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1 | The effects of Repentance | 1 John 3:6 | Morant61 | 178918 | ||
Greetings All! I found this interesting quote about the effects of repentance. ***************** Let Him That Steals, Steal No More Professor Drummond once described a man going into one of our after meetings and saying he wanted to become a Christian. “Well, my friend, what is the trouble?” He doesn’t like to tell. He is greatly agitated. Finally he says, “The fact is, I have overdrawn my account”—a polite way of saying he has been stealing. “Did you take your employer’s money?” “Yes.” “How much?” “I don’t know. I have never kept account of it.” “Well, do you have an idea you stole 1,500 last year?” “I am afraid it is that much.” “Now, look here, sir, I don’t believe in sudden work; don’t steal more that a thousand dollars this next year, and the next year not more that five hundred, and in the course of the next few years you will get so that you won’t steal any. If your employer catches you, tell him you are being converted; and you will get so that you won’t steal any by and by.” My friends, the thing is a perfect farce! “Let him that stole, steal no more,” that is what the Bible says. It is right about face. Take another illustration. Here comes a man, and he admits that he gets drunk every week. That man comes to a meeting, and wants to be converted. Shall I say, “Don’t you be in a hurry. I believe in doing the work gradually. Don’t you get drunk and knock your wife down more than once a month?” Wouldn’t it be refreshing to his wife to go a whole month without being knocked down? Once a month, only twelve times in a year! Wouldn’t she be glad to have him converted in this new way! Only get drunk after a few years on the anniversary of your wedding, and at Christmas, and then it will be effective because it is gradual! Oh! I detest all that kind of teaching. Let us go to the Bible and see what that old Book teaches. Let us believe it, and go and act as if we believed it, too. Salvation is instantaneous. I admit that a man may be converted so that he cannot tell when he crossed the line between death and life, but I also believe a man may be a thief one moment and a saint the next. I believe a man may be as vile as hell itself one moment, and be saved the next. Christian growth is gradual, just as physical growth is; but a man passes from death unto everlasting life quick as an act of the will—”He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.” Moody’s Anecdotes, pp. 99 - 100 ************ Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | The effects of Repentance | 1 John 3:6 | ZtheBerean | 178924 | ||
This is part TWO; It's about the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins (3:3); For this is the prepared way of the Lord (3:4); This is how the crooked and rough (or wicked despiser) can be made straight and smooth (meaning;-right and loving) (3:5); So bring forth the fruits that are worthy of repentance (3:8); Because the ax is laid unto the root (of who you are); and everyone who does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire (this is not heaven)! (3:9); For the worthiness in repentance we become: Givers, who are not greedy, or violent, and lying; because we have become content (in godliness)(3:10-14); Without these things which are worthy of repentance you will be a viper of sinfulness (3:5-7); Behold, if for three years God has been seeking fruit from you, and He finds none: He will cut you down. Unless you repent, you will likewise perish. For why should you continue to burden His heart? (Lk. 13:6-7); Now Jesus answering said unto Him, Lord, let (the unrepentant) alone for up to another year, while I dig them about, and dung them, and if they will not bear the fruit (of repentance) after I have done this, thou shalt cut them down (13:8-9); This is the parable of the three year thing of the Lord (13:6); You will bear your own iniquity (again),if you have profaned this hallowed third day thing of the Lord (Lev. 19:8); We can be holy in the same year that we name His holy name,and also by the morrow, or the second year. So you don't need to leave it until the end of the third year (19:6); However, it seems like most of us need to be dunged by the digger for the increase of fruit: Unless you abide in Jesus the vine, as a branch for the fruit(of repentance), which brings forth much fruit (saved souls), you will do nothing, but become withered, and then you will be gathered to be cast into the fire (this is not salvation)! (Jn. 15:5-6). We believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ;we will be saved by the grace of God (Ac. 15:11 and Eph. 2:8); Therefore in Christ's fullness, we can receive grace unto grace (Jn.1:16). The will of God for us is our sanctification (1Thes. 4:3); This is why I have been exhorting you (to be in the will of God) by the Lord Jesus, so that you would receive from me [1] how you ought to walk to please God, so that you would abound more and more (in the faith that is loving, because of the truth of grace) (4:1); Therefore you are to know the commandments that I have given you by the Lord Jesus(to be in the faith that is loving, because of the truth of grace)(4:2); Because everyone should know [2] how to be an honorable vessel of sanctification (4:4); For God has called you (through my teaching exhortations, and my gospel commands to turn and return), unto holiness, so that you would not be in uncleanness (4:7); Those who despise me for doing this, despise God, who has given me His Holy Spirit (so that I would teach and command these things) (4:8);You do not need me to teach you about love, because God is teaching you to love (through this ministry, which is according to the will of God) (4:9); It's not about knowing, it's about doing (now that we say that we are believers) (Lk. 12:43); Those which know His will,and do not prepare themselves (through repentance), will not do according to His will, and will be beaten, before they are cut asunder, and appointed the (hypocritical) portion with the unbelievers (12:47-46). Unless you are coming to learn how to be an honorable doer, rather than to just know His will, you are going to be deceiving your own self (Mt. 11:29 and Jm. 1:22); So be ye a ready servant that is watching (Lk. 12:40-37); These have their minds girded (with the truth in love with kindness), because their light(or righteousness) is burning (12:36); Have you been baptized with Him in His baptism? (12:50 cf. Gal. 2:20); THEN you can see the division over this baptism (12:51); Hypocrites cannot discern that the following is right (12:56-57): If you believe in deliverance, give diligence (to come to repentance); lest you are cast into the prison (of hell) (12:58); For except you repent, ye will likewise perish (13:3); Yea, unless you repent, you will perish (and go into the fires of hell) (3:5); For the way of the Lord, which makes our paths straight, is called repentance for the remission of sins (Mk. 1:3-4); Are you confessing your sins? (1:5); THEN you have repentance, and you believe the gospel (1:15); Don't be astonished at this doctrine of Jesus of Nazareth (1:22); Don't even question this doctrine (1:27); For this is the profitable (way of) repentance toward God with faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ (Ac. 20:20-21);This is how we are commended unto God; and then unto the word of His grace, so that we would be built up in sanctification (20:32). |
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