WEBVTT 00:00.200 --> 00:02.200 Start trying to get out there. 00:02.200 --> 00:04.200 It's the... 00:04.200 --> 00:06.200 It's the... 00:06.200 --> 00:08.200 Do you want me? 00:08.200 --> 00:10.200 Do you want that? 00:10.200 --> 00:12.200 Do you want that? 00:14.200 --> 00:19.200 She's going to be sitting with me because she wants some of the snacks that you're going to give to your kids. 00:19.200 --> 00:21.200 Can I get this done earlier? 00:21.200 --> 00:22.200 Ask Mom if I have all the fish. 00:22.200 --> 00:24.200 Can she have all the fish? 00:24.200 --> 00:25.200 Uh, yeah. 00:25.200 --> 00:26.200 You know what? 00:26.200 --> 00:28.200 I'm going to be making me snack tea. 00:28.200 --> 00:31.200 We're going to tie it to time restriction so that it won't see the fish. 00:31.200 --> 00:32.200 The tie is on the floor. 00:32.200 --> 00:34.200 The tie smells great. 00:34.200 --> 00:36.200 Look at how you tied it. 01:19.400 --> 01:25.920 Page number 230, we're going to be singing Heavenly Sunlight. 01:25.920 --> 01:27.720 Welcome to Sherr Foundation Baptist Church. 01:27.720 --> 01:29.720 You can find your seats and grab your song books 01:29.720 --> 01:31.800 and turn to page number 230, we're 01:31.800 --> 01:34.000 going to be singing Heavenly Sunlight. 01:37.800 --> 01:39.800 Page 230. 01:47.100 --> 01:50.100 Page 230, let's sing together on the 1st. 01:50.100 --> 01:55.100 Walking in sunlight all of my journey 01:55.100 --> 02:00.100 Over the mountains through the deep veil 02:00.100 --> 02:05.100 Jesus has said I'll never forsake thee 02:05.100 --> 02:09.100 Promise divine that never can fail 02:09.100 --> 02:13.600 Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sun 02:14.500 --> 02:18.980 flooding my soul with glory divine 02:25.000 --> 02:30.120 Singing his praises, Jesus is mine. 02:30.120 --> 02:35.000 Shadows around me, shadows above me. 02:35.000 --> 02:39.800 Never conceal my savior and guide. 02:39.800 --> 02:44.560 He is the light and in him is no darkness. 02:44.560 --> 02:49.200 Ever I'm walking close to his side. 02:49.200 --> 02:50.200 Heavenly side. 02:52.200 --> 02:57.500 Sunlight flooding my soul with glory divine 03:03.400 --> 03:06.060 I sing, sing in his praise. 03:06.900 --> 03:16.260 Jesus is mine in the bright sunlight ever rejoicing pressing my way to 03:16.260 --> 03:26.260 mansions above singing his praises gladly I'm walking walking in sunlight 03:26.260 --> 03:34.900 sunlight of love heavenly sunlight heavenly sunlight flooding 03:34.900 --> 03:39.900 my soul with glory divine. 03:40.140 --> 03:40.600 How. 03:43.400 --> 03:44.240 Enjoy! 03:47.900 --> 03:52.380 This is mine. Amen. Good seeing brother Daniel. Can you open some water prayer? 04:03.580 --> 04:05.740 Amen. Our second song, we song number 254. 04:10.100 --> 04:13.100 Whosoever Will, song 254. 04:24.100 --> 04:28.020 Song 254, let's sing it together on the first. 04:28.020 --> 04:32.860 Whosoever hear it, shout, shout the sound. 04:32.860 --> 04:37.860 Spread the blessed tidings all the world around. 04:37.860 --> 04:42.700 Tell the joyful news wherever man is found. 04:42.700 --> 04:47.420 Whosoever will may come. 04:47.420 --> 04:51.980 Whosoever will, whosoever will. 04:52.200 --> 04:57.000 Send the proclamation over Vail and Hill, 04:57.000 --> 05:01.960 Tis the loving father calls the wander home, 05:01.960 --> 05:05.000 Whosoever will, 05:05.000 --> 05:05.560 May 05:07.700 --> 05:12.700 Whosoever cometh need not delay. 05:12.700 --> 05:17.400 Now the door is open, enter while you may. 05:17.400 --> 05:22.200 Jesus is the true, the only living way. 05:22.200 --> 05:24.700 Whosoever will may... 05:27.000 --> 05:28.500 Whosoever 05:32.000 --> 05:36.800 Send the proclamation over Mill and Hill, 05:36.800 --> 05:40.800 Tis a loving father calls the wanderer home. 05:50.900 --> 05:56.160 Secure whosoever will forever must endure 05:56.760 --> 06:00.660 Whosoever will tears lie forevermore 06:01.520 --> 06:03.400 whosoever will 06:11.300 --> 06:14.100 Send the proclamation over... 06:17.000 --> 06:22.480 Father calls the wander home whosoever will 06:27.000 --> 06:27.840 and good singing. 06:29.900 --> 06:34.300 Our verse of the week is going to be Isaiah 41 verse 13, which says, 06:34.300 --> 06:38.060 for the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, 06:38.060 --> 06:43.980 fear not, I will help thee. That's Isaiah 41 verse 13. 06:43.980 --> 06:47.580 We are here at our Sunday evening, or good night, Sunday morning service, 06:47.580 --> 06:50.380 good night, I'm already skipping the first one. But the Sunday morning 06:50.380 --> 06:52.620 service, we're going to be going through Jonah chapter number three. 06:52.620 --> 06:55.820 So if you are keen on your Bible reading, you probably know what I'm 06:55.820 --> 06:57.500 probably going to preach about then this morning. 06:57.900 --> 07:02.200 And then as for Sunday night, we're going to be going through John chapter number four. 07:02.200 --> 07:04.500 I believe it's part number three now. 07:04.500 --> 07:09.700 I'm trying to get through this whole end of John chapter number four. 07:09.700 --> 07:10.700 We'll see how it's going to go though. 07:10.700 --> 07:14.100 It's quite a bit of verses to get through, but I'm like, it's like a coin toss right 07:14.100 --> 07:15.100 now. 07:15.100 --> 07:17.740 I'm actually going to get through all of it, or if there's going to have to be a John four 07:17.740 --> 07:18.860 part four. 07:18.860 --> 07:22.780 And then Wednesday evening, we're having our Bible study in first Corinthians. 07:22.780 --> 07:25.780 We're actually on 1st Corinthians 16 now, so there'll be... 07:25.900 --> 07:29.940 Part number one of that actually might be a one and done on that if you could believe it 07:29.940 --> 07:34.820 Okay, I almost don't even believe as I'm telling you but it actually could be it's pretty short and a lot of it is 07:35.560 --> 07:37.740 Him just kind of discussing the different 07:38.540 --> 07:42.500 The different kind of plans he has for coming to visit the Church of Corinth in the future 07:42.500 --> 07:44.500 So we'll see how that goes though 07:45.180 --> 07:47.460 and then as far as our soul and goes we have 07:48.280 --> 07:53.900 121 salvations now because brother Ryan got someone saved it today. It's pretty awesome yesterday that area that we 07:53.900 --> 07:57.660 at Norway Heights, I preached the full gospel one time. 07:57.660 --> 08:00.900 I preached like 75% of the gospel the second time, 08:00.900 --> 08:03.980 and the lady just got off work, so she was kind of just trying 08:03.980 --> 08:05.940 to, I mean, she'd be nice. 08:05.940 --> 08:08.220 She agreed with what we were saying, but she just, you know, 08:08.220 --> 08:09.380 she was thinking about other things, whatever. 08:09.380 --> 08:12.700 And then that last guy, I mean, he had all the distractions 08:12.700 --> 08:15.140 of the world for why he might not have actually heard 08:15.140 --> 08:18.220 the gospel, but he was like, oh, no, no, no, let me go put 08:18.220 --> 08:20.660 the kids up, and then he like comes outside, 08:20.660 --> 08:21.900 and you're the old gospel. 08:21.900 --> 08:25.100 Even with his kids going crazy around him, he can be like, 08:25.100 --> 08:26.700 Oh, can you repeat that again? I didn't hear what you said. 08:26.700 --> 08:29.300 So pretty good. That should just show us though, too. 08:29.300 --> 08:34.100 Like so many people have excuses for us and why they can't hear the gospel. 08:34.100 --> 08:36.300 We're out soul winning. But so many of them are just fake. 08:36.300 --> 08:38.700 Some of them just don't actually want to hear the gospel. 08:38.700 --> 08:43.400 No, just because the reality is that if you really want to hear the good news 08:43.400 --> 08:46.800 about how to go to heaven when you die, you're going to make some time for it. 08:46.800 --> 08:48.100 And someone comes to your door. 08:48.100 --> 08:49.600 So I just thought that. 08:49.900 --> 08:53.980 was pretty interesting. But as far as the upcoming events go on August, or 08:53.980 --> 08:58.180 excuse me, on October 1st will be the end of our memory challenge for Galatians 08:58.180 --> 09:03.340 chapter number one. So if you're still doing that, make sure you stick at it 09:03.340 --> 09:05.820 because there's only a little bit of time left. What we got? It's the 20th. Yeah? 09:05.820 --> 09:10.060 Good night. Time's flying by in this month as well. And then the 13th we have 09:10.060 --> 09:15.220 our homeschool day on October 13th and then October 17th we're 09:15.220 --> 09:17.020 We're gonna have our Tri-Cities Marathon. 09:17.020 --> 09:17.860 I need to post a. 09:17.900 --> 09:21.340 video about that this week as a matter of fact so that I don't forget so I get 09:21.340 --> 09:25.740 all the details out there and then on October 25th we have our church picture 09:25.740 --> 09:31.340 day and on October 28th and 30th we're having the VBS with the creation theme 09:31.340 --> 09:34.220 so I'm looking forward to that I'm already trying to brainstorm the 09:34.220 --> 09:35.300 sermons I'm trying to have 09:35.700 --> 09:39.700 figure out uh I don't know I haven't done much preaching to kids now that I think about it like 09:39.700 --> 09:45.060 even in uh the old life beat churches that I grew up in I was never like in like a Sunday school 09:45.060 --> 09:48.580 teaching so I'm kind of interested to see how that'll work out I know you're probably not 09:48.580 --> 09:54.020 supposed to rip the kids' face off okay but that uh you never know uh but probably not with creation 09:54.020 --> 10:00.820 but um in Psalms 121 verse number two that's our kids memory verse it's my help cometh from the 10:00.820 --> 10:03.060 the Lord which maketh heaven and earth. 10:03.060 --> 10:03.700 And if you tell that to my 10:03.700 --> 10:08.020 wife you can get a piece of candy kids and all the church rules you guys are 10:08.020 --> 10:12.700 all familiar with as far as birthdays go we didn't sing Callie every birthday 10:12.700 --> 10:17.500 right not at church okay so we got a singer happy birthday we already had the 10:17.500 --> 10:24.540 party okay but 26th okay let me see 10:25.100 --> 10:26.700 I think it's within the week though, huh? 10:26.700 --> 10:28.700 I guess we could do Wednesday. Yeah, we'll do Wednesday. 10:28.700 --> 10:30.700 But we do have an anniversary. 10:30.700 --> 10:32.700 Brother Daniel and Miss Marina. 10:32.700 --> 10:34.700 And the date was correct on this one, right? 10:34.700 --> 10:36.700 We're not missing that? Okay. 10:36.700 --> 10:38.700 Now I'm all scared about the dates because I messed up the last one. 10:38.700 --> 10:41.700 So we'll sing Happy Anniversary to Brother Daniel and Miss Marina. 10:41.700 --> 10:43.700 How many years do you guys have now? 10:43.700 --> 10:45.700 11 years. 11 years. Praise God for that. 10:45.700 --> 10:48.700 So I think, yeah, you guys are the longest marriage then at our church. 10:48.700 --> 10:50.700 I think we're the second longest then. So, praise God. 10:51.500 --> 10:55.500 We'll sing Happy Anniversary on the first. 11:00.500 --> 11:02.900 That's that uncertain sound that the Trump is giving right there. 11:02.900 --> 11:04.900 What's up with that? 11:07.300 --> 11:08.300 Are you ready? Okay. 11:08.300 --> 11:12.300 Happy anniversary to you, woo! 11:12.300 --> 11:17.300 Happy anniversary to you, woo! 11:17.300 --> 11:22.300 Happy anniversary, God bless you. 11:22.300 --> 11:27.300 Happy anniversary to you. 11:27.300 --> 11:29.300 Okay, you threw me off for no reason because it sounded really good. 11:29.300 --> 11:32.300 I need more practice with it. 11:32.300 --> 11:35.300 Alright, our next song before we do the offering will be song number... 11:35.300 --> 11:36.140 Number 12. 11:40.500 --> 11:42.100 Blessed Redeemer. 11:47.300 --> 11:50.100 Song number 12, Blessed Redeemer. 12:00.200 --> 12:02.600 Song number 12, we'll sing it on the first. 12:02.700 --> 12:08.120 Up Calvary's mountain, one dreadful morn, 12:08.120 --> 12:13.380 While Christ my Savior, weary and worn, 12:13.380 --> 12:18.420 Facing four sinners, death on the cross, 12:18.420 --> 12:23.820 That He might save them from endless loss. 12:23.820 --> 12:29.220 Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer, 12:29.220 --> 12:30.700 Seems now I see... 12:30.700 --> 12:35.600 I am on Calvary's tree 12:35.600 --> 12:36.200 wounded 12:38.600 --> 12:40.400 Four Sanders, please! 12:50.500 --> 12:58.500 Thus did he pray, and while his life blood flowed past away, 12:58.500 --> 13:09.180 Praying for sinners while in such woe, No one but Jesus ever loved so. 13:09.180 --> 13:18.500 Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer, Seems now I see him on Calvary. 13:18.500 --> 13:26.400 Street wounded and bleeding for sinners please 13:40.700 --> 13:51.740 praises ever find and through years unnumbered on heaven's shore my tongue 13:51.740 --> 14:02.620 shall praise him forevermore blessed Redeemer precious Redeemer seems now I 14:02.620 --> 14:07.820 see him on Calvary Street 14:08.600 --> 14:13.560 Wounded and bleeding, for sinners bleeding 14:21.100 --> 14:23.100 good scene brother Ryan would you bless the offering for us? 15:18.300 --> 15:22.860 everybody. If you could go ahead and open your Bibles with me. We'll go to Jonah 15:22.860 --> 15:29.340 chapter 3 this morning. Jonah chapter 3 is our text and here at Sure Foundation 15:29.340 --> 15:33.600 Baptist Church we read the entire chapter before the preaching. 15:36.900 --> 15:40.740 Jonah chapter 3 the Bible reads, 15:40.740 --> 15:44.900 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 15:44.900 --> 15:51.860 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 15:51.860 --> 15:57.060 So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. 15:57.060 --> 16:01.860 Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 16:02.100 --> 16:07.980 Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey and he cried and said, 16:08.220 --> 16:11.820 Yet forty days in Nineveh shall be overthrown. 16:12.220 --> 16:19.700 So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed to fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them 16:19.900 --> 16:21.800 even to the least of them. 16:21.900 --> 16:28.380 for the word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from 16:28.380 --> 16:32.540 him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes." 16:32.800 --> 16:39.360 and he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his 16:39.360 --> 16:47.680 nobles saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed nor drink 16:47.680 --> 16:55.520 water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God. Yea, let 16:55.520 --> 17:00.640 them turn everyone from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands. 17:00.800 --> 17:07.240 hands, who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we 17:07.240 --> 17:08.240 perish not? 17:08.240 --> 17:14.860 And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way, and God repented of the evil 17:14.860 --> 17:19.740 that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. 17:19.740 --> 17:21.700 Brother Daniel, could you pray for the preaching? 17:21.700 --> 17:22.700 Dear Hanifah, thank you for staying. 17:22.700 --> 17:23.700 Thank you, God, for this great chapter. 17:23.700 --> 17:04.760 At the end of the moment, we are going to be talking about the 17:28.200 --> 17:30.200 Preach this chapter to us. 17:31.800 --> 17:38.800 Amen. Amen. You guys are there in Jonah chapter number three. We're going to look in at verse number nine where the Bible says, 17:38.800 --> 17:44.800 Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not? 17:44.800 --> 17:47.800 The title of my sermon this morning is, What is Biblical Repentance? Let's pray. 17:47.800 --> 17:51.800 Dear Lord God, thank you so much for this wonderful day, God. Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God. 17:51.800 --> 17:54.800 Thank you so much for this church, God, and for everybody that showed up to hear your work preached this morning, God. 17:54.800 --> 17:59.800 I just pray for that reason. You fill me with your Holy Spirit, God, and help me to preach words that would edify 17:59.800 --> 18:03.800 everybody in this room, God, I just pray that you help me to say what you want me to say 18:03.800 --> 18:06.280 and keep me from saying what you wouldn't want me to say and I pray that you'd help 18:06.280 --> 18:11.400 me to have a clear train of thought as I preach and help me to deliver well the message you 18:11.400 --> 18:12.400 put on my heart. 18:12.400 --> 18:13.040 In Jesus' name I pray, amen. 18:13.600 --> 18:18.160 time I certainly said again is what is biblical repentance we're here in Jonah chapter number three 18:18.160 --> 18:23.280 and this morning I'm going to be talking about the subject of repentance and in the past I know I've 18:23.280 --> 18:30.240 preached at least one sermon on repentance just in the aspect of repentance and salvation what the 18:30.240 --> 18:35.760 bible teaches about the word repentance and what it has to do with salvation and this morning what 18:35.760 --> 18:41.280 I originally had planned to do was to not just talk about repentance in terms of salvation but to talk about 18:41.600 --> 18:43.600 you know, God repenting in the Bible. 18:43.600 --> 18:45.600 Because there's some interesting verses where, you know, 18:45.600 --> 18:47.600 God has a verse where he's like, you know, 18:47.600 --> 18:48.600 he's not a man that he should repent. 18:48.600 --> 18:50.600 But then we see multiple places in the Bible, 18:50.600 --> 18:51.600 like this verse right here, 18:51.600 --> 18:53.600 where it says that God does repent. 18:53.600 --> 18:56.600 So I was going to kind of discuss that a little bit. 18:56.600 --> 18:59.600 But after I got through like this, like halfway through, 18:59.600 --> 19:01.600 I was like, this is just going to be a fool's errand. 19:01.600 --> 19:02.600 It's not going to work out. 19:02.600 --> 19:04.600 So what I decided to do instead is that this sermon 19:04.600 --> 19:05.600 is going to be based on... 19:06.100 --> 19:12.860 fully on salvation what it has to do with repentance in the Bible and then the next sermon I preach on next Sunday is gonna be 19:12.940 --> 19:18.760 discussing repentance as a whole just like everything that the Bible has to say outside of the bounds of salvation 19:19.060 --> 19:21.620 But for this sermon, we're gonna just be talking about 19:22.460 --> 19:26.540 Repentance and what it has to do with salvation and so I'm just gonna get right in this rink 19:26.540 --> 19:28.980 I lost up the cover so point one of this sermon is 19:29.240 --> 19:34.100 what does the word repent mean and I think it's extremely important to start the sermon off right here because 19:34.100 --> 19:37.100 This is a word that I feel is frequently misunderstood 19:37.380 --> 19:42.840 Not just by unsavely people but by safe people alike and I think this comes from two two things 19:42.840 --> 19:43.120 Okay 19:43.120 --> 19:49.540 I think that people have kind of like a preconceived idea about the word repent and so they go to some version of libel and they 19:49.740 --> 19:57.340 Automatically attach the word of your sense to the to the phrase repent even though as we're about to discuss that doesn't always work 19:57.340 --> 20:01.960 It actually never works as I should actually say it does not work because the word repent has 20:02.100 --> 20:05.900 no attachment to it, the word repent has its own specific meaning. 20:05.900 --> 20:10.460 But the second reason why I think people will mess this up is because Webster's Dictionary 20:10.460 --> 20:12.980 and modern day dictionaries as a whole. 20:12.980 --> 20:17.620 Because if you actually look up the word repent in a modern day dictionary, what you'll find 20:17.620 --> 20:20.500 is that the first definition that comes up for a lot of people is this one. 20:20.500 --> 20:27.020 It says for the word repent is on Webster's, it says to turn from sin and to dedicate oneself 20:27.020 --> 20:29.340 to the amendment of one's life. 20:29.340 --> 20:30.100 So that's the first. 20:30.100 --> 20:33.460 definition that Webster has when I looked it up I wasn't trying to cherry 20:33.460 --> 20:36.420 pick that was just the first one that I found it obviously has a couple other 20:36.420 --> 20:39.220 definitions underneath but that was the primary definition that it put out there 20:39.220 --> 20:43.180 for what it means to repent but the thing about this is is that when you 20:43.180 --> 20:47.980 attach the word of your sins to the word of repent you immediately have problems 20:47.980 --> 20:51.060 in the Bible and the first one that we have we see here in Jonah 3 look at 20:51.060 --> 20:55.900 verse number 10 of Jonah 3 10 it says and God saw their works that they turn 20:55.900 --> 20:58.100 from their evil way and God repents 20:58.100 --> 21:02.340 repented of the evil that he said he would do unto them and he did it not. 21:02.340 --> 21:07.100 So if we take Webster's definition right here and just add it to the word repent, then that 21:07.100 --> 21:12.000 would be to say that God repented of his sins in this story and that he went to go amend 21:12.000 --> 21:14.100 his life for the evil that he'd done. 21:14.100 --> 21:18.060 Obviously this cannot be the case because God is a perfect and sinless God and there's 21:18.060 --> 21:20.260 no evil, there's no corruption in him. 21:20.260 --> 21:24.820 So we should understand very quickly then this morning that every time the word repent 21:24.820 --> 21:26.100 is used you cannot 21:26.100 --> 21:31.040 Automatically attach the phrase of your sense to it. It does not work and as a little side note to that 21:31.040 --> 21:33.920 I'd say this as well for as far as the dictionaries go 21:34.680 --> 21:38.720 Dictionaries can be a very helpful tool for us when we're going through and studying the Bible 21:38.720 --> 21:42.780 I know about just like worldly dictionaries even strong dictionary could be a helpful tool to you 21:42.960 --> 21:45.200 But you have to at the end of the day 21:45.200 --> 21:50.480 No matter what those things say you have to go and compare the dictionary's definitions to what the Bible actually says 21:50.480 --> 21:54.100 That's always the most important thing is because it's comparing spiritual things with spirit 21:54.100 --> 21:58.420 spiritual because the Bible is infallible but dictionaries are fallible. 21:58.420 --> 21:59.420 They make mistakes. 21:59.420 --> 22:01.380 So sometimes people will hang themselves on this. 22:01.380 --> 22:04.780 They'll like not understand what a word means in the King James and they'll go to a worldly 22:04.780 --> 22:08.500 dictionary and they just take whatever first definition there is of it and they just, you 22:08.500 --> 22:10.520 know, take it hook line and sinker. 22:10.520 --> 22:11.520 But you cannot do that. 22:11.520 --> 22:15.180 Number one, because the definition of words have definitely changed from over time since 22:15.180 --> 22:16.180 1611. 22:16.180 --> 22:18.700 I mean, even the word suffer is a good example. 22:18.700 --> 22:21.980 in the Bible means to allow most of the time, but then nowadays... 22:22.100 --> 22:24.380 If you say suffer, you're meaning like you're in pain 22:24.380 --> 22:25.520 and you're suffering, right? 22:25.520 --> 22:26.760 So there's that reason. 22:26.760 --> 22:27.800 But then also, like I was just saying, 22:27.800 --> 22:30.660 even if you look up a 1611 dictionary of words, 22:30.660 --> 22:32.020 you have to be careful with that 22:32.020 --> 22:35.240 because these are fallible men writing these dictionaries. 22:35.240 --> 22:37.080 And you have to let the word of God 22:37.080 --> 22:38.760 define itself very often. 22:38.760 --> 22:41.800 And so that, but I know I'll not start with this 22:41.800 --> 22:43.880 while I say this, because if you actually look 22:43.880 --> 22:46.320 what the Bible does with the word repent in this story, 22:46.320 --> 22:48.440 you can, it gives us its own definition of what it means. 22:48.440 --> 22:50.100 Okay, look at verse number eight of John. 22:50.100 --> 22:51.780 Jonah 3, 8 again it says, 22:51.780 --> 22:54.500 but let every man and beast be covered with sackcloth 22:54.500 --> 22:55.620 and cry mildly unto God, 22:55.620 --> 22:58.580 yea, let them turn everyone from his evil way 22:58.580 --> 23:00.660 and from the violence that is in his hands. 23:00.660 --> 23:04.100 Who can tell if God will turn and repent 23:04.100 --> 23:08.240 and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not? 23:08.240 --> 23:10.860 And God saw their works that they turned 23:10.860 --> 23:13.240 from their evil way and God repented of the evil 23:13.240 --> 23:15.980 that he'd said that he'd do unto them and he did it not. 23:15.980 --> 23:17.220 So just by reading those verses, 23:17.220 --> 23:18.100 what is the word rep... 23:18.100 --> 23:20.340 repent obviously mean in its context, 23:20.340 --> 23:21.980 to turn from something, yeah? 23:21.980 --> 23:23.660 Or another way that we would say it as well 23:23.660 --> 23:25.180 in other passages that you'll see 23:25.180 --> 23:28.140 is to change your mind about something. 23:28.140 --> 23:29.180 To change your mind about something 23:29.180 --> 23:31.300 or to turn from something. 23:31.300 --> 23:33.580 But the something that you are turning from 23:33.580 --> 23:35.580 is based on the context of the verse. 23:35.580 --> 23:37.180 So right here it is their evil way 23:37.180 --> 23:38.780 that it says that they're turning from. 23:38.780 --> 23:40.940 But this is not always the case when the word is repent. 23:40.940 --> 23:41.780 That's why I was saying earlier, 23:41.780 --> 23:44.700 you can't just always attach a definition to it. 23:44.700 --> 23:46.100 And so it's a... 23:46.100 --> 23:48.020 To understand it properly though, 23:48.020 --> 23:49.140 just to use a silly sentence, if I said, 23:49.140 --> 23:52.060 hey, I was gonna eat this sandwich, but I repented. 23:52.300 --> 23:53.300 What do I mean by that? 23:53.300 --> 23:54.860 It means I change my mind, right? 23:54.860 --> 23:57.060 Or I turn from my sandwich, if it also could be, okay? 23:57.060 --> 23:59.420 But probably more likely that you change your mind. 23:59.420 --> 24:00.700 But if you think about it, 24:00.700 --> 24:01.980 because the turn kind of sounds funny, 24:01.980 --> 24:03.860 but it makes sense in this context 24:03.860 --> 24:07.260 that if you're intending to go to the store 24:07.260 --> 24:08.580 and then you change your mind, 24:08.580 --> 24:09.500 you're not going to the store anymore. 24:09.500 --> 24:10.380 What do you do usually? 24:10.380 --> 24:11.460 You turn around, right? 24:11.460 --> 24:12.460 So that's kind of the idea 24:12.460 --> 24:14.140 that the Bible is saying right there. 24:14.140 --> 24:17.340 So the word repent means to turn from 24:17.340 --> 24:19.460 or to change your mind. 24:19.460 --> 24:20.300 And another reason... 24:20.300 --> 24:24.960 why this word is very important to define outside of this being misunderstood is because 24:24.960 --> 24:28.220 the word repent is often used with salvation in the Bible. We see this many times. Go to 24:28.220 --> 24:33.540 Mark 1 verse number 15 and we see an example of this right off the bat. There's many examples 24:33.540 --> 24:37.200 of this in the Bible. I'm only going to show you a few, but the word repent is used over 24:37.200 --> 24:39.200 and over and over again in the Bible. 24:39.400 --> 24:43.420 Mark 1 verse number 15 while you guys turn it out reading Matthew 4 17 24:43.420 --> 24:50.720 It says from that time Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the kingdom of God is at hand and in mark 24:50.720 --> 24:56.820 115 he says and saying the times fulfilled the kingdom of God is at hand repent ye and believe the gospel 24:56.820 --> 25:01.500 So there's a false accusation that sometimes people will say about our beliefs at this church that they'll say that 25:01.920 --> 25:07.200 We don't believe in repentance. This is not true. You have to believe in repentance 25:07.400 --> 25:09.320 If you believe the Bible, you believe in repentance 25:09.320 --> 25:11.360 because Jesus Christ himself is preaching, 25:11.360 --> 25:14.040 repent for the King of God is at hand. 25:14.040 --> 25:17.760 So we do 100% believe in repentance at this church 25:17.760 --> 25:19.020 as long as you define it right. 25:19.020 --> 25:20.380 That's the biggest key about repentance. 25:20.380 --> 25:21.880 You have to define it right 25:21.880 --> 25:24.400 because what we just saw, what I just showed you in Jonah, 25:24.400 --> 25:26.200 is that repentance does not just mean 25:26.200 --> 25:27.560 automatically of your sins, 25:27.560 --> 25:28.980 it means to change your mind 25:28.980 --> 25:31.620 or it means to turn from something. 25:31.620 --> 25:34.440 And in that sense, we absolutely believe this 25:34.440 --> 25:35.400 about the gospel. 25:35.400 --> 25:38.000 You have to repent and believe the gospel. 25:38.000 --> 25:38.840 What does that mean? 25:38.840 --> 25:40.360 It means you have to change your mind 25:40.360 --> 25:42.560 about whatever you believe in before the gospel 25:42.560 --> 25:44.240 and choose to believe in the gospel instead. 25:44.240 --> 25:46.320 You have to turn from whatever false belief, 25:46.320 --> 25:49.520 false religion that you have besides Jesus Christ 25:49.520 --> 25:51.560 and turn to Jesus Christ to believe on him instead. 25:51.560 --> 25:53.720 This is what the Bible is teaching us. 25:53.720 --> 25:57.120 And as a little fun fact about that as well, 25:57.120 --> 25:59.240 with the word repent, that's another reason 25:59.240 --> 26:00.880 why you can't attach a sentence to it automatically 26:00.880 --> 26:03.400 because God is actually the person who repents the most. 26:03.400 --> 26:06.740 in the Bible. If you just look it up on your phone or on some kind of search system, you'll 26:06.740 --> 26:11.920 see that God repents more than anybody in the Bible. But anyways, you guys are there 26:11.920 --> 26:16.800 in Mark 1. Go back to Jonah 3 and yeah, go back to Jonah 3. I almost want to tell you 26:16.800 --> 26:20.080 to keep your finger there, but I don't know how many times we turn back there, okay? But 26:20.080 --> 26:24.080 maybe just bookmark it if you have a spare bookmark. Jonah chapter number 3, verse number 26:24.080 --> 26:25.080 8 again. 26:25.080 --> 26:25.400 Thank you. 26:26.000 --> 26:34.340 If we're being consistent though with these things, then you can't automatically attach the phrase of your friends of your sins of your friends gonna have your sins to the word repent 26:35.700 --> 26:39.900 But when we're out soul hunting with people, we preach repentance. 26:39.900 --> 26:41.900 We tell people they have to repent. 26:41.900 --> 26:44.900 Not always in the word, the verbiage of repenting. 26:44.900 --> 26:46.800 But when we go to people's door, what do we tell them? 26:46.800 --> 26:49.400 We ask them, how did they believe they could get to heaven? 26:49.400 --> 26:52.300 And if they tell us, you have to do good works, you have to go to church, 26:52.300 --> 26:55.700 you have to give money to the poor, we say, hey, no, you're wrong. 26:55.700 --> 26:58.200 This is what the Bible says. Can I show you what the Bible says? 26:58.200 --> 26:59.400 Usually a little bit nicer than that, okay? 26:59.400 --> 27:01.000 But that's just like a blunt example, okay? 27:01.000 --> 27:02.400 Can I show you what the Bible says? 27:02.400 --> 27:03.600 And even Brother DeRion just said, yes, 27:03.700 --> 27:06.900 when he's preaching that guy he said if I should if I could show you that the 27:06.900 --> 27:10.340 Bible says something different would you be willing to change your mind what's 27:10.340 --> 27:15.100 he saying would you be willing to repent is what he's saying okay we just 27:15.100 --> 27:19.260 obviously people the word repent people don't use it very often outside of a 27:19.260 --> 27:22.980 religious connotation nowadays but these things obviously mean the same exact 27:22.980 --> 27:28.220 thing but what Jesus Christ is not doing in this story is telling these people to 27:28.220 --> 27:31.700 repent of their sins and to believe the gospel 27:31.700 --> 27:40.700 Because here's another fun fact about the word repent as well, is that the word, I should say the phrase, the phrase repent of your sins is not found anywhere in the Bible. 27:40.700 --> 27:46.700 The only book that I know of that it's in is the Book of Mormon. It actually says repent of your sins. 27:46.700 --> 27:51.700 The closest you get to repent of your sins in the Bible is what we saw in Jonah that he says to turn from your evil way. 27:51.700 --> 27:56.500 That's about as close as you get, but nowhere is the actual phrase repent of your sins found in the Bible. 27:56.800 --> 28:03.300 Not to say, because that, and I would just caveat that was saying that just because something isn't in the Bible, that doesn't always mean that the idea of it's not true. 28:03.300 --> 28:08.500 We understand this, right? Because the word Trinity is not in the Bible, but the Trinity is true, right? 28:08.500 --> 28:15.800 So, I would have you understand that. The same thing with the rapture or whatever. That's important to understand. 28:15.800 --> 28:18.500 But you guys are there in Jonah 3, verse number 9, look what the Bible says. It says, 28:19.400 --> 28:25.000 Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not? 28:25.000 --> 28:29.720 Now pause right there and I'll say this, that a lot of times when we tell people that 28:29.720 --> 28:32.680 you don't have to repent of your sins to be saved, they'll say to us, 28:32.680 --> 28:36.840 well how do you know that Jesus Christ wasn't telling them to repent of your sins to be saved? 28:36.840 --> 28:39.640 Here's the reason we know this, because look at what verse number 10 says, 28:39.640 --> 28:44.040 and this should debunk this beyond any shadow of a doubt to anybody that's a Bible-believing Christian. 28:44.040 --> 28:47.240 It says, and God saw their work. 28:47.400 --> 28:52.240 that they turn from their evil way. So right here the Bible is telling us that 28:52.240 --> 28:57.080 turning from your evil way is a work and we obviously know that that can't be 28:57.080 --> 29:01.080 attached to salvation then why? Because in Ephesians 2, 8, 9 it says for by grace 29:01.080 --> 29:04.320 you saved through faith and that not of yourselves is the gift of God. It says 29:04.320 --> 29:08.840 not of works thus any man should boast. So turning from your evil way if that's a 29:08.840 --> 29:12.800 work that cannot be attached to salvation. Okay this is what you 29:12.800 --> 29:15.400 understand from these verses. 29:15.400 --> 29:18.240 to stay there in Jonah chapter number three though, 29:18.240 --> 29:20.640 but I think that this story of. 29:21.100 --> 29:26.220 of um of of ninnabah can kind of confuse people a little bit and i think the reason why that is is 29:26.220 --> 29:31.100 because there are two salvation that's going on in this story okay like wait what is this like some 29:31.100 --> 29:33.820 the this has been station with him like no no that's not what i'm talking about but i'm talking 29:33.820 --> 29:36.860 about this that there is a physical salvation that's happening in this story and there is a 29:36.860 --> 29:41.820 spiritual salvation that's happening in this story and in this story they do quite go hand in hand 29:41.820 --> 29:46.860 okay and this is where people cross their wires so just kind of pay attention to the what is 29:46.860 --> 29:47.820 is actually going on in the story. 29:47.820 --> 29:49.100 Look at verse number four. 29:49.100 --> 29:51.420 of Jonah chapter number three, 29:51.420 --> 29:54.060 because what was Jonah preaching to these people 29:54.060 --> 29:56.140 when he first came into the city? 29:56.140 --> 29:58.460 It wasn't the gospel, okay, I'll tell you that. 29:58.460 --> 29:59.300 It was Jonah 3, 4, 29:59.300 --> 30:00.140 the way it says it says, 30:00.140 --> 30:02.180 and Jonah began to enter the city a day's journey, 30:02.180 --> 30:03.180 and he cried and said, 30:03.180 --> 30:06.920 "'Yet 40 days and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'" 30:06.920 --> 30:08.700 So what's he telling the people of Nineveh? 30:08.700 --> 30:10.900 He's saying, hey, you guys are gonna get destroyed. 30:10.900 --> 30:12.840 I'm gonna wipe you guys off the face of the earth. 30:12.840 --> 30:15.860 That's what God is telling the people of Nineveh. 30:15.860 --> 30:17.100 And again, what kind of destruction? 30:17.100 --> 30:19.220 is that that is a physical destruction. 30:19.220 --> 30:20.900 That is a physical destruction. 30:20.900 --> 30:22.340 And then what's the response to this? 30:22.340 --> 30:23.580 Verse number five, he says, 30:23.580 --> 30:25.060 "'So the people of Nineveh,' 30:25.060 --> 30:26.100 look what it says, 30:26.100 --> 30:28.100 "'believed God and proclaimed to fast 30:28.100 --> 30:30.520 "'and put on sackcloth from the grace of them, 30:30.520 --> 30:31.900 "'even to the least of them.'" 30:31.900 --> 30:32.960 So Jonah comes in there, 30:32.960 --> 30:35.780 he's preaching them the destruction of Nineveh, 30:35.780 --> 30:38.780 and then these people in response to the preaching. 30:39.000 --> 30:45.000 believe God. They believe that what Jonah is telling them is true. That the God that he's representing is true. 30:45.000 --> 30:49.000 And since they believe on God, what does that mean for them in terms of salvation? 30:49.000 --> 30:53.000 Means that they get their salvation, yeah? Because they get their everlasting life, 30:53.000 --> 30:56.000 is what the Bible teaches us. John 3, 16 obviously, there's many verses I could show you. 30:56.000 --> 30:59.000 But when you believe on Jesus Christ, you get your everlasting life. 30:59.000 --> 31:04.000 So these people, they believe the preaching of Jonah, and then that's how they get their spiritual salvation, 31:04.000 --> 31:07.000 but how they get their physical salvation, it says in verse number 10, 31:07.000 --> 31:10.840 and God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and God 31:10.840 --> 31:15.280 repented look what it says of the evil that he had said he would do to them and 31:15.280 --> 31:18.900 he did it not what was the evil that God says he's gonna do in Nineveh 31:19.100 --> 31:24.440 Destroy them right so God does not destroy Nineveh why because they turn from their evil way 31:24.440 --> 31:29.160 That's why so you see there that there's the spiritual salvation that they believe on God first 31:29.160 --> 31:35.400 And then they turn from their wicked way so they're spared from the destruction physically of God 31:36.000 --> 31:41.540 So, but this is the same thing that I point out to you guys that is true with us nowadays that when we believe on God 31:41.540 --> 31:43.540 That's how we get our salvation 31:43.940 --> 31:46.200 It says that I mean I already showed you 31:46.500 --> 31:51.940 Ephesians 2 8 9 but so many verses of the Bible teaches that you get your salvation by believing on Jesus Christ, right? 31:51.940 --> 31:57.040 That it says in Romans 10 9 that if I will confess with my mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in my heart that God 31:57.040 --> 32:00.360 Raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved, right? So 32:01.000 --> 32:02.300 That's what the Bible teaches us. 32:02.300 --> 32:09.000 But then, does that mean that we'll never face any consequences for the rest of our life after we're saved? 32:09.000 --> 32:13.700 No. If we just go out and live a wicked life after we get saved, guess what could happen to us? 32:13.700 --> 32:16.200 We can get wiped out the face of earth just like Nineveh as well. 32:16.200 --> 32:20.800 That if, I mean in Hebrews he tells us that he chastens us, he chastens every son we receive, 32:20.800 --> 32:24.400 and think about the people in the Bible that were believers that God did take home early, 32:24.400 --> 32:29.000 like King Saul for example, or Ananias and Sivirah, or the old... 32:29.000 --> 32:31.520 the prophet in the Old Testament who's prophesying the word of the Lord, 32:31.520 --> 32:35.280 he tells him, don't go back and eat with that in the city that I had you come out of. 32:35.280 --> 32:37.120 And then the other guy comes and tricks him, is like, 32:37.120 --> 32:38.760 oh, God told me actually to come to the city. 32:38.760 --> 32:40.640 This is a very odd story, okay? 32:40.640 --> 32:42.160 Then he gets mauled by a lion. 32:42.160 --> 32:45.000 But I bring it up to say this, is that we see all throughout the Bible 32:45.000 --> 32:49.720 that this is consistently true, that you get your salvation by believing on God. 32:49.720 --> 32:52.600 But then when it comes to a physical salvation, 32:52.600 --> 32:54.400 your physical well-being on this earth, 32:54.400 --> 32:56.960 if you don't obey God, he can destroy you. 32:57.000 --> 33:00.920 Okay, and he can chase in you. That's what the Bible teaches us 33:00.920 --> 33:08.300 So what we should understand from these verses then is that repenting spiritually gives you a spiritual salvation that changing your mind and believing on God 33:08.420 --> 33:13.860 Gives you spiritual salvation, but repenting physically like changing your actions will save you 33:14.580 --> 33:17.080 That I don't know if I said that backwards right did I say spiritually okay? 33:17.080 --> 33:20.180 Okay, yeah that repenting spiritually give you spiritual salvation 33:20.440 --> 33:24.880 But repenting physically will give you a physical salvation that if you choose to obey 33:25.000 --> 33:29.160 God's commandments he's gonna bless your life but if you choose to rebel against 33:29.160 --> 33:34.960 God after you get saved he will crack the whip on you. But this is also what we 33:34.960 --> 33:37.320 should understand from these verses where you guys you guys are in Jonah right 33:37.320 --> 33:42.600 so go to Romans 6 verse number 6 Romans 6 verse number 6 33:43.600 --> 33:50.080 We should understand then that from these verses that you do not have to be you do not the repent of your sins to be saved 33:50.080 --> 33:54.960 You have to believe on Jesus Christ first and then you're allowed to repent of your sins 33:54.960 --> 33:58.160 Okay, then you're able to repent of your sins not for salvation 33:58.160 --> 34:01.920 But just in general you're old because I'm gonna show you guys as we get to Romans 6 6 34:01.920 --> 34:05.900 That a lot of people get this backwards that they they try to tie these things hand-to-hand 34:05.900 --> 34:08.960 If I'd say like they'll say, you know, the two sides of the same coin a lot of times 34:08.960 --> 34:11.600 they'll be like repentance and belief as far as 34:11.600 --> 34:15.920 Repentance of sins okay, they'll say it's two sides of the same coin be like you have to repent of your sins and 34:16.200 --> 34:18.580 Believe in God at the same time for your salvation 34:18.580 --> 34:24.620 This is not true though you have to believe on God first and then you're able to repent of your sense 34:24.620 --> 34:26.440 This is what the Bible teaches us. It's very clear 34:26.440 --> 34:31.000 That's why I have you guys in Romans 6 because he tells us in Romans 6 that before we're saved 34:31.120 --> 34:34.320 We're servants to send we're in bondage to sin 34:34.320 --> 34:39.460 We are slaves to send if you will, but then once we believe on Jesus Christ 34:39.600 --> 34:43.280 then we're free to serve him. Then we're free to walk in the Spirit. That's what 34:43.280 --> 34:47.360 the Bible teaches. Look what it says in Romans 6, 6. He says, knowing this, that our old man 34:47.360 --> 34:52.000 is crucified with him. When does that happen? When we believe on Jesus Christ. It says that the body 34:52.000 --> 34:58.240 of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth, which means from that point forward, we should not serve 34:58.240 --> 35:02.480 sin. So you don't choose to serve sin while you're still in bondage to sin. You can choose not to 35:02.480 --> 35:06.560 serve sin after you make Jesus Christ your Lord. That's, I mean, that's even why we say this, right? 35:06.560 --> 35:07.600 that you make Jesus Christ your God. 35:07.600 --> 35:10.620 Like Jesus Christ when you believe on him, he becomes your Lord, right? 35:10.620 --> 35:15.620 He becomes your Lord and at that point you can choose to no longer walk in your flesh. 35:15.620 --> 35:20.900 You can choose to walk in the spirit instead. Go to 2nd Corinthians 11 verse number 3. 35:22.180 --> 35:28.000 2nd Corinthians 11 verse number 3. But the reason we make a big deal about this, okay? 35:28.600 --> 35:31.480 because sometimes it can sound a little bit like nitpicky, 35:31.480 --> 35:35.880 is because there are countless people out there that get very confused with this 35:35.880 --> 35:39.000 subject. And we meet people all the time out there around so many that are 35:39.000 --> 35:44.200 confused about this subject. Because the reality is there's a wide 35:44.200 --> 35:47.880 variety of beliefs on what it means to repent your sins. Because people say 35:47.880 --> 35:49.500 you get to repent your sins to be saved. 35:49.600 --> 35:51.600 And then it's like, but what do you mean by that though? 35:51.600 --> 35:54.640 Because here's the thing, and I give a disclaimer about this. 35:54.640 --> 35:59.040 Some people, when they say repent of your sins, what they mean is that you have to understand you're a sinner. 35:59.400 --> 36:04.800 Think that terminology is wrong, but that is true that you have to understand that you're a sinner to be saved 36:04.800 --> 36:07.680 There's no question about it that when the Bible I mean 36:07.680 --> 36:10.360 That's what we start our every gospel presentation with that we have out so many 36:10.840 --> 36:15.200 Romans 3 23 for all of sin and control the word of God because you have to know what you're getting saved from 36:15.540 --> 36:17.400 To get saved in the first place, right? 36:17.400 --> 36:21.720 You have to know what you're getting saved from in order to get saved and go to heaven 36:21.720 --> 36:27.260 So if people don't believe that they're a sinner, then they cannot be saved. This is 100% true. We understand this, right? 36:27.400 --> 36:33.540 But then there's other people that I've talked to and I disagree with this to the max where I would say 36:33.540 --> 36:36.260 I wouldn't even just say it's heresy that it just is heresy, okay? 36:36.260 --> 36:38.580 Me and my brother Anthony talked to this guy when we were down in Vancouver 36:38.580 --> 36:40.180 I brought this up a couple of Wednesdays ago I think 36:40.180 --> 36:46.200 But we talked to this guy who's a Russian and he was telling us that he repented of all this sins when he got saved 36:46.200 --> 36:51.200 And when I said, what do you mean by that? He said, I mean that I don't sin anymore 36:51.200 --> 36:55.360 And he was like straight-faced. He's not like, and he doesn't mean like I don't commit, you know 36:55.400 --> 37:00.240 big sins anymore. He means like I don't sin anymore. He was like because the Bible says 37:00.240 --> 37:03.000 that you have to repent of your sins. He was like and what does it mean to repent of your 37:03.000 --> 37:07.200 sins? It means to turn from them, to no longer do them is what he said. So he was telling 37:07.200 --> 37:10.360 us that from the time that he got saved, which I think he said he got saved when he was like 37:10.360 --> 37:14.440 18 or whatever, he was probably like 20 something at the time, he said he's now committed one 37:14.440 --> 37:19.960 sin since then. I mean that's just a straight up lie. That's not true. Nobody, nobody has 37:19.960 --> 37:23.400 overcome sin completely in their flesh not even 37:23.400 --> 37:25.360 and the apostle Paul has done that. 37:25.360 --> 37:28.340 And you guys are going to 2 Corinthians 11 verse number three. 37:28.340 --> 37:29.660 But I didn't want to give that disclaimer 37:29.660 --> 37:31.900 because when I say repent of your sins, 37:31.900 --> 37:33.940 it's important to understand that there's a wide variety 37:33.940 --> 37:34.960 of definitions out there. 37:34.960 --> 37:39.820 So that they're not all equal is what I'd say. 37:39.820 --> 37:41.740 Like thinking that you have to understand you're a sinner 37:41.740 --> 37:42.680 that's very logical, 37:42.680 --> 37:45.400 but trying to say that you don't commit sin anymore, 37:45.400 --> 37:46.940 and that's what you think it means to repent of your sins 37:46.940 --> 37:47.780 is garbage. 37:47.780 --> 37:49.820 It's simply not true, okay? 37:49.820 --> 37:51.400 But you guys are there in 2 Corinthians. 37:51.400 --> 37:56.700 11 verse number three the reason why though we distance ourself from this 37:56.700 --> 38:00.580 phrasing of repent of your sins is because it confuses people okay and the 38:00.580 --> 38:02.980 Bible teaches us that there's a simplicity in the gospel of Christ 38:02.980 --> 38:07.820 look at it says in second Corinthians 11.3 it says but I fear lest by any means as the 38:07.820 --> 38:10.980 serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety so your mind should be corrupted from 38:10.980 --> 38:16.220 the simplicity that is in Christ the beauty of the gospel is that it's simple 38:16.220 --> 38:19.400 to understand it's simple to obey it's simple to believe in 38:19.400 --> 38:23.200 And if God loves us so much, then he would make salvation easy for us, right? 38:23.200 --> 38:29.600 So we tell them all the time when we're not so only it's true. The gospel is simple. The gospel of Jesus Christ is simple 38:29.600 --> 38:31.280 There's a simplicity in Christ 38:31.280 --> 38:38.520 But when people add these phrases to the gospel it destroys some of the simplicity because it's confusing and and what I mean by it 38:38.520 --> 38:42.060 Being confusing is this is that my whole life I grew up in different Baptist churches 38:42.060 --> 38:47.240 And when I would ask people what they meant by what it means to repent of your sins. I got 38:47.400 --> 38:50.680 different answer every single time. Everyone has a different answer for what 38:50.680 --> 38:53.920 it means. Because some people that I talk to and I say what does it mean to repent 38:53.920 --> 38:57.840 from your sins? They'll say it means to turn from all of your 38:57.840 --> 39:02.640 sins. From all of your sins? Yes, from all of your sins. So then I ask them, so you 39:02.640 --> 39:06.600 don't sin anymore? No, I mean I still sin but I turn from my sins. It's like 39:06.600 --> 39:10.800 wait a minute though. It doesn't make any sense okay? Because think about this logically. 39:10.800 --> 39:15.400 When you turn from something, like if I were to say to you, I turned away from 39:15.400 --> 39:20.080 a life of crime. How many crimes do you think I'm committing then if I tell you that? Zero, 39:20.080 --> 39:24.120 right? So if I say I turned away from my sins, I turned away from a life of sin, how many 39:24.120 --> 39:28.360 sins am I really telling you that I commit then? It'd be zero, right? If you're actually 39:28.360 --> 39:33.080 like holding this definition to its fullest logical conclusion. Go to Romans 7 verse number 39:33.080 --> 39:37.080 25 though. Romans 7 verse number 25. 39:37.600 --> 39:41.500 Because this is the thing I was telling you like even with that Russian guy that I was talking to 39:41.920 --> 39:46.300 Nobody has fully turned from their sins because we all still sin every single day 39:46.300 --> 39:51.180 That's the reality in our flesh as long as we have our flesh. We will be sinners 39:51.180 --> 39:55.800 This is what the Bible teaches us. We are supposed to walk in the spirit and restrain our flesh 39:56.060 --> 39:58.160 But we don't always get this victory 39:58.160 --> 40:03.940 We don't always overcome our flesh even though God has given us the ability to do so and we see this with the Apostle 40:03.940 --> 40:05.600 Paul he says I think God 40:05.600 --> 40:10.520 Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God but 40:10.520 --> 40:14.320 with the flesh the law of sin. And this is why I was just talking about in 1st 40:14.320 --> 40:18.480 Corinthians why flesh and blood does not inherit the kingdom of God because your 40:18.480 --> 40:21.840 flesh is corrupt and your flesh stays corrupted till the day you die. That's 40:21.840 --> 40:26.000 why when we all die when he raises it again he gives us a new glorified body 40:26.000 --> 40:29.880 and that's why when the people that are still here for the rapture when they 40:29.880 --> 40:33.600 get raptured up their change is what it says their change from their sinful 40:33.600 --> 40:39.120 flesh to their glorified perfect body. And so even Paul, the apostle, who's one 40:39.120 --> 40:42.720 of the greatest Christians there is, says that he struggled with serving 40:42.720 --> 40:46.840 God and with his flesh serving the law of sin. And if we're all being honest, we 40:46.840 --> 40:49.940 all struggle with sin. I mean anybody that would tell me that they just don't 40:49.940 --> 40:53.960 say anymore is just a straight-up liar. John tells us this. He says if we say we 40:53.960 --> 40:57.600 have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us is what he says. 40:57.600 --> 41:00.200 So we all sin. 41:00.200 --> 41:03.600 being born again, we are made a new creature. 41:03.600 --> 41:05.000 In Jesus Christ, our new man is perfect, 41:05.000 --> 41:06.360 but our flesh is never perfect. 41:06.360 --> 41:08.680 That's why we have to drop our flesh 41:08.680 --> 41:11.440 and get the glorified body one day. 41:11.440 --> 41:13.040 Go to James 2, verse number 10 though, 41:13.040 --> 41:15.360 James 2, verse number 10, 41:15.360 --> 41:18.680 because the reality is that we should try to walk 41:18.680 --> 41:21.240 in the spirit and this should not be a license to sin. 41:21.240 --> 41:22.960 I mean, I'll just pause that right there and say this, 41:22.960 --> 41:25.920 that some people do just use their flesh as like a license 41:25.920 --> 41:27.240 to just go and live wickedly 41:27.240 --> 41:28.200 and just kind of throw their hands in the air. 41:28.200 --> 41:30.360 and be like, well, we're all gonna see at the end of the day. 41:30.360 --> 41:32.520 That should not be your attitude for sin though. 41:32.520 --> 41:36.280 We should constantly strive to get every single thing 41:36.280 --> 41:38.520 that we perceive and that we understand to be sinful 41:38.520 --> 41:39.480 out of our lives. 41:39.480 --> 41:42.760 There's no excuse for it because Jesus Christ died 41:42.760 --> 41:45.640 so that we no longer have to be servants to sin. 41:45.640 --> 41:47.320 So he says to walk in the spirit. 41:47.320 --> 41:48.840 And if you call Jesus Christ, Lord, Lord, 41:48.840 --> 41:50.280 he says, if you call me Lord, Lord, 41:50.280 --> 41:51.480 why don't you do the things that I say? 41:52.280 --> 41:54.440 Because how ironic is it to call Jesus Christ your Lord, 41:54.440 --> 41:55.880 to call Jesus Christ your master. 41:55.880 --> 41:56.200 And 41:56.200 --> 41:58.240 and then not serve him like he is your master. 41:58.240 --> 41:59.560 It's nonsense, right? 41:59.560 --> 42:02.520 So this should never be a license to sin. 42:02.520 --> 42:06.080 But the reality is, is that you have not arrived, 42:06.080 --> 42:07.480 the apostle Paul didn't arrive. 42:07.480 --> 42:10.300 Nobody will fully conquer. 42:10.400 --> 42:14.780 They're sending their flesh to the point where they never send until they did it. I actually get say this is just not true 42:14.780 --> 42:17.220 Because people tell stories about that like I got saved 42:17.220 --> 42:22.780 I just lost all my desire for everything since then no you didn't do it's it's a lie. I don't believe it 42:22.780 --> 42:26.860 Okay, maybe you lost a desire for some of the bigger sins you have but there's no way you just like woke up 42:26.860 --> 42:28.500 And we're like, you know what? 42:28.600 --> 42:32.520 I'm just not gonna do anything bad anymore because this breaks this analogy with the Bible anyways 42:32.520 --> 42:37.880 because the Bible says that when you get saved you're a babe in Christ. Do babies just turn over 42:37.880 --> 42:41.800 and leave and they do everything perfect from the get-go? No, they have to grow up, they have to 42:41.800 --> 42:46.280 learn, they have to struggle. So the same is true with us as Christians as well and like some people 42:46.280 --> 42:50.840 might like do better than others at getting sin out of their life earlier when they get saved 42:50.840 --> 42:55.960 but the reality is is that nobody just wakes up and is all of a sudden perfect. It's not real okay 42:55.960 --> 42:56.600 but this is the 42:56.600 --> 42:59.720 second thing because I'll say when you push back on that and be like you have to turn from all 42:59.720 --> 43:01.240 sides and then they'll be like well... 43:01.600 --> 43:04.600 not all sins, but you have to turn from your big sins, okay? 43:04.600 --> 43:07.400 The big sins, it's like, who's the judge of that, okay? 43:07.400 --> 43:09.000 Because this is what I found with people is that 43:09.000 --> 43:11.500 people think that whatever sins they're doing, 43:11.500 --> 43:13.000 this is always the truth of humanity, 43:13.000 --> 43:14.700 whatever sins you're doing, they like, 43:14.700 --> 43:18.000 oh, that's a minor sin, but then someone else's sin, 43:18.000 --> 43:19.800 they're like, oh, that's huge, right? 43:19.800 --> 43:22.900 But like, if you're not, you know, 43:22.900 --> 43:26.100 on alcohol, looking at pornography or doing drugs, 43:26.100 --> 43:27.800 you're like, those are really big sins. 43:27.800 --> 43:29.000 But then if someone is doing those things, 43:29.000 --> 43:29.600 and they'd be like... 43:29.600 --> 43:34.120 Whoa, those aren't big sense though. It's it's murder and adultery and for a case in that are big sins 43:34.120 --> 43:36.200 It's like okay who's but this is the reality 43:36.200 --> 43:40.360 That's why I'm here in James 2 10 and I'm not saying that all sins equal because all sin is not equal 43:40.400 --> 43:42.400 That's not what Bible teaches us the Bible 43:42.440 --> 43:46.360 All sin is equal in the sense that it'll all condemn us to hell if you have one sin 43:46.600 --> 43:53.520 But God does not see you murdering someone and you lying to someone as being just the exact same thing 43:53.520 --> 43:57.600 That's why there's different classifications of death penalties in the Old Testament. That's why 43:57.600 --> 44:00.660 there's different punishments for sin. That's why some sins in the New Testament 44:00.660 --> 44:03.700 get you kicked out of church and other sins you can still stay in the church if 44:03.700 --> 44:06.780 you put in those sins. Okay so I just pointed out to you but look what it says 44:06.780 --> 44:09.420 there in James 2 because talk about turning from only your big sins. It says 44:09.420 --> 44:13.900 for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offended one point he is guilty 44:13.900 --> 44:18.740 of all. If this is true then why would it be that I only have to turn from my big 44:18.740 --> 44:20.000 sins to be saved? 44:20.200 --> 44:21.960 That doesn't make sense, okay? 44:21.960 --> 44:24.000 And what if you try to turn from your big sense 44:24.000 --> 44:25.840 and then you fall back to them later on in your life? 44:25.840 --> 44:27.240 Did you not really repent then? 44:27.240 --> 44:29.360 And it's like, how many sins did the thief on the cross 44:29.360 --> 44:30.600 repent of when he got saved? 44:30.600 --> 44:32.040 It's like, there's just so many things. 44:32.040 --> 44:33.440 Like, that's what I'm trying to show you guys 44:33.440 --> 44:35.560 is that when you add this to the gospel, 44:35.560 --> 44:37.920 it just opens up so many more questions 44:37.920 --> 44:40.160 and so much more confusion than the simplicity 44:40.160 --> 44:42.520 that it's supposed to be in Jesus Christ. 44:43.300 --> 44:46.420 But because and then like I brought the thing on the cross because that's a big one 44:46.420 --> 44:49.440 I'll be like how many sins did he repent of and they'll be like well, okay. Here's the thing 44:49.900 --> 44:52.900 It's kind of like what that Catholic guy just told Kylie when she was out so wanting. 44:52.900 --> 44:56.500 It's like, you have to be willing to turn from your sins. 44:56.500 --> 44:57.800 Willing to turn from your sins. 44:57.800 --> 45:02.100 It's like, I just think it's like, I don't even know what that means, first of all. 45:02.100 --> 45:06.200 But second of all, even if you were to say, okay, it's like, that's not what Jesus says though. 45:06.200 --> 45:09.700 Because again, when I believe that when Jesus Christ says, repent, believe the gospel, 45:09.700 --> 45:12.000 I don't think he's talking about your sins at all, period. 45:12.000 --> 45:17.400 But even if you were to say that right there, he doesn't say to be willing to repent and believe. 45:17.400 --> 45:17.900 He says. 45:17.900 --> 45:25.140 Repent and believe the gospel so you can't have it both ways right there and like a like a willingness not to say anymore 45:25.800 --> 45:27.500 That's not actually what's found in the Bible 45:27.500 --> 45:27.940 Okay 45:27.940 --> 45:33.760 Because in our flesh we all want to send especially before you even get saved in the first place people want to sin 45:33.760 --> 45:40.480 Okay, they want to live in their flesh go to Romans 1 16 the Romans 1 verse number 16 all these things like I said again 45:40.480 --> 45:42.300 I'm showing you these things because 45:42.600 --> 45:47.320 When you add repentance of your sins to the gospel, it adds confusion. 45:47.320 --> 45:52.200 And God is not the author of confusion. God is a God of simplicity, and there's a simplicity in 45:52.200 --> 45:57.400 the gospel of Christ and in Jesus Christ himself. And this is the simplicity that's the gospel. 45:57.400 --> 46:01.560 That if you believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and you put your 46:01.560 --> 46:05.480 faith on Jesus Christ, you call upon the name of the Lord to be saved, you are saved. This is what 46:05.480 --> 46:10.440 the Bible teaches us. Romans 1-16, it says, for I am not a shade of the gospel of Christ, 46:10.600 --> 46:13.340 for it is the power of God unto salvation 46:13.340 --> 46:16.220 to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first, 46:16.220 --> 46:17.620 and also to the Greek. 46:17.620 --> 46:21.060 In 1 Corinthians 15 verse one it says, 46:21.060 --> 46:24.060 moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel 46:24.060 --> 46:26.260 which I preach unto you, which also you have received 46:26.260 --> 46:28.220 and wherein you stand, by which also you are saved 46:28.220 --> 46:30.500 if you keep in memory what I preach unto you 46:30.500 --> 46:31.840 unless you bleed in vain. 46:31.840 --> 46:32.980 For I deliver unto you first of all 46:32.980 --> 46:34.620 that which I also received, how that Christ died 46:34.620 --> 46:36.000 for our sins according to the scriptures, 46:36.000 --> 46:38.060 and that he was buried, and that he rose again 46:38.060 --> 46:38.600 the third day. 46:38.600 --> 46:44.500 According to the scriptures the Bible says the person that believes these things they will call upon the name of Lord doesn't we've been 46:44.500 --> 46:48.140 Discussed about Romans 10 with the one at the will they will call upon the name of Lord for salvation 46:48.140 --> 46:53.200 And it says for whosoever shall call upon the name of Lord shall be saved the person that calls will be saved 46:53.200 --> 46:58.300 That's what and the Bible says I believe therefore I've spoken the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaking 46:58.460 --> 47:00.740 so these things like 47:01.520 --> 47:06.600 These things are are all true and all biblical and hopefully I prove that to you so far in 47:06.600 --> 47:11.520 this sermon, okay? But then all this argument that I've given for against 47:11.520 --> 47:14.600 repent of your sins, I want to give some pushback from objections that I've heard 47:14.600 --> 47:18.280 from myself from people that that don't agree with you. Okay, go to Luke three 47:18.600 --> 47:22.400 verse number three, because some people when they'll tell us when we will tell 47:22.400 --> 47:26.000 them like we believe in repentance, but not repenting of your sins to be saved. 47:26.400 --> 47:32.400 And then when we tell them, hey, no, we understand, like, you have to understand your sin, but we don't believe that that's what repenting your sins means. 47:32.400 --> 47:36.400 That they'll say, well, what about John? Because John preached repentance. 47:36.400 --> 47:48.400 John, or yeah, Luke three, verse number three, the Bible says, and he said, and he came into all the country about Jordan preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. 47:48.400 --> 47:53.400 So was John preaching repentance? He absolutely was, right? He's preaching repentance. 47:53.400 --> 47:54.400 I mean, you see this all the time. 47:54.400 --> 47:57.400 in all the gospels, right, that he's preaching about repentance, that... 47:57.800 --> 48:01.320 that but what is he teaching these people that's that's the key okay go to 48:01.320 --> 48:04.600 acts 19 verse number two because we agree that john is 48:04.600 --> 48:07.000 repeating preaching repentance because like i was just telling you earlier we 48:07.000 --> 48:08.920 preach repentance when we go out so many 48:08.920 --> 48:12.600 we tell people if you don't believe on jesus christ 48:12.600 --> 48:15.400 you need to change your mind you need to believe on the gospel jesus christ 48:15.400 --> 48:18.760 that is repentance we're telling them to change your mind we're telling them to 48:18.760 --> 48:21.720 turn from whatever they trust in and to trust in jesus christ 48:21.720 --> 48:24.840 instead but here's the thing about john because people be like that's not what 48:24.840 --> 48:25.800 what John was teaching the bull. 48:25.800 --> 48:28.680 Oh, but it was what John was teaching people because look what it says in Acts 19 48:28.680 --> 48:33.880 This is Paul describing and I think it's beautiful that the the New Testament like lays this out so beautifully for us 48:33.880 --> 48:38.960 It says he said unto them have you received the Holy Ghost since he believed and they said unto him 48:38.960 --> 48:42.760 We have not so much as her would there be any Holy Ghost and he said unto them unto 48:43.200 --> 48:49.040 What then were you baptized and they said unto John's baptism then said Paul and look what he says 48:49.600 --> 48:55.460 John barely baptized with the baptism of repentance saying into the people that they should believe on him 48:55.460 --> 48:58.160 Which should come after him that is on Christ Jesus 48:58.160 --> 49:03.440 So what was John preaching to people to believe on Jesus Christ and we see this in the teaching of the gospel, right? 49:03.440 --> 49:10.020 He's like, hey, I'm just the I'm just the bridegroom. He's like but the actual groom which is Jesus Christ 49:10.020 --> 49:16.140 He's the one you guys have to believe on he's like I'm there's one coming that's that's that's mightier than I he says whose 49:16.880 --> 49:17.600 shoes 49:17.600 --> 49:24.840 Latchett who sandals actually he's not even worthy to unloose he's pointing them to Jesus Christ and then think about John in his ministry 49:24.980 --> 49:26.040 What was his whole goal? 49:26.040 --> 49:31.400 It was to prepare the way for the Lord says to make a highway to the Lord and it's to turn the heart to the father 49:31.400 --> 49:33.340 So the children of children's hearts to their fathers 49:33.340 --> 49:38.440 That's what it says and the old cousin prophecies of in Malachi believe that were that time and Isaiah is where it's at respectively 49:38.440 --> 49:45.580 Okay, so John was teaching people what to repent to repent how though by believing on Jesus Christ. That's how that's 49:45.600 --> 49:47.360 what he was teaching these people. 49:47.360 --> 49:48.600 And you can't argue with that 49:48.600 --> 49:50.280 because that's what the text itself says. 49:50.280 --> 49:53.460 That's the apostle Paul who's saying this in Acts 19. 49:53.460 --> 49:54.920 But as a little side note, 49:54.920 --> 49:56.640 a little commercial break from repentance, 49:56.640 --> 49:58.160 this should also show us in this passage, 49:58.160 --> 49:59.800 a beautiful passage that... 49:59.900 --> 50:02.300 you do not have to be baptized to be saved, okay? 50:02.300 --> 50:05.100 And then baptism doesn't forgive you of your sins 50:05.100 --> 50:07.420 because these people were baptized 50:07.420 --> 50:09.900 and they were not saved, we say in this story. 50:09.900 --> 50:11.580 They have to get saved first 50:11.580 --> 50:13.660 and then he baptizes them again. 50:13.660 --> 50:15.180 That's where we get our name from as Baptists 50:15.180 --> 50:17.100 is we were just telling this woman at the door yesterday. 50:17.100 --> 50:19.580 They called us Anabaptists, which means what? 50:19.580 --> 50:21.180 To rebaptize, right? 50:21.180 --> 50:21.660 Why? 50:21.660 --> 50:22.940 Because we looked at the Catholic church 50:22.940 --> 50:24.220 and their baptism was like, hey, 50:24.220 --> 50:25.580 sprinkling isn't baptism. 50:25.580 --> 50:27.660 You gotta dunk someone under the water and- 50:27.900 --> 50:31.340 and sprinkling a baby that doesn't believe on Jesus Christ doesn't mean anything, 50:31.340 --> 50:36.300 you actually have to believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is your Lord and your Savior and his gospel 50:36.300 --> 50:39.500 for your baptism to count is what these verses show us. 50:39.500 --> 50:43.100 So it absolutely smokes this idea that infant baptism is a thing. 50:44.220 --> 50:49.500 Because these people, this shows us that you have to understand why you're being baptized in the first place for it to count. 50:50.500 --> 50:53.700 And baptism, as I said, doesn't have to do with salvation. 50:53.700 --> 50:56.500 Not the water baptism, but this is the baptism you need for salvation, 50:56.500 --> 50:57.940 the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 50:57.940 --> 50:59.020 This is what John also says. 50:59.020 --> 51:01.300 He's like, hey, I baptize you guys with water. 51:01.300 --> 51:04.420 He's like, but there's one that's coming after me that's going to baptize you with fire 51:04.420 --> 51:05.900 and with the Holy Ghost. 51:05.900 --> 51:08.100 So that's the baptism you need to be saved. 51:08.100 --> 51:10.100 And the fire is hell, obviously, right? 51:10.100 --> 51:12.380 To be baptized in fires to go to hell. 51:12.380 --> 51:14.900 But the baptism of the Holy Ghost is to be saved. 51:14.900 --> 51:18.420 Because in Romans, he tells us that the kingdom of God is righteousness, joy, and peace. 51:18.500 --> 51:25.220 peace in the Holy Ghost. Go to 2 Corinthians 7 verse 9. Ok, 2 Corinthians 7 verse number 51:25.220 --> 51:28.780 9. This should also show us while you guys are turning there as well, I want to point 51:28.780 --> 51:34.380 out to you, that this should show us that we will have people that are false converts 51:34.380 --> 51:37.940 from time to time out-soul-wanting, ok? Because sometimes people will criticize our numbers, 51:37.940 --> 51:42.660 like we put the number in the bulletin for salvation, like we have 121 right now out-soul-wanting, 51:42.660 --> 51:44.300 Sometimes they criticize us, people be like... 51:44.300 --> 51:47.300 Do you really believe all 120 of those people got saved? 51:47.300 --> 51:49.800 It's like the reality is like, we don't know, okay? 51:49.800 --> 51:51.300 Like, this is what we know. 51:51.300 --> 51:54.300 Is that the Bible commands us to go out and preach the gospel 51:54.300 --> 51:56.800 and the Bible says if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus 51:56.800 --> 51:58.800 and believe in that heart that God raised from the dead, that shall be saved. 51:58.800 --> 52:02.300 So when someone prays and calls upon the name of the Lord with us out-soulening, 52:02.300 --> 52:03.600 we assume that they're saved. 52:03.600 --> 52:08.600 Now, we can't look into their heart and judge, like, I can't look at every 121, 52:08.600 --> 52:11.800 every 121 of those persons on our bulletin and be like, 52:11.800 --> 52:12.300 I'm 52:12.300 --> 52:14.460 I guarantee every single one of them are saved. 52:14.460 --> 52:16.700 But this is what I do know, is that some of them are getting saved. 52:16.700 --> 52:20.760 And I know this because we have people in this church that came from us going out and 52:20.760 --> 52:22.060 preaching the gospel to them. 52:22.060 --> 52:24.860 Brother Kyle got saved by, were you brother Ryan, right? 52:24.860 --> 52:25.860 Out souling. 52:25.860 --> 52:29.500 Miss Amanda and Callie got saved out souling. 52:29.500 --> 52:31.620 Miss Shanika got saved when she was out souling. 52:31.620 --> 52:35.900 Brother Aaron, who hopefully is going to come back here pretty soon, okay, was going, but 52:35.900 --> 52:36.900 now it's going to a different church. 52:36.900 --> 52:39.540 And then Miss Larissa as well, even though she's not coming here, she's going to a different 52:39.540 --> 52:40.300 church. 52:40.300 --> 52:42.800 We see the fruit of people getting saved out so many. 52:42.800 --> 52:44.800 It's just not always that people come in droves, 52:44.800 --> 52:46.040 but this shouldn't surprise us either 52:46.040 --> 52:49.040 because not even Jesus had 100% success rate 52:49.040 --> 52:50.400 of people coming back to him. 52:50.400 --> 52:52.000 Even think about the story with the lepers. 52:52.000 --> 52:54.360 Like he heals 10 lepers, 52:54.360 --> 52:56.400 but how many come back to give him thanks? 52:56.400 --> 52:57.240 One of them. 52:57.240 --> 52:58.280 And he's like, where's the nine? 52:58.280 --> 52:59.800 And it's the question we ask ourselves sometimes. 52:59.800 --> 53:01.120 We're like, where's everybody else at? 53:01.120 --> 53:03.320 Jesus Christ gave you the free gift of salvation. 53:03.320 --> 53:04.400 Why aren't you coming back to church 53:04.400 --> 53:07.440 and at least worshiping him and thanking him for it? 53:07.440 --> 53:08.300 But we don't always know. 53:08.300 --> 53:10.640 people's minds. We don't always know why they don't do these things, but this is 53:10.640 --> 53:14.040 what I know is that Jesus healed 10 lepers and only one of them came back. 53:14.040 --> 53:18.300 And Jesus is perfect in everything that he does. So we don't always know... 53:18.400 --> 53:23.680 why it is that people don't just come in droves to our church even after they get saved. 53:23.680 --> 53:26.880 I can give you a good hint though, it's because like I said, they're babes of Christ 53:26.880 --> 53:30.320 and they have their flesh still and then they live in and Lord willing though, 53:31.600 --> 53:34.800 then they get convicted by the Holy Spirit in their heart and they eventually start to move in 53:34.800 --> 53:38.400 the right direction and sometimes it just takes time for people. Like I've told you with my dad 53:38.400 --> 53:42.480 before, when he first got saved he didn't just immediately go to church, he got saved at a Chinese 53:42.480 --> 53:46.240 food restaurant. Someone preaching the gospel, praise God for that, super awesome. His testimony is 53:46.400 --> 53:48.240 super awesome, okay? 53:48.240 --> 53:49.440 But he didn't go to church right away, 53:49.440 --> 53:50.720 and then when he did come to church, 53:50.720 --> 53:51.680 I think it was like a year later, 53:51.680 --> 53:53.680 if my memory serves me right, 53:53.680 --> 53:56.720 he came to church in these basketball short shorts, 53:56.720 --> 53:57.920 the old school ones, okay? 53:57.920 --> 53:59.720 It's like, whoa, okay. 53:59.720 --> 54:00.840 Yeah, don't imagine it, okay? 54:00.840 --> 54:01.800 It's crazy, okay? 54:01.800 --> 54:03.960 And then a blazer's jersey that he had on, 54:03.960 --> 54:05.480 and then he goes to the pastor of the sermon 54:05.480 --> 54:08.560 and is like, hey, what do you think about casting out demons? 54:08.560 --> 54:11.200 It's like, what can you expect though? 54:11.200 --> 54:12.320 He's a babe in Christ, right? 54:12.320 --> 54:14.300 So this is what you should understand is that... 54:14.700 --> 54:17.740 Sometimes people that we get saved out so they might not come to our church 54:17.740 --> 54:22.640 But they probably go to some other church or even if they don't this is what we know is that when someone believes 54:22.640 --> 54:24.780 It's the gospel that's power salvation 54:24.780 --> 54:28.460 And we can't always we can't always tell who gets saved and who doesn't get saved 54:28.460 --> 54:33.660 But we know that God knows and we know this that if anybody if we go out and preach the gospel and even one person 54:33.660 --> 54:37.420 Out of those 121 people got saved it was all worth it in the end though 54:38.100 --> 54:40.320 because because the the angels 54:40.980 --> 54:42.700 rejoice over one sinner that 54:42.700 --> 54:47.740 repentance is what the Bible teaches us. So anyways, you guys are there in 2 Corinthians 54:47.740 --> 54:54.540 7 verse number 9. So all that to say is that what was John telling people? He was preaching 54:54.540 --> 54:57.740 them to repent, but the repentance that he was teaching them was to believe on him that 54:57.740 --> 55:02.460 was to come after, and that was on Jesus Christ. The second objection sometimes that people 55:02.460 --> 55:06.940 say to what we believe about repentance is in 2 Corinthians 7, 9 it says 55:07.400 --> 55:24.100 Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrow to repentance for you were made sorry after a godly sort that you might receive damage by us and nothing for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 55:24.100 --> 55:30.800 This is another definition sometimes that people will add to the repentance list that I covered this earlier, but they'll say what it means to repent of your sins. 55:30.800 --> 55:33.300 It means to be really, really, really sorry for your sins. 55:33.300 --> 55:34.600 Like how sorry? 55:35.100 --> 55:37.500 They're not gonna give you an exact answer because how can you okay? 55:37.500 --> 55:41.140 But at least you'd have at least one tear okay, or you didn't really believe on just credit 55:41.140 --> 55:47.260 Not really okay, but there are some people that are like kind of I don't know they'll like judge someone's salvation out 55:47.260 --> 55:50.240 So wanting like well if they cried then I know that they actually got saved 55:50.240 --> 55:54.480 It's like okay, did you really though because sometimes people put on a show, but anyways okay 55:54.480 --> 55:58.380 not to say that some people don't cry when they can say some people do okay, but I'm bringing this up because 55:59.400 --> 56:04.600 Some people when it comes to repentance of your sins, their definition is that you have to be really sorry for your sins. 56:04.600 --> 56:06.800 And this is the verse that they use for it. 56:06.800 --> 56:12.200 Now, I'm going to address this verse proper in a second, but the first thing I want to point out to you about these verses is this. 56:12.200 --> 56:15.000 Is that this is not talking about spiritual salvation. 56:15.000 --> 56:16.800 And there's there is no argument about this. 56:16.800 --> 56:21.900 Okay, because look at what the Bible says in verse number eight of this passage. 56:21.900 --> 56:24.300 And by the way, that's a bold statement, but I will prove this to you. 56:24.300 --> 56:24.700 Be honest. 56:24.700 --> 56:27.340 There's not a question about this. 56:27.400 --> 56:30.400 is that I'll demonstrate it to you from the Bible. 56:30.400 --> 56:33.900 But you need to know the context of this chapter, okay? 56:33.900 --> 56:35.300 And what is the context of 2 Corinthians? 56:35.300 --> 56:37.400 It's this, is that in 1 Corinthians, 56:37.400 --> 56:38.900 there was a man that was committing fornication 56:38.900 --> 56:40.900 with his father's wife at the church. 56:40.900 --> 56:42.000 And Paul says... 56:42.600 --> 56:44.380 get that bozo out of here, okay? 56:44.380 --> 56:45.480 He says, that's in the Greek, okay? 56:45.480 --> 56:46.720 In English, it's like, you know, 56:46.720 --> 56:48.000 to deliver him unto Satan, okay? 56:48.000 --> 56:50.720 But they kick this fornicator in the church, 56:50.720 --> 56:53.640 he's a wicked person, and Paul rebukes him very harshly, 56:53.640 --> 56:55.160 and then he rebukes the rest of the church 56:55.160 --> 56:56.240 very harshly as well, because he's like, 56:56.240 --> 56:58.040 what are you guys doing with this guy in your church? 56:58.040 --> 56:59.120 And he said that they're puffed up, 56:59.120 --> 57:01.560 like, it doesn't tell us exactly how they were puffed up, 57:01.560 --> 57:04.600 but you can only imagine that they're probably like, 57:04.600 --> 57:06.920 look how loving we are, we have this nasty, 57:06.920 --> 57:09.520 disgusting fornicator with his father's wife in our church, 57:09.520 --> 57:10.600 like, look how loving we are. 57:10.600 --> 57:13.440 to not judge this guy and let him come to church with us. 57:13.440 --> 57:15.480 He's like, you're not loving, get him out of the church. 57:15.480 --> 57:17.080 He says, because a little leaven, 57:17.080 --> 57:18.240 leaven it the whole lump. 57:18.240 --> 57:21.080 And when you allow certain types of sin in the church, 57:21.080 --> 57:23.160 like fornication, it corrupts the whole lump, 57:23.160 --> 57:24.000 is what the Bible teaches us. 57:24.000 --> 57:25.200 So you have to get him out. 57:25.200 --> 57:26.700 is what he teaches, okay? 57:26.700 --> 57:28.440 That's what he kinda leads up into this context, 57:28.440 --> 57:30.840 and then right here he begins to explain 57:30.840 --> 57:33.480 his thought process behind writing this original letter, 57:33.480 --> 57:34.640 okay, because look what it says in verse number eight. 57:34.640 --> 57:37.240 It says, for though I made you sorry with a letter, 57:37.240 --> 57:39.640 I do not repent, though I did repent. 57:39.640 --> 57:41.180 For I perceive that the same epistle 57:41.180 --> 57:44.780 have made you sorry, though it were but for a season. 57:44.780 --> 57:47.860 So Paul feels bad, and I can relate to him sometimes. 57:47.860 --> 57:48.960 Sometimes when you're a preacher 57:48.960 --> 57:50.560 and you're ripping on things, it makes you feel bad. 57:50.560 --> 57:53.200 You're like, don't look at me when I'm ripping on you, okay? 57:53.200 --> 57:58.420 Like I don't know like it's like I feel like it's like in our human nature sometimes like you we want to preach against sin 57:58.420 --> 58:01.020 But then like you also love the people in the room with you 58:01.020 --> 58:05.720 So you don't want to you know, and this is probably just not a good feeling all the time 58:05.720 --> 58:08.320 But sometimes just like I don't want to just like make them feel like trash 58:08.320 --> 58:10.420 I mean, this is how Paul feels right here, right? 58:10.420 --> 58:15.500 He says I repented at first he's like but he's like then I didn't repent and he's like why because he's like because he sees 58:15.500 --> 58:20.320 The work that it brought in them, right? So this attitude you have to have when you're preaching but he says in verse number 11 58:20.320 --> 58:21.200 he says 58:21.200 --> 58:23.360 For behold, this self same thing that you saw 58:23.360 --> 58:26.280 after a godly sword, what carefulness it brought in you, 58:26.280 --> 58:27.520 yea, what clearing of yourselves, 58:27.520 --> 58:29.680 yea, what aggrimation, yea, what fear, 58:29.680 --> 58:31.880 yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, 58:31.880 --> 58:34.380 yea, what revenge and all these things, 58:34.380 --> 58:37.440 you have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 58:37.440 --> 58:38.380 In what matter? 58:38.380 --> 58:40.040 The matter with the fornicator, that's what he's talking about. 58:40.040 --> 58:41.080 In looking verse 12, he proves that. 58:41.080 --> 58:45.000 He says, wherefore I thought, though I wrote unto you, 58:45.000 --> 58:47.560 I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, 58:47.560 --> 58:49.200 that's the fornicator, nor for his... 58:49.200 --> 58:54.520 cause that suffered wrong. That's the Father, okay? But that our care for you in the sight 58:54.520 --> 58:59.000 of God might appear unto you. Why am I bringing this all up to you though? Because you might 58:59.000 --> 59:02.900 like, am I just rabbit trailing? I'm not though. I'm bringing this all up to you to show you 59:02.900 --> 59:06.280 that when Paul is preaching this to these people, he's not talking about their salvation 59:06.280 --> 59:10.680 right here. He's talking about their reaction to his rebuke in the first letter that he 59:10.680 --> 59:14.720 wrote them. And he says, because they sorrowed after a godly sword, they didn't just take 59:14.720 --> 59:17.200 if you can be like, oh, Paul is so mean. 59:17.200 --> 59:21.520 Why would he do this to us? Why he could have been nicer with how he delivered this message and said they took us 59:21.520 --> 59:25.000 They're like we are messing up and they get right with God is what he says right here 59:25.000 --> 59:28.480 It says they bring them them revenge and desire and behemoth desire 59:28.480 --> 59:32.880 It says that he brings them zeal and that's because they're sorrowing after a godly sorrow 59:33.080 --> 59:37.680 Which that would be a whole good summer preach on that just there's a difference in sorrows by the way 59:37.680 --> 59:37.920 Okay 59:37.920 --> 59:38.400 a 59:38.400 --> 59:44.240 Godly sorrow is a sorrow that turns it back to God and doesn't make it all about you like you like think with yourself like 59:44.320 --> 59:45.200 I've been away 59:45.200 --> 59:49.600 person and I'm sorry to you God because how this has been affecting you. 59:49.800 --> 59:56.120 A worldly sorrow is just the woe is me attitude. Oh, everything's terrible. I am such a bad person 59:56.400 --> 01:00:00.920 I'm such a terrible person. I'm so wicked. I'm so evil and they just like I don't know how to even extract 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:06.420 But people use that to like it's like a reverse thing that they do and they like boost themselves up almost to buy degrading 01:00:06.420 --> 01:00:09.840 This I was very weird. Okay, I can't articulate that probably but I'm sure you guys know I'm talking about 01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:14.860 Okay, but anyways, okay. This is what he's talking about is their response to that not about the gospel 01:00:14.860 --> 01:00:17.580 How do we know this because go to first Corinthians like I said? 01:00:17.800 --> 01:00:18.600 This is not debatable. 01:00:18.600 --> 01:00:20.440 This is obvious to prove in the Bible. 01:00:20.440 --> 01:00:23.480 Go to 1 Corinthians 1 verse number two 01:00:23.480 --> 01:00:26.120 that these people did not get saved right here. 01:00:26.120 --> 01:00:28.520 These people are already saved that he's talking to. 01:00:28.520 --> 01:00:31.920 It's demonstrable in multiple assets of 1 Corinthians. 01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:34.680 Look at 1 Corinthians 1 verse number two. 01:00:34.680 --> 01:00:37.560 It says, unto the church of God, which is at Corinth, 01:00:37.560 --> 01:00:40.120 to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus 01:00:40.120 --> 01:00:41.440 called to be saints. 01:00:41.440 --> 01:00:43.480 Look what it says, called to be saints 01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:45.640 with all that in every place. 01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:48.920 upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours. Now go to 1st 01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:51.960 Corinthians 3 verse number one because that's a little bit broad but he makes 01:00:51.960 --> 01:00:57.600 it more specific. 1st Corinthians 3 verse number one it says, and I brethren 01:00:57.600 --> 01:01:01.600 brethren could not speak unto you as an spiritual but as an incarnal even as unto 01:01:01.600 --> 01:01:05.760 babes in Christ which explains their behavior quite well doesn't it? Why is 01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:07.920 he having to repeat them so harshly because they're acting like babes in 01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:10.400 Christ at this church. They're not operating how they should be as 01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:13.800 mature Christians. Go to chapter number four verse number 15 like I said it's 01:01:13.800 --> 01:01:17.320 multiple verses that shows this. A baby in crisis, someone who's already saved, we understand this, 01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:21.800 he called them brethren as well. Verse number 15, 1 Corinthians 4.15 it says, 01:01:22.600 --> 01:01:28.120 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you have not many fathers for in Christ Jesus 01:01:28.120 --> 01:01:32.880 I have begotten you through the gospel. What does that mean? It means he got these people say preaching in the gospel 01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:38.440 That's what it means and he calls them he calls them babes in Christ for that reason and obviously with the Bible says called 01:01:38.440 --> 01:01:40.940 No man your father. So that's not what he's trying to say here, but he's saying like that he 01:01:41.740 --> 01:01:47.280 Fathered them in the gospel people. He begat them in the gospel by preaching it to them first Corinthians 6 11 as well 01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:50.380 Okay, this is the last verse I'll show you but I'm just trying to show you that this is obvious 01:01:50.600 --> 01:01:51.680 that these people are already saved. 01:01:51.680 --> 01:01:54.320 Like there's no question about this in this chapter, okay? 01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:56.500 1 Corinthians 6, 11 it says, 01:01:56.500 --> 01:01:59.360 and such were some of you, but ye are washed, 01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:01.640 but you are sanctified, but you're justified 01:02:01.640 --> 01:02:03.940 in the name of Jesus, of the Lord Jesus, 01:02:03.940 --> 01:02:05.360 and by the Spirit of our God. 01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:07.880 I mean, can you argue that these people are not saved? 01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:09.840 They very obviously are saved. 01:02:12.100 --> 01:02:18.100 Where I had you guys at, 1 Corinthians 6 verse number 11, okay, go to 2 Corinthians 7, 10 again, okay? 01:02:18.100 --> 01:02:21.100 Back there, I tried to keep your finger there, but I didn't. 01:02:21.100 --> 01:02:25.100 2 Corinthians 7 verse number 10, okay? 01:02:25.100 --> 01:02:29.000 These people were clearly saved, and to say, because I want you to also think while you're coming back there. 01:02:29.200 --> 01:02:32.800 If you think that these people are getting saved because of what Paul's writing to them, 01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:36.320 and considering the matter of kicking this guy out, that is a workspace salvation. 01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:42.080 That'd be saying that they're saved based on the fact that they kicked this fornicator out 01:02:42.080 --> 01:02:45.680 and that they got right as a church. That's not how salvation works. 01:02:46.240 --> 01:02:49.600 They got on fire for God, it seems like, and praise God for that, 01:02:49.600 --> 01:02:53.280 because they saw after a godly sword and didn't just sulk in themselves, 01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:57.040 but they did not get saved right here, okay? But back there in Synchro Deeds... 01:02:57.200 --> 01:03:00.200 says, for God, the sorrow work of repentance and salvation, not the 01:03:00.200 --> 01:03:03.200 repented of, but the sorrow of the world worketh death. So what does this verse mean 01:03:03.200 --> 01:03:07.200 then? Okay, because I don't want to just like explain away from you. You have two 01:03:07.200 --> 01:03:11.200 options of what this verse can mean. That this is talking about the salvation of 01:03:11.200 --> 01:03:16.200 the church itself, as in like the church coming together itself, or it's talking 01:03:16.200 --> 01:03:21.200 about their physical salvation, okay, again. And you're like, what do you mean? 01:03:21.200 --> 01:03:24.200 That's a stretch. It's really not a stretch though, because think about this. 01:03:24.200 --> 01:03:25.080 in Revelation. 01:03:25.200 --> 01:03:29.960 Doesn't Jesus when he writes the letters of a beauty the churches he tells one of the churches which I'm spacing on the top 01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:33.800 My head is I'm gonna be glad to see it that he says this to me says if they don't repent 01:03:33.800 --> 01:03:38.340 He's gonna remove their candle stand up. What does that mean? He's gonna take their church away not their salvation 01:03:38.340 --> 01:03:39.420 But he's gonna take the church away 01:03:39.420 --> 01:03:41.420 He's like you guys are no longer gonna have a church 01:03:41.820 --> 01:03:45.420 Anymore and so that makes that lines up with what Paul's saying though 01:03:45.420 --> 01:03:49.000 Because again, I was bringing up to you that he says a little leaven leaven at the whole lump 01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:53.160 So what would happen if these people would have just ignored the Apostle Paul and what? 01:03:53.200 --> 01:03:56.880 left this fornicator at the church and stayed puffed up in themselves, it would 01:03:56.880 --> 01:04:00.640 have destroyed their church. So what is the repentance, the salvation there? 01:04:00.640 --> 01:04:04.880 The salvation of the church, not in a spiritual sense, but in like the church 01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:06.900 spiritually as a whole, okay? 01:04:07.200 --> 01:04:10.400 But then you can also say that it's a literal physical salvation. 01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:12.160 And what do I mean by that? Like, is that a stretch either? 01:04:12.160 --> 01:04:15.360 No, because think about who he's writing to right here. 01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:17.120 He's writing to a people that he literally said, 01:04:17.120 --> 01:04:21.840 because they were holding Lord's Supper so badly, there was many of them that slept, right? 01:04:21.840 --> 01:04:23.680 And when he means slept, he didn't mean that they were taking a nap. 01:04:23.680 --> 01:04:26.480 He means that they were dead, okay? That God killed them, okay? 01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:29.040 So either of these definitions work right here, okay? 01:04:29.040 --> 01:04:33.200 That God could have pronounced extreme judgment on them for not obeying Paul in this matter, 01:04:33.200 --> 01:04:35.120 or that the church... 01:04:35.200 --> 01:04:39.440 as a whole would have dissimulated away, would have dissolved away because they 01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:42.640 didn't obey Paul's letter here but this is what we do know that this has nothing 01:04:42.640 --> 01:04:45.480 to do with salvation. The spiritual salvation okay is what I'm talking about 01:04:45.480 --> 01:04:50.680 okay. These people were already saved okay but you guys are still there in 2 Corinthians 01:04:50.680 --> 01:04:54.400 I think. Go to Jude 1 22 okay Jude 1 22 01:04:56.300 --> 01:05:05.060 If I was like, cause I'll like, cause I'm not trying to say that godly sorrow cannot lead to a repentance in terms of real salvation either though. 01:05:05.060 --> 01:05:09.180 It obviously can because godly sorrow is a good thing, right? It's like... 01:05:09.500 --> 01:05:15.700 When you hear the preaching of the gospel, you can have a worldly sorrow or you can have a godly sorrow to it, right? 01:05:15.700 --> 01:05:20.700 You could like hear the gospel and be like, everything I've been taught my whole life is a lie. 01:05:20.700 --> 01:05:24.500 I can't believe this because it's too, you know, it's too harsh or whatever. 01:05:24.500 --> 01:05:27.800 Or you can have a godly sorrow and be like, wow, I cannot believe I've deceived my whole life. 01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:30.100 And then you can believe the gospel instead, right? 01:05:30.100 --> 01:05:33.900 But I'm just saying that the primary context of this is not spiritual salvation. 01:05:33.900 --> 01:05:36.700 I don't know. I don't think you can argue with that, okay? 01:05:36.700 --> 01:05:37.420 but a god 01:05:37.500 --> 01:05:40.140 Godly sorrow can get people saved, okay? 01:05:40.140 --> 01:05:42.300 It can get people saved spiritually, okay? 01:05:42.300 --> 01:05:43.900 But this is what the verse does not say. 01:05:43.900 --> 01:05:46.860 It does not say you have to have a godly sorrow 01:05:46.860 --> 01:05:47.820 to be saved, does it? 01:05:47.820 --> 01:05:48.980 It just says godly sorrow, 01:05:48.980 --> 01:05:50.740 work with repentance to salvation. 01:05:50.740 --> 01:05:54.780 But it didn't say you have to have a godly sorrow. 01:05:54.780 --> 01:05:55.980 It just says that this is a fact 01:05:55.980 --> 01:05:58.020 that this can lead to salvation. 01:05:58.020 --> 01:05:59.700 And it's talking about the physical salvation, 01:05:59.700 --> 01:06:00.580 like I said there, 01:06:00.580 --> 01:06:03.500 but even out-soulening that if people... 01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:07.600 People actually take the gospel and they have a godly sorrow over it 01:06:07.600 --> 01:06:09.700 They can get them saved though when we're preaching to them 01:06:09.920 --> 01:06:13.280 but there's many different ways to react to the gospel and explain to you and 01:06:13.720 --> 01:06:15.200 this is like 01:06:15.500 --> 01:06:17.260 Like, and I want to say this as well, okay? 01:06:17.260 --> 01:06:19.740 Just saying that a godly sorrow will work in repentance and salvation 01:06:19.740 --> 01:06:22.940 does not mean that that's the only way that you can get to salvation, okay? 01:06:22.940 --> 01:06:24.700 What I mean is like this, okay? 01:06:24.700 --> 01:06:28.940 If I tell you, hey, if you go on the keto diet, you'll lose weight. 01:06:28.940 --> 01:06:31.420 Am I saying that the keto diet is the only way to lose weight? 01:06:31.420 --> 01:06:33.100 No, I'm just saying there's one option, right? 01:06:33.100 --> 01:06:37.020 The saying is true right here that even if you take this to be literal salvation, 01:06:37.020 --> 01:06:39.900 godly sorrow is not the only emotion that works salvation, okay? 01:06:39.900 --> 01:06:42.220 Why? Because look what it says in Jude 1-22, that's where I have you guys at. 01:06:42.220 --> 01:06:43.500 It says 01:06:43.500 --> 01:06:46.240 Some have compassion, making a difference, 01:06:46.240 --> 01:06:48.840 and others, saved with fear, point them out of the fire, 01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:50.820 hating even the garments spotted by the flesh. 01:06:50.820 --> 01:06:52.100 We see this all the time, I was warning. 01:06:52.100 --> 01:06:53.640 Some people, when we preach the gospel, 01:06:53.640 --> 01:06:57.020 they react to it, they react to compassion, okay? 01:06:57.020 --> 01:06:58.340 They think of the love of God. 01:06:58.340 --> 01:07:00.460 They think, if God loved me so much, 01:07:00.460 --> 01:07:04.460 you know, if God was willing to send his only begotten son 01:07:04.460 --> 01:07:05.300 to die on the cross for my sins, 01:07:05.300 --> 01:07:06.300 how could I not believe in him? 01:07:06.300 --> 01:07:07.900 That's how some people respond. 01:07:07.900 --> 01:07:09.580 Some people are not very mushy-gushy, though. 01:07:09.580 --> 01:07:11.500 Some people are like, ah. 01:07:11.500 --> 01:07:14.300 you know, love, whatever, but then when you tell them, 01:07:14.300 --> 01:07:15.340 but listen, if you don't believe this, 01:07:15.340 --> 01:07:17.340 you're gonna die and go to hell, it scares them. 01:07:17.340 --> 01:07:19.100 It says, with fear, right? 01:07:19.100 --> 01:07:20.460 It pulls them out of the fire. 01:07:20.460 --> 01:07:22.220 And so, both of those things, I mean, 01:07:22.220 --> 01:07:24.460 compassion you could probably tie to godly sorrow, 01:07:24.460 --> 01:07:26.140 but fear, is that really sorrow? 01:07:26.140 --> 01:07:27.500 It's really not, it's scared. 01:07:27.500 --> 01:07:29.660 And even anecdotally, I'll just say this to you guys, okay? 01:07:29.660 --> 01:07:31.820 Because I got saved when I was six years old, 01:07:31.820 --> 01:07:32.860 I believed on Jesus Christ. 01:07:32.860 --> 01:07:36.300 I don't remember the exact day as far as the date of it, 01:07:36.300 --> 01:07:38.380 but I remember the exact place where I was, 01:07:38.380 --> 01:07:39.420 I remember my dad picked me up, 01:07:39.500 --> 01:07:46.080 gospel, that it was after church, he preached me the gospel, and I understood exactly what 01:07:46.080 --> 01:07:47.080 he was telling me. 01:07:47.080 --> 01:07:50.880 When I was six years old, okay, I knew I was a sinner, I knew I deserved hell, and I wanted 01:07:50.880 --> 01:07:53.000 to get saved, I wanted to believe in Jesus Christ. 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:57.560 When I got saved though, when I was six, I was not sorrowing and weeping and in sackcloth 01:07:57.560 --> 01:07:59.240 and ashes as a little six year old, okay? 01:07:59.600 --> 01:08:03.800 I wasn't like if I mean also you the thing that saved me when I was always fear of hell 01:08:03.800 --> 01:08:07.640 I did not want to go to hell when I died so I was like how do I get that? 01:08:07.640 --> 01:08:11.000 I gotta believe that's what I'm gonna do that that is this verse in effect 01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:12.840 There was no godly sorrow in effect 01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:15.720 It was just a raw fear and I understood that I was a sinner 01:08:15.720 --> 01:08:21.320 But I mean I'm six years old like am I really gonna be like like like weeping and gnashing my teeth over like the sins that 01:08:21.320 --> 01:08:22.080 I've done when I'm six 01:08:22.080 --> 01:08:26.680 It's like I mean like what have I done when I'm six years old like probably live maybe disobey my parents 01:08:26.680 --> 01:08:27.600 And I'm not saying that those are good 01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:32.360 But like this is not the same as some people's level where like they're you know when they're getting saved 01:08:32.360 --> 01:08:36.440 It's like they have murder in their past or they have like just a really bad past. Okay 01:08:37.200 --> 01:08:38.300 so 01:08:38.500 --> 01:08:42.500 And that should show us again as well, like this is another problem with repentance that 01:08:42.500 --> 01:08:45.020 it like limits children with getting saved. 01:08:45.020 --> 01:08:48.860 That people will like be like, oh well if you're not really really sorry, if you don't 01:08:48.860 --> 01:08:52.260 turn from all your sins, if you don't turn from your big sins, it's like how many sins 01:08:52.260 --> 01:08:54.380 can you really have when you're six years old though? 01:08:54.380 --> 01:08:58.980 You have sin, obviously, I knew I was a sinner, but it's like when I'm believing on Jesus 01:08:58.980 --> 01:09:02.780 Christ, I'm not like, I'm gonna forsake all of my sins, God. 01:09:02.780 --> 01:09:05.300 It's like, I'm six years old. 01:09:05.300 --> 01:09:06.500 Like what, like what, I mean. 01:09:06.500 --> 01:09:09.000 Unless I'm just have a really bad, six years old, 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:10.500 but it's like, you didn't even become sentient 01:09:10.500 --> 01:09:13.100 until you're five, I feel like, goodnight. 01:09:13.100 --> 01:09:15.920 So, but like, so this doesn't work for children though. 01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:20.380 Like, realistically, think about this as well, 01:09:20.380 --> 01:09:23.600 I committed more sins after I got saved. 01:09:24.100 --> 01:09:27.460 than before I was saved, just by nature of the time that I lived in my house. 01:09:27.460 --> 01:09:31.940 And if I tried to say like, oh I tried to repent of my lying or my disobeying my parents, 01:09:31.940 --> 01:09:34.900 because that would have probably been the two biggest things I had, it's like here's the reality, 01:09:34.900 --> 01:09:38.500 I still lied to my parents as I got saved. I still disobeyed my parents as I got saved. 01:09:38.500 --> 01:09:43.060 I mean can you blame, I was six years old, like you have like another what, like 12 years on top 01:09:43.060 --> 01:09:48.340 of that, that I would have to completely forsake the sin of disobeying. It's not real. It's not 01:09:48.340 --> 01:09:51.940 possible, okay? And there are some people like I'm bringing this up, there's not a strong man. 01:09:52.100 --> 01:09:57.100 There are people that will say that children cannot get saved because they can't show repentance. 01:09:57.100 --> 01:10:02.100 Okay? That I think it was this Brian Denly guy that I saw. It was like children can't actually have true repentance. 01:10:02.100 --> 01:10:06.100 How wicked and how evil is that? Because Jesus Christ says and said, 01:10:06.100 --> 01:10:12.100 There they stand to you, except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 01:10:12.100 --> 01:10:17.100 So it sounds like a kid is the perfect candidate for getting to heaven because children are what? 01:10:17.100 --> 01:10:19.900 or what, willing to put their faith in something fully. 01:10:20.100 --> 01:10:23.180 without trying to depend on and trust on anything else. 01:10:23.180 --> 01:10:24.900 That's why he says you have to be like a little child. 01:10:24.900 --> 01:10:26.140 You have to have the faith of a little child 01:10:26.140 --> 01:10:26.980 to get to heaven. 01:10:27.900 --> 01:10:30.860 And that's what I have when I was a kid. I knew God was real 01:10:30.860 --> 01:10:32.660 I believe it with all my heart when I was a kid 01:10:32.660 --> 01:10:35.820 I believe like I like I just like I didn't want to go to hell 01:10:35.820 --> 01:10:37.820 So I'm like I'm gonna believe on Jesus Christ 01:10:37.980 --> 01:10:42.380 But I did not have a God bizarre which is not to say again this this can be good 01:10:42.380 --> 01:10:45.560 But this is this is not a requirement. That's not what second Corinthians says 01:10:45.560 --> 01:10:50.140 That's the reality and it's not in the primary context of the salvation. Anyways, okay first print go to first this little hands one nine 01:10:50.140 --> 01:10:52.140 Okay, this last place I have 01:10:52.900 --> 01:10:54.900 You guys turn beside one other verse. 01:10:54.900 --> 01:10:56.900 First Thessalonians 1, verse number 9. 01:10:56.900 --> 01:10:57.900 The third... 01:10:57.900 --> 01:10:59.900 See how that was pretty slick, okay? 01:10:59.900 --> 01:11:02.900 First Thessalonians 1, verse number 9. 01:11:02.900 --> 01:11:04.900 This is the third objection that people will say this, 01:11:04.900 --> 01:11:06.900 because the first one is they'll say, 01:11:06.900 --> 01:11:07.800 Hey, you know... 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:11.180 John taught repentance. Hey, we preach repentance too. 01:11:11.180 --> 01:11:17.180 Number two, they'll say godly sorrow. Hey, godly sorrow is a good thing, but it is not required for salvation. 01:11:17.180 --> 01:11:21.020 Someone does not have to be crying in order to really be saved. It is your faith in Jesus Christ. 01:11:21.020 --> 01:11:27.520 Some people do cry, and out slowly we've had a... I mean, I've had dozens of people cry with me when we're preaching the gospel, 01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:32.200 because it's a deep thing. It's a beautiful thing. That all of our sins were paid for by Jesus Christ. 01:11:32.200 --> 01:11:35.900 It's beautiful. It moves people so often. But... 01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:43.480 Different people are made differently. Okay, and some people are just super stoic and you don't want to judge someone's getting saved on how they react 01:11:43.480 --> 01:11:45.280 To you when you're out the door. It's not a good idea 01:11:45.280 --> 01:11:49.380 It's not a righteous judgment because there's some people like especially like the Native Americans 01:11:49.380 --> 01:11:55.200 They're just a very stoic people like you look at them and you're preaching something. You're like you believe that yeah 01:11:56.080 --> 01:12:00.360 Okay, and then you get to the end and then they like they really believe it they brand it and they're like 01:12:00.480 --> 01:12:02.600 Thank you so much for showing me that it's just like 01:12:03.400 --> 01:12:09.000 people react differently. That's the fact that people react differently is a fact because of what we saw in Jude. 01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:12.840 And he says some say with compassion, some say with fear. So these things are both, 01:12:13.640 --> 01:12:17.640 it's just different matters of perspective is what I'd say. Okay. So first Thessalonians 1,9, 01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:23.240 this is another rejection that people make to our claims. Okay. It says, for they themselves show 01:12:23.240 --> 01:12:29.640 of us what manner of entering in we had unto you and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the 01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:31.400 living and true. 01:12:31.400 --> 01:12:37.480 God the reason I'm showing you this verse is because of that phrase where it says the turn from idols to serve the living and 01:12:37.480 --> 01:12:39.480 true God because some kind of like 01:12:39.480 --> 01:12:41.800 This is a really weasely argument in my opinion, okay 01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:46.460 Maybe people have good intentions on that when they say this but when when I've talked about this before they'll tell me like 01:12:46.600 --> 01:12:49.160 No, no, because think about this. They'll be like is 01:12:50.640 --> 01:12:52.640 Worshipping idols of sin you go 01:12:53.200 --> 01:12:56.920 Yes, this is sin. Okay, and they'll be like well if you believe on Jesus Christ 01:12:56.920 --> 01:13:02.920 Can you also believe in idols and the answer is obviously no and they'll be like so you do have to repent your sin 01:13:02.920 --> 01:13:09.400 Oh, you see right there or they'll do it with belief to in Revelation 21 8 that it says but the fearful and the unbelieving 01:13:09.400 --> 01:13:15.400 And they'll be like is unbelief a sin. Yes, so can you be both unbelieving and believing in Jesus Christ? 01:13:15.400 --> 01:13:19.560 No, well, then that's another thing is our kind of I got you right there again, but here's the problem with this. Okay 01:13:20.500 --> 01:13:22.500 The problem is, is that... 01:13:22.900 --> 01:13:28.200 If you're trying to use that definition, okay, I could level with a person to some degree on these things 01:13:28.200 --> 01:13:28.740 Okay 01:13:28.740 --> 01:13:34.220 But it's dishonest because what they do with that is they use it like a trojan horse to then add a bunch of other sins 01:13:34.220 --> 01:13:37.380 On top of these things and that's garbage. Okay, because here's the difference in these things 01:13:37.380 --> 01:13:43.980 Okay, you cannot believe that Jesus is the one true God while also believing in Allah that those things are contrary to each other 01:13:44.460 --> 01:13:50.780 Yeah, but and you can't believe that Jesus Christ the one true God if you're serving idols in many multitudes of God, but can you? 01:13:50.900 --> 01:13:56.400 believe on Jesus Christ and still be a liar? Yes you can. So these things are not comparable. 01:13:56.400 --> 01:14:00.060 One of these things, like it's a byproduct, a natural byproduct that in order to believe 01:14:00.060 --> 01:14:05.620 on Jesus Christ, you have to turn from whatever you're trusting in before Jesus Christ. But 01:14:05.620 --> 01:14:08.580 in order to trust on Jesus Christ, you don't have to stop being a liar though. These things 01:14:08.580 --> 01:14:12.500 are not comparable. So if you try to use this definition like, well that's where penance 01:14:12.500 --> 01:14:17.460 ends, okay. Again, I don't like that because I think it makes things confusing about salvation. 01:14:17.460 --> 01:14:18.900 It slips in the door with 01:14:18.900 --> 01:14:24.700 people where they'll be like, where Ray Comfort, like he will say what people like, well, when 01:14:24.700 --> 01:14:26.940 he asked me if they believe, he's like, what are you living in holiness? 01:14:27.200 --> 01:14:31.040 It's like what? He's like yeah, because the Bible says if you don't have holiness, you're not gonna see God. 01:14:31.040 --> 01:14:34.880 And he takes that to mean that if you're not living a good life, then you didn't really believe. 01:14:34.880 --> 01:14:37.520 And what does that do to people? It just confuses them. 01:14:37.520 --> 01:14:40.720 It makes them just like wonder like, because we're telling people the gospel of Jesus Christ, 01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:42.640 that you have to believe on Jesus Christ to be saved. 01:14:42.640 --> 01:14:45.600 And then people slip in so many of these confusing phrases like, 01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:47.600 did you really feel sorry when you got saved? 01:14:47.600 --> 01:14:49.840 Did you really turn from all your sins to be when you got saved? 01:14:49.840 --> 01:14:52.560 Did you really turn from all your big sins when you got saved? 01:14:52.560 --> 01:14:55.040 It's like why add all that in when the Bible says it's the- 01:14:55.200 --> 01:14:59.660 Gospel that saves us it is your belief on Jesus Christ that saves you these are 01:14:59.660 --> 01:15:03.380 what the Bible is teaching and all these passages that I've showed you and 01:15:03.380 --> 01:15:08.380 you do have to repent you have to change your mind you cannot trust in Allah and 01:15:08.380 --> 01:15:12.240 in Jesus Christ you can't trust in Buddha and trust in Jesus Christ you 01:15:12.240 --> 01:15:16.000 can't trust that there's nothing and believe in Jesus Christ obviously right 01:15:16.100 --> 01:15:20.100 You have to turn from whatever you believe in before and believe on Jesus Christ. 01:15:20.100 --> 01:15:25.100 So this is the salvation. You're moving whatever your faith is in before to being on Jesus Christ. 01:15:25.100 --> 01:15:29.100 But it's still faith. So then it's not of works. 01:15:29.100 --> 01:15:35.000 Because that is the biggest problem with repenting of your sins is that Jonah said that turning from your evil ways will work. 01:15:35.300 --> 01:15:40.300 So if it's turning from your evil ways of work, then it cannot be attached to salvation. 01:15:40.300 --> 01:15:41.300 Okay? 01:15:41.300 --> 01:15:43.300 So in summary for these things, okay? 01:15:43.300 --> 01:15:45.300 Repent, the word repent means to change your mind. 01:15:45.300 --> 01:15:47.300 It means to turn from something. 01:15:47.300 --> 01:15:50.300 God repents the most out of anybody in the Bible. 01:15:50.300 --> 01:15:53.300 God repents in the story that we saw with Jonah. 01:15:53.300 --> 01:15:58.300 But this is okay because it just means to change your mind, to turn from something. 01:15:58.300 --> 01:16:01.300 Whatever that something is, is dictated by the context, okay? 01:16:01.300 --> 01:16:03.300 And in the context of the gospel 01:16:03.300 --> 01:16:07.560 It's turning from whatever you believe before to believing on Jesus Christ 01:16:08.500 --> 01:16:11.100 And you have to repent to be saved. 01:16:11.100 --> 01:16:12.340 There's no question. 01:16:12.340 --> 01:16:13.300 But this is the reality. 01:16:13.300 --> 01:16:14.580 You don't have to repent if you're going to be saved. 01:16:14.580 --> 01:16:16.180 You have to understand you're a sinner to be saved. 01:16:16.180 --> 01:16:16.780 That's a fact. 01:16:16.780 --> 01:16:18.100 Nobody would argue with that. 01:16:18.100 --> 01:16:20.700 You have to, you cannot trust in anything else 01:16:20.700 --> 01:16:21.820 besides Jesus Christ and be saved. 01:16:21.820 --> 01:16:22.980 You have to trust in Jesus. 01:16:22.980 --> 01:16:24.780 Even your own works is the same way. 01:16:24.780 --> 01:16:26.460 Man, I should have had you guys go to there. 01:16:26.460 --> 01:16:27.180 Where is this even at? 01:16:27.180 --> 01:16:28.020 Hebrews 6? 01:16:28.020 --> 01:16:28.860 Go there real quick, okay? 01:16:28.860 --> 01:16:30.220 I'm sorry. 01:16:30.220 --> 01:16:31.540 Well, I guess I told you one more place 01:16:31.540 --> 01:16:33.140 I didn't have you turn to it, so this is the make-up. 01:16:33.140 --> 01:16:34.740 Okay, go to Hebrews 6, okay? 01:16:35.700 --> 01:16:38.300 I want you to see something about the works as well, okay? 01:16:39.200 --> 01:16:43.840 Because this is what's ironic people be like you have to repent of your sins and like add all these good works 01:16:43.840 --> 01:16:47.680 But like he's like he tells us in hebrew 6 that you have to repent of your dead works 01:16:48.400 --> 01:16:51.040 And we're gonna see this right here. This says it says therefore 01:16:51.520 --> 01:16:54.320 Leaving the principles of the doctor of christ let us go out of perfection 01:16:54.720 --> 01:17:00.320 Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith towards god 01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:01.920 What is he saying there? 01:17:01.920 --> 01:17:06.480 You cannot trust in your own good works if you do heaven and this is the problem that we meet with so many people out the door 01:17:06.800 --> 01:17:07.200 they 01:17:07.200 --> 01:17:10.280 we ask them how do you get to heaven they say well I'm a good person well I 01:17:10.280 --> 01:17:14.720 you know give money to the poor well I'm really nice or sometimes I've heard 01:17:14.720 --> 01:17:19.640 really bizarre ones like well I serve in the military so I know I'm going to heaven okay I'm a teacher at 01:17:19.640 --> 01:17:22.800 school so I know I'm going to heaven I missed that in the Bible maybe it's maybe 01:17:22.800 --> 01:17:27.200 somewhere okay but these are all works this is all boasting in yourself that's 01:17:27.200 --> 01:17:31.840 what you understand why had you turn this verse because you cannot trust in 01:17:31.840 --> 01:17:33.200 anything 01:17:33.300 --> 01:17:35.540 and trust in Jesus Christ at the same time. 01:17:35.540 --> 01:17:36.980 Salvation is a full trust in Jesus. 01:17:36.980 --> 01:17:37.700 That's why he told me what, 01:17:37.700 --> 01:17:39.620 like brother Ryan just used that analogy yesterday as well. 01:17:39.620 --> 01:17:43.380 He's like, if you believe 99% in Jesus for your salvation, 01:17:43.380 --> 01:17:46.340 but then 1% in yourself, do you trust fully in Jesus? 01:17:46.340 --> 01:17:46.980 No, you don't. 01:17:46.980 --> 01:17:49.540 And so you're not saved, is what the Bible teaches us. 01:17:49.540 --> 01:17:52.580 And we only need a grain of mustard seed of faith to be saved, 01:17:52.580 --> 01:17:54.660 but all of that mustard seed has to be in Jesus Christ. 01:17:54.660 --> 01:17:56.020 That's what we need to understand. 01:17:56.400 --> 01:17:59.840 And then the last thing is that salvation is by grace through faith. 01:17:59.840 --> 01:18:01.680 It's not of works, lest any man should boast. 01:18:01.680 --> 01:18:07.120 And repenting is a work turning from your evil way is a work so it can't be attached to salvation. 01:18:07.120 --> 01:18:09.440 So hopefully you guys learned something from this sermon. Hopefully it was edifying. 01:18:09.440 --> 01:18:13.360 And next week, like I said, I'm going to touch on the aspects of God repenting in the Bible 01:18:13.360 --> 01:18:14.640 and what exactly that means. Let's pray. 01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:17.600 Do it for the God. Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God. 01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:20.800 Thank you so much for your word, God. Thank you so much, God, that there's... 01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:25.000 So many different passages of scripture that we can compare to find the truth about matters. 01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:29.000 God, I just pray that you'd help us, God, as a church to have correct doctrine for you, God, 01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:34.000 and to believe on you truly, God, and to focus on serving you with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, God. 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:39.000 I just pray that we would never use the grace that you've given us as just a license to send, God. 01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:43.000 I just pray that you'd use it, help us to use it to be a motivation to serve you, God, 01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:47.000 and to think of how blessed we are and how wonderful it is that you set us free from sin. 01:18:47.000 --> 01:18:49.000 So how dare we go back and live and... 01:18:49.000 --> 01:18:52.440 in all the past sins that we've tried to get out of our life. 01:18:52.440 --> 01:18:55.000 God, I just pray that you'd help us to overcome the things that we struggle with 01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:58.840 and that we could present ourselves as perfect as humanly possible to you 01:18:58.840 --> 01:18:59.880 before you're coming. 01:18:59.880 --> 01:19:01.000 I just need to pray, amen. 01:19:01.000 --> 01:19:02.000 Amen. 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:04.000 Last time we saw number 197. 01:19:13.300 --> 01:19:20.340 Song number 197, Singing I Go, song 197. 01:19:24.900 --> 01:19:26.900 Sing it together on the first. 01:19:26.900 --> 01:19:31.100 The trusting heart to Jesus sings, 01:19:31.100 --> 01:19:35.100 nor any ill forbodes. 01:19:35.100 --> 01:19:39.300 But at the cross of Calvary sings, 01:19:39.300 --> 01:19:43.400 praise God for lifted loads. 01:19:43.400 --> 01:19:47.600 Singing I go along life's road, 01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:51.500 praising the Lord, praising the Lord. 01:19:51.500 --> 01:19:52.900 Singing I go... 01:19:52.900 --> 01:19:59.260 Oh, a long life's road, for Jesus has lifted my load. 01:19:59.260 --> 01:20:03.300 The passing days bring many cares. 01:20:03.300 --> 01:20:07.220 Fear not, I hear him say. 01:20:07.220 --> 01:20:11.180 And when my fears and turn to prayers, 01:20:11.180 --> 01:20:15.220 the burdens slip away. 01:20:15.220 --> 01:20:16.780 Singing I go. 01:20:18.400 --> 01:20:27.280 road, praising the Lord, praising the Lord, singing I go along life's road for 01:20:27.280 --> 01:20:38.000 Jesus has lifted my load. He tells me of my Father's love and never slumbering I, 01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:46.100 my everlasting King above, will all my needs supply. 01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:52.560 Praising the Lord! 01:20:58.700 --> 01:21:02.700 For Jesus has lifted my load 01:21:02.700 --> 01:21:06.700 When to the throne of grace I flee 01:21:06.700 --> 01:21:10.700 I find the promise true 01:21:10.700 --> 01:21:14.700 The mighty arms upholding me 01:21:14.700 --> 01:21:18.700 Will bear my burdens too 01:21:18.700 --> 01:21:20.700 Singing I go on 01:21:21.400 --> 01:21:28.400 I go along this road, for Jesus has lifted my load. 01:21:28.400 --> 01:21:29.400 Amen. 01:21:29.400 --> 01:21:30.400 Good to see you, Brother Ryan. 01:21:30.400 --> 01:21:31.400 Would you close the door to prayer? 01:21:31.400 --> 01:21:32.400 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you God for this church, Lord, and thank you God that you made 01:21:32.400 --> 01:21:33.400 salvation so easy and so simple. 01:21:33.400 --> 01:21:34.400 Amen. 01:21:34.400 --> 01:21:35.400 Amen. 01:21:35.400 --> 01:21:36.400 Amen. 01:21:36.400 --> 01:21:37.400 Amen. 01:21:37.400 --> 01:21:38.400 Amen. 01:21:38.400 --> 01:21:39.400 Amen. 01:21:39.400 --> 01:21:40.400 Amen. 01:21:40.400 --> 01:21:41.400 Amen. 01:21:41.400 --> 01:21:42.400 Amen. 01:21:42.400 --> 01:21:43.400 Amen. 01:21:43.400 --> 01:21:44.400 Amen. 01:21:44.400 --> 01:21:44.500 Amen. 01:21:45.400 --> 01:21:44.500 Amen. 01:21:46.400 --> 01:21:44.500 Amen. 01:21:47.400 --> 01:21:44.500 Amen. 01:21:48.400 --> 01:21:44.500 Amen. 01:21:49.400 --> 01:21:44.500 Amen. 01:21:44.900 --> 01:21:47.400 that all we have to do is put our whole trust 01:21:47.400 --> 01:21:50.320 on Jesus Christ, Lord, and I pray God 01:21:50.320 --> 01:21:53.320 that you'll bless the fellowship in the soul today 01:21:53.320 --> 01:21:54.640 in Jesus' name, amen. 01:21:54.640 --> 01:21:55.480 Amen. 01:21:55.480 --> 01:21:56.300 Amen.