all right let's get to the sermon so any ideas of what I'll be preaching on today
with that memory verse repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus
Christ repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ so the
title of the sermon is repeat repent ye and believe the gospel repent ye and
believe the gospel you probably wondering Kevin didn't you just preach
on believe in the gospel last week that we really need to hear it another one on
salvation well I in an ideal scenario I wouldn't have to preach this sermon but
unfortunately there are so many false doctrines out there so many false
Gospels out there that I just I'm forced but to preach this okay now you might
say Kevin isn't the word repentance isn't repentance a major doctrine in
the Bible yes it is and is it related to the gospel is it related to salvation
absolutely it is so the natural question is well why don't you why didn't
you mention repentance last week when you preach that salvation was by grace
through faith and not of works well because the basis of that you know
sermon was really coming from the book of John and it what did we say about the
book of John the book of John is a book that was written to the unbeliever so
they would believe on the Lord Jesus Christ be saved and receive eternal life
and it's interesting that in that book that's written for salvation the only
book that's purposely written for salvation according to the Bible does
not mention the word repentance once not once okay so that's why I didn't mention
it because I didn't want to confuse anyone and the topic of repentance has
such great confusion in our world today such great confusion in our churches
today that I have no choice but to preach a totally separate sermon just on
repentance in fact I received an email today from a friend of mine who's
messed up on repentance it was a long email I haven't even got I got through
like two paragraphs so far it's super long I need I need time to dedicate to
it but basically he's just messed up on repentance thinking that someone has to
turn from their sins and we'll talk about that that phrase soon but he
believes you have to turn from your sins in order to be saved now some people
will say well Kevin you don't believe in repentance if you don't believe someone
has to turn from their sins to be saved you don't believe in repentance no I
absolutely believe in repentance right God is not willing that any should perish
but that all should come to repentance okay now before Jesus came before well
actually while Jesus was on the earth but before he started his ministry John
the Baptist his cousin who was a little bit older than him okay maybe six months
older I think came and what did he preach I'll read it to you from Matthew
chapter 3 verses 1 & 2 it says in those days came John the Baptist preaching in
the wilderness of Judea and saying repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is
at hand so what was the message of John the Baptist who came to prepare the way
of the Lord remember he came to prepare the way of Jesus Christ he can teach and
repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand they just want you to notice as
we as we read these verses did he say repent of your sins for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand he didn't say that did he he just said repent ye for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand then came Jesus next chapter in Matthew chapter 4
verse 14 from that time Jesus began to preach so now Jesus begins to preach
right and to say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand so the Jesus come
preaching repentance yes he did but did he say repent of your sins for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand no he didn't then what did Jesus do he got 12
right 12 disciples the 12 apostles that we're familiar with we read about it in
Mark chapter 6 verse 7 I'll read it to you it says this and he called unto him
the 12 and began to send them forth by 2 & 2 and gave them power over unclean
spirits so by the way this is why you know when we go and preach the gospel
door-to-door we go 2 by 2 right we take the practice that we say Jesus Christ
send in his 12 2 by 2 and gave them power over unclean spirits and then he
verse 12 it says this and they went out and preached that man should repent all
right so now Jesus is getting his disciples his followers that are
preaching the same message as him they came and preached that men should repent
so did the disciples preach repentance yes they did do they preach after
repent of your sins that's not what the Bible says right they just went out
preaching that men should repent and so when we go out and preach the gospel as
a church we ought to teach men that they too should repent right and they
too should repent so do we as a church and do I as an individual believe in
repentance yes I do now let's go back to the Greek let's go back to the Greek
because in a topic like this you have to go back to the Greek right because
people are gonna tell you well this is the definition of repentance and they're
going to give you a definition that doesn't match up with the word
repentance at all okay so we have to go back to the Greek we'll go back to the
English as well don't worry but back to the Greek there are three main ways that
three main Greek words that we get the word repentance from now the most
popular one that the most common one is meta Noya meta Noya the other one is
meta and forgive me if I pronounce is all messed up but the other one is meta
Noah and then meta Noel okay now why three different words almost sound
exactly the same it's kind of like the you know repentance repented repenting
you know we got different English words to say the same thing just depending on
the grammar so the same thing with the Greek depending on the grammar the way
you pronounce it is a little bit differently but going back to the Greek
meta Noya the main word that we use basically means this meta we use that
word in English right when we think of the word metamorphosis right we talk
about metamorphosis we talk about a caterpillar turning into a butterfly
what's happening to it it's changing right it's changing from one form to
another form or maybe a tadpole to a frog metamorphosis taking place from
that tadpole it's growing its legs and it's losing its tail and it's becoming a
frog metamorphosis right so it's a change a change that's where we get the
word meta from or you think about you know your metabolism metabolism we talk
about eating food right and the cells in your body what do they do to the food
they change the food into you know energy into a source a fuel source for
it to grow so it changes food into energy that's why it's called your
metabolism that's where the word meta comes from right so it's a change
something's changing and then the word Noya meta Noya what's Noya okay well in
English we have the word paranoia right paranoia so it's about the mind it's
what you think about it's been parent when you talk about someone's being
paranoid is they give a lot of thought to things that might be harmful to them
or or fear in things you know about you know I don't know but paranoia comes
that same word Noya is where you get meta Noya from so what is meta Noya
going back to the Greek it's changing your mind meta change Noya mind change
your mind doesn't mean turn from your sins no right just going back to the
Greek right and I don't know Greek I couldn't speak a sentence of Greek to
you so I'm not here trying to pretend anything right now the word repent in
English the word repent in English going back to the etymology of the word
now the word starts with the word the letters re re right where we get the
word where we get sorry repeat from right when you re something when you
repeat something now this doesn't apply to every word that starts with re
because you got read right but re often as a prefix means to repeat to do it
again okay replenish you know feel that cup again replenish repeat do it again
and again then you got the word pence repent where does the word pence come
from it comes from right think of the English word pensive if I say that
person looks very pensive what am I saying that person's in deep thoughts
right and even in the Spanish we have the word pensar which is to think that's
where the same root words come from pensar is to think so if you say
someone's pensive or I say in Spanish pensar we're saying they're thinking so
what does repent mean re think right change your mind change mind rethink
however you want to say it that's what repents means now repentance doesn't
always mean turning from something bad to something good you can rethink
anything you know I was at near my house in Sydney they opened up a Costco
all right Costco and I really wanted to check it out because it's both bulk
items at discount prices and I went there I think it was maybe even the
opening day or the second day I went I drove to Costco and then I had to look
there were massive crowds there were just so many people there and guess what
I did I repented I didn't go to Costco that day I went to Aldi or something to
get things but I repented now did I repent of my sins no was it sinful to go
to Costco to think about going to cause no it wasn't right you just changed your
mind and in Spanish you know people use the word repent all the time you know in
Spanish because they're always you know thinking of doing this and then they
change their mind and do something else right and so we lose the definition in
English and people will tell you and try to trick you into believing it's
something that it's not because we don't use the word repents we it's lost its
use in our modern English language but in places all around the world and
different languages they use repent all the time in the in their language so it
doesn't always mean turning from something bad something good let me give
you a biblical example of this go to the book of Exodus Exodus chapter 13 if you
got your Bibles Exodus chapter 13 verse 17 acts Exodus 13 verse 17 the Bible
reads and it came to pass when Pharaoh had let let the people go that God led
them not through the way of the land of the Philistines although that was near
for God said less per adventure that people repent when they see war and they
return to Egypt so this is when this takes place when Israel is delivered out
of Egypt God could have taken them through the land of the Philistines God
could have done that it would have been closer I would be more direct but
because it was a land of war or they might have made they might have had war
against the the the Israelites God says look we're not going to take them that
way we're going to take them another way in case they repent in case they in case
they decide to go back to Egypt right so it would have been a bad thing to repent
right it would have been a bad thing to go back to Egypt after God had already
delivered them out of Egypt so you can repent from bad to good you can repent
from good to bad or you can just repent from neutral to neutral it doesn't
matter because the word repent does not carry the meaning of something bad or
good or good or bad it just means to change your mind over anything okay now
some people say to you well repentance means to turn from your sin right they
say repent means to turn from your sin and that's why when they preach a gospel
and they see the word repent in the Bible they automatically define that as
turning from your sins but I'll tell you why that's completely ridiculous to
believe that repentance means to turn from your sin it's because the person
that repents most in the Bible more than anyone in the Bible is God himself so if
God can repent it must be something that God can do so if you say repentance means
turning from your sins then what you're saying indirectly is that God turns from
his sins more than anyone else in the Bible now does God have sin no in him
there's no darkness at all right God is light God has no sin God is perfect God
is holy and if God can repent that automatically means it cannot mean a
turning from sin because God cannot turn from sin God has no sin it's impossible
for him to do it right and Genesis 6 6 you don't need to turn they'll just read
it this is the first mention of the word repent and who repents and it repented
the law that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him in the heart so
the first time the word repent is used many people have this this idea that you
know you can go back to the first use of the word it's called the first mention
principle I think and get a good understanding of what that word means and
that's largely true I don't think that's always true but that's largely true and
so what we see here is that the Lord repented he created man remember and
then I was so wicked that God wanted to destroy them it repented God that he had
made man because I was so wicked and that's where we get the flood of Noah
and the story of Noah and the ark okay so in context of salvation so repent
just means it just means change your mind it just means change it just means
turn right now it's the context that's going to define what someone's turning
from I had to tell you the story about Costco so you knew the context of my
repentance that I had gone from one store to another store otherwise you'd
be thinking I did Kevin turned from his sins what sins did he commit that day
right it's the context that determines everything it's a context that
determines understanding that the Lord repented because he was unhappy he was
he had changed his mind he grieved him that he made man on the earth because
I was so wicked it's the context that determines everything if you said to me
Kevin what do I need to do to be saved and I just said believe and I just said
believe that's it believe you'll be like believe what give me the context is it
believe on Santa Claus to be saved is a believe on Kevin is a believe on on the
you know the church in Caloundra to be saved no that's why we say believe on
on the Lord Jesus Christ we have to tell you what it is that you have to believe
to be saved right and so repentance is similar you need to give people the
context of what it is they need to repent now is it true that unbelievers
to be saved have to repent yes but is it true that believers once they're safe to
have to repent as well yes it all depends on the context your life ought
to be a life of repentance okay your life ought to be a life repentance it
all comes down to the context okay because the word is heavily used in the
Bible so I believe in repentance now the next question might be Kevin do you
believe you have to repent of your sins yes I do I do believe you have to repent
of your sins might say do you have to build you believe you have to be willing
to turn from your sins yes I do some people say repentance is sorrow do you
believe you should be sorrowful for your sins yes I do but I don't believe any of
those things are required for salvation repentance is believing on the Lord
Jesus Christ so basically it's turning from whatever you will believe in before
to believe it on Christ that's the context of salvation in the gospel we
know what the gospel is we know what salvation is right we learnt last week
it's by grace through faith and not of works so when you use repentance in
context of salvation it must be consistent with that definition it cannot
be contradictive to that definition right it must be it must be it must be
by grace through faith believing on Christ and not of works so whatever you
define repentance for salvation must line up perfectly with that otherwise
God is contradictive when we can't trust his word it must line up perfectly so in
context of salvation what are we repenting to so usually when you repent
usually when you change your mind or you turn from one thing you turn from one
thing and you turn to another thing right that's usually what happens I turn
from Costco and I turn to Aldi right that's what happens when you repent so
when it comes to salvation what are you repenting to turn with me to Acts well
you don't need to it's your memory verse I'm gonna go with your memory don't turn
there so it's in your head Acts chapter 20 verse 21 testifying both to the Jews
and also to the Greeks and by the way is this just to Jews and Greeks I mean is
this not to Australians also you know quite often when you read your Bible
you'll see the word Greeks and quite often that just remains everyone that's
not a Jew all right because yes it has to do the Greeks but also because Greek
was the international language at that time all right it was a language I was
spoken by a lot of nations so they could trade with one another and so by Greeks
they really mean those that speak Greek okay it's those that are non Jews so
it's the same message to the Jews answer the Greeks no the Jews don't have their
own special covenant all right and the Greeks have a special no it's the same
teaching for both the Jews and the Greeks repentance toward God right it's
toward God toward our Savior and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ you notice
they're both pointing to someone repentance toward God and faith toward
our Lord Jesus Christ now some people will mess this up and say see there's
two steps to salvation there's repentance which I'll define
repenting of sins and then there's faith come on it's toward right you're doing
something toward it's phrasing the same thing twice it's repentance toward God
and who's Jesus Christ is he not God yes Jesus Christ is God so it's
repentance toward God and it's faith so here repentance being defined as faith
faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ it's just phrasing the thing twice so to give
you just more understanding of what is being taught here but here's the thing
anyone that wants to teach you works salvation are gonna find verses and
they're gonna twist it and wrestle with it and preach what doesn't matter what
the Bible says they're gonna find something to preach the false heresies
does it say you have to repent of your sins here no it doesn't it just says
repentance toward God further defined as faith toward our God our Lord Jesus
Christ right so what are we printing to we're repenting to Jesus Christ we're
trusting him alone for salvation we understand he died for our sins we
understand he had that he paid the sacrifice he paid the debt to God and
we're just trusting him we're putting all our faith upon him alone for
salvation that's what repentance is that's what we repenting to for
salvation now the question is well what are we repenting from if we're repenting
to Jesus Christ what are we repenting from we're repenting from sins no no
that's all the Bible says number one you're repenting if you're believing
what did you not do before you didn't believe right you're turning from
unbelief mark chapter 1 verse 14 to 15 says this now after that John was put in
prison this is John the Baptist after that John was put in prison Jesus came
into Galilee preaching the gospel so what did Jesus come preaching preaching
the gospel of the kingdom of God and saying the time is fulfilled and the
kingdom of God is at hand repent ye and believe the gospel repent ye and believe
the gospel so what are you repenting from not believe in the gospel right
repent from not believing the gospel believe the gospel doesn't say here
repent from your sins no and I'm gonna keep saying that okay it doesn't say
that it says repent ye and believe the gospel so you're repenting from
unbelief you're repenting from not believing the gospel to believe in the
gospel that's what Jesus came preaching and then in acts another one acts 19
verse 4 this is about Paul and then said Paul John verily baptized with the
baptism of repentance so this baptism of repentance that John the Baptist was
doing what is this about let me just read again then said Paul John verily
baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people that they should
believe on him that should come after him that is on Christ Jesus so what is
the baptism of repentance what was John the Baptist preaching believe on him
which should come after him on Christ Jesus so what you won't believe in a
Christ Jesus repent believe on the Lord Jesus Christ right so the repentance is
a repentance from unbelief now what else does someone repent of in order to be
saved is there anything else yes there's obviously unbelief but there's other
things to turn we meet to Hebrews chapter 6 verse 1 Hebrews chapter 6
verse 1 Hebrews chapter 6 verse 1 this is an instruction to believers so see
therefore leaving the principles of the doctrines of Christ let us go unto
perfection so saying look we're saved we've got the fundamental doctrines now
let's go on let's learn more let's be more perfect not laying again the
foundation of repentance from dead works and a faith toward God so saying look we
don't need to go back to the basic foundational principles which were
repentance from dead works right so what is it guys when we go knock doors
and we say are you sure of heaven people say I'm pretty sure I know I'm sure what
do nine out of ten people say when they say that what are they trusting in their
works their good deeds their good works right I'm a good person I've helped my
neighbor I've done good things so in order to believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ someone has to repent from their works repent from their dead works
repent from trusting their works to get them to heaven their dead works by the
way because it's without faith it's dead works it's it's filthy rags to God they
think if I think it's so good it's dead and it's filthy rags to God and they
need to believe the gospel they need to put their trust on Jesus Christ not their
trust on their works right because naturally if someone's going to put all
their faith on Jesus Christ that would mean that whatever faith they had before
on anything else you know that needs to be repented of right so you need to
repent from trust in your works that's something else you need to repent from
what else do we need to repent from turn with me to Acts chapter 17 Acts chapter
17 what else are we required to turn from Oh certain people because this
might not describe you this might only describe some people Acts chapter 17
verse 29 to 31 Acts chapter 17 verse 29 for as much then as we are the offspring
of God we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or
stone or graven by art or man's device so is God a an idol is he something that
God that man can create some statue or some idol no he's not okay we're not
ought not to think of God that way okay and that's where the Roman Catholics get
this wrong they get lots of things wrong this is one major thing they get wrong
they try to describe God as an image or as a statue no we ought not to think of
God in that way at all verse 30 and the times of this ignorance God winked at
but now command earth all men everywhere to repent so what do we need to repent
from according to the context of acts 17 of the idols that we just read about
verse 31 because he have appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in
righteousness by that man that man referring to Jesus whom he have ordained
where of he have given assurance unto all men in that he have raised him from
the dead so the teaching here that Paul is saying is those that are trusting in
idols false gods false depictions of who God is God is requiring these people and
commended these people to repent from those idols repent from their false
gods repent from their false religion repent from trusting in false gods to
get them to heaven to trust in the one that's going to judge them Jesus Christ
right so someone to be saved in order to put all their faith on Jesus has to turn
from Allah has to turn from I don't know what other false gods I don't even know
their names you know what false gods out there Buddha is that a god or just an
enlightened person Buddha Allah you know the Roman Catholic Mary they need to
repent from these idols repent from these false gods and we put all their
faith on Jesus Christ right so other things we need to repent from yes these
are the only things that are in the Bible that I can find I went through
every reference of repentance in context of salvation and these are the three
things that you need to turn from okay everyone needs to turn from unbelief
because we all need to believe in Christ some people need to turn from trusting
their works right my kids don't trust their work because you know they've
grown up here in the gospel ain't no works are gonna save them but a lot of
people out there trusting their works and those that believe in false gods you
know like again didn't grow up in a Christian home believe in false gods or
false faith false Church they need to repent from that as well why because I
need to put all their faith on Jesus Christ now someone was like we've got
him we've got you isn't unbelief a sin isn't believing in false gods a sin you
know isn't believing in works a sin yes all those things are sins okay they are
I admit that okay so you got a turn from your sins to be saved come on now look
first of all if you're gonna put your faith if you're gonna repent and put
your faith on Jesus okay this is kids please I know you understand this I'm
talking to you guys if you put your faith on Jesus does that mean your faith
is on anything else if you put all your faith on Jesus no okay so just the act
the act of putting your faith on Jesus will automatically mean you've turned
from those things you've turned from those sins automatically you know it's
not a separate step you put your faith on Jesus Christ all of it it means
you've left those other things that you're trusting and you've left
unbelief okay now here's what happens people are gonna take passage like like
this and say see there are sins you have to turn from therefore you have to
turn from drunkenness therefore you have to turn from fornication therefore you
have to turn from lying therefore you have to turn from stealing do you see
how people now start adding the works of the law to salvation okay none of those
things are found in these scriptures repenting from sin is a phrase that's
not found in your Bible it's found in the Book of Mormon if you want to be a
Mormon yeah okay repent your sins fine but it's not found in the Bible and the
sins that you turn from are simply those that are preventing you from putting
your faith on Christ so you don't have to keep the works of the law and I'll
explain that to you because they'll say to no it's not works we'll get there
we'll get there now here's now really I mean honestly that's repentance how long
did this sermon take I'm didn't take too long all right I should be able to just
wrap up now close our Bibles sing our last song and go soul winning right we
should be able to do that because we know what repentance now is right it's a
change of mind believing on Jesus Christ from whatever you will believe in before
right we're done we should just wrap it up right now finished but I've got to
cover the false repentance is out there and I've already covered some of the
turning from your sins that's the main one out there to repent or to turn from
your sins they'll say repentance means to turn from your sins even though that
phrase does not appear once in your Bible it does not appear and remember on
Thursday I spoke to you about being very careful about using words that describe
your salvation or the gospel with words that are not in the Bible because you
add confusion there's a reason why God's got his words laid out there's a reason
why it's pure and perfect and preserved because God wants us to use his words
God wants us to use his phrases as found in the Bible and not these man-made
phrases that add confusion okay it doesn't appear once why use a phrase
that doesn't appear in the Bible aren't we supposed to go back to the Word of
God and check everything that we hear if it's not in the Bible how can I check
it's in there like how can I check what you're saying is true in fact that's why
I know what you're saying is not true because it's not in the Bible right now
what is sin we're all sinners we've all come short of the glory of God what
does it mean to sin please turn to 1st John 3 4 1st John 3 4 1st John chapter
3 verse 4 I want you to have this fixed in your mind what is sin it's important
okay especially when you're talking to people that teach you have to turn from
your sins to be saved the Bible tells us the definition of sin 1st John chapter
3 verse 4 says whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law for sin his
definition for sin is the transgression of the law so if you sin it means you've
transgressed it means you violated it means you've broken the laws of God if
God says thou shalt not bear false witness that means lying and you've
lied guess what you've transgressed the law of God it means you've sinned and
that makes you a sinner so to sin is to transgress the law of God now should we
try to keep the law of God absolutely okay but we've all failed we've all
sinned we're all sinners we've all transgressed and broken or violated the
law of God now very simple kids I'm talking to the kids because you guys get
it all right you guys get this if I say that sinning is breaking the law okay
and then I say to you to be saved or someone says to you to be saved you have
to repent or turn from sins what are they really saying what are they really
saying so if sin is transgressing the law breaking the law and they say well
to be saved you have to turn from your sins you have to stop transgressing what
are they actually saying it means you have to keep the law you have to keep
the law of God that's what they're saying they're just saying that in a
different way they're using a phrase that's not in the Bible so they can
trick people to fool people to make them believe a false gospel all right now
we're an independent Baptist Church I make no apologies for that right
unfortunately there are independent Baptist churches right now teaching
people that they have to keep the law for their salvation now they're not
saying you got to keep the law but they're saying you've got to repent of
your sins right because any person in that congregation if I heard the
preacher get up and say you've got to believe on Jesus Christ and keep the law
stop transgressing the law people in that congregation will stand up
immediately say this is a workspace gospel they'll say heresy they'll say
get back to preach in the true gospel and so these preachers have to be very
clever just like the devil very subtle in the way they teach things and say
well you got to repent of your sins I didn't say you got to keep the law but
you got to repent of your sins you can stop transgressing the law is what
they're saying okay now I'll just cover this very quickly there are two
different types of sins okay there's the sin of Commission Commission comes away
from committed there are sins that you commit sins of Commission so but if God
says thou shalt not lie and you've told a lie it means you've committed a sin
right there are sins of Commission you've done something wrong and then
there's the sin of omission the sins of omission to omit something is to take
away from James 4 17 explains this it says therefore to him that knoweth to do
good and doeth not to him it is sin so there is sin that we can do when we're
not actually committing we're not actually doing something wrong but it's
something good that we can do but we don't do it for example we should read
our Bibles now if you don't read your Bibles guess what you're sinning okay
because you're omitting that commandment that we ought to read God's Word okay so
the sins of Commission Commission wrong that you do and sins of omission good
that you don't do okay and some people say there's a third one they'll say it's
the sins of disposition and that's where basically it's not an outward
showing it's like internal things like you might hate your brother without a
cause and they'll say well that's a sin of disposition now I think I just I like
Commission and omission because I think even sins of disposition can also apply
to Commission and omission I won't go into all that but this is how the
repent of your sins people try to trick you they'll say no we're not telling you
to be good we're not telling you to do good we're not telling you to do the
sins to the sins of omission right where you know you ought to do good to one
another we're not saying that we're just saying stop doing the bad stop turn from
your sins the sins of Commission and that's where they confuse this it
doesn't matter if the sins of Commission or the sins of omission it's still the
law of God right and you're still asking people to keep the law to be saved I
mean that's gonna breed confusion amongst people right it's paid for
salvation been paid for in Jesus Christ stop messing it up so Romans chapter 3
verse 24 to 28 I'll just read there Romans chapter 3 verse 24 to 28 the
Bible says being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus so it's we're freely justified whom God have sent forth to be
a propitiation through faith right for believing in his blood to
declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed
through the forbearance of God to declare I say at this time his
righteousness so God the reason why it's a free gift for the shed blood of Christ
is to declare his righteousness not our own righteousness not our efforts at
keeping the law not our efforts at stopping sin or turning from sin it's to
declare the righteousness of God the righteousness of Jesus Christ that he
might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus where is
boasting then do we boast about our salvation no it is excluded by what law
of works is that the law of works nay but by the law of faith therefore we
conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law by
faith without the deeds of the law okay so it's not that these people that teach
you know salvation is repenting of sins by the deeds of the law it's not that
well they're just a little bit mixed mixed up no not even justified by the
Lord because they're mixing works with faith and man is justified by faith
without the deeds of the law and so please don't think well they're just my
brother and then look they can be all right they can be mixed up I get it but
you should automatically as soon as people saying to you that you know you
got to turn or repent from your sins to be saved automatically your mindset
should go I need to get this person saved now it is possible it is possible
they were saved truly saved and they just mixed up all right but you can't
you don't know that you can only judge them by what they're saying right now
and so if you love them then you ought to tell them hey salvation is not by
works not by repenting sins it's freely received justification through faith on
the Lord Jesus Christ okay now someone say still say no it's not works and and
the best one I think is Jonah 3 10 a lot of you people know it Jonah 3 10 this is
when God was going to destroy Nineveh Nineveh for their for their wickedness
right and God sends Jonah you know the story of Jonah being swallowed by the
whale God sends Jonah to come and preach against them to preach judgment against
them Jonah didn't even tell them clean up clean yourselves up you know get
right with God no John said I'm God's gonna destroy you all right but they
took that so seriously they were so afraid by God's judgment they at least
I had a fear of God in them Jonah 3 10 and they they cleaned themselves up they
turned from their wickedness and then it says this and God saw their works they
that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil that he had
said that he would do unto them and he did it not so two things here this this
city of Nineveh very good very good of them to turn from their wicked ways but
God says hey I saw their works so turning from your evil way turning from
your sins is works according to the Holy Ghost who's the narrator of the Bible
okay I got it according to are you gonna listen to God at least and and
acknowledge that turning from sins is works can we at least believe God right
but then who repented and God repented of the evil that he said he would do
unto them and he did it not so is did God turn from his sins no right we got
two things in this verse clearly explaining that repenting or cleaning up
your life from wickedness is works number one and number two that God
repentant therefore it cannot be clean turning from sin because God has no sin
and most recent one I've heard you know where I just said repentant repenting
from your sins is not found in the Bible well one pastor came up with this one
yes it is it's it's found in Luke 24 verse 47 maybe if you want to turn there
just in case that way if you hear at least you know the answer Luke 24 verse
47 and that repentance okay and that repentance and remission of sins should
be preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem there you
go there's repenting of sins because it says and that repentance and remission
of sins there it is now I've heard that I'm serious I've heard that there it is
there's the repenting of your sins now case closed there's repentance now it
do we need to have our sins remitted of you know yes being you know remittance
is what's the word it's to be like discharged I've lost the words in my
head but basically it's been free from your sins okay and so yes I believe in
repentance and I believe in a remission of your sins but how do we receive
remission of sins does it say you have to repent of your sins to have that to
have remission of sins no it doesn't okay but Matthew 26 verse 28 says this
for this is my this is Jesus speaking this is Jesus speaking for this is my
blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins so
how do we have our sins remitted of through the blood of Jesus Christ for
the blood of the New Testament not from repenting of your sins okay and then
Acts 10 verse 43 says to him give all the prophets witness that through his
name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins so how do we
have our sins remitted off by believing on Jesus Christ through his shed blood
not by you trying to keep the law and turning from your sins okay now the
other let me throw some other things out yeah they'll say yep you've got to
repent of your sins then they're wrong and then they'll say at the same time I
don't know how they do this but they're so messed up they're so blinded and then
they'll say this repentance means turn from your sins okay so they'll say
repentance so that they say well I don't have to show you where it says repent
of your sins because repentance means turn from your sins you heard that one
right they'll say that now if that's true then they can't even speak English
I mean they can't even get their grammar right because if repentance means turn
from your sins then why do you say repent of your sins why do you say
repent of your sins of your sins is that ink is that does that make any sense if
I said believe means believe on the Lord Jesus Christ then can I say we believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ if believe already means believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ I'll be saying believe in the Lord Jesus Christ of the Lord Jesus
Christ you see and it doesn't even make grammatical sense it breaks all the
English laws of grammar it breaks the sentence structure all right next thing
they'll say well all right you don't have to turn from all your sins but
you've got to turn from being a habitual sinner what does that mean you know when
they start saying it you can you can never ask you know because these are
you should ask them what do you mean what is a habitual sinner right oh well
you know if you're fornicating you've got to stop that you if you're living
with your girlfriend you can't just keep living with your girlfriend right to
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ but what is it look what is a habitual
sinner if I if I got drunk every day if I just drank alcohol every day and got
drunk would you say I'm a habitual drunkard of course you would write if I
smoke the cigarette every day just one cigarette not a whole pack just one just
one if I smoke the cigarette every day would you say I'm a habitual smoker you
would say that right all right if you drank a coffee every day you need a
coffee every day are you a habitual drinker of coffee you are all right
something you do every day means you're you're you do it out of habit you do it
every day you do it every day of your life now look are we gonna sin every day
of our life yes you sin every if you're honest with yourself you will sin every
day of your life every day every single day from the time you committed your
first sin to the time you die guess what you will commit sin every single day of
your life does that not make you a habitual sinner of course it does so if
you're saying hey you got to stop being a habitual sinner what are you saying
you're pretty much saying you've got to be perfect right it's impossible
everyone is a habitual sinner those that think they've turned from habitual sin
are the biggest hypocrites on the planet they too are habitual sinners and then
what else can I talk about all right and the other one when I first came
across this topic I was ignorant I used to hear people say it I didn't really
think of what they were saying I just thought they believe the same as I did
and then what really made me notice this is I started going soul winning I
started to give out tracks right we call them leaflets because I want to track
sometimes sounds too religious people don't know what you're giving them but
the first tracks I looked at I mean it's called the stop tract it's pretty common
amongst IFB churches in Australia but it's pretty good it's a really good
tract it's got images it really gives a visual description of what's going on
with salvation but then one of the questions is you know it's in order for
you to sort of move on and understand the gospel it says are you do not are
you will I can't exactly do you want to turn from your sins or are you willing
to turn from your sins something like that and I remember looking at that go
home what do you mean not we're all sinners we will continue sinning what
do you mean I didn't have to turn from my sins to be saved I just believed on
Jesus Christ anyway this pastor that put this track together and I know I
know this man's is saved well at least I know he he knows the true gospel because
I've heard him preach before the pastor that put this together an Australian
pastor and so what I did was he actually has a video videos on YouTube on how to
use his stop tract how to give out the gospel using that tract and he goes step
by step through the tract how to give it so he goes step by step and when he gets
to that part where it says you know do you want to turn from your sins he says
in his video but of course we know that nobody can truly turn from their sins
it's like then why put it in the tract if you know this is something nobody can
do you know it's impossible why put it in the tract because now you're making
salvation impossible you're asking them to do something that they cannot do and
he knows that but he still puts it in and this is what blows my mind I'm fine
with the church that teaches you got to repent your sins if they just open and
honest about it if they're just you know yep it's not just believe that's
not enough you also have to turn from your sins you know just as much as a
Roman Catholics yep it's not believe you've got to do the works you've got to
go to church and be you know confess your sins to the priest I can respect
that to some extent yes they are teaching a false gospel but they're at
least being honest about it right so you know that's a false church I'm not going
to that church but it I hate it when churches try to tell you they're by
faithful on they believe it's faith on Jesus Christ alone and even maybe their
websites and the doc you know different things they have the same of faith has
it but then you go in behind the pool but they're teaching you've got to turn
from your sins to be saved I hate that that's such a so deceptive just be
honest just I wish all the IFB churches all the independent Baptist churches in
Australia would just say all right we believe in repent your sins we believe
you have to turn from your sins to be saved fine be honest and those that say
hey no it's just believe in the Lord Jesus Christ just say it and just just
split just be honest just say hey we believe the gospel by faith and we
believe it's repenting our sins fine do what you believe go with that go with it
you know whatever you want but just be honest so we're not stuck in the middle
trying to work out what do you really believe all right what do I really
believe it's believe on the Lord Jesus Christ it's faith alone by grace through
faith not of works not by the works of the law okay it's believe and I'd never
want it look like we need to be wise wise of serpents harmaces doves there
are Christians out there that will say repent your sins but they don't mean
what a lot of these other people do I can't mean right some people really do
when they say repent your sins well they say well you got you got to turn from
your false idols like we talked about you've got to turn from your unbelief
that's what I mean I don't mean you have to stop you know getting drunk and stop
fornicating you know fine you know these people know the truth but I
always challenge them but why do you use a phrase that confuses people why do you
use a phrase that's not in the Bible that confuses people you know we knock
doors and you know every time they say repent they mean turn from sins the most
you know the most common understanding of repentance is to turn from sins so
why add the confusion when the book of John does not want to confuse anybody by
saying it's just believe on Christ right and then there was another one a
missionary that I met in Chile right he's like yeah you got to repent of your
sins and I chat I met up with him my challenging mother and he goes Kevin you
know that I don't believe literally that someone has to stop sinning to be saved
you know I'm not saying that you know an adulterer has to stop adultery to be
saved what I mean by repenting from sin is you know what does repentance mean to
turn or to change right it means instead of me paying for my sins I'm going to
get Jesus to pay for my sins and that's when I say repent of your sins I mean
that I'm giving those sins to Jesus take her on the cross so I don't have to
pay for it that's what I mean right so he's really saying I'm putting all my
faith on Jesus he's paying for my sins you know he's saved but he's so fixed on
using that term and I think I know why because as a missionary you go around to
hundreds of churches trying to get financial support and guess which
churches you're knocking on those that teaches faith alone and church that
teach that it's repenting your sins so you kind of have to let me just make
everyone happy you know that's what's happening the next one I think I'm going
a bit long Trish said don't apologize Kevin if you go along so if if you're
not happy that I've gone long blame Trish the next one is I'll be quick with
the other ones be willing to turn from your sins you don't actually have to
turn from your sins you just have to be willing to do it what does that mean
what does that mean do I you know do I got it you know if do I get up in the
morning and instead of going to work I'm just willing to go to work you know
that'll pay for the bills you know that would take care of everything honey I'm
willing to go what does that mean does that mean you promised God God I'm going
to turn for my sins I'm willing to do it but you know I'm not gonna do it anyway
John 1 12 let me give you a Bible verse but as many as received him to them gave
you power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name which
are born of God sorry which are sorry which were born verse 13 not of blood
nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God so you cannot be
born by your will your willingness to do anything no it's believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and it's like no it's your heart God knows your heart God knows
you're willing to turn from your sins I spoke about this briefly on Thursday but
I got the verse better I think I messed it up when I quoted it on Thursday but
Jeremiah 17 verse 9 says the heart the heart is deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked who can know it you really want to stand before God God God
knows my heart it's desperately wicked you want to stand next to God and
present your heart to God which is desperately wicked and say look God I
want to serve you look God I'm willing to turn for my sins God will say it's
desperately wicked depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire you really
want that or do you want to just trust on Christ it's perfection and the other
one I've heard is well repentance is to have sorrow sorrow for your sins now
should you have sorrow for you of course you should have sorrow for your sins
right but it's do you need to feel a certain emotion now with it time to
enter the realm of the Pentecostals the Charismatics you've got to have the
right emotional experiences to really know that you're saved right but they'll
say repentance is to have sorrow for your sins and look they've got verses
right let me show you what they tell you and I already read this Genesis 6 6 the
first mention of repentance says and it repented the law that he made man on the
earth and it grieved him in the heart so they say see first mention you know
grieve repentance sorrow see repentance means sorrow all right and then the
other thing they'll do is go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 verse 9 to 10 yeah
actually yeah turn there please 2nd Corinthians 7 chapter 7 verse 9 to 10
it says this now I rejoice not that you were made sorry but that you sorrowed to
repentance for you were made sorry after a godly manner that you might receive
damage by us in nothing and this is it for godly sorrow worketh repentance to
salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death all
right so they say see sorrow repentance and all they're doing guys is they've
gone to Bible software search verse one verse with the word repent and sorrow
in it that's what they've done and they found one a couple of verses with sorrow
and repentance or grieve and repentance see it means to be sorrow since versus
saying that have a look at it again verse number 10 in fact this verse
clearly tells us that repentance cannot be sorrow it cannot be sorrow verse
number 10 for godly sorrow so we have godly sorrow worketh repentance so one
thing leads to another in the context of this verse now first of all this verse
and you can read in context later on is not even about the salvation of the soul
not even about that okay it's about the church this is the second letter that
Paul is writing to the Corinthians the first letter Paul had to rebuke them
sharply for allowing great sin into their church and because of his letter
because of the godly sorrow they received by reading that letter they
repented but you see the sorrow work that worketh repentance so repentance
cannot mean sorrow because one leads to another let me give you another example
of this Romans 5 I'll just read it to you Romans 5 verse 3 now pay attention
to this Romans 5 verse 3 and not only so but we glory in tribulations also
knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and
experience hope now is he saying that tribulation is patience no is he saying
that patience is experience no is he saying experience is hope no is he
saying tribulations is hope no right he's saying that tribulation worketh
patience one leads to the other if you want to be someone that grows in
patience guess what God's gonna have to put you through a little bit of
tribulation in your life one leads to the other and then patient leads to
experience and experience leads to hope so none of these things are defining
each other it's just one leads to another just like godly sorrow can lead
you to repentance now the question is and so look the verses they use don't
even line up and in fact they contradict what they're saying completely okay but
if someone says you've got to have sorrow in your heart you know that's
what repentance means and believe the gospel are they adding works to the
gospel I would say they're not okay because I don't believe emotions are
a work okay you can feel but the thing is people can feel all types of emotions
some people might feel sorrow you know out of the five kids I've got that
believed on Christ two of them actually started crying they started really they
teared up they they felt like they had failed because they've sinned and they
knew the destination was hell they felt sorrow but the other ones once I heard
that Joyce in happy relieved right you can go through any ranges of emotions
you don't have to feel a certain emotion to be saved you just have to understand
and believe the gospel okay so I don't believe emotions are a worker so I don't
believe the people that say this are unsaved or bringing works into the
gospel but what they're doing afterwards is creating a lot of doubt for those
that really did believe because then it'd be like well did I really did I
have enough sorrow did I sorrow and was my sorrow enough was a genuine sorrow
it's like the repenting of sins was I willing was I willing enough I mean you
start just now creating doubt and people don't even know they start looking at
themselves have I sorrowed have I willed have I done no Jesus did it all
right Jesus did it all believe on him trust him and so it takes away from
looking at Christ and it becomes looking at yourself am I performing or have I
performed the way you know these preachers have told me that I should be
okay all right I've got to cover all these guys otherwise I feel like I'm
leaving it undone this sermon so I'm sorry if I go a bit long but be wise
please never say to people and I've seen these like on Facebook and things like
that people that believe like us right and then someone says mentions the word
repentance in salvation they're like oh you're teaching works you know you don't
have to repent to be saved of course you do we believe you have to repent to be
saved right we do believe that we just don't believe that the repenting of sins
to be saved right so just be wise be careful the way you speak also just be
mindful that not everybody you know I'm thinking of a deacon in one of my
previous churches someone preached you know one of the laymen thank God someone
preached that it's not repenting of sins to be saved and so it started it sparked
discussion and then I was talking to a deacon the deacon said to me of course
you have to repent your sins to be saved so I asked him well what sins do you
have to repent of you thought about it goes well all the sins you're aware of
so I said hold on if I'm if I'm like let's say me and another person we're
living with our girlfriends and I know living what with my girlfriend is a sin
but he doesn't know I mean look people for our fornicating for our nation all
the time it's so naturally it's so accepted it's so socially accepted right
people don't even realize it's a sin that they don't know people at least
realize that adultery is a sin right because they've they've they sworn you
know they promised you know that to keep themselves to one spouse but people
today fornication they don't even realize that's a sin honestly a lot of
people just don't even know that but if someone knows it's a sin but someone
doesn't know there is it's a sin does that mean the one that knows has to turn
from that one and the one that doesn't know has that doesn't have to turn from
it right I mean do you see how it starts now adding confusion because now you're
saying look and my wife she said to me I didn't it until she got saved she didn't
even know what half her sins were maybe more she knew what some were but she
didn't know until she started reading the Bible what the sins were right so
then he goes ah okay it's not the ones you don't actually have to you don't
actually have to really turn from any of your sins you just have to realize
you're a sinner and I realized yes you do have to realize you're a sinner
because it's not till you realize that you're a sinner in the sight of God that
you need a say you realize you need a Savior and so by his CC they say that he
knew what the gospel was do you realize that he knew I just have to realize I'm
a sinner before God but then he thought by using the term repenting of sins is
describing what he what he believes and so we need to be wise don't
automatically think these people are just false prophets and false teachers
many of them are just deceived right many of them you might say to me Kevin
how do you determine what a false teacher is then what's what's my what's
my criteria basically there's two things number one if they're just outright
teaching you've got to turn from fornication you've got to stop your
drunkenness you've got to stop you know telling lies in order to be saved it's
at that point that they're just blatantly adding works of the gospel
they're not even being coy about it they're just out there just telling you
it's works all right that's when I'll just call out the false prophet and the
other one is when they mock believing on Christ just believe hahaha just
believe in Christ false prophet okay and so that's what I know everyone else I'm
a very easy going person I get along with a lot of people I'm always willing
to give people the benefit of the doubt I always ask people to explain
themselves if they say repenting of sins right but it's not till they mock or
just openly say it's works that's when I just you're a false prophet you know and
I'm you know I want nothing to do with that person now here's some other things
here's some other things people do to define repentance and this is where
churches try to find a middle ground because there's a lot of churches out
there that in the IFB movement and other churches where there are people in the
congregation that know it's by faith alone and then there's another group on
the congregation that say it's not it's repenting your sins to be saved you got
to repent your sins to be saved and so to to keep the peace this is how and I've
only I've only heard this definition in the last I don't know 5 10 years it's
not something I've ever heard before but they'll say repentance is this is how
they define repentance now repentance is a change of mind correct but let me
finish repentance is a change of mind that leads to a change of heart that
leads to a change of action all right repentance is a change of mind that leads
to a change of heart that leads to a change of action now is there anything
wrong with what they've said? Not really, because they haven't really told you anything.
They haven't really said anything, right? Because here's what's going to happen.
The one that says you've got to turn from your sins, right? Keep the law. They'll be like,
that's right. Turn from action means stop sinning, right? That's how they'll think it. And then the
one that says this by faith alone, and might say, well, is this past the preaching works?
We'll go up to the preacher and say, well, are you saying you've got to keep the works to be
saved? And the preacher will be like, did I say you have to keep the works? No, I said it's a
change of action. So you've got to believe in Christ. That's a change of action, is it not?
Believing on Christ. That's a verb. That's an action. Believing. Do you see how when,
usually when they use this definition, they won't tell you what the change of mind is.
They won't tell you what the change of heart is. They won't tell you what the change of action is.
They'll just leave it out there. So that way people feel like that preacher agrees with me.
We're all in, and then, you know, the repent of your sins crowd. Amen. And the faithful
own crowd. Amen. You know, great preaching. I haven't told you anything. I haven't told you
anything. Just be careful when you hear this. Don't automatically think the teaching works.
And again, be wise, because let me give you how our salvation, our gospel, the gospel of the Bible
can line up with these things. Number one, change of mind can be, yep, I realize that my works,
that my church, and my false religion cannot save me. That's a change of mind, right? Change of
heart. Usually change of heart, people think of humility. It's like, well, since I can't save
myself, that means only God can save me. Only God can save me through the death, burial,
and resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's humility, right? Realizing that I can't save myself,
only God can do. That's a change of heart. And then the change of action. I place all my faith,
I believe with all my heart that Jesus paid for my sins. I'm only trusting Jesus. And even, you know,
calling upon the name of the Lord, that's an action. You know, whoso shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved. And so please don't, you know, be wise. Don't automatically think
that works, because you're going to go there and you're going to sound foolish if you do that.
But you need to ask them, please tell me what it is. And if they're not willing to tell you what
it is, you tell them what it is. You tell them that the change of action is that, um, but as
many as, listen to this, John 1 verse 12, but as many as received him, action, to them gave you
power to become, become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. So there is an
action that does take place when you put your faith on Christ. You receive Christ. You receive
the free gift. You are taking action. And this is what I normally say to people that say this
definition, I'll be, I'll just tell them what I just told you. This is how I define it. Now,
if you think the change of action is anything else, but putting your faith on Christ,
please tell me what that change of action is. Right? Because then that's when they'll,
then, you know, if the teaching works, that's when it's going to come out. Right? So people use this
definition to appease both sides. Now, in conclusion, I'm wrapping up now, guys. Thank
you for being patient. And the kids as well. People will say, Kevin, you've changed on the
gospel. You know, your churches in the past have taught repentance of your sins or whatever,
you know, you don't believe the gospel. And I've had someone say, and say, look, it's because
you've heard pastor Anderson. And I said this in my testimony, you've heard pastor Anderson
say that it's not repenting of your sins. And now you've gone his way. First of all,
I got saved at a very young age, right? You know, I believed on Christ. That was it. You know,
that's what I did. That's number one. But then when I was 19 or 20, I can't remember
how old I was when I first went, when I went to my first independent fundamental Baptist church.
Okay. The church that I got baptized in, and what's baptism? You're associating with the
death, burial and resurrection. You're associating yourself publicly with the gospel that's been
taught in that church. Right? Now this is the statement of faith, according to Bethany Baptist
Church, the church that I, the first IFB church I got at, and first one I got, or the one I got
baptized in, this is their statement of faith. It says this, we believe that the blessings of
salvation are made free to all without obligation of payment, that salvation is not earned or
merited in part or in whole by works, rights or rituals. So it's not works that it is the
immediate duty of all to accept salvation by a repentance of any trust in self or works.
Remember what we said about trust in yourself, trust in your works?
That's the repentance they're talking about. To merit God's forgiveness and to trust wholly
and solely on the blood of Jesus Christ as the payment and full provision for the forgiveness
of sin. That's what I'm teaching. I haven't changed. From the church that I got baptized in,
I'm associating my faith with what was being taught there in the gospel.
Not only that, but that church had a booklet at the back of the church for everyone to read
called What About Repentance, and it's located on our church website, churchincalangia.org. I asked
the one that wrote that if I could have permission to put it on my website. He said yes, so if you
want the full thing, please read it. But let me just take a little bit out of this. This was the
pastor at the time that he wrote this. He said, he wrote, we should not therefore be calling upon
people to repent of their sins in order to be saved. This is unscriptural and confusing for
the sinner. Later on he writes, Christians should be commanded to repent and do good works,
meet for repentance. So Christians, don't lose track here, Christians should be commanded to
repent and do works, meet for repentance. But to command a sinner to do this for salvation under
the grace is called another gospel. So the preacher that baptized me, that I heard the
gospel in, that I identified with, knew that repentance of his sin was another gospel.
Okay, I've not changed. Now if that church has changed today, then they've changed,
but I've not changed. All right, I've not changed. And then I went there for two years,
then I went to a church called Victory Baptist Church for nine years. Now this is what their
statement of faith says. We believe in salvation by grace through faith, that salvation is the
free gift of God, neither merited nor secured in part or in whole by any virtue or work of man,
but received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now in fact,
in their whole statement of faith, the word repent doesn't even appear once.
So if repenting from sins was a requirement for salvation, then the statement of faith
would be insufficient and would not be true to the gospel, right?
I'm just showing you, hey, that's, I've not changed. I've not changed. And then for the
last two and a half years before starting this church, I was at the church in Punchbowl.
This is the church in Punchbowl statement of faith on the gospel. We believe, or on repentance,
I should say, we believe that repentance in regards to being saved is when a person
turns from their unbelief and calls upon the Lord Jesus Christ, right? Turning from your sins
is a good work believers should strive to do, but is not a requirement to be saved.
Do you see the consistency of the gospel being taught in all these churches?
I've basically taken that statement from the church in Punchbowl and I've added some words to
it. This is what our statement of faith says. And you know, I want you guys to be aligned with what
we're teaching here. You know, if you don't, if you're not aligned, please speak to me.
But the statement of faith says this, we believe that repentance in regards to being saved is when
a person turns from their unbelief, or this is what I've added, or stops trusting whatever else
it was before they put their full trust and hope on Christ alone. Turning from your sins is a good
work believers should strive to do, but it is not a requirement to be saved. Now, let me just say
this. I promise you as the Bishop of this church, that I will never allow anybody to stand behind
this pulpit to preach a workspace gospel. I will never allow someone to stand behind this pulpit.
They'd have to do it over my dead body. I'd have to die and you guys go nuts and just get someone
else, right? Just anybody, right? To preach. I will not allow a false gospel. Now look,
are people going to stand behind the pulpit and preach things that I might not fully agree with?
Yes, it's going to happen, right? Because it's human nature. You know, none of us have full
understanding of the scriptures. But this is, I'm going to, look, I'm drawing a line here, right?
If someone comes and preaches another, and this is why I want, guys, this is why I want you guys
to give your testimonies, right? Because I want you to test, I don't want you to just assume that
everybody in the church is saved. I want you to hear it from their own mouth that they put their
full faith on Christ alone. I want that to be, I would like that for everyone that's saved to save.
You know, I know that's, some people don't like that. And you know, I'm not gonna, you know,
if you, look, it's for the church. It's not for YouTube. And if you're not comfortable with it
being on YouTube, I won't put it on YouTube. It's for the church. It's for the body. It's
for the congregation, okay? I want you guys to do that. And let's say by accident, someone gets up
here and says, I repented of my sins. Hey, that's, yes, that's wrong. But at least we know. At least
we know this person's messed up and we get them fixed, right? Now let me just say, if it just
happens by mistake, somehow that I allow someone to come in here and preach some pastor, some big
name, who knows what, you know, I know I get fooled into getting this guy behind the pulpit
and he teaches that you got to repent of your sins to be saved. I'm just going to yell out,
shut up and sit down. And if you don't hear me say it, it's because Callum's already said it.
All right. I'm not going to allow another gospel, guys. Guys, this is all that matters. Saving souls,
getting the right gospel, preaching the right gospel. Second Peter chapter three, verse nine.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness, but is long suffering
to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Let's pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for your word. Lord, we thank you for salvation
by grace through faith. Lord, I just want to thank you for the congregation here as well.
They've been patient for a long sermon and Lord, thank you for keeping the weather good for us,
Lord. Thank you for taking the rain away so we can just be gathered here, Lord, and just
out in the open. This is fantastic, Lord. I wish we could do this more often, actually.
But Lord, anyway, Lord, we thank you for the provisions that you do give us. Lord, help us as
we go out soul-willing later on, that we would be able to preach your word boldly, Lord, that we'd
be able to correct anyone that thinks they have to repent of their sins to be saved. And Lord, also
for the fellowship and lunch that we'll have together, Lord. I pray that you bless all that
food to our bodies. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen.