Matthew Sucky here from Verity Baptist Manila providing you another video on the topic of
repentance of sins. And when you look throughout the entire Bible, you'll notice that the
one who repents more than anybody else is God. This is what the Bible says in Jonah
chapter 3 verse 9. Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his
fierce anger that we perish not? And so what does the king of Nineveh say? He
says, you know, God might turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger.
Basically what he's saying is God might change his mind and no longer destroy
us. Now look, God is sinless. He doesn't have any sins to turn from. So when he's
saying turn and repent, he's not saying, well, he's going to choose not to
sin or he's going to turn from his sins. Obviously God's sinless. But what he's
saying is God will change his mind and no longer destroy them, you know, by
chance if they end up changing their lifestyle. He says hopefully God will turn
and repent. And then the next verse in the second half says, and God repented
of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did it not. So
God does repent. He does decide not to destroy Nineveh. Why? Because the
people turn to God, the Bible says. And so here's what we see throughout the
entire Bible. Over and over again you're going to see the Bible talks about God
repenting. Now if repentance meant to turn from your sins every time you see
the Word, then God is a pretty big sinner. Because throughout the Bible you see
that he's repenting. He's the first one who repents in the Bible. And what
repentance means is not to turn from your sins, but it means to change your
mind. And so what you see oftentimes come up in the Bible is God says he's
going to do something, but if man decides to turn back to God or make
certain decisions, the Bible says God might turn and repent and decide he's
no longer going to destroy them because of the fact that man got right with
God. And that's what we see in Jonah chapter 3 and that's what we see
throughout the Bible. But if repentance just in general, every time you see the
word repent, it means you have to turn from your sins or it means turning
from your sins, then look, God is a pretty big sinner. Because throughout
the Bible you're seeing that God repents more than anybody else.
Thank you and God bless.