Does Everyone Have an Opportunity to Repent?

Andrew Rappaport's Rapp Report Daily

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Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Does everybody have an opportunity to repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ?

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You sometimes hear this argument worded as if someone in a tribal village in Africa doesn't know who

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Jesus is and therefore they don't have an opportunity to believe in Christ.

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However, what we see in Romans chapter 1 is that everybody knows

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God. Everybody knows God exists. So there are without excuse.

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So we have to recognize is, yes, everybody has an opportunity to repent and trust in Jesus Christ because they know

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God. Even the atheist, well, they're actually a professing atheist, because they actually know, according to Romans 1, that God exists, but they suppress that truth in unrighteousness.

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God has not only given us creation to realize He exists, He's not only given us a

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God consciousness so we know that He exists, but He has given us a conscience so that we know right from wrong and know when we do wrong, we are out of favor with Him and must get right.

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So yes, every time we sin, we feel that guilt, and that is an opportunity of the

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Holy Spirit working on us to bring us to repentance. But some resist, and some do not.

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This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.