Repentance Is Ongoing - Christopher Brenyo
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Clip from Pastor Christopher Brenyo's sermon on Mark 1:5-8. Watch the full sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrMUd5ylpG4
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- The Gospel, even for us, starts with repentance and confession.
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- You have no capacity to understand Christ and His Gospel before you have a grasp of your own sinful condition.
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- And it seems fitting that John would be pointing out to the people whom the
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- Messiah was intended to save in terms of their national identity, their character, their ethnicity, who they were as the visible people of God.
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- They would understand that central to the Gospel is this idea of repentance.
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- So John is taking the shift here and saying repentance is at the heart of the
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- Gospel. Repentance is at the very center of what Christ is doing in delivering and saving
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- His people from their sins. Today, most all of you are professing believers, and you started with repentance and confession.
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- I wonder if that's something that's ongoing for you now. Are you a repenter?
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- Are you a confessor? Are you turning away from your sin? Are you running and fleeing again to the safety and security of Christ?
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- The Gospel -believing Christian does that routinely.
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- They run again to Christ. They're confronted again with their sinfulness. They're confronted again with their lack of holiness.
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- They're confronted, as we prayed, with their blood guiltiness, their borderline blasphemy, their borderline apostasy.
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- Every day we're confronted with that, and we're to turn again and look to our God for grace and mercy in our health and time of need.
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- He's provided for us in Christ. So this idea of baptism for repentance and this idea of repentance is not a once -for -all kind of thing.