNOW RIGHT 24:28 AT THE TOP OF THE LIST IS A SORROW FOR SIN AND A TURNING 24:31 AWAY FROM IT AND YOU MAKE ROOM FOR THE WORKING OF THE HOLY 24:35 SPIRIT IN YOUR LIFE. NOW THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES IN DEGREES. 24:40 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THE SPIRIT WILL DO IS HE'LL COME 24:42 AND BRING CONVICTION BECAUSE YOU CAN'T EVEN REPENT WITHOUT 24:45 THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS A 24:47 CONVICTION OF SIN AND WHEN WE SUBMIT AND HUMBLE OURSELVES AND 24:51 LISTEN AND REPENT AND SAY, 'LORD, BY YOUR GRACE I'M GOING 24:55 TO TURN FROM THOSE THINGS OR THAT THINKING OR THAT PRACTICE' 25:00 - WHATEVER IT HAPPENS TO BE. YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE CHANGES. 25:03 THERE'S GOING TO BE REFORM. YOU KNOW I LIKE THAT THE LESSON 25:07 HERE IS CALLED 'REVIVAL AND REFORMATION'. 25:10 IF YOU READ IN ROMANS CHAPTER 12 HE SAYS, 'DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO 25:16 THE WORLD BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND.' 25:20 AND SO WE HAVE TO TURN AWAY FROM THIS CONFIRMATION TO THE WORLD 25:24 AND PRAY THAT GOD'LL TRANSFORM US SO THAT WE'RE REALLY 25:27 DIFFERENT AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE THE JOY OF THE LORD. 25:31 SO HOW IMPORTANT IS IT FOR US TO REPENT? 25:34 IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, REPENT AND 25:37 YOU SHALL. BY THE WAY, THAT'S A PROMISE. 25:39 2 PETER 3, VERSE 9, "GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH 25:46 BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE." 25:49 NOW DO YOU NOTICE THAT? YOU'VE GOT ONE OR THE OTHER. 25:51 YOU'VE EITHER GOT REPENTANCE AND LIFE OR STUBBORNNESS AND DEATH - 25:58 NON-REPENTANCE AND DEATH. SO REPENTANCE IS A GATEWAY TO 26:03 RECEIVING FORGIVENESS AND HAVING THAT NEW BIRTH - THAT NEW 26:09 EXPERIENCE. JESUS SAID - OH, THIS IS KIND OF 26:12 A - LET ME JUST GIVE YOU THE BACK DROP FOR THIS STORY. 26:17 IN SPEAKING WITH THE CROWDS THERE HAD BEEN A COUPLE OF 26:20 EVENTS THAT WERE IN THE HEADLINES OF SOME CATASTROPHES 26:24 IN JUDEA. ONE WAS THERE WAS A RIOT IN THE TEMPLE. 26:29 SOME OF THE JEWISH ZEALOTS HAD REBELLED AND THEY DIDN'T WANT 26:33 THE ROMAN GUARDS GUARDING THE OUTSIDE OF THE TEMPLE - I'M NOT 26:35 EXACTLY SURE WHAT BROUGHT IT ON BUT PILATE SENT SOLDIERS INTO 26:39 THE TEMPLE AND THERE WAS A RIOT AND IN THAT RIOT A NUMBER OF 26:45 PEOPLE WERE SLAUGHTERED BY THE SOLDIERS. 26:47 AND THEY SAID, 'JESUS, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE THAT 26:50 WERE SLAUGHTERED BECAUSE OF THIS TEMPLE RIOT?' 26:52 AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED WHERE 26:55 THERE WAS A WALL THAT SUDDENLY BUCKLED AND FELL - JUST TOO MUCH 26:59 PRESSURE - TOO MANY PEOPLE ON IT - AND 18 PEOPLE DIED. 27:02 AND THEY WERE THINKING, WHEN THEY SAID THIS TO JESUS, 'THOSE 27:06 PEOPLE MUST HAVE BEEN GREAT SINNERS BECAUSE THEY DIED IN THE 27:09 RIOT OR THEY DIED WHEN THE WALL FELL.' 27:12 AND JESUS SAID, 'DO YOU THINK THEY WERE SINNERS ABOVE OTHERS 27:16 IN JERUSALEM?' OR THOSE WHOSE BLOOD WERE 27:19 MINGLED WITH THEIR SACRIFICES BECAUSE THEY WERE SACRIFICING AT 27:21 THE TEMPLE WHEN THE SOLDIERS CAME IN AND THEY WERE 27:24 SLAUGHTERED AND THE PEOPLE THOUGHT, 'OH, THEY MUST HAVE 27:26 BEEN BIG SINNERS FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.' 27:29 AND JESUS SAID, 'I TELL YOU NO. BUT UNLESS YOU REPENT, YOU WILL 27:35 ALL LIKEWISE PERISH.' NOW, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE PASTOR DOUG, 27:39 I HOPE YOU BELIEVE THE WORDS OF JESUS - THAT'S RED LETTER - 27:42 THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS - IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE, 27:45 'UNLESS YOU REPENT YOU WILL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH.' 27:49 SO DO WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT REPENTANCE MEANS? 27:52 IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. AND THAT MEANS REAL REPENTANCE, 27:58 WHICH IS A REAL SORROW FOR SIN. YOU MIGHT SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, 28:01 BUT I LIKE MY SIN.' WELL, TELL THE LORD AND START 28:04 PRAYING. SAY, 'LORD, PUT WITHIN ME A 28:06 HATRED FOR SIN. LET ME SEE HOW MUCH IT COST YOU. 28:08 LET ME SEE HOW MUCH IT HURT YOU. CHANGE MY HEART. 28:11 HELP ME TO LOOK AT SIN THE WAY YOU DO.' 28:14 I USED TO PRAY THAT - 'LORD, HELP ME SEE THESE THINGS THROUGH 28:16 YOUR EYES.' BECAUSE WE OFTEN LOOK AT SIN THE WAY THE WORLD 28:18 LOOKS AT IT AND THE WORLD'S KIND OF BLASE ABOUT SIN. 28:21 BUT GOD SEES SIN AS THE TOXIC, UGLY, VENOMOUS, POISON THING 28:25 THAT IT REALLY IS AND WE NEED TO SEE IT THAT WAY. 28:29 WE NEED TO BE WILLING TO JUST TURN AWAY FROM IT INSTINCTIVELY, 28:33 KNOWING THAT IT'S DEADLY. AND SO MAYBE PART OF YOUR 28:37 REPENTANCE IS TO PRAY THAT GOD'LL HELP YOU JUST HAVE A 28:39 CHANGE OF MIND AND SEE IT THE WAY HE SEES IT. 28:43 SO HERE'S TRUE REPENTANCE REALLY DEFINED. 28:46 WE'RE UNDER THE SECOND DAY NOW - THE SECOND SECTION - AND JUST TO 28:50 HELP YOU GET READY TO GO, SOMEONE LOOK, UP FOR ME 28:53 EZEKIEL 14:6. WHO'S GOT EZEKIEL 14? 28:58 OVER HERE, OKAY, WE'LL GET TO YOU HEATHER IN JUST A MOMENT. 29:01 IN THE MEANTIME I'M GOING TO READ - TURN IN YOUR BIBLES - 29:03 2 CORINTHIANS 7, VERSES 9 THROUGH 12. 29:08 NOW JUST TO GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND FOR THIS VERSE, IN 1 29:12 CORINTHIANS PAUL WRITES A LETTER TO THE CHURCH OF CORINTH AND 29:16 THERE WAS ALL KINDS OF SIN THEY WERE TOLERATING AND AMONG SOME 29:20 OF THE SCANDALOUS THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING IN THE CORINTHIAN 29:23 CHURCH, THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS SLEEPING WITH HIS STEP-MOTHER 29:26 AND THE CHURCH WAS KIND OF JUST LOOKING THE OTHER WAY AND IT WAS 29:28 BEING PARADED AND PAUL SAID, 'YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF 29:31 YOURSELVES. YOU OUGHT TO SPEAK OUT. THAT MAN SHOULD 29:33 BE PUT OUT OF THE CHURCH. MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM. 29:35 DOESN'T THE CHURCH STAND FOR ANYTHING? 29:36 EVEN THE PAGANS ARE MOCKING YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR IMMORALITY.' 29:40 SO AFTER PAUL GOT ON THEM THEY REALIZED, 'YEAH, HE'S RIGHT. WE 29:44 NEED TO DO SOMETHING.' AND SO THEY DEALT WITH THE ISSUE. 29:47 THEY REPENTED OF THEIR SIN AND THEIR INDIFFERENCE AND THEN PAUL 29:50 IS TALKING ABOUT THAT NOW IN 2 CORINTHIANS 7, VERSE 9. 29:55 "NOW I REJOICE, NOT THAT YOU WERE MADE SORRY, 29:58 BUT THAT YOUR SORROW LED TO REPENTANCE." 30:02 YOU KNOW WHY REPENTANCE ISN'T A POPULAR SUBJECT? 30:06 BECAUSE IT INVOLVES SADNESS AND A LOT OF CHURCHES TODAY ONLY 30:09 PREACH GIDDY, HAPPY, FEEL-GOOD SERMONS. 30:12 BUT YOU READ IN THE BIBLE IT TALKS ABOUT HUMBLE YOURSELVES, 30:16 REND YOUR CLOTHES, LET THEIR BE WEEPING AND SORROW AND THE BIBLE 30:20 TALKS ABOUT BEFORE GOD CAN LIFT YOU UP, HUMBLE YOURSELF IN THE 30:23 SIGHT OF GOD AND HE WILL LIFT YOU UP. 30:25 BEFORE YOU GE THE LIFTING UP THERE MUST BE THE PUTTING DOWN. 30:29 IN OTHER WORDS, WE NEED TO BE SORRY FOR OUR SINS AND THEN HE 30:32 HEALS. HE FORGIVES AND THEN YOU FEEL BETTER. 30:35 BUT THE WAY A LOT OF CHURCHES ARE PRESENTING THE GOSPEL IS 30:37 'GOD IS GOING TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD WHILE YOU'RE STILL GUILTY. 30:41 GOD WANTS TO SAVE YOU FROM YOUR GUILT. 30:43 AND SO IF YOU ARE LIVING IN KNOWN OPEN SIN, YOU OUGHT NOT 30:47 FEEL GOOD AND GOD HAVE MERCY ON PASTORS THAT TRY TO MAKE SINNERS 30:50 COMFORTABLE IN THEIR SIN, RIGHT? YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE 30:55 COMFORTABLE IN YOUR SIN. YOU'RE DYING AND YOU SHOULD BE 30:59 MADE UNCOMFORTABLE SO THAT YOU TURN FROM YOUR SIN AND YOU LIVE. 31:04 TO TRY TO COMFORT A PERSON ON THEIR WAY TO DESTRUCTION WHEN 31:08 THEY CAN GET OFF THE ROAD OF DESTRUCTION - YOU'RE NOT HELPING 31:11 THEM. YOU'RE PUTTING A PERSON TO SLEEP WHILE THEY'RE ON A RAFT ON 31:16 A RIVER GOING TOWARDS A WATERFALL. YOU WANT TO WAKE THEM 31:20 UP. AND HE SAID, 'IT'S GOOD THAT YOU SORROW WITH GODLY SORROW.' 31:26 AND IT LED TO REPENTANCE "FOR YOU WERE MADE SORRY IN A GODLY 31:30 MANNER THAT YOU MIGHT SUFFER LOSS FROM US IN NOTHING. 31:34 FOR GODLY SORROW PRODUCES REPENTANCE LEADING TO 31:37 SALVATION." YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 31:40 ISN'T THAT WHAT PAUL'S SAYING? IT'S A GOOD SORROW. 31:43 IT'LL LEAD TO REPENTANCE RESULTING IN SALVATION. 31:47 AND THEN YOU FEEL GOOD WHEN YOU'RE SAVED, RIGHT? 31:50 "RESULTING IN A SALVATION NOT TO BE REPENTED OF. 31:54 BUT THE SORROW OF THE WORLD PRODUCES DEATH." 31:57 SO JUST TO MAKE A PERSON FEEL GUILTY SO THEY GO OUT AND HANG 31:59 THEMSELVES LIKE JUDAS - THAT'S THE WRONG KIND OF REPENTANCE, 32:03 RIGHT? "THE SORROW OF THE WORLD PRODUCES DEATH. FOR OBSERVE THIS 32:09 VERY THING, THAT YOU SORROWED IN A GODLY MANNER. 32:12 WHAT DILIGENCE IT PRODUCED IN YOU, WHAT CLEARING OF 32:14 YOURSELVES, WHAT INDIGNATION, WHAT FEAR, WHAT VEHEMENT DESIRE, 32:17 WHAT ZEAL, WHAT VINDICATION! IN ALL THINGS YOU PROVED 32:20 YOURSELVES TO BE CLEAR IN THIS MATTER. THEREFORE, ALTHOUGH I 32:24 WROTE TO YOU, I DID NOT DO IT FOR THE SAKE OF HIM WHO HAD DONE 32:27 THE WRONG, NOR FOR THE SAKE OF HIM WHO SUFFERED WRONG, BUT THAT 32:30 OUR CARE FOR YOU IN THE SIGHT OF GOD MIGHT APPEAR TO YOU." 32:34 ULTIMATELY, IT WAS FOR THE GLORY OF GOD THAT HIS WORD AND HIS 32:38 TRUTH AND HIS CHURCH MIGHT BE VINDICATED. 32:40 HEBREWS 12 - AND IN A MOMENT WE'LL GET TO EZEKIEL. 32:44 HEBREWS 12, VERSES 1 AND 2, "THEREFORE WE ALSO, SINCE WE ARE 32:47 SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES, LET US LAY ASIDE 32:51 EVERY WEIGHT," - WHEN WE LOOK AT THE EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF ALL 32:54 THOSE GODLY MEN AND WOMEN - THE PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS AND 32:57 KINGS - WHO, THROUGH FAITH, OVERCAME GREAT OBSTACLES AND 33:01 REPENTED OF THEIR SINS, CAN YOU THINK OF SOME BIBLE HEROES THAT 33:04 NEEDED TO REPENT? LET'S NAME SOME. 33:09 DAVID - DAVID USUALLY GETS MENTIONED FIRST, YOU KNOW WHY? 33:13 BECAUSE HE WAS SO GOOD AND THEN HE DID SOMETHING SO BAD. 33:17 IT SEEMED SO OUT OF CHARACTER. SUCH A GOOD VICTORIOUS KING. 33:21 SO CLOSE TO GOD. WROTE ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL SONGS 33:23 TO PRAISE GOD THEN HE TOOK HIS GOOD FRIEND'S WIFE, COMMITTED 33:28 ADULTERY WHILE HIS FRIEND WAS FIGHTING HIS BATTLES OUT OF 33:31 TOWN, THEN HAD HIS FRIEND KILLED. 33:33 THAT'S BAD - THAT'S REALLY BAD. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES 33:38 LOST HIS TEMPER AND KILLED THE EGYPTIAN TASKMASTER, WELL YOU 33:42 SORT OF THINK HE KIND OF HAD IT COMING TO HIM. 33:44 HE WAS A SLAVE DRIVER, RIGHT? AND HE WAS TRYING TO LIBERATE 33:48 HIS PEOPLE. BUT WITH DAVID IT WAS REALLY BAD. 33:53 BUT DID DAVID OVERCOME? DID HE REPENT? 33:57 NOW I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A MICROPHONE. 33:59 I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN. LET'S LOOK AT PSALM 51 FOR A SECOND. 34:02 SOMEONE MENTIONED DAVID AND THIS IS A GOOD PLACE TO JUST PAUSE. 34:08 AFTER DAVID SINNED WITH BATHSHEBA, YOU KNOW THERE WAS A 34:13 PERIOD OF TIME - SEVERAL MONTHS ANYWAY - HE WAS SOMEHOW STIFLING 34:17 HIS CONSCIENCE. KILLED HIS FRIEND, COMMITTED 34:21 ADULTERY, TOOK HIS WIFE AFTER HE HAD HIM MURDERED. 34:25 SHE'S NOW PREGNANT AND GREAT WITH CHILD AND HE FIGURES, 34:29 'WELL, YOU KNOW, ENOUGH TIME WENT BY. 34:32 GOD MUST HAVE JUST WINKED AT THIS AND FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT AND 34:34 I GUESS EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE OKAY.' 34:35 JUST BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE EVERYTHING IS GOING OKAY DOESN'T 34:39 MEAN GOD HAS FORGOTTEN YOUR SIN. IF YOU HAVE NOT REPENTED OF YOUR 34:42 SIN, DAYS AND WEEKS AND MONTHS AND EVEN YEARS MAY HAVE GONE BY, 34:45 BUT IF YOU HAVE NOT REPENTED OF YOUR SIN YOU ARE UNDER A CLOUD 34:49 OF JUDGMENT AND IT'S A FEARFUL THING. FINALLY GOD, 34:56 IN HIS MERCY, SENT NATHAN. DAVID NEEDED TO BE SORRY BEFORE 34:59 HE COULD REPENT AND BEFORE HE COULD BE 35:01 FORGIVEN SO NATHAN CAME AND TOLD A STORY TO HELP DAVID 35:05 SEE THROUGH GOD'S EYES WHAT HE HAD DONE AND HOW TERRIBLY 35:08 OFFENSIVE IT WAS. DAVID BEING A SHEPHERD - GOD 35:11 PICKED A PERFECT STORY. NATHAN COMES, YOU KNOW DAVID IS 35:14 SITTING IN JUDGMENT - HE'S LISTENING TO DIFFERENT CASES AND 35:17 NATHAN THE PROPHET COMES AND HE OSTENSIBLY IS PRESENTING A CASE 35:20 TO THE KING FOR JUDGMENT. THE KING WAS THE SUPREME COURT. 35:24 THEY HAD JUDGES SCATTERED AROUND ISRAEL, BUT IF YOU HAD A REALLY 35:26 DIFFICULT CASE, THE KING WAS THE SUPREME COURT. 35:28 AND SO HE SAID, THERE IS A CERTAIN MAN IN YOUR KINGDOM AND 35:32 THE FAMILY WAS POOR AND ALL THEY HAD WAS ONE EWE LAMB BUT, YOU 35:36 KNOW THEY LOVED THE LAMB TOO MUCH TO BUTCHER IT AND TOOK CARE 35:39 OF IT AND IT EVEN STAYED IN THEIR HOUSE AND THEY NAMED IT. 35:42 IT WAS LIKE PART OF THE FAMILY AND DAVID COULD RELATE TO THAT. 35:46 YOU KNOW HE LAYED DOWN HIS LIFE TO SAVE SOME SHEEP BEFORE. 35:49 AND HE SAID, 'BUT HE HAD A WEALTHY NEIGHBOR WITH A BIG 35:51 RANCH AND HUNDREDS OF SHEEP AND THE WEALTHY NEIGHBOR HAD A GUEST 35:55 THAT CAME TO VISIT AND INSTEAD OF TAKING FROM HIS FLOCK TO 35:58 SLAUGHTER AND PRESENT SOMETHING TO THE GUEST, HE VIOLENTLY TOOK 36:02 AWAY THIS ONE MAN'S FAMILY PET - THEIR LAMB - KILLED IT AND FED 36:07 IT TO HIS GUEST.' DAVID JUST ABOUT JUMPED OFF THE 36:10 THRONE AND HE GOT ANGRY AND HAD FIRE IN HIS EYES. 36:13 HE SAID, 'WHOEVER DID THIS, THEY'RE GOING TO DIE AND THEY'RE 36:16 GOING TO PAY FOUR-FOLD. WHAT A TERRIBLY EGREGIOUS, MEAN, 36:20 OUTRAGEOUS, SELFISH THING TO DO.' AND NATHAN SAID, 36:24 'YOU'RE THE MAN.' HE HAD TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT HE HAD DONE. 36:31 DAVID HAD A HAREM OF WIVES. URIAH HAD ONE, BEAUTIFUL WIFE 36:36 THAT HE LOVED. AND HE TOOK HIS ONE WIFE, 36:40 KILLED HIM, AND STOLE HIS WIFE FROM HIM. 36:46 AND FINALLY DAVID SAID, 'AH!' AND HE BROKE DOWN. 36:51 HE FINALLY HAD GODLY SORROW AND HE SAID, 'I HAVE SINNED.' 36:56 AND NATHAN SAID, 'YEAH, YOU DID SIN. 36:57 YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER FOR YOUR SIN.' AND DAVID SAID, 37:01 'I DESERVE TO DIE.' AND NATHAN SAID, 'GOD'S FORGIVEN YOUR SIN 37:03 BECAUSE YOU'VE REPENTED NOW.' BUT LISTEN TO WHAT DAVID SAYS IN 37:07 PSALM 51, JUST SO YOU HAVE THE BACKDROP OF THIS. 37:10 OH, BY THE WAY, NOT ONLY DID DAVID REPENT OF HIS SIN, PART OF 37:16 THE CONSEQUENCE WAS THAT FIRST PREGNANCY WITH BATHSHEBA, GOD 37:22 SAID BECAUSE OF THE SCANDAL CONNECTED WITH WHAT YOU'VE DONE 37:26 - ALL ISRAEL EVENTUALLY FOUND OUT ABOUT IT - THAT THAT CHILD 37:30 IS GOING TO DIE. AND DAVID SPENT SEVEN DAYS ON 37:34 HIS FACE PRAYING FOR THAT BABY. NOW, I'VE PRAYED ON MY FACE 37:40 BEFORE BUT NOT SEVEN DAYS - NOT EVEN 24 HOURS. 37:43 PEOPLE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE SIN OF DAVID AND THEY SAY, 'OH, YOU 37:45 KNOW, DAVID'S COMMITTED ADULTERY AND GOD FORGAVE HIM. 37:48 I GUESS I CAN COMMIT ADULTERY AND I'LL PRAY LATER AND GOD'LL 37:50 FORGIVE ME. IT'S NOT THAT BIG A DEAL.' 37:53 PEOPLE WANT TO SIN LIKE DAVID - IN THE CHURCH - BUT THEY DON'T 37:55 WANT TO REPENT LIKE DAVID. RIGHT? 37:59 I HAVEN'T SEE TOO MANY SPEND SEVEN DAYS ON THEIR FACE 38:02 PRAYING, CRYING BECAUSE OF THEIR SIN. 38:05 DAVID REALIZED HIS SIN WAS HURTING OTHERS. 38:09 IT WAS HURTING THE KINGDOM AND HE REALLY REPENTED. 38:12 NOW LISTEN TO PSALM 51 WITH THAT BACKGROUND, "HAVE MERCY UPON ME 38:17 O GOD, ACCORDING TO YOUR LOVINGKINDNESS; ACCORDING TO THE 38:20 MULTITUDE OF YOUR TENDER MERCIES, BLOT OUT MY 38:23 TRANSGRESSIONS. WASH ME THOROUGHLY FROM MY 38:26 INIQUITY, AND CLEANSE ME FROM MY SIN. FOR I ACKNOWLEDGE MY 38:29 TRANSGRESSIONS AND MY SIN IS EVER BEFORE ME. 38:33 AGAINST YOU, YOU ONLY HAVE I SINNED, AND DONE THIS EVIL IN 38:35 YOUR SIGHT - THAT YOU MAY BE FOUND JUST WHEN YOU SPEAK, AND 38:39 BLAMELESS WHEN YOU JUDGE." - DAVID KNEW HE HAD BROUGHT 38:41 REPROACH ON GOD'S NAME BY HIS SIN - "BEHOLD, I WAS BROUGHT 38:45 FORTH IN INIQUITY, AND IN SIN MY MOTHER CONCEIVED ME. 38:48 BEHOLD, YOU DESIRE TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS," - BY THE WAY, 38:52 SOME PEOPLE HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD THIS VERSE TO TRY TO TEACH SOME 38:54 KIND OF ORIGINAL SIN. DAVID IS JUST SAYING 'I'M BORN 38:57 WITH THE FALLEN DNA OF ADAM AND EVE - WITH SELFISHNESS.' 39:02 "BEHOLD, YOU DESIRE TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS, AND IN THE HIDDEN 39:06 PART YOU WILL MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM. 39:08 PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN; WASH ME, AND I 39:10 SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW" - WHY DID HE SAY 'HYSSOP'? 39:14 WHAT DID THEY USE TO SPREAD THE PASSOVER BLOOD ON THE DOOR AND 39:17 THE WINDOW? HYSSOP - THEY WOULD DIP IT IN THE BLOOD. 39:20 AND SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THAT'S A 39:22 TYPE OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. "PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP AND 39:25 I WILL BE CLEAN. WASH ME AND I'LL BE WHITER THAN SNOW." - 39:29 REVELATION - DOESN'T IT SAY THAT THE REDEEMED'S ROBES ARE 39:32 WASHED AND MADE WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB? - 39:35 "MAKE ME HEAR JOY AND GLADNESS, THAT THE BONES YOU 39:37 HAVE BROKEN MAY REJOICE." - YOU NOTICE, YOU HUMBLE 39:40 YOURSELF - YOU WILL EVENTUALLY HAVE THAT JOY AND GLADNESS BUT 39:44 DON'T EXPECT JOY AND GLADNESS WHILE YOU ARE STILL IN YOUR SIN. 39:48 GOD WANTS YOU TO HAVE AN ABUNDANT LIFE, BUT DON'T ASK FOR 39:51 THE ABUNDANT LIFE WHILE YOU'RE LIVING IN REBELLION. 39:54 - "THAT THE BONES WHICH YOU HAVE BROKEN MIGHT REJOICE. 39:58 HIDE YOUR FACE FROM MY SINS, AND BLOT OUT ALL MY INIQUITIES. 40:02 CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD," - YOU NOT ONLY WANT TO BE 40:05 FORGIVEN FROM YOUR SIN, YOU WANT A CLEAN HEART SO YOU'RE A NEW 40:08 CREATURE DOING NEW THINGS, AMEN? - "CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, 40:13 O GOD, AND RENEW A STEADFAST SPIRIT WITHIN ME. 40:16 DO NOT CAST ME AWAY FROM YOUR PRESENCE AND DO NOT TAKE YOUR 40:19 HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME." - WHAT'S ONE OF THE GREAT 40:22 DANGERS OF LIVING IN REBELLION? GOD WITHDRAWS HIS SPIRIT. 40:27 WHEN SAMPSON PERSISTED IN HIS REBELLION WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 40:30 POWER AND THE SPIRIT THAT HE NORMALLY HAD? 40:34 HE JUMPED UP THINKING HE WAS GOING TO FIGHT THE PHILISTINES 40:36 AND HE WAS POWERLESS. "RESTORE UNTO ME THE JOY OF YOUR 40:41 SALVATION AND UPHOLD ME BY YOUR GENEROUS" - OR YOUR FREE - 40:44 "SPIRIT." ANOTHER REASON THAT WE WANT TO 40:47 REPENT AND BE SAVED, IT SAYS, "THEN I WILL TEACH TRANSGRESSORS 40:50 YOUR WAYS AND SINNERS WILL BE CONVERTED TO YOU." 40:54 WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A REAL REVIVAL? WOULD YOU REALLY LIKE 40:56 TO SEE THOUSANDS POURING INTO THE CHURCH AND BE CONVERTED? 41:00 REAL REPENTANCE LEADS TO SINNERS BEING CONVERTED BECAUSE WHEN 41:06 WE'RE REALLY FORGIVEN - WHEN WE HUMBLE OURSELVES, WE TURN FROM 41:09 OUR SINS, WE REPENT, HE THEN GIVES US THE JOY OF SALVATION. 41:13 PEOPLE WANT THAT JOY - THEY COME TO OUR CHURCH BECAUSE THEY WANT 41:16 THAT JOY - THEY ARE THEN CONVERTED. AND SO - BUT IT 41:19 BEGINS WITH REAL REPENTANCE. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 41:22 I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL THIS, BUT LET'S GO BACK - I'M 41:25 GOING TO RUN OUT OF TIME. I'VE GOT A LOT MORE TO SAY. 41:28 LET'S GO BACK TO - I WAS GOING TO HAVE YOU READ FOR US EZEKIEL 41:32 - WHAT WAS IT? - YEAH, GO AHEAD, TURN ON 41:35 HEATHER'S MICROPHONE - EZEKIEL 14:6. 41:39 >>EZEKIEL 14:6, "THEREFORE SAY TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, 41:44 'THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD, 'REPENT. 41:46 TURN AWAY FROM YOUR IDOLS AND TURN YOUR FACES AWAY FROM ALL 41:49 YOUR ABOMINATIONS.''" >>IS IT CLEAR THAT REPENTANCE 41:54 INVOLVES TURNING AWAY FROM THE SIN? 41:57 LIKE THEIR SIN AT THAT CASE WAS IDOLATRY. 41:59 HE SAYS, 'REPENT AND TURN AWAY FROM THE ABOMINATIONS AND YOUR 42:02 IDOLS.' LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN EZEKIEL 42:06 18:30 AND I'LL READ THROUGH VERSE 32, "'THEREFORE I WILL 42:11 JUDGE YOU, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS 42:13 WAYS,' SAYS THE LORD GOD. 'REPENT, AND TURN FROM ALL YOUR 42:17 TRANSGRESSIONS, SO THAT INIQUITY WILL NOT BE YOUR RUIN.'" 42:22 THE IDEA THAT, BECAUSE OF THE GRACE OF GOD, WE CAN CONTINUE IN 42:25 KNOWN SIN AND IT DOESN'T MATTER, THAT IS A FALSE GOSPEL. 42:28 THAT IS A DOCTRINE OF DEVILS. REAL REPENTANCE MEANS YOU TURN. 42:34 IF WE CONTINUE IN SIN HE SAYS, "'INIQUITY WILL BE YOUR RUIN. 42:38 CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL THE TRANSGRESSIONS WHICH YOU HAVE 42:41 COMMITTED, AND GET YOURSELVES A NEW HEART'" - NOW THAT'S THE NEW 42:44 COVENANT, RIGHT? A NEW HEART. YOU FIRST FIND THE NEW COVENANT 42:47 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, BY THE WAY, "'GET YOURSELVES A NEW 42:50 HEART'" - GOD SAYS, 'I'LL CREATE A NEW HEART. 42:53 YOU'LL BECOME A NEW CREATURE.' HE GIVES US NEW DESIRES - "'GET 42:58 YOURSELVES A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT. FOR WHY SHOULD YOU DIE, 43:01 O HOUSE OF ISRAEL? FOR I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE 43:03 DEATH OF ONE WHO DIES.' SAYS THE LORD GOD. 43:05 'THEREFORE, TURN'" - THAT'S REPENTANCE - "'TURN AND LIVE!'" 43:09 HE WANTS US TO TURN FROM OUR SINS. 43:11 HERE'S A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK 'STEPS TO CHRIST' PAGE 38 - ON 43:14 THIS SUBJECT - "TRUE CONFESSION IS ALWAYS OF A SPECIFIC 43:21 CHARACTER AND ACKNOWLEDGES PARTICULAR SINS. 43:24 THEY MAY BE OF SUCH A NATURE AS TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE GOD ONLY. 43:27 THERE MAY BE WRONGS THAT SHOULD BE CONFESSED TO INDIVIDUALS WHO 43:30 HAVE SUFFERED INJURY THROUGH THEM OR THEY MIGHT BE OF A 43:33 PUBLIC CHARACTER THAT SHOULD BE PUBLICLY CONFESSED, BUT ALL 43:36 CONFESSIONS SHOULD BE DEFINITE AND TO THE POINT, ACKNOWLEDGING 43:39 THE VERY SINS OF WHICH YOU'RE GUILTY." 43:41 NOW, THAT SOMETIMES TROUBLES PEOPLE. 43:43 WHEN WE - BY THE WAY, REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION GO HAND IN HAND. 43:48 THEY'RE SEPARATE IN THE SENSE THAT IT'S THE SAME SPIRIT THAT 43:51 DRIVES THEM BUT THEY'RE SEPARATE IN THAT THEY'RE UNIQUE. 43:54 REPENTANCE IS - OR CONFESSION IS THE VERBAL SIDE OF REPENTANCE. 44:02 SO WHEN YOU TURN FROM YOUR SINS - AND THERE'S SINS YOU MAY HAVE 44:06 TURNED FROM BEFORE BUT YOU DIDN'T CONFESS THE SIN TO GOD. 44:10 I DON'T THING YOU CAN REALLY EVER GET VICTORY UNTIL YOU 44:12 CONFESS SOMETHING. AND IT SAYS HERE WE SHOULD BE SPECIFIC. 44:19 WHEN ISAIAH SAID, 'WOE IS ME. I AM UNDONE. I AM A MAN OF 44:24 UNCLEAN LIPS AND I DWELL IN THE MIDST OF A PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN 44:27 LIPS.' HIS SIN WAS UNCLEAN LIPS. HE MENTIONS HIS SPEECH. 44:32 BY THE WAY, THE BIBLE SAYS 'OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART 44:35 THE MOUTH SPEAKS' SO TYPICALLY IT'S WHEN WE'VE GOT AN UNCLEAN 44:39 HEART YOU'VE GOT THE UNCLEAN LIPS. 44:40 SO HE MENTIONS SOMETHING SPECIFIC. 44:42 IF YOU READ IN THE REPENTANT PRAYER OF DANIEL - DANIEL 44:45 CHAPTER 9 - HE TALKS ABOUT THE SINS OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND THEY 44:48 TALK ABOUT THE IDOLATRY AND NEHEMIAH TALKS ABOUT THE SABBATH 44:52 BREAKING AND THE INTERMARRIAGE WITH UNBELIEVERS AND THERE'S 44:56 JUST - THERE'S A BROAD SPECTRUM. 44:57 BUT YOU'LL NOTICE THERE'S SPECIFIC SINS. 45:00 IN THE DEDICATION PRAYER OF SOLOMON, WHEN THEY DEDICATED THE 45:03 TEMPLE, HE TALKS ABOUT THE SPECIFIC SINS - GOING AFTER 45:06 OTHER GODS - AND WHEN YOU CONFESS - IS THERE ANYONE HERE 45:12 WHO CAN REMEMBER EVERY SIN THEY'VE EVER COMMITTED? 45:16 I'M NOT RAISING MY HAND, I'M SCRATCHING MY HEAD. I CAN'T. 45:21 DOES THAT MEAN IF YOU CAN'T REMEMBER EVERY SIN YOU'VE EVER 45:25 COMMITTED THAT YOU CAN'T BE FORGIVEN? 45:28 WE'RE IN TROUBLE IF THAT'S TRUE. I THINK GOD IS WANTING US TO BE 45:32 SPECIFIC, BUT BE SPECIFIC WITH AT LEAST THE MAJOR CATEGORIES. 45:36 TAKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - IT'S A GOOD TEMPLATE FOR REPENTANCE. 45:42 YOU CAN LOOK AT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND JUST SAY, 45:44 'LORD, FORGIVE ME FOR USING YOUR NAME IN VAIN.' 45:49 'OH, PASTOR DOUG, I'VE NEVER MURDERED ANYBODY.' 45:52 BUT JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'RE ANGRY WITH YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER IN 45:54 YOUR HEART, YOU'RE GUILTY OF ANOTHER KIND OF MURDER.' 45:58 'I'VE NEVER COMMITTED ADULTERY' - BUT JESUS SAID YOU CAN COMMIT 46:00 ADULTERY BY LUSTING AFTER ANOTHER MAN OR WOMAN. 46:05 IT CAN HAPPEN IN THE HEART. LORD, FORGIVE ME FOR THOSE 46:09 IMPURE THOUGHTS OR FOR ADULTERY. 'I'VE NEVER STOLEN!' - 46:13 WELL, DID YOU EVER NOT PAY YOUR TITHE? 46:15 THE BIBLE SAYS YOU CAN ROB GOD. MAYBE YOU HAVE STOLEN. 46:18 AND, BY THE WAY, PART OF REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION IS YOU 46:22 STILL HAVE SOMETHING IN YOUR GARAGE YOU STOLE FROM YOUR 46:24 NEIGHBOR? 'OH, I JUST BORROWED IT.' 46:25 WELL, YOU'VE HAD IT FIVE YEARS - IT'S CALLED STEALING AT THIS 46:27 POINT, RIGHT? WHEN YOU BORROW SOMETHING 46:30 PERMANENTLY IT'S CALLED STEALING. 46:33 YOU CAN SAY, 'LORD, FORGIVE ME FOR TAKING MR. JONES' RAKE.' 46:39 WELL, IT'S STILL IN YOUR GARAGE. DON'T ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOU FOR 46:41 TAKING HIS RAKE, GO KNOCK ON HIS DOOR AND BRING IT BACK. 46:44 TELL HIM YOU'RE SORRY. ISN'T THAT WHAT REPENTANCE IS - AND 46:48 CONFESSION? AND YOU THEN CONFESS TO HIM, 'I AM SO SORRY. I'VE 46:52 BEEN MEANING - I JUST FORGOT.' YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TELL HIM. 46:54 BRING IT BACK AND HE'LL PROBABLY SAY, 'OH, I BOUGHT ANOTHER RAKE 46:57 A LONG TIME AGO BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.' 46:59 AND AT LEAST YOU'RE CLEARING YOUR SOUL. 47:03 SO AS YOU PRAY - AND I RECOMMEND EVERYBODY DOES THIS. 47:07 IF YOU REALLY WANT TO EXPERIENCE - TO THE SAME DEGREE THAT YOU 47:14 REPENT OF YOUR SINS - TO THAT EXTENT I THINK YOU CAN 47:17 EXPERIENCE RELIEF AND JOY AND MERCY. 47:23 YOU CAN'T REMEMBER EVERY SIN YOU'VE COMMITTED BUT SAY, 'LORD, 47:26 SEARCH ME AND TRY ME. SEE IF THERE BE ANY WICKED WAY IN ME. 47:30 LEAD ME IN THE WAY EVERLASTING.' GO OFF BY YOURSELF SOMEWHERE. 47:33 GO TO YOUR CLOSET WHERE YOU PRAY OR YOUR BEDROOM - WHEREVER IT 47:36 HAPPENS TO BE AND GET ONE OF THOSE YELLOW TABLETS OF PAPER 47:39 AND KNEEL DOWN AND SAY, 'LORD, SHOW ME MY SIN. IS THERE 47:43 SOMETHING I HAVE NOT REPENTED OF?' AND PRAY. BE SINCERE AND 47:47 SAY, 'LORD, I WANT TO BE CLEAR WITH YOU. I WANT TO KNOW THAT 47:50 I HAVE APPLIED THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. SEND ME YOUR SPIRIT' - 47:55 AND TAKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND LOOK AT THEM - WE JUST WENT 47:58 THROUGH THIS WHOLE SERIES ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 48:00 THERE'S A LITERAL SIDE - THERE'S THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT OF THE 48:03 LAW AND I THINK YOU'LL FIND IN JUST ABOUT EVERY CASE THERE'S 48:07 SOMETHING THAT YOU NEED TO ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOU FOR. 48:10 IF YOU CAN'T REMEMBER AND YOU PRAY, DON'T WORRY, BECAUSE IT'S 48:15 THE HOLY SPIRIT'S JOB TO BRING THOSE THINGS TO YOUR MIND IF 48:17 IT'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO BE CLEAR OF. 48:19 AND HE DOESN'T WANT TO DO IT TO MAKE YOU FEEL GUILTY, HE WANTS 48:23 TO DO IT TO MAKE YOU FEEL JOY AND TO EXPERIENCE REAL 48:26 FORGIVENESS. YOU WANT TO DO A THOROUGH WORK 48:29 OF PLOWING UP THE FALLOW GROUND, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT. 48:34 A THOROUGH WORK - LET ME SAY IT ANOTHER WAY - TO THE EXTENT OF 48:40 THE OFFENSE THERE SHOULD BE A CORRESPONDING REPENTANCE. 48:45 IT'S - YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY THIS BEFORE, IF I'M WALKING OUT OF 48:48 THE CHURCH AND I ACCIDENTALLY STEP ON YOUR TOE, I'LL PROBABLY 48:51 TURN TO YOU AND SIMPLY SAY, 'EXCUSE ME. I'M SORRY.' RIGHT? 48:57 AND I KNOW IF YOU'VE GOT A BUNION AND IT REALLY HURT I'LL 48:59 SAY, 'I'M VERY, VERY SORRY.' BUT IF I'M RUSHING TOWARDS THE 49:04 DOOR AND I KNOCK YOU DOWN, AND YOU BREAK YOUR ELBOW AND I JUST 49:09 LOOK OVER MY SHOULDER AND SAY, 'EXCUSE ME' - IS THERE SOMETHING 49:13 WRONG WITH THAT? I DON'T KNOW IF I EVER TOLD YOU - 49:16 GOD'S BEEN GOOD TO ME. I'VE BEEN HIT BY CARS WHILE 49:20 RIDING A BICYCLE THREE TIMES IN MY LIFE - NEVER BROKE A BONE. 49:25 BUT I REMEMBER ONE GUY HIT ME - IN MIAMI BEACH - HE HIT ME WITH 49:27 HIS CAR, KNOCKED ME DOWN, I'M THERE ON THE STREET AND HE SAID, 49:31 'ARE YOU OKAY?' AND I SAID, 'YEAH.' 49:32 AND HE DROVE OFF. I THINK HE WAS - WHEN HE SAID, 49:36 'ARE YOU OKAY?' - I WASN'T REALLY OKAY, IT HURT. 49:39 I MEANT, 'I'M ALIVE.' WHEN HE SAID 'ARE YOU OKAY?' 49:42 I THOUGHT, 'YEAH, I'M ALIVE.' YOU KNOW, AND HE JUST DROVE OFF. 49:46 I THOUGHT, 'WELL, YOU COULD HAVE STUCK AROUND A LITTLE LONGER AND 49:49 SAID A LITTLE MORE.' BUT I GUESS HE WAS AFRAID TO - INSURANCE 49:53 AND PEOPLE WERE GOING TO SHOW UP. BUT THAT WASN'T RIGHT. 49:58 WELL, WHEN YOU SAY - THE PREACHER SAYS, 'IF YOU'D LIKE TO 50:03 ACCEPT JESUS COME FORWARD, SAYS THE SINNER'S PRAYER, AND NOW YOU 50:05 HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.' THAT'S A LITTLE TRITE. 50:08 I THINK THAT'S A STARTING POINT BUT THAT'S NOT REAL REPENTANCE. 50:13 JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR YOU AND YOU'RE GOING TO SAY, 50:16 'EXCUSE ME LORD. THANKS FOR FORGIVING ME'? 50:20 YOU THINK ABOUT THE BURDEN OF SIN THAT HE SUFFERED FOR YOU. 50:23 YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND THAT TAKES, YOU KNOW, A THOUSAND LASHES FOR 50:26 YOU AND YOU SAY, 'HEY THANKS. APPRECIATE IT. YOU'RE THE MAN.' 50:32 ISN'T THAT KIND OF SHALLOW? BUT THAT'S THE WAY PEOPLE TREAT 50:35 REPENTANCE WHEN THEY COME TO JESUS. A LOT OF CHURCHES SAY, 50:40 'YOU COME AND YOU SAY THESE SIX WORDS IN THIS PRAYER AND YOU'VE 50:43 NOW GOT EVERLASTING LIFE.' I WANT TO PRAY THE SINNER'S 50:46 PRAYER, 'DEAR LORD, THANK YOU FOR DYING FOR ME. 50:48 THANK YOU FOR EVERLASTING LIFE, AMEN.' 50:51 IT MIGHT BE A STARTING POINT AND JESUS CAN USE THAT - DON'T 50:53 MISUNDERSTAND - BUT I DON'T THINK THEY'VE REALLY BEEN TAUGHT 50:56 WHAT REPENTANCE IS YET. REPENTANCE SOMETIMES INVOLVES 51:01 TEARS, SORROW, GRIEF FOR YOUR SIN - A SENSE OF SHAME. 51:08 THERE OUGHT TO BE A BROKEN HEARTEDNESS. 51:12 AND SO, IN YOUR STUDYING WITH PEOPLE AND - PREACHERS - I'M 51:16 APPEALING THAT PASTORS BE CAREFUL NOT TO CHEAPEN THE 51:18 GOSPEL BY CHEAPENING WHAT REPENTANCE IS AND WHEN YOU 51:23 CONSIDER THE DEPTH OF HOW MUCH JESUS SUFFERED THAT OUGHT TO 51:27 GIVE US THE CONTEXT FOR WHAT REPENTANCE OUGHT TO BE. 51:31 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION - YOU KNOW, IT 51:35 SAYS IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 1, 'WASH YOU, MAKE YOU CLEAN, PUT AWAY 51:39 THE EVIL OF YOUR DOING. CEASE TO DO EVIL. LEARN TO DO GOOD.' 51:42 HE TALKS ABOUT WHAT THIS REPENTANCE IS. 51:44 THERE'S A WRONG KIND OF REPENTANCE - WE ALREADY 51:46 MENTIONED WHERE JUDAS SAID HE WAS SORRY, THREW DOWN THE SILVER 51:50 AND WENT OUT AND HUNG HIMSELF. GOD DOES NOT WANT YOU TO DO 51:52 THAT. WE KNOW ABOUT THE PHARAOH. WHEN DID THE PHARAOH REPENT? 51:56 DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE PHARAOH REPENTED? 51:58 DID THE PHARAOH REPENT OF HIS SIN OR DID THE PHARAOH REPENT OF 52:02 THE PLAGUE? WHENEVER A NEW PLAGUE WOULD COME, EVENTUALLY 52:06 THE PHARAOH WOULD SAY, 'OH, CALL MOSES. ALRIGHT, I'M SORRY. 52:10 TAKE AWAY THE PLAGUE.' PHARAOH WAS NOT SORRY ABOUT HIS 52:14 STUBBORN HEART ENSLAVING GOD'S PEOPLE AND HIS SIN, HE WAS JUST 52:19 SORRY ABOUT THE FROGS OR THE LICE OR THE DARKNESS OR WHAT IT 52:22 HAPPENED TO BE AT THE PARTICULAR TIME. 52:25 AND AS SOON AS THE PLAGUE WAS GONE, WHAT HAPPENED TO PHARAOH'S 52:28 REPENTANCE? HE WASN'T SORRY ANYMORE. 52:33 THAT'S THE WRONG KIND OF REPENTANCE. 52:36 AND I'VE ILLUSTRATED BEFORE, IF YOU ARE MAKING COOKIES ONE DAY 52:40 AND YOU TELL YOUR CHILDREN 'DON'T EAT ANY OF THE COOKIES 52:43 THAT ARE COOLING ON THE TRAY UNTIL AFTER DINNER. 52:46 BUT YOU LEAVE THE KITCHEN - THE TELEPHONE RINGS - AND YOU'VE GOT 52:49 THESE TWO KIDS, EIGHT AND TEN YEARS OLD, JOHNNY AND JANE - 52:52 THAT'S ALWAYS WHAT THEIR NAMES ARE - AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE 52:57 COOKIES STEAMING THERE AND THERE'S A FEW COOKIE CRUMBS SO 53:00 JANE REACHES OUT AND SHE PICKS UP THE ONE OR TWO COOKIE CRUMBS 53:03 THAT ARE THERE AND SHE SAYS, 'THAT'S NOT A WHOLE COOKIE, IT'S 53:05 JUST A CRUMB.' WELL NOW THERE'S NO CRUMBS FOR JOHNNY. 53:08 HE FEELS BAD SO HE BREAKS A COOKIE TO MAKE A CRUMB AND SO HE 53:12 EATS THAT CRUMB AND HE'S CREATED MORE CRUMBS IN THE PROCESS AND 53:15 BEFORE YOU KNOW IT THEY ATE A COUPLE OF COOKIES. 53:19 SO MOM COMES BACK IN THE KITCHEN AND SHE'S LOOKING AT THEM. 53:22 SHE SEES THE CHOCOLATE AROUND THE EDGES OF THEIR MOUTHS. 53:24 SHE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. AND JANE STARTS TO FEEL BAD. 53:27 SHE SAYS, 'MOM, I'M SORRY. I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT. 53:30 YOU ASKED US NOT TO. I APOLOGIZE. 53:32 I ATE A COOKIE.' THAT'S REPENTANCE. SHE'S SORRY. 53:35 SHE DOESN'T KNOW THAT MOM ALREADY KNOWS, BUT SHE'S SORRY 53:37 THAT SHE DISOBEYED. AND JANE SAYS, 'JOHNNY ATE ONE TOO.' 53:43 AND HE SAYS, 'I'M SORRY.' WELL, HE'S SORRY THAT HE WAS 53:46 EXPOSED. HE'S NOT SORRY THAT HE DISOBEYED. 53:50 IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF SORROW. SO WHAT BRINGS US TO REPENTANCE? 53:57 THERE'S A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK 'STEPS TO CHRIST' I THINK IS 53:58 HELPFUL HERE, "ONE RAY FROM THE GLORY OF GOD" - THIS IS 'STEPS 54:03 TO CHRIST' PAGE 29 - "ONE RAY FROM THE GLORY OF GOD, ONE GLEAM 54:08 OF THE PURITY OF CHRIST PENETRATING THE SOUL MAKES EVERY 54:11 SPOT OF DEFILEMENT PAINFULLY DISTINCT. IT LAYS BARE THE 54:15 DEFORMITY AND THE DEFECTS OF THE HUMAN CHARACTER. 54:19 IT MAKES APPARENT THE UNHALLOWED DESIRES AND INFIDELITY OF THE 54:25 HEART, THE IMPURITY OF THE LIPS. THE SINNER'S ACTS OF DISLOYALTY 54:29 IN MAKING VOID THE LAW OF GOD ARE EXPOSED IN HIS SIGHT AND THE 54:33 SPIRIT IS STRICKEN AND AFFLICTED UNDER THE SEARCHING INFLUENCE OF 54:36 THE SPIRIT OF GOD. HE LOATHES HIMSELF AS HE VIEWS THE PURE, 54:41 SPOTLESS CHARACTER OF CHRIST." SO ONE OF THE THINGS YOU CAN DO 54:44 TO INITIATE THE RIGHT KIND OF REPENTANCE IS YOU DRAW NEAR TO 54:49 THE LIGHT. YOU DRAW NEAR TO JESUS. 54:54 THE CLOSER YOU COME TO THE SPOTLESS CHARACTER OF CHRIST, BY 54:57 CONTRAST, YOU WILL BECOME AWARE OF WHAT YOUR SINS ARE. 55:01 AS LONG AS YOU STAY IN THE SHADOWS AND YOU COMPARE YOURSELF 55:03 AMONG YOURSELVES AND BY YOURSELVES AND YOU SAY, 'WELL, 55:06 EVERYBODY IN THE CHURCH IS DOING IT. EVERYBODY" - 55:07 YOU MIGHT BE ON YOUR WAY TO DESTRUCTION AND BE 55:10 AMONG THOSE THAT WILL SAY, 'LORD, LORD, I WENT TO CHURCH. 55:13 I WAS FOURTH GENERATION AND HE'LL SAY, 'I DON'T KNOW YOU. 55:16 YOU WERE JUST COMPARING YOURSELF WITH WHAT EVERYONE IS DOING, BUT 55:19 NOT TO ME.' THE STANDARD FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS 55:21 IS CHRIST AND HIS WORD. IT'S NOT THE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH. 55:25 AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE STANDARD OF HOLINESS IS, LOOK AT 55:28 JESUS. JAMES 4, VERSE 7, I LIKE THIS, "THEREFORE, SUBMIT TO GOD. 55:36 RESIST THE DEVIL. HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU. DRAW NEAR TO GOD. 55:41 HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU. CLEANSE YOUR HANDS YOU SINNERS. 55:45 PURIFY YOUR HEARTS YOU DOUBLE MINDED." - IT'S A CHANGE IN 55:49 ACTION, THE HANDS AND A CHANGE IN THE HEART - "LAMENT AND MOURN 55:54 AND WEEP" - DOES IT STOP THERE? NO - "LET YOUR LAUGHTER BE 55:59 TURNED TO MOURNING AND YOUR JOY TO GLOOM. HUMBLE YOURSELF 56:03 IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD AND HE WILL LIFT YOU UP. SO THE JOY - 56:08 THE BEING LIFTED UP - IT'S GOING TO FOLLOW THE REAL 56:11 SORROW FOR HEART. YOU KNOW, IN ORDER FOR THERE TO BE A CROP 56:15 YOU NEED BROKEN CLOUDS. AND IN ORDER FOR THERE TO BE A 56:19 CROP SPIRITUALLY, YOU SOMETIMES NEED A BROKEN HEART. 56:21 IT'S AFTER MARY WEEPS THAT THEN SHE DISCOVERS HER RISEN LORD AND 56:27 THERE'S A GREAT JOY AND IT'S SOMETIMES AFTER THE SORROW FOR 56:30 OUR SIN AND HUMBLING OURSELVES THAT GOD WASHES OUR EYES WITH 56:34 TEARS, SO TO SPEAK, THEN WE SEE CLEARLY AND OUR HEARTS ARE 56:39 RESTORED AND MADE NEW. WELL, I'M OUT OF TIME. THERE'S MORE TO SAY 56:43 ON THIS SUBJECT BUT WE GOT MOST OF IT. 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