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[Repentance cont.]

You need Him as Savior and Lord. Decide today to let him become the loving Lord and leader of your life.

INTRODUCTION

A vast number of men and women today have become lulled into an attitude of lethargy (the condition of being very tired or sleepy; lack energy) when it come to their spiritual condition.

They seem drugged with a moral laxity.

They have a spiritual indifference and seem to have a blind obsession for the approval of people.

Having itching ears, they have been sung to sleep by false teachers.

They are in a spiritual stupor and have lost all sense of the urgency of repentance. Repentance of sins is not an option ----but it is indeed an urgent necessity.

II. The urgency of repentance has arisen from the availability of God Grace (Isaiah 55:6).

A. God’s Grace is promised today. The prophet Isaiah urged the people to repent, and seek the Lord while he should be found and while he was yet near.

The fact that Christ is available today is all the reason why you should come to him right now.

1. God is available today to those who call on Him. To those who are concerned enough to turn to Him.

David said in Psalms 145:18 “The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him”.

Jesus Christ is a courteous God, he will not force his way into your life.

But he does stand at the door and knock. And whenever you invite him in or (call upon him) he will enter your life because he knows that he is welcome.

2. God is available to those who sincerely want him.
You must be sincere if you want Christ as your Savior.

The prophet Jeremiah said in Jeremiah 29:13 “Ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart”.

God is available right now to all who are sincere about coming to him.

A. God’s grace is not promised for tomorrow.

This clearly implicated by the prophet Isaiah when he said in Isaiah 55:6 “Seek ye the Lord, and find him while he is near”.

The prophet seems to be saying that there is a time when God may not be found or when he may not be near.

B. The prophet Amos said in Amos 8:11-12 “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of the hearing the words of the Lord: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and it shall not find it”.

C. There are two reasons why the availability of God’s grace is not promised for tomorrow.

The first reason relates to you and the second relates to God

1. The first reason why God’s grace may not be available tomorrow is because of the blinding power of sin, he has not promised to be available tomorrow.

You can say no to the voice of God so often that in time you may fail to hear his call or you may fail to see his hand extended in forgiveness and you cannot feel his divine touch of love.

a. The writer of the epistle to the Hebrews said in Hebrews 3:13-15 “But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.

Your conversion to Jesus Christ, which occurred in days past, is proved to have been genuine by perseverance in the days to come.

This means that continuance in the faith is a test of the reality of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.) While it is said, Today IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE, HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS, AS IN THE PROVOCATION (Rebellion).

b. David said in Psalms 95:7-11 “For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

Today if ye will hear his voice. Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness; When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. Unto whom I sware not enter into my rest.

2. The second reason God does not promise to be available tomorrow because of the depleted of God patience.

In Genesis 6:3 the Lord said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty and years.

a. A clear example of the depletion of God’s patience is recorded in the 16 chapter of Numbers..

After warning the people again and again that his patience was wearing thin and after calling them to repentance, scores of times God drew a divine line of demarcation and said, “To step beyond this line is to deplete my patience.”

Three times this warning was ignored before Israel finally got the message.

Datham and Abiram were swallowed up in an earthquake, 250 leaders were consumed by fire, and 14,700 died of a plague. Finally they learned that to deplete the patience of God is a dangerous thing.

III. The urgency of repentance is taken serious by God’s Word.
A. You may laugh and joke about sin but it is no laughing matter in God’s Word. The Bible classified us as wicked and unrighteous in Isaiah 55:7 the prophet Isaiah said, “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
B. The same Word of God clarifies the penalty of sin in Romans 3:23 when the Apostle Paul said “ The wages of sin is death.” Repentance is the only way to solve the sin problem. Repent and turn from sin (forsake), turn to God (return unto him), and receive forgiveness(and he will abundantly pardon).

IV. The need to repent is urgent because life is so short.
A. Job said in Job 14:1-2 “Man that is born of woman is of a few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not”. CONTINUE

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