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Amen. 
A few announcements and those 

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that have already went to class.
You have to catch him here this 

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evening. 
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Sister Mcgee's like a Bishop 
Appreciation week. 

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Amen. 
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week. 
You can see Brother Ree Singer 

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or Sister Jennifer Crews if you 
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that. 
Also, my wife needs to meet with

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all the ladies that are going to
the Women's Esprit Conference, 

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the Indiana district that is 
Women's Esprit Conference in the

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youth room over here directly 
following service and she won't 

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take much of your time. 
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this month is the Haven 
Pentecost, the Church Music 

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Conference, and we have several 
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On that Friday, on that 
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ministering on that Friday and 
their praise team will be kind 

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of featured on that Saturday. 
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And also the very last month, 
last day of this month, which is

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our fifth Sunday, we'll have 
brother and Pastor Rather, 

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Anthony Wilkes and his wife here
ministering to us on that Sunday

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morning. 
And so you want to come and be a

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part of that from there, from BV
Indiana, they'll be ministering 

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the word of the Lord, Amen. 
Glad to have each one of you 

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today, Tracy. 
Good to see you back there. 

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Amen. 
We're glad to have Grace's 

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grandparents with us. 
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they've came down here, I think.
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or some girls are having babies 
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soon. 
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showers and things of that 
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them with us this morning. 
I'm going to turn to the book of

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Acts. 
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tongues, about the initial sign 
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and also the prayer aspect. 
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through some things. 
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It's just been a while since I 
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And so I always try to make it 
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talk about some certain things 
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And so this morning I'm going to
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want to read verses 37 and 38. 
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any, any period of time in your 
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to be foreign to you, but that 
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Let's look at the Scripture here
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These verses, if you know any 
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been a part of the, the body of 
Christ for any moment, any 

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period of time, you should know 
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I mean, they should just be 
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I mean it just these and others 
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For sure the Bible says in Acts 
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Now when they heard this, they 
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said unto Peter, and to the rest
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brethren, What shall we do? 
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Repent and be baptized, everyone
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Christ. 
For the remission of sins, and 

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ye shall receive the gift of the
Holy Ghost. 

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And so my title today is kind 
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Leaning up on the question of 
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And so my response to that for 
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must do, and I want to talk 
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Ye must repent. 
Things you must do, you must 

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repent. 
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We're going to ask the Lord to 
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Father, I love you, God, I need 
you, Lord, in this place. 

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Your word is a living word, God,
and it's alive, God, even for us

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today. 
God in it, Lord, are our 

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instructions and guidances. 
The Lord God for life, for 

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salvation. 
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our spiritual lives. 
The Lord with you, I pray God 

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help us today, God, to look into
the holy Word of Scriptures. 

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One more Time Lord, and remind 
ourselves and refresh, bless 

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ourselves with this wonderful 
Lord gift. 

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Lord of repentance, in the 
lovely name of Jesus Christ that

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I pray and the church say Amen. 
Amen. 

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You may be seated this morning 
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you must do. 
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with such a title that we might 
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some very quickly because people
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says we are saved by grace 
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lest any man should boast. 
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Yet we also understand, 
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Of James, that the Bible tells 
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faith without works in James 
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it is dead. 
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And whenever we consider that we
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chapter of Hebrews Chapter 11 
and it all talks about faith. 

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It's the Hallmark chapter of 
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begin to read things like Abel 
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read other things like by faith 
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that by faith Abraham obeyed and
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sojourned and we see all this by
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But then after that we see some 
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took place because faith without
works is dead. 

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Our our faith is demonstrated 
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Amen. 
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through our actions and and what
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to. 
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place in Scripture. 
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Acts chapter #5 and verse 32 
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witnesses of these things, and 
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God hath given to them that obey
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And so a lot of our doing, Amen,
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obedience, which is a 
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Amen. 
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matter. 
You could repent all day long 

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and it would have no impact had 
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You could be baptized, immersed 
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It have no impact though, had he
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You, you all these. 
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say well that that doing 
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obedient, those things, that's 
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it? 
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have impact or be effectual had 
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had not went to the cross. 
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burial and resurrection, there 
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receive because He did what He 
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faith and demonstration. 
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To appropriate to appropriate 
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the Old Testament law whenever 
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the Paschal lamb was slaughtered
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Egypt. 
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take that blood and put it on 
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And the death Angel that would 
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Exodus 13 that it would just 
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saw the blood. 
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they had not been sacrificed 
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would been no blood in the basin
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But they putting that blood on 
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appropriating the sacrifice of 
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not much of A sacrifice, putting
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Whenever you considered the 
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the blood, you understand what 
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And So what, what must we do? 
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because as we read the book of 
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of Pentecost, we understand that
rushing mighty wind, There 

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appeared to them cloven tongues 
like as fire, and they all were 

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filled with the Holy Ghost and 
began to speak in other tongues 

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as the Spirit gave them 
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We understand the crowd of 
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of several different cities and 
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many different languages and 
they did all hear these people 

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speak it seemed in their native 
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They were hearing that from 
different ones and they were 

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speaking concerning the glory of
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Bible says, and there were 
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there were some people that were
mocking and you still have that 

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total dynamic concerning this 
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People marvel, some mock and 
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Amen. 
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But as that took place and Peter
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explain to them what was 
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drunk, as they may suppose, 
seeing that it was just the 

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third hour of the day. 
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these things into them. 
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a moment and note that that's 
where he reached all the way 

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back to the Old Testament minor 
prophet, the book of Joe chapter

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#2 And he said this is that 
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Joe. 
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the last days at the Lord, I 
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So what they were seeing and 
what they were hearing that the 

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Bible says, he says this is the 
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So I believe it's important to 
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This is exactly what Joel had 
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Peter's 38 is a response to a 
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Peter's sermon was talking to 
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crucified their Messiah, how 
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had put him to death. 
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what they they had done, when 
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done, they come to them, to 
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and oppose the question, What 
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Let's just take a moment here. 
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with the spirit of the Holy 
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been enough. 
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we look back in Scripture, we 
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chapter #2 two. 
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Acts chapter #8 or not Acts, but
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And it shall come to pass that 
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name of the Lord shall be saved.
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the the the sum total of 
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name of the Lord, then Peter 
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else in verse 38 concerning what
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He could have just told him if 
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the sum total of it, he could 
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repent for your mistake and 
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But he didn't just say repent, 
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everyone of you in the name of 
Jesus Christ for the remission 

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of your sins. 
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need to repent over mistake. 
They needed the full plan 

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salvation. 
They needed, as Jesus told 

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Nicodemus, to be born of the 
water and of the spear in order 

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to enter and to see the Kingdom 
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That's recorded in John chapter 
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is our focal point here today. 
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Boy, a little boy got caught 
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cookie jar and chocolate over 
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And his mother just kind of 
asked him as mothers do they 

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know the answer. 
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know if the child will admit 
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And she asked him, she said, did
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And he hung his head, of course,
just overwhelmed with having 

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been caught. 
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sorry. 
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caught the same little boy with 
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And when he was caught and he 
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him, that look on his face. 
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really am sorry. 
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little boy and said, son, you're
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whenever your hand is still in 
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What I'm saying today, sometimes
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repentance with just being 
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it just being an apology that 
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And sometimes people say, oh, 
they must have really been sorry

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because they were crying or they
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forth. 
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some of those things that 
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just those things in and of 
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You can't just say, well, 
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they're crying. 
There's people that cry because 

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they're mad. 
I'm just being honest. 

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The different things happening. 
But those things certainly may 

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accompany repentance, but they 
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and of themselves of repentance.
Repentance is this Amen. 

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It is to think differently or to
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defined here. 
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to look up that. 
Word in Greek lexicons it's to 

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think differently or to think 
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afterthought or a second 
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know if you've had an 
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done or whatever, and you think 
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Oh, I shouldn't have done that. 
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have done or something that you 
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sometimes face the regret, Amen,
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they had done, that's what for 
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Acts 2. 
They had slain their Messiah, 

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all right? 
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regret because all the Old 
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about their Messiah that would 
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their lane to walk and all these
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do? 
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something. 
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change of mindset, which effects
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I don't know if you realize 
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place here before they take 
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Amen. 
And it it, it is almost seamless

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in our in our in our biological 
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I mean, doing actions right now,
I'm not even per SE thinking 

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really about it, but my brain, 
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Those pulses are going through 
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doing it before I'm actually 
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My thought process, my mindset 
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My thoughts affect behavior. 
My thoughts affect behavior. 

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Amen. 
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again, repentance isn't just a 
regret for my sin. 

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These guys, they can regret it 
all day long. 

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Or we shouldn't have killed the 
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that well, some would say, well,
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were regretful for it. 
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There has to be a second 
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influences then our behavior. 
And so Peter had just finished 

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this masterful sermon again 
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and the resurrection of Jesus 
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And he had brought that 
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Messiah that the prophets had 
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He said this Jesus has been your
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Christ in meaning that anointed 
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helping him place Jesus on the 
cross. 

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They were participants and 
helping him crucify him. 

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Can I tell you this morning that
the same sermon still needs 

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preached today because every one
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You said I didn't live during 
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I understand. 
But it was your sin that he 

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bored the Bible. 
He bored the sins of the world 

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in his body, according to Peter.
Hey, man. 

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The Bible says he took the 
handwritings of the ordinances 

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that were against us. 
Right, every deed that we had 

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done wrong, every word stray, 
all those things, and he nailed 

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them to his cross. 
And so although I didn't live in

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the 1st century, Amen, the 
Adamic nature in which I was 

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born into, born into sin, in sin
that David said to my mother, 

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that my mother conceived me, I'm
born into this. 

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And so I am a participant, Amen,
in the crucifix of Jesus. 

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I'm a participant, Amen, and 
responsible for having put on 

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the cross. 
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today, yes, my heart may be 
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there needs to be something 
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What shall I do? 
What, what, what shall I do? 

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And so I answer. 
To you today concerning the 

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scripture for firstly is you 
need to repent you you need to 

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have a second thought, an 
afterthought, A mindset shift, 

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then that influences the way 
that you walk and live your life

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heretofore. 
Amen, That it would affect our 

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behavior. 
Amen. 

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Because when they realized they 
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think differently about the 
actions they had taken 

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concerning Jesus Christ, they 
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Look at the Scripture, if you 
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Chapter 7. 
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I know, brother Doctor Mason, 
that I, I, I hid a few there 

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before that I didn't have up 
there for you. 

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But Second Corinthians 7 and 
verse #9 The Bible says these 

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words. 
Now I rejoice not that you were 

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made sorry, but that ye sorrow 
to repentance. 

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For you were made sorry after a 
godly manner, that you might 

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receive damage by us in nothing.
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worketh repentance to salvation,
not to be repented of, but the 

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sorrow of the world that worketh
death. 

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Now the Apostle Paul is writing 
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He's writing here to a church. 
He's writing to the church at 

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Corinth. 
This is his 2nd letter. 

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This is in Second Corinthians. 
He had written a letter, First 

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Corinthians to the church at 
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He realizes, and you read this 
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reading right here. 
He realizes that he had made 

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them sorry with his first 
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He had written some things. 
He realized that he had made 

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them sorry. 
In the 1st letter he addresses 

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several issues that were taking 
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There was a lot of contention in
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among them. 
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when I wrote to you concerning 
those things, addressed you 

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about those things that I, I 
made you sorry. 

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But he says in verse 8, he says 
I do not repent though I did 

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repent. 
It's that he was reconsidering. 

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He had a. 
Afterthought about what he had 

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written because. 
The sorrow he know he knew that 

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it would bring upon them for 
this to be addressed. 

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afterwards I I mulled it over my
mind. 

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I I thought about it. 
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Scripture that he didn't regret 
having written it didn't regret 

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having written it. 
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because the Saints of Corinth 
felt sorry or they felt guilty 

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along those lines, but because 
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an afterthought. 
His letter caused them to have a

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second thought about what they 
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that they had for what they had 
done, that he addressed in in in

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First Corinthians, that their 
regret over what they had done 

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now had materialized into a 
change of mind. 

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That is resulting into a change 
of behavior. 

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He says. 
You're sorrow and not after the 

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sorrow of the world, but after a
godly sorrow. 

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A godly sorrow that worketh 
toward what? 

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Toward repentance. 
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going to affect a change of 
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Amen. 
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experiencing sorrow is not the 
same as repentance. 

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Paul distinguished that the two 
here he were made you were made 

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sorry, but he also said that you
sorrow to repentance. 

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It's kind of along these lines 
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In the Old Testament book of 
Ruth, we read of whenever Naomi 

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is going to return home from 
Moab. 

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She's been in Moab for about 10 
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Her two daughter in laws, Ruth 
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husbands. 
They have died during the period

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of time that Ruth as being in 
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home. 
She's going back to Bethlehem, 

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Judah. 
She's going back to the place 

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and location of of her God. 
All right. 

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And the Bible says that Ruth and
Orpha made as though they would 

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go with her and and and and and 
Naomi says, no, you, you girls 

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just stay right here. 
It's not like I have another son

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that I can give you right to you
to have to wait. 

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There's not another son that I 
can give you. 

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Just go and stay home. 
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lifted up her voice and she 
wept. 

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But Orpha stayed in Moab. 
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about Ruth, how though she 
lifted up her voice equally and 

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wept. 
The Bible, though, talks about 

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Ruth, though she has a whole 
different action compared to 

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Orpha. 
She's telling. 

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She's telling Naomi, where you 
go, I'll go. 

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Your God will be my God. 
Your people will be my people. 

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They both had sorrow. 
But one had sorrow to change, 

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alteration of action. 
She was going to go to the land 

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of Bethlehem, Judah, and she 
was. 

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Going to make the God that Naomi
had her God. 

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It's a difference between sorrow
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change of mind. 
Paul, what Paul said, what he 

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said to them, it didn't, It 
didn't injure them, it benefited

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them. 
Yes, they felt conviction and 

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they should have because of what
they had done, but ultimately a 

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man, it was who they had done it
to. 

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They were sorry. 
The Bible says after a godly 

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manner, Amen. 
After a godly manner. 

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This happens whenever we realize
that our actions, although on 

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the surface may have been 
against a man or have hurt 

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somebody else that the real 
discord that we have is with 

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God. 
I know we enjoy, but it's 

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whatever we understand that the 
offense of our life, the offense

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of our sin mostly has been 
against God. 

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David had this light bulb moment
in Psalms 51 and verses 3 and 4.

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This is a Psalm that has comes 
from David's heart after having 

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made some mistakes. 
And as a matter of fact, at one 

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part in David's life he had 
almost broke and I think if you 

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would have to look at it, but if
I remember I he had basically 

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broke all 10 commandments that 
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Amen. 
Chapter #20 And so this is David

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in a very sorrowful repent of 
mode of his life. 

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He says in Psalms 51 and verse 
three, he says for I acknowledge

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my transgression that that's 
good, that's OK. 

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He says I acknowledge my 
transgression and my sin is ever

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before me. 
I've done that. 

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That's a part of the fabric of 
my life. 

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I acknowledge that I'm not 
trying to be a Adam and Eve 

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blame game and saying well this 
woman you gave me and she's 

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saying well, the serpent begat 
me. 

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He says I'm not in the blame 
game. 

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He says I acknowledge it. 
He said I acknowledge my 

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transgression, my sin is there 
before they look at verse 4. 

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This is where I know it's hard 
to realize, but here's where. 

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Gets sweeter he's saying against
thee speaking to God he said 

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against thee thee only have I 
sinned. 

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He's not saying his actions 
hasn't hurt other people but 

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he's realizing where the real 
stem root is that everything 

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that he has done, though it may 
have hurt people ultimately it's

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been against God, his precepts, 
his ways, his nature it's been 

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against God. 
He says thee only have I sinned 

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and done this evil and thy sight
that thou mightest be justified 

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when thy speakest and clear when
thy judges. 

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And so David comes the 
realization I've made some 

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mistakes. 
He broke almost every 

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commandment, Amen, that the law 
spoke of concerning the 10 

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commandments. 
And he's saying I acknowledge 

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this that I've sinned against 
you. 

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I've done wrong against you, 
I've done wrong against God, 

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folks, that's where it's really 
at Amen in our lives. 

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Amen, as being sinners are 
wrong, has been against the 

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Master of the universe. 
The Creator, the one that 

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sustains breath right in our 
very lungs. 

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And he was sorry then, after a 
godly sort, because he 

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understands. 
The real root. 

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Of of his wrong is against the 
Lord, and so after a godly sort,

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then his opposition to a holy 
God. 

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Because if it was just a sorrow 
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world, sometimes just the 
feeling of the sorry and the 

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00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,680
guilt I've done wrong. 
Some people then internalize 

453
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,120
that as though then that they're
horrible shame, like guilt is I 

454
00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:13,240
I've done wrong. 
Shame gets I am, I'm just a bad 

455
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,440
person, right? 
But they just get in that sorrow

456
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,320
mode. 
Worldly saw just sorry regret. 

457
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,320
But there's nothing that's 
altered. 

458
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,680
There's nothing that's changed. 
There's there's no behavior that

459
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,040
supports that second thought or 
afterthought. 

460
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:33,920
It just lies there. 
All right, William Barclay years

461
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:39,160
ago ago, said many a man is 
desperately sorry because of the

462
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:43,760
mess that sin has got him into, 
But he very well knows that if 

463
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,240
he could be reasonably sure that
he could escape the 

464
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,360
consequences, he would do the 
same thing again. 

465
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,800
It's not the sin that he hates. 
It's the consequences. 

466
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,720
That's the little boy with his 
hand in the cookie jar. 

467
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,800
He liked those cookies and the 
chocolate on his face proved he 

468
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,800
liked the. 
If he could do that without the 

469
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,920
consequences of getting caught 
or without Mom caught him 

470
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,960
catching him on it, he'd 
probably eat every cookie in the

471
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,920
cookie jar. 
Amen, Brother makes you got to 

472
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,040
Ecclesiastes 8 and verse #11 for
me. 

473
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,160
I don't have it in my notes, but
I do have it as a reference. 

474
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,000
This is something that that the 
preacher said in Ecclesiastes. 

475
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,240
He said because sentence against
an evil work is not executed 

476
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:29,680
speedily, therefore the heart of
the sons of men is fully setting

477
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,800
them to do evil. 
What that means is this 

478
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,160
sometimes whenever there is a 
wrong and not a consequence that

479
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,120
comes boom, almost instantaneous
because of the wrong, then it 

480
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:43,520
sets the hearts of people that 
let's just keep doing it and see

481
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,800
what we can get by with because 
it seems like there's no 

482
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,360
judgment coming on that. 
Please listen to Pastor McGee 

483
00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:52,360
this morning. 
If God's word already tells us 

484
00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:54,720
that there are certain things in
this life that's going to be 

485
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,360
judged and you're like, well, 
it's not happening. 

486
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,320
There's still a judgement day 
reckoning and sometimes God's 

487
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,680
judgement grinds slow, but it is
still sure. 

488
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,880
So because The thing is, 
sometimes we might look at 

489
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,640
someone else like man, they're 
doing all this and they're fine,

490
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,120
right? 
You know by the skin of their 

491
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:19,000
teeth and all that does rush is 
encouraged to try out the 

492
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:26,200
temptation waters. 
Another thing is, and I'm not 

493
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,120
trying to get over here in the 
grass or the bushes, but 

494
00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:34,520
whenever you are already in 
covenant with God compared to 

495
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:35,920
people that are not in covenant 
God. 

496
00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:40,720
Case in point, case in point, 
you know, you have like whenever

497
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,160
the Ark of the Covenant was 
taken, the Old Testament in 

498
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:49,600
battle, whenever, whenever 
Phineas and died and Ichabod was

499
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,240
born, whenever you have that. 
And they're carrying the ark 

500
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,880
from place to place of the 
Philistine cities, not on the 

501
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,040
priest shoulders of Levites. 
And it doesn't seem like nothing

502
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,040
necessarily. 
Yes, there's emrods because they

503
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,600
had the Ark of God and they're 
being but there's like they're 

504
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:11,880
not being struck dead. 
But then you have Uzza and it's 

505
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,800
on a car and they're not 
transporting right and a guy 

506
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,040
dies. 
You have people that weren't in 

507
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,560
covenant with God and you had 
people that were in covenant 

508
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,160
with God. 
You had people that weren't were

509
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,920
ignorant concerning a lot of 
things concerning the Ark of the

510
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,960
Covenant and how and should it 
ought to be. 

511
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:37,560
But the people that knew he says
I'm going to have a stronger a 

512
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,960
stronger fish of judgment 
because you know what you're 

513
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,360
doing here, what I'm telling 
you, you know what you're doing.

514
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,600
And so we whenever you're in 
covenant with God. 

515
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,000
Absolutely folks, we don't need 
to be waiting around. 

516
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,440
Oh, someone they're getting by 
with. 

517
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,160
Yeah, but but you know, and he 
that knoweth to do good and 

518
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,600
doeth it not New Testament tells
us to him and his sin and the 

519
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,880
Bible says this and the 
remaineth no more sacrifice for 

520
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,520
that sin. 
Now Please note that does not 

521
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,680
mean that does not mean. 
Well, if you sin after your 

522
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,480
crisis went to the cross, then 
there's no other sacrifice. 

523
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,480
No, what that means is there's 
no other sacrifice because the 

524
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,760
sacrifice of the cross was the 
once for all sacrifice. 

525
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,720
You understand we're not going 
to get no bull or lamb. 

526
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,520
Amen to slaughter for blood for 
your modern day sin, that once 

527
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,840
for all there's no more 
sacrifice because Calvary's 

528
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,520
already happened. 
Hebrew says he went in there 

529
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,240
once and for all. 
That means the blood that was 

530
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,200
shed there is still effective 
for modern day sins today. 

531
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,600
Thank God that we're not 
carrying in bulls and goats to 

532
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,640
some priests and laying our 
hands on it and slitting throats

533
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,720
and letting blood spilling on 
the altar and you got to depend 

534
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,560
upon them. 
No, no, no, you boldly can enter

535
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,960
to the throne of grace because 
of the sacrifice. 

536
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,200
That's already taken place. 
Amen. 

537
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,400
Amen. 
So repentance, though, 

538
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,000
repentance is just not a New 
Testament idea. 

539
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,280
Repentance is not a New 
Testament idea. 

540
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,800
It's found in the Old Testament 
as well. 

541
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,080
As a matter of fact, repentance 
isn't only about turning from 

542
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,480
bad to good, although that's the
way we typically view it. 

543
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,800
It could also be used in other 
senses of a turn in general, 

544
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,200
that's the way it's spoken of 
often in the Old Testament, a 

545
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,720
turn or a return. 
Most of those times you see that

546
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,120
it is the word repentance that 
we are even used in the New 

547
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,000
Testament. 
I know it's a Hebrew, but it's 

548
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,400
Greek equivalent is still 
repentance. 

549
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,480
For instance, in the Bible, 
whenever we read about a dog 

550
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:51,400
returning to his vomit, right, 
it's it's a lot of the same word

551
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,200
Amen. 
In the Old Testament, a man of 

552
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,320
return, like in the book of 
Ezekiel and other places, it's 

553
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:02,560
concept is repentance, because 
repentance carries the idea of 

554
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:08,760
turning back or turning away. 
It means a retreat. 

555
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,960
All right, It's a military term.
You've probably heard me say 

556
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,320
this a gazillion times. 
It's going to be a gazillion 1 

557
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,040
and probably more before I ever 
die. 

558
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,200
Amen. 
But it is an about face, 180° 

559
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,880
and about face is 180° turn or 
change of direction. 

560
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,320
It's always important to 
remember that when you repent, 

561
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,440
this is where that change of 
behavior comes in place. 

562
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,200
If I'm walking this direction 
and I repent, I have a second 

563
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,760
thought, a mindset, then that 
influences my action of that 

564
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,600
about face. 
As I turn toward that, turn, 

565
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,000
away from that, I'm turning 
towards something else. 

566
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,640
You can't turn away from 
anything without turning towards

567
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:57,080
something else. 
It's impossible now The thing 

568
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,080
is, am I turning away from one 
thing and turning to something 

569
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,280
we say, well, it's a little 
lesser thing or am I making an 

570
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,880
about face in my head in a 
different direction? 

571
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,280
Amen. 
And so it's that it's that 

572
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:15,920
military term, It's that 
retreating, Paul said when he 

573
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,760
said new test crew, he said flee
youthful us. 

574
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:26,320
That sounds a lot like a 
retreat, youthful lust. 

575
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,480
So again, in the Old Testament, 
the word repent may not be used 

576
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,320
in our English Bibles, but that 
idea of turning and returning 

577
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,560
is, and it's basically 
repentance, that turning back 

578
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,880
our way. 
Look in the minor prophet Hosea 

579
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:46,120
chapter 14 and verse #1 The 
Bible says, O Israel, return 

580
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:52,400
unto the Lord thy God, for thou 
has fallen by thine iniquity. 

581
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,320
Take, I like this, take with you
words, I like that. 

582
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:04,600
Take with you words and turn to 
the Lord, saying to him, take 

583
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,800
away all iniquity and receive us
graciously. 

584
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,760
So we will render the calves of 
our lips, the fruits of our 

585
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,159
lips, that there would be 
movement of our lips with these 

586
00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:17,719
words unto the Lord. 
And so there's the returning 

587
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,440
unto the Lord. 
They were headed in One 

588
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,440
Direction, but there's that 
returning back unto the Lord and

589
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,199
taking with them some words as 
they turn into the Lord and 

590
00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:29,800
notice they're talking to Him 
about their iniquity. 

591
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,679
They're talking to Him about 
their transgression. 

592
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,360
They're omitting and 
acknowledging their in verse #1 

593
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,080
as David, they were 
acknowledging their sin, right? 

594
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,159
They're acknowledging their sin 
to God. 

595
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,679
Look at Micah, another minor 
prophet in the Old Testament of 

596
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:49,480
chapter 3 and verse #7 it says 
even from the days of your 

597
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,800
father's, ye are gone away from 
mine ordinance, The Lord says, 

598
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,120
and have not kept them. 
Now here's the mandate. 

599
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,040
Well, what shall we do about? 
Let me do it like this. 

600
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:03,480
What shall we do about this? 
Return unto me and I will return

601
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,000
unto you, saith the Lord of 
hosts. 

602
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,000
But ye said we're in, have we 
returned? 

603
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,400
He says you, you, we've went. 
You've not kept my ordinances. 

604
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,240
What shall we do? 
Return. 

605
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,320
Repent. 
Make it right. 

606
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,160
As a matter of fact, scholars 
conclude that there are a total 

607
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:24,360
of about 164 uses of repent as 
turning and returning in the 

608
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:29,080
covenant context in the Old 
Testament, meaning that turning 

609
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,200
away from and turning toward 
God. 

610
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,880
The majority of them, of course,
is found among the prophets 

611
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,160
because the prophets came with a
message many times warning, 

612
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,000
right You would call people 
about where they were to come 

613
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,080
back to a place of alignment 
with God. 

614
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,920
That happened about 113 times in
the prophets. 

615
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,120
But Jeremiah, he's the prophet 
of prophets for returning. 

616
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,760
He's a prophet of prophets for 
speaking these things about 48 

617
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,400
times of the book of Jeremiah. 
Jeremiah is telling the people 

618
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,280
to return. 
He's given them a constant 

619
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,720
warning. 
He's pleading with the people to

620
00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:08,000
turn, although as we read the 
Scripture, a lot of times they 

621
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,600
did not. 
But he gives them detailed 

622
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,040
information about how they can 
change, what they must do, how 

623
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,880
they can change their ways 
again, but they refuse. 

624
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,000
And so, Jeremiah, I love this 
verse. 

625
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,680
Please have you marked this in 
your Bible? 

626
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,320
I love this verse. 
Amen. 

627
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,040
Because Jeremiah in the Old 
Testament basically summarizes 

628
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:29,960
and gives us the essence of 
repentance in one verse. 

629
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:36,280
In Jeremiah chapter 18 and verse
11, it says, There Now therefore

630
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,680
go to speak to the men of Judah 
and to the inhabitants of 

631
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:46,240
Jerusalem, saying, Thus sayeth 
the Lord, Behold, I frame evil 

632
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,840
against you, and devise a device
against you. 

633
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,920
What shall we do then? 
What shall we do? 

634
00:36:53,360 --> 00:37:03,520
He says Return ye now everyone 
from his evil way and make your 

635
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:08,680
ways and your doings good. 
I probably I don't know how many

636
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:13,160
times I've taught this verse in 
the past about next year will be

637
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,600
15 years Amen around here look 
at it return. 

638
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:21,400
That's what you must do ye now 
that's when you should do it. 

639
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,960
Listen folks, there's no reason 
to wait to repent. 

640
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,920
There is no reason to wait to 
repent. 

641
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,800
That's what you should do. 
Now is when you should do it. 

642
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,440
Who? 
Everyone. 

643
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,320
It doesn't matter. 
I don't. 

644
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,680
It doesn't matter if you're 
Donald Trump or the Pope of the 

645
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:46,440
Catholic Church. 
It didn't matter if it was Mary 

646
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,400
the mother of Jesus in the upper
room. 

647
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,120
It didn't matter if it was the 
12 disciples that that had 

648
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,560
walked with him. 
I know Judas was not, but he was

649
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,440
replaced with Mattheus. 
But those that walked with Jesus

650
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,440
for 3 1/2 years was instrumental
and seen the dead raised and 

651
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,640
breaking bread and I don't care.
They all needed to repent. 

652
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:10,440
Cornelius offering his alms and 
his prayers as acts #10 a good 

653
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,280
man. 
Folks, we we're filled with good

654
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,800
people all across the world, but
good people still need to 

655
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,280
repent. 
None of us are excluded or 

656
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,400
exempt. 
What? 

657
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:27,280
Repent when, now who? 
Everyone, everyone ought to 

658
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,440
repent. 
From what? 

659
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,360
From his evil way. 
From what? 

660
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,000
From your evil way And look. 
And make your ways and your 

661
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,440
doings good to what? 
What are you turning away from 

662
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,000
the evil way? 
What are you turning then? 

663
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:44,400
Toward the doings of the good, 
The opposite of whatever it was 

664
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,120
that caused the Lord. 
Then the frame against you. 

665
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:53,720
And devise a device of judgment.
I want to be on the good side of

666
00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:56,960
God. 
I know, I know. 

667
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,000
Today they only talk about the 
good side of God. 

668
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,520
He's loved compassion and 
merciful and we love the degree 

669
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,600
that he is to that. 
And I, I love the degree that He

670
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,600
is to that, that there is coming
today there'll be judgment that 

671
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,520
won't be mingled with mercy and 
to sue to the same degree He is 

672
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,760
so loving and merciful. 
There's going to be a degree 

673
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,600
that he'll be a judge to the 
opposite end of that degree. 

674
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,760
So I don't want to misunderstand
His mercy. 

675
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:30,320
Now I know Jeremiah was speaking
to men of Judah and inhabitants 

676
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:34,080
of Jerusalem, but he's, he's 
speaking to us all. 

677
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,320
The Scripture is applicable to 
all of us. 

678
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:41,480
Paul told those in Acts 17 on 
Mars Hill, when he sat in there 

679
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,720
among Athens, those that had 
altars and two unknown gods, 

680
00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,000
even one of their altars was to 
unknown God. 

681
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:53,520
He commanded there in that 
setting among all these, he 

682
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:59,560
commanded all men everywhere. 
The Bible says to repent, so 

683
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:00,920
there's no options to 
repentance. 

684
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,000
There's several Bible verses 
that speak that we repent or 

685
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,400
perish. 
There's not a Gray area. 

686
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,600
Repent or perish, Amen. 
And I want to have a change of 

687
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,280
mind. 
And so God brings repentance 

688
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:18,080
into our lives. 
If you've ever felt conviction, 

689
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,880
you've ever That conviction 
stirs up those second thoughts, 

690
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,400
those afterthoughts and God 
brings. 

691
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,760
Repentance into our you won't 
find the word conviction in the 

692
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:35,520
King James Version of the Bible.
It's not there, but there are 

693
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:40,080
Greek words in the Bible that do
mean conviction or convict that 

694
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,520
are there. 
The Bible says in John 16 verse 

695
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:43,960
eight. 
Look at this verse of Scripture 

696
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,080
and when he is come and the he 
that's being referred to as the 

697
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,280
Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit, 
the Spirit of God, Amen, goes by

698
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,640
a lot of many labels, but it's 
the same thing that when he has 

699
00:40:55,640 --> 00:41:00,320
come, he will reprove that word.
Reprove in the Greek means 

700
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,040
convict. 
He will convict the world of sin

701
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,560
and of righteousness and of 
judgement. 

702
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,520
This same word Paul even uses 
when he speaks to Timothy in his

703
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,320
letter to Timothy in Second 
Timothy chapter #4 and verse 2. 

704
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:17,440
He tells Timothy preach the 
word, be instant in season and 

705
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,960
out of season. 
Reprove again, same word, same 

706
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,920
definition of the Greek convict 
rebuke, exhort with all 

707
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,800
long-suffering and doctrine. 
And so whenever the men of God 

708
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,440
like Timothy and Paul did preach
the word, and even as Peter did 

709
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:39,160
on the day of Pentecost, the 
Spirit of God, the Spirit of God

710
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,960
convicts the heart of mankind. 
The Spirit of God convicts the 

711
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:48,080
heart of mankind that hear it 
and make themselves supple 

712
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:54,320
allowing it right because 
repentance is what causes it 

713
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,480
starts then that that 
afterthought second thought in 

714
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:03,520
mankind and man will not repent 
until something like God's 

715
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:07,480
Spirit or such provokes us to 
think differently. 

716
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,960
Something must be a a force or 
emphasis to provoke us to think 

717
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,840
differently by the about how we 
have lived up to this juncture 

718
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:21,360
of the road, right, Because when
you've been born into this and 

719
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:26,040
you've been not been exposed to 
God or his word, you have no 

720
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,120
compass of knowing what what's 
different. 

721
00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:32,760
Sometimes, though, people start 
picking it up on other people's 

722
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:37,800
lives that have the spirit. 
What's different about me and 

723
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,880
about you? 
And then you have an opportunity

724
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:43,480
to share the gospel, right? 
And something starts taking 

725
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,040
place, the Bible says in Acts 
1118. 

726
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:52,840
Then hath God also to the 
Gentiles granted repentance unto

727
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,560
life? 
I want to go there real quick 

728
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,320
because this is the apostle 
that's looking backwards on 

729
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,840
everything that just happened at
Cornelius's house and how they 

730
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,800
knew that they received the Holy
Ghost because they heard them 

731
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,960
speak in tongues in verse 42. 
And he's speaking that then hath

732
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:15,000
God also to the Gentiles, 
granted repentance unto life. 

733
00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:17,720
And God does that. 
God must grant repentance in 

734
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:21,200
someone's life. 
Repentance is a gift from God. 

735
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:26,720
It is His kindness. 
And there's other verses, but 

736
00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:31,760
his kindness, the Bible says it 
leads us to repentance. 

737
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:38,280
The Bible even tells us about 
the long-suffering of the Lord, 

738
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:45,040
the long-suffering of the Lord. 
It's not that God is just never 

739
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,640
going to come to pass to do what
He said He's going to do, but 

740
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:53,960
oftimes the long-suffering of 
God is that He's allowing man a 

741
00:43:53,960 --> 00:44:01,600
space of time for repentance. 
Let me just be absolutely clear.

742
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,800
I believe the only reason why 
Christ hasn't quite come back 

743
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:12,480
yet He's given men some time to 
repent. 

744
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:19,520
It's in your Bibles that his 
alone suffering supplies time 

745
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,680
for repentance. 
So he granted repentance into 

746
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,680
life according to the apostle. 
Second Timothy 225 says if God 

747
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,600
pre adventure will give them 
repentance to the acknowledging 

748
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,840
of the truth. 
Again, it's a it's a gift from 

749
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,160
God, Amen. 
He's found in every step of the 

750
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,960
salvation plan, whether it's 
repentance, baptism or the 

751
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,720
infilling of the Holy Ghost. 
Amen. 

752
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:43,280
Romans 24 not knowing that the 
goodness of God, look, the 

753
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,800
goodness of God, leadeth thee to
repentance. 

754
00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:48,960
Amen. 
God's so good to us. 

755
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,040
You know what he's doing. 
He's wooing you. 

756
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,960
He's wooing you. 
God's goodness is not Him 

757
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:04,560
condoning us where we are. 
That's him wooing us, drawing us

758
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,800
into a relationship. 
I kind of like that. 

759
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,520
I kind of like how to boy, he's 
kind. 

760
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,520
I mean, don't you just like to 
be around good, kind people? 

761
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,960
I mean, they just kind of have a
drawing effect and power upon 

762
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,000
them, don't they? 
God's wooing you. 

763
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,200
But that's mercy. 
And that's where we don't need 

764
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,680
to misunderstand. 
God is not trying to give a, a 

765
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,720
thumbprint, a thumbs up for 
where I am. 

766
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,000
He's trying to draw me in 
closer. 

767
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,400
He has plans for me that I know 
not even of. 

768
00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:37,520
He's trying to woo me. 
We got to hurry up. 

769
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,920
Second Peter chapter #3 and 
verse #9. 

770
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,880
Here it is. 
The Lord is not slack concerning

771
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:48,160
His promise, as some men count 
slackness, but is 

772
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,920
long-suffering. 
To us word not willing that any 

773
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,320
should perish, but that all 
should come to repentance. 

774
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,600
That what I was talking about 
folks, God, it's not like some 

775
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,040
people say, oh, oh, you know, in
the Bible even bears a he says 

776
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,360
he's coming, but he's never 
coming. 

777
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,280
It's been generations. 
He's not come and folks, that's 

778
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,000
where we're going to be just 
like it was in the days of Noah.

779
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,560
He says it's going to rain. 
It's not rained yet. 

780
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,560
God says the city of Sodom's 
going to be the you know it's 

781
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,000
going to be destroyed. 
Abraham knows about it. 

782
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:23,880
Listen, listen. 
God is not slacking in his 

783
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,280
promise. 
What some are interpreting as 

784
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,680
God being slacking His promise. 
Is God really being 

785
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:34,200
long-suffering for mankind and 
giving them an opportunity to 

786
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,960
repent? 
Don't mistake God's 

787
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:43,280
long-suffering for Him not 
coming to bear on His promises. 

788
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:52,600
He's keeping his promise. 
He will keep his promise, but 

789
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,480
he's not willing that any. 
You got to understand how big 

790
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:57,320
they are. 
If we could speak it in terms 

791
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,480
like that, but how big the heart
of God is, He's not willing for 

792
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:06,360
any to perish. 
Listen, our God is not such a 

793
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:07,920
God. 
He's up there thinking, well, 

794
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,040
good enough for me. 
Yeah. 

795
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:14,840
They will never. 
No, God's hearts grieved for 

796
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,600
humanity. 
Amen. 

797
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,480
If He'll delay His coming for 
someone to repent, that should 

798
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,520
tell you how interesting God is 
in humanity. 

799
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:31,800
He desires that all would come 
to repentance, and the word come

800
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,000
there means to make room for 
something. 

801
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,160
He wants everybody to make room 
for this, this gift of 

802
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:42,080
repentance that He's offering to
them to give place to it that 

803
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,800
they would receive it. 
He wants to make room for and 

804
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,000
give place for repentance in 
everybody's life. 

805
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,960
So yes, ladies and gentlemen, 
it's more than an afterthought. 

806
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,360
It's more than just a mental 
change of attitude and a feeling

807
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,600
of remorse. 
It's a change of mind that 

808
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,360
impacts and influences the way 
that we behave and act. 

809
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,560
First Thessalonians 19 for they 
themselves, these things never 

810
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:06,760
get old. 
They shouldn't please. 

811
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,040
And I, I under score that these 
things like I'm talking about 

812
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,760
this one should never get old. 
Amen. 

813
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,320
For they themselves shoe of us, 
what manner of entering we had 

814
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,600
unto you. 
This is First Thessalonians 19 

815
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:23,400
how ye turned to God from idols 
to serve the living and true 

816
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,280
God. 
What happened? 

817
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,440
That's the plane out of 
repentance turned from the idols

818
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,040
turning to God, the living and 
the true God. 

819
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,560
Matthew chapter #3 verses seven 
days. 

820
00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:36,320
But when he saw many of the 
Pharisees and Sadducees come to 

821
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:41,800
his baptism, he said to them, O 
generation of Vipers, who have 

822
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,440
warned you to flee from the 
wrath to come. 

823
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:50,360
Verse 8 Bring forth therefore 
fruits, meat for repentance. 

824
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,440
So they're showing up the 
baptism. 

825
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:56,040
So what are you all doing here? 
I see a new some of these, these

826
00:48:56,040 --> 00:49:00,320
Pharisees and Sadducees and the 
antics and things that they were

827
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,400
playing. 
Who's warned you about the 

828
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,200
rapper? 
He said, bring forth, bring 

829
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,840
forth. 
Therefore, fruits meet for 

830
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,320
repentance. 
So they're there at the baptism 

831
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,120
and he's talking to him about 
repentance. 

832
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:16,000
Bring forth, bring forth. 
There's a sense of urgency. 

833
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,640
There's a sense of the wind. 
Do it now. 

834
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:27,240
Fruit or fruits. 
That's what's produced in our 

835
00:49:27,240 --> 00:49:33,560
lives that other people see and 
can categorize us by by their 

836
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,400
fruits. 
Scripture says ye shall know 

837
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,920
them. 
He said bring forth fruits, 

838
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,240
meat. 
This is the meaning of the word 

839
00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:44,880
meat. 
The idea is that of having equal

840
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,560
weight or worth answerable to 
amendment of life. 

841
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:53,000
Did you just hear what I said? 
Having equal weight or worth 

842
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:57,800
answerable to amendment of life.
He says this is this is Paul 

843
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:05,080
McGee junior paraphrase. 
He says urgently, urgently bring

844
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:11,080
produce that others can see and 
categorize your life by that's 

845
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,720
in equal weight and worth to 
repentance. 

846
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:22,320
What's this mean? 
Well, this means you've come to 

847
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:26,280
baptism, he says. 
But if you're going to have been

848
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:32,640
back, be baptized, then you need
to have repented, Then we'll say

849
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:36,840
Amen. 
And even at the spot of 

850
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:42,280
repentance, there starts to be 
even some things start to alter 

851
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:48,120
in your life that qualify the 
worth and the weight of having 

852
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:53,360
repented. 
There is a desire, the change of

853
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:54,840
direction and walk in the 
direction. 

854
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,360
Are you saying everything's 
perfect? 

855
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:01,360
No, but I'm saying there are. 
There are initiations, Huh. 

856
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,040
I've seen it because there's 
repented. 

857
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,000
People then just start showing 
up for church. 

858
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:12,680
They're hungry for the word. 
He says that you're here at the 

859
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,120
waters of baptism. 
He says before there can be any 

860
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,880
baptism here, he said you, you 
need to have repented. 

861
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,760
And folks, listen here at the 
first Apostolic Church and 

862
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:24,400
biblically we're all about 
burying dead people. 

863
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,280
Yes, Tracy, all about burying 
dead people. 

864
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,800
What's that means? 
You must have repented before we

865
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:43,040
ever introduce you to waters of 
baptism in Jesus name, Amen. 

866
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:50,120
And so you stand with me today. 
I'll try to hurry up here you 

867
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,600
send there's there's fruits. 
There's some evident product 

868
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,520
that's equal to wait and worth 
of the repentance. 

869
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,400
Fruits start to happen, start to
mirror that turning away from 

870
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,320
the ode to the new. 
And here's the fact that no one 

871
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:10,480
can repent for you. 
Simon the sorcerer tried that 

872
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,120
out in Acts 8. 
He said repent to the Lord for 

873
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,240
me that that was even after he'd
already believed and been 

874
00:52:15,240 --> 00:52:16,280
baptized. 
He said repent. 

875
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,840
He said, no, I can't repent. 
You repent to the Lord, you take

876
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,920
it right. 
So God by his spirit and by his 

877
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,480
word, often times we're 
convicted, we turn, we repent, 

878
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,680
which is paralleling than the 
crucifix of Jesus Christ. 

879
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,320
We're dying out to our own life,
right? 

880
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:37,320
Just as Christ, Amen, took his 
flesh to that cross, Amen. 

881
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,640
Nobody else, nobody else could 
do that because the Bible even 

882
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,880
says that there was none that 
was in the world that could take

883
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,080
his life. 
He gave it. 

884
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:52,680
No one can do your repenting. 
You're mortifying you. 

885
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:56,600
You have activity in that 
yourself. 

886
00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:03,960
Amen. 
But we need not also overlook 

887
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:09,600
the importance of repentance. 
And while it's part of my plan 

888
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,480
of salvation, it's a part of my 
daily walk. 

889
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,760
The apostle Paul talked about 
dying daily, which is a 

890
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,360
reference to repentance. 
But we did not overlook the gift

891
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:23,680
of repentance if it was enough 
in the book of Luke chapter #15 

892
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:28,760
that whenever it was telling the
parables about a lost sheep 

893
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,800
being found and a lost coin 
being discovered and a lost son 

894
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,560
that's come home. 
And in all those instances when 

895
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,320
the lost sheep was found. 
And it speaks to us that there 

896
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,640
was joy in heaven over one that 
repented. 

897
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,120
And it said basically the same 
thing concerning the lost coin, 

898
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:49,360
joy in heaven over 1 Sinner that
repents lost son comes home. 

899
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:53,480
There is the Bible says the 
Father said, let's make merry, 

900
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,080
huh? 
Let's make merry. 

901
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,400
Why? 
Because he, he was, he was dead,

902
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,720
but now he's he, my son's alive,
huh. 

903
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:06,880
Then, then, then the church 
should also celebrate. 

904
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,440
We love to clap when someone's 
baptized these things, but 

905
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:13,640
equally we should rejoice as 
heaven rejoices when someone has

906
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:18,440
repented of their sins. 
That is. 

907
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:22,800
So why is that necessary? 
Because the celebration, I 

908
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,040
think, underscores to the person
how beneficial what they just 

909
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:30,960
did was to their life, even if 
they don't recognize it to the 

910
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:32,320
full extent yet. 
Sister Milena. 

911
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,280
So these people are going crazy.
What's going on? 

912
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,160
Well, folks, they just had a 
second thought. 

913
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:44,960
That's influencing behavior. 
That's something to celebrate. 

914
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:53,920
So things you must do #1. 
You must repent, Demonstrate 

915
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:59,160
that faith and repent. 
Demonstrate that faith in the 

916
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:04,880
death of your Lord and repent 
and watch Him. 

917
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,800
Watch Him help help you in that 
turning. 

918
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,520
I believe there comes an 
empowerment just in repentance. 

919
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,240
The Lord helps us through a lot 
of different junctures of life. 

920
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,680
And he says you're wanting to, 
I'm going to help you. 

921
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,720
I'm going to help you. 
You know, those hips kind of 

922
00:55:25,720 --> 00:55:26,960
rickety. 
I'm going to help you turn in 

923
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:31,160
the other direction. 
Think of some people, that's all

924
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:35,200
they've lived for 25 years. 
Do you understand the magnitude 

925
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,040
of turning away from something 
that that's been a part of your 

926
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,960
life for 25 years and now you're
turning? 

927
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:52,120
That's big and that's God. 
Let's close our eyes across this

928
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,840
place. 
If you've never repented this 

929
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:56,720
morning, this is a grand 
opportunity. 

930
00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,720
Maybe God's been dealing with 
you. 

931
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,120
Maybe you felt some conviction 
in your heart. 

932
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,160
Maybe even why Upset stood here 
and spoke. 

933
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,640
Today maybe, maybe some 
conviction is coming to your 

934
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,640
heart. 
You've had some second thoughts 

935
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,040
after thoughts about some 
things. 

936
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:13,800
That's there because God's 
granting to you a gift of 

937
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:15,600
repentance. 
He's granting it to you. 

938
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,880
Thank God that He deals with us.
Hallelujah. 

939
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,640
If you've never repented it, you
can repent today. 

940
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,480
Hallelujah, you, you can be like
the psalmist and just just 

941
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,640
acknowledge to God, God, I have 
sinned out. 

942
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:31,200
There's some things have been 
centered. 

943
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,320
I've read some things in your 
word that I'm a little skewed 

944
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,480
from and I I acknowledge God 
that I'm not there folks that 

945
00:56:37,720 --> 00:56:41,520
that that acknowledgement and 
that that awareness that that is

946
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:46,080
the very initial signs of a of a
repentance as you allow that to 

947
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:50,360
flow into your life and then 
help alter behavior and actions.

948
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,240
Hallelujah. 
You can do that to the Lord. 

949
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,640
You say, Brother McGee, I'm all.
Already saved and I've already 

950
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:56,600
been baptized and I already got 
salvation. 

951
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,400
Yes, but but is there anything 
maybe today? 

952
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:02,360
Is there anything from the weak 
that maybe need some repentance?

953
00:57:02,720 --> 00:57:05,320
I know you might be filled with 
the Spirit, but is there 

954
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:07,160
anything that you need to look 
into your life? 

955
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,800
Because it's not. 
Only a part of the initial plan 

956
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:11,520
of salvation. 
It's prior to the the 

957
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,560
maintenance program. 
Hey, man of our salvation. 

958
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,480
Repentance is Hallelujah. 
We just lift your hand right now

959
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,880
to the Lord. 
Nobody's standing beside you. 

960
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:21,800
Perhaps your spouse. 
Amen. 

961
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,200
You just talk to the Lord, 
right? 

962
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:27,680
Now, oh God, oh God, search me, 
Oh God, I know my heart. 

963
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,800
Try me, you know my thoughts, 
and see if there'd be any wicked

964
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:35,240
way in me, and lead me in the 
way everlasting Hallelujah and 

965
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,720
cry out to God today. 
God, I didn't know, Lord, I 

966
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:40,680
didn't know. 
I didn't realize that I took 

967
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:42,280
part in putting you on that 
tree. 

968
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:46,160
I didn't realize, God, that I 
was born into sin and iniquity. 

969
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:50,040
I didn't realize God. 
I didn't realize, Lord, But God,

970
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:53,120
I don't want to live the same 
way that I've always lived. 

971
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,440
I don't want to live, Lord 
Jesus, in opposing to who you 

972
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:58,160
are and your word and your 
principles. 

973
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:01,240
No, God, I want to be what you 
want me to be. 

974
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:04,000
God, I want to live the way that
you want me to live. 

975
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,240
God, I pray. 
Oh, Lord, help me, Jesus, today.

976
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,440
It's only because of everything 
that you did that I could even 

977
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,200
have this God, that I'm even the
recipient of such a gift. 

978
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,840
Lord of conviction, that helps 
turn and prompt and provoke me, 

979
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:22,320
God, to a place of repentance. 
Hallelujah, Jesus. 

980
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,400
Oh, can we talk to him right 
now? 

981
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:27,040
We're going to close here today,
but let's just talk to the Lord.

982
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,320
Brother Mason, I don't know if 
you have a song prepared. 

983
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,080
If you do or don't, it's fine. 
God, I love you. 

984
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:33,240
I love you, I love you.