THE PREACHING OF REPENTANCE TODAY
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.
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Great blessings of salvation
Luke
3:3 "For the remission of
sins."
Acts
2:38 "Gift of the Holy Ghost."
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Longsuffering and goodness of God.
Rom.
2:4 "Riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering."
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Divine Judgment
Acts
17:30-31 "Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world."
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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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