It is indeed a great pleasure tonight to assemble with each
one of you to worship Our God in spirit, and in truth, a great
pleasure and a great privilege and none of us should take for
granted and all of us should look forward to.
Every time we possibly can, as you see on the board tonight, we
would like to preach about what Luke 24 verse 46 and 47 talks
about and that is Is preaching repentance.
Go with me. If you will to the Book of Luke,
the 24th chapter now, Luke 24. This is Luke's account of the
Gospel. We have studied that extensively
through this meeting notice please.
What he said in Luke 24, beginning of a 46, the Bible
said, thus, it is written, and thus, it behoove Christ has
suffered and to rise again from the dead.
Add the third day and that repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in his name, among all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem, the message of repentance, was not new to
Jesus. John, the Baptist preached
repentance for the kingdom of God is at hand.
Jesus did indeed, preached. It the apostles, preached.
It other in. Inspired men of God preached it
you can find it from Matthew through Revelation the need for
repentance. I am fearfully afraid today that
many of us do not repent when we should I am also afraid that
many times we're talking to people trying to persuade them
to live a good Godly Christian life and they need to make
changes in their life. That we don't ask for
repentance, we merely ask for confession and prayer.
I'm going to be addressing a few of those things tonight.
And I all the stories and illustration that I would give
tonight during this lesson True. It is not normal for me to give
a lot of illustrations, real life illustration.
But I'm going to do that tonight because it makes his point solid
within your heart, and in your mind, it will help you and help
me to better understanding and will really poke and prod me a
little bit to call for repentance.
I was listening to an audio CD one day.
And the preacher who I did not know, but a member of the church
had given me. This CD and asked me what I
plays, listen to it, and then tell them what I thought.
Well, the speaker with a very good speaker and I was enjoying
listening. I just went to my office and
plugged it in and I'm just sitting there and listening and
all of a sudden he made a point. He said, the hardest command in
the Bible is to command to repent.
I stopped the player and I thought, The hardest command in
the Bible is the command to repent.
At first, I was not ready to embrace that.
But I'm being very said, one of the hardest, I'm all aboard, the
hardest just wasn't quite ready to embrace that yet.
I backed up and listen to his last few moments before he made
that statement again. And he said it again, of course
Replay in his head, the hardest command in the Bible is the
command to repent, and then I listened to several more minutes
and I stopped again. Because I began to think, you
know, this gentleman may be right.
There's a lot of hard commands, the word of God even said, there
are many hard sayings and the scripture, there's a lot of hard
things in scripture, but we can do it.
God is on our side, we can do it.
But I'm zeroing in on repentance today.
The hardest command in the Bible to obey is repentance.
Just think about it. When you are asked to repent, or
I am asked to repent or we have somebody else to repent.
What is it? We're asking people to do.
We're asking people to make a change.
A changing their mind and a change their ways by myself.
That's hard. Otherwise I will hundred fifty
pounds. We know, changes are not easy.
Many of you have situations in your life that if you could
change and you did change, you know, you'd be better, but
change does not come easy, but spiritually, we must learn to
repent and make the necessary changes of our mind and changes
of our ways. I was in a Bible study one night
with these young lady and and she was really a good student of
the scriptures. And as we said in the
scriptures, we have been studying about salvation and
about the need to repent and to make things, right?
When is necessary and his shoes leaving my office, I remember
distinctly, she started she turned around and she leaned on
the doorway and she said, Rhode Island.
How do I know if I'm truly repented of my sins?
Wow, that was a very good question.
This young lady asked and I gave the best answer.
I knew that time to give her And it was a but just a couple of
weeks or so later, we had a couple of visitors, attend, one
of our members had passed away and we're taking care of her
service, her funeral service and her daughter.
Daughter-in-law one, I think of the daughter-in-law, she came to
services and she came and she said right up here on the front
row. And after Services, I went over
to speak with her and let her know.
I was glad she was there. And what was again offered my
condolences for the loss of her mother-in-law and she's if what
do I need to do? She's my mother-in-law, love
this church. And I want to be a member of
this church. Why do I need to do?
Well, of course, I set out to explain the Plan of Salvation
according to scripture, and I went rock marks my way right
through it and she was not a member of the Lord's Church of,
and I got through her. Immediate question was what is
repentance? You know, today you and I we
know what repentance is to me and you repentance has a
household word. But people in the world by and
large they don't know what repentance is they don't ever
hear repentance many of the modern translation, omit the
word repentance, they would put a change of life.
Change your wave, change your mind and that is the definition
of repentance and I was 5 to do that but the word repentance is
almost archaic and our language today.
That's hard to imagine but if Really true people in this
community are no different than people in the community where I
live in Oklahoma City, or Dallas before that or Missouri before
that people, just simply don't know what repentance is.
I'm talking about people who are unchurched people who do not
know the Bible, then just simply foreign from scripture but good
hearts and good people. No doubt.
Well, I had a great conversation with her and lady.
She was baptized and became our sister in the faith.
There's a lot of people today that need to be reached be
prepared with the right message to give to them.
Oh, no doubt at all. I have no doubt majority of you
today. Who are members of the church.
You can show people how you must hear the word of God, and you
must believe the word of God. I know you could do that with,
with great amount of success. And you can tell them, they need
to confess the name of Jesus. They need to establish their
faith. I believe that Jesus Christ is
Son of God and they need to be buried in baptism for the
remission of their sin. No doubt you could do that.
But do you know what? What about repentance?
Now this is going to be little bit piercing, it may be a little
bit bold, even it might be a little bit, fix it.
But if it is take it, if the shoe fits wearing, okay.
When is the last time you ever asked someone to repent?
this is, You probably second now Alan you could have talked to
all day and never ask that. But, I'm serious.
When is the last time you asked anybody to repent of their sins?
A baptized believer who has lost their spiritual way and they
need to come back to the Lord and repent confess and have
prayer. Many of them thinking to here, I
need to get them by to make a confession.
Yeah they do. They need to repent to My dear
friends when you see people and you know people and you're
talking to those who are out of Duty, the faith who have gone
astray. The Bible said who have aired
from the right way, you know, who have committed sin of their
life? They need to be taught to repent
confess and have fryer. That is part of God's great
plan, and we need to embrace that because that is God's will
God's way. And that is taught in scripture.
I'm not making this up tonight. This is all taken from, but
chapter and verse a baptized believer who commits sin, also
told to hear the word of God, they're told to believe the word
of God to repent, change your life change.
Her ways, change their thinking, confess their thoughts and have
prayer. Repentance.
I'm going to encourage you to urge you, to poke you to prod,
you to get it part of your vocabulary that when you're
speaking to someone, who doesn't know the Lord, whose not
currently living a Christian Life that in the process of
helping them, let them know. They need to repent, the Bible
teaches us to preach repentance convey that to other people.
Our poor, number three, and four on the board.
Is to a sinner who's told to repent and to Saints who are
told to repent. Now, sinner is a non baptized
person, simply not baptized into Jesus Christ.
They're not members of the Lord's church.
Now, I'm not necessarily read all these verses, but our
reference them and I know several of you probably have
heard have this written down and some of you took a picture of
it, but you might want to take another picture because I had
the wrong letter there. Jesus gave this passage and Luke
13 Verse 3. Jesus said I tell you nay and
sent you repent. You shall all likewise perish.
Very unusual. But it's found in the Bible at
least twice in verse 5. Luke 13:3 and Luke 13 5 Jesus
repeats himself, he gives another illustration from the
Old Testament and then he compared the current people with
the people of the old. He said, I tell you nay, except
you didn't repent. You will all likewise perish.
Wow, understand repent or perish.
Listen, there's nothing fun about this word, perish.
When you read instead of the word of God you can see Jesus
said if you don't believe in me you're going to be down.
There's nothing Pleasant about that word, just not nothing
Pleasant about the word, Parish Jesus say you deny me, I will
deny you we don't want any part of those kind of Things, we need
to step up to the plate. We need to take our spiritual
life, seriously. Let it be first and foremost in
our life and whatever it takes whenever we have to compromise
and give up and our physical life.
Let's do it. To do what the Lord teaches.
Well, Luke 13:3 and five. Jesus made it clear.
We've already read, Luke 24:46 and 47 where he said preaching
repentance and remission of sand and Acts 2:38 a chapter.
We studied the other night, we gave 10 points.
Take it for this chapter. Relax 238 says, you know, Peter
answered this. People that said, what we have
us to do in verse 37. He said, repent.
Right off the bat, repent. Now I'll be very Frank with you
today. We have not been accustomed to
when someone asks us a question. What do I need to do to
straighten up very few of us have said, repent.
Now we normally say, well you need to be baptized or if
they've already been baptized you need to make a confession
and have frere. Dear friend, I'm honest with you
today. We are not calling on people to
repent and making a change and when people are not making a
change, we haven't done them a great service, we have made them
feel good without making a change in their heart that
changing the will and ways and it's just not good.
All right. Would you live with me at act 3
and 19 which is very similar to Acts 2:38 That's the third
chapter. Verse 19.
Says, repent and be converted. Thanks to say his name.
Be blotted out for the time of refreshing shall come.
When you look at the gospel about 2:38 where he called on
people to repent. You look at that 319.
He called on people to repent. These are people who never obey
the gospel and baptism. This is he Church in his early
stages? And then acts 11:19.
The Gentiles were given the same privileges.
The Jews are given repentance unto life, Now, hurried through
those, but I want you to turn in your Bible to acts 17 and verse
30. I would turn off.
So I want you to look at this in your scriptures, whatever
translation you've chosen to use.
I wouldn't trade you for the King James that I do.
And I want you to listen carefully.
This is very serious discussion. I accept 19 and verse 30 and the
time of this ignorance, God winked at, but now commandeth
listen are all men everywhere to repent.
Guess what? All men includes you and me
everywhere. That's you, that's me, everyone.
Of us everywhere. We are we all should repent?
God. Commands, all of been able for
are to repent. So my may I please encourage
you. If you have sin in your life,
understand the necessity of repentance.
So of the baptized believer going to port for saints Saints
is baptized believers. So as a baptized Believers one,
who has been saved at the point of baptism It is a wonderful,
wonderful, joyous day the day that you walk into this water, a
dry Center and you walk out a wet Kristen, you're immersed in
water. According the New Testament,
scripture you're buried. And watcher.
That's Jesus. When he was baptized, he was
coming up, straightway out of the water and lo the heavens
were opened and add of those Spirit descending like a dove
and lighting upon him and a voice from Heaven, said, this is
my beloved Son in whom I am. Well pleased hear, ye him.
Wow, that's all recorded. By the way, Matthew 3 verse 16
and verse 17 the baptism of Jesus.
Matthew 3 verse 16 verse 17 but they came up out of the water
you know, today if an individual did not know better and they
warned know what baptism is they very likely would go to maybe a
Collegiate dictionary? Just the school dictionary and
look up, baptism and you know what?
They're going to find by and large.
You will find sprinkling pouring our immersion.
But you do not look up. Bible words by human dictionary
like that. You love bomb the words.
I've been to Bible dictionary because over the course of time.
Some words have changed his meaning.
So I encourage you today, whatever your Bible study habits
are that you really focus in on the need to repent.
And as a saint, as a baptized believer, whenever you commit
sin, I want you to run eyes. His in order for you to go to
heaven, you must repent of what you sin, you lied, you cheated,
you curse yours and moral you. The assembly you didn't want
ever but everyone she did. I want you to think about it
before you do it. If I'm going to be saved, I'm
tempted to do this. Whatever.
This is I must repent of that sin.
I'm going to hell with that sin. Sometimes I can be a helpful
motivator not to sin. So you said I would have gone up
to sooner or later I'm not gonna pray to God.
I'm have to confess my faults one another and then pray to God
some way. Somehow Alan's got to repent
when I sin, I need to know that and you know that really helps
not to sin. Now, we all do see and I know
that we all made the state's some intentional, some
unintentional, but a sin is a sin.
Every sin has to be repented. So you can make it right?
And things the right with you and the Lord.
Well, the word of God says the following and that exact 22, I
really, really, really wanted to teach on ax8 this week.
I was going through my notebook today and I was seeing some oh
yeah I wanted to break that. Oh yeah, I want to fix that too.
Well, I think we can start for another week and we've covered
quite a bit of material that's not the plan.
Of course I'll be leaving here. Lord willing on Monday Acts
chapter verse 22. Acts 8 is wonderful.
I want to give you a couple of brief highlights.
I am not going to get distracted on the stay on our course, about
preaching repentance. Okay.
But I do want to show you a couple of details.
I'd say the gospel goes to the city of Samaria.
Many of them obeyed, the gospel and baptism.
Would you please look at verse 12?
and verse 12 and said, and I sake, But when they believed
Philip preaching, the things concerning the kingdom of God,
the name of Jesus Christ. They were baptized both men and
women. Many of the Samaritans were
baptized. That was the find the step for
them to become a new testament. Christian, the very next verse
introduces, another person Simon the Sorcerer.
So please look at him verse 13, then Simon himself believed.
Also when he was Sized. He continued with Philip
wondering beholding, his Americans assigned which were
done. Simon himself believed.
Also, and was baptized now, doesn't that sound familiar?
Believed and were baptized Mark. 16 verse 16.
Jesus said he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved
Simon. The Sorcerer believed I was
baptized and he was saved to that moment.
Today in order for you to be saved, you have to say anything,
the Samaritans did and Simon however Simon, he would just
take him back and was in all of the Miracles.
The apostles were able to do. I don't know how much time
elapsed. A few hours a few days.
Few weeks, I don't know, but somewhere between verse 13 and
verse 22. He sinned Peter rebuked him
sharply. Look at verse 22.
Look what Peter said. And I say, and verse 22, Peter
said, repent, therefore of this thy wickedness and pray, God.
You wonder where we get repentance and prayer.
There it is. Repent and pray to God.
If perhaps to tell him down, heart may be forgiven thee.
And when I want to say Simon said, would you pray for me?
Why the Bible does not say Philip, did I have?
No doubt that he did. What religious spiritual person
would not. Please understand.
I want you to go to heaven. I want our names, be written in
the Lamb's Book of Life. I want our name to be written in
having the fame of this meaning and we've encouraged him from
night tonight and variety of lesson and variety of thoughts
trying to evaluate Our Lives. According to scripture, to make
sure that our name is written and have them.
Listen today, if you've never been baptized, your name is not
written in heaven. I'm telling you right now if you
have him baptized and you stand, you need to Repent confess and
prayer in order to get your name reinstated and the Lamb's Book
of Life. Because the Bible talks about
those who sins are blotted out, believe me in the day of
judgment, I do not want the Lord to look at where my name used to
be and there's nothing there, but a blower is blocked.
I don't want any part of that. I don't want it for you.
I don't want it for you and I sure don't want him for me.
We must repentance repentance is not an option.
It is the command of God in second.
Peter 3 and verse 9. Peter who is he Apostle, who
preached this, sermon in Acts 22, the Jews, Peter preached,
this sermon and acts 10 and also and to chapter 11 to the
Gentiles here now and second Peter 3 now and years later, he
said the Lord is not slack concerning his promise.
As some men count slackness but is long-suffering he's not
willing that any should perish, but all come to repentance.
Peter said, the same thing that Jesus said right here, Luke
13:3, Luke 13 5, Second Peter 3:9.
They match. Repent, or perish.
Learn doesn't want anyone to perish.
He wants them all to repent. I do not know what else could
motivate us to say. We gotta change.
We got to do the right thing. Here, we don't want to cut
yourself weighed and found wanting and that final day In
Revelation Port 3 and 4 under point for here before Saints
baptized Believers. I'm not going to read all of
these but Revelation 2 and Revelation 3 that they deal with
this seven congregations and Asia.
Five of the seven congregation that was fought found within the
congregation. Each of these congregation were
told to repent, Revelation, 2, and verse 5 church at Ephesus
was told to repair each of them, Revelation 2 and verse 16,
Revelation, 21 verse 21 now in the next chapter of Revelation
33 and the Revelation 3:19. Now, these five verses listen
here in chapter two, and three Revelation 2:5 1621 In
Revelation 3 verse 3 and verse 19.
These five congregation were told to repent that passing is
the verse it says, repent. So here's what we find.
Five congregations are told repent, repent, repent, repent,
repent. Now, why are we not calling on
people to repent? Why don't the Lord called on
these congregations to repent? Which is when my next Point here
that we will make, I encourage you for you to be saved and you
have sin in your life, whatever it is, repent of it.
That's the only way you can go to heaven without you will not
go. Now, I'm telling you, I'm not
being rude. I'm in playing.
I want to be very direct. I don't want you to ever win a
horse. He really trying to say, I'm
saying what? Jesus said, repent or perish.
Point number five, conflict, resolution conflict with God.
How to resolve that issue. Repentance is there in Luke 17
verse three and four. Would you please turn with me
when I return with you? This is the case of one-on-one
individual conflict and Luke 17. This is right to the point with
nothing to question and nothing to doubt.
Luke 17 verse 3. Immerse for take heed to
yourselves, If thy brother trespass, against thee, rebuke
him, if he repents forgive him, excuse me.
If you want, if he repent, Forgive him first for if you
transfer paths. Again, seen seven times in a day
and seven times a day turn again, to these said I Repent,
Thou shalt forgive him. You see how individually I do
you wrong and you come to me and said my Allen you said this or
you did this or whatever I did wrong and and you bring it to my
attention. That's what you should do.
I need to repent. I need you said well, I am so
sorry for that. I need to repent and change my
ways about that, and I don't need to lie about you, no more.
I don't need to steal. You think you got no more,
whatever I did or don't need to do no more.
Okay? you know what, I would much
rather you do not only with me but with anybody if someone has
committed and Trance past against you, they've sinned
against you go talk to them. And not go talk to somebody else
about them. Now that's the right way to do
it. I don't know why it is today
that people fill out. They need to get a posse and go
get tell everybody in the world about it and then get around
going talking to him. One day I arrived at a location
to hold a gospel meeting. I had not even got out of my
car. I drove in this gentleman shark
and he was outside and and I saw him walking over.
So I just rolled down the window and said, how are you doing?
Is it what I'm doing? Real fine today, but we got
problems. How's the well?
Hello to you. He's a man.
So and so we're into it. And say what I want you to do, I
want you to go with us, let's get it all worked out before the
meeting starts. When I didn't ask him questions,
that will go ahead and jump in. Let's go.
So we go over until the gentleman's house and we get
sitting there talking and this brother who is I was taking with
him, I was here. His Uber driver.
I drove him over to that house and I got out of the guy and I
just kind of sit there and listen like I'm not on a log.
I didn't have any business being there.
Found out real quick. He said I will tell you
something brother. So you sent against me and he
you did this, you did that. And he said, well my Bible
teaches me and Matthew 18. That if you've got all you come
by yourself. What's he doing here?
Yeah, what am I doing here? You know, if I go back, get my
car, guess what? I didn't need to be there.
I did not have any parting been there.
He was. Right, I was wrong.
So they went back and got my car ready for the net, super Rider.
I am an Uber driver by the way, that's why I mention Uber, I'm
not advertising. But they worked it out.
And he got back in my car and I said, listen babe, I was wrong.
Getting out. I should not even come here.
You should have this Hannah before I got here.
And then the Nets first service that meeting I mentioned, I'm
glad brother who had a conflict, were they able to resolve it?
And, and I made a big blunder and going when I should not have
gone. That's the second step where you
take one or two more, not the first step.
So, if you have a trouble problem ill-will, baffles will
somebody go talk to them, do not go, talk about them, go talk to
them. Pour out your heart, here's my
concern, please, let's work this thing out most time.
And when you go with the right attitude, you can find success.
Okay, congregation that time need to repent.
Now we know that from Revelation 2 and 3 and we Illustrated that
here these the New Testament Christians and the current
gatien the vacation. Okay, now Point number six.
Okay, we're doing real good on time.
We'll be through here in a few minutes fruit meet for
repentance arrived at one location.
And remember, all of these stories, the truth arrived.
One location. One day, in the meeting began,
the next--and. I got up, you know, for the
morning breakfast. And we will visit with the
family where I was staying and, and the lady of the whole gave
me a newspaper. Bang laid right in front of me
and she had a big marker around this particular article.
And I said, I guess you want me to read that article, she the I
do. So I started reading it and my
eyes got bigger and bigger. And I thought, Whoa, whoa.
I said, wow, that's bad. Should the eyes bad?
It was two ladies in the congregation young ladies.
One of the teenager, one of their upper 20s, the one that
the teenager was up her teenage years but the other was in her
20s or so, and they've been arrested for immorality selling
their bodies and for drugs, illegal drugs.
And they were in the county jail.
What on Monday? I got up after Sunday and all
that on Monday, I got into, well, let's go see what, how
many Hoops? I got to jump through to get to
see those girls because I baptized one of them.
Several years earlier. And oh, believe me you had to
jump through a bunch but I finally got it done today after
an early afternoon. So I got to go and set my little
box and had a little plastic glass area and I got to pick up
a phone and talk to them and went under came around and kind
of shocked who's coming to see me on Monday morning and
Shamrocks to the Oh, I thought you would come.
I heard you. It's going to be here.
I just didn't know you was coming to a certain she's in
that before you say anything. I want to tell you something, I
send and I want to make a confession.
You know what I said, come fashion.
I went to preaching right there in that little box.
I said feel fashion. You need to repent.
You done this over and over and over again.
I baptized you, you made a commitment to the Lord.
You devote yourself to living a Christian Life and here I am
talking away and I know somebody Somewhere listening to all of
that. I should have said you too.
By the way, I did not do that part.
Confession. Yes, but you got to repent.
You had a change, your mind, your ways, your actions, your
been in moral. I can't believe you.
Now, I knew this lady, so I poured it on her.
What she said. Oh, I'm really sorry.
I want to repent and confess and have prayer.
So we did, we had prayer and all that.
And then the goddamn Box, by the way, I'll just hang on there.
We'll send the other girl. Took a deep breath and I bet you
would have to do that again. Pretty, same sermon in five
minutes but you're about 20. But anyway, she got down there
and she's at them or tell me who's here.
I kind of thought you might come.
But I didn't know if I wanted to see you and not but I guess I
will as well. Thank you.
I don't know what to say. Thank you or I love you or
whatever. But let me what's going on,
girl, what's going on? He's it out and I don't have an
explanation but I messed up. She said up, tell me.
I was too messed up and she said, I really feel terrible.
This brings shame upon the church reproach on the church.
People know I'm not doing right and I really, I know.
I need to make a confession. And she's out prayer.
Okay. Is that all?
No, no. You got to repent.
He had to repair it. You've got to change your life,
change, your will change your wages, you got to do that.
Girl, you've got to make a commitment.
When you get out of here, you're going to be a new person.
You're gonna live a Christian life and you have to go through
some Center to get better. What do that?
I'm willing to help you but you got to be willing to help
yourself. Long story.
I was there for a little while as long as they were let me.
And finally time was up Of course, they could not come to
the meeting, it was weeks before one of them got out and the
other was had to stay in and got sentence for Comfort or 3 years
in prison. I'll tell you something, we're
not doing anybody any favors. If we do not tell them to
repent. They may not like it, but you
need to tell them in a way that meaty what you don't ever be
offended. When someone comes to you and
says, brother, or sister, you need to repent, you said this,
you did that, don't be offended. Be thankful that they love you
enough to come talk to you. Well, in the Bible, it talks
about fruit meet for repentance. In Matthew 38, Luke 3 and 8 acts
twenty six and twenty. They all talk about fruit meet
for repentance. Let me explain what that is
fruit. Is your work, your actions, your
Deeds, your conduct and normally I write Behavior but I ran out
of room. All right.
Your work, your action, your deep, your conduct your
behavior. That's what the fruit is.
Positive proof of repentance meet men be fit into our
corresponding to your repentance, which is your change
of mind and you train your ways. What does that really mean?
What it means is fruit meet for repentance means your work
actions days and conduct correspond to your changing mind
and change your way. In other words, you're doing
better. You're walking a straighter
line, you're walking down the straight and narrow path.
Way, you're living a Christian life.
Now, That's what it means. That's fruit meet for
repentance. So don't get upset.
If you go out here and you live, some Wicked Rogers, Living Like
The Prodigal, Son did. And then you come back and you
want to make things, right? The church.
And you really repent, you can fast and you have prayer and the
Brethren graciously, accept, you and decisions other of your neck
and they are very happy to have me back.
But if they just asked you to, you know, just sit back and
don't Push yourself on the corrugation me a lot leading
singing lead in prayer and give a lesson.
No, no, let's wait and see if your action should easier.
Kind of your Baker. Let them see fruit.
Boy, people don't like that. They don't like to be waiting to
show them fruit, but that's what needs to happen.
Now preached, it's all over the country congregation do not rush
into because that person may need some help some guidance.
Some instruction. So don't put the current gatien
in Jeopardy. Don't put them in the Pulpit
just because you need another teacher.
Okay, well, I'm going to have to now now, our final two point,
four point seven point, eight Heaven, wants you to repent and
Luke 15 verse 7 and 10. Oh, I'm gonna give you a chance
to turn because this is a dynamic set of verses.
I love these verses and Luke. The 15th chapter verse 7 through
10, you find, there's joy in heaven.
I'm turn with you. There are showing heaven.
When one person repents. the Bible said, Luke 15 and verse 7,
I say unto you, likewise, there should be joining Heaven over
one sinner that repenteth, the more than over ninety-nine just
person that need no repentance. and then, Look at verse 10,
likewise? I say unto you.
There is joy and the presence of the angels of God over one
sinner that repenteth. Wow.
Isn't it great to know when one person repents of their sins?
There's joy in heaven. Can you imagine there's joy and
the presence of the angels of heaven.
I've had people to say who's rejoicing?
I don't know. Everybody.
He said joy and the presence of the Angels, it might be other
range of rejoicing and anxious a, an angel ritual.
I don't really know about all that, but I do know this.
There's joy in heaven. They're joined the presence of
the angels of heaven. And I don't know who all the
jumping up and down. Let me tell you.
What if their choice in heaven? There needs to be joy in my
heart. That is wonderful.
That should motivate us that much more that shows how much
God wants you to be saved. Another when one person there
are 99 righteous one that are in good shape spiritually.
But one person returns repents. There's joy in the presence of
the angels of heaven. Wow, I love that.
And our final point It's not near as nice.
Not near my favorite, but it's true.
He'll want you to repent. And Luke 16, Verse 30.
The story of the rich, man and Lazarus, the rich man died and
in hell, he lift up his eyes being in torment and they made
one request and Abraham's it. Now another request, I'd wrap
said, no. And finally sit, would you
please send Lazarus? Back to my father's house.
I'm not fine brothers and if he would test find to them they
would repent. Abraham thing, you know what?
Even if they Word. Is he?
Somebody rise from the dead? They would repent if they want
hear Moses. And the prophets.
They won't repent though. One rose from the dead.
I'll tell you why.