Repentance

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Our father in heaven We come before you this morning thankful thankful that the
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Lord Jesus Christ would condescend to save such as us Lord as we are in Christ, we think of all the blessings that are ours because of him because you have placed us in him
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Father you keep us in him And we praise you for that and Lord as we gather here this morning.
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We would pray for Our time and the time of those upstairs. Just pray that it would be one that would be
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Glorifying to you and edifying to us as we just think about all the things that you do for us and in us and father as we look at Repentance, I pray that you would bless us here this morning that we think rightly about that and Not overdo it or under do it and we pray for these things in Jesus name.
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Amen Well, I have been thinking about repentance for a while.
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So I thought I'd do I'll probably do a few Sunday school classes on it This morning. We'll kind of give
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I Don't you want to say we're gonna give it an interview and an interview. We're gonna interview repentance this morning.
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Mr. repentance, would you like to know I Have a sermon that I've chopped up from Spurgeon and I'm gonna introduce that in a moment
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But just kind of do that this morning and then we'll talk a few more times about repentance
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About what it is what it isn't I'd like to do it next week too, but we won't because next week is the report from Alaska.
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So Okay, open your Bibles to Ezekiel 36, please as we continue verse by verse preaching through the book of Ezekiel I Just I couldn't resist that Ezekiel 36, that'd be a challenge verse by verse
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Especially chapter 1 Ezekiel 36 beginning in verse 28 Ezekiel 36 28
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You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers And you shall be my people and I will be your
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God and I will deliver you from all your uncleanness And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you
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I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant That you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations
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Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good and you will loathe
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Yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations It is not for your sake that I will act declares the
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Lord God Let that be known to you be ashamed and confounded for your ways
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Oh house of Israel thus says the Lord God on the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities
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I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places shall be rebuilt and The land that was desolate shall be tilled
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Instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who pass by and they will say this land that was desolate
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Became like the Garden of Eden and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited then the nations are
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Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the Lord I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate.
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I am the Lord I have spoken and I will do it
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That's the national promise, of course to restore Israel It's not a personal promise to us, but a national promise to Israel.
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I Want to just point that out for the context a little bit But it's given to restore.
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Well, I mean just reading that what would you say was the point of that? Was it? Primarily for the benefit of Israel.
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Let's put it that way. What did he say? What did the Lord say there? Why is he doing it so people could see is specifically which people what's that?
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Everybody around them the whole world Why because in the ancient world if your
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God was weak what happened to you? You got steamrolled.
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You got conquered, right? If your God was strong, then you were safe.
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You had fortified cities. You dwelt in fortified cities you were Safe and actually to be feared verse 31
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Gives a good route or a good view of Repentance and that's really where Spurgeon has this focus and where we will go in a moment, but God takes action and then the people
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Repent or he says they will repent You will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations
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So, I mean even just looking at that. What are some of the things we could think about repentance in other words
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If we were to say if we were to apply this personally to ourselves How would we view what repentance is turning around which is the definition of it, right?
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How about this? How about you hate your sin, right it says right there You will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good and what and you will loathe
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Yourselves for your iniquities. In other words, you think back on what you did how you sinned against God I mean
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I could be reading Psalm 51 right now and We'll get to Psalm 51 in a few weeks here hate your sin.
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You hate yourself for what? If you say that you love God and then you sin profoundly against him
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You say what? I can't believe I Did that I can't believe I? Betrayed the
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Lord Jesus Christ after all he's done for me. I can't believe I did that Against him again and again as we go through this we'll be confronted by this truth.
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It is God who grants repentance both at the time of salvation and Subsequent to salvation.
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Let me just say that again it is God who grants repentance both at the time of salvation and subsequent to salvation
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Why do I talk about repentance during set during salvation if we think about what the
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New Testament says about? Repentance, let me see if this strikes a chord with you. Does this phrase seem familiar?
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repent and believe Does that does that ring a bell for anybody? I don't know
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Maybe you guys haven't read the New Testament yet Repent and believe and then why would we need to repent after we're saved
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Joni? Because we continue to sin So repentance is not you know once for all
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Kind of thing let's look at 2nd
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Timothy 2 verses 24 to 26 and Again in context this is given to Pastor Timothy Who is being instructed on how he needs to Behave and conduct himself, but it is it and that's what the
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Lord's servant means means as he's the pastor here, but It's good for us to remember remember this and there's a very
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Valuable principle here to who would read verses 24 to 26 of 2nd
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Timothy 2 Dan you ever thank you do you ever you know you're dealing with an unbeliever and They're being obstinate and you want them to believe and and you know
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I think about this verse And I'm just like what I really want to do sometimes is you know beat them
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Severely about the head and shoulders spiritually speaking so that they you know they either Believe or they're embarrassed not to believe right
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But he says here Correcting his opponents with gentleness and listen here's the important part
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God may perhaps grant them Repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth now this doesn't just apply to unbelievers, but also to believers we want to Present the truth to them believers who are in sin believers who even have wrong doctrine and Presented to them with gentleness because it's not us that's going to convince them that they're wrong
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It's God who has to convince them that they're wrong by his word yes But ultimately it's
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God who has to do it and they've been verse 26 tells us
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Captured by Satan to do his will and so it's not a matter of I mean we want them to repent
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But it's not a matter ultimately of us Convincing them it's God, and it's also a matter of them escaping the snare of Satan So now let's see let's go to a
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Spurgeon here And I like he starts out with talking about the sovereignty of God, which is good, and then he gets more into repentance so Spurgeon the operations of God's grace are attended with such omnipotent energy
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That he is able to say to men a new heart also I will give you and a new spirit
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I will put within you right this is the new covenant, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you and give you a heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes
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And you shall keep my judgments and do them yet while the Lord speaks thus to them they are still men as Much men as they were before and indeed their manhood is more perfect than it was before yet God wins his way and does with them according to his own will
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Now if we just back up where we were in Ezekiel 36 if we just back up to verse 26
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We read what he's talking about there verse 26 and listen to the words again and notice
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Because Spurgeon's gonna he's underlining it for us the sovereignty of God in this verse
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Ezekiel 36 26 and I will give you a new heart and a new spirit
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I will put within you and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and Give you a heart of flesh
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We think rightly about the sovereignty of God and salvation how God takes those who are dead in their sins and trespasses
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It gives them life sometimes what we kind of gloss over is what
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I read in 2nd Timothy that God is sovereign and also in repentance right and Spurgeon says this about 36 26 he says we noticed in our reading and what a kingly style the
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Lord speaks all throughout this chapter he does not say if or but but he says
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I will and you shall So it's God moves and then man responds and this teaching or and this teaches us that God is
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Omnipotent even in the regions of what he calls free agency
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People like free will they like to talk about free will how free is our will
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That's a good question. How free is our will? Joni, it's free to do sin
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Right. It's free within our nature.
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So if we have a new nature, we have new desires and therefore there's freedom in that But just in in in this context,
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I'm thinking it's as free as God lets it be right God can turn our will
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God can change our will and There are people who resent that and I have a term for those people.
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I shouldn't say Because it's not always true. What why would a believer resent the sovereignty of God?
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Why would a believer resent the sovereignty of God? What do you think? pride
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Charlie Okay, I think that's true.
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I think for some people it probably messes with their evangelism, right? You want to walk up to people and say
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God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life And you know kind of go off on that but and then they say well
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What about the problem of evil and you get sidetracked and all that and it's a big problem The idea of a sovereign
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God can be problematic, especially when it comes to evil I think there's another reason that believers don't like it and that's just that they don't understand it and I think when we come to Embrace the sovereignty of God and really fully understand it
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We thank God for it If we understand ourselves rightly and and I think pride definitely is an issue
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If we understand ourselves and our sin and our deadness in sin before God makes us alive
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Then we love his omnipotence Because it was only God who could save me. I couldn't save myself, right?
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I Couldn't raise myself from spiritual death unto spiritual life. It had to be God Spurgeon says by lavishing his goodness upon Undeserving persons who willfully rejected his authority and despised his vengeance, right?
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They both hated the fact that God's in charge and they hated his wrath the idea that he's going to punish sin
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He at last brought them to submission by the wondrous power of his grace
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He slew their enmity and caused love to take place He sets his affections on someone he draws them and the result of that is they no longer hate him, but they
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Love him then he says that is not however quite the subject on which
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I'm going to speak at this time I love how Caspers and had these competing Streams of thoughts, you know, he's like pastor
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Mike times 12 because you know he would Decide very late what he was actually going to preach after studying a number of things all week
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He would decide late what he was going to preach and then just kind of pull these streams of thought out of his head and speak
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He says although it leads up to it the sovereignty of God leads up to it He says there are many persons who are truly awakened and anxious about their souls and who are really seeking to be reconciled to God But there is a great difficulty in their way
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They say they cannot repent they cannot repent
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Spurgeon said he received many letters that read like this You know dear pastor,
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I don't know what they called him Chuck Spurgey, I don't know
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I am anxious to be reconciled to God. I do I think Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ But my faith is feeble and I am afraid
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I am not saved because I cannot feel that sorrow for sin Which I would like to feel if I could
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I would break my heart and weep for my iniquities but alas I do not find myself to be of an emotional character and I cannot stir my soul to that intense anguish
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Which I have heard some speak of May I still hope that my faith will save me question mark in other words
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I want to feel worse than I do. I Think I believe but I don't I'm not convicted enough
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Could I still be saved am I saved so he starts with?
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This he says many persons have a mistaken idea of what repentance is and there are several that he gives here for For I think first Some confound it confuse it with morbid self -accusation in other words they believe that they have to Really think horribly of themselves in order to repent
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It must have struck you in reading the autobiographies of certain good men that in the description of their lives before conversion
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They put the coloring on very heavily. I Do not think that they are always wise and so doing but it must be not be forgotten that very often
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They write their own biographies in after years later on in life when having seen much of God's love
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They get a clearer apprehension of what sin really is In other words when they you know, if I write my autobiography late in life the one that nobody would read
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You know, I might make myself more of a scoundrel than I really was in real life, which would be hard to do but I might
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He goes on to say it is enough for you to go and confess the truth and to be sorrowful That you have hitherto forgotten your
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God that your thoughts have been Turned away from the true center that you have lived for yourself and hence
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Listen been an enemy of the Most High Go and confess that to the Lord, but do not bring against yourself a morbid self -accusation, which is not true in God's sight and he goes on to say
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I Think I could probably cut this out where he says that you know If you were not the chief of all sinners, don't say you were the chief of all sinners.
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He says it's good to have penitence The state of being penitent regret for one's wrongdoing or sinning or contrition.
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That's good Just don't you know get carried away with it? Let's look at 2nd
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Corinthians chapter 7 verses 9 and 10 Because I think there is a sense in which some people confuse the idea of abject and he'll develop this a little bit more but Really feeling horrible about yourself with repentance 2nd
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Corinthians 7 verses 9 and 10 and who has that people? Thank you people get sorrowful and Mourn and get you know suffer through long periods of sadness
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But those things do not necessarily mean they're repentant, right?
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There's a repenting that God causes there's a repenting that leads to godliness and salvation and a
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Reunification as it were with God and then there's a grief that's just grief
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It's a worldly sorrow. It's sometimes just the sorrow of being caught being revealed
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But that's not ultimately a work of God in the sense that it changes your heart
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And it says there that worldly grief produces death meaning not that you're going to die instantly, but it's spiritual death
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There's no there's no life in it And another error he says beyond Morbid self -accusation is this he says again some think that repentance means the dread of hell and a sense of wrath
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But a sense of God's wrath against sin is not repentance It generally goes with it frequently attends it but repentance is a change of mind as Bob said with regard to sin with regard to Everything and I want to underline that with regard to everything and When we look at Psalm 51
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Here in a few weeks. I want to just think about this the attitude of David as he is caught in really gross sin and What we'll see afterwards is not
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Finger pointing excuse making anything of that nature It's a change of mind
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With regard to sin with regard to everything how we view ourselves What we did our position with God everything
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Indeed, and it is a consciousness that sin is sin that you have committed it
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It is a sorrow to you that you have committed it and a resolve in God's strength that you will escape from it a holy
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Desire and longing to be rid of sin which you Which has done you so much mischief in the words of the child's hymn?
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repentance is to leave the sins we loved before and Show that we and earnest grieve by doing so no more
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And I thought about that a little bit, you know, I Think that's an oversimplification for this reason
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If you repent of a sin, does that mean you will never commit it again? For example, you know and some may may say well then what kind of repentance was it?
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Let's say once in your life you told the lie and Then you repented of it. Did you ever lie again for the rest of your life?
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And if you did was that first repentance false? Was it a false repentance?
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And I I would say Probably not right,
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I Mean, I think and and here's my point. Sometimes I think people are too easy to say, you know,
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I'm sorry about this or You know even please forgive me for that without really thinking about it just kind of saying you know what?
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Yeah, I lied. Sorry about that But there's no change of mind as bob said there's not really an ultimate
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Kind of self -examination. It's just kind of a spur of the moment. Yeah. Sorry about that But I think the idea that we're going to sin and repent and then never repeat the sin again
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You know, what did jesus say? How many times are we to forgive somebody? 70 times 7 so we keep track we get to 491 and then it's it's over Hasta la vista, baby the point is that we
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Continue to forgive but also You know that that person might commit the same sin
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Repeatedly that's possible now
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I'll just take personal ownership If I lie to you and say please forgive me and then in the next breath
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I tell another lie Was my repentance genuine? I think there's reason to question that right spurgeon goes on he says and there is
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Very much of real repentance, which is not accompanied by a dread of hell at all It is sweetened by a sense of love rather than embittered by a dread of vengeance
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Do not therefore confuse things that differ in other words When a believer repents of sin it's not because of a dread of hell, right it ought to be out of Mourning because he sinned against god and he's sinned against someone else third error that he cites
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A very gross mistake indeed is made by some who imagine that unbelief despondency and despair are repentance
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These things are as wide As the poles ascender in other words, these are as far apart as they can be
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No doubt there are many who are who ultimately come to christ who for a time think they are two great
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Sinners to be saved there. They sin too much. You know anybody like that I've known people like that and I in my mind i'm like i'm convinced that this person will not bow the knee to christ
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I mean first of all, you know from a divine perspective because god hasn't quickened them god hasn't enabled them to believe
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But from a human perspective because they think they're so bad. They can't be redeemed That they're so far beyond The pale they're so much worse a sinner than anybody else that they can't be saved
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Spurgeon says do I commend them for thinking so? Far from it
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They imagine a lie and how can it be right for us to believe that which isn't true
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No doubt many who come to christ do for a while despair of ever being saved But is it necessary that you and I should do so?
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By no means for to despair of being saved is to give the lie to god's own truth
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And that can never be the right thing for anyone to do in other words for anyone to say I can't be saved
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I'm too bad of a person Denies the truth of god denies his gospel denies his word
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God is true spurgeon says and has declared that whosoever will trust his son shall be saved
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If I turn around and say I cannot be saved and I cannot trust christ. I do as far as in me lies
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Poor indignity upon god. I insult him for I doubt his word and I distrust his son
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Who is worthy of all confidence? That sort of thing cannot be repentance on the contrary it is something that needs to be repented of If you have no such doubts and no such despair be glad you have not
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For they are not of god, but they are evil in other words He's saying if you don't think this way if you don't believe
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I'm, not saved because I can't be saved because i'm too wicked good because That's good thinking those those kind of thoughts are evil
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I mean are there times when as a believer you despair and just go I can't believe I just did that I can't believe
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I would even think that There could be those times But that doesn't remove you from The hand of god nothing can take you out of the hands of god
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To come like a little child and say I know that I have done wrong and i'm very sorry for it
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And I wish to set it right I find that christ can set me right and I trust him to do it
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That is the way to repent of sin and trust the savior Though my sins are dark as night, right?
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He can cleanse me And joni mentioned this in one sense
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This is just me speaking in one sense repentance is an ongoing process If we think of first john 1
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Verses 8 to 10 we would read this If we say we have no sin We deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us
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If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
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If we say we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us in other words This is the kind of repentance where we look we examine ourselves and we say
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I agree with god. I confess I look at my life and I see the things that are not consistent with what
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I should be doing that violate the word of god And I agree with him I should be condemned for those things but thanks be to god that because i'm in christ jesus
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I'm, not condemned In fact in christ jesus I stand before him justified spotless
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Not because of what i've done but because of what christ has done On the other hand if I say that I have no sin that I Don't understand what sin is
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The fourth objection or the fourth wrong view. He says do not let me Be misunderstood in another observation that I make namely that the repentance which saves the soul
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The repentance which is necessary to salvation is not a full and complete view of the guilt of sin
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In other words when you come to salvation You don't necessarily understand the full gravity of sin
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Why would that be? Well, that's especially true, right? And and his point was When you first get saved and i'll read some more of it when you first get saved though, you understand
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The the more gross sins the bigger sins the sins usually of Action, you know of things that you've done.
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What's the word? Oh commission What we fail to understand and what we learn as we go on are the sins of omission, right?
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the things that we fail to do that we're supposed to do the The way we fail to worship god and love him with our heart soul mind and strength those kind of things
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Love our neighbors ourself all these Kind of things so as we go on, you know, this is why
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I think It was easy for paul when he was saved Because he'd just been involved in murder and the persecution of the church and everything to think what a great sinner he was
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And then as time goes on The smaller sins become even bigger in his eyes, right?
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And I think that's true for most of us as we grow in sanctification We see more and more sin
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Spurgeon says this says you will understand me when I say that No living man has ever had a full and complete
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View of the guilt of his sin Right, we don't fully understand it if we If we understood all of our sin, then we would have a godlike view of our sin and we don't
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But we see that the guilt of sin or we see the guilt of sin more as we grow in grace
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Than we do at first the value of divine grace grows with a man as experience strengthens his judgment and enlightens his heart
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His true estimate of the guilt of sin will daily increase And listen to this
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I suppose that the truest repentance is that of a man who is just entering heaven
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Right at that moment, you know the full view of his sin is
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Is probably obvious to him because sin is being Removed done away with as he enters heaven
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Therefore the repentance which saves is not absolutely perfect or fully developed
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If there be but the germ of it just this much actual repentance That thou dost sincerely wish to be delivered from sin
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If thou dost searly hate the sin, which thou didst once love thou hast the repentance that saves thee and thou and that And though thou will hate sin more and more by and by uh
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Thou will be able to avoid it more by and by as thou art more completely sanctified by the holy spirit
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Repentance is also a sense of shame for having lived in it having lived in sin
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And a longing to avoid it It is a change of the mind. Thanks bob with regard to sin a turning of the man right around That's what it is and it is wrought in us by the true grace of god
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Now some mistaken ideas about the place of repentance Meaning the importance of it
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Spurgeon, I do not suppose I am addressing very many who have fallen into the popular notion that repentance is the procuring
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Cause of the grace of god Yet it is a very common notion I repent
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Therefore what? i'm saved Or even this one spurgeon writes it this way.
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Well, I do my best says one And god is just so I have no doubt I shall have my due reward
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Oh, yes, you will But you commit sin.
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Do you not? Yes, he replies But then I am sorry for it and I try to get right again as soon as I can
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What's wrong with that line of thinking I try to get right as soon as I can You can't you can't do it
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I mean what you know This reminds me of the prophets of baal what am I going to do to make myself right cut my arms, you know
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Look, i'm really sorry about my sin another mistaken idea about the place of repentance
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There are some who think that repentance is a preparation for grace They hope they shall receive the grace of god if they repent.
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This is very similar to the other one Spurgeon says but my dear friend if you repent
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That very fact is a proof that you already have the results of grace and that god has looked on you with love
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For you to say I must repent first reminds me of the supposed roman miracle of saint dennis and I love this
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This is this is a man who was made a saint in the roman catholic church and listen to what he did He had his his head was cut off.
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He picked it up in his hands and walked away with it As far as it says I forget how many miles a french wits rather clever frenchman said
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Uh, it was easy enough for him to walk so many miles after he had taken the first step Uh After he'd taken the first step that was the only one that had any difficulty about it
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If only he could manage that he could manage all the rest Sure why not
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In like manner if repentance be the first step towards god and the sinner can take that by himself
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Well, then he could take all the rest and he need not trouble himself about the grace of god because it is not needed
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This is a new kind of monergism, right? We believe in monergistic salvation that is to say god does all the work but this is like god
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Man does all the work and god is the bystander The man could do the whole work of salvation to the very end if he can by himself take the first step of repentance
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Third wrong place of repentance says there are others who think that repentance is a qualification for faith in christ
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Such a person says if I have repented of sin, I can then believe in jesus
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If I am conscious of my guilt, I may then come and cast myself upon christ
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Spurgeon again Discussing his dear friend. He says my dear friend I know that you will never cast yourself upon christ until you are conscious of sin
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For men do not usually eat until they feel hungry and they do not clothe themselves till they realize they are naked
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It is well for you to have a sense of your iniquity, but at the same time it is no qualification for believing in jesus
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Christ jesus came into the world to save sinners The only qualification a physician needs is his patient think that he is sick
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The qualification for pardon from christ is guilt The qualification for imparting his fullness is your emptiness
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That is all and if you feel yourself so empty that you cannot even feel your emptiness
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If you feel yourself to be so hard that you do not even think you feel your hardness Well, then you are just the kind of man that jesus christ came to save If there is no good thing in you whatsoever then you can be saved by Believing on the lord.
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Jesus christ right here. Here's the thing people don't come to an end of themselves by themselves They come to an end of themselves by a work of god uh, the fourth one repentance must be the ground of our belief or this is
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Actually the correct view Do I not believe that I am saved because I repent?
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Oh, i'm, sorry. This is a wrong view repentance must be the ground of our belief. That's another wrong view Do I not believe that i'm saved because I repent?
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Spurgeon says stop there is a muddle there. What is the ground of my trusting in christ?
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That is what I mean by believing And he says I will tell you my only ground for trusting christ is this that I am told by god's word
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That he can save sinners and I believe he can and that That then
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I am commanded to trust him to save me and I do it My warrant for believing is god's word not my sense of sin or anything in me
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Not even the fact that I repent How then do I know that I am saved
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I do know as I stand before you that I am a saved man Why do I know that because it is written he that believeth on him is not condemned
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And I do believe Trust and rely on jesus christ Sometimes I feel as if I were not saved, but my feelings must go overboard
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This is having a discussion with somebody last night who says, you know, you say that The creator spoke to you and I say that the creator spoke to me and I said well, first of all,
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I never said that The creator only speaks to me through what? His word right
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This isn't subjective salvation. This is objective salvation
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Because you know, let me just throw this at you all reasoning is what? Circular It begins and ends at the same point the difference between the reasoning of a believer and an unbeliever is this that My reasoning begins and ends with the word of god
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Right. It's outside of me. It's objective the beginning and ending of the reasoning of an unbeliever is always
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His or herself They believe what they believe why? Because they believe it
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It seems true to them It resonates with their hearts. They feel it in their soul
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But the bible says that our hearts are deceitful that we shouldn't trust them Jesus said it's not what goes into your mouth, but what comes out that corrupts you why because it shows what's in your heart
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Spurgeon says one must repent and one must believe in order to be saved two sides of the same coin, right?
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We talked about it earlier And i'm going to close here in a second when you believe part of that belief is repentance
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It's a godly sorrow and it's a god -given sorrow over your sin
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It's a desire to be forgiven of your sin Spurgeon says this way.
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Yes. I know that I I know that it's true that one must repent and believe
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If I was asked whether a man repented first or believe first I should reply Which spoken a wheel moves first when the wheel starts?
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When divine life is given to a man these two things are sure to come repentance and faith
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But if anyone should say he must repent first before he believes I should contest that very point or that point very strongly and if on the other hand a man should say
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There is such a thing as a belief which is not attended with repentance, which will save the soul
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I would contest that point with equal order No, they shall come together as the first marks of the new birth in the soul
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This is the practical point that concerns you no metaphysics of theology need perplex your mind
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What you have to do With is god's command and the command is just as I reminded you believe on the lord jesus christ and Thou shalt be saved
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I will say this bold and naked as the saying may be If you put your repentings in the place of christ you make an antichrist of them and if you trust for your salvation
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To your repentance or even to your faith You might as well trust your sins
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Nothing is to be trusted But the finished work of jesus christ upon calvary's blooded bloody tree and no feelings.
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No emotion. No believing no conversion even Must ever be put in the place of the one
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Eternal rock of refuge the blood and merit of jesus christ Then he says fly thou there poor soul well, we had to close in prayer and then
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Andrew has an announcement he wants to make so father. Thank you for this time where we've looked to your word and really just been challenged
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I think to think rightly about repentance and to not Uh make it something that it is not but to really take it for what it is
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Father we thank you for the lord. Jesus christ. We thank you for salvation full and free We thank you for the gift of faith the gift of repentance and the gift of forgiveness of sins