Repentance Confusion Pt 1

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Looking at our world from a theological
perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast

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making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone. It is Wednesday, July the twenty

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fourth, twenty twenty four. It
is currently twelve forty seven pm Central Time,

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and I am coming to you live
from the Theology Central studio located right

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here in Abilene, Texas, where
I have not done a live broadcast since

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Saturday. That kind of tells you
things have not been really working out very

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well on this side of the microphone. Hope things are going better on your

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side of the microphone. But hey, that's life has its ups and downs,

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twists and turns. But let's see
what we can accomplish today. Now.

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Typically what I would do is I
would probably do somewhat of a lengthy

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introduction. Sometimes those introductions go fifteen
twenty minutes, and then I really kick

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myself after because I don't always like
that they go fifteen to twenty minutes.

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Sometimes I think that fifteen to twenty
minutes introduction is very much needed because I'm

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trying to explain what I'm doing.
I'm trying to offer up some very practical

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questions and maybe given assignments and a
lot of those. So sometimes even though

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people may not like it, I
feel like I can justify it. And

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this particular situation, I was struggling, like, Okay, now, do

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I turn on the microphone and really
start outlining kind of my perspective, my

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philosophy, my understanding of this subject. Do I turn on the microphone and

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start asking some very difficult questions in
regards to this subject and then move forward,

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or do we just jump in and
hopefully as we're working through it,

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some of my questions, some of
my perspectives, some of my understanding of

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this will come to light. What
we're going to do is we're just going

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to jump in. All right,
now, you all know that we're doing

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the Sermon's two point oh app Sermon
Challenge for this year. I know,

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before we know it, can you
believe we're almost in August? Literally before

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we know it? It's going to
be Hey, it's almost Thanksgiving. Hey,

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it's almost Christmas. Hey, it's
almost and we're going to be in

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twenty twenty five. I can't believe
it's it's almost over. I don't know

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what we'll do in twenty twenty five. I mean, I look, I

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had so many questions about twenty twenty
four, and it's not over yet,

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so you know, let's see where
that's going. Let's see, let's see

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whatever what happens by the time we
get to twenty twenty five. Well,

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yeah, still a lot of unanswered
questions here in twenty twenty four. But

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I know this that I hope that
even when I'm not broadcasting, you're participating

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in the Sermon's two point oh app
sermon Challenge. I hope you have a

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notebook filled with sermons and summaries and
outlines and notes, and and hopefully when

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it the year is over, you
can take that notebook and forget me.

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You can just show other people,
Hey, look what I you know.

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I want you just to see what
I did in twenty twenty four. And

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it was a crazy wild ride.
It was it was, it was crazy,

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And I hopefully you really will feel
some sense of a of that you

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accomp knowledge that you accomplish something,
that there was some benefit that came from

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it. I'm hoping there's some way
to like a measurable benefit you gained from

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this challenge, and let's hope we
can finish the year strong. Now I'm

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a little frustrated because on one hand. What's happening right now is the sort

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of the Lord Conference. Remember last
year, we made a big deal out

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of the conference, and I was
watching them live, and I was,

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you know, kind of doing some
you know after after a sermon would end,

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kind of an you know, I'm
basically an impromptu review of it,

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and I was trying to get everyone
else to watch it and listen to it.

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Look, this week has been so
crazy. I didn't even know it

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started. I just happened to look
down at the paper today. I'm like,

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oh, so we didn't even get
that done. So the whole week

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has been crazy. But I have
tried my best to keep opening up the

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sermons two point zero app right,
I've been trying my best to keep doing

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that and listen and listening as I
can. And I came across a sermon

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entitled the and then this is in
quotes, repent of your Sins close quote

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confusion. The end quotes Repent of
your sins close quote confusion. The Repent

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of your Sins Confusion Part two.
Now, immediately when I saw that,

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I'm like, oh, there's a
part two. I got to hear part

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one, but there really isn't a
part one Okay, so this is a

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little confusing. I don't know who's
managing their media, but this is a

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little confusing. So there really isn't
a part one. So here's what you

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have to do. If you go
to Verity Baptist Church ve r I t

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Y Verity Baptist Church, Verity Baptist
Church, if I can speak correctly,

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Verity Baptist Church, look for the
series Rooted and Grounded. Rooted and Grounded.

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I'm going to see if I can
get this to open here, well

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maybe not, Okay, here we
go, all right, Verity Baptist Church,

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and then look for the series if
you can find it Rooted and Grounded.

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There's two sermons. There's only two
sermons in the series. The first

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one is Faith Versus Works Part one, but there isn't a part two.

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Then the Repent of Your Sins Confusion
Part two. So I think, what,

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I don't know why they're doing the
part one and part two, like

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it makes no sense, Like just
call it Faith Versus Works the Repent of

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Your Sins Confusion. And you don't
need part one a part two because you've

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placed it within a series called Rooted
and Grounded. So I can tell that

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that's the first message in the second
message within that series. So I don't

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know why they're labeling it that way. I have no idea. Look,

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I look, I if I wish, I really do wish I could find

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a way that I could just work
with churches to help them with their podcasting

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goals and their you know, their
organization of their media. Like I wish

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I could make money doing that because
I think I would be good at it

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since I've been doing this for so
long. But like, look this,

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this this series series, there's no
artwork for it, right, So that

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and then what is this Part one? Part two? It makes no sense.

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But in spite of that, go
look it up rooted and grounded as

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the name of the series Faith Versus
Works Part one, the Repent of Your

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Sins Confusion Part two. They need
to remove the Part one and part two

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if these unless there's a Part one
Part two outside of the series, but

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then you need to put the other
part part in the series. I don't

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know what's going on. It's all
confusing, but just ignore the Part one

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and part two Faith Versus Works.
I haven't listened to that because I saw

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the Repent of Your Sins Confusion and
I'm like, ooh, we've got we've

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got We've got to do something with
that. So I grabbed the Repent of

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your Sins Confusion Part two, pulled
up the audio. I'm like, you

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know what, I don't know which
direction this is going to go, but

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I do know there's one thing I
can absolutely agree upon. There is mass

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confusion when it comes to a very
simple word like repent. When you're reading

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your Bible and you get to the
Gospel of Matthew and you turn to chapter

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three, you will read these words. In those days, John the Baptist

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came preaching in the wilderness of Judea
and saying, repent for the Kingdom of

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Heaven is at hand. There is
that word repent. You think it should

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be relatively simple, that we could
just look up the Greek word. We

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could get a basic understanding of it. Then we could not go beyond the

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meaning of that Greek word and make
sure we try to stay within some accurate

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understanding of this concept. But you
would have no. I don't think the

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average person sitting in the pew just
understands how crazy the confusion is about repentance,

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about what it means to repent,
it's part in salvation? What actually,

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how do you even define it?
And if you define it this way

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and it plays a part in salvation, well, isn't that works? And

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then you say, well, it's
not works because I get see what I'm

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about to do. I'm about to
start going through all of my teaching on

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repentance. So I'm not going to
do that. This introduction is all already

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fast approaching ten minutes. But what
I want to do is just start trying.

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Just jump right in and start the
review and then just see what happens.

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But I do want you to go
find the series. I don't know

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how many more sermons they're going to
add, but I want you to go

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listen to Faith Versus Words Part one. And I know I haven't given you

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any assignment for the sermon's two point
oh app challenge this week. Just make

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sure you go listen to everything in
this series, make sure you follow it.

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Just note, you can follow a
specific series or you can just follow

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that church if you want to.
You can follow Verity Verity Baptist Church.

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Verity Baptist Church have four and fifty
six sermons available Verity Baptist Church. I

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follow them. That's how I found
this message on repentance was it was in

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my feed, so please do that. Oh and one other quick update.

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Believe it was either early this morning, I don't know when it was.

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I think it was when in the
last twenty four hours they put out an

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update to the Church One app.
I know, at least for Apple devices.

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I don't know about Android devices.
So if you may want to check

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your app store and if you have
it, or unless you already have them,

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automatically, they do updates. But
if you if you don't, then

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you need to update your Church One
app. All right. You can do

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that after you're done listening to me. That's because if the update doesn't work

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or messes anything up, then you
won't be able to listen to me.

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All right, So check that out, all right? Are you ready?

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Very any Baptist church. Their series
is called Rooted and Grounded, And we're

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going to look at the message repent, the repent of your sins, confusion,

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the repent of your sins confusion.
Right here we go, amen,

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all right? When we're there.
In two Timothy, chapter number one,

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and if you remember last time we
were together, we talked about the idea

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of works and faith and we of
course believe here at Verity Baptist Church,

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that salvation is not of works,
and we dealt with that pretty extensively in

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the last sermon. I would like
to notice there in Second Timenty, chapter

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one, in verse number nine,
here yet another verse that identifies that same

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truth. The Bible says, and
two Timothy one point nine, who had

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saved us and called us within holy
calling, not according to our works,

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but according to his own purpose and
grace, which was given us in Christ

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Jesus before the world began, but
is now made manifest by the appearing of

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our savior of Jesus Christ, with
abolished death, and have brought life and

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immortality to light through the Gospel.
So the Bible is clear about the fact.

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And all throughout the Bible, it's
very evident that salvation is by grace,

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and it's through faith. It's not
of works, not according to our

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works, the Bible says. Yet
there are some who still want to try

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to deceive us into believing that works
are required for salvation. And there are

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different ways in which people try to
add works to salvation and us. Okay,

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now this is very important. There
are some, as he is saying,

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who try to add works to salvation, and I agreement with that.

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So so far I'm complete agreement.
I know I'm starting with a lot of

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agreement. A lot of times I
don't. I'm a complete agreement with the

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title of this message that there is
much confusion about repentance. So I'm I

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agree with that. Second, I
am very much in agreement that we have

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a massive problem within the Evangelical Protestant
fundamental world, and that is adding works

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to salvation. Now, as soon
as you call someone out for doing it,

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they'll say, no, no,
no, no, no no no

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no, no no no, we're
not adding works to salvation. Salvation is

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free, but works prove your salvation, which means then I have to work

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in order to be saved. And
so even though they play all of these

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games, they're adding work, even
though they say they're not, they are

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adding work. Look, just because
you say you're not adding works, that

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doesn't mean you're not. Okay,
And of course you could argue just because

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I say you are doesn't mean you
are. I understand that. But any

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logical following any taking some of these
ideas and following their logical conclusion, you

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end up with works and it's because
and you know why, because we are

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a works based people, as or
as I said in our very lengthy series

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and what we still haven't finished it. We still need to do more work

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on it, our Law and Gospel
series. We are law based individuals.

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That's how we think. We think
about law, we think about works.

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We think about doing this, earning
this. You don't deserve this, consequences

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for your actions. We don't think
in a grace based way. We are

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not grace based thinkers. We are
not grace based feelers. We don't feel,

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we don't our feelings, our emotions. Our thinking is not very grace

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based. It's always works. It's
always behavior, works, earn it,

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punishment, consequences and grace. We
and and it's so, what's so?

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Here's what I would say. As
much as people, because we went through

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a period of time and the church, and many very conservative churches, they

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seem more concerned about how someone could
abuse the doctrine of grace than they are

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of how someone could corrupt the doctrine
of grace. Many pastors or whenever they

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start talking about grace, they're like
they're so worried that someone could abuse it,

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that someone could use it as a
license for lasciviousness, use it for

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and they and they worry about that, even though I know there's some warnings

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about that in scripture. That's why
I say you set a license for lasciviousness,

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because clearly I'm referencing a scripture.
But I understand that. But they

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never seem to take into consideration how
someone can can corrupt grace, how they

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can add works. They never can
see. They see how someone can abuse

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grace, but they never see how
they can be guilty of corrupting grace.

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You listen, this is this is
very important to understand. Sometimes the church's

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attempt to not let someone abuse grace
leads them to corrupting grace. Sometimes the

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church's effort to quote unquote protect grace
actually leads them to destroying grace and in

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fact destroying the Gospel and replacing it
with something that is basically law disguising itself

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as gospel. That is the problem. So let's see if he's going to

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talk about some different ways in which
the Church and Christians in general add works

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subtle way, in an a deceptive
way, and one of the biggest ways

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that people will deceive others in adding
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we refer to as the repent of
your sins heresy. And today, what

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I'd like to do is speak to
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this is a subject that is often
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are often confused about. And you're
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I'd like you to go with me, if you would, to the Book

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of Genesis, the first book in
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And what I'd like to do is
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this idea of repentance or the repentance
confusion. And if you're taking notes,

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of course, on the back of
your course the week, there's a place

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for you to write down some things. I always encourage you to take some

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notes. I'd like to in this
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the repentance confusion. And I'd like
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Okay, So the repent of your
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attempts to do is to correct all
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your sins. Now, I'm very
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intrigued. I am intrigued, right
this this the first thing I'm intrigued by

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is recently we were going through kind
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leading me to, you know,
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store because I was going to be, you know, buying so much of

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their product. Okay, but all
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But there was a stretch there that
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question my sanity and really starting to
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Okay, and that you think I'm
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this starts off and I'm very I'm
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this this, this may be something
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line with this because I do belave
there is men much heresy when it comes

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to what people do with the concept
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I believe many people take the doctrine
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be nice to say, inadvertently create
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gospel based system and makes it a
law based system. Right now, I

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know I can hear I can hear
reform people. Right now, all the

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reform people take a deep breath.
Even though I'm on your side, you

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won't think I'm on your side,
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Repentance has nothing to do with works, because repentance is a work of God.

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I understand what you're saying. Okay, but just I think there's see

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I'm gonna start teaching. Okay,
let's just see. I don't know if

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he's gonna deal with that aspect,
but I definitely if he doesn't, I'll

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try to at least bring it up
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A right, but here we go. The first thing I'd like to

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show you or bring to your attention
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I said, repentance in the idea
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to people, something that they do
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lot. There's a lot of misconceptions
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to begin this morning by addressing the
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is this, This idea that repentance
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that repentance is always repentance of sin
is an error that quite honestly makes God

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a sinner. The reason that I
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is because in Genesis chapter six,
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word repent or a form of the
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in the Bible. And I want
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see the word repent or repent in
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is repenting. Notice there in Genesis
chapter six, and look down at verse

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number six. Genesis chapter six and
verse six, the Bible says, and

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it repented the Lord that he had
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grieved him at his heart. So
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see this word in the Bible,
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and the Lord said, I will
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face off the earth. Excuse me. Genesis sixty seven. And the Lord

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said, I will destroy man whom
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earth, both man and beasts,
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the air. For it repenteth me
that I have made them. So here

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we see the first and the second
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both times it is a reference to
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speakers have an echo. If you
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appreciate. And what's interesting is that
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here in the Bible, we see
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You're there in Genesis chapter six.
Tern with me if you went to the

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Book of Exodus, Exodus chapter number
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Okay, now, when all of
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like to explain what's happening. When
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go to work, right, I'm
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some work on the Schofield Study Bible. Remember we talked about the kind of

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sometimes the doctrine of a first usage, right, the doctrine of first use

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of a term or a word,
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understand a term in the Bible,
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used, because its first use really
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or interpret a term or a word, and whether I don't know how much

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you know, I've been in schools
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the doctrine of first use. All
right, where is the first place

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this term is used? How was
it used? And then they're like that

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controls all other interpretations or how you
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go look at how it's first used. I don't know if this if he's

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going in that direction, but he
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he points out that the first use
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which is somewhat that raises a lot
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So I pulled up immediately my anti
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gonna go look here because I think
it's interesting. The word here is to

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the word here is this Hebrew word
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not cam, not camm. It's
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times. It's translated comfort forty one
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and one time ease. All that
that wow, that that leaves you

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away. So there. The word
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comfort to repent, okay, the
strongest definition. I don't know if this

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helps any to sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry, to pity,

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to console, to avenge, comfort, ease, repent, the outline of

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biblical usage. I don't know if
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everything to be sorry, console,
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be comforted, to be sorry,
be moved, to pity, have compassion,

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to be sorry, rue, suffer, grief, repent, to comfort

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oneself, to be comforted, to
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idea of this. To to comfort
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sorry. It's like to be It's
almost like you're you're bothered by something,

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right, you regret something, You're
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same time, it's the idea to
comfort yourself. So I regret this,

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but then I'm gonna comfort myself and
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know. So that that's kind of
the interesting idea. Now, he it's

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kind of got a lot so you're
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lot of these to figure this out. He also quoted, I think verse

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seven. Yeah, that repenteth is
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I'm gonna go, is it the
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word I apologize. Yeah, it's
the same Hebrew word. It's the same

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Hebrew word strong as age fifty one
sixty two, nothm notham. All right,

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so it's the same Hebrew word in
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gonna be interesting to see what he
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understand all of the complexities the idea
of God repenting brings to mind. Right,

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Look, wait a minute, God
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what's going to happen. God decrees
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works everything according to his providence.
Then what could he repent of? Now?

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His repent here more just to express
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think of repentance. Now, you'll
notice something interesting if you use then if

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you just look at the new King
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and he was grieved. Verse seven
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said, I will destroy man whom
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earth, both man and beast creeping
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made them to me. I don't
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repent here because we immediately apply that
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a change of mind or change of
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this is really being used, this
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the emotion God is displeased, he's
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It's expressing emotion, I think,
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our concept of repentance. Right,
unless we're just going to use the word

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repent to describe emotion. Hey,
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are we feel sorrow, we feel
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If we're gonna apply this to sin
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comfort doesn't come from changing the behavior, would come to running to Christ.

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you could find some comfort in a
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so then you would have to go
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we could get into a discussion.
I think it primarily in Genesis. I

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think is more referencing emotion than anything. Let's see if he's going to bring

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that out, because that s the
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That eliminates all of that arguing about
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who knows the beginning and the end
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could he change his mind? Or
how could know? This is expressing emotion,

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right, And the only reason it
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using it in terms that we can
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take the time to go through every
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you this just to make the point. And the point is this that if

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you actually take the time to study
the word repent, repentance, repentant in

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the Bible, which we'll actually find
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in the Bible is God himself.
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the Lord repented, and he is
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is some value in this idea of
when a word is first mentioned in the

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Bible. There is this law of
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mentioned for the first time in the
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notice of it because of God.
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a law of first mentioned the doctor
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and I, I think, have
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what school he went to. I
think him and I have some we've gone

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to similar schools somewhere. I doubt
it was the same schools, but we've

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gone to similar school I have a
feeling he's gone to some probably independent,

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fundamental Baptist schools like I have.
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about our philological background. I'm starting
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it. But all right, so
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there are at times that there can
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always value in looking at it.
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interesting point. Now I think he
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we could, if someone wants to, you know, start looking this up.

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it true that God is the one
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you'll have to use the King James
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already seen, the new King James
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situations and goes with the idea of
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not the idea of repenting. So
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he wouldn't consider maybe that those were
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should be translated to express the emotion. To me, it removes some of

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the philological problems. But we'll see
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If if we take if in the
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the one repenting more than anything else, that would be a very interesting statistic

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if we could demonstrate that. But
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word repent be used in all of
these situations? Because of course the new

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King James translators immediately remove the word
repent. Andre like no, because I

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think they're going, this is expressing
God's emotion. Let's not muddy the waters

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with using the word repent, because
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in our day and age, is
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How often is trying to teach you
something from the first time a word is

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mentioned. I think it's very interesting
that the first time the Holy Spirit of

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God chose to put the word repentance
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God repenting. And I think the
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to see that this is something that
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including the Almighty God. You're there
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this is something that can be done
by anyone and everyone. Oh boy,

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all right, now we see,
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I don't know if he realized it. He just walked into the confusion,

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right he's trying to clarify the confusion. He just walked into confusion. He

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just walked into a massive philological debate
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more the reform perspective. Unless God
grants repentance, others believe anyone can repent

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of their own free will. Now, this is why defining repentance could be

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very very very very much important here, because how we define it may greatly

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limit who can or who can't do
it right your definition? Now, the

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way it's used in Genesis, and
I think what he's going to show here

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in Exodus is that if it's just
emotion, well, anyone can feel emotion.

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Anyone can feel emotion, sorrow,
regret, grief, being bothered over

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a situation. Anyone can feel that. That's natural. But if you make

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it more than that, So this
is an interesting discussion. Is the New

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Testament Greek translated word translated repent?
Is it very different than the meaning of

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the Hebrew word that is translated repent. Now, just to remember, the

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King James is the only one who's
translated this repent. There may be some

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other translations, but the new King
James has changed it. We'll see if

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he gives me the reference in Exodus
again. We'll see if we can find

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the reference in Exodus and see if
the new King James uses the word as

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well. We'll see if it's the
same Hebrew word. Let's continue to dig

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in. Look in verse fourteen,
Exodus thirty two, verse fourteen, the

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Bible says this, and the Lord
repented of the evil which he thought to

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do unto his people. And of
course, the word evil in the Bible

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is not a reference to sin.
Evil simply means to bring hurt and in

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this okay, Now, once again
we're back to a translation issue. Exodus

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thirty two to fourteen, New King
James, Exodus thirty two to fourteen.

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So the Lord relented from the harm
which he said he would do. He

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relented. Now let's look at the
Hebrew. Let's look up the Hebrew word.

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All right, let's go to Exodus
thirty two, verse fourteen. All

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right, King James has repented,
and it is the same Greek word.

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It's our same Hebrew words Age fifty
sixty two. Notham, not sham,

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the same, the same Hebrew word. So again the new King JEMs,

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New King James translators, they give
the word repent out of this. He

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relented, he felt sorrow, he
felt emotion. So the idea is well,

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he relented, he chose not to
move forward. Now some people say,

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well, that's repentance. But if
you put it repentance, you see

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where this creates major problems with an
all knowing God who decrees everything that comes

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to pass and is moving everything according
to providence. But if you more capture

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just it's referring to emotion action doing
something or not doing something, then we

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can kind of keep that somewhat.
I mean, it's a little bit easier

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to keep that away from all of
the controversy that would emerge. Let's see,

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he says he's not going to look
at all of them. Let's see

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if he gets to one where even
the new King James translators say, hey,

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this should be repent Let's see if
we find that one. Let's let's

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continue Kay's judgment upon the people.
But I want you to notice that the

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Bible here tells us that the Lord
repented of the evil which he thought to

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do. And again, the point
that I want you to see is that

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in the Bible we see more often
than not that it is the Lord who's

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repenting. It is God who repent. Now we see people repent as well,

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and we're going to talk about that. But the reason that we need

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to understand this is because of the
fact that if God is repenting, then

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we must understand that repentance is not
automatically connected to sin, because the misconception

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that people have today is that they'll
say, whenever you see the word repent

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or repentance in the Bible, it's
repenting of sin, even if it doesn't

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say sin, even if it doesn't
mention sin. You can just assume that

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every time you see the word repentance, repenteth, repenting, repent, that

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somebody is repenting of sin. Well, if that's true, then you would

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be saying that God is repenting of
sin. And here's what we know.

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We know that God does not sin. God is without sin. So if

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God, who is sinless, can
repent, then we can learn from that

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that repentance is something that is not
always connected to sin. Now, let's

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be sure that there are times when
repentance is applied to sin, and there

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are times when people have to repent
or should repent of their sins. But

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what I want you to understand is
that just because you see the word repent

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in the Bible, it does not
automatically mean that somebody is repenting of their

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sins. Because God himself repented the
Lord repented of the evil which he thought

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to do unto his people. Go
with me if you would to the Book

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of Jonah chapter three, towards the
end of the Old Testament. In fact,

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if you go backwards from the Book
of Malachi, which is the last

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book in the Old Testament, if
you go backwards, you go pass the

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Book of Zacharia, passed the Book
of HAGII, passed the Book of Zephaniah,

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passive Book of Habit cook Nay whom
Micah, and then Jonah Malachi,

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Zachariah, Hagee, Zephaniah, Habit
cook Nay whom Mike Jonah Jonah, chapter

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number three. And I like you
to do me a favor. Put a

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ribbon or a bookmark or something there
in Jonah, because we're gonna leave it

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and we're gonna come back to it. But I'd like you to notice what

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the Bible teaches about this idea of
repentance. And again we're talking about the

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misconception of repentance. Telling people that
repentance is always repentance of sin is wrong.

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It is biblically inaccurate, and it
is an error that would make God

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a sinner. If that was true
because of the fact that God is often

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repenting in the Bible. We saw
that there in Exodus three two fourteen,

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and the Lord repentant of the evil
which he thought to do unto his people.

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We saw that in Genesis six,
six and seven. And it repented

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the Lord that he had made man
on the earth, and it grieved him

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at his heart. And the Lord
said, I will destroy man whom I

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have created from the face of the
earth, both man and beasts, and

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the creeping things and the foules of
the air. For it repenteth me that

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I have made them. Now you're
there in Jonah chapter three. I like

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you to look at verse number nine
and notice this again, Jonah three nine.

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Who can tell? These are the
Ninavites? Of course, we're in

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the book of Jonah, and we've
got Jonah who has gone to the city

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of Ninevah, and he has preached
the judgment of God unto them. And

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I want you to notice what is
said here in Genesis three nine. They

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said, who can tell if God
will turn and repent again? I just

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want you to notice another reference here. Okay, now again this is fascinating

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to me because if I don't know
what other translations everyone is using. But

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if you found it in any other
translation, you can let me know.

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But the new King James just constantly
refuses to use the word repent. And

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Jonah chapter three, verse nine,
it reads, who can tell if God

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will turn and relent and turn away
from his fierce anger? Relent, not

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repent, because I think repentance care
there's some he's not defined repentance, right,

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he's not looked up to. He
just is using the word repent.

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I think if we this seems to
be like almost this is just either while

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he was going to do he he
relented from doing this action. Now you

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could say, well that kind of
fits the idea of repent, but repent

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it's more of like a change of
mind. Right, that's typically the way

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we understand it. Now, let's
see if Jonah is using the exact same

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Hebrew word though. Let's see if
he's using the exact Hebrew word Jonah chapter

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three, it's verse nine, right, Yes, the King James translates it

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repent, and then it's the same
same Hebrew word, same Hebrew word one

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more time for everyone was age fifty
one sixty two, notm not cam right,

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And then in verse ten, because
he's it's it's repented is in verse

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ten, and the King James,
and it's the same Hebrew word. It's

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the same Hebrew word Strong's age fifty
one sixty two, not sham, not

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sham, So the same Hebrew words
used in all of these passages. But

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the new King James translators takes these
Hebrew terms and have used it to express

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emotion, to express sorrow or grief
or relenting relenting right like, And I

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know that kind of carries the idea
that you can understand if repentance is a

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change of mind, well, then
uh, then God can literally change his

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mind. Well then that means he's
not eternally decreed something. Unless he eternally

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decreed to change his mind. Well
then what does that? Then? Has

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that not a change? That's not
a change? Right? Okay, all

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right, so then that gets it. That gets into all kinds of complicated

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matters. Right, Let's let's see
what he does with all of this to

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God repenting. Now they're asking who
can tell? All maybe God will turn

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and repent, Maybe God won't bring
this judgment that Jonah has been preaching about.

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Who can tell if God will turn
and repent and turn away from his

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fierce anger that we perish not I. I'd like you to look at verse

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number ten, because in verse number
ten we actually see another misconception. In

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verse nine we see the first misconception. And the first misconception is this that

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every time you see the word repentance
in the Bible, it is referring to

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repenting of your sins. And that
simply is not true, because if that

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word true, that would make God
a sinner, because God is often repenting

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in the Bible. Then I'd like
to notice a second misconception, and the

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second misconception is this that repenting of
your sins is required for salvation. Now,

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how do we know that that is
not true? Well, if you

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remember, we spent all of the
first lesson dealing with the subject of works

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and salvation, and we learned that
salvation is not of works. We learned

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about the fact that it's not by
works of righteousness which were done, but

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according to His mercy he saved us. We learned about the fact that for

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by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It

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is the gift of God, not
of works. Lest any man should boast

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now here in Jonah chapter three.
I want you to notice, and you

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need to understand the context. Jonah
has came, and he's came to Ninavites.

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He's preached the judgment of God.
He says, yet forty days and

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nine of us shall be destroyed,
and these people are getting right with God

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again there verse nine, Jonah three, verse nine. Who can tell if

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God will turn and repent and turn
away from his fierce anger that we perish

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not? But I want you to
notice verse number ten Jonah chapter three and

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verse ten, and God saw their
works. Why don't you notice? The

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Bible tells us here that God looks
down on the Ninevites. And the Bible

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tells us that God saw what God
refers to as their works. Now what

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is it that they did that God
refers to as their works? Notice it

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there, and God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way.

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Now Here, in a moment,
we're going to talk about the definition

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of repentance, and I'll prove this
to you from the Bible. But you

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need to understand that the word repent
means to turn. And here the Bible

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says that God saw their works,
that they turned from their evil way,

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and God repented of the evil that
he had said that he would do it

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to them, and he did it
not So again we see another reference to

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God repenting. But I don't want
to focus right now on God repenting.

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I want to focus on the fact
that they who the people of Nineveh,

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turned from their evil way. They
turned from those things that were bringing judgment

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upon them. They repented of their
sins. That's what the Bible is telling

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us here. And the Bible calls
that works. God calls that works.

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God saw their works, that they
turned from their evil way. So telling

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people that they have to repent of
their sins to be saved, I'm talking

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about going to heaven to be spiritually
safe is an error that adds works to

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salvation. Oh boy, Okay,
all right, ladies and gentlemen, the

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train has not gone off the tracks. The train has to come to a

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complete halt because I don't think we're
gonna get any further than this, all

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right, Within this is where I
always find myself, right, I always

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start looking at theological issues and then
I realize by the time I'm done that

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I have no place to be within
Christianity because I'm going to tick off every

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camp. I'm going to tick off
everyone with my explanation of this. All

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right, so you really have these
two very distinct camps right within Christendom.

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And the two camps are repentance is
absolutely necessary for salvation. If you do

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not repent, you are not saved. You must repent. The other side

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says, absolutely not. Repentance is
not necessary for salvation because that is adding

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works to the gospel. Therefore it's
a false gospel. Now, these are

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absolutely one hundred percent opposite of one
another, contradictory of one another, and

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obviously both cannot be right because they're
saying completely opposite things, which just shows

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you that even after two thousand years, Christians don't even agree or can't even

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understand the most basic concept of repent
or repentance. That leads me to the

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point of almost the pit of despair. You think, after some point we

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can figure this out. So let's
go with Let's try to work this out.

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The first thing we have to do
is, in all of this,

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we have to try to understand when
we say repent what is meant. Almost

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inevitably, everyone connects repentance with an
actual turning away from actions. Right,

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So repent is to turn away from
doing this, this, this, this,

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this, this, this, this, this, Right, so the

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focus is always on changing your action, changing your direction, changing your action,

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changing your direction. It almost inevitably, that's how everyone understands it.

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Okay, so then you go with
this, so you can see the side

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that would say no, no,
repentance is not required for salvation, because

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if you make repentance required for salvation, then what you're telling everyone repent you

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00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:45.960
must turn, you must change all
of your actions in order to be saved.

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And then they would say, but
to change all of your actions what

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he's doing here in Jonah, that
is a work that you were doing.

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And if it's a work you're doing, you're now making a work a requirement

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00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:02.159
for salvation. So you could see
why they want to remove repentance. Right,

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00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:07.400
Hey, repent it is to turn
to change all this behavior, stop

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00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:09.239
doing this and start doing this.
You have to do it, and that's

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a work you do. And if
it's a work you do well, then

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to do this would be bringing works
into salvation that destroys the gospel. So

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therefore repentance is not required for salvation. You see the logical argument there,

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I can understand the logical argument.
You're trying to protect the doctrine of grace.

609
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But by protecting the doctrine of grace, what do you do with all

610
00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:37.800
the passages of scripture that seems to
connect repentance with salvation? So what do

611
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:43.280
you do now? The more reform
side, the side that says no repentance

612
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:46.119
is required for salvation, they play
kind of a little game, right,

613
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:49.920
because they want they will tell you
no, no, no, no no.

614
00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:52.840
We believe salvation is by grace alone, too, faith alone, because

615
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:55.639
of Christ alone. So repentance is
not a work you do. So this

616
00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:01.559
is what they say. Repentance is
a work God does. God grant you

617
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:07.199
repentance, so it's not what you
do, it's what God does. And

618
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:09.599
then they will say, it's not
that you have to repent in order to

619
00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:14.760
be saved, but you have to
repent in the sense of you have to

620
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.440
be willing to change all of this
behavior. And if you change all of

621
00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:22.719
this behavior, then you prove you
are saved. So you don't change your

622
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:24.840
behavior in order to get saved.
This is the game they kind of play.

623
00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:29.480
You have to change your behavior in
order to prove you are saved.

624
00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:34.719
Now, this is where he gets
complicated in the reformed camp. If God

625
00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:39.519
is the one giving you the repentance, then that repentance should be so good

626
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:45.960
because God gave it to you that
you would instantaneously turn from every evil work

627
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:51.480
and never sin again, because it's
literally a repentance given to you by God.

628
00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:54.239
But even in the reformed lordship camp, they can't. They have to

629
00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:57.199
go no, no, no,
I mean, your repentance is not going

630
00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:00.800
to be perfect. I mean your
repentance. You're gonna have to be constantly

631
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.679
repenting because you're gonna be constantly sinning. Well wait a minute, did if

632
00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:07.159
I repent and then I go back
to the same sin, did I repent?

633
00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:12.119
Well I mean I mean well,
I mean you may repent, but

634
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:14.760
you have to keep repenting. Well, wait a minute, that sounds like

635
00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:20.159
that. My repentance is very iffy
and questionable and it's not very sure.

636
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:22.880
But at the same time, you're
gonna use this to judge my salvation.

637
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:27.199
And if God is the one who
gave me the repentance, wouldn't the repentance

638
00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:31.719
God gave me be not questionable?
Would it be just like God granted me

639
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:36.679
repentance, I repented and I never
committed another sin again. Well, they

640
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:37.000
was like no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

641
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:40.639
no. You just God grants you
a repentance, meaning you're willing to

642
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.079
turn from all of your sins.
So only God just tells me, gives

643
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:49.880
me a willingness to turn for my
sin. But what if I never turned

644
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.239
for my sin, but I'm willing
to turn. Well, if you're really

645
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:53.800
willing to turn from your sin,
you'll turn from your sin. Well,

646
00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:57.519
how much sin do I have to
turn from to in order to prove that

647
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:00.880
I'm saved. Well, I mean
you have to, and of course it'll

648
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:02.199
be the big sin. I mean, obviously, if you were a homosexual,

649
00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:05.159
you got to turn from that.
Of course, of course you weren't

650
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:07.679
saved. But I mean if you
were a heterosexual and you struggle and you're

651
00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:12.480
a teenager and you get saved,
but you still struggle with lust and fornication,

652
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:15.519
I mean, that's okay. It's
a really weird game and how the

653
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:19.280
game is played. So the one
side, it's like, no, no,

654
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.000
no, no, no, repentance
is not required for salvation because repentance

655
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:27.000
is are turning away from these things, and it that's a work you do.

656
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:30.280
Therefore, it can't be a part
of salvation. Right, it's something

657
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:32.360
you do after you're saved. And
then the other side is like, no

658
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:37.320
repentance is required for salvation. But
the reason it's not a work is God

659
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:39.679
grant you the repentance. But then
that leads to all the problems there.

660
00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:43.440
Well, wait a minute. If
it's God granted me the repentance, then

661
00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:49.440
it should be a perfect repentance and
I should never sin again. And I

662
00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:52.960
can prove to you your repentance.
And if you say, well, if

663
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:54.840
you keep sinning, your repentance is
not genuine, Well, then, ladies

664
00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:59.760
and gentlemen, I'm about to ruin
your day because none of our repentance is

665
00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:01.840
how do you want to know?
Here we go. Some of you know

666
00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:05.960
exactly what I'm about to say.
All right, love the Lord, that

667
00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:08.239
God with all your heart, mind, body and soul. That's a command.

668
00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:12.119
If you're breaking that command, you're
sinning. I want you to repent

669
00:51:12.199 --> 00:51:15.000
of that sin right now and now
from this point on you'll love God perfectly.

670
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:19.480
Well, see that's never going to
happen. So that means your repentance

671
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:22.440
is never genuine. Wait, you're
supposed to love your neighbor as yourself.

672
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:25.360
If you're not doing that, repent
of that and always from this point forward

673
00:51:25.480 --> 00:51:30.639
love your neighbor, which is anyone
the way you love your Oh you're never

674
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:32.440
going to accomplish that, because you
will always love yourself more than you'll love

675
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:37.159
anyone else. All right, so
you're wait wait wait wait wait, be

676
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:40.679
ye holy as He is holy,
you are commanded to be as holy as

677
00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:45.880
God is holy. You will never
do that practically, so your repentance is

678
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:47.960
not genuine. Oh see, well, now that puts you in a major

679
00:51:49.039 --> 00:51:54.159
problem, right, So what do
we do. I'm going to put forth

680
00:51:54.239 --> 00:52:06.480
an argument that goes something like this
is necessary for salvation. But that repentance

681
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:16.639
that's necessary for salvation is simply a
change of mind, because that's to me,

682
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:21.320
if you look at the real meaning
of especially the Greek word, that's

683
00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:23.559
the primary meaning of it. No
one can deny that that's not a part

684
00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:28.760
of it. For salvation, you
change your mind what you you were living

685
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:31.719
your life this way and now you
realize there is a God. You change

686
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:35.719
your mind from not believing in a
god to now believing in a God,

687
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:38.719
or now believing this and this God
in a way differently than you did before.

688
00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:42.880
You now believe in Jesus Christ.
And you believe Jesus Christ was the

689
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:46.559
eternal son of God, born of
a virgin who suffered and died under conscious

690
00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:50.639
pilot, and he paid for your
sins, and only that while he was

691
00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:53.119
alive, he kept the law perfectly
for you. And now you are going

692
00:52:53.199 --> 00:52:57.679
to and now you acknowledge that you
are a sinner and you need salvation.

693
00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:04.960
You change your mind about God,
about sin. You change your mind.

694
00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:10.559
And that change of mind is now
what leads to the struggle that follows after

695
00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:15.440
your salvation, because now you know
something is a sin, and when you're

696
00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:17.480
doing it, you know that you
shouldn't be doing it, and you feel

697
00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:24.159
guilty about it, and you struggle
because your mind has been changed. I

698
00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:29.400
say repentance is a change of mind, so therefore it can be a requirement

699
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:32.960
for salvation. But that change of
mind is by no mean a guarantee of

700
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:39.480
a change of behavior. Your mind
may tell you it's wrong, but your

701
00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:45.519
actions may do it either way.
And you don't judge someone's salvation by how

702
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:50.239
much they change. You don't even
judge them about how much they've changed their

703
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:52.719
mind. You judge their salvation based
off the finished work of Jesus Christ,

704
00:53:52.800 --> 00:54:00.599
and they're trusting and their faith in
that finished work. To say that puts

705
00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:07.960
me outside of both camps, I'm
in no man's land here, right.

706
00:54:08.119 --> 00:54:12.559
That's why I will never find I
won't ever be able to find a church,

707
00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:15.760
because I would always be the one
outside of what the church teaches.

708
00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:22.199
You see where my problem would be. Now you might say, well,

709
00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:24.559
is there not a place for repenting
of your sins? And we'll talk about

710
00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:29.000
that. There absolutely is a place
for repenting of your sins. But what

711
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:36.079
you and I need to understand that
the Bible God himself identified someone turning from

712
00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:38.920
their evil way, and he referred
to that as works. And we know

713
00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:43.480
that salvation is not of works,
is not something that is earned. So

714
00:54:43.639 --> 00:54:50.239
therefore, repentance or repenting of your
sins specifically cannot be part of salvation because

715
00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:57.840
that would be adding works to salvation. These are misconceptions that are said so

716
00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:04.480
much, and they're repeated so often
that people just think that it's what the

717
00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:08.360
Bible teaches and it's what the Word
of God says, when it absolutely is

718
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:15.239
not. I don't know if there's
any significance to this, but he's been

719
00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:17.199
looking up all the places where the
word repent is used. In the King

720
00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:22.719
James. And then he looked at
Jonah chapter three, verse nine, where

721
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:25.559
it says who can who can tell
if God will turn? And the new

722
00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:30.400
King James doesn't use the word repent
relent, but the King James translates that

723
00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:34.800
repent. Then he goes to verse
ten. Then God saw their works that

724
00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:37.760
they turn from their evil way and
turn from their evil way. He's like,

725
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:43.039
see, that's them repenting. What's
interesting it doesn't use the same Hebrew

726
00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:47.199
word that's been translated repent all of
these times by the King James translators.

727
00:55:47.480 --> 00:56:00.760
This turn from their evil way?
Is this Hebrew word? Jong's shoove,

728
00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:12.199
shoove shoove. Now shove is used
one thousand and sixty six times. Shove

729
00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:15.519
is used one thousand and sixty six
times. It's everything from return again,

730
00:56:16.119 --> 00:56:21.320
turn, turn, back, away, restore, bring, render, answer,

731
00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:25.480
recompense, recover, deliver, put
withdrawal, requit. I mean it's

732
00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:31.760
definition here, Oh wow. I
mean the strongest definition is just It can

733
00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:36.880
be used a million different ways,
but it can mean to return, to

734
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:42.920
turn back, to turn back to
return. I mean it's a completely different

735
00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:45.800
word than the one that's been translated
repent, which is interesting because this seems

736
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:50.159
to capture more of the idea of
what we typically think of repentance. Is

737
00:56:50.519 --> 00:56:54.559
than God saw their works that they
turn from their evil ways, and God

738
00:56:54.679 --> 00:57:00.480
relented. See now relented in the
King James is translated repent. But God

739
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:04.880
saw their works that they turn from
their evil way is not is not translated

740
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:09.039
well as the same word this translated
repent. That to me is fascinating.

741
00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:13.360
I don't know what you want to
do with that, right so, but

742
00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:17.280
I just I do agree with him. God is seeing that it's their works.

743
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:22.639
God saw their works, that they
turn from evil, their works.

744
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:29.559
This is something they are doing.
Now, if you connect repentance with something

745
00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:34.360
we do, well, okay,
then obviously we know if we're doing it.

746
00:57:34.519 --> 00:57:36.400
We know this. It's not going
to be perfect. It's going to

747
00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:38.760
be imperfect, and it's going to
be all over the place, messy,

748
00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:43.719
corrupted, it's going to be a
mess. But if it's something we do

749
00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:47.079
and it's us turning from works,
and then you say it's required for salvation,

750
00:57:47.559 --> 00:57:52.599
then you've now put works in salvation. So the more reformed camp comes

751
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:53.639
in and says, no, no, it's not what we do. God

752
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:57.679
gives you the repentance. Well,
then the answer question would be, if

753
00:57:57.679 --> 00:58:00.840
God grants me the repentance, then
that turning she be absolutely perfect. But

754
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:06.840
I believe repent as far as salvation
is concerned, it's just a change of

755
00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:09.159
mind, and I have no problem
believing God is the one who grants that.

756
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:15.760
And God changes my mind, and
my mind is permanently changed. Right

757
00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:20.760
for a Christian, your mind is
permanently changed. You're going to believe because

758
00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:23.719
we believe in the eternal security of
the believer. We believe somehow and you

759
00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:28.239
know the perseverance of the saints.
Because I do hold more to a reform

760
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:31.639
socieriology, Well then yeah, God's
changed my mind forever. I'm always going

761
00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:35.760
to believe that there's a God,
that he sent his son Jesus Christ,

762
00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:37.880
and he died for me, and
then I'm always I may struggle with so

763
00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:43.239
many issues, but I'm going to
at least believe the basic elements and trust

764
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:47.159
in Christ. I may be confused
and not understand and doubt at times,

765
00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:52.199
but I'm going to have faith because
salvation is by faith alone, not by

766
00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:55.440
what I do or don't do.
So I got no problem saying it's requirement

767
00:58:55.480 --> 00:58:59.400
for salvation. I got no problem
saying it's required it. God is the

768
00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:01.599
one who grants. It's not just
something we do on our own. But

769
00:59:01.719 --> 00:59:07.039
guess what, I'm only going to
allow repentance to be a change of mind

770
00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:12.800
as far as salvation is concerned.
Both maybe would to the Book of Matthew

771
00:59:12.840 --> 00:59:15.800
in the New Testament first book,
keep your place there in Yonah. We're

772
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:19.199
gonna come back to Jonah, So
put something there and go to Matthew chapter

773
00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:22.679
number three, if you would.
Matthew chapter three. Again, I want

774
00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:27.039
to be clear, what are misconceptions, Maybe because maybe you're here this morning

775
00:59:27.079 --> 00:59:30.639
and you've had this misconception. Maybe
you were taught some of these things,

776
00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:35.440
and you were taught inaccurately or incorrectly, and it's good for you to clear

777
00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:38.519
up some of these misconceptions. Misconception
number one, every time you see the

778
00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:43.679
word repent in the Bible, it's
referring to sin. That's wrong because if

779
00:59:43.719 --> 00:59:45.559
that were true, that would mean
that God is a sinner. Because the

780
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:50.880
person who repents more than anyone in
the Bible is God himself. So we

781
00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:54.480
need to understand that. Yes,
sometimes the word repentance is being applied to

782
00:59:54.639 --> 00:59:58.880
sin, but sometimes it's not.
You say, well, when do we

783
00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:00.480
know it's not. Well, for
sure, one is being referred to God.

784
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:02.960
We know that it's not referring to
sin. God is not repenting of

785
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:09.320
sin. Another misconception is this idea
that repenting of your sins is required for

786
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:14.199
salvation, or it is part of
salvation. That's wrong because the Bible is

787
01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:17.039
clear about the fact that salvation is
not of works. And the Bible tells

788
01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:22.280
us Jonah three ten that when someone
turns from their evil way, that is

789
01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:27.760
a work Jonah three ten. And
God saw their works that they turned from

790
01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:34.119
their evil way. So we see
that turning from your evil way, repenting

791
01:00:34.199 --> 01:00:38.199
of your sins cannot be something that
is part of salvation. He said,

792
01:00:38.199 --> 01:00:42.480
well, why do people have these
misconceptions? Why do people think this?

793
01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:47.360
One of the reasons is because this
idea, this phrase repent of your sins,

794
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:54.840
repent of your sins, is so
often quoted and repeated by preachers throughout

795
01:00:54.880 --> 01:01:00.800
the ages that people just assume this
is something the Bible teaches. In fact,

796
01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:05.159
let me just say this, your
King James, Bible never even once

797
01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:09.559
holds this phrase in it repent of
your sins. The Bible never even says

798
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:14.440
that phrase repent of your sins.
Now, the Bible does teach the concept

799
01:01:14.679 --> 01:01:17.079
of repenting of your sins, and
we'll talk about that here in a minute.

800
01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:22.159
But what I think is interesting that
this phrase is used and used and

801
01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:28.239
repeated over and over again by Bible
preachers or so called Bible preachers, and

802
01:01:28.360 --> 01:01:32.719
yet the Bible never even uses that
phrase once. That phrase repent of your

803
01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:37.159
sins. I'm talking about those words
repent of your sins, those four words

804
01:01:38.440 --> 01:01:45.280
in that order, That phrase and
that sentence structured is never once found in

805
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:50.960
the Bible. Here's what I think
is interesting. People will sometimes argue with

806
01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:52.760
me. I'll preach something like this
or say something like this, and someone

807
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.159
will argue with me, and we'll
say, well, the Bible clearly states

808
01:01:55.400 --> 01:02:00.519
that someone has to repent of their
sins to be saved. And I always

809
01:02:00.559 --> 01:02:02.920
ask when somebody says that, when
somebody makes a statement the Bible teaches you

810
01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:07.320
got to repent of your sins to
be saved. What I always ask is,

811
01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:12.400
where where does the Bible say that? Show me in the Bible where

812
01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:15.039
the Bible says And oftentimes people don't
even know where to go, because they

813
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:17.840
repeat things they hear, but they
have never studied it out on the Bible

814
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.079
themselves. But every once in a
while people will say, well, i'll

815
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:24.280
show you where, and they'll take
me to a passage like Matthew chapter three.

816
01:02:24.280 --> 01:02:28.320
I like to look at it.
Matthew chapter three. They'll say,

817
01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:30.119
the Bible teachers someone must repent of
their sins to be saved. And I'll

818
01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:32.000
say, well, if the Bible
teachers that I should like to see that,

819
01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:34.960
please show me that in the Bible. And they'll say, well,

820
01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:37.880
i'll show you that, and they'll
take me to a passage like Matthew three

821
01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:43.000
ten where the Bible says and saying
repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven

822
01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:47.400
is at hand. And then they'll
kind of just look at me there,

823
01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:52.320
and I'll often look down and say, well, I see the word repent,

824
01:02:53.639 --> 01:02:59.559
and I see the word ye,
But where's the word of your sins?

825
01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:05.559
Where are those words? It doesn't
say repent of your sins. It

826
01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:07.599
says repent ye. And then they'll
say, WHOA, yeah, But I

827
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:10.840
mean it's understood that when the Bible
says repent is talking about your sins.

828
01:03:12.719 --> 01:03:15.199
Well, then we go back to
the misconception. Well, that can't be

829
01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:20.679
true, because God repents, and
it's not of your sins, because God

830
01:03:20.800 --> 01:03:22.920
is without sin. Sometimes they'll take
me to a verse like this, you're

831
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:27.239
there in Matthew three. Go to
Matthew chapter four, Matthew chapter four.

832
01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:30.440
Show me a verse where it says
repent of your sins, where the Bible

833
01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:35.360
teaches repent of your sins to be
saved. Matthew chapter four to seventeen.

834
01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:37.159
They'll say, well, how about
this one from that time Jesus began to

835
01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:43.960
preach and to say repent for the
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. And

836
01:03:44.079 --> 01:03:45.920
again I'll ask the question. I'll
say, I see the word repent,

837
01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:53.079
but where are these words repent of
your sins? Because you're adding those words,

838
01:03:53.880 --> 01:04:00.480
you're adding that thought. You're coming
to the Bible where they preconceived idea

839
01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:03.119
that says every time the Bible use
the word repent, of course it's talking

840
01:04:03.119 --> 01:04:08.320
about repenting of your sins. And
then you're putting that definition onto the Bible.

841
01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:12.440
But that can't be true because we
see that God repents, and if

842
01:04:12.519 --> 01:04:16.119
God repents, then the word repent
cannot automatically mean repent of your sins,

843
01:04:17.719 --> 01:04:21.760
and God tells us that when someone
turns from their evil way, that to

844
01:04:21.840 --> 01:04:26.840
a work. And the Bible is
clear that salvation is not of work.

845
01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:33.360
So therefore repenting of your sins cannot
cannot be part of salvation. Bolly,

846
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:36.599
it says it right there. So
clearly, why don't have a problem with

847
01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:42.800
what the Bible says? I'm a
problem with you because the Bible says repent

848
01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:46.599
for the Kingdom of Heaven is at
hand, But what it doesn't say is

849
01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:50.199
repent of your sins. Then they'll
maybe take me to another verse, and

850
01:04:50.239 --> 01:04:56.440
we gonna do this all day.
I will. This is an interesting argument

851
01:04:56.519 --> 01:05:00.159
that he's making, and he's putting
together kind of a logical argument. I'm

852
01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:02.320
following, at least the logic of
it. I've already kind of stepped outside

853
01:05:02.360 --> 01:05:05.519
of his camp. I've stepped outside
of the other camp, and I've kind

854
01:05:05.559 --> 01:05:11.320
of put forth my own perspective.
But he didn't look up the well,

855
01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:13.880
he's not looked up the Hebrew term
or the Greek term. But let's go

856
01:05:13.960 --> 01:05:15.760
to the Greek term here in Matthew
three. Because we're gonna run out of

857
01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:18.719
time, we can at least look
at this and just see if it carries

858
01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:28.639
the same idea as the Hebrew one
and and Matthew three of the word is

859
01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:32.400
Matthew three verse two. Okay,
Matthew three two. All right, I

860
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:34.719
was like, well, I thought
it was three one three two. Here

861
01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:42.440
we go. It's this Greek word
strong g thirty three meta not ao,

862
01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:47.360
meta ao, meta not ao,
meta not ao. You need to know

863
01:05:47.519 --> 01:05:51.280
that Greek word meta not ao,
because this is the This is where all

864
01:05:51.400 --> 01:05:56.880
the argument comes down to, meta
not ao. This is very important meton

865
01:05:56.920 --> 01:05:59.960
i ao. I'm gonna go straight
from the anti linear that I have here

866
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:06.599
in front of me, outline of
biblical usage. To change one's mind number

867
01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:13.679
two, to change one's mind hardly
to amend with abhorrence of one's past sense.

868
01:06:13.880 --> 01:06:17.559
But make sure you understand the very
obvious meaning first and foremost is to

869
01:06:17.719 --> 01:06:23.280
change one's mind underneath that they have
kind of in a little block here repentance

870
01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:29.480
metaniao change of mind. It involves
a turning with contrition from sin to God.

871
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:34.400
The repentant sinner is proper in the
proper condition to accept divine forgiveness.

872
01:06:34.599 --> 01:06:38.719
Well, I think it is to
turn from your sin in this sense,

873
01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:43.000
and I think It's all about a
change of mind when I am brought to

874
01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:45.800
when it comes to salvation, I
change my mind realize, and this is

875
01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:50.280
my change. All of this behavior, all of my actions, are sinful.

876
01:06:50.519 --> 01:06:56.199
They are a failure. Now I'm
going to turn to Christ for salvation

877
01:06:56.760 --> 01:07:00.960
from these sins. It is a
change of mind that turns me from my

878
01:07:01.119 --> 01:07:04.679
sin to faith in Christ. Not
when I say, turns for my sin

879
01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:09.039
in action, but I'm turning to
it now that I'm putting my faith in

880
01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:15.360
Christ to save me from them and
to pay for them. It's a change

881
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:18.239
of mind. It's used thirty four
times. If you look at strongest definition

882
01:07:18.519 --> 01:07:25.800
from metana Ao, it is to
think differently, or afterwards, it is

883
01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:30.000
to think differently. Everyone's gonna say, but it's a change of mind that

884
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:32.960
leads to a change of action.
It obviously doesn't always lead to a perfect

885
01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:39.960
change of action because we continue to
sin. It's a change of mind,

886
01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:46.360
and that change of mind, then
I believe is true and real and permanent.

887
01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:50.360
I truly change my mind. I
may continue to sin, but I

888
01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:56.639
will continue to admit that it's a
sin. Right. If I try to

889
01:07:56.960 --> 01:08:00.559
justify it, well, then I'm
not really I haven't really changed my mind

890
01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:04.159
about sin. I believe that that
repentance is a true change of mind,

891
01:08:04.199 --> 01:08:06.440
where I'm like, hey, look, I know I did this, but

892
01:08:06.599 --> 01:08:11.840
I'm not going to justify it.
I know it was wrong, Okay,

893
01:08:12.559 --> 01:08:15.239
I understand that, and I look, I know it's wrong not to love

894
01:08:15.279 --> 01:08:17.760
God with all my heart, mind, body and soul. But I still

895
01:08:17.840 --> 01:08:20.840
don't do it. I know I
should love my neighbor as myself, but

896
01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:24.439
I still don't do it. I
know I'm to be holy as God is

897
01:08:24.479 --> 01:08:35.159
holy, I still don't do it. I think the focus is metini ao

898
01:08:35.239 --> 01:08:39.239
when we get to the New Testament, it's a change of mind and the

899
01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:42.359
word that's translated to repent, at
least when it comes to God and some

900
01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:45.760
of the passes, that's more about
an emotion, about about you know,

901
01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:49.279
I think it. I don't think
it has It doesn't have the same concept

902
01:08:49.359 --> 01:08:54.000
of metoni ao, no way,
shape or form. It doesn't even carry

903
01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:56.840
even the Hebrew word doesn't even carry
the idea of a change of mind.

904
01:08:57.119 --> 01:08:59.399
Is more about emotion. So that's
why I don't. I think that's why

905
01:08:59.439 --> 01:09:03.720
the New Kings translators remove that word
being repent when referring to God because I

906
01:09:03.800 --> 01:09:08.000
think it's I think it's a I
think it causes all of this confusion.

907
01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:13.000
But I see the logical progression he's
building. I just I'm outside of both

908
01:09:13.079 --> 01:09:16.960
camps. I do believe repentance is
required for salvation, and I can even

909
01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:19.840
believe that God is the one who
has to grant that repentance. But it's

910
01:09:19.880 --> 01:09:27.039
a change of mind that leads me
and a sense to turn from sin,

911
01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:30.399
not in action, but to turn
from sin and to turn to Christ for

912
01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:39.720
salvation and for forgiveness of those sins
and for a righteousness that will in a

913
01:09:39.880 --> 01:09:44.520
sense cover me, because I know
I'm still a sinner. Right now,

914
01:09:44.600 --> 01:09:46.079
Let's see if we can find a
place to wrap this up. When I

915
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:49.000
wear close to the end of this
sermon, you need to go listen to

916
01:09:49.039 --> 01:09:51.800
the rest of this sermon. You
need to and obviously we're going to have

917
01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:56.520
to review it because I'm now fascinated
by it. But let's let me play

918
01:09:56.640 --> 01:10:00.159
just a little bit more. Won't
do take you to every passage, but

919
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:03.560
I'll just give you one more just
for fun. Mark chapter six, look

920
01:10:03.680 --> 01:10:12.199
verse twelve, Mark chapter six and
verse twelve. Mark six twelve says this,

921
01:10:12.560 --> 01:10:18.279
and they went out and preached that
men should repent. And they're like,

922
01:10:18.359 --> 01:10:21.800
there you go. See they went
out and they preach that men should

923
01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:27.279
repent of their sins. And I'll
say again, I see the word preach.

924
01:10:27.600 --> 01:10:30.119
I see that word should, I
see the the word men. I

925
01:10:30.279 --> 01:10:35.800
see the word repent. But where
does it say of your sins? Where

926
01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:40.079
does it say repent of your sins
to be saved. I can show you

927
01:10:40.119 --> 01:10:42.760
a verse that says, believe I'm
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shallt

928
01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:45.880
be saved. Can you show me
a verse that says repent of your sins

929
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:49.039
and you'll be saved. You can't
because it's not in the Bible. Now.

930
01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:55.119
The Bible uses the word repent,
repentance, repenting, repentant, repentance

931
01:10:55.239 --> 01:10:57.960
is the constant found in scripture.
Sometimes I'll preach a sermon like this,

932
01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:00.760
and then people will accuse us,
say, oh, that per that preacher,

933
01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:02.680
that church. They don't believe in
repentance. We believe in repentance.

934
01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:08.319
We just don't believe in adding works
to salvation like you do. The Bible

935
01:11:08.439 --> 01:11:15.119
talks about repentance, but we must
be careful not to add what you read

936
01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:20.279
in a commentary somewhere, not to
add what you read in some theological books

937
01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:25.399
somewhere, not to add what you
heard on the radio or on the TV

938
01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:29.800
or on the internet, and just
add something to the Bible that's not there,

939
01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:34.880
because the Bible never uses this phrase
repent of your sins, never even

940
01:11:34.960 --> 01:11:39.640
uses it. And people try to
take you to proof text to say,

941
01:11:39.800 --> 01:11:41.840
well, it teaches you, and
then they take you to verses that say

942
01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:47.720
repent, they don't say repent of
your sins. And we know that repentance

943
01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:54.319
cannot automatically always on its own be
referring to sin, because the person repented

944
01:11:54.359 --> 01:11:57.680
the most in the Bible is God
himself, and God is without sin.

945
01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:00.560
And we know that repenting of your
sin is gonna be part of salvation because

946
01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:09.159
God defines someone turning from their evil
way as works, and we know that

947
01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:14.039
works is not part of salvation.
So we talked about the misconception of repentance.

948
01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:19.279
I hope that that's helped clear up
some of those misconceptions that repentance is

949
01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:24.199
not always referring to sin, and
that repenting of your sins cannot be part

950
01:12:24.239 --> 01:12:28.920
of salvation because it's adding work salvation. But now let's talk about the definition

951
01:12:29.079 --> 01:12:34.000
of repentance. Oh, we're gonna
have to stop. But that's a perfect

952
01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:38.520
place to stop. That's a perfect
place to stop. Oh, that's a

953
01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:42.000
perfect place to stop. Okay,
not really okay, but it's like,

954
01:12:42.399 --> 01:12:45.760
Hey, what's going to happen next
week? Okay? Well, hopefully,

955
01:12:45.960 --> 01:12:47.560
hopefully I can get to this before
next week, but we will see.

956
01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:51.920
It's going to be a crazy I
don't know how broadcasting is going to go,

957
01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:56.880
but I'm going to go. I'm
writing this down and I'll market if

958
01:12:56.920 --> 01:13:00.920
we can get to it later today
we will. Currently it's two pm Central

959
01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:05.000
time, and I'm I'm going to
prove how fleshly I am. I need

960
01:13:05.119 --> 01:13:10.920
food, all right. I haven't
eaten today. I am absolutely starving,

961
01:13:11.079 --> 01:13:16.359
all right, so I need food. And it's seventy two minutes seventy three

962
01:13:16.399 --> 01:13:19.600
minutes, so we have to stop, all right. So you've heard his

963
01:13:19.800 --> 01:13:25.319
You've heard his perspective, which I'm
much much in agreement with. This next

964
01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:29.039
part will determine how much I'm in
agreement with. But I've also clearly stated

965
01:13:29.159 --> 01:13:34.960
my perspective, which is outside of
really both typical camps on this subject.

966
01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:39.399
And well you can tell me where
you fit, and you can email me

967
01:13:39.479 --> 01:13:44.119
at news I F at yahoo dot
com. This news I F at yahoo

968
01:13:44.159 --> 01:13:48.039
dot com. Please go look up
again this church on the Sermon's two point

969
01:13:48.119 --> 01:13:55.119
oh app. Please look it up
and follow them Verity and hopefully I'm saying

970
01:13:55.119 --> 01:13:59.560
it correctly. V E r it
t y Verity Baptist Church. Follow them.

971
01:14:00.039 --> 01:14:02.239
Yes, it is independent fundamental.
I told you him and I have

972
01:14:02.279 --> 01:14:05.880
probably gone to the same types of
schools because I could clearly hear that.

973
01:14:06.399 --> 01:14:12.159
And then look for the series Rooted
and Grounded, and then I don't know

974
01:14:12.159 --> 01:14:14.199
again, I don't know why to
have it part one part two, but

975
01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:16.840
Faith Versus Works, that's the first
one. You definitely want to listen to

976
01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:21.600
that. And then the Repent of
Your Sins Confusion Part two. They label

977
01:14:21.640 --> 01:14:25.680
it part two. I wouldn't label
it part two. And then you can

978
01:14:26.039 --> 01:14:29.000
go and then follow that and see
if they add any more to the series,

979
01:14:29.560 --> 01:14:32.520
and I think it'll be well with
your time. And you can then

980
01:14:32.640 --> 01:14:36.720
contrast that with all the other messages
on the Sermon's Audio app because most I

981
01:14:38.199 --> 01:14:41.960
think the majority of sermons on the
Sermon Audio app or Sermon's two point zero

982
01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:47.359
app will lead you more to the
reformed perspective or the lordship perspective. And

983
01:14:47.479 --> 01:14:50.720
this is clearly not going with the
reformed idea and definitely not going with the

984
01:14:50.760 --> 01:14:58.079
lordship idea. So it's good to
have that variety, and you're getting that

985
01:14:58.239 --> 01:15:04.000
variety. But litening to a message
from Verity Baptist Church, they say,

986
01:15:04.039 --> 01:15:06.239
I'm trying to be too clever.
Yeah, that's it. I know,

987
01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:10.319
it's kind of ridiculous. All right, thanks for listening. I need food.

988
01:15:10.439 --> 01:15:11.880
Everyone, have a great day.
God bless