I'll give the shortened version to this since
we've been here a while.
I'm just so grateful for everybody's participation.
Doesn't it make a huge difference when the
body gets involved in worship?
Amen.
We each have a part to play.
Last night we talked about how the glory
and majesty of King Jesus demands a response,
didn't we?
The glory of Christ demands a response.
We talked about worship.
I think we gave the Lord a response
this evening, didn't we?
Praise God.
I just hope we grow in that.
Tonight I want to talk about how the
glory and majesty of King Jesus demands another
response.
And we're going to talk about repentance.
Repentance.
Isaiah 6 is a good example that Megan
quoted.
Isaiah, this holy prophet of God, gets in
the presence of the Lord.
He sees the king high and lifted up,
and he has to respond.
He says, woe is me from a man
of unclean lips.
And I dwell among a people of unclean
lips.
That's a response, isn't it?
When we really get before a holy God,
we suddenly see ourself, our own heart in
a way that we've never seen it before.
And so you guys, I just want to
talk a little bit about this, about how
the kingdom of God, if we're going to
be messengers of the king, if we're going
to be messengers of God's kingdom, we must,
we must preach repentance.
We must apply repentance to our own heart.
Amen?
God, you guys, we cannot preach the gospel
accurately and biblically without preaching repentance.
And we're going to go through some verses
to really reveal that.
And I cannot emphasize enough, if somebody has
given you a concept of sharing the gospel
of Jesus Christ, which does not have repentance
involved in it, it is not the same
gospel that Jesus preached.
I love the message of repentance, don't you?
Can you say that or do you go,
I don't know if I do or not?
Do you love the message of repentance?
There's a great little book over here called,
there's a great little book over here called
by Basilia Schlink, and it's called The Repentance,
The Joy-Filled Life.
I'm so grateful to the Lord Jesus Christ
when He started about 20 years ago, got
a hold of my heart, started putting a
squeeze in my heart, and He started getting
me along.
Nobody was preaching to me, nobody was talking
to me, nobody got me in a Bible
study, but He started showing me a list
of all my favorite sins.
All the things that I drew my significance
from, all the things I trusted in to
give me joy and pleasure and delight.
And He started to show me these things.
He said, David, will you let go of
these things?
Will you let me be the king of
your life?
For six weeks, I looked at that list
and scratched one thing off after another, until
I got to the point where I said,
God, I don't care what I have, what
I don't have, I've got to have you
as king in my life.
At that moment, I was wonderfully and radically
saved, and you guys, instantly, instantly delivered from
some addictive sin patterns and habits that I
had sowed in my life for years, for
almost a decade.
I was delivered instantly from those things.
Everything?
No.
But in such huge areas of my life
that I knew He was king, I knew
He was in control, and I knew He
could handle whatever else was going on in
my life in the days ahead.
Amen?
Have you had that kind of experience with
the Lord Jesus Christ?
Where He is king, where He subdues things
in your life, where He delivers you from
things, where you know He's king, where He
rules and reigns, and you can stand up
straight and square your shoulders and look somebody
in the eye and say, I know that
God can set you free from that, because
He set me free from that.
You guys, that is a message of hope.
What are you going to share with the
lost and dying world?
Something your Sunday school teacher taught you?
Second-hand religion?
Half-baked leftovers?
Or something that's alive and real in your
life?
You don't know how many of you college
guys over the last several years have pulled
me aside, and now tell me, brother, tell
me, can you really be free from this?
You know what I'm talking about, you guys,
ladies, whatever the issues are.
And it is wonderful, it is wonderful when
you can look people in the eye and
say with perfect confidence, yes.
Boy, what hope that brings.
I remember when God did a special work
in my life about 12 years ago, I
was sitting in the parking lot of Pratt's
grocery store on the south side of Oklahoma
City, and God got a hold of my
heart, and I was so heart sick over
the fact that there was some stuff in
my life that was not right.
And I started to weep, and I said,
God, make me a holy man, so I
can go to others and tell them that
they too can be set apart, exclusively reserved
for the delight and pleasure of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Amen?
The call to holiness, the call to repentance,
is a call to be betrothed to the
Lamb of God, to be married to Jesus.
Ladies, don't you want a man that is
exclusively set aside, reserved, pure, and set apart
for your love and your love only?
Men, isn't that what you want from a
woman?
Doesn't the Lord Jesus Christ deserve just as
much?
When you get before the King, and you
see His love, and oh, does He love
us, you guys?
He loves us passionately.
He loves us.
I just had such a sense, standing back
there, that God was brooding over different ones
of you, and He is so desiring your
heart.
He wants to meet places that you didn't
even know need to be met.
He wants to touch you in such a
special way that we have stuff in our
life, places where we will not say yes
to Him yet, and we can't even get
the thing that our heart is longing for,
the love and mercy and intimacy of Jesus.
Does that make sense, you guys?
What we trust in is King.
Did you know that?
What we trust in is King.
When we trust in temporal pleasures, when we
trust in sensuality, all kinds of things, when
we trust in those things to drive some
pleasure or sense of significance, some joy, rather
than trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, that
reveals that those things are King to us
and not the Lord.
What are we trusting in, you guys, this
evening?
The coming of the Kingdom of God demands
biblical repentance.
The message of repentance is a clarion call
to abandon our self-serving ways and relinquish
complete, absolute control of our lives to the
King Jesus.
Repentance is choosing to be ruled by the
sovereign authority of the Kingdom of God.
Repentance is a willingness of heart to submit
and obey our King in all things.
Repentance is a 180 degree turn, a changing
of loyalties from one king and kingdom to
another.
How can we invite people into the Kingdom
without saying, Turn from serving that king to
serving this king.
Do you see why it's necessary to preach
repentance?
But you know, if we haven't done it,
we don't have authority to preach it, do
we?
You can't lead somebody where you haven't been,
where you're not going.
Repentance is turning away from the kingdom of
darkness unto the kingdom of light.
Literally, the word repentance means a change of
mind.
You're going this direction, and you make a
180 degree turn to go this direction.
You're serving your own desires.
You're serving your own wants.
You're serving your own plans.
You're serving your own pleasures.
And then you hear the call of the
king.
It says, Come, obey me, serve me, love
me.
You belong to me.
Be married to me.
And that call awakens something in your heart.
It stirs a measure of faith, a measure
of hope.
And you turn and say, Yes, Jesus, I
will follow you and go this way.
That's what repentance is.
Give the shortened version to this since we've
been here a while.
I'm just so grateful for everybody's participation.
Doesn't it make a huge difference when the
body gets involved in worship?
Amen.
We each have a part to play.
Last night we talked about how the glory
and majesty of King Jesus demands a response,
didn't we?
The glory of Christ demands a response.
We talked about worship.
I think we gave the Lord a response
this evening, didn't we?
Praise God.
I just hope we grow in that.
Tonight I want to talk about how the
glory and majesty of King Jesus demands another
response.
And we're going to talk about repentance.
Repentance.
Isaiah 6 is a good example that Megan
quoted.
Isaiah, this holy prophet of God, gets in
the presence of the Lord.
He sees the king high and lifted up.
And he has to respond.
He says, Woe is me from a man
of unclean lips.
And I dwell among a people of unclean
lips.
That's a response, isn't it?
When we really get before a holy God,
we suddenly see ourself, our own heart in
a way that we've never seen it before.
And so you guys, I just want to
talk a little bit about this.
About how the kingdom of God, if we're
going to be messengers of the king, if
we're going to be messengers of God's kingdom,
we must, we must preach repentance.
We must apply repentance to our own heart.
Amen?
God, you guys, we cannot preach the gospel
accurately and biblically without preaching repentance.
And we're going to go through some verses
to really reveal that.
And I cannot emphasize enough, if somebody has
given you a concept of sharing the gospel
of Jesus Christ, which does not have repentance
involved in it, it is not the same
gospel that Jesus preached.
I love the message of repentance, don't you?
Can you say that or do you go,
I don't know if I do or not.
Do you love the message of repentance?
There's a great little book over here, called,
there's a great little book over here, called
by Basilia Schlink and it's called, The Repentance,
The Joy-Filled Life.
I'm so grateful to the Lord Jesus Christ
when He started about 20 years ago, got
a hold of my heart, started putting a
squeeze in my heart, and He started getting
me along.
Nobody was preaching to me, nobody was talking
to me, nobody had got me in a
Bible study, but He started showing me a
list of all my favorite sins.
All the things that I drew my significance
from, all the things I trusted in to
give me joy and pleasure and delight.
And He started to show me these things.
He said, David, will you let go of
these things?
Will you let me be the king of
your life?
For six weeks, I looked at that list
and scratched one thing off after another, until
I got to the point and said, God,
I don't care what I have, what I
don't have, I've got to have you as
king in my life.
At that moment, I was wonderfully and radically
saved.
And you guys, instantly, instantly delivered from some
addictive sin patterns and habits that I had
sowed in my life for years, for almost
a decade.
I was delivered instantly from those things.
Everything?
No.
But in such huge areas of my life
that I knew He was king, I knew
He was in control, and I knew He
could handle whatever else was going on in
my life in the days ahead.
Amen?
Have you had that kind of experience with
the Lord Jesus Christ?
Where He is king, where He subdues things
in your life.
Where He delivers you from things.
Where you know He's king, where He rules
and reigns, and you can stand up straight,
and square your shoulders, and look somebody in
the eye and say, I know that God
can set you free from that, because He
set me free from that.
You guys, that is a message of hope.
What are you going to share with the
lost and dying world?
Something your Sunday school teacher taught you?
Second-hand religion?
Half-baked leftovers?
Or something that's alive and real in your
life?
You don't know how many of you college
guys over those several years have pulled me
aside, and now tell me, brother, tell me,
can you really be free from this?
You know what I'm talking about, you guys,
ladies, whatever the issues are.
And it is wonderful, it is wonderful when
you can look people in the eye, and
you can say with perfect confidence, yes.
Boy, what hope that brings.
I remember when God did a special work
in my life about 12 years ago, I
was sitting in the park on a Pratt's
grocery store on the south side of Oklahoma
City, and God got a hold of my
heart, and I was so heart sick over
the fact that there was some stuff in
my life that was not right.
And I was there just weeping, and I
said, God, make me a holy man so
I can go to others and tell them
that they too can be set apart, exclusively
reserved for the delight and pleasure of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen?
The call to holiness, the call to repentance,
is a call to be betrothed to the
Lamb of God, to be married to Jesus.
Ladies, don't you want a man that is
exclusively set aside, reserved, pure, and set apart
for your love and your love only?
Men, isn't that what you want from a
woman?
Doesn't the Lord Jesus Christ deserve just as
much?
When you get before the King and you
see His love, and oh, does He love
us, you guys?
He loves us passionately.
He loves us.
I just had such a sense, standing back
there, that God was brooding over different ones
of you, and He is so desiring your
heart.
He wants to meet places that you didn't
even know need to be met.
He wants to touch you in such a
special way.
But we have stuff in our life, places
where we will not say yes to Him
yet, and we can't even get the thing
that our heart is longing for, the love
and mercy and intimacy of Jesus.
Does that make sense to you guys?
What we trust in is King.
Did you know that?
What we trust in is King.
When we trust in temporal pleasures, when we
trust in sensuality, all kinds of things, when
we trust in those things to drive some
pleasure or sense of significance, some joy, rather
than trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, that
reveals that those things are King to us
and not the Lord.
What are we trusting in, you guys, this
evening?
The coming of the Kingdom of God demands
biblical repentance.
The message of repentance is a clarion call
to abandon our self-serving ways and relinquish
complete, absolute control of our lives to the
King Jesus.
Repentance is choosing to be ruled by the
sovereign authority of the Kingdom of God.
Repentance is a willingness of heart to submit
and obey our King in all things.
Repentance is a 180 degree turn, a changing
of loyalties from one king and kingdom to
another.
How can we invite people into the Kingdom
without saying, Repent?
Turn from serving that king to serving this
king.
Do you see why it's necessary to preach
repentance?
But you know, if we haven't done it,
we don't have authority to preach it, do
we?
You can't lead somebody where you haven't been,
where you're not going.
Repentance is turning away from the kingdom of
darkness unto the kingdom of light.
Literally, the word repentance means a change of
mind.
You're going this direction, and you make a
180 degree turn to go this direction.
You're serving your own desires.
You're serving your own wants.
You're serving your own plans.
You're serving your own pleasures.
And then you hear the call of the
king.
It says, Come, obey me.
Serve me.
Love me.
You belong to me.
Be married to me.
And that call awakens something in your heart.
It stirs a measure of faith, a measure
of hope, and you turn and say, Yes,
Jesus, I will follow you and go this
way.
That's what repentance is.
It's a change of mind that leads to
a change of heart that ultimately, by God's
grace, leads to a change of action.
Do you guys, come on, in this room,
does the message of repentance bug you?
If you have a problem with the message
of repentance, you've got a serious problem with
the king.
Matthew 3, 1-12, there's a little episode
from the life of John the Baptist, you
know, that guy we were talking about last
night, that every time Christ shows up, all
he can say is, Behold the Lamb of
God, who takes away the sins of the
world.
It's Jesus!
Oh, I like that.
Don't you?
Don't you want to be that kind of
person?