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 --> 00:00:11,480 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,480 --> 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 --> 00:00:24,720 by today's podcast, the House of the Lord. 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,880 Glad to see you here. Amen. 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:28,600 Glad to have Carolyn with us today. 9 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,560 Tracy's mom, Glenna, and Ray's grandma. 10 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:37,360 And well, Aiden's a boyfriend to Glenna, so I really don't know 11 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,240 where that fits in the mix, but nonetheless, Amen. 12 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,440 Glad to have her with us today. She watches pretty faithfully 13 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,000 online, Amen. But it's glad to have her in 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,360 person this morning. Amen with us. 15 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,760 We appreciate her, Amen. Also want to thank all those 16 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,760 that helped this past week as far as connect groups, think 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,600 Brother Zach McGee for our men's group and then Sister Sheila for 18 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,280 our women's group. And also just thank the church 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,240 for praying for my wife's father as we were gone and see, you 20 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,200 know, suffer from a mild heart attack while we were down there. 21 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,200 And so we're thankful for your prayers. 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:13,240 Amen. And support concerning that. 23 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,880 Grateful today for we're looking forward to our missionaries 24 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,920 being with us tonight. You please don't miss that 25 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:20,400 service. Come and support them. 26 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,480 Mark and Wanda Stumbo, I can't even remember how many years 27 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:26,080 they've been missionaries for years. 28 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,560 I know that in our Connect dinner last week down there that 29 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,680 he received some type of award for being licensed with the 30 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,480 Assemblies of Lord Jesus Christ for an excess of 40 years. 31 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,280 So and he's been a missionary for several of those years. 32 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:45,240 I know and so we appreciate Amen them and such. 33 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,960 So and if you wanted to be a part of general ministry 34 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,200 conference or would like to know what it was like. 35 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,160 You can always go to the assemblies of Lord Jesus Christ 36 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,240 at YouTube and you can look at all those services and view 37 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,960 those worship services and set there and whip your Bible in 38 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,440 hand and raise your hands and just be a part Amen. 39 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,880 What we were part of last. Week, if you'll stand with me 40 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,800 today, we're going to turn to the book of Acts. 41 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:09,800 I'm going to teach here this morning. 42 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,960 We'll turn to the book of Acts teach the here today and again 43 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,960 often whenever we usually have a year in business meeting. 44 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,080 Sometimes I share stuff that we did throughout the year and I've 45 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,160 tried to be more proactive about telling you stuff that happens 46 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,280 throughout the year rather than waiting for that moment. 47 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,400 As many of you know, they're at First Bank. 48 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,200 One of the ladies that worked there, they had a fire while 49 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,680 they was on vacation, their home and stuff. 50 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:37,680 That's where our church banks. And so we gave as a church $1000 51 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,880 toward them for the rebuilding of their lives. 52 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,000 So I know they have insurance money and such, but their stuff 53 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,840 in the interim time that can just be overwhelming sometimes 54 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,720 to contend with. And so also this past week, 55 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,760 initiative for World Missions was the Asia Pacific region 56 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,920 trying to get to headquarters built, one in Papua New Guinea 57 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,640 and another one in the Philippines to be a headquarters 58 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:05,480 for those two places and also a touch point for the Bible 59 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,000 colleges. And so as a church, we gave 60 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,280 $1000 toward that initiative as well, Amen, toward those 61 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,400 headquarters until the whole world knows, Amen. 62 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,720 And so just to keep you apprised of some of the things, Amen, 63 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,200 that we invest in beyond the walls of this assembly, right? 64 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,760 So a lot of the money doesn't just come in and mound up here. 65 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,760 We have stuff that we keep going, but we want to be a piece 66 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,840 of conduit, Amen, for other places as well. 67 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,880 Acts 2 this morning. Acts chapter #2. 68 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,480 You know my spiel, don't you, That throughout the year there 69 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,000 are just things that I think that a church needs to touch on 70 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,880 every year. Every year there are certain 71 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,200 things I have a list that I've made over the years that I 72 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,160 believe should be touch points every year at somewhere along 73 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,360 the journey. And so far this year, we've 74 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,880 talked at one time we talked about. 75 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,000 A faith. You know the whole concept of 76 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,040 that he that cometh to God must believe that he is and he is a 77 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,720 rewarder of them, that diligence seek him. 78 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,760 We talked about the Holy Ghost on one Sunday. 79 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,200 We have talked about baptism this morning. 80 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,960 I want to back up in the plan of salvation. 81 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,800 I want to talk about repentance today. 82 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:15,560 Amen. Repentance. 83 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,560 But our heading today is from regret to renewal. 84 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:24,000 From regret to renewal. Acts chapter #2 no better. 85 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,360 Springboard from Act than Acts chapter #2. 86 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,760 Verses 37 and 38 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in 87 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,800 their heart, and said unto Peter, and to the rest of the 88 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,080 apostles, men and brethren, What shall we do? 89 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,600 Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized, every 90 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,440 one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of 91 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:49,840 sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost again. 92 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,880 My heading today is from regret to renewal. 93 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,360 From regret to renewal. Let's ask the Lord to help us in 94 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,000 the next little while. Father, we need you Jesus today 95 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,320 I pray Lord, you would open our minds and understanding God of 96 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,000 this great Lord gift that's granted, Lord, the gift of 97 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,680 repentance. I pray Jesus, we understand it 98 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:15,640 to be very much so integral Lord God to our initiation into this 99 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,160 body, Lord into this bride of Christ, Lord along with the gift 100 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,720 of the Spirit, but God that is also a daily Lord God thing that 101 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,480 we interact with. Lord Jesus to keep our slates 102 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,960 clean. The Lord God to keep us the Lord 103 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,560 Jesus in good standing. Lord with you. 104 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,760 We love and appreciate you Lord today God anoint us the Lord for 105 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,480 the next little while and will not fail to thank you, Lord for 106 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,600 what you accomplish and do in this place in the name of Jesus 107 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,880 Christ that I pray, Amen. The church say Amen, Amen. 108 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:47,680 You may be seated this morning a Sunday school teacher to ask the 109 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,640 class what the word repentance meant. 110 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,600 And a little boy eagerly put up his hand and said, it's it's 111 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,920 being sorry for your sins, he said. 112 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,000 And then a little girl also raised her hand and said, well, 113 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:06,080 it's being sorry enough to quit. And when we think about the word 114 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,720 repentance, we think about the topic of repentance. 115 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:14,920 Many equate repentance only with being sorry, or they equate it 116 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:20,800 only with apologizing to God. And sometimes people equate 117 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,240 repentance, well if they cried then they repented. 118 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,960 If they had some type of tears or a certain degree of sorrow, 119 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,560 then then they repented. However, true repentance in many 120 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:37,320 regards is none of those things. Many of those things may 121 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,480 accompany repentance, saying I'm sorry or apologizing or tears or 122 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,800 some type of sorrow, but they must not be used as so 123 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,960 indicators that a person has repented. 124 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,480 Repentance is this according to the word of the Lord. 125 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:57,240 Repentance is to think differently or to think 126 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,120 afterwards. The word actually can convey and 127 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:05,000 is defined and acts as an afterthought. 128 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,360 Repentance is an afterthought. You know how it is in your real 129 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,880 life. You sometimes have afterthoughts 130 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,800 about things, right? You think differently than what 131 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,320 you thought before about the very same thing. 132 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,280 Repentance is that it's a afterthought or a second thought 133 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,880 about something for us in our lives concerning coming to the 134 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,800 Lord, that afterthought or that second thought is how we thought 135 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,520 about life and how we should conduct life was one way before 136 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,240 coming to the Lord. But when we when we go to a 137 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,080 seasoned repentance, we have an afterthought or a second thought 138 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,560 in our whole view of how we would approach life is different 139 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,160 than what it was before. How we approach life is 140 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:45,720 different than how we would go at it. 141 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,200 It is in Scripture a change of mind, a change of mind many 142 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,120 times even throughout the New Testament. 143 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,960 It is a regret for sins that that result in a change of 144 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,080 conduct. Because when you have a mindset 145 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,400 change, it affects your behavior, right? 146 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,680 You have a mindset change that affects your behavior. 147 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,280 And we have said this many times before, there's nothing that you 148 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,480 do that doesn't first cross your mind 1st. 149 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,200 And so if I'm going to touch my nose right now, I thought about 150 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,880 that before I did it. My mindset effects my behavior. 151 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,160 And so when there's a change of mind, which is repentance, it 152 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,200 will, it will impact the way in which we behave. 153 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:33,559 And so it's important because repentance isn't just a regret 154 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,200 for our past life or regret for sin. 155 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,320 It also then will affect our mindset and our behavior. 156 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,720 In the book of Acts chapter #2 many of you maybe are familiar 157 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:47,520 with, but Peter has just finished preaching the masterful 158 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,040 sermon on the day of Pentecost. He has talked to the crowds that 159 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,800 day about basically the death of Christ, and he brings it close 160 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,680 to home whenever he lets them realize that they indeed 161 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:02,040 crucified what they were looking for. 162 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,400 They were awaiting and anticipating the Messiah to come 163 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,920 that had the answers to their troubles and to their struggles. 164 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,320 And Peter just basically let them know and drew the line of 165 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,400 connection for them. This man Christ Jesus that you 166 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,200 crucified, that was your Messiah. 167 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,520 And so as a result of this realization, the people are 168 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,760 having an afterthought, having a second thought over what they 169 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,560 had done, right, the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ. 170 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,960 And so they turned to Peter, wanting to know what, what shall 171 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,240 we do? They were in the moment dealing 172 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,400 with regret, right? I can't believe we did this. 173 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,480 We crucified the very one that we had been waiting for that 174 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,120 Isaiah had prophesied about. And so they were dealing with 175 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,920 regret. And so they're having a second 176 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,760 thought or an afterthought about what needed to be done. 177 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,720 And so Peter told them very plainly what needed to be done. 178 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:59,960 And it all started with repentance, that they needed to 179 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,440 repent. When when they realized that 180 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:06,880 they had been responsible for this deed, they wanted to think 181 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,840 differently about the actions that they had taken. 182 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,800 What shall we do? I know Peter, no doubt, is 183 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,840 trying to assuage them. I know you're dealing with 184 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:21,440 regret right now, but the cure to your regret is to repent, is 185 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,760 to have a change of mind, is to have a change of attitude, a 186 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,560 change of reproach, of approach. Amen. 187 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:31,160 Because there's got to be a conduct that's going to and a 188 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,960 behavioral change that will take place in your life. 189 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,480 Look what the Bible says. We have several scriptures 190 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,600 today. Look what the Bible says in 2nd 191 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:43,280 Corinthians 7 and verse #9 the apostle Paul speaking to the 192 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:48,560 church at Corinth. He says, Now I rejoice not that 193 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:55,400 ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance, for ye 194 00:10:55,400 --> 00:11:00,720 were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive 195 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,680 damage by us in nothing. Verse 10 Four. 196 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented 197 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,720 of, but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 198 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,920 The apostle Paul again writing to the church back Corinth. 199 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,600 And he, he, whenever he says that I've written to you before 200 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,000 or that I've made this known unto you before, this is Second 201 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,360 Corinthians. He may be referring to the 1st 202 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,800 letter of First Corinthians. But nonetheless, he tells him in 203 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,640 verse #8 if you back up a little further, he tells him, I realize 204 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,800 that I made you sorry with my first letter. 205 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,920 I realize I made you sorry. And so he, he wrote the 1st 206 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,880 letter, which is Corinthians, First Corinthians. 207 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,720 And he deals with all kinds of problems. 208 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,720 There's, there's divisions, there's dissension, there's 209 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,400 fornication, there's all kinds of things that he deals with in 210 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,320 that first letter that he addresses them. 211 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,320 And he says, I realize I may have made you sorry because of 212 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,560 addressing those things. But he says I, I don't repent. 213 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:11,480 I don't have a change of mind over having made you sorry. 214 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,560 I don't have a second thought over having made you sorry. 215 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,320 Because I realize, he says, I realize that that sorrow that 216 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:25,720 came upon you has LED you and guided you to a godly sorrow 217 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,160 that has led to repentance in your life. 218 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,720 Amen. A repentance that led unto 219 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,640 salvation. So I don't regret over having 220 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,200 written this. I don't regret at all. 221 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,720 He's rejoicing. As a matter of fact, the Bible 222 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,800 says, he says, I rejoice that you were made sorry. 223 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,400 I rejoice that you were made sorry. 224 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,840 Amen. But that ye sorrowed to 225 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,720 repentance. In other words, you didn't just 226 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:54,240 sorrow with all the impacts and effects of feeling guilty or 227 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:58,560 feeling shame because that sometimes accompanies us feeling 228 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:01,680 sorry, he says. But it went further than that. 229 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,840 It, it impacted your actions. It impacted the way that you 230 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:09,080 thought about what you had done. You, you, you had regret, yes, 231 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,720 but that regret materialized into a change of mind, which in 232 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:18,480 the end affected your behavior. You, you repented over what you 233 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,760 had done, Amen. Because being sorry and 234 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,240 experiencing sorrow in First Corinth, Second Corinthians, is 235 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,720 not just the same as repentance. He distinguishes the two. 236 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,080 The apostle Paul does, He distinguishes the two. 237 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,760 He says you were made sorrow, he said. 238 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:38,400 And then you sorrowed to repentance, right? 239 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,560 Because you can feel shameful and guilty without having a 240 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:43,520 change of mind toward what you have done. 241 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,720 Amen. You, you, you. 242 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,240 You can feel shameful. The boy caught by his mother 243 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,080 with his hand in the cookie jar can feel guilty in the moment 244 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,280 that mom caught him, but you know, a few hours later have his 245 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,640 hand in the cookie jar. You understand what I'm saying? 246 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:02,640 So you can feel guilty and sorrowful over something, but 247 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,840 repentance is a attitude and behavioral change. 248 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,000 Amen. Attitude and behavioral change. 249 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,640 Even in the Old Testament, we read of the story like the book 250 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:19,000 of Roof and her sister Orpha, and we understand that Naomi was 251 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:24,920 going to go and these two girls were going to accompany her. 252 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,440 And both of them, the Bible says they left, lifted up their 253 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:33,160 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 --> 00:14:42,200 stayed with her family and with her little GODS, gods and, and 256 00:14:42,200 --> 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 --> 00:14:52,600 Bethlehem, Judah to serve the Lord. 259 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:57,120 Both had tears, both had remorse, but the outcome of both 260 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,080 was vastly different because there's a difference just 261 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,720 between and then having a change of mind. 262 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,840 One was sorrowful for it all but went back to their gods, but 263 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:11,680 another was sorrowful and went on to adopt the God of Israel as 264 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,000 their God. All right, so there is a vast 265 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,760 difference. Paul said what he said to them. 266 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,800 He didn't say it to injure them. Paul said what he said to them 267 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:25,160 in his first letter to benefit them because surely, no doubt, 268 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,200 because of what he said, addressing those different 269 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,280 things of dissension and division that was in the church 270 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,640 at Corinth, no doubt they felt a certain amount of conviction 271 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:39,520 about what they had done, Amen. And about ultimately what took 272 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,760 place. And so they were sorry, yes, but 273 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:46,640 he says you were even then sorry after a godly manner. 274 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,640 And this happens whenever I understand and realize that my 275 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,760 actions on the surface are more than just actions that was 276 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,360 against another individual. Dissension, right? 277 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,040 Division among people. Yeah, that seems to be like a 278 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,320 wrong between me and another person. 279 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,880 But anything in this world that appears like that goes further 280 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,960 than that. It's a wrong between me and God. 281 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,400 Huh. David understood it in his 282 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,880 Psalms 51 prayer. Whenever he talked about that, 283 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,680 he acknowledged his transgression and that his sin 284 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,760 was ever before me. He says my sin is ever before 285 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,280 me. He said in verse #4 Psalms 51 286 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,640 Against thee. He's speaking to God. 287 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,840 He's praying to God, he said, against the God, the only have I 288 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,440 sinned and done this evil on thy sight, that thou mightest be 289 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,480 justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judges. 290 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,480 David understood that he had done some things in his life 291 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:45,200 that was against a man and involved different people right 292 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:46,640 there. There have been murder. 293 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,000 There'd been other things in David's life that he had done 294 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,320 that no doubt was an offence to other people. 295 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,200 But whenever David really backed up, he says, I understand that 296 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,160 this just wasn't against this one or against that that one, 297 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,800 but in reality that the real target sources, this was a sin 298 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,319 that was against God because sin of whatever level it is, is 299 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:11,359 always against God. It's always against God. 300 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,000 Amen. And so David, sorry here in 301 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,880 Scripture, he's sorry after a Godly sort. 302 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,319 Why? Because it's leading him to 303 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:24,119 repentance, it's leading him to a change of mind and a change of 304 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,079 behavior. Those things that were in 305 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:29,640 opposition against God. He doesn't want to repeat that. 306 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,960 He doesn't want to have a reoccurrence of that. 307 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:36,080 He's wanting to go beyond that. So the sorrow of the world that 308 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,440 that the apostle Paul speaks of Corinthians, the sorrow of the 309 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,080 world is just a sorrow again of the feelings of the guilt and 310 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,720 the shame. But a godly sorrow will move you 311 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,640 from that that degree to a place of repentance, a place of 312 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:51,520 repentance with the Lord. Amen. 313 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,920 William Barclay said this. He said many of men is 314 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,680 desperately sorry because of the mess that sin has got him into. 315 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:04,040 But he very well knows that if he could be reasonably sure that 316 00:18:04,040 --> 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 --> 00:18:12,480 it is the consequences. I think. 319 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,320 I mean, I really like doing some of the stuff I did growing up 320 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,760 and I got, you know, my backside thinned out as a result of it. 321 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,960 I would probably still do it if I didn't live with the 322 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,640 consequence of my backside being thinned out over. 323 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,400 And it took five or six times for that even to get through. 324 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,280 I'm thick skinned, I guess, but it's the consequences. 325 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,080 Repentance, though, isn't just a New Testament idea. 326 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,960 We see it stated very plainly as repentance in the New Testament, 327 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,840 but it's also found in the Old Testament as well. 328 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:48,240 In the Old Testament it takes on a, a, a different shade. 329 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,480 It's not just blatantly spoken of as repentance in the Old 330 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:53,760 Testament. It's often in the term when you 331 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:58,040 see the term return or turning away or turning from. 332 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:02,400 That's the way repentance is depicted in the Old Testament. 333 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,760 And you see people in the Old Testament, they may repent about 334 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,120 something good or they may repent about something bad. 335 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:10,440 They may turn away from something that was good or turn 336 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,200 away from something that was bad. 337 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,480 There are people that turned away from the Lord. 338 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,800 Well that that turning in itself is is a a repentance, a turning 339 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:24,640 away from something that that is good as a God, a dog, not a God 340 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,960 backwards. That's what it spells a dog 341 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:33,640 returneth saying Hebrew word used for repent in Ezekiel that 342 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:39,400 a dog returneth to his vomit. So there is this turning that is 343 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,040 the concept of repentance in the Old Testament. 344 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:46,400 It meant to retreat. It was 180° turn. 345 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:52,640 It was an about face, if you will, a change in direction, a 346 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,120 change in direction from where you opposite from opposite 347 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,480 direction of what you were going. 348 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,680 It's that turning. So whenever we read in the Old 349 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,840 Testament the word repent in our in our English Bibles. 350 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,880 Again, the idea many times is not that word repent, but the 351 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,200 turning or the returning that's taking place, which is 352 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,400 indicating to us there is repentance that is happening. 353 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,560 Someone is turning around, returning, turning back. 354 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:23,920 For instance, in Hosea chapter 14 and verse #1 the Bible says, 355 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:31,880 O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by 356 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,800 thine iniquity. Verse two he says, take with you 357 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:42,760 words, and turn to the Lord, say unto him, take away all 358 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,840 iniquity, and receive us graciously, so we will render 359 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,040 the calves of our lips. Another example of the Old 360 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:56,240 Testament in the minor Prophet of Malachi chapter 3 and verse 361 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,160 7. It says, even from the days of 362 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:03,640 your father's, ye are gone away from my ordinances and have not 363 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,840 kept them. He says, Return unto me, 364 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaking of repentance, there return unto me, and I will 365 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,160 return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. 366 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,520 But ye said, wherein shall we return? 367 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,880 So scholars have concluded that there are a total of about 164 368 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:27,120 uses of repent as turning or returning in the Old Testament 369 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:29,920 text. All right, that turning back, 370 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,360 that returning, that turning away from God or turning back 371 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:36,400 toward God, most of them are found among the prophets. 372 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,160 Jeremiah leads the way. Most of them are in the book of 373 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,000 Jeremiah because he is constantly urging the people to 374 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,840 return unto the Lord, to repent. He's a constant herald to the 375 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,160 people of his day of warning, right? 376 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,520 He's given. He's called the weeping prophet 377 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,560 number one because he gives a warning that most people do not 378 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,680 heed. And that's what grieves his 379 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,520 heart. He's trying to be a staple of a 380 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,000 warning. He's pleading with them to turn. 381 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,440 He's pleading with them to return to God. 382 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,360 But most of many of them do not turn. 383 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:14,280 And so he even gives them some detailed information on how to 384 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:18,320 change their ways, But again, many of them refused. 385 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,440 Jeremiah then summarizes, if I, if I can, he summarized 386 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,520 repentance in one verse. He summarizes it. 387 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:30,360 It's kind of like encapsulated in Jeremiah 18 and verse #11 388 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:35,320 this is what Jeremiah says. Now therefore go to speak to the 389 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,000 men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 390 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:44,760 saying, Thus saith the Lord, behold, I frame evil against you 391 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,640 and devise a device against you. Now note the instruction. 392 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,000 Return. He's telling us what to do 393 00:22:53,560 --> 00:23:00,760 Repentance return ye now he's telling us when to do it, Huh. 394 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,000 You should repent and you should repent now. 395 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,040 Let me even say this this morning. 396 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,320 Repentance is not anything to delay about. 397 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,280 Repentance isn't anything to delay about. 398 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,560 Do it now. Then he encompasses who should 399 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:20,840 do it. He said everyone, everyone, we 400 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:26,920 all guess what, we all have sinned and fallen short of the 401 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,360 glory of God. There's none righteous, no, not 402 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:35,120 one. The scripture says all should 403 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:38,560 repent. Now, according to Jeremiah, look 404 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,200 from what? From his evil way and make your 405 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,600 ways and your doings good. So you need to turn from that 406 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:46,880 and you need to turn toward this. 407 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,720 It's that about face. I'm turning away from the evil 408 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,600 way and I'm turning now and that's repentance. 409 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,240 And so I want to turn to the good way and I need to do that 410 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:01,440 now and everyone needs to do it. It's not as though I need to 411 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,040 repent and brother Malone doesn't need to repent. 412 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,000 It's not as though, you know, the person that has, you know, a 413 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,480 parent, all this bad stuff, they need to repent. 414 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,120 And someone that's just a good moral individual that has good 415 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:16,960 devotion doesn't need to repent. It doesn't matter. 416 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,000 Amen. Cornelius, who gave alms to the 417 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,080 church had to repent. Amen. 418 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,480 No one, no one is no one is afforded a do not have to repent 419 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,000 card. We are all ever since Adam, 420 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,440 we've all been born into this Adamic nature and so there is a 421 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,160 sin nature then that comes with that we need repentance. 422 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,880 And for that matter, it's not just a need, It is a gift. 423 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,720 Just as the the receiving the Holy Ghost is a gift. 424 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,880 Repentance is a gift for us as well that God is extended unto 425 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:51,160 us that we couldn't have a a a a way and a means where we can 426 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,000 become at one or atonement with God that one with God again they 427 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,240 turning around. Listen, if you find yourself in 428 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,040 a bad place in life. God through repentance is 429 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,880 providing you a turn around. Have you ever been anywhere that 430 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,920 that that you really wasn't familiar with you took the wrong 431 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,880 Rd. been in those cities that downtown all it is in one way 432 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,040 streets and you found yourself driving the wrong way on a one 433 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,960 way and you're like I need to find somewhere that I can you 434 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,440 know get this thing switched. It's a parking lot some other 435 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,440 street where I get this thing turned around. 436 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,120 Ladies and gentlemen, if you are in a position today where you 437 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:28,600 are in the wrong place at the wrong time, it seems repentance 438 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:33,800 always provides a turn around, Amen. 439 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,040 It provides a turn around to you, Amen. 440 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,640 So there's, there's, there's, there's no, no options. 441 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,560 I know, I know, Jeremiah was here speaking to the men of 442 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,880 Judah and the men of Jerusalem, the inhabitants, but he's really 443 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,520 speaking to us all. Paul told them in the book of 444 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,440 Acts on Mars Hill as he spoke to people of different, different 445 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,120 beliefs and such. He said now he said that God 446 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:06,120 commendeth all men everywhere to repent. 447 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,840 He said he winked, he winketh at ignorance once so, but now he 448 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,800 commandeth all men everywhere to repent. 449 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,440 So there's no options to repentance. 450 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,240 It is a mandate of Scripture, such a mandate you read in Luke 451 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,240 and some of the other gospels. The mandate is this repent or 452 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,400 perish. Now that's bold, that's heavy, 453 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,880 but that undergirds the importance of repentance. 454 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:37,240 And so there is a way that God brings then repentance into our 455 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,560 lives. Everyone probably has felt it at 456 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,280 a time or another. It's called conviction. 457 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,920 If you ever felt in the service, something being said, taught, 458 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,680 preached, whatever, maybe none of that, but you just kind of 459 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:55,400 felt something come on you about maybe some change or alteration 460 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,280 you need. Just like man, I just need to go 461 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,080 to the altar and pray conviction. 462 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,400 You don't find the word conviction in the King James 463 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,640 Version of our Bible, but there are some Greek words in the 464 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,520 Bible that mean conviction or to convict. 465 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:18,640 John 16 and verse #8. And when he is come, the he that 466 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,840 is being referred to is the Holy Ghost or the Spirit of God. 467 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:29,360 He will reprove that word. Reprove means convict the world 468 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:31,640 of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. 469 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,840 Paul also was writing in a letter to Timothy, his protege 470 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,240 in the gospel, and he wrote in Second Timothy 4 and verse #2 he 471 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,040 tells Timothy, he said, preach the Word, be instant in season 472 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,880 and out of season Again, reprove. 473 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,600 That's the word, convict, all right, meaning convict, rebuke 474 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,520 ignored with all long-suffering in doctrine. 475 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,880 And so he said, Timothy said, when and when men of God handle 476 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,880 the Word and preach the Word, Amen. 477 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,200 And even at the day of Pentecost, whenever the Spirit 478 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,680 of the Lord come down, it will come, and it will bring 479 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,760 conviction, and to the hearts of humanity, to the hearts of those 480 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,960 that hear it, if they will allow it. 481 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,480 And so repentance may start then, after someone feels 482 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,000 conviction and has a afterthought or a second thought 483 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,880 about the way that they had been living life. 484 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:27,520 A man will not repent until there's something that provokes 485 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,240 him to think differently about the way that he has lived. 486 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,360 Absolutely. Unless there's something that 487 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:38,120 provokes you to start thinking differently about the way that 488 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,480 you've lived life up to that point of time of conversion, you 489 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,840 won't do anything about it. That's the reason why I called 490 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,480 this a gift from God. God is in every step repentance, 491 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,160 baptism in the infill into the Holy Ghost. 492 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,880 He is in every step of the plan of salvation. 493 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,160 The Bible tells us in Acts 11 and verse 18. 494 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:03,160 Then hath God also to the Gentiles, granted, that's the 495 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,520 operative word, granted repentance unto life. 496 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,720 Repentance is something that God grants. 497 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,000 It says also in second Timothy 2 and verse 25, there's a phrase 498 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,960 there that says if God pre adventure will give them 499 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:23,360 repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, what God pre 500 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,920 adventure will give them, he grants it. 501 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,240 He gives it all right, Romans two and four again, a phrase 502 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,680 there not knowing that the goodness of God, the Scripture 503 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,760 says, leadeth thee to repentance. 504 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:45,120 God sometimes is wooing you. God woos you through his 505 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:49,200 goodness. God woos you through his mercy. 506 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,440 God woos you through his grace because you're like, I shouldn't 507 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,200 really be accepting this from God. 508 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,360 God's doing this. I, I can't believe he's such a 509 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,800 merciful God. I, I can't believe he's being so 510 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,680 gracious over this. And what does that do? 511 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:06,640 That it draws us to God because we're receiving something we 512 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,840 shouldn't be deserving, and we're drawn to that. 513 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,480 You know what God's doing? He's leading us. 514 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,920 He's leading us to a place of repentance. 515 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,680 Amen. Second Peter chapter #3 and 516 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,600 verse number lot 9. The Bible says that the Lord is 517 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:28,240 not slack concerning His promise that some men count slackness, 518 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,520 but is long-suffering. Someone needs to say Amen right 519 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,320 there. Thank God, He's long-suffering 520 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,360 to us. Word not willing that any 521 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:41,800 everybody say any, not willing that any should perish, but that 522 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:47,560 all should come to repentance. Peter is addressing something 523 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,040 right now in this hour. There have been some some things 524 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,440 going on among the people speaking about how everything 525 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,400 had just been the same since creation. 526 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,080 Nothing's really changed. People's talked about the Lord 527 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,120 to come back and he's not coming back yet. 528 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,640 And so Peter stood up to address the situation. 529 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,040 He says, I know you're saying well all things have just 530 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,400 remained the same. Nothing has changed and people 531 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,600 saying the Lord's supposed to come back, but you've not seen 532 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,440 you know him a robe of him. You know coming back yet he 533 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,880 says, but let me tell you something. 534 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:22,240 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise He is and will 535 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,280 indeed come back. What you are, what you are 536 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:33,320 experiencing and believe is delay is God's mercy says what 537 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,560 your terming as well. He's late. 538 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:42,000 Is God being patient? He's not slack concerning His 539 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,640 promises. Something count slackness. 540 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:48,640 You're experiencing the long-suffering of God, the 541 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,080 long-suffering of God. That's towards humanity because 542 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,840 he don't want to see anybody perish. 543 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,000 If he could, he would love just to back them all up and take him 544 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,600 with him. But we know that's not the case. 545 00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:59,760 We know that's not going to happen. 546 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:03,360 Many are called fear chosen. We know that the gate in the way 547 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:04,840 it's straight, it's narrow, right? 548 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,440 And few there be that find it. But if he would he don't want 549 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,240 any to perish. So he's a patient God. 550 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,720 He's a long-suffering God and we wait from generation to 551 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,640 generation and time and time. Why? 552 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,400 With hopes that somebody else would find the place of 553 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,520 repentance with hopes that somebody else would be wooed by 554 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,400 that grace and wooed by that mercy and find a place 555 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,800 repentance. That's not God being late. 556 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,520 That's not God. That's not God forgetting the 557 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:40,380 appointment. That's God being merciful twins 558 00:32:40,380 --> 00:32:44,220 you singing New Years ago. We cry away a little longer 559 00:32:44,780 --> 00:32:50,140 please Jesus. There are so many wander now and 560 00:32:50,220 --> 00:32:51,980 sin. You know what that is. 561 00:32:52,260 --> 00:32:58,320 That's second Peter 39, whose long-suffering toward us, Amen. 562 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,360 So he really desires all, listen us each, every one of us all to 563 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,520 come to a place of repentance. The word come there in second 564 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,680 Peter 39, but that we all should come. 565 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,080 That is the Greek word which means to make room for something 566 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,640 or to give place to to receive it. 567 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,240 So it's his desire that all should come. 568 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:29,200 He's making room for us, huh? He's given place for us to 569 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:34,480 receive that repentance that. Burial in Jesus name that. 570 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,960 Infilling of the Holy Ghost. Don't you know that God really 571 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,920 wants to prepare a place for you? 572 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,440 He wants to do that. He wants to give a place for 573 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,600 that. It's more than repentance then 574 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,200 is more than an afterthought. It's more than in a mental 575 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,800 change of attitude or mind. It's more than just feeling a 576 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,280 remorse. Ultimately it is going to impact 577 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,600 again our actions. The Bible says in First 578 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:06,800 Thessalonians one and verse #9 for they themselves show of us 579 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:13,280 what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned 580 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:19,400 to God from idols to serve the living and true God. 581 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,280 Again repentance played out. You turn to God. 582 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,639 What did you turn from? You can't turn towards something 583 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:28,440 without turning away from something. 584 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:34,800 It's an impossibility. I've said this for years, but 585 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,320 it's an impossibility. Right now, I am turned toward 586 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,880 Zach McGee, but I can't turn away from Zach McGee without 587 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:49,679 turning toward something else. It's a impossibility, huh? 588 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:56,520 With the same reasoning is I can't turn, I can't turn away. 589 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,640 So if I turn away from idols, if I turn away from false gods, and 590 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,240 I'm turning toward God, I've turned my back. 591 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:06,360 Then on everything else, Sister Jim Cruz, huh? 592 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,360 Whatever is in front of me has my undivided attention. 593 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,280 That's where my focus is. My mom used to tell me, Christy, 594 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,600 Paul, Robert, look at me. You know what she wanted? 595 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,560 She wanted my undivided. I'm sitting there. 596 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,760 You know she'd want my undivided attention. 597 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,720 They even say if you're talking to somebody and your feet are 598 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:27,920 not pointing toward them, but diverted in another direction, 599 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,920 you're really not interested in what they have to say. 600 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,440 Now everybody around the church is going to start looking at 601 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:35,800 other people's feet as they're talking. 602 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,200 We just created a problem. Well, God help me, but the 603 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,720 reason why I say that I found myself doing that a few times 604 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,320 this week. I like I was going to turn the 605 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,440 inter direction by someone's talking like McGee straighten up 606 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,600 there, you know, just in case somebody else knows. 607 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,280 Amen. But you, you you turn you you 608 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,240 you turn away from things as you turn toward God. 609 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,840 And when you turn toward God, you are turning your back on 610 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,080 many other things. So what was life prior to God? 611 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,080 When you turn toward God, you're turning your back on some of 612 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,280 those things. Matthew 3 and verse #7 the Bible 613 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:18,560 says But when He saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to 614 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:25,960 His baptism, He said unto them, O generation of Vipers, who hath 615 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,400 warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 616 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:36,040 Verse eight He said Bring forth therefore fruits meet for 617 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:41,400 repentance he says bring forth notice there's an urgency here 618 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,200 there's that now you know urgency that's there bring forth 619 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:51,280 he says what fruit bring forth fruit and we we have in the very 620 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,160 natural world we have fruit trees yes and we can identify 621 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,560 the fruit trees predominantly by the fruit that they bear we know 622 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,120 it's an orange tree because it has an orange on an apple tree 623 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,000 because. It has an apple tree on it. 624 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,440 Right. What we produce that other 625 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:10,040 people can see and then we can categorize that by the fruit 626 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:14,320 that is being born, he says. Bring forth fruit, he says. 627 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,680 Something that something that's tangible, something that can be 628 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:23,280 observable. Fruits, meat, where meat there 629 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:27,040 is interesting. It's the idea of that whatever 630 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:33,320 fruit you're bringing forth has equal weight or worth to a 631 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:37,560 repented life. Someone hear me right now that 632 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,360 whatever you're bringing forth has equal weight or worth to a 633 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:45,240 repented fruits meet for repentance. 634 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:51,760 I'm bringing forth fruit that that has an amended, if you 635 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:56,720 will, outcome that equalizes the repentance and the turning and 636 00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:59,600 the change of mind and the change of behavior that I'm 637 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,560 participating in. And for that matter, whenever we 638 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,760 talk about that second step in the plan of salvation in Acts 639 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:16,080 238, repent and be baptized. John said, he said, if you've 640 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:21,080 come for baptism, he said, then you must have repented. 641 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,440 Now, John, he said, you're coming out here. 642 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,040 You brood of art. What did you, what did you come 643 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,320 out here to see her? Do you plan on being baptized? 644 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:33,480 If so, bring forth fruits, because there ain't no baptism 645 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,920 going to take place unless there's been a repentance that 646 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,040 has happened. Amen. 647 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,800 Unless there's some, some evident product that is equal in 648 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,240 weight and worth to your repentance, your, your fruit, 649 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,280 your fruit must smear a life that is turning from the old 650 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,160 right toward the new. That, that, that desire should 651 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,520 be there. That, that, that, that, that you 652 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,320 know, you see it in people whenever they start wanting to 653 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,960 attend church more faithfully and they seem to be leaning in a 654 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,600 little bit more and they're start having questions about 655 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,000 baptism and other things. What do they do under? 656 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,640 There's that leaning in. There's, there's fruits that are 657 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:12,840 starting to be bored in their life. 658 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,880 No one hears the fact of the matter. 659 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:22,160 Nobody can repent for you. I know God fills us with the 660 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,040 Holy Ghost and we usually have the participant of another 661 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,920 person that places in us in the water and evokes the name of 662 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,600 Christ over life and repentance. Yes, He grants that to us, but 663 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:39,640 nobody can repent for you. His Spirit and His Word can 664 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:46,960 convict us, but it's still on our shoulders to repent, to 665 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:51,920 turn, to change our mind In Scripture. 666 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,680 Repentance, you read of it in Romans, but repentance and 667 00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:00,760 baptism, infilling the Holy Ghost mirrors and parallels the 668 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,240 gospel or the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 669 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:09,960 Repentance is parallel to the crucifix of Jesus Christ. 670 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:17,320 We are dying to the old life. We're dying out to the old ways. 671 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,560 They said, well, Brother McGee, people crucified the Lord. 672 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,640 Wait a minute. They couldn't take his life if 673 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,360 he didn't give his life. I know from this stance we're 674 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:28,800 looking at. They crucified him. 675 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,560 Nobody could have taken the Lord's life if he had not given 676 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,480 it to be taken. What are you saying? 677 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:40,840 Repentance involves you. Repentance revolves in your will 678 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:46,320 letting go. It involves in you surrendering, 679 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,440 right? No one could take Christ's life. 680 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,840 He gave it for them to take. And so we surrender our old 681 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,440 selves, our old ways, our old tactics, our owed acts. 682 00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:01,000 What to the process of a dying out to the process, if you will, 683 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,600 of a crucifixion, Amen. That's repentance. 684 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,920 And the glorious thing is this, when you're baptized in Jesus 685 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,680 name, you don't come up the same person that you were before you 686 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,600 went down in Jesus name. The Bible talks about this, this 687 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,080 whole concept of of a resurrection that takes place, 688 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,360 which is similar to our baptism, that the thing that is planning 689 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,200 is not like the thing that shoots up. 690 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,800 It speaks in Scripture that you you take a seed and you put it 691 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,760 in the ground. That which comes forth from the 692 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,320 ground isn't just like the seed. Yeah, you might have corn on the 693 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,960 cob and stuff like that, but it is absolutely, it's a different 694 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,520 thing. The oak, that that little acorn 695 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,360 that's put in the ground, that oak tree looks a whole lot 696 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,560 different than the acorn. There's a different that happens 697 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,920 in the resurrection. What happens in the ground, The 698 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,640 shell of that acorn is surrendered to the ground. 699 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:55,640 It's buried in the ground. It's surrendering its old make 700 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,320 up to the ground. And what happens through 701 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:02,640 germination, The shell of that seed is cracked open and 702 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,800 something starts to surface and grow out of that, this little 703 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,240 green chute that's going to turn into a formable oak tree. 704 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,920 Amen. It's not the same as it was. 705 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,800 It's different, Amen. Old things are passed away. 706 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,680 Behold, all things become new, Amen. 707 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,560 Be a horrible thing just to be the same. 708 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:31,280 Oh, same old, huh? But there's power in his name 709 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,880 and his blood to take care of all that. 710 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,120 And I might not have it all together. 711 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:40,680 I realize that I might not have it all together, but there's 712 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,040 aspects of my life that I understand that my former way of 713 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,520 living is not acceptable in the sight of God as well. 714 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,160 There's things every day that Paul McGee realizes about Paul 715 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:56,720 McGee as I take daily portions of his Word. 716 00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,720 I show up then for service and hear the Word talk and preach. 717 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:09,160 I mean, for years now as a kid, I was brought up, you know, to, 718 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,160 to read the word, to pray, to attend church and all that. 719 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:16,000 And after all these years, there are still things that Paul McGee 720 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:21,240 is finding when I read the word that needs course correction, 721 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:28,440 that needs adjustment, or that I've, I've lost ground on. 722 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,040 And you know what that allows me for even after my initial 723 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,880 experience of repentance, I can repent every day and say, God in 724 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,840 this area and that area, I reckon I have failed today. 725 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:48,560 I have failed today. But I know, I know that your 726 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,560 work is a good work and that you don't have to go to the cross 727 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,800 again in order to take care of what I did today. 728 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,840 Your work is good enough to take care of what I did today, today 729 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:03,200 anyway, although it's thousands of years old. 730 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,160 And so I go to the Lord. That's what Paul meant when he 731 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,160 said that he dies daily. He goes to a place of 732 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,520 repentance, that dying, that equalization. 733 00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:15,600 And so I realized that, Amen. Stand with me today. 734 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:20,680 Repentance, it's important. It's important, It's important 735 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,480 for salvation. It's important for Christian 736 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:29,720 living, All right, for salvation and for Christian living. 737 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:33,720 And we need not, we need not minimize the importance of 738 00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:36,200 repentance in our lives, all right? 739 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,040 We don't, we don't want to join the ranks of the elder brother, 740 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:45,040 brother of the prodigal story, All right, repentance is 741 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,160 important. You read in Luke 15 all the 742 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,480 different stories of, of the lost sheep, that the man who 743 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,120 left the 99 went and found the one and brought it back. 744 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,200 And the Bible talks about how there's joy in heaven over one 745 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:59,280 who repents. You read then the other story. 746 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,880 The woman had 10 coins and she lost one of those coins. 747 00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,760 She swept all the house very diligently to find that one 748 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,320 coin. When she did, she rejoiced. 749 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,360 And again there is the the initiation that there is joy in 750 00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,440 heaven over a Sinner that. Repents heaven. 751 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,840 If heaven rejoices over repentance, earth needs to 752 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,400 rejoice over repentance. And then there's the two sons 753 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,640 and one. He asked everything of his 754 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,440 Father and he leaves and he does all these things in a far 755 00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,760 country and he comes to his awareness that is there not even 756 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,800 bread to spare in my father's house while he's here at a pig 757 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,160 through so to speak. And he goes back home and his 758 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:40,000 father wants to celebrate and have this celebration because 759 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,520 his son has come back. But it's in all of that that 760 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,160 what we had the elder brother that didn't want to join in on 761 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:51,240 the celebration because his brother had an afterthought or a 762 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:53,360 second thought. It's important. 763 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,960 Don't, don't, don't join the forces of the elder brother that 764 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:58,960 doesn't want to celebrate and make merry. 765 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,200 We need to celebrate and make merry every time someone repents 766 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,840 before they're bad. We'll celebrate at baptism, 767 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,880 we'll celebrate at the end of the Holy Ghost, but we need to 768 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,520 celebrate at repentance. We need to celebrate at the 769 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,720 exercise of faith. There is no, there is no degree 770 00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:16,320 or level that we don't need to be celebrating over people's 771 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:20,840 conversion. Amen. 772 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,760 Repentance is important. It's a part of our daily. 773 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,560 If I could call it that maintenance program with the 774 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,960 Lord. And we never get into a place 775 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:30,960 where we are above or beyond repentance. 776 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,400 We all need it, Amen. And there's probably something 777 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,560 I'm going to do today that's kind of stupid. 778 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:44,920 Welcome to this classification called humanity, Amen? 779 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,560 I'm not yet shaken a hand of a perfect person. 780 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,440 And if I did it, it'd rub off on me. 781 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:56,680 We need a spirit of repentance. We need a spirit of repentance 782 00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:05,250 in our church. Because I believe if I, if I'll 783 00:47:05,250 --> 00:47:08,250 approach my life as a Christian knowing that, you know what, I 784 00:47:08,250 --> 00:47:12,010 don't have it all together in a bag of chips, then I think that 785 00:47:12,010 --> 00:47:14,930 creates an environment for other people to have a similar feeling 786 00:47:15,450 --> 00:47:19,970 and a greater likelihood that we all can be open with God about 787 00:47:19,970 --> 00:47:24,640 where we really are. If we could just bow our heads 788 00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,120 in this place. I'm just wondering if there's 789 00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,800 anybody that would join me in this altar today, say, Brother 790 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,840 McGee, I'm having some afterthoughts, some second 791 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:39,560 thoughts about the way that I have maybe approached life in 792 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:44,760 certain areas of life. And I have sorrow, yes, but I 793 00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:49,320 want it to be a godly sorrow that that initiates a change of 794 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:54,760 thinking that then spawns into a change of behavior. 795 00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,480 Can we today as people, can we come for those that will say, 796 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,640 Lord, I'm coming to you today because I understand that my 797 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:07,040 righteousness is as filthy rags. I understand that, Lord. 798 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,840 But God, I want to bring this to you today. 799 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,520 This is more than just me with sorrow or me with an apology. 800 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:18,000 This with this is me, God with a turn around. 801 00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,440 This is me with a turn around in my life. 802 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:26,480 I pray, O God, today, Lord, I, I have failed and I have made 803 00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,760 mistakes and I have faltered and I have misstepped, but God, I 804 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:35,240 come to you, for you know me, God, you know that I am but 805 00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:38,080 dust. You know my friend, I pray, O 806 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:42,480 God, today I surrender all unto you this morning, Lord. 807 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:47,760 I surrender all unto you this morning, Lord, Hallelujah. 808 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,800 Repentance is important, ladies and gentlemen, again, I, I can't 809 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,800 repent for you, your neighbor, your mother, your father, your 810 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,640 sister. No one can do it for you. 811 00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:01,760 We got to approach the Lord all hey man, by ourselves, so to 812 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:06,160 speak and say, God, here am I. I'm a man of unclean lips and I 813 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,120 dwell among the people of unclean lips. 814 00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:12,400 Oh Lord, God, purge me, Jesus, purge me. 815 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:16,160 Jesus, I want to live the way that you want me to live. 816 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,880 I want Lord Jesus, to offer myself unto you. 817 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:24,280 I know God, it's impure, and I know God, it's imperfect, but 818 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,960 God, can you just touch me afresh and anew? 819 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,760 If you've never received the gift of the Holy Ghost, have you 820 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:31,840 never been baptized this morning? 821 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,120 Repentance is a very good at first step. 822 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,960 Amen toward all of that. It's a necessary step before 823 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,360 baptism. Amen. 824 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:46,080 God this old flesh God help me Lord crucify this old flesh. 825 00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,240 I want to approach life differently Lord God than when I 826 00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:52,080 approach life thus far. God, if you'll help me, if 827 00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,320 you'll enable me, if you'll empower me I pray Jesus you're 828 00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,440 able Lord today to help us. Brother Mason, as you prepare a 829 00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,920 song I I wish that you'd be praying in your Pew this morning 830 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,920 right where you're at. You don't necessarily have to 831 00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,760 come up here, but right where you're at. 832 00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:10,640 You can make a petition to God say here am I God understand 833 00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,960 God. It's not that you're late, you 834 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,160 are going to come back. You're just being long-suffering 835 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,360 for people that still yet need to find a place of repentance. 836 00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,760 You're just being merciful and gracious. 837 00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:25,920 You're wooing them. You're trying to lead them to a 838 00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,320 place of repentance. That's really what it's about, 839 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:37,280 the long-suffering of God. Hallelujah. 840 00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,640 Thank you for listening. If you would like more 841 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,840 information about our services and activities, you can find us 842 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:55,680 on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with the username FACMC. 843 00:50:55,880 --> 00:51:00,080 Again, that's FACMC. Thank you and have a blessed 844 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:00,480 day. You can go. 845 00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,120 To Facebook.