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The language of the gospel is, except you

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repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

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The word ye referred to in the passage

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means you.

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You must repent.

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And if you don't repent, you shall perish.

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What does perish mean?

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It means to be damned to hell.

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Our text says ye shall all likewise perish.

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That word all is an all-inclusive all,

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meaning all men shall drop into hell unless

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they repent.

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God requires repentance to get to his heaven.

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You don't need to repent to go to

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hell.

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And that's the title of my message this

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evening.

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You don't need to repent to go to

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hell.

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You see, the problem is, friends, the Church

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in America decided years ago to no longer

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preach the doctrine of repentance.

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Instead, they replaced it with an only-believed

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gospel, which is a no-gospel.

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Like I said, you don't need to repent

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to go to hell, but you do need

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to repent to go to heaven.

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Now, many seminary professors will disagree with me

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on that one.

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I have a fight on my hands.

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Many pastors will disagree with me on that

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one.

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And many evangelists will disagree with me on

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that as well.

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But I don't care if you disagree with

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me, because I am not in charge of

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your eternal destiny.

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But if you disagree with the words of

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Christ Jesus, then you have to take it

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up with Him on that day.

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I believe the reason why churches no longer

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preach the need for repentance is that they

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teach that man is not so bad after

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all.

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He doesn't need to repent.

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He just needs to clean up a little

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to become a Christian.

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And on top of that, it's not politically

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correct to tell a person they must repent.

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If you do that, then you have to

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tell them what a big sinner they are.

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And if you do that, then you have

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a fight on your hands with the chairman

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of the deacons.

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You tell him he needs to repent, and

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his face will turn blood red in anger.

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We don't preach repentance in America anymore because

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we don't want to offend anyone.

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That's why we've turned our churches into nightclubs

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and entertainment halls, so we won't offend anybody.

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After all, everyone loves to be entertained, right?

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Like I said, you don't need to repent

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to go to hell, but you do if

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you want to go to heaven.

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I believe the church changed its message about

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40 years ago.

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I've sat in churches for the last 40

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years in different denominations, and I've never heard

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a sermon on the doctrine of repentance.

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The one time I did was when I

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heard my friend Richard Owen Roberts preach it,

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but he's the only one I've ever personally

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heard preach on the doctrine of repentance.

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I know there were some faithful pastors who

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preach on repentance in America.

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I'm not saying nobody does, but few do.

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When was the last time you heard a

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sermon on the doctrine of repentance with a

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call for you to repent?

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You see, if you don't believe in the

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depravity of man, then there's no need to

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preach up repentance because man is not that

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bad after all.

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He just needs to reform himself somewhat.

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If you believe you become a sinner when

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you sin, then you don't need to preach

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repentance.

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But listen, friends, I'm not a sinner because

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I sin.

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Rather, I sin because I'm a big sinner.

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But today, we preachers don't preach what they

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preached in the New Testament.

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We have our modern version of the Bible

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that has omitted the necessity of repentance to

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be saved.

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But in the Gospel of Mark, in chapter

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6 and verse 12, it tells us what

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the followers of Christ, His disciples, actually preached.

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It reads, and they went out and preached

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that men should repent.

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That's it, plain and simple.

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Men should repent.

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But you don't have to repent if you

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want to go to hell.

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John the Baptist's message was repent.

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In those days came John the Baptist preaching

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in the wilderness of Judea and saying, Repent

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ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at

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hand.

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He preached the baptism of repentance for the

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remission of sins.

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When John the Baptist came to town, he

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preached repentance and it cost him his head.

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We preachers today won't preach on repentance because

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we're afraid we'll lose our heads or our

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401k plan, which would be even worse.

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When Jesus came into His public ministry, the

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very first sermon He preached was on how

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to become wealthy as a Christian.

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Isn't that what He preached?

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That's what we think He preached.

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Let's read the Gospel of Matthew and see

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what it really says.

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From that time, Jesus began to preach and

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to say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven

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is at hand.

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When the Apostle Paul preached, he preached on

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repentance.

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When he preached his sermon in Athens on

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Mars Hill, he told the Greek philosophers gathered

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there.

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And the times of this ignorance God winked

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at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to

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repent.

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And when Paul was speaking to King Agrippa,

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we see the following content of his sermon.

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Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient

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to the heavenly vision, but showed first unto

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them of Damascus and at Jerusalem and throughout

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all the coasts of Judea, and then to

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the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn

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to God, and works meet for repentance.

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Listen, friends, the Bible declares that to be

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saved, one must exercise repentance toward God in

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faith in Jesus Christ.

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But you don't have to repent to go

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to hell, but you do if you want

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to go to heaven.

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You will have to repent or perish into

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everlasting burnings.

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We don't preach on repentance because we don't

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want to preach on sin.

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And we don't preach on sin because we

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don't want to run anyone off from our

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church campus.

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So we don't mention sin and we don't

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mention repentance.

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We will say God loves you and all

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you have to do to go to heaven

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is accept Jesus as your personal Savior.

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And to do that, all you have to

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do is walk this aisle and make it

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public.

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Welcome, friend.

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You are now a Christian.

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And we put their name on our membership

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roll and we tell them that they're Christians.

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And they think that way and they live

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the same way and they stay in their

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sins.

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And when they die, they drop into hell

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because they never repented of their sins.

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And we fill our churches with individuals who

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walked that aisle and repeated a prayer and

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they've never been awakened to their lost condition.

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They've never been convicted of sin by the

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Holy Spirit and never have been objects of

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grace through the supernatural act of regeneration.

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And we make sure that we preach nice

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little messages that won't upset anybody because you

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don't need to repent to go to hell.

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And the smoldering issue beneath all this is

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the fact that if you preach on repentance,

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the crowd will scream and holler, we will

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not have this man rule over us.

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Your average church member wants to rule his

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own life.

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So we divide Jesus up into two people,

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a Savior and Lord.

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And most take the Savior half and leave

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the Lord part alone.

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The Lordship of Christ is not a message

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preached in this nation anymore.

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So there is no need for repentance.

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At least that is what the pulpit of

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our day states.

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But we live in a day of great

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spiritual declension and many are unsound in their

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theology.

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But listen, friends, let us return to a

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more wiser time and listen to the words

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of a Puritan pastor by the name of

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Joseph Alene.

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Let us hear what he has to say

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to us today about the unsound convert.

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Here now are his words.

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The unsound convert takes Christ by half.

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He is all for the salvation of Christ,

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but he is not for sanctification.

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He is for the privileges, but does not

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appropriate the person of Christ.

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He divides the offices and benefits of Christ.

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This is an error in the foundation.

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Whoever loves life, let him beware here.

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It is an undoing mistake of which you

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have been often warned.

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Jesus is a sweet name, but men do

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not love the Lord Jesus in sincerity.

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They will not have him as God offers

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to be a prince and a savior.

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They divide what God has joined, the king

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and the priest.

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They will not accept the salvation of Christ

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as he intends it.

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They divide it here.

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Every man's vote is for salvation from suffering,

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but they do not desire to be saved

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from sinning.

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They would have their lives saved, but still

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would have their lusts.

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The sound convert is willing to have Christ

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upon any terms.

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He is willing to have the dominion of

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Christ as well as deliverance by Christ.

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I highly recommend Joseph Alleyne's book, A Sure

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Guide to Heaven.

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It will surely help you get there.

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I can guarantee it won't resemble anything you

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hear in our pulpits today.

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The theme of the Great Awakening in 1740

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was, you must be born again.

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That's what the great British evangelist George Whitefield

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preached.

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And the theme of the Second Great Awakening

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in America was, man's duty of repentance.

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That is what Asahel Nettleton preached.

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God honored the preaching of those doctrines by

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attending them with great power and spiritual awakening

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that shook this nation.

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But in our churches today, we have deadness

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everywhere because our preaching is lifeless.

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It has no power because we fail to

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preach up the doctrines of the duty of

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repentance and the necessity of regeneration with unction

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from on high.

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There's not been a spiritual awakening in America

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since 1858 to 1859.

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I wonder what would happen if the majority

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of the pulpits in our land began to

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preach on repentance and regeneration.

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Would it not set our nation ablaze with

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power from on high?

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But you cannot preach on man's duty of

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repentance without mentioning how big a sinner man

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really is.

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And you can't preach on the necessity of

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regeneration because then you take salvation out of

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the hands of man and put it in

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the hands of God.

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So instead, we tell jokes and funny stories

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on Sunday mornings and we do our best

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to entertain you for an hour and a

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half before it's time for lunch.

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Like I said, you don't need to repent

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if you want to go to hell.