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But all right, let's jump into 
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to Acts chapter 20. 
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for this, this lesson. 
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into the second one. 
The, the, the lesson on faith is

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not very long. 
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into both of these and get both 
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going to finish up with this 
repentance. 

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And it's a very, very important,
very, very important concept in 

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the in God's Word, a very 
important doctrine, if you will.

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But let's go back to page 11 and
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are some of the false views of 
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And first of all is that 
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It's not changing your life. 
We see a lot of that happening 

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with, you know, Alcoholics 
Anonymous. 

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People can go and they can 
reform. 

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They can change does not mean 
it's repentance. 

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Repentance is also not doing 
penance. 

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The Catholic Bibles translate 
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that's not a concept that we 
find in God's Word. 

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It's not as something that they 
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that way. 
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remorse. 
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talked about Judas. 
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they but it was, it was not 
repentance towards God. 

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It was a repentance of I'm sorry
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And then repentance is not just 
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There's there's a good faction 
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repentance is just turning from 
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But as as we already mentioned 
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20 and verse 21 is so important,
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also to the Greeks, repentance 
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Lord Jesus Christ. 
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together. 
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repentance is not, then what is 
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Well, this is very, very 
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I hope you got a pen. 
Maybe you can write some some 

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notes down here in the margins. 
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couple of you to read as well 
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So maybe we'll start with 
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brother Johnny's row on this 
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microphones and we'll get to 
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little bit. 
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you will look up Acts 64, six 
and who wants to read on that 

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row? 
Julie, why don't you? 

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Why don't you read Isaiah? 
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Acts 2620. 
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behind Brother George. 
Anybody on that? 

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What you want to read, Brother 
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All right, let's do Isaiah 4522 
and 23. 

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Frank, you want to read what you
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OK, All right. 
Macy. 

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Romans 87 then, then brother 
Gary's row. 

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All right, Charlie, you want to 
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let's see here. 
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on brother Ryan's row want to 
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All right, First Thessalonians 
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We'll, we'll get to some more of
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We'll, we'll do these before we 
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All right, It'll save us a 
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can just have you ready to read 
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mic and have it ready to go by 
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May be easier to just kind of 
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or something. 
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they can kind of control it from
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But all right, So what is, what 
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Well, first of all, repentance 
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against God and being sorry for 
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Acts chapter 20 and verse 21. 
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towards God and faith toward our
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So repentance is toward God 
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have sinned against. 
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I mean, I can be sorry for 
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know, you think about somebody, 
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They're so sad for the family 
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things and they sit in prison. 
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see their testimony when they 
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drink, blah, blah, blah. 
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it's not repentance toward God. 
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God's Word is. 
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made man to obey his laws. 
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and broken his laws, and He 
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supposed righteousness is as 
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Seen that term before? 
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holy God mean? 
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It's the Trinity. 
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But we see there's, there's a 
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get that from. 
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Holy, holy, holy, right. 
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That's that's where thrice holy 
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I'm sure you've seen that term 
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Six. 
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thing, and all are unrighteous. 
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And all our righteousnesses are 
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All our righteousnesses are as 
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things that we can do as filthy 
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Now this is where I say that 
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You know what, what we see so 
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lot of this now. 
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thankful that, you know, at the 
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for Charlie Kirk, I think there 
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the gospel clearly. 
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some people could get saved from
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What, what's a grave danger that
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of something like this is it's 
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ecumenical movement. 
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the Catholics and the 
Presbyterians and the Methodists

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everybody is seeing a revival, 
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gospel. 
Most of them are not preaching 

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the Gospel of Christ that 
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Christ with all of their own 
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So yes, we're seeing a turn back
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but it doesn't necessarily mean 
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Boy, I'm telling you what, we 
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church. 
We had 300 people that got 

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baptized. 
That's not salvation. 

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It's not so there's no 
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It's that's what we see when 
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baptism, but that's not what we 
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Christ, but it's faith only. 
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talk a little bit more about 
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So repentance means it's 
admitting that I've sinned 

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against God and being sorry for 
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Acts 2620. 
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Damascus, at Jerusalem, and 
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Judea, and then to the Gentiles,
that they should repent and turn

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to God, and do work to meet. 
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Repentance. 
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an important phrase there. 
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What does that word meet mean? 
Fit right? 

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Do works that show that you've 
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We're not saved by our works. 
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works. 
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saying. 
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here that we should do works, 
meet for repentance, right? 

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Words that show that you have 
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There ought to be something 
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It's something that happens in 
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Let's just have everybody turn 
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I came across this this morning 
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And obviously I knew that I was 
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through a lot of this and, and 
what I was planning to say 

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tonight and then this, these 
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Of exactly what happens with so 
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they're saved, but there's never
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Look at Exodus Chapter 9. 
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This is Pharaoh in Egypt. 
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Hardened his heart, he hardened 
his heart, he hardened his heart

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and then God started hardening 
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But the same thing is happening 
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Sorry, Exodus Chapter 9. 
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disease where all the beasts of 
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their animals got killed or most
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OK, if if you were, if you were 
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crowd, if you were part of this 
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It's just believing in God. 
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Moses and Aaron, and said unto 
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This time the Lord is righteous,
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Intrigue the Lord, for it is 
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mighty thunderings in hail, and 
I will let you go, and you shall

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stay no longer. 
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testimony according to most 
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Pharaoh admitted that he sinned.
Pharaoh admitted that God was 

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God, that the Lord is righteous.
But look what happens next. 

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Verse 29. 
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I am gone out of the city, I 
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the Lord, and the Thunder shall 
cease. 

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Neither shall there be any more 
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that the earth is the Lord's. 
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servants, I know that you will 
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the ear, and the flax was bold, 
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not smitten, for they were not 
grown up. 

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And Moses went out of the city 
from Pharaoh, and spread abroad 

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his hands unto the Lord. 
And the thunders and hail 

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ceased, and the rain was not 
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thunders were ceased, he sinned 
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heart, he and his servants. 
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heartened, and neither would he 
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as the Lord had spoken by Moses.
Is that works Meet for 

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repentance. 
No, it's not right. 

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He hardened his heart. 
He, he very specifically, when 

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he saw that everything was 
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favor, he basically backed, you 
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that he had just said. 
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Is anybody under the illusion 
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Is Pharaoh in heaven today? 
Highly, highly doubted. 

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And we don't have everything 
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highly, highly doubt that 
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But he's got a testimony. 
He's got the same testimony that

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a lot of people have. 
Oh, I sinned. 

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I believe that God is holy. 
I believe that God's righteous 

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baptize me and let's go on with 
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I can live however I want to 
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Christian and I'm on my way to 
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That's the testimony of most 
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repentance. 
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kind of works meet for 
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So repentance means to turn 
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Pharaoh obviously gave mental 
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Pharaoh. 
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happened in his life and he was 
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and I know that's where it's 
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do work. 
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let's let's go to Isaiah 45. 
You don't have to turn there 

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because somebody else has that. 
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repentance means to surrender to
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Isaiah 4522 and 23 Look unto me,
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the earth, for I am God, and 
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I have sworn by myself. 
The word is gone out of our 

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mouth in righteousness, and 
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That unto me every knee shall 
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OK, so repentance means to 
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as Lord. 
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That if thou shalt confess with 

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thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and 
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that goddeth Raisin from the 
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For with the heart man believeth
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mouth confession is made unto 
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For there is no difference 
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right. 
Romans 10/13 For whosoever shall

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call upon the name of the Lord 
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That's the gospel. 
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there's more to it than that. 
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of it, right? 
Repentance is to receive Christ 

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as Lord. 
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Christ as my only Savior, 
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me. 
Not my good works, not not going

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to a priest, not doing this 
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believing on anything else and 
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anything else can save me. 
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Jesus Christ as my only Savior, 
and to repent is to receive him 

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as my. 
Only Lord. 

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I am not. 
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in the place that He belongs in.
I have completely surrendered to

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Him. 
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enmity against God because of 
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Does somebody have Romans 87? 
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Because the carnal mind is 
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not subject to the law of God, 
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Right. 
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against God, for it is not 
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neither indeed can be. 
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being an enemy, and we see that.
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it in other places. 
That word that's used to repent 

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means that I reject this 
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rule over my life. 
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God. 
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with God. 
I don't want to have the quality

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of being an enemy. 
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throughout the New Testament in 
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saved. 
Those who receive Jesus in a 

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saving manner called upon him as
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Luke 2342. 
I give that one to somebody, OK.

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And he said to Jesus, When will 
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When thou hast cometh into thy 
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Right, that's the thief on the 
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Lord, Remember Me. 
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Kingdom, it is receiving Jesus 
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Lord. 
Lord, Remember Me. 

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in addition to accepting him as 
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the only Lord. 
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Then the third, the 4th point is
repentance is not a change of 

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life. 
It's a change of mind about God 

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and sin that results in a change
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Now, those who are the critics, 
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those who say that it's just 
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belief. 
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If you've not heard his name, 
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But he is. 
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He is the the de facto head, I 
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called the New Independent 
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And he is one of the ones that 
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It's just a change from unbelief
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And, and, and one of the main 
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because they say if you, if you 
say that you have to repent of 

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your sin, then that's a work. 
You're saying that you have to 

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turn from your sin and turn to 
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Repentance is not a change of 
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It's a change of mind about your
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change of life. 
That's what the works meet for. 

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Repentance is. 
It's not that okay, I've turned 

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from enough of my sin. 
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It is. 
I want to turn from all of that 

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sin. 
There are sins that I'm going 

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to. 
Commit that I'm not going to get

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victory over right away. 
But I don't want that lifestyle 

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anymore. 
I don't want to live that way 

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anymore. 
It's a complete change of mind 

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about my sin. 
I know that it sent Christ to 

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the cross. 
I know that it hurts the heart 

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of God. 
I know that it grieves the Holy 

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Spirit. 
I don't want to do that anymore.

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It's a change of mind about my 
sin. 

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It's a change of mind about God,
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I was going that way. 
I loved my sin. 

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I lived in my sin. 
I enjoyed my sin. 

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I don't want that anymore. 
I've changed my mind and I've 

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changed my direction and I'm 
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So naturally, when you change 
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direction, you're not going to 
do the things that you used to 

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do. 
But my salvation took place when

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I, when I made that turn, right,
Not after I got this far down 

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the road from that turn. 
It's not the, it's not the, 

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it's, it's not the stopping of 
sinning that saves me. 

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It's the repentance and the 
faith that saves me. 

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But I don't want that anymore. 
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change in my. 
Life. 

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Many who believe or pray the 
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intention to change it or to 
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their lives. 
And I, and I gave you that 

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example last week of that young 
man that took two or three 

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minutes with this guy and, and 
led him to Christ, gave him the 

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assurance that he was on his way
to heaven. 

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And he said, I have no, I have 
no intention of stopping my 

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drinking. 
I have no intention of stopping 

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doing this. 
I have no intention of stopping 

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doing that. 
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Mental assent to who God is, 
mental assent to what Christ did

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on the cross in dying and 
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not salvation. 
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necessary for salvation, as 
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They want to take it to heaven. 
That keeps them out of hell, but

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they want to continue to live as
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They want to believe in Jesus, 
but they have no interest in 

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obeying Him. 
It's not biblical salvation. 

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The Sinner must be ready to turn
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self worship, in order to 
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And we see this happening in 
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Somebody have that for the Ryan?
They themselves show shoot of us

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what they are of thinking in. 
Ye had unto you, and now ye turn

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to God from idols to serve the 
living and true. 

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God, OK, that's repentance. 
That's turning away from what 

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you used to have and turning to 
God, right? 

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Turning away from your idols and
turning to God. 

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Now let's go to the next page, 
page 13. 

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Here's a couple examples, and 
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pastors, evangelists, but 
repentance. 

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According to evangelist James 
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way to explain it is an assassin
laying down his knife. 

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The hand that clutches the 
Assassin's knife must open. 

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Eric can grasp. 
The grasp the gift that's 

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intended victim proffers and 
opening that hand, though a 

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single act has a double aspect 
and purpose. 

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Accepting the gift implies a 
turning from the crime the heart

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was on, was bent on, and it was 
the gift itself that worked the 

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change. 
Faith is the open hand 

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relatively to the gift. 
Repentance is the same hand, 

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relatively. 
Not only to the gift, but more 

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especially to the dagger that 
has flung from it. 

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The intention of sin is gone 
with genuine repentance. 

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You're not going to be perfect. 
You're going to sin again. 

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But the intention to sin is 
gone. 

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And essentially the gift of God 
is eternal life through Jesus 

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Christ our Lord. 
But in reaching out for that 

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gift. 
I am throwing aside all of the 

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other things, all of the other 
harm that I intended. 

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To do to Christ. 
Here's another good example. 

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Repentance is a thief returning 
the stolen property. 

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Lester Roloff, He said, I 
believe we ought to make right 

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what we can make right. 
What if I was staying with a 

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group of preachers and one of 
them stole my wallet while I was

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sleeping? 
The next day he comes up to me 

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and tells me he's terribly sorry
and asked me to forgive him. 

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I would be glad to hear that he 
is sorry for stealing my wallet,

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but I would certainly want and 
expect more than that from a 

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repentant thief. 
I would want my wallet back. 

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I don't believe he has really 
repented unless he brings my 

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pillfold back. 
I don't believe you have 

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repented until you get right and
say Lord, I'm going to live 

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different from now on. 
And by the grace of God you will

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live different. 
Not perfect, but different. 

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And I and we're. 
Not saying that you have to live

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a perfect life in order to be 
saved was not saying that you 

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have to to stop sinning in order
to be saved, but you ought to 

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want to stop sinning. 
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So what are some biblical 
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Well, we've got a we've got a 
few good ones here. 

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And of course one of the best 
examples of that. 

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Let's all turn over to Luke 
chapter 15 is the prodigal son. 

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Luke chapter 15 and verse #17 of
course you know the story. 

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He went out and wasted all of 
his money on a riotous living. 

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He spent everything that he had 
and the next thing you know, he 

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finds himself feeding the swine.
He's in there with the hogs and 

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it's said that he would much 
rather have eaten what they were

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feeding the hogs. 
But then verse 17 says, and when

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he came to himself, he said, how
many hired servants of my 

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father's have bred enough and to
spare, and I perish with hunger.

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I will arise and go to my 
Father, and we'll say unto him, 

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and here's the key, Father, I 
have sinned against heaven and 

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before thee, and I'm no more 
worthy to be called thy Son. 

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Make me as one of the hired 
servants. 

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Now obviously he knew that he 
had sinned against his Father, 

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right? 
He had wasted the money. 

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He had done very, very 
foolishly, but he recognized 

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that his sin was not just 
against his dad. 

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His sin was against God. 
And that's a. 

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Huge, huge, huge key. 
He arose verse 20 and came to 

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his father. 
But when he was a great way off,

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his father saw him and had 
compassion and ran and fell on 

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his neck and kissed him. 
That that's that. 

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That refers to conviction and 
spiritual enlightenment by the 

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Holy Spirit. 
He humbled himself. 

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He acknowledged that his sin was
against God and against his 

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Father. 
He turned around so that he was 

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facing in a different direction.
This is repentance. 

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The evidence of his repentance 
is that he returned home and he 

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made things right with his 
father. 

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He humbled himself and he was 
willing to become a mere 

451
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,040
servant. 
The repentance resulted in a 

452
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,840
change, but he repented. 
When he was sitting in that hog 

453
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,280
slop, that's where the 
repentance took place. 

454
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,680
The repentance took place when 
he recognized that he had sinned

455
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,200
against heaven and against his 
Father, and that repentance led 

456
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,800
to a change in his direction. 
He didn't go back to the world 

457
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,000
and say, let me go see if I can 
make my fortune here. 

458
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,760
This is not a good situation, he
said. 

459
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,040
I've sinned against heaven. 
I've sinned against my father. 

460
00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,840
Let me go back and make things 
right. 

461
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,800
Here's another example, and I 
think you know this one probably

462
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,880
pretty well as well. 
We're not too far from it. 

463
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,840
Just let's turn over to Luke 
chapter 19, the story of 

464
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,760
Zacchaeus. 
Zacchaeus, he was a tax 

465
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:16,200
collector and obviously very 
hated because he stole money 

466
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:23,560
from people and he heard Jesus. 
Jesus said in verse #5 

467
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,360
Zacchaeus, Make haste and come 
down, for today I must abide at 

468
00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:28,800
thy house. 
And he made haste, and came 

469
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,520
down, and received him joyfully.
Verse 8. 

470
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,680
Zacchaeus stood and said unto 
the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half

471
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,120
of my goods I give to the poor, 
and if I have taken anything 

472
00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:41,240
from any man by false 
accusation, I restore him 

473
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,440
fourfold. 
And what did Jesus say? 

474
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,480
Jesus said unto him, This day is
salvation, Come to this house. 

475
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,400
For as much as much as He also 
is the son of Abraham. 

476
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,320
For the Son of Man has come to 
seek and to save that which was 

477
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,080
lost. 
Zacchaeus repented and was 

478
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,080
converted so dramatically that 
it became an honest man who paid

479
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,400
back those he had cheated. 
It was not the fact that 

480
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,080
Zacchaeus paid those people 
back. 

481
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,960
That was not his salvation. 
That was not his repentance. 

482
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,080
His repentance came before that,
when he was under conviction, 

483
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,960
when Jesus was sitting in his 
house. 

484
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,200
But his repentance resulted in a
change of life, a change of 

485
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,440
direction, and a desire to make 
the things right that he had 

486
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,360
done that were that was wrong. 
Here's another one. 

487
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:26,280
Let's turn over to 1st 
Thessalonians chapter 1 and 

488
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:31,920
verse #9 First Thessalonians 19,
the Thessalonians themselves, 

489
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,160
and we already, we already 
alluded to this one, Brother 

490
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,760
Ryan already read it for us. 
But I think it's interesting 

491
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:43,200
this, this order that we see 
mentioned here is important. 

492
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,680
First Thessalonians 19 For they 
themselves show of us what 

493
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,520
manner of entering in we had 
unto you, and how you turned to 

494
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,200
God from idols to serve the 
living and true God. 

495
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,040
This is biblical repentance. 
Notice that they didn't turn 

496
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,720
from idols to God. 
They turn to God from idols. 

497
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,920
The order is important. 
If a man turns to God, he is his

498
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,600
back to his old gods and old 
life. 

499
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,240
That's true repentance. 
It's repentance towards God. 

500
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,160
As we read in Acts chapter 20 
and verse 21, unless a person 

501
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,480
rejects his false gods and false
religions and self righteousness

502
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,840
and surrenders to Christ's 
Lordship, he cannot be saved. 

503
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,840
And it's such a huge thing. 
We see this happening so often 

504
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,560
and especially in countries 
where they have a lot of gods. 

505
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,120
India is a great example of 
this. 

506
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,400
They have hundreds and hundreds 
and hundreds of gods in India. 

507
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,920
And many times what happens is 
things aren't going so great for

508
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,720
me. 
Oh, you're introducing Christ. 

509
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,000
Well, I'll try him. 
I'll see if I'll see if he 

510
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,680
works. 
And if I can see miracles, if I 

511
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,720
can see blessings, if I can see 
God do something for me, then 

512
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,200
certainly I'll believe in Jesus,
right? 

513
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,680
He's just another God. 
That's not salvation. 

514
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,840
And, and it's, it's difficult in
many cases dealing with somebody

515
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,360
who has that mindset because 
they got saved and their life 

516
00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:00,920
was, was turned around because 
they came to Christ and oh, they

517
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,520
had this great testimony of 
understanding who Christ is and 

518
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,240
all of these other things. 
And in some cases it is genuine,

519
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,160
but in a lot of cases it takes 
years of working with somebody 

520
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,960
and helping them come to that 
understanding that it's not just

521
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,680
another God that you're trying 
out to see how He'll do for you.

522
00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:20,200
It's all of Him and none of 
anything else. 

523
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,080
Or it's not salvation. 
If you are counting on anything 

524
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,320
else besides Christ, then it's 
not salvation. 

525
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,200
So. 
This is important. 

526
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,680
Then we understand what 
salvation is, not we understand 

527
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,400
what salvation is. 
We've looked at a couple Bible 

528
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,920
examples of salvation. 
So how do we use that in so 

529
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,120
many? 
Well, there's three things here,

530
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:42,360
and the first is that we must 
not skip over it. 

531
00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:44,840
We must tell the people that 
God. 

532
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,760
Requires it and we must explain 
what it is and this is where it 

533
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,960
gets so this 123 pray after me. 
I don't I don't like to call it 

534
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,880
easy believism because it's not 
hard to believe in Christ. 

535
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,920
It's quick prayerism. 
If I can get you almost, almost 

536
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,240
like you're trying to sneak it 
past somebody, almost like 

537
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,480
you're trying to you know, we I 
worked as a. 

538
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,960
I did construction for for 
several years in college and I 

539
00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:13,800
tore my knee up playing soccer 
and I couldn't climb the ladders

540
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,880
and everything else. 
So I had to, I had to switch and

541
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,800
do something else. 
For two weeks. 

542
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:22,640
I worked at a call center and I 
started day one and I put my two

543
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,480
weeks in and I worked two weeks 
and that was it. 

544
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:25,640
I couldn't handle it sitting 
there. 

545
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,200
But they train you how to how to
try to get people to just say 

546
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,320
yes. 
Right. 

547
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,560
If they can just say yes, then 
you can mark it down and that 

548
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,160
counts as another one for you. 
And you send them the stuff and 

549
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,480
you go on to the next call. 
It's almost like you're trying 

550
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,480
to sneak it past somebody just 
to get them to say yes so that 

551
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,800
you can send them the credit 
card offer or you can add this 

552
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,400
thing to their credit card or 
whatever it happens to be that 

553
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,160
you're trying to sell. 
And that's the way a lot of 

554
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,160
salesman work. 
If you can just get somebody to 

555
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,960
say yes. 
If they say yes once, they'll 

556
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,920
probably say yes again. 
And if they say yes twice, then 

557
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,760
definitely they're going to say 
yes the third time. 

558
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,240
Many times they just want to get
you off of their porch. 

559
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,520
But if you can just get them to 
say yes. 

560
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,040
And that's what a lot of people 
are doing when it comes to to, 

561
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,920
to knocking on doors. 
And I mean, maybe 1520, thirty 

562
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,400
years ago, it was easier to, to 
lead somebody to Christ on their

563
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,200
porch because people had a 
knowledge of the Bible and they 

564
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,800
had a moral understanding and 
they knew who Jesus was. 

565
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,800
And they had been to Sunday 
school and they had been to VBSS

566
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,240
and they've been through all of 
those things. 

567
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,080
People have no idea today. 
They don't know anything about 

568
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,560
the Bible. 
And for you to show up on their 

569
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,160
porch and 5 or 10 minutes later 
you've LED them to Christ, 

570
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,960
that's a very, very, very 
dangerous thing. 

571
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,040
And I'm not saying that somebody
couldn't be ready to accept 

572
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,760
Christ as their Savior. 
It it can happen, but you know, 

573
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,440
I hear about these churches that
go out knocking on doors and 

574
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,360
praise the Lord, we had seven 
people saved outdoor knocking 

575
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,040
today. 
That's a very, very dangerous 

576
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,320
thing. 
Most of those people you 

577
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,200
probably gave a false assurance 
to because they just wanted to 

578
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,600
get you off of their porch and 
they just realized that all they

579
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,400
had to do was say yes and you 
will leave. 

580
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,920
It's it's, it's something that 
we have to be so careful about. 

581
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,720
This is a, this is an example 
that brother Cloud used. 

582
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,720
Obviously is is his his course 
here, but he said one afternoon 

583
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,040
I accompanied a pastor to knock 
doors in a part of the city that

584
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,800
was populated with university 
students. 

585
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,400
A few times in one afternoon. 
He shared a 5 minute Romans Rd. 

586
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,240
plan. 
IE all have sinned against God. 

587
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,480
The wages of sin is death. 
Jesus died for our sins and 

588
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,120
those who believe can be saved. 
And then immediately asked three

589
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:29,880
questions. 
Does that make sense to you? 

590
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,280
All of them said it made sense. 
Do you have any questions? 

591
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,320
None of them did because they 
didn't appear the least bit 

592
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,640
interested, not interested 
enough even to invite us into 

593
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,840
the home. 
And the third question, Would 

594
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,520
you pray to receive Christ right
now? 

595
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,360
None of them did, which I'm 
surprised that because most of 

596
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,000
them do they just whatever I got
to say to get you off my porch. 

597
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,080
Not only was the program quick, 
to say the least, the pastor 

598
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,280
didn't even hint to the people 
that there would need to be a 

599
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,920
change in the direction of their
life, a turning or a surrender. 

600
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,520
I've heard of this this. 
I've actually seen this happen 

601
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,280
before too. 
This is another example. 

602
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,120
An independent Baptist Church in
Maine conducted a door to door 

603
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,920
campaign a few years ago in 
which the people were taught to 

604
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,840
say if. 
I were to tell you today. 

605
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,200
Say that you can be saved and go
to heaven and you won't have to 

606
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,840
change anything. 
Would you be interested? 

607
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,680
And that's what I'm saying, that
a lot of this is just trying to 

608
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,880
sneak it past somebody to get 
them to say yes. 

609
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:24,920
Why would you even want to do 
that? 

610
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,720
Why would you even want to try 
to sneak it past somebody and 

611
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,440
and, and get them saved without 
them even realizing what they're

612
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,080
doing? 
Do you really think that that's 

613
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,200
the gospel? 
Do you really think that that's 

614
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,600
salvation? 
What if I could? 

615
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,960
What if I told you you could go 
to heaven and you don't have to 

616
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,480
change your life? 
That's what a change from 

617
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,440
unbelief to belief gets you. 
Do you believe in heaven? 

618
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,160
Well, yeah. 
Do you believe the Bible? 

619
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,480
Yeah. 
Do you believe in Jesus? 

620
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,680
Yeah. 
Do you believe that he died and 

621
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:53,520
rose again? 
Yeah. 

622
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:54,920
All right. 
Pray this prayer. 

623
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,200
You're on your way to heaven. 
It's just a change from unbelief

624
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,080
to belief. 
And now you can go live your 

625
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,280
life the way that you want to. 
Nothing has to change. 

626
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,160
There is no repentance in that, 
and that's why we say that 

627
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,920
repentance is necessary for 
salvation. 

628
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,600
They've got to understand that 
there will be a change in their 

629
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,200
life and there should be a 
change in their life. 

630
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,880
Many gospel tracts don't contain
a hint of repentance. 

631
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,000
This is not scriptural sewing. 
If Christ and the apostles 

632
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,200
preach repentance, then we must 
preach repentance. 

633
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,040
We need to explain that the 
individual must be ready to 

634
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,360
surrender to God and to give him
the false impression that it's 

635
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,040
possible to be saved. 
And not to give him the 

636
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,640
impression that it's possible to
be saved without it, because 

637
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,640
it's not possible to be saved 
without it. 

638
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,880
There must be repentance in 
order to be saved. 

639
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,320
And I think you know this, this 
next, of course, we will also 

640
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:48,840
explain that God will do the 
changing. 

641
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,040
Repentance is not reformation or
turning over a new leaf, but the

642
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,360
Sinner must be ready to accept 
God's working. 

643
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,360
He must surrender. 
And I think that's where so 

644
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,200
often we have it, it happened 
where there's, there's people 

645
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,480
that are, that are filling our 
churches that think they're 

646
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:06,520
saved because somewhere along 
the lines, they, they prayed 

647
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,160
that prayer too. 
And they repeated what somebody 

648
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,080
told them to say. 
And they, they got assurance of 

649
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,720
their salvation. 
And, and 5 minutes later, this 

650
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,200
guy's telling him, don't ever 
doubt that you're on your way to

651
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,840
heaven. 
You just got saved. 

652
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,880
And if anybody ever questions 
you, you can tell him this is 

653
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,480
the day you accepted Christ. 
No, no mention of repentance at 

654
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,880
all. 
And many times what happens is 

655
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,640
that they, they, they try to put
the sanctification in front of 

656
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,440
the justification. 
And I've mentioned that quite a 

657
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,360
few times because that's exactly
what happens. 

658
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,840
You start going and doing 
Christian things. 

659
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,840
You start acting the way a 
Christian acts, you get involved

660
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,600
in church, you learn what the 
right things are to do, and you 

661
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,920
learn what the right things are 
to say. 

662
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,200
But there's never been 
justification. 

663
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,120
You skipped completely over that
process and went straight to the

664
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,320
sanctification part. 
And that's why you're still 

665
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,960
struggling with sanctification. 
You can't live holy before God 

666
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,920
if you've never been justified 
by Him. 

667
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,920
And if you didn't have 
repentance, then there was no 

668
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,240
justification. 
It's not just, I believe, Dunk 

669
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,040
me in the water. 
It's not just that. 

670
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,280
It's repentance and faith. 
Both of those go hand in hand. 

671
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,159
If the individual is not ready 
to surrender, he's not ready to 

672
00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:15,719
be saved. 
And the problem with that for 

673
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,159
most people is that they lose 
out on a number. 

674
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,639
Man, I missed one that that was 
one that I really should have 

675
00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:26,840
gotten. 
And I could have told people 

676
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,159
that we had this many people 
saved, but missed him. 

677
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,679
No, it's if he's not ready to 
surrender, he's not ready to be 

678
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:35,679
saved. 
And if he's not ready to be 

679
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:39,520
saved, then you better not push 
him into salvation. 

680
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,239
It's a decision. 
And we say this all the time 

681
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,120
and, and even those people would
say that you have to make this 

682
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,719
decision for yourself. 
I can't make that decision for 

683
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,520
you. 
But don't you want to pray after

684
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,520
me? 
Don't you want to repeat this 

685
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,800
prayer so you can go to heaven? 
You're making the decision for 

686
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,040
them. 
It's not a change of direction. 

687
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,240
It's not a, it's not a surrender
to God. 

688
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,600
It's pray this prayer after me. 
Let me help you make this 

689
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,200
decision so you don't have to do
it. 

690
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,920
All right, it's, it's, it's, 
it's not repentance and it's not

691
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,120
salvation, he says. 
I've dealt with hundreds of 

692
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,120
people who came to the place of 
understanding and believing that

693
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,440
Christ died for their sins and 
that faith in Christ is the only

694
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,080
way of salvation. 
But they were simply not ready 

695
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,200
to surrender to God. 
They refused to repent. 

696
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,120
And I think this is a great 
example. 

697
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,680
He gave 2 examples. 
The second one is the one that I

698
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,480
want to focus on. 
He says one of my wife and I 

699
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,440
first began our missionary work 
in South Asia in 1979. 

700
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:32,320
Our landlord began coming to our
house to have Bible studies. 

701
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,120
He was a wealthy, middle-aged 
Hindu. 

702
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:35,960
And had a. 
Concubine, with whom he spent 

703
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,200
most of his time, though he was 
married and had grown children. 

704
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:41,240
After we went through the gospel
a few times, he told me he felt 

705
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:44,040
that he understood what I was 
teaching and he believe that 

706
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,440
Jesus died for his sins and then
he was interested in receiving 

707
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:47,680
Christ. 
But he wanted to know what he 

708
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,520
would have to do about two 
specific things in his life, his

709
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,960
shady business practices and his
illicit relationship with the 

710
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,560
concubine. 
He's the one who brought these 

711
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,480
things to my attention. 
I could have said, don't worry 

712
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,480
about that, just pray to receive
Christ and those things will 

713
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,880
work themselves out later. 
That's the method I was taught 

714
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,360
in Bible school. 
But I don't. 

715
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,080
Believe it would have been 
Scriptural Council. 

716
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,640
I don't believe he could receive
Christ and be saved unless he 

717
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,840
repented of his immorality and 
his dishonesty. 

718
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,560
Salvation requires surrendering.
I explained to him that if he 

719
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,040
would turn to Christ, God would 
change his life and he would 

720
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,960
have different desires. 
But he didn't want that. 

721
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,120
He was entirely unwilling to 
surrender to God as God. 

722
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,440
The power to change one's life 
is from God, but the Sinner must

723
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,160
surrender to God's working. 
After I told him this, he never 

724
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,600
returned for a Bible study. 
That's somebody that's looking 

725
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,480
for the cherry on top of the ice
cream, not somebody who's 

726
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,320
looking to change the ice cream 
flavor. 

727
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:42,920
Right. 
And and that's what so many 

728
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,120
people are looking at. 
At, at, at salvation, you know, 

729
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,720
and, and This is why I say this,
this we're in a very dangerous 

730
00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:54,240
spot in this ecumenical age that
we live in, because as long as 

731
00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:56,760
you're conservative and as long 
as you have decent. 

732
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,720
Morals. 
Then the only thing you need to 

733
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,760
do to to add to that is to just 
accept Christ. 

734
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,760
Just just believe in God, go to 
church a few times, get 

735
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,960
baptized, and then keep living 
your good conservative moral 

736
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,520
lifestyle and everything will be
fine. 

737
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,880
You're going to heaven. 
And that's not that's not true 

738
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,080
that that's a works based 
salvation. 

739
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,200
Repentance is not a works based 
salvation. 

740
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,800
There ought to be a change in 
your life. 

741
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,520
We don't, we don't, we don't 
repent in order. 

742
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,360
I mean, we don't, we don't stop 
sinning in order to be saved. 

743
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,600
But there should be a desire to 
stop sinning because you are 

744
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,480
saved. 
Think about Christ with the 

745
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,720
woman at the well in John 
chapter 4, and I'm not going to 

746
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:40,600
take the time to turn over 
there, but he very plainly told 

747
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,640
this woman what her problem was.
He could have said, hey, I'm 

748
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,560
Jesus, I'm the Messiah, I can 
give you everlasting life, 

749
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,440
believe in me. 
Oh, but what did he do? 

750
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,600
He basically said you're a 
wicked Sinner. 

751
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,320
You had five husbands and the 
one you're living with right now

752
00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:00,120
is not even your husband, right?
He could have been very, I mean,

753
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,280
I'm not saying he probably was 
very kind to her in the way that

754
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,040
he said it, or maybe she 
wouldn't have it, wouldn't have 

755
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,600
believed him, you know, wouldn't
have accepted it. 

756
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,000
But he was very point blank with
her about her. 

757
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,760
What her sin, her sin, her 
immorality, but it's sin, right?

758
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,760
He was very point blank about 
that. 

759
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,600
And that's what caused her to 
change her life. 

760
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,280
He called her out on her sin. 
And that's what most people are 

761
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,120
not willing to do. 
Same thing with the rich young 

762
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:25,960
ruler. 
He faced this rich young ruler 

763
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,640
with his sin of self 
righteousness and his sin of 

764
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,760
covetousness. 
That's the way that God deals 

765
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,680
with his people. 
He reproves them for their sin 

766
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,240
in order to bring them to 
repentance. 

767
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,720
Let's turn over to John 16. 
John, Chapter 16. 

768
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,240
We only have a the actually the 
rest of this page left and we'll

769
00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:51,360
be finished. 
But it's so important that we 

770
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,280
understand this idea of 
repentance. 

771
00:38:53,320 --> 00:39:04,000
John chapter 16 and verse #8. 
Let's go back actually to verse 

772
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,720
7. 
Nevertheless, I tell you the 

773
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:09,880
truth. 
It is expedient for you that I 

774
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,480
go away. 
For if I go not away, the 

775
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:12,800
comforter will not come unto 
you. 

776
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,000
But if I depart, I will send him
unto you. 

777
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:21,160
And when he has come, he will 
reprove the world of sin and of 

778
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:25,120
righteousness and of judgment. 
That is a conviction. 

779
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,680
That's a conviction that comes 
from the Holy Spirit. 

780
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,680
And that's the way that we have 
to deal with people if we want 

781
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:35,720
to follow the Bible in our 
gospel work to, to to bring 

782
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:39,160
repentance and to preach 
repentance in the gospel 

783
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:43,160
presentation is to deal with 
glaring sins that people are 

784
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,600
holding on to and tell them very
plainly that they have to repent

785
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,560
of that sin against God. 
Doesn't mean that you have to 

786
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,080
stop sinning. 
Because I know there's some 

787
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,040
things that are addictions and 
some things that are, are things

788
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,440
that people have been holding on
to for a long time and they 

789
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:59,240
don't know anything different. 
But there ought to be a desire 

790
00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:02,000
to stop those things. 
And God will help you through 

791
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,120
those things, right? 
God will give you the power to 

792
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,240
defeat the sins that you were 
dealing with in your life. 

793
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,800
But they have to yield their 
lives to him. 

794
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,280
They have to change the 
directions. 

795
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,240
They must surrender. 
God will do a great work in 

796
00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:15,560
their life. 
But they have to be ready for 

797
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,240
that to happen. 
They have to have a change of 

798
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,760
mind about God. 
They have to have a change of 

799
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,240
mind about sin and that'll 
result in a change of in their 

800
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:27,760
life. 
Luke chapter 13 and this you 

801
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,160
want to say that there's there's
a lot of so winning programs out

802
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,000
there who were just trying to 
slip the gospel by somebody, get

803
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,480
him saved for he really knows 
what's happening. 

804
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,600
That is not even possible. 
You might get them to ascent 

805
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,760
mentally, right. 
You might get them to agree 

806
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,240
mentally. 
That they're going to accept 

807
00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,920
Christ. 
You might get them to agree to 

808
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:51,040
pray a prayer after you and you 
might genuinely think, boy, I 

809
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,800
think he got it. 
He prayed he was he was ready to

810
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:54,760
be saved. 
Look at that. 

811
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,680
I only took 5 minutes and he was
ready to be saved, right. 

812
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:06,160
But many times what's happening,
the Lord said Luke chapter 13, I

813
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,240
tell your nay, but accept you 
repent. 

814
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:15,480
You shall all likewise perish. 
It really, it really is scary to

815
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,600
me how many people there are 
sitting in churches who think 

816
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,600
they're saved that are not 
because somebody LED them in a 

817
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,880
quick prayer and there was never
any repentance that was part of 

818
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:31,200
their salvation. 
You know, I took part in this 

819
00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:33,800
film that Spencer Smith did 
disclosure. 

820
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,840
And one of the main things about
this disclosure is disclosing 

821
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,880
the quick prayer is an idea. 
And I think what's happened in 

822
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,120
so many of our churches. 
And This is why This is why you 

823
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,640
can have a pastor who will, you 
know, be having an affair or, 

824
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:55,240
or, or being, you know, doing 
some things that are just just 

825
00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:57,800
gross and whatever else and 
still get up in the pulpit and 

826
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,600
preach and don't say anything 
about this or, or you're going 

827
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,880
to, you're going to cause the 
whole ministry to shut down and 

828
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,680
everything else. 
The reason why that's that 

829
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,680
happens, I believe, is because 
the the pastors of most of those

830
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:12,160
churches are not even saved. 
Just because you claim to be an 

831
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,240
independent Baptist and you wear
a suit and you carry the right 

832
00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:15,760
Bible does not make you a 
Christian. 

833
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:22,160
But we think that. 
Well, I'm in a good church and I

834
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,440
carry my Bible and I wear a suit
to church. 

835
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:29,560
All right, So do the Mormons. 
They think they're right, right?

836
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:31,680
They think their Bible is the 
right one. 

837
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:35,080
They wear a suit to church. 
They're more dedicated than most

838
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,480
independent Baptists are. 
They're not saved just because 

839
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,680
they do those things, right? 
Well, we got the truth though. 

840
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,080
Do we? 
Do you? 

841
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,280
We have the truth. 
We have it in God's Word. 

842
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,880
But I wonder how many people are
sitting in churches that were 

843
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,480
led to Christ by a pastor who 
wasn't even saved because 

844
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,680
somebody led him to Christ who 
wasn't even saved. 

845
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,920
And now there's thousands of 
people sitting in churches 

846
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,000
across the country who never got
saved. 

847
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,280
They, they, they mentally 
assented to it and they went and

848
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,120
got baptized and everything 
else, but they never repented. 

849
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,080
There was never a change or if 
it. 

850
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,920
Was it was putting all the 
sanctification things in front 

851
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,640
of the justification? 
It's, it's so important that we 

852
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,080
make sure I don't care how many 
people we have saved. 

853
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,200
I obviously I want as many 
people to get saved as possible,

854
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,960
but not at the expense of them. 
Just praying a prayer so that we

855
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,120
can count them as a number. 
We're looking for genuine 

856
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:34,840
salvations and those are few and
far between because most people 

857
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,520
are not willing to repent. 
Most people are not willing to 

858
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,800
change. 
They just want to put Christ on 

859
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,640
top of their life like it's some
kind of cherry on top of the ice

860
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,040
cream. 
I got a great job, we got a 

861
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,160
beautiful wife. 
I got, you know, 2.5 kids. 

862
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,760
I've got, you know, two cars and
you know everything. 

863
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,440
My life is great. 
The only thing you're missing is

864
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,760
Christ. 
No, you have Christ and He has 

865
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,880
you or you have nothing is not 
just the cherry on top of the 

866
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,360
ice cream. 
He is everything and repentance 

867
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,280
is absolutely necessary for that
to happen. 

868
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:13,520
So for some, some ways that we 
use repentance and so winning. 

869
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,200
First of all, we must not skip 
over it. 

870
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,400
The next two are quick. 
It's not necessarily the word 

871
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,080
repentance that always has to be
used. 

872
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,400
It's the concept that a soul 
winner has to get across. 

873
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,760
We have to make the individual 
understand that God requires 

874
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,800
surrender. 
And I'm not saying that you've 

875
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,560
got to jump through 50 hoops in 
order to get saved, right? 

876
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,440
You don't have to. 
You don't have to bend over 

877
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,280
backwards and do all these 
mental gymnastics and everything

878
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:43,440
else that come to repentance, 
but it absolutely has to be part

879
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:48,720
of the gospel presentation you. 
Are a Sinner and if if you had 

880
00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:51,640
never sinned, Christ would never
had to die and you cannot 

881
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:55,600
continue to live in that sin the
way that you are and expect that

882
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,840
you're going to get that that 
you're going to be saved. 

883
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,080
You have to be willing to 
surrender all of that sin to 

884
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,640
Christ. 
It's not a hard concept, but 

885
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,000
it's hard to tell people that 
because they don't like to hear 

886
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,720
it. 
And that's where they say well, 

887
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,080
I can't stop doing this. 
This is you're telling me that I

888
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,400
have to yes, well then I don't 
want that. 

889
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,640
Oh, and that's a number that you
can't count, and it doesn't go 

890
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,320
toward all the hundreds and 
thousands of people that you're 

891
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,760
seeing getting saved every year.
So we just won't mention that. 

892
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,960
And you've got 100 or 1000 
people that you are sending to 

893
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,680
hell because you're focusing 
only on belief and not on 

894
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,560
repentance and belief. 
So the third thing is that we 

895
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,160
need to deal with each case 
individually. 

896
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,400
And I think this is important. 
We have a couple examples in the

897
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,280
Bible. 
Preaching repentance depends on 

898
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,320
the context and we see that. 
From the fact that the Bible 

899
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,640
sometimes mentions repentance 
and sometimes it doesn't, right.

900
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,920
We have we have examples of that
in the Bible and the Philippian 

901
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,720
jailer, I think is a is a 
perfect example. 

902
00:45:55,720 --> 00:45:58,440
Look, here's a perfect example. 
You don't need repentance. 

903
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:01,240
He says, sirs, what must I do to
be saved? 

904
00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,520
And they said believe on the 
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt

905
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,080
be saved. 
And he believed that he got 

906
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:07,480
saved. 
There was no repentance in 

907
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,160
there. 
Hang on a second, though. 

908
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,560
Doubtless, Paul and Silas had 
been witnessing to him. 

909
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,480
We know that they've been 
singing and praising God. 

910
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,960
Further, the power of God 
displayed in the earthquake had 

911
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,560
shaken the jailer deeply. 
Now, through the spirits 

912
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,360
working, he was ready to do 
whatever God told him to do. 

913
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,480
In such a case, there is no need
to go into a lengthy study about

914
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,480
repentance. 
He was already repenting. 

915
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,080
I too have met men in jails and 
other places that were ready to 

916
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:34,960
be saved. 
They had heard the gospel and 

917
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,520
God was working in their hearts.
They knew that they were sinners

918
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,480
and they were sorry for that sin
against God. 

919
00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:42,440
They were tired of the old life.
They were ready to surrender to 

920
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,640
Him. 
In that context, all that is 

921
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,280
needed is to explain to the 
individual how. 

922
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,640
To put his, his or her faith in 
Christ in a saving manner. 

923
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,120
Somebody who has broken over 
their sin and wants to come to 

924
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:59,400
Christ is already repenting. 
So why doesn't why is not the 

925
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,480
why is no repentance mentioned 
to the Philippian jailer? 

926
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,720
He was already repenting. 
He was broken already. 

927
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:10,320
He was on his knees, Sir, what 
must I do to be saved right? 

928
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,600
That's he was already there. 
And the other one is the example

929
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,240
of the idolaters in Athens. 
This is the exact opposite of 

930
00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:18,360
that right? 
Acts chapter 17, verse 30. 

931
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,280
Paul preached to the idolaters 
at Athens who were treating the 

932
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,240
gospel as just another 
philosophical debate. 

933
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:26,120
But he told them that God now 
commandeth all men everywhere to

934
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,400
repent. 
He didn't say just believe in 

935
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,600
Jesus, right? 
He could have done that. 

936
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,000
Hey, Jesus is God. 
OK? 

937
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,720
You believe that? 
Yeah. 

938
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,440
OK, well pray this prayer after 
me and you'll be saved, right? 

939
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,280
No, their mindset was totally 
different. 

940
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:46,000
They were not broken over their 
sin. 

941
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,200
They were just having a 
philosophical debate about 

942
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,000
another God. 
Hey, this is to the unknown God.

943
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,320
We don't know who he is, but 
whoever he is, we want to make 

944
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,760
sure that we give mental assent 
to him too. 

945
00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:00,560
And Paul said God's commanding 
everywhere that all men repent. 

946
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,560
He had to bring it up because 
they were not repenting. 

947
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,640
And and it's a great point. 
He could have very easily said, 

948
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,360
well, just believe in Jesus. 
This is this is the one that 

949
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,280
you're missing. 
It's God Jesus, right? 

950
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,600
Do you believe in him? 
Oh, yeah, sure we do. 

951
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,480
They would have all been saved. 
But it's not, it's not 

952
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,200
salvation. 
He didn't say just believe in 

953
00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:20,880
Jesus. 
They needed to repent of their 

954
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,840
false gods and particularly of 
their chief God, which was 

955
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,760
themselves. 
They needed to be confronted 

956
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,120
with Almighty God. 
And. 

957
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,440
His claim on their life SO22 
examples one. 

958
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,200
Where repentance was not 
necessary to be mentioned 

959
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,000
because he was already 
repenting, he was already 

960
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,320
broken. 
Before them about his sin. 

961
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,760
But then the other ones, 
repentance had to be mentioned 

962
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,480
because they had no, they had no
intention of turning away from 

963
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,440
their sin and turning to God. 
So repentance and faith. 

964
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,120
And now we're going to talk 
about faith in the next lesson. 

965
00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:58,040
And you'll see hopefully how 
these two things go hand in 

966
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,360
hand. 
But repentance is absolutely 

967
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,960
necessary for salvation. 
It's not just the change from 

968
00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:08,120
unbelief to belief. 
It's not just mentally assenting

969
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:12,520
that Jesus died on the cross. 
Listen, does the Bible says in 

970
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:16,440
in Matthew Chapter 7, straight 
is the gate and narrow is the 

971
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,960
way that leadeth into life and 
few there be that find it. 

972
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,280
How many people do you think in 
the United States right now 

973
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,200
believe the story of the 
crucifixion and the 

974
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:30,160
resurrection? 
A lot, right? 

975
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,320
I know the number of atheists is
going up, but how many 

976
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,840
percentage wise 7580% of people 
believe the story of the 

977
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:43,680
resurrection, that Jesus died on
the cross because to pay for our

978
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,560
sins and then he rose again from
the dead, right? 

979
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:49,840
There's, there's a huge number 
of people in America that 

980
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:51,880
believe that. 
Are all of them going to heaven?

981
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,760
Because they believe they have 
faith, right? 

982
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,560
Doubt it. 
They live like the devil. 

983
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,920
And obviously you can backslide 
and you can get away from God 

984
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,120
and everything else. 
And it's not. 

985
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:09,360
It's not based on your works, 
but there ought to be works meet

986
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,480
for repentance. 
There ought to be. 

987
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,440
A change in your life, there 
ought to be something different 

988
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:18,160
about you, and if there is no 
change, then very likely there 

989
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:21,200
is no repentance. 
If there's no repentance, there 

990
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:24,120
is no salvation. 
It's important, it's very, very 

991
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,080
important that we bring this up 
when we, when we give the gospel

992
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,360
to somebody. 
And there's, there's ways and, 

993
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,600
and we'll talk about this when 
we get into the next lesson as 

994
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,840
well. 
But there's ways to, to explain 

995
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,000
that to somebody to help them 
understand, right? 

996
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,920
You take, I'll give you an 
example that you can use that, 

997
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,200
that that might be helpful in 
explaining to somebody about 

998
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,880
their sinful condition, right? 
You can, you can take a, a 

999
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:50,480
really crooked tree, right? 
Let's take a let's take a tree 

1000
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:54,480
that is, you know, wide in 
circumference, right? 

1001
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,640
And it's, it's, it's got a big 
crook in it on its way up. 

1002
00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:03,120
And you can take that tree and 
you can cut the whole center out

1003
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,480
of that tree and get a nice 
straight piece of wood, can't 

1004
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,200
you? 
But if you actually look at the 

1005
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:10,480
heart of that piece of wood, 
it's very crooked. 

1006
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,800
And is it eventually what 
happens when that thing dries 

1007
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,200
out, it's going to go right back
to crooked. 

1008
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:15,840
You can, you can make it 
straight. 

1009
00:51:16,240 --> 00:51:19,320
You can put it on a mill and you
can cut it, but because the 

1010
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:21,480
heart of that thing is crooked, 
it's always going to have that 

1011
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,680
natural bent toward that 
crookedness, if you will. 

1012
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,040
And, and that's exactly what it 
is, right? 

1013
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,800
Somebody can reform, somebody 
can believe, somebody can get in

1014
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,640
church, somebody can change 
their life and do things 

1015
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,240
differently than what they're 
doing right now. 

1016
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,440
But that's just reformation. 
That's that's cutting the center

1017
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:37,960
out of that tree and making it 
look straight. 

1018
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:40,440
It actually needs to be made 
straight. 

1019
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:42,640
And the only thing that can do 
that is a miracle. 

1020
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,120
And that's through the blood of 
Christ, right? 

1021
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,240
And it's a it's a miracle that 
what he does for us when he 

1022
00:51:48,240 --> 00:51:50,960
saves us, that justification is 
a miracle. 

1023
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:55,160
Justification. 
Just as if I'd never sinned, 

1024
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:57,280
right? 
That's an easy way to remember 

1025
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,160
what justified is. 
Just as if I'd never sinned. 

1026
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,360
When God looks at me, he doesn't
see all my sin. 

1027
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,680
He only sees the blood of Jesus 
Christ covering that sin, right?

1028
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,080
And when God looks at me, it's 
just as if I'd never sinned. 

1029
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,840
Doesn't mean that I'm sinless, 
Doesn't mean that I've never 

1030
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:14,680
sinned. 
It's just that when God looks at

1031
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,920
me, that's what he sees. 
He sees only the blood of Jesus 

1032
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,280
Christ covering those sins. 
And it's, it's important that we

1033
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,240
have that repentance as part of 
that, as part of salvation. 

1034
00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:25,520
So faith, is it necessary? 
Absolutely. 

1035
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,640
Repentance, is it necessary? 
Absolutely. 

1036
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,760
And that's why Paul mentioned 
that in Acts chapter 20 and 

1037
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:34,040
verse 21. 
Repentance toward God and faith 

1038
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,560
toward our Lord Jesus Christ, 
both of them are necessary for 

1039
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,160
salvation. 
Hope that's helped. 

1040
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:40,520
Let's pray. 
Father, again, we thank you so 

1041
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:42,200
much. 
For your goodness to us, we 

1042
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:46,280
thank you for. 
Your word and God, I pray that 

1043
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,360
we would be able to see genuine 
conversions. 

1044
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,080
I pray that we'd be able to see 
people genuinely come to know 

1045
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,960
Jesus Christ as their savior. 
God, may you help us to not only

1046
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,360
be bold and witnessing and 
sharing the gospel, but bold and

1047
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:02,720
preaching repentance the way 
that Peter and Paul and and and 

1048
00:53:02,720 --> 00:53:06,400
Jesus and so many other people 
did in the New Testament. 

1049
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:10,320
God, I pray that you'd help us 
to be very careful about this 

1050
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,840
and make sure that we're leading
people in the right direction, 

1051
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,840
leading them down the narrow way
instead of just allowing them to

1052
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:17,760
walk the Broadway and count them
as a number. 

1053
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:21,520
And God, may you help us to be 
the soul owners that you want us

1054
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:23,320
to be, the witnesses that you 
want us to be. 

1055
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,640
But may you help us to be 
careful in the way that we do 

1056
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:27,280
it. 
And again, we thank you so much 

1057
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,600
for all that you do for us. 
In Jesus name, Amen. 

1058
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,920
We have a quick invitation. 
I don't know if God spoke to 

1059
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:36,480
your heart, but go ahead and 
stand with me to your seats and 

1060
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,160
as the panel plays, if God spoke
to your heart, maybe, maybe God 

1061
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,640
laid somebody on your heart. 
I don't know. 

1062
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,920
I'm going to give you an 
opportunity to respond.