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NASB | Revelation 3:3 'So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 3:3 'So remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard. Keep and obey them, and repent [change your sinful way of thinking, and demonstrate your repentance with new behavior that proves a conscious decision to turn away from sin]. So then, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. |
Bible Question: I have been backsliding for the past three years and I want to get back to Jesus. First of all, is this impossible? Is repentance still possible for me? Can you show me in Scripture where I can come back to Jesus and live the obedient life again? |
Bible Answer: It is always possible to come back to Jesus Christ in repentance and find forgiveness when there is the will to do so. In fact let me tell you the good news. He has been constantly searching for you ever since you deserted Him. He himself told the story of the sheep who wandered away from Him. And He sought it until He found it (Luke 15.4). He has been out looking for you, And now He is reaching down and calling on you to respond to His love. You are basically in the same position as the church in Sardis. You have a name that you were alive and you are (almost) dead. So He calls on you to 'awake and strengthen what remains, which is ready to die.' 'Remember then what you previously received and heard. Keep that safe, and repent.' See Revelation 3.1-6. What you must do is remember how you first came to Christ previously, and kneel before Him admitting your guilt, and ask for His renewed mercy. In Hebrews 12.5-11 the writer tells us that if we are true Christians, then if we backslide He will chasten us in order to make us repent and cause us to come back to Himself. Thus it is quite clear that when we do respond in this way He will receive us. 'Therefore (He says), lift up your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet' In other words, get yourself sorted out and open your life to Him so that He can begin to live His life through you again. As indeed God declared, 'Return you, return you, for why will you die?' For 'if we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful, and will justly forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness' (1 John 1.9). See also Jeremiah 3.12, 22; 25.5; 31.21. May God help you to truly repent and accept His forgiveness. |
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