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Good morning. We will be continuing
our series, this mini-series, such as it is over these today
and next week until Dr. Talbot gets back, on what I call
the fundamentals of being a Christian. They're not the fundamentals
of the Christian faith. They're the fundamentals which
you need to know and understand about what it is to be a Christian. Before we begin, I'd like to
say in response to Elder Sullivan's reading today
of 2 Thessalonians, that particular passage of Scripture
of which interpretations are legion, as he stated. It wasn't
until I came to the Reformed faith that I could take some
comfort in the fact that there may be more than one way to interpret
a passage, because John Calvin, when asked why he didn't write
a commentary on the book of Revelation, he said there's only one person
that knows what the book of Revelation means, and that's God himself. I'm happy with that. We can go
through church history and see what men have wrote. We can see
what men thought about the Word of God. Of course, teachers have
been given to the church as a gift of God in order to steer the
church of God. And so as we examine and study
and meditate, we needn't be too upset by a variety of interpretations
The fact of the matter is that the secret things belong to the
Lord. Those things that He has revealed to us are for us and
our children, and we can take comfort in the fact that someday
all will be revealed to His children. Back to the topic at hand. Let's
open with a word of prayer. Father, we're thankful for this
morning. We're thankful for the fact that You have brought us
together to examine Your Word and continue to look at some
of these things. I pray, Lord, that You'll open our minds and
our hearts for the truth that you have for us this day, cause
us to be studious, cause us to be good students for no other
reason but to live a life which is pleasing to Thee, to the testimony
of the living God within. We give you thanks in Christ's
name. Amen. So we're going to continue this
mini-series. As I said, last week we touched
on some facets of what faith is. And this week we're going
to talk a little bit about repentance and perhaps get into good works.
And next week we'll talk about assurance. These four things,
faith, repentance, good works, and the assurance of our faith
are what I consider to be the fundamentals and things that
you need to understand and be able to articulate in order to
say that you are a Christian, a blood-bought, born-again Christian,
one who understands that he is a sinner and needs a Savior.
One whose life exemplifies that fact through repentance and good
works, and in time, comes to the assurance of that fact in
their life that they are adopted sons and daughters of the Most
High God. These four things. We're going to read from Jonah
chapter 3 this morning just because it is probably the most classic
example of what repentance is, how it works, and where it comes
from in the life of a believer. Jonah chapter 3. Now the Word
of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go
to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the proclamation
which I am going to tell you. So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh
according to the Word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly
great city, a three days' walk. Then Jonah began to go through
the city one day's walk, and he cried out and said, Yet forty
days, and Nineveh will be overthrown. Then the people of Nineveh believed
in God, and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the
greatest to the least of them. When the word reached the king
of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from
him, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the ashes. And he
issued a proclamation, and it said, In Nineveh, by the decree
of the king and his nobles, do not let man, beast, herd, or
flock taste a thing, did not let them eat or drink water.
But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth and let
men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked
way and from the violence which is in his hands. Who knows? God may turn and relent and withdraw
his burning anger so that we shall not perish. When God saw
their deeds that they turned from their wicked way, Then God
relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would
bring upon them, and He did not do it." I say this is a classic passage
on repentance because we have all the components here of the
things that we're going to talk about. Before we get into that,
though, just to summarize a little bit about last week, which we
talked about faith. Saving faith, we said, was a
gift of God. We can't confuse saving faith
with ordinary kinds of faith. There is a difference in that
saving faith saves you. It saves you from the wrath of
God and the curse of the penalty. It is a gift. Ephesians 2, by
grace are you saved. Through faith and not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God lest any man should boast. Faith is a
gift. We also looked a little bit about
the fact that faith does not have to be immediately, it is
not something that operates immediately to its full force and impact
in our life when we are saved. The truth is that faith along
with repentance are seeds that are planted in our life. And we talked a little bit about
the ordo salutis. They're seeds that are planted
and they grow over time. That's important to understand
because when we get to the aspect of assurance, we oftentimes wonder
why I don't have the assurance of my faith. It's not the assurance
of faith that the Bible talks about. It's the assurance of
your adoption as sons and daughters of God. It is the assurance of
the fact that you are saved. It is not assurance of your faith.
And we're going to get into that in just a little bit. But faith, it is a gift of God. However big or however little
faith you have, it doesn't require a lot of faith to be saved. We
talked about the fact that the disciples said, Lord, grow our
faith. The man who came to Jesus and said, Lord, I believe, but
help mine unbelief. Faith! It is given to you as
a seed at the time of your conversion along with The seed of repentance. Faith and repentance. We said
go hand in hand. It is important that we all understand
this. Faith and repentance go hand
in hand and they're given to you as seeds. When are they given to you? Romans
chapter 8 in the Ordo Salutis talks about that. Those who are
predestined are called. Those who are called are justified. Those who are justified are glorified.
Romans chapter 8 in that particular passage of Scripture is talking
about what God does. God's responsibility in our salvation. Between the calling and the justification
is the conversion. His conversion. And conversion is where we are
given faith and repentance. Paul talks about exercising faith
in Jesus Christ and repentance towards God in Acts chapter 20
in his farewell message to the Ephesian elders. Now bear in
mind that we organize these events for our purposes. Much the same
as we talk about the decrees of God and we talk about whether
or not God had ordained and decreed to elect a people before He created
or created first and then decided to elect. All of these discussions
are for our benefit. Understanding that God, who knows
the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning, does
all things in a single thought anyway and upholds them by the
Word of His power. So these things are not compartmentalized
and sequential in God's thinking. They just have happened. But
for our purposes, By virtue of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
the Apostle Paul writes down for us in Romans what we call
this ordo salutis so that we can understand. You're predestined. You're called. The calling is
made effectual at your conversion where you are given the seeds
of faith and repentance simultaneously. Where you repent towards God,
express faith in Jesus Christ. You are then justified, which
that means you are declared not guilty or pardoned. We will always
be sinners but we are sinners saved by grace. We are pardoned
sinners now because we believe in the double imputation which
is critical to where we are in our faith. There's a movement
out there today which does not, in reform circles, which does
not subscribed to double imputation. That is to say that my sins are
imputed to Christ and Christ's righteousness is imputed to me.
And that's the reason why I can stand before God without fear. Because I have the righteousness
of Christ. Because I have been justified. But there are particular
faith groups out there that say, no, my sins may have been imputed
to Christ to have paid the penalty, but I have to earn His righteousness. and I earn his righteousness
through works. And that's a movement that's
infiltrating Reformed circles today and it's sad because it
takes away from the glory of our God who saved us by grace
alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. So those of us who have been
predestined have been called. The calling is made effectual
at our conversion where we're given faith and repentance. We
are then justified. And after justification comes
what? Sanctification. This is our growth in grace and
knowledge and our holiness. Our growth in holiness. That's
what sanctification is. Last week we read specifically,
this is God's will for you. Your sanctification. And we have
something to do with that. Salvation is monergistic, that
is by God alone. Sanctification, we have something
to do with. And that has something to do
with the choices that we make. And at some point we'll be glorified.
All of this is of God and that's why it's called the Doctors of
Grace. Back to the point, faith and repentance are two sides
of the same coin. Look at it this way. Faith is
how we attach ourselves to Christ. We attach ourselves to Christ
by faith. We detach ourselves from our
sin through repentance. Faith and repentance. Faith,
we attach ourselves to Christ. Repentance, we detach ourselves
from sin. The sin in our life. Faith and repentance. Both are
needed. Both are necessary. And as I
said last week, if you engage anyone that tells you that they
were saved some time ago and are still living like they're
not, the fact of the matter is, they're probably not. Because if you have been given
saving faith, you will exhibit the fruits of repentance. You
will exhibit a repentant lifestyle. And what that repentant lifestyle
is, is obedience to the Word and will of God. As it is revealed
to us primarily in the Ten Commandments. We don't need to be theologians
to understand thou shalt not steal. You don't need a higher
education to understand thou shalt not commit adultery. So
faith is a gift of God along with repentance as a gift of
God. Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy
2.25 that God may give them, may grant them the gift of repentance. And he's specifically talking
about those who are contrary to sound teaching. In Acts chapter
11 verse 18. Luke says the same thing, that
God had granted them the gift of repentance. So faith and repentance
are both gifts and they're both necessary. You cannot have the
gift of faith, saving faith, without having it be displayed
in a repentant lifestyle. Why is that the case? Let's not forget that in Romans
chapter 12, Paul tells us to be transformed. Don't be conformed
to this world, but be transformed as a butterfly goes through a
metamorphosis. Be transformed, how? By the renewing
of our mind. By the renewing of our mind.
We bring in the Word of God into our mind. We meditate on it.
We study on it. We read it. We question it. We pray over it. By faith. And the Spirit of God takes the
Word of God that we put in our mind and diffuses it throughout
our body. We like to say He takes it from
our mind, puts it in our heart. Our heart is just a term that
we use to express the whole man. And the whole man is mind, emotions,
and will. Mind, emotions, and will. And
so, if a man is truly regenerated, and converted, his mind, his
emotions, and his will will be affected by the diffusion of
the Spirit of God using the Word of God in his life. Completely. Mind, emotions, and will. So,
if you happen to be of the persuasion to be talking about a man who
has the old sin nature and the new nature, I submit to you that
you go back and you study a little bit more carefully, because we
only have one nature. Prior to being saved, we had
sin nature. We were totally depraved. After
being saved, after having gone through the process of being
deposited within the gifts of faith and repentance, being converted
and justified, we're on this walk of sanctification now. After
that fact, we only have one nature too. We only have one nature,
and it is being sanctified, it is being made holy as we walk
this life. Mind, emotions and will. The
reason why this is important is because for those of us that
have been around a little while and have been in different faith
preferences, I can tell you exactly from experience how this works. When I was a good practicing
Roman Catholics. Now remember, mind, emotions,
and will. My will was activated. I was doing everything right. I was making my 9 First Fridays,
and I was saying my Novenas, and I was doing the Stations
of the Cross, and I was going to the priest every Saturday
so that I could go to Communion every Sunday. I was the knight
of the altar. I was doing all kinds of things.
My will was activated, but I was unaware of the fact that I was
a sinner. Mind. Reason. That I was a sinner
needing a Savior. The mind. We have to have our
facts right. I'm sure you know people who
are doing all kinds of good things. Seemingly the right things. But
they're totally oblivious to the fact that they are a sinner
who is standing in judgment before a holy God and upon whose head
the wrath of God rests. The last verse in John 3. We
read John 3.16 all the time. And I hear it really frequently at services
in prison that are being conducted by well-intended churches and
ministers, for God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever should believe in
him should not perish but have everlasting life. Well, the last
verse in that chapter talks about the wrath of God abiding upon
the head of those who don't believe. And somehow or another we never
get down there. The mind. You have to know that
you are a sinner. You are made aware of the fact
that you are a sinner and you need a Savior. And how does that
come? Last week we talked about the fact that faith comes by
hearing the Word of God. It comes by hearing the Word
of God. This is the ordinary means. Somehow, someway, the
Word of God gets to you and God uses it and anoints it and opens
your mind, opens your eyes and opens your ears, plows up your
heart for your sin so that you cry out, My God, I am a sinner. What do I do? And then grace
can be applied in Jesus Christ. That's the only way. So my will
was activated as a Roman Catholic, but I was totally unaware of
the fact that I was a sinner. I thought I didn't do everything
right, but I certainly was not a sinner. Was I saved then? No. Because
these three components, mind, emotions, and will. The will
was activated. The mind was not. I didn't have the fact. when we did our stint in Pentecostal
circles. Believe me. I knew my emotions
were activated. And I saw Sunday after Sunday
after Sunday all kinds of emotions activated. I could tell you some stories
that would set your hair on fire about what we saw in terms of
Pentecostal circles. And I'm saying well intended.
But there was nothing about the need for repentance. Nothing
about the need of a Savior because I was a sinner. And worse, very
little about what I need to do about it in terms of a repentant
lifestyle. It was all about emotions. What I'm saying to you is if
one or two of those three things, all three are necessary for the
whole man to be regenerated. All three are necessary for you
to be born again. The whole Gospel is for the whole
man. Now, you can know. This was another
phase in my life, after I finally did realize that I was a sinner. You can
know you're a sinner. You can be moved to tears and
not repent. I don't know which situation
is sadder. The point that I'm making is mind, emotions, and
will, all three must be transformed. So when you're talking to your
family, when you're talking to friends, this is an angle that
you can use to explore their situation. Because I come across
people all the time who tell me that they're saved because
they came to an altar Cried. I've seen that a lot. Confession
of sin. Good for the soul, but doesn't
do a thing if it's not accompanied by repentance. Repent, for the
kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, for the kingdom of God
is at hand. John the Baptist, Jesus, Peter,
Paul, all of them. Repent, repent, repent, repent. Why? It is a turning away from
your sin. You are detaching from sin and
turning towards God. You're exercising faith which
attaches you to Christ and you are detaching from the sin. Two sides of the same coin. So repentance is a gift. Repentance
certainly is necessary. And the other thing about repentance
is that it gives glory to God. Interestingly enough, if you
do a study on repentance, you're going to find somewhere around
104 uses of the word repentance in the Bible. And Matthew, Mark, and Luke all
use the word on a regular basis. And John does not. In the Gospel
of John, repentance is not used one time. On the other hand,
he uses it 11 times in the book of Revelation. And I just want to read two verses. In Revelation 16, 9, and men
were scorched with fierce heat, and they blasphemed the name
of God who has the power over these plagues. And they did not
repent to give Him glory. They did not repent to give Him
glory. And they blasphemed the God of
heaven because of their pains and their sores, and they did
not repent of their deeds. See, the last thing the devil
wants you to do is to repent of your sins and do whatever
is necessary for you to cut off, to turn away from that sin, perhaps
that besetting sin, because when you do so, it gives glory to
God. Revelation 16.9, they did not
repent so as to give glory to God. Sometimes we wander around in
a quandary asking questions. What do I need to do? What do
I need to do to get God's favor? What do I need to do sometimes
to give glory to God? Well, the first thing you can
do to give glory to God is to sit in the pain of that besetting
sin and not do it. To show the repentant heart. To show the fruit of the fact
that you got that gift of repentance. That doesn't mean we're going
to be perfect. But it does mean that we're in the battle. Elder
Sullivan talked about being in the battle to warrior on whether
we understand or not. And yes, we will be bloodied
and we will be bruised and the battle can be fierce. But repentance, remember, is
a seed that was planted and it grows. So the repentant heart
and your ability to battle sin five years from now, hopefully,
is five times greater than it is now. Because we are told to
grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We grow in grace. What is that? We already read
from the Westminster Confession of Faith that faith is grace. Repentance is, the Westminster
calls it an evangelical grace. We are to grow in these graces,
faith and repentance. We grow in those and as we do,
our life becomes holier and holier and holier. That's a term we
don't like to use. Somehow it sounds just too pretentious. Too audacious. Your purpose in life is to become
Christ-like. What does that mean? Once again,
this is not rocket science. Is it more Christ-like to lie
or not lie? To not lie. You find a wallet
on the street with $100 in it and you do what you can to find
the person and you give it back to that person. Is that more
Christ-like or less Christ-like? It's more Christ-like. Why? It's
obedience to the law of God. Thou shalt not covet anything
of thy neighbor's. Not only, in fact, don't forget
where there's a command, there's also a prohibition. Where there's
a prohibition, there's a command to do something positive. So
it's not only that I'm not supposed to covet my neighbor's goods,
I'm supposed to be praying for him and help him prosper. To
be in compliance with that commandment. So when I find a wallet and give
it back to the owner, that's a good work. And it's a good
work because it pleases God, because it's done in faith, because
I'm obeying the Ten Commandments. Why do you call me Lord, Lord,
and don't obey?" Jesus said. So we go from faith and repentance
being so closely intertwined, it's impossible to separate them
really. We have faith our life will show
a repentant lifestyle where I am what? Obedient. to the Word of
God, the Ten Commandments, conforming my life to these Ten Commandments
and all the corollaries to the extent that I can. And then as
I do that, assurance comes because I am growing in grace and knowledge. My faith and repentance are both
growing as a result of God's working in my life. Let's not
forget that my sanctification is all in Christ as well. 1 Corinthians
chapter 1 and verse 30. He is our wisdom, our righteousness,
our redemption, and our sanctification. Exactly my part in that and God's
part, it's impossible to separate. It's kind of like a scrambled
egg. It's impossible to unscramble it. the Spirit of God in your
life, it's impossible to separate sometimes when we are disposed
to doing a good work. Is that you? Is that of God?
Who knows? It doesn't really matter. In
all things, I am supposed to act like the outcome depends
on me 100%. But I pray like it depends on
God 100%. And somewhere in the middle,
the good work is done and God is glorified. I don't exactly
have to explain how that happens. This business of repentance,
you see, it is the sign. And we are at liberty, when we're
talking to people who are not living accordingly, to ask them,
how is it that they say they have faith without repentance? Without being sorry for their
sin? It's a legitimate question, and
it's probably going to wind up in an argument. And so what you're
going to have to do, I'm going to give you the advice that I
give to so many men, and that's that you be kind, you be patient,
but you be in control. Your obligation is not to make
them feel good. Your obligation is to confront
them with the truth, so that God can use the truth that you
speak into the moment to open their eyes. Faith come by hearing.
Hearing by the Word of God. How shall they hear without a
preacher? And how shall they preach unless they be sent? God
uses truth. Whether you want to confront
or not, it doesn't matter. We're not called to make friends.
We are called to dispense truth that God can use to save a man
if in fact, he chooses. And if he chooses not to, it's
none of your business. We can preach and preach and
preach and preach. How long did Noah preach? 400 years. And his only converts were his
family. Isaiah. In Isaiah chapter 6, when God
said, who shall we send? And Isaiah said, send man. He
said, how long shall I preach? And God said, until the cities
are desolate. Until the cities are desolate
and man is no more. There's no promise that our words
are going to have the effect that we want them to have. Remember,
this is all about God's divine decree. God's predestining, God's
calling, His election, His justification, and finally, His glorification.
Salvation is all of God. So repentance is a gift just
like faith is. It is absolutely necessary. Without
repentance, there is no saving faith. And repentance, in fact, gives
glory to God. Back to the Jonah story. I say
the story of Jonah has all the components of what we're talking
about here. And bear in mind, Jonah did not
want to go and preach because he understood that God would
use His Word, and He did. Jonah didn't want to go to the
Ninevites. He hated the Ninevites. And we oftentimes have to confess
ourselves. Don't we? That some people are,
in our estimation, impossible to be saved, but no one can outrun
the grace of God. Or worse, we really don't want
them to be saved. Anybody ever harbor that in your
heart? You've come across somebody,
you've had such resentment or bitterness or hatred in your
heart for someone, in which case, by the way, you've murdered him or her already, that you don't
want to take the time. You're given an opportunity to
speak truth and you don't take it because you've let your opinion
of that person and your disdain for that person, just like Jonah,
overshadow your responsibility. And in Jonah's responsibility,
he tried to run. He got swallowed up by a whale
and wound up on the shore where he was supposed to in the first
place. He went and preached. God saved 200,000 along with
their animals. Jonah was upset after the fact.
He said, I knew it. It's better for me to die. I
just want to die. I knew, God, that You were going
to save them. Even after he preached and they were saved and they
were repented in sackcloth and ashes, Jonah leaves and he's
crying and he says, I want to die. I can't believe that You
saved them. God determines who gets saved
and who doesn't. We are like, in the parable of the sower,
we just sow the seed. Some on good soil, some on rocky
soil, some on thorny soil. One out of four. Often times
we see the seed that falls on the shallow soil spring up with
joy, the Bible says. It springs up with joy, but then
the sun comes out and quickly withers. We see that a lot. in
our churches, in the evangelical circle. It springs up with joy. Praise the Lord, I'm saved! But
we never see them again in church. They never come to Bible studies.
They never inquire. One out of four, 25%. So when
you go about your business and you're speaking truth into the
moment to the cashier girl or to the guy at the gas station,
at the grocery store, here, there, wherever, family members, and
you find opportunity to speak truth, It's up to God. If God chooses to use it to save,
praise the Lord. And if He does not, praise the
Lord too, because God is sovereign. How unsearchable is the wisdom
and the knowledge of God? How unsearchable are His ways? I only have a minute or two here.
I want to deal with Hebrews 12, therefore, since we have so great
a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every encumbrance
and the sin which so easily entangles us and let us run with endurance
the race that is set before us. Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the
Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before Him
endured the cross. The reason why this verse is
appropriate is because it's talking about running the race. When
we're talking about repentance, we cannot help but talk about
our failures and our besetting sins. Repentance is about turning
from our sin. There are some sins that are
easier to turn from than others. We talk about a besetting sin
here. That sin that so easily entangles
us. More times than not in the course of a week, I have 10 or
12 men at a minimum coming to me saying, Chaplain, I just can't
get over this sin. I don't know what to do about
this. It is a besetting sin. Notice what this verse says.
Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author, He started our faith.
We have no question with the fact that the gift of faith is
of God. At some point in time, that decree
in eternity past, that calling, that effectual call was in fact
made active and operative at a point in time in history for
you so that your eyes were opened to see the truth, so that your
ears were unplugged so that you could hear the truth, you were
given the gifts of faith and repentance, and now you're in
the process of being sanctified. He began our faith. Jesus, the
Author, the Beginner, the One who began our faith. No question
there. And the Perfecter, the Finisher
of our faith. We're told in Philippians that
He's going to complete that which He started. Our faith began in
God, given to us as a gift, and He will complete it. We will
be glorified. Romans 8. But what we're concerned
about is what's in between. Okay, I don't have a problem.
He began it. He's going to end it. But you want to know what
my problem is? Right now. Right here and right now. Dealing
with the sin that so easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance. Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the
author and furnisher of our faith, we're supposed to be having our
eyes on Jesus. Yes, He began our faith. He's
going to conclude our faith. Our eyes are still supposed to
be on Him in this in-between period. fixing our eyes on Jesus. Right now, here and now, in between,
yes, there's no question He began it. Yes, He's going to finish
it. And right here and right now, usually the problem is I
get my eyes off of Jesus and on me. And I get performance
driven. I get duty oriented. I get obligation
incensed rather than having my faith rust on Jesus. Remember,
He is our sanctification. 1 Corinthians 1 verse 30. He
is our sanctification along with our redemption and our wisdom
and our righteousness. We need to spend more time with
the Savior, the living Word, studying the written Word, so
that my faith can grow. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the Word of God as I spend time in His Word. It strengthens
me. It encourages me. It motivates
me. It sanctifies me and makes me
holier. The problem is we do not spend
time in this book. That's the problem. We don't
spend time here. We don't spend time meditating
in it. Imploring God. God, show me. Strengthen me. When was the last
time you sat alone in a closet praying and pleading with God
to strengthen you? Pleading with God. I'm not just
talking about, oh God, you know, make me stronger. And then you
go do the thing. I'm talking about pleading with
God. I see people shaking their head
no. This is the problem. As the deer pants for the water
brook, so my soul doth pant after thee. Oh my God! Does it? You'll have to answer that question
yourself. Fixing our eyes on Jesus. The living Word. As I sit with the written Word. Faith. Faith. Encouragement. Motivation. Strength. I derive
it. It is a promise. Faith comes
by hearing the Word. Read it to yourself. We have
all kinds of reading schedules. Reading through the Word of God
in a year. There's as many different schedules as there are people
that are doing it. Faith comes by hearing the word,
fixing our eyes on Jesus. If I want to fix my eyes on Jesus,
the living word, I will spend time in the written word. And
then I am promised faith and repentance. Those gifts planted
as seeds will grow. God is not a liar. They will
grow. And at some point, you'll get
the victory over that sin that so easily entangles you. Let's pray. Father, we're thankful for this
time. We're thankful for Your Word. We're thankful that we
can spend time in it. Lord, grow us up. Grow our faith. We have faith, Lord, but sometimes
it just seems so inconsequential. But a promise that we have is
that you will never leave us nor forsake us. We are in the
palm of your hand and no man can lose us from it. We are the
apple of your eye. We are the recipients of your
eternal chesed, that loving kindness. And so Lord, in spite of our
frailties, in spite of our sins, in spite of our apathy, our unwillingness,
to even come to You in our need. We thank You for that grace that
saves. We thank You for the mercy that
spared us. We're thankful for that loving
kindness whereby we can know our salvation and our redemption
is all because of Jesus. As unworthy as we are, Lord,
we just say thank You because it's all we can do. Give you
thanks in Christ's name. Amen.
02- What It Means To Be A Christian, Repentance
Series To Be A Christian
| Sermon ID | 9911117172510 |
| Duration | 43:24 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Language | English |
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