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Saturday, January 11, 2014

THE PREACHING OF REPENTANCE TODAY



THE PREACHING OF REPENTANCE TODAY

       
             Repentance should be preached to all men.
                        Luke 24:47      "Among all nations."
                        Acts 17:30       "All men everywhere."
                        Rom. 2:4 "Leadeth thee to repentance." Written to a Gentile Church.
                        2 Pet. 3:9 "But that all should come to repentance." General Epistle.
                
                      The motives to be used in preaching Repentance.
                               - Great blessings of salvation
                                    Luke 3:3  "For the remission of sins."
                                    Acts 2:38 "Gift of the Holy Ghost."
                       - Longsuffering and goodness of God.
                                    Rom. 2:4 "Riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering."
                        - Divine Judgment
                                    Acts 17:30-31 "Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge  the world."
                        - Chastening of God.
                                    Rev. 3:19 "Be zealous therefore, and repent."

Note: The needs of our hearers should guide us. The above list does not exhaust the reasons for motivating this sort of repentance. I am absolutely amazed, in fact appalled at what I hear issuing from the mouth of this generation concerning sin, God, Christ, etc. This generation has been brain washed in the present school system into a new age thought process. Pantheism as a philosophy has subtly taken over the thinking of men so that the area of sin has been made to appear good and every conceivable obscenity is justified. Alcoholism is now referred to as a disease and not a moral defection. Homosexuality was something you were born with and you made no choices in that arena. (What one is born with is a sin nature) Not even the Supreme Court is able to recognize obscenity in literature. The reason lies in the fact that the realm of reality has been reduced to the level of the human and the natural. God in the supernatural sense is not in their thought (Psa. 10:4). God is all and all is God. Thus there is no distinction between good and bad. All is good. Obviously there is need for preaching what the Bible says on these matters, if there is to be repentance, that is a change of mind.

"The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts." Psa. 10:4

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