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Lord, we pray that you'd meet with us this morning. Help us as we learn from your word. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Turn to song number 49. Four, nine, meet me there. Song 49 on the first. On the happy golden shore Where the faithful part no more When the storms of life o'er meet me there Where the night dissolves away Into pure and perfect day I am going home to stay Meet me there Meet me there Meet me there Where the tree of life is blooming Meet me there When the storms of life o'er On the happy golden shore Where the faithful part no more Meet me there Here our fondest hopes are vain Dearest links are rent in twain But in heaven no throb of pain Meet me there By the river sparkling bright In the city of delight Where our faith is lost in sight Meet me there Meet me there Meet me there Where the tree of life is blooming Meet me there When the storms of life o'er On the happy golden shore Where the faithful part no more Meet me there Good, on to the last Where the harps of angels ring And the blessed forever sing In the palace of the king Meet me there Where in sweet communion blend Art with heart and friend with friend In a world that ne'er shall end Meet me there Sing it out Meet me there Meet me there Where the tree of life is blooming Meet me there When the storms of life o'er On the happy golden shore Where the faithful part no more Meet me there Good, sing it Amen, alright well let's take our bulletins and we'll look at some announcements real quickly if you do not have a bulletin just raise your hand and one of our ushers can get one for you if you need a bulletin just put your hand up and we will get one for you and if you open up your bulletin you'll see our service time is there Sunday morning service time 10.30 AM and we are glad that you are with us of course on Sunday morning on the Lord's day for church we do invite you to be back tonight at 6 PM for the evening service and the evening service is different than the morning service different songs that are sung different sermon that's preached just one more opportunity to be in God's house with God's people under the preaching of the word of God and of course we finished up our series on Sunday night in the book of Numbers and we are going to begin a new short Bible study in the book of Obadiah so I want to encourage you to be here and we are going to spend a couple of weeks in the book of Obadiah and you might not know what the book of Obadiah is about so I want to encourage you to be here tonight as we study it out it's only one chapter so I would encourage you to read the chapter before you come to church tonight and we'll be studying it out together on Sunday night for a couple of weeks we're going to begin our Bible study at 7 PM and we call the midweek service the most encouraging service of the week we hope you'll join us right in the middle of the week and we're also going to begin a brand new Bible study on Wednesday night as well so we finished our Hebrew study so you'll have to show up on Wednesday to find out what that is maybe I'll let you know tonight but we want to encourage you of course to be here for that if you look at our soul winning times our main soul winning times on Saturday mornings at 10 AM and we of course would love for you to be a part of our big soul winning rally on Saturday mornings I think yesterday morning we had like 128 soul winners out and that's a great turnout on a Saturday morning and we'd love for you to be a part of that and then of course we have additional soul winning times on Thursdays and on Sundays at 2 PM so if you'd like to go soul winning this afternoon there'll be an opportunity for you to be able to do that if you look at the announcements and upcoming events just several things we want you to be aware of first of all we have our cleaning crew appreciation dinner and training and that is coming up on Friday August 2nd at 6 PM so we want you to be aware of that and this is a dinner to appreciate all of our volunteers that help with the cleaning crew we've got all I think our cleaning crew ministry is probably the biggest ministry in our church and we've got two groups that alternate and clean the building on Monday mornings two groups that alternate and clean the buildings on Saturday afternoon after soul winning two groups that alternate and clean the building on Sunday between the Sunday morning and Sunday evening service and we want to appreciate you we've got dinner for you that night we're also going to be training you on some new things with regards to our new building so we want you to be a part of that and then of course if you are not serving in any capacity here at Verity Baptist Church if you call this your church home we'd love for you to find a place to serve and if you're not sure where we can always use help with the cleaning crew we'd love for you to be a part of the cleaning crew ministry if you're interested in being part of it then you can come to the dinner and training as well and we'll get you situated and get you on a team if you'd like to sign up for the cleaning crew dinner and training then you can do that on your communication card there's a place for you to check off that you are coming and you should have one of these cards inserted in your bulletin so make sure you do that we also want to announce that there is a baby shower coming up for Miss Rizel Lee-Wilson on Saturday August 10th at 3 p.m. and Miss Rizel is having a boy she is registered on Amazon it is a potluck so if you can please bring a dish to share and if you'd like to attend you can also sign up on your communication card and let us know that you're planning on being there and then of course we also have the choir and orchestra practice that are starting up next Sunday July 28th at 5 p.m. so 5 p.m. an hour before the evening service here in the auditorium they're going to start practicing for family and friend day which is our church's 14 year anniversary and the choir is open to new members so if you're already part of the choir obviously we need you to be there but if you'd like to join the choir if you are not part of the choir but you'd like to join it is open to ages 13 and up so teenagers and up can be part of the choir and orchestra so be at the meeting on Sunday next Sunday July 28th at 5 p.m. then there's other things there for you to look at you should have one of these cards of course in your bulletin and we are continuing we started a brand new sermon series on last Sunday called Rooted and Grounded and we are going through just some fundamental things that we think every Christian needs to know and we are learning these truths to help you go further faster in the Christian life we're starting with some basic things and we're going to move on to some more complicated things but we want you to be excited about the Rooted and Grounded Sermons Series of course and if you look at the back of the bulletin you'll see the birthdays and anniversaries for the month of July and today is Miss Kimi Gaster's birthday on the 21st so happy birthday to her and Miss Kimi and her family of course have been part of our church for over 10 years so she has made a 10 year request sermon which I'm not preaching today on her birthday I'm sorry but I'll be preaching it next week so stay tuned for that and then later this week we have brother Anthony and Miss Sarah Coffney's anniversary on July 22nd and then we've got Miss Sandra Gibbs, Miss Gina Academia and Miss Laura Beth Pompa all happy birthday on the 23rd Brother Joseph Chesick has a birthday on the 24th and Brother Edgar and Miss Selena de Dios have a birthday on the 27th praise report, money matters all of those things are there for you to look at and if you are a first time guest, if it's your first time here at Verity Baptist Church we are so glad that you are with us, we have a gift we'd like to give you as you walk out of the church building this morning if you go out those main doors you'll see a little table set up and on that table you'll see these little gift bags please grab one on your way out as a gift from us to you for being our guest this morning there are several resources in this bag that we'd like you to have but the one I'd like to highlight is this documentary that our church made, it's called Being Baptist it's very well made, very interesting, we think you'll like it and we want to give this to you as a gift so please make sure you don't leave here this morning without grabbing one of these gift bags on your way out and if you are a guest we'd ask that you please take a moment to fill out the communication card which is inserted in your bulletin if you need a pen just raise your hand and one of our ushers can bring you by a Verity Baptist Church pen, you're welcome to keep the pen as a gift from us as well we're not going to do anything odd with your info we would just like to have a record of your attendance we actually would like to send you a little gift but we need your information to do that so please take a moment to fill the card out when we're done with the announcements we're going to sing a song when we're done singing we're going to receive the offering and as the offering plate goes by you can drop this card in the offering plate or you can hand it to me after the service, I'll be standing at the main door greeting people on the way out and I hope you'll come by and say hello alright well I think that's it for the announcements we're going to go ahead and sing the chorus of the week which is the insert in your bulletin and we're going to sing For me to live is Christ as we prepare to receive the offering this morning and let's go ahead and sing it out on the first For me to live is Christ To die is gain To know his word And walk his narrow way For me to live is Christ To die is gain To know his narrow way There is no peace No joy No thrill Like walking in his will For me to live Is Christ To die is gain Sing it out on the second Once my heart Was full of sin and shame Till someone told Me Jesus came to say When he said Come unto me He set my poor heart Free for me to live Is Christ To die is gain There are things That I still Do not know But of this One thing I'm completely sure That he who called Me on that day Was called My sins away For me to live Is Christ To die is gain Amen Good singing before we receive the offering I would like to remind you that we of course Are a family integrated church What that means is that infants and children Are always welcomed in the service We do not separate children from their parents For any reason. However we do have mother baby rooms And daddy rooms available for your convenience All of the rooms have comfortable seating We have monitors or windows set up So you can watch the service and listen to it So if you have a child that's been distracting during the service Or if you need some privacy Please don't allow them to be a distraction During the service please get up promptly And use those rooms as needed And then of course make sure that you yourself Aren't a distraction as well We want to encourage you to turn your cell phones off Or place them on silent or vibrate So they don't go off during the preaching And right now would be a good time to check your phone Make sure that it's off We want to encourage you The baptistry is filled, the water is warm We've got everything you need for you to be baptized And all you need to do is at the end of the service After the preaching while we're singing the last song If you step out those doors One of our staff guys will meet you there And we can get you situated for baptisms this morning Alright well we'll have the guys come up and help us With the offering at this time And let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer Heavenly Father, Lord we do love you We thank you for allowing us to gather together today Lord we pray that you'd bless the offering We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen We pray that you'd join us in the Bible together In Jesus' name we pray, amen Amen. Please open up to 2 Timothy 1 2 Timothy chapter 1 If you do not have a Bible, please raise your hand and Anashe could bring you a Bible 2 Timothy chapter 1 Just keep your hand up, Anashe will come by 2 Timothy 1 We read the entire chapter as our custom 2 Timothy 1, beginning at verse number 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus To Timothy My dearly beloved son grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord I thank God whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience that without ceasing I have remembrance of Thee in my prayers night and day greatly desiring to see Thee being mindful of Thy tears that I may be filled with joy when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in Thee which dwelt first in Thy grandmother Lois and Thy mother Eunice and I am persuaded that in Thee also Wherefore I put Thee in remembrance that Thou stir up the gift of God which is in Thee by the putting on of my hands for God hath not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind Be not, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me as prisoner but be Thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God who hath saved us and called us within holy calling not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the gentiles for the which cause I also suffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day hold fast the form of sound words which Thou has heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus that good thing which was committed unto Thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us this Thou knowest that all they which are in Asia be turned away from Me of whom are very jealous and homogeneous the Lord gave mercy into the house of Onesiphorus for He oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain but when He was in Rome He sought me out very diligently and found me the Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day and how many things He ministered unto me at Ephesus Thou knowest very well Let's pray Heavenly Father thank You for this morning God I thank You for Your word for our church I ask You please give us all a tender heart to the message and as to be the pastor please strengthen Him and fill Him with Your Spirit We love You, in Jesus' name we pray Amen Amen Alright, well we're there in 2 Timothy chapter number 1 and if you remember last time we were together we talked about the idea of works and faith and we of course believe here at Verity Baptist Church that salvation is not of works and we dealt with that pretty extensively in the last sermon I would like you to notice there in 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse number 9 hear yet another verse that identifies that same truth the Bible says in 2 Timothy 1.9 Who hath saved us and called us within holy calling not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and have brought life and immortality to light the Gospel so the Bible is clear about the fact and all throughout the Bible it's very evident that salvation is by grace and it's through faith it's not of works not according to our works the Bible says yet there are some who still want to try to deceive us into believing that works are required for salvation and there are different ways to try to add works to salvation in a subtle way and in a deceptive way and one of the biggest ways that people will deceive others into adding works to salvation is through a heresy that we refer to as the repent of your sins heresy and today what I'd like to do is speak to you on the subject of repentance and this is a subject that is often misunderstood and it's a subject that people are often confused about and you're there in 2 Timothy chapter 1 I'd like you to go with me if you would to the book of Genesis the first book in the Bible, Genesis chapter number 6 and what I'd like to do is give you three thoughts to clear up this idea of repentance or the repentance confusion and if you're taking notes of course on the back of your course of the week there's a place for you to write down some things I always encourage you to take some notes, I'd like to in this lesson give you three thoughts to clear up the repentance confusion and I'd like for you to maybe jot these things down the first thing I'd like to show you or bring to your attention is the misconception of repentance and like I said, repentance and the idea of repentance is something that is often confusing to people something that they do not understand something that gets blurred a lot there's a lot of misconceptions with regards to repentance and I'd like to begin this morning by addressing the misconceptions of repentance and the first one is this this idea that repentance is always referring to sin telling people that repentance is always repentance of sin is an error that quite honestly makes God a sinner the reason that I had you turn to Genesis chapter 6 is because in Genesis chapter 6 we actually see the first time that the word repent or a form of the word repented, repented, repentance is used in the Bible and I want you to notice that the first time we see the word repent or repentance in the Bible, it's actually God himself who is repenting, notice there in Genesis chapter 6 and look down at verse number 6, Genesis chapter 6 and verse 6, the Bible says it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart, so I want you to notice the first time we see this word in the Bible the Bible says that it repented the Lord, it is the Lord who is repenting look at verse 7, and the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth excuse me, Genesis 6 7 and the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth with man and beast and the creeping things and the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have made them, so here we see the first and the second time that the word is used and both times it is a reference to the Lord repenting, I feel like the speakers have an echo, if you could help me with that I would appreciate it what's interesting is that the first time we see the word repentance here in the Bible we see that it is the Lord that repented you're there in Genesis chapter 6, turn with me if you would to the book of Exodus Exodus chapter number 32 Exodus chapter 32 and I'm not going to take the time to go through every passage of repentance, but I'll just show you this just to make the point and the point is this that if you actually take the time to study the word repent, repentance, repented in the Bible, what you'll actually find is that the person who repented the most in the Bible is God himself we already saw there in Genesis chapter 6 that the Lord repented and he is the first one to repent and there is some value in this idea of when a word is first mentioned, in the Bible there is this law of first mention and whenever a word is mentioned for the first time in the Bible, it's important for us to take notice of it because God often is trying to teach us something from the first time a word is mentioned I think it's very interesting that the first time the Holy Spirit of God chose to put the word repentance or repented in the Bible, it is God repenting and I think the reason for that is because God wants us to see that this is something that can be done by anyone and everyone including the almighty God, you're there in Exodus 32 look at verse 14 Exodus 32 verse 14 the Bible says this and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people and of course the word evil in the Bible is not a reference to sin evil simply means to bring hurt and in this case judgment upon the people but I want you to notice that the Bible here tells us that the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do and again, the point that I want you to see is that in the Bible we see more often than not that it is the Lord who is repenting now we see people repent as well and we're going to talk about that but the reason that we need to understand this is because of the fact that if God is repenting then we must understand that repentance is not automatically connected to sin because the misconception that people have today is that they'll say whenever you see the word repent or repentance in the Bible it's repenting of sin even if it doesn't say sin even if it doesn't mention sin you can just assume that every time you see the word repentance, repenteth, repenting, repent that somebody is repenting of sin well if that's true then you would be saying that God is repenting of sin and here's what we know we know that God does not sin God is without sin so if God who is sinless can repent then we can learn from that that repentance is something that is not always connected to sin now let's be sure that there are times when repentance is applied to sin and there are times when people have to repent or should repent of their sins but what I want you to understand is that just because you see the word repent in the Bible it does not automatically mean that somebody is repenting of their sins because God himself repented the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people Jonah chapter 3 towards the end of the Old Testament in fact if you go backwards from the book of Malachi which is the last book in the Old Testament you go backwards, you go past the book of Zechariah past the book of Haggai, past the book of Zephaniah past the book of Habakkuk Nahum, Micah and then Jonah Malachi, Zechariah, Haggai, Zephaniah Habakkuk, Nahum, Micah, Jonah Jonah chapter number 3 I'd like you to do me a favor, put a ribbon or a bookmark I'm going to leave it and we're going to come back to it but I'd like you to notice what the Bible teaches about this idea of repentance and again we're talking about the misconception of repentance telling people that repentance is always repentance of sin is wrong it is biblically inaccurate and it is an error that would make God a sinner if that was true because of the fact that God is often repenting in the Bible we saw that there in Exodus 32, 14 and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people we saw that in Genesis 6, 6 and 7 and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart and the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast and the creeping things and the fowls of the air for it repented me that I have made them now you're there in Jonah chapter 3 I'd like you to look at verse number 9 and notice this again, Jonah 3.9 who can tell? these are the Ninevites, of course we're in the book of Jonah and we've got Jonah who has gone to the city of Nineveh and he has preached the judgment of God unto them and I want you to notice what is said here in Genesis 3.9 they said who can tell if God will turn and repent and again I just want you to notice the reference here to God repenting now they're asking who can tell maybe God will turn and repent maybe God won't bring this judgment that Jonah has been preaching about who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not I'd like you to look at verse number 10 because in verse number 10 we actually see another misconception in verse 9 we see the first misconception and the first misconception is this is referring to repenting of your sins and that simply is not true because if that were true that would make God a sinner because God is often repenting in the Bible then I'd like you to notice a second misconception and the second misconception is this that repenting of your sins is required for salvation now how do we know that that is not true? well if you remember we spent all of the first lesson dealing with the subject of works and salvation and we learned that salvation is not of works we learned about the fact that it's not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us we learned about the fact that for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast now here in Jonah chapter 3 I want you to notice and you need to understand the context Jonah has came and he's came to Nineveh this is the judgment of God he says yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed and these people are getting right with God again there verse 9 Jonah 3 verse 9 who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not but I want you to notice verse number 10 Jonah chapter 3 and verse 10 and God saw their works why don't you notice the Bible tells us here that God looks down on the Ninevites the Bible tells us that God saw what God refers to as their works now what is it that they did that God refers to as their works notice it there and God saw their works that they turned from their evil way now here in a moment we're going to talk about the definition of repentance and I'll prove this to you from the Bible but you need to understand that the word repent means to turn and here the Bible says that God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do it to them and he did it not so again we see another reference to God repenting but I don't want to focus right now on God repenting I want to focus on the fact that they who the people of Nineveh turned from their evil way they turned from those things that were bringing judgment upon them they repented of their sins that's what the Bible is telling us here and the Bible calls that works God calls that works God saw their works that they turned from their evil way so telling people that they have to repent of their sins to be saved we're talking about going to heaven to be spiritually saved is an error that adds works to salvation now you might say well is there not a place for repenting of your sins and we'll talk about that there absolutely is a place for repenting of your sins but what you and I need to understand that the Bible God himself identified someone turning from their evil way and he referred to that as works and we know that salvation is not of works it's not something that is earned so therefore repentance or repenting of your sins specifically cannot be part of salvation because that would be adding works to salvation these are misconceptions that are said so much and they're repeated so often that people just think that it's what the Bible teaches and it's what the word of God says when it absolutely is not go with me if you would to the book of Matthew in the New Testament first book keep your place there in Jonah we're going to come back to Jonah so put something there and go to Matthew chapter number 3 if you would Matthew chapter 3 again I want to be clear what are misconceptions? because maybe you're here this morning and you've had this misconception maybe you were taught some of these things and you were taught inaccurately or incorrectly and it's good for you to clear up some of these misconceptions misconception number 1 every time you see the word repent in the Bible it's referring to sin that's wrong because if that were true that would mean that God is a sinner because the person who repents more than anyone in the Bible is God himself so we need to understand that yes sometimes the word repentance is being applied to sin but sometimes it's not you say well when do we know it's not? well for sure when it's being referred to God we know that it's not referring to sin God is not repenting of sin another misconception is this idea that repenting of your sins is required for salvation or is part of salvation that's wrong because the Bible is clear about the fact that salvation is not a lot of works and the Bible tells us in Jonah 3.10 that when someone turns from their evil way that is a work, Jonah 3.10 and God saw their works that they turned from their evil way so we see that turning from your evil way repenting of your sins cannot be something that is part of salvation you say well why do people have these misconceptions? why do people think this? one of the reasons is because this idea, this phrase repent of your sins repent of your sins is so often quoted and repeated by preachers throughout the ages that people just assume this is something the Bible teaches in fact let me just say this your King James Bible never even once holds this phrase in it, repent of your sins the Bible never even says that phrase repent of your sins now the Bible does teach the concept of repenting of your sins and we'll talk about that here in a minute but what I think is interesting that this phrase is used and used and repeated over and over again by Bible preachers or so called Bible preachers and yet the Bible never even uses that phrase once that phrase repent of your sins I'm talking about those words, repent of your sins, those four words in that order, that phrase in that sentence structure is never once found in the Bible here's what I think is interesting people will sometimes argue with me I'll preach something like this or say something like this and someone will argue with me and will say well the Bible clearly states that someone has to repent of their sins to be saved and what I always ask when somebody says that when somebody makes a statement the Bible teaches you got to repent of your sins to be saved, what I always ask is where? where does the Bible say that? show me in the Bible where the Bible says, now often times people don't even know where to go because they repeat things, they hear but they've never studied it out in the Bible themselves but every once in a while people will say well I'll show you where and they'll take me to a passage like Matthew chapter 3, I'd like you to look at it Matthew chapter 3 they'll say the Bible teaches someone must repent of their sins to be saved and I'll say well the Bible teaches that I'd sure like to see that, please show me that in the Bible and they'll say well I'll show you that and they'll take me to a passage like Matthew 3.10 where the Bible says, and saying repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand and then they'll kind of just look at me like there and and I'll often look down and say well I see the word repent and I see the word ye but where's the word of your sins, where are those words? it doesn't say repent of your sins it says repent ye and then they'll say well yeah but I mean it's understood that when the Bible says repent it's talking about your sins well then we go back to the misconception well that can't be true because God repents and it's not of your sins because God is without sin sometimes they'll take me to a verse like this you're there in Matthew 3, go to Matthew chapter 4 Matthew chapter 4 show me a verse where it says repent of your sins, where the Bible teaches repent of your sins to be saved Matthew chapter 4, 17 they'll say well how about this one, from that time Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand and again I'll ask the question, I'll say I see the word repent but where are these words? repent of your sins because you're adding those words you're adding that thought you're coming to the Bible with a preconceived idea that says every time the Bible used the word repent of course it's talking about repenting of your sins and then you're putting that definition onto the Bible, but that can't be true because we see that God repents and if God repents then the word repent cannot automatically mean repent of your sins and God tells us that when someone turns from their evil way that's a work and the Bible is clear that salvation is not of works repent of your sins cannot cannot be part of salvation well it says it right there so clearly well I don't have a problem with what the Bible says I have a problem with you because the Bible says repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand but what it doesn't say is repent of your sins then they'll maybe take me to another verse and we could do this all day I won't take you to every passage but I'll just give you one more just for fun Mark chapter 6 look at verse 12 Mark chapter 6 and verse 12 Mark 6 12 says this and they went out and preached that men should repent and they're like there you go see they went out and they preached that men should repent of their sins and I'll say it again I see the word preach, I see that word should I see the word men I see the word repent but where does it say of your sins where does it say repent of your sins to be saved I can show you a verse that says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved can you show me a verse that says repent of your sins and you'll be saved you can't because it's not in the Bible now the Bible uses the word repent, repentance, repenting, repentance repentance is a concept found in scripture sometimes I'll preach a sermon like this and then people will accuse me oh that pastor, that preacher, that church they don't believe in repentance we believe in repentance, we just don't believe in adding works to salvation like you do the Bible talks about repentance but we must be careful not to add what you read in a commentary somewhere not to add what you read in some theological book somewhere not to add what you heard on the radio or on the TV or on the internet just add something to the Bible that's not there because the Bible never uses this phrase repent of your sins never even uses it and people try to take you to proof texts and then they take you to verses that say repent but they don't say repent of your sins and we know that repentance cannot automatically always on its own be referring to sin because the person who repented the most in the Bible is God himself and God is without sin and we know that repenting of your sins cannot be part of salvation because God defines someone turning from their evil way as works and we know that works is not part of salvation so we talked about the misconception of repentance, I hope that that helped clear up some of those misconceptions that repentance is not always referring to sin and that repenting of your sins cannot be part of salvation because it's adding works to salvation but now let's talk about the definition of repentance so what does the Bible actually mean when it's using the word repent or repenting or repentance or repenteth, go back to Jonah chapter 3 if you would, Jonah chapter 3 I can look down at verse number 9 again Jonah chapter 3 and verse 9 we saw the misconception of repentance, but now let's look at the definition of repentance and when I say the definition of repentance I mean a biblical definition what does the Bible actually say not what do Bible colleges teach, not what do seminaries teach, not what do commentaries say, not what do theologians say not what do theological studies say, but what does the Bible say look as Baptist the Bible is our boss the Bible should be the final authority of all matters in faith and practice and the question we should always be asking is this, what does the Bible say so what does the Bible say about repentance, how does the Bible define repentance, we talked about the misconception of repentance, let's talk about the definition of repentance there are two things that you need to understand when it comes to how the Bible defines repentance the first is this according to the Bible, the word repent means to turn, we already talked about that, I want you to see it here in Jonah chapter 3, look at verse 9 who can tell if God will notice this phrase, turn and repent turn and repent the Bible serves as its own dictionary and God will often, you'll notice this in the Bible if you look for it that God will often put two words that are synonyms next to each other in order to identify for us what those words mean or what one of those words means or what the definition is and notice here the Bible says who can tell if God will turn and repent, why does it say that? because the word repent means to turn who can tell if God will turn and repent and look at it again turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not so the Bible uses the word turn synonymously with the word repent we saw it here in Jonah chapter 3 let me show it to you in other passages Ezekiel chapter 14 Ezekiel chapter 14, you're there in Jonah if you go backwards you go past the book of Obadiah past Amos, Joel, Hosea, Daniel into the book of Ezekiel Jonah, Obadiah, Amos, Joel, Hosea, Daniel, Ezekiel Ezekiel chapter 14 Ezekiel chapter 14 and look at verse number 6 Ezekiel chapter 14 and verse 6 therefore say unto the house of Israel thus saith the Lord God repent, look at it and turn yourselves from your idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations you think it's a coincidence that when God uses the word repent, he also uses the word turn Jonah 3.9 who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away his fierce anger that we perish not Ezekiel 14.6, therefore say unto the house of Israel thus saith the Lord God, repent and turn yourselves from your idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations the Bible is using these terms together because this is what the word means what does the word repent mean? It means to turn go to Ezekiel chapter 18 you're there in Ezekiel 14, just flip over to Ezekiel chapter 18, look at verse number 30 Ezekiel chapter 18 and verse 30, the Bible says therefore I will judge you O house of Israel everyone according to his ways saith the Lord God notice it, repent and turn repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruin here the Bible again is using these phrases together repent and turn repent and turn turn and repent, why? because the word repent means to turn by the way, I don't want to get ahead of myself because I'll deal with this later on in the sermon, but Ezekiel 18 30 doesn't use the phrase repent of your sins, but the concept is there he says repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions but please understand this this is not talking about salvation this is talking about the judgment of God coming upon a nation and he's telling a nation to repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions so God doesn't destroy do you understand that nations cannot be judged in the next world so they must be judged in this world I always think it's funny when people they want to debate with you the doctrine of salvation when you've got clear books of the Bible like, I don't know, the book of John who the Bible actually tells us, the book of John actually tells us that the purpose of the book of John was to teach us how to be saved and it's the book that brings up the concept and the word believe more than any other book but then people want to take you to Ezekiel to show you how you've got to repent of your sins to be saved listen to me, Ezekiel's not where you want to be going for your gospel presentation Ezekiel is an old testament book that's very difficult to understand and it's Ezekiel dealing with the judgment of God coming upon nations and he's telling the house of Israel repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions but I want you to notice that the word means to turn according to the Bible the word repent means to turn look, I'm not going to lie to you I'm not going to sit here and tell you well you need my theological experience and look, I'm just going to show you what the Bible says and when we want to know what a word means we just look it up in the Bible and we let the Bible tell us what it means we let the Bible define itself I think it's clear, we can look at more passages I won't take the time to do that but I think it's clear that the word repent means to turn who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away his and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not therefore say unto the house of Israel thus saith the Lord God, repent and turn yourselves from your idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations therefore I would judge you O house of Israel, everyone according to his ways saith the Lord God, repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruin let me just give you one more you might say well all those are Old Testament passages okay well let's just look at one in the New Testament go to Luke chapter 17 if you would Luke chapter 17 you start at the beginning of the New Testament Matthew, you have Matthew, Mark, Luke Luke chapter 17 Luke chapter 17 and verse number 4 Luke 17 and verse 4 notice what the Bible says and again this verse I'm showing you is not about salvation it's actually about a brother against another brother and how you ought to forgive him Luke 17 4 and if he trespasses against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day look at the words turn again to thee saying I repent thou shalt forgive him and I'm not preaching on the subject of forgiveness I just want you to notice here that the Bible is using the word turn it's saying if he turns again to thee it says saying I repent why would he say I repent when he turned because that's what the word means the word repent means to turn go to 1 Kings chapter 8 if you would in the Old Testament 1 Kings chapter 8 in the Old Testament if you can find those 1 and 2 books they're all clustered together 1 and 2 Samuel 1 and 2 Kings 1 and 2 Chronicles find 1 Kings chapter 8 we need to nail down and be clear about and understand what the Bible teaches because the Bible tells us that we need to earnestly contend for the faith and the attacks on the doctrines of salvation and the attempts to try to muddy the waters of salvation are literally sending people to hell people need to understand what does the Bible say what does the Bible teach so we're talking about the definition of repentance what does the word repentance mean? the word repent means to turn in a very basic way it means to turn but I want you to notice that there's another idea that goes along with this word and it is this to change your mind the idea of repentance is actually something that happens in your heart see because people say well yeah the word repent means to turn it means you were going in one direction but that's not what the Bible says now sometimes it will produce that but what the Bible actually teaches is that repentance is a turn in your heart it's a turn in your mind what the word actually means is to change your mind let me just give you a couple of examples 1 Kings chapter 8 look at verse 46 1 Kings 8, 46 notice what Solomon says he says, he's praying to God and he's praying to God about the people for the people he says, if they sin against thee for there is no man that sinneth not and I'll be angry with them and deliver them to the enemy so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy far or near look at verse 47 yet if they shall mark this word in your Bible bethink yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whether they were carried captives and mark this word in your Bible repent I want you to notice that the Bible is using the word bethink and the word repent synonymously just like it used the word repent and turn now we can add another synonym and it's this word bethink yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land that carried captives and repent and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives saying we have sinned and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness this word bethink is an older word that we don't use too often today but the definition biblically, the biblical definition of the word bethink is to return to turn to reconsider in your heart or in your mind so here Solomon is saying, look, if the people if they sin against thee for there is no man that sinneth not and thou be angry with them and deliver them to the enemy so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy far or near yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whether they were carried captives and repent and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives after saying we have sinned and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness what is the Bible telling us here when it says bethink it says, if they reconsider if they change their mind if they, the word think is in the word bethink if they change the way they're thinking about something and they repent and they turn where? in their heart, in their mind and Solomon is saying here are their supplications help them let me give you another example, go to 2 Chronicles 6 you're there in 1 Kings you go past 2 Kings past 1 Chronicles into 2 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles 6 the definition of the word repentance is to turn and it is to change your mind 2 Chronicles 6 verse 37 according to the Bible the word repent means to turn and according to the Bible, repent means to change your mind, let me just give you another example 2 Chronicles 6 verse 37 yet if they look at the word, bethink yet if they bethink themselves in the land whether they are carried captive and, don't miss it, look at the word turn notice how these words are being used yet if they bethink themselves in the land whether they are carried away captive yet if they bethink themselves in the land whether they are carried captive and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity saying we have sinned we have done amiss we have dealt wickedly so it's clear that the word repent means to turn and the word repent means to be think and the word bethink means to turn in your heart, to turn in your mind we would say it means to change your mind so what is the definition of repentance? it is a turn in your mind it is a change of mind go to Matthew chapter 21 if you wouldn't Matthew 21 I want to be very clear about what the Bible teaches about these things because I want you to understand what repentance is and what it is that we're supposed to do with this concept of repentance so we talked about the misconception of repentance and the wrong teaching of repentance because we need to just clear that up telling people that repentance is always in reference to repenting of your sins is wrong it is an error that makes God a sinner because God repents more than anyone else in the Bible and telling people that they have to repent of their sins in order to be saved is an error and it is wrong because it is adding works to salvation because when somebody turns from their evil way God refers to that as works then we talked about the definition of repentance the definition of repentance according to the Bible the word repent means to turn and according to the Bible the word repent means to be think or to turn in your heart to turn in your mind we would say to change your mind that's what repent means and by the way, isn't that the application that we see when God repents I mean Genesis 6 He looks down on the earth and it repented God that He made man He's grieved, the Bible says what does that mean? He's regretting it He changes His mind He's like, ah, I should have done this and then He kills all of them except for Noah and there's other times when He's going to bring judgment upon someone but then He repented of the evil that He was going to do He was going to destroy them but then because they did something they repented, they did the right thing then He changes His mind and chooses not to judge them chooses not to destroy them that's what the word means so now that we understand the definition of repentance let's talk about the application of repentance how does this actually apply to us in the Bible and there's two ways that we can apply this and I'd like to explain both of them one is before salvation and one is after salvation what is the application of repentance before salvation? the application of repentance before salvation is this, because remember the word repent means to turn to change your mind, to be think to change in your heart, change in your mind when it comes to salvation what is the thing that condemns you? what is the thing that saves you? well the Bible is clear about the fact that we are saved by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ remember Paul told the Philippian jailer believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved whosoever believeth on the Son hath everlasting life he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him so what saves you? believing on the Lord Jesus Christ what condemns you? not believing so when it comes to repentance in regards to salvation before salvation repentance is to turn from unbelief to belief let me just prove that to you in the Bible, it's very clear because remember our repent of your sins friends out there our repent of your sins heretics out there, they like to take us to all these verses in the New Testament where it just says repent repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand doesn't prove anything but you know that there are some other clear verses that tell you exactly what they meant by that Matthew 21, look at verse 32 Matthew 21, 32 for John came unto you this is Jesus speaking to the Pharisees and he's referring back to what it is that John the Baptist had preached he says for John came unto you in the way of righteousness and ye believed him not so what does Jesus say that the Pharisees failed to do with the preaching of John John the Baptist for John came unto you in the way of righteousness and ye believed him not what did they not do they did not believe him ye believed him not then he contrasts that he says but the publicans and the harlots believed him so he says you didn't believe him but then there's another group that did believe him so look Jesus is being very clear what's the opposite of the Pharisees Pharisees did not believe and the opposite of that is that the publicans and the harlots did believe here's what's interesting about that the Pharisees were these religious people that prided themselves on how holy they were while the publicans and the harlots are known as sinful people but yet the Pharisees believed him not the publicans and the harlots believed him look at the last part of Matthew 21 actually just look at the whole verse just to get the context Matthew 21 32 Jesus speaking for John came unto you in the way of righteousness and ye believed him not but the publicans and the harlots believed him and ye when ye had seen it he's talking to the Pharisees when you saw that the publicans and the harlots believed him and ye when ye had seen it look at what he says repented not afterward that ye might believe him what is Jesus rebuking the Pharisees for he's rebuking them for not repenting because they did not believe ye believed him not and he says if you would have repented that would have caused you to believe repented not afterward that ye might believe him if they would have repented what Jesus is encouraging them to do they would have turned or gone from believe him not to believe him do you understand that's not complicated what does somebody have to do if they want to be saved they have to go from unbelief or from a false belief and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ when it comes to repentance and salvation it's turning from unbelief or false belief to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ but where is it saying here that you got to stop sinning in fact wouldn't it make more sense that if repentance just meant stop sinning that he would tell the publicans and the harlots look you know what a harlot is wouldn't it make more sense that he's telling them you really got to knock this off you really need to stop sinning he's telling the religious people you should have repented repented from what? from unbelief to believe for John came unto you in the way of righteousness and ye believed him not but the publicans and the harlots believed him and ye when he had seen it repented not afterward that ye might believe him so according to Jesus if they would have repented they would have gone from not believing to believing why? because the word repent means to turn or to change your mind and they believed one thing they did not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ they were trusting in their own religion to save them and they had to turn change their mind about that and go from unbelief to believe let me give you another example go to Mark chapter 1 you're there in Matthew, just flip over to Mark chapter 1 Mark chapter 1 and verse 15 Mark 1, 15 notice what the Bible says and saying, again this is Jesus speaking and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand repent ye, look at it and believe the gospel so here, now we have a verse where he's not just saying repent ye and nothing else now he's telling us what he wants you to do or what will produce he's telling us what will be produced if you repent he's telling them the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand repent ye and believe the gospel so if they repent what would be produced as a result of their repentance would be the fact that they would believe the gospel why? because he's talking to people that do not believe the gospel and he's telling them you got to turn, you got to change your mind on that you got to go from not believing to believing go to Acts chapter 19 let me give you another verse Mark Luke John Acts Acts 19 now look the repent of your sins crowd they can't give me one verse where it says repent of your sins to be saved but I've already given you two and I'm going to give you four that clearly state that repentance when it comes to salvation is going from not believing to believing look and this should be clear especially if you're a soul winner when we go out there when we go out there and we knock on people's doors and we ask them do you know for sure if you died today if you're on your way to heaven and some religious person says yes and we ask them well what gives you the confidence what are you trusting in to get you to heaven and they say well I'm a catholic and I've done my catechism and I go to the confessional booth every week and I've done this and I've done that and I've been baptized I was baptized as a baby that's what they're trusting in to save them well that's not going to save them that's works so what do we say we tell them look you got to stop believing and stop putting your trust and confidence in your works and put your confidence and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ the Lord what do they need to do they got to repent if they're trusting in the wrong thing to save them they've got to change their mind the person that says well I think I'm going to go to heaven because I'm a pretty good person I'm going to go through that and start believing that only Jesus can save them that they're a sinner on their way to hell and put their confidence and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ period Acts 19 look at verse 4 then it said Paul John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance now here's why I like Acts 19 because remember I told you earlier that the Bible is its own dictionary well not only is the Bible its own dictionary the Bible is its own commentary so instead of reading all these commentaries by all these heretics just let the Bible comment on itself because in the Gospels you have I showed you some verses where it's a little vague when it says repent what exactly is being referred to here and the Bible says that John the Baptist preached the baptism of repentance and that might seem a little vague like what does that mean but here in Acts 19 the apostle Paul is actually going to tell us what that means look at it Acts 19 then said Paul John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people so now Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost is going to be a commentary for us and he's going to explain to us what exactly was it that John the Baptist was preaching John the Baptist was preaching the baptism of repentance then said Paul John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people look at it that they should believe on him which should come after him that is on Christ Jesus so when John the Baptist shows up and he's preaching the baptism of repentance when he's going through all those verses that people like to show us where John is saying repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand exactly what it is that Paul that John was actually teaching and what he was actually saying and he was saying unto the people that they should believe why? because salvation doesn't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ that they should believe on him which should come after him that is on Christ Jesus so look the Bible is clear and people sometimes they like to say ah those people they don't believe in repentance no we don't believe in adding works to salvation but if you want to ask us you know what do you believe about repentance and salvation do you believe that repentance applies to salvation? absolutely listen a Muslim needs to turn away from his belief and Allah and repent and change his mind and put his faith on the Lord Jesus Christ do you understand that? Jesus said I am the way the truth and life no man cometh unto the Father but by me a Hindu needs to stop putting their faith in that false religion of Hinduism and needs to repent in their heart and in their mind they need to turn and change and go from trusting in Hinduism to trusting on the Lord Jesus Christ that's repentance for salvation an atheist is not going to get saved continuing to not believe in God they need to go from unbelief and not believing in God not believing in the true God the Lord Jesus Christ before salvation repentance is to turn to change your mind to go from unbelief or false belief to true belief in the Lord Jesus Christ go to Hebrews let me give you another one Hebrews chapter 6 if you go backwards from the end of the Bible from the book of Revelation 32nd and 1st John, 2nd and 1st Peter, James and then Hebrews Revelation, Jude, 32nd and 1st John, 2nd and 1st Peter, James and Hebrews Hebrews chapter 6 this is the last one that I'll show you to prove this point but I do want to just give you several proof texts for this because the Bible is clear Matthew 21 32 for John came unto you in the way of righteousness and you believed him not when ye had seen it, repented not afterward that ye might believe him Mark 1 15 and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand repent ye and believe the gospel Acts 19 4 then said Paul John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people that they should believe on him which should come after him that is on Christ Jesus look at Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 1 Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 1 therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ let us go unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance and he's telling them look he's telling them in Hebrews 6 repentance is something that should be pretty basic we don't have to lay that foundation again we don't have to reopen that issue he says therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ let us go unto perfection unto maturity unto completion not laying again the foundation of repentance not laying again the foundation of repentance or repentance of what? repentance of sin? no, look what he says not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works you know that the Bible actually says that what you should be repenting from is your works now the false religions say no, repent of your sin God says no, repent of your works why would God want you to repent of your good works here's why because if you're trusting in your good works to save you, you're going to die and go to hell so he says repentance from dead works look at it, what's the opposite of turning from dead works what's the opposite of dead works? repentance from dead works and a faith toward God because we talked about it last week works is opposite of faith so you repent from dead works and you go on to faith toward God not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and a faith toward God you repent from your dead works here's what I think is interesting too and I'm not preaching on this, I'll just bring this up James says faith without works is dead we talked about that last week but here the Bible tells us that works without faith is also dead so all these people out there that are doing good works but their faith is not in Jesus Christ you know what the Bible says? The Bible says their works are dead they're not going to help them they're not going to do anything for them so what should they do? they should repent from their dead works and they should turn in faith towards God go to Revelation chapter 2 if you would last book in the New Testament should be fairly easy to find we talked about the misconception of repentance we talked about the definition of repentance now we're talking about the application of repentance how does repentance actually get applied to the doctrine of salvation? and the way that repentance works in regards to salvation before salvation repentance is simply to turn from unbelief to belief from a false belief to a true belief if you're trusting in some false God false idol false religion no life works no God you can't go to heaven while trusting those things you have to put your trust your faith, your confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ and that's going to require you turning you changing your mind you be thinking yourself and saying I'm going to go from unbelief to belief in the Lord Jesus Christ that's repentance before salvation you say what about after salvation? well after salvation and I want to be clear with this God definitely expects us to be repenting of our sins but not to be saved to be right with God God wants you to repent of your sins not to be saved but because you are saved we already talked about it last week that repentance we talked about it in the last lesson that salvation is not a work and we're going to talk about it in the next lesson that you can't lose your salvation and what we need to understand is this that no matter what you do you can't earn it you can't lose it but once you have it, once you're saved God wants you to have a good relationship with Him God wants you to have a right relationship with Him and there is this aspect of repenting of your sins not for salvation but because you're saved not to stay saved but to be right with God now there's lots of places we could go for this I'm not going to take the time to take you to a lot of places I'm just going to give you a couple examples here in Revelation chapter 2 in Revelation 2 and 3 we have the Lord Jesus Christ speaking to the 7 churches in Asia and these 7 churches are 7 congregations of believers and He's constantly telling them to repent and they're already saved He's not telling them to repent to be saved He's telling them to repent to get right I'm not going to take the time to take you through all of those let me just give you a couple examples in Revelation chapter 2 look at verse 5 this is Jesus speaking to the church at Ephesus in Revelation 2 5 He says remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of his place except thou repent so notice that Jesus is telling a church here you need to repent you need to remember therefore from whence thou art fallen because they've gotten backslidden He says remember how it used to be and repent and get back to the things you used to do and do the first works and then He says or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of his place He doesn't say or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy salvation He doesn't say that He says remove thy candlestick Well if you go to Revelation 1 it's clear that the candlesticks represent the church He says I'm going to take away your church I'm going to stop acknowledging you as a church I'm going to stop blessing you as a church except thou repent so does God want believers to repent of their sins yeah after you're saved He wants you to repent of your sins to quit sinning to get sin out of your life but not for salvation we don't do anything for salvation but once you're saved God is your heavenly Father and you want to have a good relationship with God Let me give you another example, Revelation 2 verse 21 Revelation 2 21 Here we have the church in Thyatira Revelation 2 21 Notice what Jesus says to this church He says and I gave her He's specifically speaking to a woman preacher a Jezebel who's committing fornication and adultery and preaching heresy and He says and I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not behold I will cast her into a bed and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation except they repent of their deeds so look I'm not up here telling you you don't ever have to repent of your sins I am telling you you don't have to repent of your sins to be saved that would be worse you need to put your faith in Jesus Christ and if your faith is in something else or someone else or you're trusting in something else you do need to change your mind about that repent of that and put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ but once you're saved once you're saved you should be repenting of your sins in fact you should be repenting of your sins everyday you know why cause you sin everyday go to Acts chapter 17 if you would Acts chapter 17 Matthew, Mark, Luke, John Acts Acts chapter 17 The Christian life is not just salvation is not just salvation you understand that salvation is just the beginning in fact the Christian life is a series of new beginnings we're constantly not getting saved again we're saved one time we'll talk about that in the next lesson but everyday we begin afresh we begin new the Bible says that it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed His mercies are new everyday great is thy faithfulness so everyday we get to begin new with God it is a series of new beginnings the Bible says if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness so yes when there's sin in our lives when there's sin that needs to be dealt with we should confess it we should turn from it we should repent but not for salvation it's because of salvation it's to have a right relationship with God let me just share a few verses with you out of Acts in regards to repentance and we'll finish it up I'd just like to highlight these for you in Acts 17 and verse 30 you're there in Acts go to Acts chapter 17 if you would and verse 30 look at what the Bible says Acts 17 30 the Bible says this and the times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent how can the Bible say that God is commanding all men everywhere to repent well when you understand that repentance can be applied because the word is not just automatically always talking about sin that it can be applied to salvation when someone turns from unbelief to belief and for those of us that are saved it can be applied to sin because we should be turning away from sin unto righteousness so God commandeth all men everywhere to repent and that is clear and we understand that because it applies to both salvation not repenting of your sins but repenting of unbelief and after salvation look at Acts chapter 20 and verse 21 Acts chapter 20 verse 21 the Bible says testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks look at these words repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ that is in regards to salvation that is going from unbelief to belief repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ look at Acts 20 and verse 20 excuse me go to Acts 26 real quickly we'll finish up right here we've been talking about this concept of repentance we talked about the misconception of repentance what are the misconceptions out there? the first one is telling people that repentance is always repentance of sin that is an error that makes God a sinner to tell people that every time you see the word repent in the Bible it's repenting of sin that's wrong because the person that repents the most in the Bible is God himself and God is without sin and telling people that you have to repent repent of your sins in order to be saved is adding works to salvation it's wrong and it's adding works to salvation because God said that he saw their works when they turn from their evil way then we talked about the definition of repentance and the definition of repentance according to the Bible is simply to turn and it's simply to change your mind to rethink, according to the Bible the word repent means to turn according to the Bible the word repent means to change your mind and then we saw the application of repentance we saw that before salvation repentance is to turn from unbelief or false belief to true belief to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and we saw that after salvation repentance is to turn from sin not to be saved but to be right with God because you are saved I want you to notice here in Acts 26 and verse 20 we find both repentance before salvation and repentance after salvation Acts 26 verse 20 but it showed first unto them of Damascus and at Jerusalem and throughout all the coast of Judea and then to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God that's salvation and then he says do works meet for repentance the word meet means suitable he says you should repent and turn to God and turn to God that's salvation and then once you've repented and turned towards God and faith believing on God turning from unbelief or false belief then you should do works not for salvation but you should do works meet for repentance that are suitable for repentance and we should turn from sin not to be saved but because we are saved we should be right with God let's bow our heads in that word of prayer Heavenly Father, Lord we do love you Lord we thank you for the clear teaching of the Bible it is an unfortunate thing that false teachers and false preachers muddy these clear teachings and because of their false teaching it makes something that's so clear and so easy to understand something that needs to be taught and explained in such a way where we have to begin with the false teaching and dismantle that misconceptions so that people can understand the clear teaching of the Bible Lord I pray you to help us to be people who understand these things help us to be people who love the Bible and who ask the question what does the Bible say what does the Bible teach about these things help us to always be crystal clear on the doctrine of salvation we love you in Jesus name we pray Amen we're going to have brother Matt come up and lead us in a final song I would like to just remind you that we would love for you to join us tonight at 6pm for the evening service and tonight we're going to begin a brand new verse by verse Bible study in the book of Obadiah Obadiah is only one chapter it's not long it's the shortest Old Testament book in the Bible and we're going to spend a couple of weeks in it but I want to encourage you to be here and I want to encourage you this afternoon take some time take just a couple minutes and read the book of Obadiah and then be ready to study it together and if you have any good notes or insights just send those to me before the service that would be helpful of course and maybe you're not really sure what the book of Obadiah is about we'll learn about it tonight together and of course just one more opportunity to be in God's house with God's people under the preaching of the word of God and I can't think of a better thing for a Christian to do than to be with God's people so we'd love for you to join us tonight at 6pm if there's anything we can do for you please let us know we'll have Brother Matt come up and lead us in a final song Turn to song 324 Song 324 324 On the first I am thine, O Lord And I heard thy voice And it told Thy love to me But I long to Rise in the arms Of faith And be closer drawn to thee Draw me nearer Nearer, blessed Lord To the cross where thou hast died Draw me nearer Nearer, blessed Lord To thy precious, bleeding side Consecrate me now To thy service, Lord By the power of grace divine Let my soul look up With a steadfast hope And my will be lost in thine Draw me nearer Nearer, blessed Lord To the cross where thou hast died Draw me nearer Nearer, blessed Lord To thy precious, bleeding side O the pure delight Of a single hour That before thine throne I spend When I kneel in prayer And with thee my God I commune as friendly friend Draw me nearer Nearer, blessed Lord To the cross where thou hast died Draw me nearer Nearer, nearer Blessed Lord To thy precious, bleeding side Good, on the last There are depths of love That I cannot know Till I cross the narrow sea There are heights of joy That I may not breach Till I rest in peace with thee Draw me nearer Nearer, blessed Lord To the cross where thou hast died Draw me nearer Nearer, nearer Nearer, blessed Lord To thy precious, bleeding side To thy precious, bleeding side To thy precious, bleeding side