1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Welcome to the first Apostolic Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:07,960 Our church mission is to love as God loves, showing compassion 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,440 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,680 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today and we hope that you are blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:24,650 by today's podcast, the House of the Lord. 7 00:00:24,650 --> 00:00:26,850 Glad to see you here. Amen. 8 00:00:26,850 --> 00:00:28,570 Glad to have Carolyn with us today. 9 00:00:29,010 --> 00:00:34,840 Tracy's mom, Glenn and Ray's grandma, and well, Aiden's a 10 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,960 boyfriend to Glenn as I really don't know where that fits in 11 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,200 the mix, but none the less, Amen. 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,360 Glad to have her with us today. She watches pretty faithfully 13 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,960 online, Amen. But it's glad to have her in 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,320 person this morning, Amen with us. 15 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,720 We appreciate her, Amen. Also want to thank all those 16 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,720 that helped this past week as far as Connect groups, Thank 17 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,600 Brother Zach McGee for our men's group and then Sister Sheila for 18 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,240 our women's group. And also just thank the church 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,200 for praying for my wife's father as we were gone, as he, you 20 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,160 know, suffered from a mild heart attack while we were down there. 21 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,160 And so we're thankful for your prayers. 22 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,240 Amen. And support concerning that. 23 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,840 Grateful today for we're looking forward to our missionaries 24 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:18,880 being with us tonight. You please don't miss that 25 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:20,360 service. Come and support them. 26 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,200 Mark and Wanda Stumbo. I can't even remember how many 27 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,040 years they've been missionaries for years. 28 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,480 I know that in our Connect dinner last week down there that 29 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,640 he received some type of award for being licensed with the 30 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,400 Assemblies of Lord Jesus Christ for an excess of 40 years. 31 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,240 So and he's been a missionary for several of those years. 32 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,600 I know. And so we appreciate Amen them 33 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,880 and such. So and if you wanted to be a 34 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,400 part of General mystery conference or would like to know 35 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,560 what it was like, you can always go to Assemblies of Lord Jesus 36 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,200 Christ at YouTube. And you can look at all those 37 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,320 services and view those worship services and set there and whip 38 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,800 your Bible in hand and raise your hands and just be a part 39 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,760 Amen. What we were part of last week, 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,120 if you'll stand with me today, we're going to turn to the book 41 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,280 of Acts. I'm going to teach here this 42 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,480 morning. We'll turn to the book of Acts 43 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,520 teach the here today. And again, often whenever we 44 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,840 usually have a year in business meeting, sometimes I share stuff 45 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,640 that we did throughout the year. And I've tried to be more 46 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:22,480 proactive about telling you stuff that happens throughout 47 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,240 the year rather than waiting for that moment. 48 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,640 As many of you know, they're at First Bank, one of the ladies 49 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:31,320 that worked there, they had a fire while they was on vacation 50 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:34,400 of their home and stuff. That's where our church banks. 51 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:40,400 And so we gave as a church $1000 toward them for the the 52 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,760 rebuilding of their lives. So I know they'll have insurance 53 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,840 money and such, but their stuff in the interim time, that can 54 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,640 just be overwhelming sometimes to contend with. 55 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,520 And so also this past week, Initiative for World Missions 56 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,560 was the Asia Pacific region trying to get to headquarters 57 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,600 built, one in Papua New Guinea and another one in the 58 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,200 Philippines to be a headquarters for those two places and also a 59 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,080 touch point for the Bible colleges. 60 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,400 And so as a church, we gave $1000 toward that initiative as 61 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,800 well, Amen, toward those headquarters until the whole 62 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,080 world knows, Amen. And so just to keep you apprised 63 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,920 of some of the things, Amen, that we invest in beyond the 64 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:26,280 walls of this assembly, right? So a lot of the money doesn't 65 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,920 just come in and mound up here. We have stuff that we keep 66 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:32,480 going, but we want to be a piece of conduit, Amen, for other 67 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,760 places as well. Acts 2 this morning, Acts 68 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,080 chapter #2 you know my spiel, don't you, that throughout the 69 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,160 year there are just things that I think that a church needs to 70 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,560 touch on every year. Every year. 71 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,720 There are certain things I have a list that I've made over the 72 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,960 years that I believe should be touch points every year at 73 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,360 somewhere along the journey. And so far this year we've 74 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:59,160 talked at one time, we talked about a faith, you know, the 75 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,200 whole concept of that he that cometh to God must believe that 76 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,680 he is and he is a rewarder of them, that diligence seek him. 77 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,720 We talked about the Holy Ghost on one Sunday. 78 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,160 We have talked about baptism this morning. 79 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:11,920 I want to back up in the plan of salvation. 80 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:13,760 I want to talk about repentance today. 81 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,200 Amen, repentance. But our heading today is From 82 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,480 regret to renewal, From regret to renewal. 83 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,440 Acts chapter #2 No better springboard from act than Acts 84 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:30,080 chapter #2 verses 37 and 38. Now when they heard this, they 85 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,600 were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter, and to the rest 86 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,040 of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? 87 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,560 Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized, every 88 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,440 one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of 89 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:49,800 sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost again. 90 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,840 My heading today is from regret to renewal. 91 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,320 From regret to renewal. Let's ask the Lord to help us in 92 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,400 the next little while. Father, we need you, Jesus, 93 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,480 today I pray Lord, you would open our minds. 94 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:06,600 And understanding God of this great Lord gift that's granted, 95 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,760 Lord, the gift of repentance, I pray Jesus, we understand it to 96 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,160 be very much so integral. Lord God to our initiation and 97 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,680 to this body, Lord, into this bride of Christ, Lord, along 98 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,000 with the gift of the Spirit, but God that is also a daily Lord 99 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,440 God thing that we interact with. Lord Jesus to keep our slates 100 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,920 clean. Lord, God to keep us the Lord 101 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,080 Jesus in good standing. Lord with you, we love and 102 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,360 appreciate you. Lord today God, anoint us the 103 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,120 Lord for the next little while and will not fail to thank you, 104 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,400 Lord, for what you accomplish and do in this place. 105 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,120 In the name of Jesus Christ that I pray, Amen, the church, Amen. 106 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,920 Amen. You may be seated this morning a 107 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:50,200 Sunday school teacher to ask the class what the word repentance 108 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,080 meant. And a little boy eagerly put up 109 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,440 his hand and said, it's it's being sorry for your sins, he 110 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,800 said. And then a little girl also 111 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,160 raised her hand and said, well, it's being sorry enough to quit. 112 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,480 And when we think about the word repentance, we think about the 113 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:12,480 topic of repentance. Many equate repentance only with 114 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:18,120 being sorry, or they equate it only with apologizing to God. 115 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,360 And sometimes people equate repentance, well, if they cried 116 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,320 then they repented. If they had some type of tears 117 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,440 or a certain degree of sorrow, then then they repented. 118 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,520 However, true repentance in many regards is none of those things. 119 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,320 Many of those things may accompany repentance, saying 120 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,400 I'm. Sorry or apologizing or tears or 121 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,760 some type of sorrow. But they must not be used as so 122 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,920 indicators that a person has repented. 123 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,440 Repentance is this according to the word of the Lord. 124 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,200 Repentance is to think differently or to think 125 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,080 afterwards. The word actually can convey and 126 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,960 is defined and acts as an afterthought. 127 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,320 Repentance is an afterthought. You know how it is in your real 128 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,840 life. You sometimes have afterthoughts 129 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,760 about things, right? You think differently than what 130 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,240 you thought before about the very same thing. 131 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:20,200 Repentance is that it's a afterthought or a second thought 132 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,800 about something for us in our lives concerning coming to the 133 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,840 Lord. That afterthought or that second 134 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,880 thought is how we thought about life and how we should conduct 135 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,360 life was one way before coming to the Lord. 136 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,560 But when we when we go to a season repentance, we have an 137 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,120 afterthought or a second thought in our whole view of how we 138 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,640 would approach life is different than what it was before. 139 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,320 How we approach life is different than how we would go 140 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,000 at it. It is in Scripture a change of 141 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,360 mind, a change of mind many times, even throughout the New 142 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,560 Testament. It is a regret for sins that 143 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,520 that result in a change of conduct. 144 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,720 Because when you have a mindset change, it affects your 145 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,720 behavior, right? You have a mindset change, it 146 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,120 affects your behavior. And we have said this many times 147 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,360 before, there's nothing that you do that doesn't first cross your 148 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,520 mind 1st. And so if I'm going to touch my 149 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,240 nose right now, I thought about that before I did it. 150 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,120 My mindset effects my behavior. And so when there's a change of 151 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,480 mind, which is repentance, it will it will impact the way in 152 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,120 which we behave. And so it's important because 153 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:35,640 repentance isn't just a regret for our past life or regret for 154 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,799 sin. It also then will affect our 155 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,840 mindset and our behavior. In the book of Acts chapter #2 156 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,240 many of you maybe are familiar with, but Peter has just 157 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,200 finished preaching the masterful sermon on the day of Pentecost. 158 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,600 He has talked to the crowds that day about basically the death of 159 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,880 Christ, and he brings it close to home whenever he lets them 160 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,760 realize that they indeed crucified what they were looking 161 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,160 for. They were awaiting and 162 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,680 anticipating the Messiah to come that had the answers to their 163 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,960 troubles and to their struggles. And Peter just basically let 164 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,240 them know and drew the line of connection for them. 165 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,440 This man Christ Jesus that you crucified, that was your 166 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,400 Messiah. And so as a result of this 167 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,480 realization, the people are having an afterthought, having 168 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,560 the second thought over what they had done. 169 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:29,640 Right. The crucifixion of the Lord 170 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:32,080 Jesus Christ. And so they turned to Peter, 171 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,480 wanting to know what? What shall we do? 172 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,560 They were in the moment dealing with regret, right? 173 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:41,240 I can't believe we did this. We crucified the very one that 174 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,960 we had been waiting for that Isaiah had prophesied about. 175 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:45,640 And so they were dealing with regret. 176 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,880 And so they're having a second thought or an afterthought about 177 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,920 what needed to be done. And so Peter told them very 178 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:57,080 plainly what needed to be done. And it all started with 179 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,680 repentance, that they needed to repent. 180 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:04,240 When when they realized that they had been responsible for 181 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:09,240 this deed, they wanted to think differently about the actions 182 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,240 that they had taken. What shall we do? 183 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,880 I know Peter, no doubt, is trying to assuage them. 184 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,080 I know you're dealing with regret right now, but the cure 185 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:23,000 to your regret is to repent, is to have a change of mind, is to 186 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,840 have a change of attitude, a change of reproach, of approach. 187 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:29,600 Amen. Because there's got to be a 188 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,600 conduct that's going to and a behavioral change that will take 189 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,440 place in your life. Look what the Bible says. 190 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:36,800 We have several scriptures today. 191 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,680 Look what the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 7 and verse #9 the 192 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:44,200 apostle Paul speaking to the church at Corinth. 193 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:51,360 He says, Now I rejoice not that ye were made sorry, but that ye 194 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:58,360 sorrowed to repentance, for ye were made sorry after a godly 195 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:03,200 manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 196 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:10,080 Verse 10 Four Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, 197 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:15,640 not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world worketh 198 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,880 death. The apostle Paul again writing 199 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,880 to the church at Corinth. And he, he, whenever he says 200 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:27,040 that I've written to you before or that I've made this known 201 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,680 unto you before, this is Second Corinthians. 202 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:33,000 He may be referring to the 1st letter of First Corinthians, but 203 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,600 nonetheless, he tells them in verse #8 if you back up a little 204 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,280 further, he tells them, I realize that I made you sorry 205 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,440 with my first letter. I realize I made you sorry. 206 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,760 And so he, he wrote the 1st letter, which is Corinthians, 207 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,080 first Corinthians. And he deals with all kinds of 208 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,240 problems. There's, there's divisions, 209 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,760 there's dissension, there's fornication, there's all kinds 210 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,560 of things that he deals with in that first letter that he 211 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:00,880 addresses them. And he says, I realized I may 212 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,880 have made you sorry because of addressing those things. 213 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,080 But he says I, I don't repent. I don't have a change of mind 214 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,320 over having made you sorry. I don't have a second thought 215 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:18,240 over have having made you sorry. Because I realize, he says, I 216 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:23,080 realize that that sorrow that came upon you has LED you and 217 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:27,360 guided you to a godly sorrow that has led to repentance in 218 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:28,880 your life. Amen. 219 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,320 A repentance that led unto salvation. 220 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,640 So I don't regret over having written this. 221 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,400 I don't regret at all. He's rejoicing. 222 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,640 As a matter of fact, the Bible says, he says, I rejoice that 223 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,680 you were made sorry. I rejoice that you were made 224 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:46,800 sorry, Amen. But that ye sorrowed to 225 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,680 repentance. In other words, you didn't just 226 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:54,200 sorrow with all the impacts and effects of feeling guilty or 227 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:58,520 feeling shame because that sometimes accompanies US feeling 228 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,640 sorry, he says. But it went further than that. 229 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:04,800 It, it impacted your actions. It impacted the way that you 230 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:09,040 thought about what you had done. You, you, you had regret, yes, 231 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:13,680 but that regret materialized into a change of mind, which in 232 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:18,440 the end affected your behavior. You, you repented over what you 233 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:19,920 had done. Amen. 234 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,440 Because being sorry and experiencing sorrow in First 235 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,680 Corinth, Second Corinthians is not just the same as repentance. 236 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,720 He distinguishes the two. The apostle Paul does. 237 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,440 He distinguishes the two. He says he were made sorry, he 238 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,360 said, and then you sorrowed to repentance, right? 239 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,520 Because you can feel shameful and guilty without having a 240 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,480 change of mind toward what you have done. 241 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,720 Amen. You, you, you. 242 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,160 You can feel shameful. The boy caught by his mother 243 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,040 with his hand in the cookie jar can feel guilty in the moment 244 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,280 that mom caught him, but you know a few hours later have his 245 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,600 hand in the cookie jar. You understand what I'm saying? 246 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,600 So you can feel guilty and sorry for over something, but 247 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,800 repentance is a attitude and behavioral change. 248 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:09,960 Amen. Attitude and behavioral change. 249 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,600 Even in the Old Testament we read of the story like the book 250 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,960 of Roof and her sister Orpha, and we understand that Naomi was 251 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:24,880 going to go and these two girls were going to accompany her. 252 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,400 And both of them, the Bible says they left, lifted up their 253 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:33,120 voices and that they wept and they hugged Naomi. 254 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,040 But the Bible says Orpa that she hugged her and wept, but she 255 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,160 stayed with her family and with her little GODS, gods and, and 256 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,360 her ways. But the Bible says Ruth, after 257 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:49,280 having claved to her, she went with Naomi all the way to 258 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,560 Bethlehem, Judah to serve the Lord. 259 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:57,080 Both had tears, both had remorse, but the outcome of both 260 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,040 was vastly different because there's a difference just 261 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,680 between and then having a change of mind. 262 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,800 One was sorrowful for it all but went back to their gods, but 263 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:11,640 another was sorrowful and went on to adopt the God of Israel as 264 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:13,960 their God. All right, so there is a vast 265 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,720 difference. Paul said what he said to them. 266 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,760 He didn't say it to injure them. Paul said what he said to them 267 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,120 in his first letter to benefit them because surely, no doubt, 268 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,160 because of what he said, addressing those different 269 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,240 things of dissension and division that was in the church 270 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:34,600 at Corinth, no doubt they felt a certain amount of conviction 271 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:39,480 about what they had done, Amen. And about ultimately what took 272 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,720 place. And so they were sorry, yes, but 273 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,600 he says you were even then sorry after a godly manner. 274 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,600 And this happens whenever I understand and realize that my 275 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,720 actions on the surface are more than just actions that was 276 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,320 against another individual. Dissension, right? 277 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,000 Division among people. Yeah, that seems to be like a 278 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,280 wrong between me and another person. 279 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,840 But anything in this world that appears like that goes further 280 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,920 than that. It's a wrong between me and God. 281 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,360 Huh. David understood it in his 282 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,840 Psalms 51 prayer. Whenever he talked about that, 283 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,640 he acknowledged his transgression and that his sin 284 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,720 was ever before me. He says my sin is ever before 285 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,240 me. He said in verse #4 Psalms 51 286 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,600 Against thee. He's speaking to God. 287 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,640 He's praying to God, he said against thee, God the only have 288 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,400 I sinned and done this evil on thy sight, that thou mightest be 289 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,440 justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judges. 290 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,440 David understood that he had done some things in his life 291 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:45,160 that was against a man and involved different people right 292 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:46,600 there. There have been murder. 293 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,960 There'd been other things in David's life that he had done 294 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,280 that no doubt was an offence to other people. 295 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,160 But whenever David really backed up, he says, I understand that 296 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,120 this just wasn't against this one or against that that one, 297 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,800 but in reality that the real target sources, this was a sin 298 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,280 that was against God because sin of whatever level it is, is 299 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,319 always against God. It's always against God. 300 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,960 Amen. And so David, sorry here in 301 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,839 Scripture, he's sorry after a Godly sort. 302 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:19,280 Why? Because it's leading him to 303 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:24,040 repentance, it's leading him to a change of mind and a change of 304 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,040 behavior. Those things that were in 305 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,600 opposition against God. He doesn't want to repeat that. 306 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,920 He doesn't want to have a reoccurrence of that. 307 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,040 He's wanting to go beyond that. So the sorrow of the world that 308 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,400 that the apostle Paul speaks of Corinthians, the sorrow of the 309 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,040 world is just a sorrow again of the feelings of the guilt and 310 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,680 the shame. But a godly sorrow will move you 311 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,600 from that that degree to a place of repentance, a place of 312 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:51,480 repentance with the Lord. Amen. 313 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,880 William Barclay said this. He said many of men is 314 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,680 desperately sorry because of the mess that sin has got him into. 315 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:04,000 But he very well knows that if he could be reasonably sure that 316 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,640 he could escape the consequences, he would do the 317 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,800 same thing again. It is not the sin that he hates, 318 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,440 it is the consequences. I think. 319 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,280 I mean, I really like doing some stuff I did growing up and I 320 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,720 got, you know, my backside thinned out as a result of it. 321 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,920 I would probably still do it if I didn't live with the 322 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,600 consequence of my backside being thinned out over. 323 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,360 And it took five or six times for that even to get through. 324 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,280 I'm thick skinned, I guess, but it's the consequences. 325 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,040 Repentance, though, isn't just a New Testament idea. 326 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,920 We see it stated very plainly as repentance in the New Testament, 327 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,800 but it's also found in the Old Testament as well. 328 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:48,200 In the Old Testament it takes on a, a, a different shade. 329 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,440 It's not just blatantly spoken of as repentance in the Old 330 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,720 Testament. It's often in the term when you 331 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,000 see the term return or turning away or turning from. 332 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:02,360 That's the way repentance is depicted in the Old Testament. 333 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,720 And you see people in the Old Testament, they may repent about 334 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,200 something good or they may repent about something that they 335 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,120 may turn away from something that was good or turn away from 336 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:13,320 something that was bad. There are people that turned 337 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,480 away from the Lord. Well that that turning in itself 338 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:21,640 is is a a repentance, a turning away from something that that is 339 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,840 good as a God, a dog, a dog not a God backwards. 340 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:30,520 That's what it spells a dog returneth saying Hebrew word 341 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:36,480 used for repent in Ezekiel that a dog returneth to his vomit. 342 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:41,000 So there is this turning that is the concept of repentance in the 343 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,920 Old Testament. It meant to retreat. 344 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:49,360 It was 180° turn. It was an about face, if you 345 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:53,920 will, a change in direction, a change in direction from where 346 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,920 you opposite from opposite direction of what you were 347 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,000 going. It's that turning. 348 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:03,360 So whenever we read in the Old Testament the word repent in our 349 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:06,960 in our English Bibles. Again, the idea many times is 350 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,640 not that word repent, but the turning or the returning that's 351 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,960 taking place, which is indicating to us there is 352 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,760 repentance that is happening. Someone is turning around, 353 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,360 returning, turning back. For instance, in Hosea chapter 354 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:28,320 14 and verse #1 the Bible says, O Israel, return unto the Lord 355 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:33,640 thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 356 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:40,680 Verse two he says, take with you words, and turn to the Lord, say 357 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,680 unto him, take away all iniquity, and receive us 358 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:50,600 graciously, so we will render the calves of our lips. 359 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,000 Another example of the Old Testament in the minor Prophet 360 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,800 of Malachi chapter 3 and verse 7. 361 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,960 It says, even from the days of your father's, ye are gone away 362 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,400 from my ordinances and have not kept them. 363 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,440 He says, Return unto me, Speaking of repentance, there 364 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,520 return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord 365 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,960 of hosts. But ye said, wherein shall we 366 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,560 return? So scholars have concluded that 367 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:24,600 there are a total of about 164 uses of repent as turning or 368 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,680 returning in the Old Testament text. 369 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:31,800 All right, that turning back, that returning, that turning 370 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,120 away from God or turning back toward God, most of them are 371 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:37,760 found among the prophets. Jeremiah leads the way. 372 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,720 Most of them are in the book of Jeremiah because he is 373 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:46,120 constantly urging the people to return unto the Lord, to repent. 374 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:50,600 He's a constant herald to the people of his day of warning, 375 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:51,560 right? He's given. 376 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,080 He's called the weeping prophet number one because he gives a 377 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,000 warning that most people do not heed. 378 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,040 And that's what grieves his heart. 379 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,920 He's trying to be a staple of a warning. 380 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,320 He's pleading with them to turn. He's pleading with them to 381 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,800 return to God. But most of many of them do not 382 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,080 turn. And so he even gives them some 383 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:16,560 detailed information on how to change their ways, but again, 384 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,520 many of them refused. Jeremiah then summarizes, if I, 385 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:24,480 if I can, he summarize repentance in one verse, He 386 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,480 summarizes it. It's kind of like encapsulated 387 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,720 in Jeremiah 18 and verse #11 this is what Jeremiah says. 388 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,520 Now therefore go to speak to the men of Judah and to the 389 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:41,040 inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord, 390 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:47,680 behold, I frame evil against you and devise a device against you. 391 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,120 Now note the instruction. Return. 392 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:58,360 He's telling us what to do Repentance return ye now he's 393 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:03,080 telling us when to do it, Huh. You should repent and you should 394 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,600 repent now. Let me even say this this 395 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,480 morning. Repentance is not anything to 396 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,600 delay about. Repentance isn't anything to 397 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,400 delay about. Do it now. 398 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,960 Then he encompasses who should do it. 399 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:23,480 He said everyone, everyone, we all guess what, we all have 400 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,760 sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 401 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,360 There's none righteous, no, not one. 402 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,800 The scripture says all should repent. 403 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:39,320 Now, according to Jeremiah, look from what? 404 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,920 From his evil way and make your ways and your doings good. 405 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,640 So you need to turn from that and you need to turn toward 406 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,000 this. It's that about face. 407 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,720 I'm turning away from the evil way and I'm turning now and 408 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,440 that's repentance. And so I want to turn to the 409 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,680 good way and I need to do that now and everyone needs to do it. 410 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,880 It's not as though I need to repent and brother Malone 411 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,840 doesn't need to repent. It's not as though, you know, 412 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:09,680 the person that has, you know, a parent, all this bad stuff, they 413 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,880 need to repent. And someone that's just a good 414 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,040 moral individual that has good devotion doesn't need to repent. 415 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,040 It doesn't matter. Amen. 416 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:23,000 Cornelius who gave alms to the church had to repent Amen. 417 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,960 No one is no one is afforded a do not have to repent card. 418 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,280 We are all ever since Adam, we've all been born into this 419 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,240 Adamic nature and so there is a sin nature then that comes with 420 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,720 that we need repentance and for that matter, it's not just a 421 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,400 need it is a gift just as the the receiving the Holy Ghost is 422 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,640 a gift. Repentance is a gift for us as 423 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:49,160 well that God is extended unto us that we couldn't have a a way 424 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,960 in the means where we can become at one or atonement with God at 425 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:54,920 one with God again they turning around. 426 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,320 Listen if you find yourself in a bad place in life. 427 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,640 God through repentance is providing you a turn around. 428 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,480 Have you ever been anywhere that that that you really wasn't 429 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,320 familiar with you took the wrong Rd. been in those cities that 430 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,120 downtown all it is in one way streets and you found yourself 431 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:14,560 driving the wrong way on a one way and you're like I need to 432 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,120 find somewhere that I can you know get this thing switched. 433 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:19,840 It's a parking lot some other street where I get this thing 434 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,040 turned around. Ladies and gentlemen, if you are 435 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,960 in a position day where you are in the wrong place at the wrong 436 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:32,760 time, it seems repentance always provides a turn around, Amen. 437 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,040 It provides a turn around to you, Amen. 438 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,640 So there's, there's, there's, there's no, no options. 439 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,040 I know, I know. Jeremiah was here speaking to 440 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,360 the men of Judah and the men of Jerusalem, the inhabitants, but 441 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:52,520 he's really speaking to us all. Paul told them in the book of 442 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,440 Acts on Mars Hill as he spoke to people of different different 443 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,120 beliefs and such. He said now he said that God 444 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:05,120 commendeth all men everywhere to repent. 445 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,840 He said he weak, he winketh at ignorance once so, but now he 446 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,800 commandeth all men everywhere to repent. 447 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,480 So there's no options to repentance. 448 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,280 It is a mandate of Scripture, such a mandate you read in Luke 449 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,240 and some of the other gospels, the mandate is this repent or 450 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,440 perish. Now that's bold, that's heavy, 451 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,880 but that undergirds the importance of repentance. 452 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,240 And so there is a way that God brings then repentance into our 453 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,920 lives. Everyone, probably. 454 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,600 Has felt it at a time or another. 455 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,280 It's called. Conviction. 456 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:46,360 You ever felt in the? Service, something being said, 457 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:49,400 taught, preached, whatever. Maybe none of that, but you just 458 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,680 kind of felt something come on you about maybe some change or 459 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,280 alteration you need. Just like man, I just need to go 460 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,080 to the altar and pray. Conviction. 461 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,840 You don't. Find the word conviction in the 462 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,480 King James Version of our Bible. But there are. 463 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,200 Some Greek words in the Bible that. 464 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,960 Mean. Conviction or to convict John 16 465 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:17,960 and verse #8 And when he is come, the he that is being 466 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:22,080 referred to is the Holy Ghost, or the Spirit of God, he will 467 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:28,360 reprove that word. Reprove means convict the world 468 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:30,600 of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. 469 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,800 Paul also was writing in a letter to Timothy, his protege 470 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,880 in the Gospel, and he wrote. In second. 471 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:41,120 Timothy 4 and verse #2 he tells Timothy he said preach the word 472 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,280 be instant in season and out of season. 473 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,440 Again, reprove, that's the word. Convict, all right, meaning 474 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,560 convict, rebuke, extort with all long-suffering and doctrine. 475 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,840 And so he said, Timothy said, when and when men of God handle 476 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,840 the Word and preach the Word, Amen. 477 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,120 And even at the day of Pentecost, whenever the Spirit 478 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:03,640 of the Lord come down, it will come, and it will bring 479 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:08,720 conviction unto the hearts of humanity, to the hearts of those 480 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,960 that hear it, if they will allow it. 481 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,480 And so repentance may start. Then, after someone feels 482 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,000 conviction and has an afterthought or a second thought 483 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:22,720 about the way that they had been living life, a man will not 484 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:27,000 repent until there's something that provokes him to think 485 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,120 differently about the way that he has lived. 486 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,080 Absolutely, unless there's something. 487 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,680 That provokes you to start thinking differently about the 488 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,120 way that you've lived life up to that point of time of 489 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,720 conversion. You won't do anything about it. 490 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,440 That's the reason why I called this a gift from God. 491 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,160 God is in every step, repentance, baptism in the 492 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,120 infill into the Holy Ghost. He is in every step of the plan 493 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,000 of salvation. The Bible tells us in Acts 11 494 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,440 and verse 18. Then hath God also to the 495 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:04,520 Gentiles, granted, That's the operative word, granted 496 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,440 repentance unto life. Repentance is something that God 497 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,880 grants. It says also in second Timothy 2 498 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:16,280 and verse 25, there's a phrase there that says if God pre 499 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,640 adventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging 500 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,160 of the truth, what God pre adventure will give them, he 501 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,600 grants it. He gives it all right, Romans 502 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,880 two and four again, a phrase there, not knowing that the 503 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:36,280 goodness of God, the Scripture says, leadeth thee to 504 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,560 repentance. God sometimes is wooing you. 505 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,960 God. Woos you through his goodness, 506 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:50,800 God woos you through his mercy, God woos you through his grace 507 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,760 because you're like, I shouldn't really be accepting this from 508 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,160 God. God's doing this. 509 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,240 I, I can't believe he's such a merciful God. 510 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,720 I, I can't believe he's being so gracious over this. 511 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,080 And what does that do? That it draws us to God because 512 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,600 we're receiving something we shouldn't be deserving, and 513 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,960 we're drawn to that. You know what God's doing? 514 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:15,680 He's leading us. He's leading us to a place of 515 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,680 repentance. Amen. 516 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,880 Second Peter chapter #3 and verse number lot 9. 517 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:25,520 The Bible says that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise 518 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,160 that some men count slackness, but is long-suffering. 519 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,640 Someone needs to say Amen right there. 520 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,320 Thank God, He's long-suffering to us. 521 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,560 Word not willing that any everybody say any not willing 522 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,080 that any should perish. But that all. 523 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,440 Should come to repentance. Peter. 524 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,720 Is addressing something right now in this hour, there have 525 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:54,440 been some some things going on among the people speaking about 526 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,360 how everything had just been the same since creation. 527 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,080 Nothing's really changed. People's talked about the Lord 528 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,080 to come back and he's not coming back yet. 529 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,640 And so Peter stood up to address the situation. 530 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,000 He says, I know you're saying, well, all things have just 531 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,760 remained the same. Nothing has changed. 532 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,840 And people saying the Lord's supposed to come back, but 533 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,520 you've not seen, you know him, a robe of him, you know, coming 534 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,520 back yet He says, but let me tell you something, the Lord is 535 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,360 not slack concerning his promise. 536 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,240 He is and will indeed come back. What you are, what you are 537 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:28,520 experiencing and believe is delay is God's mercy. 538 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,480 Says what your. Terming as well. 539 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,880 He's late. Is God being patient? 540 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,520 He's not slack concerning His promises. 541 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,040 Something count slackness. You're experiencing the 542 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:49,080 long-suffering of God, the long-suffering of God. 543 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,240 That's towards humanity because he don't want to see anybody 544 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,760 perish. If he could, he would love just 545 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,280 to back them all up and take him with him. 546 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,480 But we know that's not the case. We know that's not going to 547 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,600 happen. Many are called fear chosen. 548 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,520 We know that the gate in the way it's straight, it's narrow, 549 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,120 right? And few there be that find it. 550 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,440 But if he would he don't want any to perish. 551 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,440 So he's a patient God. He's a long-suffering God and we 552 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,240 wait from generation to generation and time and time. 553 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,480 Why? With hopes that somebody else 554 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,160 would find the place of repentance. 555 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,280 With hopes that somebody else would be wooed by that grace and 556 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,000 wooed by that mercy and find a place, repentance. 557 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000 That's not God being late. That's not God. 558 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,360 That's not God. Forgetting. 559 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,400 The appointment, That's God being merciful. 560 00:32:39,060 --> 00:32:42,380 Twins, you singing new? Years ago, we cry away a little 561 00:32:42,380 --> 00:32:47,020 longer. Please Jesus, there are so. 562 00:32:47,020 --> 00:32:50,980 Many wander now and sin. You know what that is? 563 00:32:51,260 --> 00:32:55,780 That's Second Peter, 39, whose long-suffering toward us. 564 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,680 Amen. So he really. 565 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,880 Desires all listen us each, every one of us all to come to a 566 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,600 place of repentance. The word come there in second 567 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,920 Peter 39 but that we all should come, that is the Greek word 568 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,680 which means to make room for something or to give place to to 569 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,760 receive it. So it's his desire that all 570 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,560 should come. He's making room for us, huh? 571 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,880 He's given. Place for us to receive that 572 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,280 repentance. That. 573 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,160 Burial in Jesus name, that infilling of the Holy Ghost. 574 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,680 Don't you know that God really wants to prepare a place for 575 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,200 you? He wants to do that. 576 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:43,640 He wants to give a place for that. 577 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,880 It's more than repentance then is more than an afterthought. 578 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,800 It's more than in a mental change of attitude or mind. 579 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,480 It's more than just feeling a remorse. 580 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:57,400 Ultimately, it is going to impact again our actions. 581 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,680 The Bible says in First Thessalonians one and verse #9 582 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:08,400 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we 583 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:16,360 had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the 584 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,159 living and true God. Again repentance played out. 585 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,400 You turn to God, what did you turn from? 586 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,639 You can't turn towards something. 587 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:27,440 Without turning away from something. 588 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:33,159 It's an impossibility I've said this for. 589 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:36,040 Years, but it's an impossibility right now. 590 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:41,719 I am turned toward Zack McGee. But I can't turn away from Zach 591 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,400 McGee without turning toward something else. 592 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:53,520 It's a impossibility with the same reasoning is I can't turn, 593 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,960 I can't turn away. So if I turn away from idols, if 594 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,480 I turn away from false gods and I'm turning toward God, I've 595 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,040 turned my back. Then on everything else, Sister 596 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,720 Jim Cruz, whatever is in front of me has my undivided 597 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:10,240 attention. That's where my focus is. 598 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,200 My mom used to tell me. Christy, Paul, Robert, look at 599 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:14,600 me. You know what she wanted? 600 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,360 She wanted my undivided. I'm sitting. 601 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,120 There. You know she'd want my undivided 602 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,920 attention. They even say if you're talking 603 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,800 to somebody and your feet are not pointing toward them, but 604 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,200 diverted in another direction, you're really not interested in 605 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,040 what they have to say. Now everybody around. 606 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,240 The church is going to start looking at other people's feet 607 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,240 as they're talking. We just created. 608 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:37,920 A problem? Well, God help me. 609 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,080 But. The reason why I say that I 610 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,160 found myself doing that a few times this week. 611 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,240 I like I was going to turn the inter direction by someone's 612 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:46,960 talking like McGee. Straighten up there, you know. 613 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,560 Just in case somebody. Else knows. 614 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,280 Amen. But you, you. 615 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:54,240 You. Turn You you. 616 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,200 You turn away from things as you turn toward God. 617 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:00,800 And when you turn toward God, you are turning your back on 618 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,040 many other things. So what was life prior to God 619 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,360 when you turn toward? God, you're turning your back on 620 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:12,280 some of those things. Matthew 3 and verse #7 the Bible 621 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,360 says. But when he saw many of the 622 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,760 Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism. 623 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,920 He said unto. Them, O generation of Vipers, 624 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,360 who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 625 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:35,040 Verse eight, he said Bring forth therefore fruits meet for 626 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,040 repentance. He says bring forth notice 627 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,480 there's an urgency here. There's that now you know 628 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:47,920 urgency that said bring forth. He says what fruit bring forth 629 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,760 fruit and we we have. In the very natural world, we 630 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,000 have fruit trees, yes, and we can identify the fruit trees 631 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,280 predominantly by the fruit that they bear. 632 00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,600 We know it's an orange tree because it has an orange on an 633 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,600 apple tree because it has an apple tree on it, right? 634 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,640 What we produce that other people can see and then we can 635 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,600 categorize that by the fruit that is being born, he says. 636 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,680 Bring forth fruit. He says something that. 637 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:16,680 Something that's tangible, something that can be 638 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,440 observable. Fruits, meat. 639 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,000 The word meat there is interesting. 640 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,920 It's the idea of that, whatever fruit you're bringing forth. 641 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,920 Has equal. Weight or worth to a repented 642 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,320 life Someone hear me right now that whatever you're bringing 643 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,800 forth has equal weight or worth to a repented fruits meet for 644 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,320 repentance. I'm bringing forth fruit that 645 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,880 that has an amended, if you will, outcome. 646 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,160 That. Equalizes the repentance and the 647 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,400 turning and the change of mind and the change of behavior that 648 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,840 I'm participating in. And for that? 649 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,840 Matter whenever we talk about that second step in the plan of 650 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:11,160 salvation in Acts 238. Repent and be baptized. 651 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,800 John. Said he said if you've come for 652 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,000 baptism, he said, then you must have repented. 653 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:23,080 Now, John, he said. You're coming. 654 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,120 Out here, you brood of art, what did you, what did you come out 655 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,280 here to see her? Do you plan on being baptized? 656 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,960 If so, bring forth fruits. Because there ain't no. 657 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,680 Baptism going to take place unless there's been a repentance 658 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,000 that has happened. Amen. 659 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,080 Unless there's some some evident product that is equal in weight 660 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:46,280 and worth to your repentance, your your fruit, your fruit must 661 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,960 smear a life that is turning from the old right toward the 662 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,360 new. That that that desire should be 663 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,800 there. That, that, that, that, that, 664 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,320 you know, you see it in people whenever they start wanting to 665 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,960 attend church more faithfully and they seem to be leaning in a 666 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,640 little bit more and they're start having. 667 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,160 Questions about baptism and other things. 668 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,200 What do they do under? There's that leaning in. 669 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,480 There's there's fruits that are starting to be bored in their 670 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,640 life. No one hears the fact of the 671 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,400 matter. Nobody can repent for you. 672 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,120 And if God. Fills us with the Holy Ghost and 673 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:25,320 we usually have the participant of another person that places in 674 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,680 us in the water and evokes the name of Christ over life and 675 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,600 repentance. Yes, He grants that to us, but 676 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:38,640 nobody can repent for you. His Spirit and His Word can 677 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,040 convict us. But it's still. 678 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:50,200 On our shoulders, to repent, to turn, to change our mind in 679 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,640 scripture. Repentance. 680 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,400 You read of it in Romans. But repentance and baptism, then 681 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,200 filling the Holy Ghost mirrors and parallels. 682 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,560 The gospel or the death? Burial and resurrection of Jesus 683 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,760 Christ. Repentance is parallel to the 684 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:12,240 crucifix of Jesus Christ. We are dying to the old life. 685 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:17,360 We're dying out to the old ways, they said. 686 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,520 Well, Brother McGee, people crucified the Lord. 687 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:22,600 Wait a minute. They couldn't take his life if 688 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,320 he didn't give his life. I know from this stance we're 689 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:27,760 looking at. They crucified him. 690 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,520 Nobody could have taken the Lord's life if he had not given 691 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,440 it to be taken. What are you saying? 692 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:39,200 Repentance involves you. Repentance revolves in your 693 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,600 will. Letting go, it involves in you 694 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,440 surrendering, right? No one could take Christ's life. 695 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,840 He gave it for them to take. And so we surrender our old 696 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,440 selves, our old ways, our old tactics, our owed acts. 697 00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:00,000 What to the process of a dying out to the process, if you will, 698 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,600 of a crucifixion, Amen. That's repentance. 699 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,920 And the glorious thing is this, when you're baptized in Jesus 700 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,680 name, you don't come up the same person that you were before you 701 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,600 went down in Jesus name. The Bible talks about this, this 702 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,080 whole concept of of a resurrection that takes place, 703 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,360 which is similar to our baptism, that the thing that is planning 704 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,200 is not like the thing that shoots up. 705 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,760 It speaks in Scripture that you you take a seed and you put it 706 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,720 in the ground. That which comes forth from the 707 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:33,280 ground isn't just like the seed. Yeah, you might have corn on the 708 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,920 cob and stuff like that, but it is absolutely, it's a different 709 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,480 thing. The oak, that that little acorn 710 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,320 that's put in the ground, that oak tree looks a whole lot 711 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,520 different than the acorn. There's a different that happens 712 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,880 in the resurrection. What happens in the ground, The 713 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,600 shell of that acorn is surrendered to the ground. 714 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:54,120 It's buried in the ground. It's surrendering it's old 715 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,280 makeup to the ground. And what happens through 716 00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:01,600 germination, The shell of that seed is cracked open and 717 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,760 something starts to surface and grow out of that, this little 718 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,160 green shoe that's going to turn into a formable oak tree. 719 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,880 Amen. It's not the same as it was. 720 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,760 It's different, Amen. Old things are passed away. 721 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,640 Behold, all things become new, Amen. 722 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,520 Be a horrible thing just to be the same. 723 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,000 Oh, same old. Huh. 724 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,040 But there's power in. His name and his blood to take. 725 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,280 Care of all that and I might. Not have it all together, I 726 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,440 realize that. I might not have it all. 727 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,560 Together. But there's aspects of my life 728 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:44,160 that I understand that my former way of living is not acceptable 729 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,520 in the sight of God as well. There's things every day that 730 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,680 Paul McGee realizes about Paul McGee. 731 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:55,200 As. I take daily portions of his 732 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,520 word I. Show up then. 733 00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,720 For service and hear the word talk and preach. 734 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:08,120 I mean, for years now as a kid, I was brought up, you know, to, 735 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,120 to read the word and to pray, to attend church and all that. 736 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,960 And after all these years, there are still things that Paul McGee 737 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,720 is finding when I read the Word. That. 738 00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:23,720 Needs course correction that needs adjustment. 739 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,400 Or that I've. I've lost ground on. 740 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:31,120 And you know what? That. 741 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,600 Allows me for even after my initial experience of 742 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,040 repentance, I can repent every day. 743 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,360 And say God. In this area and that area, I 744 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,680 reckon I have failed today. I have failed today. 745 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:50,480 But I know, I know that your work is a good work and that you 746 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,680 don't have to go to the cross again in order to take care of 747 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,360 what I did today. Your. 748 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,400 Work is good enough to take care of what I did today. 749 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:02,200 Today anyway, although it's thousands of years old. 750 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,120 And so I go to the Lord. That's what Paul meant when he 751 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,120 said that he dies daily. He goes to a place of 752 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,480 repentance. That dying. 753 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:11,480 That. Equalization. 754 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,600 And so I realized that. Amen. 755 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,600 Stand with me today. Repentance. 756 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,720 It's important. It's important. 757 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,400 It's important for salvation. It's important for Christian 758 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:26,080 living. All right for salvation. 759 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,680 And for Christian? Living. 760 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,720 And we need not, we need not minimize the importance of 761 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:35,200 repentance in our lives. All right? 762 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,040 We don't, we don't want to join the ranks of the elder brother. 763 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:44,080 Brother of the prodigal story. All right, repentance is. 764 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,160 Important. You read in Luke 15 all the 765 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,760 different stories of of the lost sheep, that the man who left the 766 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,120 99 went and found the one and brought it back. 767 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,200 And the Bible talks about how there's joy in heaven over one 768 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,240 who repents. You read then the other story. 769 00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:00,880 The woman had 10 coins and she lost one of those coins. 770 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,720 She swept all the house very diligently to find that one 771 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:05,280 coin. When she did, she rejoiced. 772 00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,360 And again there is the the initiation that there is joy in 773 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:12,400 heaven over a Sinner that repents heaven. 774 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,840 If heaven rejoices over repentance, earth needs to 775 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:19,360 rejoice over repentance. And then there's the two sons 776 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,600 and one. He asked everything of his 777 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,560 Father and he leaves. And he does all these. 778 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,480 Things in a far country, and he comes. 779 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,720 To his awareness that is there not even bread to spare in my 780 00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:32,040 father's house while he's here at a pig through. 781 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,480 So to speak and. He goes back home and his father 782 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:39,640 wants to celebrate and have this celebration because his son has 783 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,480 come back. But it's in all of that that 784 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,120 what we have the elder brother that didn't want to join in on 785 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:50,200 the celebration because his brother had an afterthought or a 786 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,320 second thought. It's important. 787 00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,240 Don't, don't, don't. Join the forces of the elder 788 00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:57,960 brother that doesn't want to celebrate and make merry. 789 00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,200 We need to celebrate, make merry every time someone repents. 790 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,840 Before they're bad. We'll celebrate at baptism, 791 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,800 we'll celebrate at the infilling of the Holy Ghost, but we need 792 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,520 to celebrate at repentance. We need to celebrate at the 793 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,720 exercise of faith. There is no, there is no degree 794 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:15,320 or level that we don't need to be celebrating over people's 795 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,840 conversion. Amen. 796 00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,760 Repentance is important. It's a part of our daily. 797 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,560 If I could call it that maintenance program with the 798 00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,960 Lord. And we never get into a place 799 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:29,960 where we are above or beyond repentance. 800 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,400 We all need it, Amen. And there's probably something 801 00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,560 I'm going to do today that's kind of stupid. 802 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,040 Welcome to this classification called Humanity. 803 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:44,320 Amen. I'm not. 804 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,600 Yet shaking a hand of a perfect person. 805 00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,440 And if I did it? It'd rub off on me. 806 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:54,480 We need a spirit of. Repentance. 807 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,640 We need a spirit of repentance in our church. 808 00:47:02,590 --> 00:47:05,390 Because I believe. If I if I'll approach my life as 809 00:47:05,390 --> 00:47:07,030 a Christian knowing that you know what? 810 00:47:07,030 --> 00:47:09,270 I don't have it all together in a bag of chips. 811 00:47:10,190 --> 00:47:12,030 Then I think. That creates an environment for 812 00:47:12,030 --> 00:47:15,750 other people to have a similar feeling and a greater likelihood 813 00:47:15,750 --> 00:47:20,070 that we all can be open with God about where we really are. 814 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:23,440 If we could. Just bow our. 815 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,120 Heads in this place. I'm just wondering if there's 816 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,440 anybody that would join me in this altar today. 817 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:33,920 See, Brother McGee, I'm having some afterthoughts, some second 818 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,400 thoughts. About the way. 819 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,800 That I have maybe approached life in certain areas of life 820 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,040 and. I have sorrow. 821 00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,720 Yes, but I want it to be a godly sorrow that that. 822 00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:51,760 Initiates a change of thinking that then spawns into. 823 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,680 A change of behavior can we today as people, can we come for 824 00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:00,680 those that will say, Lord, I'm coming to you today because I 825 00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,920 understand that my righteousness is as filthy rags. 826 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:09,000 I understand that Lord. But God, I want to bring this to 827 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,640 you today. This is more than just me with 828 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:16,080 sorrow or me with an apology. This with this is me, God with a 829 00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:19,640 turn around. This is me with a turn around in 830 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,840 my life. I pray, O God, today, Lord, I I 831 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,520 have failed and I have made mistakes and I have faltered and 832 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:32,360 I have misstepped, but God, I come to you, for you know me, 833 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:34,800 God, you know that I am but dust. 834 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,320 You know, my friend, I pray O. God. 835 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:42,680 Today I surrender all unto you this morning, Lord, I surrender 836 00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:46,720 all unto you this morning, Lord, Hallelujah. 837 00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:50,840 Repentance is important, ladies and gentlemen, again, I, I can't 838 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,800 repent for you, your neighbor, your mother, your father, your 839 00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:55,640 sister. No one can do it for you. 840 00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:00,760 We got to approach the Lord all hey man, by ourselves, so to 841 00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:05,160 speak and say, God, here am I. I'm a man of unclean lips and I 842 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,120 dwell among the people of unclean lips. 843 00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:11,360 Oh Lord, God, purge me, Jesus, purge me. 844 00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:15,120 Jesus, I want to live the way that you want me to live. 845 00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,840 I want Lord Jesus, to offer myself unto you. 846 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:23,240 I know God, it's impure, and I know God, it's imperfect, but 847 00:49:23,240 --> 00:49:25,920 God, can you just touch me afresh and anew? 848 00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:28,720 If you've never received the gift of the Holy Ghost, have you 849 00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:30,800 never been baptized this morning? 850 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:34,080 Repentance is a very good first step. 851 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,920 Amen toward all of that. It's a necessary step before 852 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:43,120 baptism. Amen God this old flesh God help 853 00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,600 me Lord crucify this old flesh. I want to approach like 854 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,320 differently Lord God than when I approach like this far God if 855 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,880 you'll help me, if you'll enable me, if you'll empower me. 856 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,680 I pray Jesus you're able Lord today to help us brother Mason 857 00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,760 as you prepare a song I I wish that you'd be praying in your 858 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,760 Pew this morning right where you're at. 859 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,320 You don't necessarily have to come up here, but right where 860 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,960 you're at. You can make a petition to God, 861 00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,000 say here am I God, understand God. 862 00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,080 It's not that you're late, you are going to come back. 863 00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,240 You're just being long-suffering for people that still yet need 864 00:50:17,240 --> 00:50:21,200 to find a place of repentance. You're just being merciful and 865 00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,360 gracious. You're willing them, you're 866 00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,880 trying to lead them to a place of repentance. 867 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:30,040 That's really what it's about, the long-suffering of God. 868 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:42,800 Hallelujah. Thank you for listening. 869 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,520 If you would like more information about our services 870 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,760 and activities, you can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and 871 00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:54,480 Twitter with the username FACMC. Again, that's FACMC. 872 00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,440 Thank you and have a blessed day. 873 00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:04,400 You can go. To Facebook.