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We are in our series of the Four

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R's of the Gospel, Rune, Redemption, Repentance, and

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Regeneration.

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We're preaching that the Gospel must be preached

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in its purity and proper order, and that

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the law must be preached before grace.

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Well, Sam Jones, the great evangelist, used to

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say that repentance was quitting your meanness.

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We should take his advice.

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You see, friends, somewhere along the way in

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America, some big preachers held a committee meeting,

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and they decided to omit repentance from the

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Gospel.

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This caught on like wildfire, and soon few

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in the pulpits of our land preached the

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need for repentance in relation to salvation.

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They just got out the razor and cut

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the words of Christ out, which clearly state,

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Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

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And that statement became prophecy in modern day

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America, as hell has been filled with millions

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of church members who saw no need of

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repenting of their sins.

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They just swallowed the modern Gospel and accepted

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Jesus as their personal Savior, and then they

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died and fell into hell and fulfilled that

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statement of our Lord.

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Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

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And perish they did.

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What we've done today in your day and

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mine is gotten out our pocket knives and

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have both carved out of our Bible the

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word repentance and thrown it away in the

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trash bin, and then we took that same

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pocket knife and whittled out for ourselves a

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little bitty God that's our size or smaller,

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one we can live with, one we can

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be comfortable with, one that won't have any

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demands on us, one we can take for

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salvation and be left alone for living right.

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For we want to go to heaven, but

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we still want to hug our sins, so

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we murdered the doctrine of repentance and buried

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it, and we've looked the other way, hoping

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no one has seen us commit this high

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crime against our Bibles and the God of

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our Bibles.

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Listen, friends, when it became popular to omit

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repentance from our vocabulary, it gave us a

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popular Gospel which has been swallowed hook, line,

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and sinker, and we're sunk.

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Jesus is a risen Lord who sits on

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a heavenly throne.

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Jesus Christ is not in the grave, friends.

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He is risen, and He sits at the

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right hand of the Father, and He earned

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that right by way of a bloody cross.

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And if we want Him, we will have

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to take Him there on that throne and

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bow to His throne rights.

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He is a risen Lord.

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God made Him Lord.

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You don't make Him Lord, friends.

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He's already Lord.

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Your job is to bow to Him, to

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throw down your shotgun of rebellion, and submit

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to the claims of Christ as found in

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the Gospels.

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But we don't like that kind of preaching

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today because it offends people.

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We don't want to give up our filthy

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sins because we love them, but we don't

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want to go to hell, so we just

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change the message of the cross a little

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bit to suit us a little better so

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we can say with the Jews, we will

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not have this man rule over us.

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When we preach a watered-down Gospel, it

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may be easier to swallow, but the day

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that the American church said goodbye to the

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doctrine of repentance has become one of our

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darkest days in the history of our land.

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For not one to offend man, we have

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offended a holy God who hates sin, who

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must punish sin, and who demands all who

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come to Him bow to Him and submit

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to His rule.

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Listen, friends.

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The undiluted Gospel is a stumbling block to

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the natural man and an offense to the

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Jew and the Greek.

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It's high time in this country of America

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we get back to preaching the true Gospel,

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and that includes a demand for repentance, not

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a diluted one.

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We don't see many getting saved today because

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the bleating of the goats in our assemblies

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drowns out the shuffling of the sheep.

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The modern Gospel has damned its millions, and

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it's high time to get back to the

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original before it's too late.

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The modern Gospel kept me a lost church

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member for decades, and I fear it's done

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the same for many of our church members

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today.

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You can't have Christ and hub your sins.

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You must repent of your sins.

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Repentance is a fact of the Gospel.

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The demand for repentance is clearly stated by

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John the Baptist, our Lord Jesus Christ, and

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the Apostle Paul.

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If you want to take out your knife

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and cut all three of them out of

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your Bible, then go ahead, but you won't

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have much of a New Testament left.

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But for many, the fragments of any Gospel

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is easier to live with than the entire

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Gospel of our Bibles, because there are many

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today in our churches who just won't let

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their profession interfere with their daily living.

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John the Baptist said to bring forth fruits

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worthy of repentance.

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If you have truly repented, it will reflect

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itself in your conduct.

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We don't see many poor repentance sinners today

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begging for mercy, wondering if God would save

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a wretch like them.

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No, sir.

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But we do have many smiling individuals walk

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the aisles of our churches during invitation time,

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and they are happy to join the church,

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happy to accept Jesus.

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But they get very unhappy if you bring

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up the fact that God demands repentance from

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a sinner if that person is to be

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saved.

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There is no Lamb of God, no sacrifice

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of sin, no Calvary for the man who

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will stay in his sins.

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The axe must be laid to the root

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of the tree, and every tree that bringeth

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not forth good fruit is cut down and

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cast into the fire.

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You may say now, preacher, that's the way

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John the Baptist preached, but it's not the

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Gospel for our day.

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You need to give the people a touchy

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-feely Gospel today, one they can live with.

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Do you mean that my Lord would shut

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out the rich young ruler for one defect

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and let him go to hell?

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And in our day, Jesus would lower his

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terms so you can get in without turning

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from anything that stands between you and a

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holy God?

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Someone else has lowered the terms of the

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Gospel in our day, and it wasn't Jesus

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Christ, friends.

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Somewhere back yonder, some Bible scholars put a

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moratorium on the need to preach repentance in

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the Gospel offer, but we need to dust

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off the doctrine of repentance and bring it

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back right now.

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The Gospel is a call for wicked men

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to throw down their arms and cease their

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willful violation of God's holy law and submit

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their lives to the rule and reign of

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the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Yes, I said, Lord, Jesus is Lord.

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If He's not your Lord, then He's not

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your Savior, friend.

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You can fight that, buck that, and reject

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that, but God Almighty will not accept any

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rebel into heaven.

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He commands all men everywhere to repent.

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Your ignorance will not excuse you.

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And in the times of this ignorance, God

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winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere

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to repent.

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The Scriptures nowhere separate repentance and faith.

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Just because some Bible teachers have adopted a

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philosophy that puts repentance in another dispensation just

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for the Jews, and today the Gentiles need

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only to receive Jesus as their Savior, repentance

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is not necessary today to be saved.

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They tell us, well, I believed that for

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years, and for years I remained a lost

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church member until I repented of my sins

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and was converted.

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Jesus came to save His people from their

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sins.

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I think the famous Bible expositor, Dr. Harry

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Ironside, was right when he said the following

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words.

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Shallow preaching that does not grapple with the

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terrible fact of man's sinfulness and guilt.

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Preaching that does not call on men everywhere

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to repent.

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That kind of preaching results in shallow conversions.

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And so, we have myriads of glib-tongued

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professors today who give no evidence of regeneration

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whatsoever.

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They go about praying about being saved by

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grace, but they manifest no grace in their

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lives.

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Well, old Harry Ironside knew better, and he

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knew the gospel was a command to repent.

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But there are those in our churches today

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who want to be saved from the consequence

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of their sin, but not from the love

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of it.

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The gospel does not make light of sin.

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Rather, it reveals to us the terrible sword

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of God's justice when He smote His beloved

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Son in order to deliver us both from

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the penalty and slavery of sin.

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Calvary stands as a spectacle to all ages

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of God's hatred of sin.

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The great British preacher, Charles Spurgeon.

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Spurgeon had a training college for preachers and

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this was his instruction to them in regard

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to the need for repentance.

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Listen to how he warned his students.

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If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares

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that he knows the Lord's will, but does

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not mean to attend to it, you are

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not to pamper his presumption, but it is

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your duty to assure him that he is

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not saved.

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Do you imagine that the gospel is magnified

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or God-glorified by going to the worldlings

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and telling them that they may be saved

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at this moment by simply accepting Christ as

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their Savior while they are wedded to their

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idols and their hearts are still in love

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with sin?

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If I do so, I tell them a

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lie, pervert the gospel, insult Christ, and turn

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the grace of God into lasciviousness.

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Well, old Spurgeon was right, friends.

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And that, friends, is what we've done from

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our pulpits and seminary classrooms in your day

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and mine.

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We've lied to folks about what the gospel

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is.

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We have perverted the gospel, insulted Christ, and

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many have turned the grace of God into

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lasciviousness by their rebellion to the command to

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repent.

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It is safe to say that the gospel

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is a proclamation of a full and free

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salvation to every repentant sinner through the work

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of the Son of God on the cross

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of Calvary.

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Notice I emphasized every repentant sinner.

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No repentance, no salvation.

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Listen to Luke chapter 15 and verse 7.

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I say unto you that likewise joy shall

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be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth

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more than over ninety and nine just persons

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which need no repentance.

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Notice Jesus says they will be joy in

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heaven when a sinner repents.

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Jesus said, I came not to call the

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righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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And we cannot offer peace, friends, and rest

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to those rebels who are not ready to

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meet the conditions laid down by the Prince

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of Peace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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He is Lord.

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But many today don't like that.

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And they will follow Bible teachers who say,

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well, that's not for us today.

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Many ignore what God clearly says in His

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Word on the doctrine of repentance in regard

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to salvation.

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We rather stick ourselves with a theological hypodermic

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needle so we can go out and sin

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some more and still be able to sleep

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at night.

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Yet the fact remains that the God of

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the Bible still demands that men surrender to

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the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every single

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area of their lives.

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We need men today to call other men

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to repentance.

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But today in our churches, we have the

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most lawless bunch of church members who ignore

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repentance and the need for holy living.

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Even if the Bible does say without holiness,

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no one will see the Lord.

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People fight against that kind of preaching.

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That kind of preaching upsets too many people.

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And you mustn't upset people, they say.

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But the need of our friends in this

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sad chapter in the history of America is

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a desperate cry and need for a John

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the Baptist to come along and cry out

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about this God-dishonoring, Christ-rejection, law-breaking

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generation of men and women who are falling

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into hell, still kicking up their heels against

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the law of God and the claims of

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Christ.

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To be saved means to be converted to

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the rule of God and Jesus Christ where

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one's heart is freely given to God, sitting

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on the throne.

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You can't sit on the throne of your

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life and rule there and still claim to

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be a follower of Jesus Christ.

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No, sir.

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You'd better bend the knee, friend, to the

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Lordship of Jesus Christ in your life.

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Men must be made captives of Christ to

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be made free.

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Man is made to be governed.

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And any salvation that doesn't submit to the

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claims of Christ as Lord is not the

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salvation of the cross.

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The claims of Christ's Lordship will slay you

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and self will be dethroned and another will

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be enthroned, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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God will not share His kingdom with another.

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God will have no rebels in His kingdom.

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There will be none there who live by

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self-rule, who live in rebellion against the

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will and authority of God.

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Few today want to be under any authority

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other than their own.

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The big issue of the hour of your

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day and mine is who is boss, God

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or me?

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Lawless church members drag the gospel beneath their

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feet and say with their lips they want

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Christ as Savior, but with their daily living

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they refuse to be subject to Him as

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Lord.

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Many in our churches today have a profession

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that has not interfered with their daily living

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and it's a sham because they have refused

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to repent of their sins and pursue a

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life of holiness unto God.

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They live for self.

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Self is on the throne of their lives,

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but two cannot walk together unless they be

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agreed.

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Listen friends, hear me loud and clear that

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God's term of salvation for man is this,

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repentance towards God and faith in the Lord

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Jesus Christ.

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Acts 20, 21 clearly states, testifying both to

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the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance

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towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus

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Christ.

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Nobody is ever saved apart from that.

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Christ is Lord and Savior, plain and simple.

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God made Him Lord.

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Your duty is to bow to Him, sinner,

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submit to Him, throw down your shotgun of

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rebellion and come under His rule.

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He is the Lord of all mankind.

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He dictates the terms of salvation and that

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is repentance and faith.

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Christ is sitting on a throne and He

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sits there in virtue of His shed blood

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and if you want a vital union with

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the Lord Jesus Christ, you cannot, you must

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not ignore the Lordship of Christ for He

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is sitting on a throne and He must

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have the throne rights to your life.

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We've cheapened the gospel in your day and

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mine and have cheated many out of real

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salvation by feeding them a partial substitute for

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the only substitute for sin, the Lord Jesus

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Christ.

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I repeat, a man cannot be saved unless

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he surrenders to Jesus Christ as its Lord

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and Savior.

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Until we start preaching the truth about Jesus

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Christ and His claims on His followers, we

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deceive many and do injustice to the gospel

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of the Son of God.

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There is a cross in the life of

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a follower of a crucified Savior.

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We've got to get back, friends, to preaching

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the gospel in its purity and proper order.

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Why don't we see many people crying out

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for mercy today?

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Why don't we see many saying, Oh God,

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is there mercy for such a wicked sinner

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as me?

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No, sir.

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You see themselves as sinners because we preachers

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have told them that there was no need

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for repentance to come to Christ.

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So they walk a church aisle with a

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smile on their face and chew their gum

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and make a mental assent to some facts

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about the death of Christ.

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And we pat them on the backs and

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we call them Christians and we welcome them

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into our assemblies.

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Heaven help us.

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And there is no change within them.

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They hang on to their sins and hang

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on to a hope of seven, help of

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heaven, which is nothing more than a hole

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in the wall.

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You see, friends, a real Christian hates sin

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and loves righteousness.

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He loves the Lord and wants to obey

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him.

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He has a new nature implanted within.

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Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he

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is a new creature.

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Old things are passed away.

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Behold, all things are become new.

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Listen, friends, if you don't remember anything else

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I said today, remember this.

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You cannot get saved by accepting Jesus as

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your Savior.

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Unless you surrender him as your absolute Lord

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and ruler in your life.

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And if he doesn't rule you completely, it

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is because you have never, ever surrendered to

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his Lordship through repentance and faith.

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This is the dividing line between the new

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gospel, which omits repentance, and the old gospel,

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which falls from the lips of Christ himself.

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Unless ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

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The saddest thing I see in our churches

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today is multitudes who have a confession.

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They've made a profession, but they do not

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possess Christ.

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Christ does not possess them.

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They are not in a living union with

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the risen Lord.

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They are not living holy lives unto God,

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but they live unto themselves where they still

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sit on the throne of their lives.

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And that, friends, is not salvation.

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You can claim Jesus all day long as

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Savior, but unless others can see a mark

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of his rule in your life, you are

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sitting upon a false foundation.

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But if you are a subject of grace,

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you have allowed the Holy Ghost to break

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your wicked heart to make you bow to

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the King, to make you bow to King

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Jesus, and you delight to do the will

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of the Father.

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Jesus says, if you love me, you will

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keep my commands.

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We must preach the gospel in its purity

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and in its proper order.

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Sinners must be brought to Mount Sinai before

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they are led to Mount Zion.

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We must preach the four R's of the

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gospel, which are rune, redemption, repentance, and regeneration.

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And that is where we will pick up

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next time with the doctrine of regeneration.

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Until then.