Repentance Confusion Pt 1

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone. It is Wednesday, July the twenty fourth, twenty twenty four. It is currently twelve forty seven pm Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas, where I have not done a live broadcast since Saturday. That kind of tells you things have not been really working out very well on this side of the microphone. Hope things are going better on your side of the microphone. But hey, that's life has its ups and downs, twists and turns. But let's see what we can accomplish today. Now.

0:52 Typically what I would do is I would probably do somewhat of a lengthy introduction. Sometimes those introductions go fifteen twenty minutes, and then I really kick myself after because I don't always like that they go fifteen to twenty minutes. Sometimes I think that fifteen to twenty minutes introduction is very much needed because I'm trying to explain what I'm doing. I'm trying to offer up some very practical questions and maybe given assignments and a lot of those. So sometimes even though people may not like it, I feel like I can justify it. And this particular situation, I was struggling, like, Okay, now, do I turn on the microphone and really start outlining kind of my perspective, my philosophy, my understanding of this subject. Do I turn on the microphone and start asking some very difficult questions in regards to this subject and then move forward, or do we just jump in and hopefully as we're working through it, some of my questions, some of my perspectives, some of my understanding of this will come to light. What we're going to do is we're just going to jump in. All right, now, you all know that we're doing the Sermon's two point oh app Sermon Challenge for this year. I know, before we know it, can you believe we're almost in August? Literally before we know it? It's going to be Hey, it's almost Thanksgiving. Hey, it's almost Christmas. Hey, it's almost and we're going to be in twenty twenty five. I can't believe it's it's almost over. I don't know

2:24 what we'll do in twenty twenty five. I mean, I look, I had so many questions about twenty twenty four, and it's not over yet, so you know, let's see where that's going. Let's see, let's see whatever what happens by the time we get to twenty twenty five. Well, yeah, still a lot of unanswered questions here in twenty twenty four. But I know this that I hope that even when I'm not broadcasting, you're participating in the Sermon's two point oh app sermon Challenge. I hope you have a notebook filled with sermons and summaries and outlines and notes, and and hopefully when it the year is over, you can take that notebook and forget me.

3:04 You can just show other people, Hey, look what I you know. I want you just to see what I did in twenty twenty four. And it was a crazy wild ride. It was it was, it was crazy, And I hopefully you really will feel some sense of a of that you accomp knowledge that you accomplish something, that there was some benefit that came from it. I'm hoping there's some way to like a measurable benefit you gained from this challenge, and let's hope we can finish the year strong. Now I'm a little frustrated because on one hand. What's happening right now is the sort of the Lord Conference. Remember last year, we made a big deal out of the conference, and I was watching them live, and I was, you know, kind of doing some you know after after a sermon would end, kind of an you know, I'm basically an impromptu review of it, and I was trying to get everyone else to watch it and listen to it.

3:59 Look, this week has been so crazy. I didn't even know it started. I just happened to look down at the paper today. I'm like, oh, so we didn't even get that done. So the whole week has been crazy. But I have tried my best to keep opening up the sermons two point zero app right, I've been trying my best to keep doing that and listen and listening as I can. And I came across a sermon entitled the and then this is in quotes, repent of your Sins close quote confusion. The end quotes Repent of your sins close quote confusion. The Repent of your Sins Confusion Part two. Now, immediately when I saw that, I'm like, oh, there's a part two. I got to hear part one, but there really isn't a part one Okay, so this is a little confusing. I don't know who's managing their media, but this is a little confusing. So there really isn't a part one. So here's what you have to do. If you go to Verity Baptist Church ve r I t Y Verity Baptist Church, Verity Baptist Church, if I can speak correctly, Verity Baptist Church, look for the series Rooted and Grounded. Rooted and Grounded.

5:17 I'm going to see if I can get this to open here, well maybe not, Okay, here we go, all right, Verity Baptist Church, and then look for the series if you can find it Rooted and Grounded. There's two sermons. There's only two sermons in the series. The first one is Faith Versus Works Part one, but there isn't a part two. Then the Repent of Your Sins Confusion Part two. So I think, what, I don't know why they're doing the part one and part two, like it makes no sense, Like just call it Faith Versus Works the Repent of Your Sins Confusion. And you don't need part one a part two because you've placed it within a series called Rooted and Grounded. So I can tell that that's the first message in the second message within that series. So I don't know why they're labeling it that way. I have no idea. Look, I look, I if I wish, I really do wish I could find a way that I could just work with churches to help them with their podcasting goals and their you know, their organization of their media. Like I wish I could make money doing that because I think I would be good at it since I've been doing this for so long. But like, look this, this this series series, there's no artwork for it, right, So that and then what is this Part one? Part two? It makes no sense.

6:38 But in spite of that, go look it up rooted and grounded as the name of the series Faith Versus Works Part one, the Repent of Your Sins Confusion Part two. They need to remove the Part one and part two if these unless there's a Part one Part two outside of the series, but then you need to put the other part part in the series. I don't know what's going on. It's all confusing, but just ignore the Part one and part two Faith Versus Works. I haven't listened to that because I saw the Repent of Your Sins Confusion and I'm like, ooh, we've got we've got We've got to do something with that. So I grabbed the Repent of your Sins Confusion Part two, pulled up the audio. I'm like, you know what, I don't know which direction this is going to go, but I do know there's one thing I can absolutely agree upon. There is mass confusion when it comes to a very simple word like repent. When you're reading your Bible and you get to the Gospel of Matthew and you turn to chapter three, you will read these words. In those days, John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. There is that word repent. You think it should be relatively simple, that we could just look up the Greek word. We could get a basic understanding of it. Then we could not go beyond the meaning of that Greek word and make sure we try to stay within some accurate

8:09 understanding of this concept. But you would have no. I don't think the average person sitting in the pew just understands how crazy the confusion is about repentance, about what it means to repent, it's part in salvation? What actually, how do you even define it? And if you define it this way and it plays a part in salvation, well, isn't that works? And then you say, well, it's not works because I get see what I'm about to do. I'm about to start going through all of my teaching on repentance. So I'm not going to do that. This introduction is all already fast approaching ten minutes. But what I want to do is just start trying. Just jump right in and start the review and then just see what happens.

8:50 But I do want you to go find the series. I don't know how many more sermons they're going to add, but I want you to go listen to Faith Versus Words Part one. And I know I haven't given you any assignment for the sermon's two point oh app challenge this week. Just make sure you go listen to everything in this series, make sure you follow it. Just note, you can follow a specific series or you can just follow that church if you want to. You can follow Verity Verity Baptist Church. Verity Baptist Church have four and fifty six sermons available Verity Baptist Church. I follow them. That's how I found this message on repentance was it was in my feed, so please do that. Oh and one other quick update.

9:35 Believe it was either early this morning, I don't know when it was. I think it was when in the last twenty four hours they put out an update to the Church One app. I know, at least for Apple devices. I don't know about Android devices. So if you may want to check your app store and if you have it, or unless you already have them, automatically, they do updates. But if you if you don't, then you need to update your Church One app. All right. You can do that after you're done listening to me. That's because if the update doesn't work or messes anything up, then you won't be able to listen to me. All right, So check that out, all right? Are you ready? Very any Baptist church. Their series is called Rooted and Grounded, And we're going to look at the message repent, the repent of your sins, confusion, the repent of your sins confusion. Right here we go, amen, all right? When we're there. In two Timothy, chapter number one, and if you remember last time we were together, we talked about the idea of works and faith and we of course believe here at Verity Baptist Church, that salvation is not of works, and we dealt with that pretty extensively in the last sermon. I would like to notice there in Second Timenty, chapter one, in verse number nine, here yet another verse that identifies that same

11:11 truth. The Bible says, and two Timothy one point nine, who had saved us and called us within holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but is now made manifest by the appearing of our savior of Jesus Christ, with abolished death, and have brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. So the Bible is clear about the fact. And all throughout the Bible, it's very evident that salvation is by grace, and it's through faith. It's not of works, not according to our works, the Bible says. Yet there are some who still want to try to deceive us into believing that works are required for salvation. And there are different ways in which people try to add works to salvation and us. Okay, now this is very important. There are some, as he is saying, who try to add works to salvation, and I agreement with that.

12:18 So so far I'm complete agreement. I know I'm starting with a lot of agreement. A lot of times I don't. I'm a complete agreement with the title of this message that there is much confusion about repentance. So I'm I agree with that. Second, I am very much in agreement that we have a massive problem within the Evangelical Protestant fundamental world, and that is adding works to salvation. Now, as soon as you call someone out for doing it, they'll say, no, no, no, no, no no no no, no no no, we're not adding works to salvation. Salvation is free, but works prove your salvation, which means then I have to work in order to be saved. And so even though they play all of these games, they're adding work, even though they say they're not, they are adding work. Look, just because you say you're not adding works, that doesn't mean you're not. Okay, And of course you could argue just because I say you are doesn't mean you are. I understand that. But any logical following any taking some of these ideas and following their logical conclusion, you end up with works and it's because and you know why, because we are a works based people, as or as I said in our very lengthy series and what we still haven't finished it. We still need to do more work on it, our Law and Gospel series. We are law based individuals.

13:37 That's how we think. We think about law, we think about works. We think about doing this, earning this. You don't deserve this, consequences for your actions. We don't think in a grace based way. We are not grace based thinkers. We are not grace based feelers. We don't feel, we don't our feelings, our emotions. Our thinking is not very grace based. It's always works. It's always behavior, works, earn it, punishment, consequences and grace. We and and it's so, what's so? Here's what I would say. As much as people, because we went through a period of time and the church, and many very conservative churches, they seem more concerned about how someone could abuse the doctrine of grace than they are of how someone could corrupt the doctrine of grace. Many pastors or whenever they start talking about grace, they're like they're so worried that someone could abuse it, that someone could use it as a license for lasciviousness, use it for and they and they worry about that, even though I know there's some warnings about that in scripture. That's why I say you set a license for lasciviousness, because clearly I'm referencing a scripture. But I understand that. But they never seem to take into consideration how someone can can corrupt grace, how they can add works. They never can see. They see how someone can abuse grace, but they never see how they can be guilty of corrupting grace.

15:11 You listen, this is this is very important to understand. Sometimes the church's attempt to not let someone abuse grace leads them to corrupting grace. Sometimes the church's effort to quote unquote protect grace actually leads them to destroying grace and in fact destroying the Gospel and replacing it with something that is basically law disguising itself as gospel. That is the problem. So let's see if he's going to talk about some different ways in which the Church and Christians in general add works subtle way, in an a deceptive way, and one of the biggest ways that people will deceive others in adding works to salvation is through a heresy that we refer to as the repent of your sins heresy. And today, what I'd like to do is speak to you on the subject of repentance. And this is a subject that is often misunderstood, and it's a subject that people are often confused about. And you're there in second tiventy, chapter one.

16:23 I'd like you to go with me, if you would, to the Book of Genesis, the first book in the Bible, Genesis, chapter number six. And what I'd like to do is give you three thoughts to clear up this idea of repentance or the repentance confusion. And if you're taking notes, of course, on the back of your course the week, there's a place for you to write down some things. I always encourage you to take some notes. I'd like to in this lesson give you three thoughts to clear up the repentance confusion. And I'd like for you to maybe jot these things down. Okay, So the repent of your sins heresy is how easily what he attempts to do is to correct all the confusion about the idea of repent of your sins. Now, I'm very I'm intrigued, ladies and gentlemen, I'm intrigued. I am intrigued, right this this the first thing I'm intrigued by is recently we were going through kind of a stretch there that the sermons were leading me to, you know, start considering buying stock in the local liquor store because I was going to be, you know, buying so much of their product. Okay, but all right, I'm joking. I'm joking.

17:34 But there was a stretch there that the sermons were really starting to make me question my sanity and really starting to question if I even belonged within Christianity. Okay, and that you think I'm that's being hyperbolic, I'm not. So this starts off and I'm very I'm very comforted and very hopeful that wow, this this, this may be something that I'm very very like. I'm in line with this because I do belave there is men much heresy when it comes to what people do with the concept of repentance. Because here's what I believe. I believe many people take the doctrine of repentance and maybe I will even be nice to say, inadvertently create a system that destroys grace and destroys a gospel based system and makes it a law based system. Right now, I know I can hear I can hear reform people. Right now, all the reform people take a deep breath. Even though I'm on your side, you won't think I'm on your side, but yes, you're gonna be screaming.

18:33 Repentance has nothing to do with works, because repentance is a work of God. I understand what you're saying. Okay, but just I think there's see I'm gonna start teaching. Okay, let's just see. I don't know if he's gonna deal with that aspect, but I definitely if he doesn't, I'll try to at least bring it up and bring up a major problem with it. A right, but here we go. The first thing I'd like to show you or bring to your attention is the misconception of repentance. And like I said, repentance in the idea of repentance is something that is often confusing to people, something that they do not understand, something that gets blurred a lot. There's a lot of misconceptions with regards to repentance. And I like to begin this morning by addressing the misconceptions of repentance. And the first one is this, This idea that repentance is always referring to sin. Telling people that repentance is always repentance of sin is an error that quite honestly makes God a sinner. The reason that I had you turn to Genesis chapter number six is because in Genesis chapter six, we actually see the first time that the word repent or a form of the word repentive, repentance, repentance is used in the Bible. And I want you to notice that the first time we see the word repent or repent in the Bible, it's actually God himself who is repenting. Notice there in Genesis chapter six, and look down at verse

20:07 number six. Genesis chapter six and verse six, the Bible says, and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. So I once you notice the first time we see this word in the Bible, the Bible says that it repented the Lord. It is the Lord who is repenting. Here look at verse seven, and the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face off the earth. Excuse me. Genesis sixty seven. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beasts, and the creeping things and the files of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them. So here we see the first and the second time that the word is used, and both times it is a reference to the Lord repenting. I feel like the speakers have an echo. If you could help me with that, I would appreciate. And what's interesting is that the first time we see the word repentance here in the Bible, we see that it is the Lord that repented.

21:07 You're there in Genesis chapter six. Tern with me if you went to the Book of Exodus, Exodus chapter number thirty two. Exodus chapter thirty two. Okay, now, when all of that's going on, sometimes sometimes I just like to explain what's happening. When I'm listening there, I'm immediately starting to go to work, right, I'm like, okay, this is interesting. Now. Just remember now we've talked about this, especially when we were doing some work on the Schofield Study Bible. Remember we talked about the kind of sometimes the doctrine of a first usage, right, the doctrine of first use of a term or a word, and that sometimes if you're going to ever understand a term in the Bible, you have to go see how it's first used, because its first use really becomes the controlling principle and how you define or interpret a term or a word, and whether I don't know how much you know, I've been in schools that greatly emphasize that, right, Okay, the doctrine of first use. All right, where is the first place this term is used? How was it used? And then they're like that controls all other interpretations or how you define the term moving forward. Okay, Look, I think it's an interesting concept, and I think you should always go look at how it's first used. I don't know if this if he's going in that direction, but he immediately goes to the first use, and he points out that the first use of repentance isn't a reference to God himself, which is somewhat that raises a lot of interesting questions in and of itself.

22:41 So I pulled up immediately my anti linear So I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go look here because I think it's interesting. The word here is to the word here is this Hebrew word strong. As he's fifty one six two not cam, not camm. It's used one hundred and eight times fifty seven times. It's translated comfort forty one times, repent, nine times, comforter, and one time ease. All that that wow, that that leaves you away. So there. The word has a wide range of meaning, from comfort to repent, okay, the strongest definition. I don't know if this helps any to sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry, to pity, to console, to avenge, comfort, ease, repent, the outline of biblical usage. I don't know if this is going to help. It's got everything to be sorry, console, oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted, to be sorry, be moved, to pity, have compassion, to be sorry, rue, suffer, grief, repent, to comfort oneself, to be comforted, to comfort oneself, to ease one's it's the idea of this. To to comfort is interesting, right, It's to be sorry. It's like to be It's almost like you're you're bothered by something, right, you regret something, You're you're bothered by something. But at the

24:14 same time, it's the idea to comfort yourself. So I regret this, but then I'm gonna comfort myself and I don't. I don't. I don't know. So that that's kind of the interesting idea. Now, he it's kind of got a lot so you're gonna have to look at the context a lot of these to figure this out. He also quoted, I think verse seven. Yeah, that repenteth is used right there in verse seven. Hang, I'm gonna go, is it the same Hebrew word if I said Greek word I apologize. Yeah, it's the same Hebrew word. It's the same Hebrew word strong as age fifty one sixty two, nothm notham. All right, so it's the same Hebrew word in both verses. Okay, So I'm gonna be interesting to see what he does with this, right, because you understand all of the complexities the idea of God repenting brings to mind. Right, Look, wait a minute, God is all knowing. God knew exactly what's going to happen. God decrees everything that takes place, right, God works everything according to his providence. Then what could he repent of? Now?

25:22 His repent here more just to express emotion and not to express what we think of repentance. Now, you'll notice something interesting if you use then if you just look at the new King James. Look at how it translates this. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and he was grieved. Verse seven goes on to say, so the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast creeping thing, for I am sorry that I made them to me. I don't I think we should almost remove the word repent here because we immediately apply that to turning from sin or you know, a change of mind or change of direction or change of action. I think this is really being used, this Hebrew word here is really more about expressing the emotion God is displeased, he's grieved, He's bothered by what is happening.

26:22 It's expressing emotion, I think, more than expressing anything remotely connected to our concept of repentance. Right, unless we're just going to use the word repent to describe emotion. Hey, when we talk about repent, it's we are we feel sorrow, we feel grief, we feel bothered by sin. If we're gonna apply this to sin and now we seek comfort, and that comfort doesn't come from changing the behavior, would come to running to Christ. If we think of it from a purely philological perspective, right, I guess you could find some comfort in a change of behavior, but ultimately forgiveness, so then you would have to go to Christ, all right. I guess we could get into a discussion. I think it primarily in Genesis. I think is more referencing emotion than anything. Let's see if he's going to bring that out, because that s the reason I'm going with the emotion idea.

27:14 That eliminates all of that arguing about wait a minute, how can God, who knows the beginning and the end and knows everything and decrease everything? How could he change his mind? Or how could know? This is expressing emotion, right, And the only reason it describes God expressing emotion is so it's using it in terms that we can understand. Maybe that I don't know. Let's see where he goes with it. Two, And I'm not going to take the time to go through every passage of repentance, but I'll just show you this just to make the point. And the point is this that if you actually take the time to study the word repent, repentance, repentant in the Bible, which we'll actually find is that the person who repented the most in the Bible is God himself. Already saw there in Genesis chapter six that the Lord repented, and he is the first one to repent. And there is some value in this idea of when a word is first mentioned in the Bible. There is this law of first mention, and whenever a word is mentioned for the first time in the Bible, it's important for us to take notice of it because of God. All right. He calls it the law a law of first mentioned the doctor and at first use. Obviously, him and I, I think, have gone to similar schools. I don't know what school he went to. I think him and I have some we've gone to similar schools somewhere. I doubt it was the same schools, but we've gone to similar school I have a feeling he's gone to some probably independent, fundamental Baptist schools like I have. So I have a feeling there's something similar

28:48 about our philological background. I'm starting to think that there's a high probability of it. But all right, so I agree there is great I think that there are at times that there can be great value in it. There's all always value in looking at it. Now. This is he is making an interesting point. Now I think he know. I don't know if we would we could, if someone wants to, you know, start looking this up. It would be interesting to note when the Bible speaks of repentance, is it true that God is the one seen repenting more than anyone else. Now you'll have to use the King James to find that, because, as we've already seen, the new King James removes the word repent in some of these situations and goes with the idea of God's emotion, the emotion he was feeling, not the idea of repenting. So I'm assuming he's probably KJV only so he wouldn't consider maybe that those were the words shouldn't be translated repent. It should be translated to express the emotion. To me, it removes some of the philological problems. But we'll see where he goes. But it's fascinating though.

29:49 If if we take if in the King James, God is shown as the one repenting more than anything else, that would be a very interesting statistic if we could demonstrate that. But then we get into an argument should the word repent be used in all of these situations? Because of course the new King James translators immediately remove the word repent. Andre like no, because I think they're going, this is expressing God's emotion. Let's not muddy the waters with using the word repent, because I think using the word repent, especially in our day and age, is going to really create some theological confusion. How often is trying to teach you something from the first time a word is mentioned. I think it's very interesting that the first time the Holy Spirit of God chose to put the word repentance or repentance in the Bible, it is God repenting. And I think the reason for that is because God wants us to see that this is something that can be done by anyone and everyone, including the Almighty God. You're there in Exodus thirty two. Okay, so this is something that can be done by anyone and everyone. Oh boy, all right, now we see, we see. He just walked in.

31:11 I don't know if he realized it. He just walked into the confusion, right he's trying to clarify the confusion. He just walked into confusion. He just walked into a massive philological debate because some believe man cannot repent This is more the reform perspective. Unless God grants repentance, others believe anyone can repent of their own free will. Now, this is why defining repentance could be very very very very much important here, because how we define it may greatly limit who can or who can't do it right your definition? Now, the way it's used in Genesis, and I think what he's going to show here in Exodus is that if it's just emotion, well, anyone can feel emotion.

32:00 Anyone can feel emotion, sorrow, regret, grief, being bothered over a situation. Anyone can feel that. That's natural. But if you make it more than that, So this is an interesting discussion. Is the New Testament Greek translated word translated repent? Is it very different than the meaning of the Hebrew word that is translated repent. Now, just to remember, the King James is the only one who's translated this repent. There may be some other translations, but the new King James has changed it. We'll see if he gives me the reference in Exodus again. We'll see if we can find the reference in Exodus and see if the new King James uses the word as well. We'll see if it's the same Hebrew word. Let's continue to dig in. Look in verse fourteen, Exodus thirty two, verse fourteen, the Bible says this, and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. And of course, the word evil in the Bible is not a reference to sin. Evil simply means to bring hurt and in this okay, Now, once again we're back to a translation issue. Exodus thirty two to fourteen, New King James, Exodus thirty two to fourteen.

33:22 So the Lord relented from the harm which he said he would do. He relented. Now let's look at the Hebrew. Let's look up the Hebrew word. All right, let's go to Exodus thirty two, verse fourteen. All right, King James has repented, and it is the same Greek word. It's our same Hebrew words Age fifty sixty two. Notham, not sham, the same, the same Hebrew word. So again the new King JEMs, New King James translators, they give the word repent out of this. He relented, he felt sorrow, he felt emotion. So the idea is well, he relented, he chose not to move forward. Now some people say, well, that's repentance. But if you put it repentance, you see where this creates major problems with an all knowing God who decrees everything that comes to pass and is moving everything according to providence. But if you more capture just it's referring to emotion action doing something or not doing something, then we can kind of keep that somewhat. I mean, it's a little bit easier to keep that away from all of the controversy that would emerge. Let's see, he says he's not going to look at all of them. Let's see if he gets to one where even the new King James translators say, hey, this should be repent Let's see if we find that one. Let's let's

34:52 continue Kay's judgment upon the people. But I want you to notice that the Bible here tells us that the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do. And again, the point that I want you to see is that in the Bible we see more often than not that it is the Lord who's repenting. It is God who repent. Now we see people repent as well, and we're going to talk about that. But the reason that we need to understand this is because of the fact that if God is repenting, then we must understand that repentance is not automatically connected to sin, because the misconception that people have today is that they'll say, whenever you see the word repent or repentance in the Bible, it's repenting of sin, even if it doesn't say sin, even if it doesn't mention sin. You can just assume that every time you see the word repentance, repenteth, repenting, repent, that somebody is repenting of sin. Well, if that's true, then you would be saying that God is repenting of sin. And here's what we know.

35:54 We know that God does not sin. God is without sin. So if God, who is sinless, can repent, then we can learn from that that repentance is something that is not always connected to sin. Now, let's be sure that there are times when repentance is applied to sin, and there are times when people have to repent or should repent of their sins. But what I want you to understand is that just because you see the word repent in the Bible, it does not automatically mean that somebody is repenting of their sins. Because God himself repented the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. Go with me if you would to the Book of Jonah chapter three, towards the end of the Old Testament. In fact, if you go backwards from the Book of Malachi, which is the last book in the Old Testament, if you go backwards, you go pass the Book of Zacharia, passed the Book of HAGII, passed the Book of Zephaniah, passive Book of Habit cook Nay whom Micah, and then Jonah Malachi, Zachariah, Hagee, Zephaniah, Habit cook Nay whom Mike Jonah Jonah, chapter number three. And I like you to do me a favor. Put a ribbon or a bookmark or something there in Jonah, because we're gonna leave it and we're gonna come back to it. But I'd like you to notice what the Bible teaches about this idea of repentance. And again we're talking about the misconception of repentance. Telling people that repentance is always repentance of sin is wrong.

37:19 It is biblically inaccurate, and it is an error that would make God a sinner. If that was true because of the fact that God is often repenting in the Bible. We saw that there in Exodus three two fourteen, and the Lord repentant of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. We saw that in Genesis six, six and seven. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beasts, and the creeping things and the foules of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them. Now you're there in Jonah chapter three. I like you to look at verse number nine and notice this again, Jonah three nine.

38:04 Who can tell? These are the Ninavites? Of course, we're in the book of Jonah, and we've got Jonah who has gone to the city of Ninevah, and he has preached the judgment of God unto them. And I want you to notice what is said here in Genesis three nine. They said, who can tell if God will turn and repent again? I just want you to notice another reference here. Okay, now again this is fascinating to me because if I don't know what other translations everyone is using. But if you found it in any other translation, you can let me know. But the new King James just constantly refuses to use the word repent. And Jonah chapter three, verse nine, it reads, who can tell if God will turn and relent and turn away from his fierce anger? Relent, not repent, because I think repentance care there's some he's not defined repentance, right, he's not looked up to. He just is using the word repent.

39:06 I think if we this seems to be like almost this is just either while he was going to do he he relented from doing this action. Now you could say, well that kind of fits the idea of repent, but repent it's more of like a change of mind. Right, that's typically the way we understand it. Now, let's see if Jonah is using the exact same Hebrew word though. Let's see if he's using the exact Hebrew word Jonah chapter three, it's verse nine, right, Yes, the King James translates it repent, and then it's the same same Hebrew word, same Hebrew word one more time for everyone was age fifty one sixty two, notm not cam right, And then in verse ten, because he's it's it's repented is in verse ten, and the King James, and it's the same Hebrew word. It's the same Hebrew word Strong's age fifty one sixty two, not sham, not sham, So the same Hebrew words used in all of these passages. But the new King James translators takes these Hebrew terms and have used it to express emotion, to express sorrow or grief or relenting relenting right like, And I know that kind of carries the idea that you can understand if repentance is a change of mind, well, then uh, then God can literally change his

40:38 mind. Well then that means he's not eternally decreed something. Unless he eternally decreed to change his mind. Well then what does that? Then? Has that not a change? That's not a change? Right? Okay, all right, so then that gets it. That gets into all kinds of complicated matters. Right, Let's let's see what he does with all of this to God repenting. Now they're asking who can tell? All maybe God will turn and repent, Maybe God won't bring this judgment that Jonah has been preaching about. Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not I. I'd like you to look at verse number ten, because in verse number ten we actually see another misconception. In verse nine we see the first misconception. And the first misconception is this that every time you see the word repentance in the Bible, it is referring to repenting of your sins. And that simply is not true, because if that word true, that would make God a sinner, because God is often repenting in the Bible. Then I'd like to notice a second misconception, and the second misconception is this that repenting of your sins is required for salvation. Now, how do we know that that is not true? Well, if you remember, we spent all of the first lesson dealing with the subject of works and salvation, and we learned that salvation is not of works. We learned about the fact that it's not by works of righteousness which were done, but according to His mercy he saved us. We learned about the fact that for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works. Lest any man should boast

42:09 now here in Jonah chapter three. I want you to notice, and you need to understand the context. Jonah has came, and he's came to Ninavites. He's preached the judgment of God. He says, yet forty days and nine of us shall be destroyed, and these people are getting right with God again there verse nine, Jonah three, verse nine. Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not? But I want you to notice verse number ten Jonah chapter three and verse ten, and God saw their works. Why don't you notice? The Bible tells us here that God looks down on the Ninevites. And the Bible tells us that God saw what God refers to as their works. Now what is it that they did that God refers to as their works? Notice it there, and God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way.

43:05 Now Here, in a moment, we're going to talk about the definition of repentance, and I'll prove this to you from the Bible. But you need to understand that the word repent means to turn. And here the Bible says that God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do it to them, and he did it not So again we see another reference to God repenting. But I don't want to focus right now on God repenting. I want to focus on the fact that they who the people of Nineveh, turned from their evil way. They turned from those things that were bringing judgment upon them. They repented of their sins. That's what the Bible is telling us here. And the Bible calls that works. God calls that works.

43:52 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. So telling people that they have to repent of their sins to be saved, I'm talking about going to heaven to be spiritually safe is an error that adds works to salvation. Oh boy, Okay, all right, ladies and gentlemen, the train has not gone off the tracks. The train has to come to a complete halt because I don't think we're gonna get any further than this, all right, Within this is where I always find myself, right, I always start looking at theological issues and then I realize by the time I'm done that I have no place to be within Christianity because I'm going to tick off every camp. I'm going to tick off everyone with my explanation of this. All right, so you really have these two very distinct camps right within Christendom.

44:51 And the two camps are repentance is absolutely necessary for salvation. If you do not repent, you are not saved. You must repent. The other side says, absolutely not. Repentance is not necessary for salvation because that is adding works to the gospel. Therefore it's a false gospel. Now, these are absolutely one hundred percent opposite of one another, contradictory of one another, and obviously both cannot be right because they're saying completely opposite things, which just shows you that even after two thousand years, Christians don't even agree or can't even understand the most basic concept of repent or repentance. That leads me to the point of almost the pit of despair. You think, after some point we can figure this out. So let's go with Let's try to work this out.

45:51 The first thing we have to do is, in all of this, we have to try to understand when we say repent what is meant. Almost inevitably, everyone connects repentance with an actual turning away from actions. Right, So repent is to turn away from doing this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, Right, so the focus is always on changing your action, changing your direction, changing your action, changing your direction. It almost inevitably, that's how everyone understands it. Okay, so then you go with this, so you can see the side that would say no, no, repentance is not required for salvation, because if you make repentance required for salvation, then what you're telling everyone repent you must turn, you must change all of your actions in order to be saved.

46:46 And then they would say, but to change all of your actions what he's doing here in Jonah, that is a work that you were doing. And if it's a work you're doing, you're now making a work a requirement for salvation. So you could see why they want to remove repentance. Right, Hey, repent it is to turn to change all this behavior, stop doing this and start doing this. You have to do it, and that's a work you do. And if it's a work you do well, then to do this would be bringing works into salvation that destroys the gospel. So therefore repentance is not required for salvation. You see the logical argument there, I can understand the logical argument. You're trying to protect the doctrine of grace.

47:29 But by protecting the doctrine of grace, what do you do with all the passages of scripture that seems to connect repentance with salvation? So what do you do now? The more reform side, the side that says no repentance is required for salvation, they play kind of a little game, right, because they want they will tell you no, no, no, no no. We believe salvation is by grace alone, too, faith alone, because of Christ alone. So repentance is not a work you do. So this is what they say. Repentance is a work God does. God grant you repentance, so it's not what you do, it's what God does. And then they will say, it's not that you have to repent in order to be saved, but you have to repent in the sense of you have to be willing to change all of this behavior. And if you change all of this behavior, then you prove you are saved. So you don't change your behavior in order to get saved. This is the game they kind of play.

48:25 You have to change your behavior in order to prove you are saved. Now, this is where he gets complicated in the reformed camp. If God is the one giving you the repentance, then that repentance should be so good because God gave it to you that you would instantaneously turn from every evil work and never sin again, because it's literally a repentance given to you by God. But even in the reformed lordship camp, they can't. They have to go no, no, no, I mean, your repentance is not going to be perfect. I mean your repentance. You're gonna have to be constantly repenting because you're gonna be constantly sinning. Well wait a minute, did if I repent and then I go back to the same sin, did I repent?

49:08 Well I mean I mean well, I mean you may repent, but you have to keep repenting. Well, wait a minute, that sounds like that. My repentance is very iffy and questionable and it's not very sure. But at the same time, you're gonna use this to judge my salvation. And if God is the one who gave me the repentance, wouldn't the repentance God gave me be not questionable? Would it be just like God granted me repentance, I repented and I never committed another sin again. Well, they was like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You just God grants you a repentance, meaning you're willing to turn from all of your sins. So only God just tells me, gives me a willingness to turn for my sin. But what if I never turned for my sin, but I'm willing to turn. Well, if you're really willing to turn from your sin, you'll turn from your sin. Well, how much sin do I have to turn from to in order to prove that I'm saved. Well, I mean you have to, and of course it'll be the big sin. I mean, obviously, if you were a homosexual, you got to turn from that. Of course, of course you weren't saved. But I mean if you were a heterosexual and you struggle and you're a teenager and you get saved, but you still struggle with lust and fornication, I mean, that's okay. It's a really weird game and how the game is played. So the one side, it's like, no, no, no, no, no, repentance is not required for salvation because repentance is are turning away from these things, and it that's a work you do.

50:27 Therefore, it can't be a part of salvation. Right, it's something you do after you're saved. And then the other side is like, no repentance is required for salvation. But the reason it's not a work is God grant you the repentance. But then that leads to all the problems there. Well, wait a minute. If it's God granted me the repentance, then it should be a perfect repentance and I should never sin again. And I can prove to you your repentance. And if you say, well, if you keep sinning, your repentance is not genuine, Well, then, ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to ruin your day because none of our repentance is how do you want to know? Here we go. Some of you know exactly what I'm about to say. All right, love the Lord, that God with all your heart, mind, body and soul. That's a command.

51:08 If you're breaking that command, you're sinning. I want you to repent of that sin right now and now from this point on you'll love God perfectly. Well, see that's never going to happen. So that means your repentance is never genuine. Wait, you're supposed to love your neighbor as yourself. If you're not doing that, repent of that and always from this point forward love your neighbor, which is anyone the way you love your Oh you're never going to accomplish that, because you will always love yourself more than you'll love anyone else. All right, so you're wait wait wait wait wait, be ye holy as He is holy, you are commanded to be as holy as God is holy. You will never do that practically, so your repentance is not genuine. Oh see, well, now that puts you in a major problem, right, So what do we do. I'm going to put forth an argument that goes something like this is necessary for salvation. But that repentance that's necessary for salvation is simply a change of mind, because that's to me, if you look at the real meaning of especially the Greek word, that's the primary meaning of it. No one can deny that that's not a part of it. For salvation, you change your mind what you you were living your life this way and now you realize there is a God. You change your mind from not believing in a god to now believing in a God, or now believing this and this God in a way differently than you did before.

52:38 You now believe in Jesus Christ. And you believe Jesus Christ was the eternal son of God, born of a virgin who suffered and died under conscious pilot, and he paid for your sins, and only that while he was alive, he kept the law perfectly for you. And now you are going to and now you acknowledge that you are a sinner and you need salvation. You change your mind about God, about sin. You change your mind. And that change of mind is now what leads to the struggle that follows after your salvation, because now you know something is a sin, and when you're doing it, you know that you shouldn't be doing it, and you feel guilty about it, and you struggle because your mind has been changed. I say repentance is a change of mind, so therefore it can be a requirement for salvation. But that change of mind is by no mean a guarantee of a change of behavior. Your mind may tell you it's wrong, but your actions may do it either way. And you don't judge someone's salvation by how much they change. You don't even judge them about how much they've changed their mind. You judge their salvation based off the finished work of Jesus Christ, and they're trusting and their faith in that finished work. To say that puts me outside of both camps, I'm in no man's land here, right.

54:08 That's why I will never find I won't ever be able to find a church, because I would always be the one outside of what the church teaches. You see where my problem would be. Now you might say, well, is there not a place for repenting of your sins? And we'll talk about that. There absolutely is a place for repenting of your sins. But what you and I need to understand that the Bible God himself identified someone turning from their evil way, and he referred to that as works. And we know that salvation is not of works, is not something that is earned. So therefore, repentance or repenting of your sins specifically cannot be part of salvation because that would be adding works to salvation. These are misconceptions that are said so much, and they're repeated so often that people just think that it's what the Bible teaches and it's what the Word of God says, when it absolutely is not. I don't know if there's any significance to this, but he's been looking up all the places where the word repent is used. In the King James. And then he looked at Jonah chapter three, verse nine, where it says who can who can tell if God will turn? And the new King James doesn't use the word repent relent, but the King James translates that repent. Then he goes to verse ten. Then God saw their works that they turn from their evil way and turn from their evil way. He's like, see, that's them repenting. What's interesting it doesn't use the same Hebrew

55:43 word that's been translated repent all of these times by the King James translators. This turn from their evil way? Is this Hebrew word? Jong's shoove, shoove shoove. Now shove is used one thousand and sixty six times. Shove is used one thousand and sixty six times. It's everything from return again, turn, turn, back, away, restore, bring, render, answer, recompense, recover, deliver, put withdrawal, requit. I mean it's definition here, Oh wow. I mean the strongest definition is just It can be used a million different ways, but it can mean to return, to turn back, to turn back to return. I mean it's a completely different word than the one that's been translated repent, which is interesting because this seems to capture more of the idea of what we typically think of repentance. Is than God saw their works that they turn from their evil ways, and God relented. See now relented in the King James is translated repent. But God saw their works that they turn from their evil way is not is not translated well as the same word this translated repent. That to me is fascinating.

57:09 I don't know what you want to do with that, right so, but I just I do agree with him. God is seeing that it's their works. God saw their works, that they turn from evil, their works. This is something they are doing. Now, if you connect repentance with something we do, well, okay, then obviously we know if we're doing it. We know this. It's not going to be perfect. It's going to be imperfect, and it's going to be all over the place, messy, corrupted, it's going to be a mess. But if it's something we do and it's us turning from works, and then you say it's required for salvation, then you've now put works in salvation. So the more reformed camp comes in and says, no, no, it's not what we do. God gives you the repentance. Well, then the answer question would be, if God grants me the repentance, then that turning she be absolutely perfect. But I believe repent as far as salvation is concerned, it's just a change of mind, and I have no problem believing God is the one who grants that.

58:10 And God changes my mind, and my mind is permanently changed. Right for a Christian, your mind is permanently changed. You're going to believe because we believe in the eternal security of the believer. We believe somehow and you know the perseverance of the saints. Because I do hold more to a reform socieriology, Well then yeah, God's changed my mind forever. I'm always going to believe that there's a God, that he sent his son Jesus Christ, and he died for me, and then I'm always I may struggle with so many issues, but I'm going to at least believe the basic elements and trust in Christ. I may be confused and not understand and doubt at times, but I'm going to have faith because salvation is by faith alone, not by what I do or don't do. So I got no problem saying it's requirement for salvation. I got no problem saying it's required it. God is the one who grants. It's not just something we do on our own. But guess what, I'm only going to allow repentance to be a change of mind as far as salvation is concerned. Both maybe would to the Book of Matthew in the New Testament first book, keep your place there in Yonah. We're gonna come back to Jonah, So put something there and go to Matthew chapter number three, if you would. Matthew chapter three. Again, I want to be clear, what are misconceptions, Maybe because maybe you're here this morning and you've had this misconception. Maybe you were taught some of these things, and you were taught inaccurately or incorrectly, and it's good for you to clear up some of these misconceptions. Misconception number one, every time you see the word repent in the Bible, it's referring to sin. That's wrong because if

59:43 that were true, that would mean that God is a sinner. Because the person who repents more than anyone in the Bible is God himself. So we need to understand that. Yes, sometimes the word repentance is being applied to sin, but sometimes it's not. You say, well, when do we know it's not. Well, for sure, one is being referred to God. We know that it's not referring to sin. God is not repenting of sin. Another misconception is this idea that repenting of your sins is required for salvation, or it is part of salvation. That's wrong because the Bible is clear about the fact that salvation is not of works. And the Bible tells us Jonah three ten that when someone turns from their evil way, that is a work Jonah three ten. And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way. So we see that turning from your evil way, repenting of your sins cannot be something that is part of salvation. He said, well, why do people have these misconceptions? Why do people think this?

1:00:43 One of the reasons is because this idea, this phrase repent of your sins, repent of your sins, is so often quoted and repeated by preachers throughout the ages that people just assume this is something the Bible teaches. In fact, let me just say this, your King James, Bible never even once holds this phrase in it repent of your sins. The Bible never even says that phrase repent of your sins. Now, the Bible does teach the concept of repenting of your sins, and we'll talk about that here in a minute. But what I think is interesting that this phrase is used and used and repeated over and over again by Bible preachers or so called Bible preachers, and yet the Bible never even uses that phrase once. That phrase repent of your sins. I'm talking about those words repent of your sins, those four words in that order, That phrase and that sentence structured is never once found in the Bible. Here's what I think is interesting. People will sometimes argue with me. I'll preach something like this or say something like this, and someone will argue with me, and we'll say, well, the Bible clearly states that someone has to repent of their sins to be saved. And I always ask when somebody says that, when somebody makes a statement the Bible teaches you got to repent of your sins to be saved. What I always ask is, where where does the Bible say that? Show me in the Bible where the Bible says And oftentimes people don't even know where to go, because they

1:02:15 repeat things they hear, but they have never studied it out on the Bible themselves. But every once in a while people will say, well, i'll show you where, and they'll take me to a passage like Matthew chapter three. I like to look at it. Matthew chapter three. They'll say, the Bible teachers someone must repent of their sins to be saved. And I'll say, well, if the Bible teachers that I should like to see that, please show me that in the Bible. And they'll say, well, i'll show you that, and they'll take me to a passage like Matthew three ten where the Bible says and saying repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. And then they'll kind of just look at me there, and I'll often look down and say, well, I see the word repent, and I see the word ye, But where's the word of your sins?

1:02:59 Where are those words? It doesn't say repent of your sins. It says repent ye. And then they'll say, WHOA, yeah, But I mean it's understood that when the Bible says repent is talking about your sins. Well, then we go back to the misconception. Well, that can't be true, because God repents, and it's not of your sins, because God is without sin. Sometimes they'll take me to a verse like this, you're there in Matthew three. Go to Matthew chapter four, Matthew chapter four. Show me a verse where it says repent of your sins, where the Bible teaches repent of your sins to be saved. Matthew chapter four to seventeen. They'll say, well, how about this one from that time Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. And again I'll ask the question. I'll say, I see the word repent, but where are these words repent of your sins? Because you're adding those words, you're adding that thought. You're coming to the Bible where they preconceived idea that says every time the Bible use the word repent, of course it's talking about repenting of your sins. And then you're putting that definition onto the Bible.

1:04:08 But that can't be true because we see that God repents, and if God repents, then the word repent cannot automatically mean repent of your sins, and God tells us that when someone turns from their evil way, that to a work. And the Bible is clear that salvation is not of work. So therefore repenting of your sins cannot cannot be part of salvation. Bolly, it says it right there. So clearly, why don't have a problem with what the Bible says? I'm a problem with you because the Bible says repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, But what it doesn't say is repent of your sins. Then they'll maybe take me to another verse, and we gonna do this all day. I will. This is an interesting argument that he's making, and he's putting together kind of a logical argument. I'm following, at least the logic of it. I've already kind of stepped outside of his camp. I've stepped outside of the other camp, and I've kind of put forth my own perspective. But he didn't look up the well, he's not looked up the Hebrew term or the Greek term. But let's go to the Greek term here in Matthew three. Because we're gonna run out of time, we can at least look at this and just see if it carries the same idea as the Hebrew one and and Matthew three of the word is Matthew three verse two. Okay, Matthew three two. All right, I was like, well, I thought it was three one three two. Here we go. It's this Greek word strong g thirty three meta not ao,

1:05:43 meta ao, meta not ao, meta not ao. You need to know that Greek word meta not ao, because this is the This is where all the argument comes down to, meta not ao. This is very important meton i ao. I'm gonna go straight from the anti linear that I have here in front of me, outline of biblical usage. To change one's mind number two, to change one's mind hardly to amend with abhorrence of one's past sense. But make sure you understand the very obvious meaning first and foremost is to change one's mind underneath that they have kind of in a little block here repentance metaniao change of mind. It involves a turning with contrition from sin to God.

1:06:29 The repentant sinner is proper in the proper condition to accept divine forgiveness. Well, I think it is to turn from your sin in this sense, and I think It's all about a change of mind when I am brought to when it comes to salvation, I change my mind realize, and this is my change. All of this behavior, all of my actions, are sinful. They are a failure. Now I'm going to turn to Christ for salvation from these sins. It is a change of mind that turns me from my sin to faith in Christ. Not when I say, turns for my sin in action, but I'm turning to it now that I'm putting my faith in Christ to save me from them and to pay for them. It's a change of mind. It's used thirty four times. If you look at strongest definition from metana Ao, it is to think differently, or afterwards, it is to think differently. Everyone's gonna say, but it's a change of mind that leads to a change of action. It obviously doesn't always lead to a perfect change of action because we continue to sin. It's a change of mind, and that change of mind, then I believe is true and real and permanent.

1:07:46 I truly change my mind. I may continue to sin, but I will continue to admit that it's a sin. Right. If I try to justify it, well, then I'm not really I haven't really changed my mind about sin. I believe that that repentance is a true change of mind, where I'm like, hey, look, I know I did this, but I'm not going to justify it. I know it was wrong, Okay, I understand that, and I look, I know it's wrong not to love God with all my heart, mind, body and soul. But I still don't do it. I know I should love my neighbor as myself, but I still don't do it. I know I'm to be holy as God is holy, I still don't do it. I think the focus is metini ao when we get to the New Testament, it's a change of mind and the word that's translated to repent, at least when it comes to God and some of the passes, that's more about an emotion, about about you know, I think it. I don't think it has It doesn't have the same concept of metoni ao, no way, shape or form. It doesn't even carry even the Hebrew word doesn't even carry the idea of a change of mind.

1:08:57 Is more about emotion. So that's why I don't. I think that's why the New Kings translators remove that word being repent when referring to God because I think it's I think it's a I think it causes all of this confusion. But I see the logical progression he's building. I just I'm outside of both camps. I do believe repentance is required for salvation, and I can even believe that God is the one who has to grant that repentance. But it's a change of mind that leads me and a sense to turn from sin, not in action, but to turn from sin and to turn to Christ for salvation and for forgiveness of those sins and for a righteousness that will in a sense cover me, because I know I'm still a sinner. Right now, Let's see if we can find a place to wrap this up. When I wear close to the end of this sermon, you need to go listen to the rest of this sermon. You need to and obviously we're going to have to review it because I'm now fascinated by it. But let's let me play just a little bit more. Won't do take you to every passage, but I'll just give you one more just for fun. Mark chapter six, look verse twelve, Mark chapter six and verse twelve. Mark six twelve says this, and they went out and preached that men should repent. And they're like, there you go. See they went out and they preach that men should repent of their sins. And I'll say again, I see the word preach.

1:10:27 I see that word should, I see the the word men. I see the word repent. But where does it say of your sins? Where does it say repent of your sins to be saved. I can show you a verse that says, believe I'm the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shallt be saved. Can you show me a verse that says repent of your sins and you'll be saved. You can't because it's not in the Bible. Now. The Bible uses the word repent, repentance, repenting, repentant, repentance is the constant found in scripture. Sometimes I'll preach a sermon like this, and then people will accuse us, say, oh, that per that preacher, that church. They don't believe in repentance. We believe in repentance. We just don't believe in adding works to salvation like you do. The Bible talks about repentance, but we must be careful not to add what you read in a commentary somewhere, not to add what you read in some theological books somewhere, not to add what you heard on the radio or on the TV or on the internet, and just add something to the Bible that's not there, because the Bible never uses this phrase repent of your sins, never even uses it. And people try to take you to proof text to say, well, it teaches you, and then they take you to verses that say repent, they don't say repent of your sins. And we know that repentance cannot automatically always on its own be referring to sin, because the person repented the most in the Bible is God himself, and God is without sin.

1:11:58 And we know that repenting of your sin is gonna be part of salvation because God defines someone turning from their evil way as works, and we know that works is not part of salvation. So we talked about the misconception of repentance. I hope that that's helped clear up some of those misconceptions that repentance is not always referring to sin, and that repenting of your sins cannot be part of salvation because it's adding work salvation. But now let's talk about the definition of repentance. Oh, we're gonna have to stop. But that's a perfect place to stop. That's a perfect place to stop. Oh, that's a perfect place to stop. Okay, not really okay, but it's like, Hey, what's going to happen next week? Okay? Well, hopefully, hopefully I can get to this before next week, but we will see.

1:12:47 It's going to be a crazy I don't know how broadcasting is going to go, but I'm going to go. I'm writing this down and I'll market if we can get to it later today we will. Currently it's two pm Central time, and I'm I'm going to prove how fleshly I am. I need food, all right. I haven't eaten today. I am absolutely starving, all right, so I need food. And it's seventy two minutes seventy three minutes, so we have to stop, all right. So you've heard his You've heard his perspective, which I'm much much in agreement with. This next part will determine how much I'm in agreement with. But I've also clearly stated my perspective, which is outside of really both typical camps on this subject.

1:13:35 And well you can tell me where you fit, and you can email me at news I F at yahoo dot com. This news I F at yahoo dot com. Please go look up again this church on the Sermon's two point oh app. Please look it up and follow them Verity and hopefully I'm saying it correctly. V E r it t y Verity Baptist Church. Follow them. Yes, it is independent fundamental. I told you him and I have probably gone to the same types of schools because I could clearly hear that. And then look for the series Rooted and Grounded, and then I don't know again, I don't know why to have it part one part two, but Faith Versus Works, that's the first one. You definitely want to listen to that. And then the Repent of Your Sins Confusion Part two. They label it part two. I wouldn't label it part two. And then you can go and then follow that and see if they add any more to the series, and I think it'll be well with your time. And you can then contrast that with all the other messages on the Sermon's Audio app because most I think the majority of sermons on the Sermon Audio app or Sermon's two point zero app will lead you more to the reformed perspective or the lordship perspective. And this is clearly not going with the reformed idea and definitely not going with the lordship idea. So it's good to have that variety, and you're getting that variety. But litening to a message from Verity Baptist Church, they say, I'm trying to be too clever. Yeah, that's it. I know,

1:15:06 it's kind of ridiculous. All right, thanks for listening. I need food. Everyone, have a great day. God bless