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the bad thing about leaving God is you

run into consequences you run into the

repercussions of the decisions things

that are the result of our walking away

from God but God in His Grace has the

option of him adjusting consequences but

the point is that is how important

repentance is to continuing our road

with God and getting back on our road to

rewards if probably not too many people

here that don’t have some

regrets that if you would look back you

would do it differently you wouldn’t

have wasted much time you wouldn’t have

spent that much time with those people

you wouldn’t have spent that much time

in that situ you you know okay and

that’s true across the

board but right

now we want to get our course

straight when to get our cor

Street and that balls around one word

one word one word

and that is the biblical doctrine of

repentance repentance is the master key

of getting back on track with

God and reclaiming what you

lost it is God’s way of

repairing the broken relationship with

him it’s that

word so let me Define it

repentance is the internal

resolve to turn from sin back to

pleasing

God it’s starts with an internal

decision I no longer want to keep going

down this

road I do not want to be going continue

going down this road of sin

uselessness of marginalizing my faith I

I I I have decided I am going in another

Direction repentance is changing the

mind because you want to reverse the

direction there are three words to

understand repentance that will help us

first of all you must

recognize and admit where you have

failed you cannot help a person who will

not admit their

failure you you and I must come clean

with

God that

means the sedid prayers have got to

go the spiritual facades have got to go

and you got to be raw with

God you’ve got to say this is how I’ve

abandoned you this is these are my sins

these are my failures God I want to be

raw with you

now so

that is confession for person confesses

their sins homologia the Greek word for

confess means to say the same thing

means to agree with God you must agree

with God and what he says about it in

spite of what you think about it or feel

about it or want about it so there’s the

recognition of

guilt then there is the

remorse that is the Bible says Godly

sorrow

brings you to

repentance not sorry I got

caught sorry I’ve offended

God it is the

pain of the

failure cause it Godly sorrow I’m sorry

because I’ve heard

God of course if you have a low view of

God then you won’t feel sorry you heard

him because he’s so low you don’t care

so the higher you view of God the more

pain you will feel at disappointing

him the closer in any relationship you

have the closer you are the more you

feel the hurt you

did you don’t care about a person you

may not feel it as much you don’t care

about it one of our problems is that our

view of God is so

small that we don’t feel it when we hurt

him so there is the recognition there is

the remorse and then there is the

return the return the

reverse James 41 to

10

says to reverse your

direction submit to God it

says the way

Isaiah chapter 30 verse1 15 says if you

repent and return then he will

deliver acts 3:19 says

repent and return so that the day of

refreshing may come upon you let me tell

you how important repentance is

repentance is really supposed to be a

lifestyle not an

event it’s it’s as you’re moving and you

run into

you you you run into you you acknowledge

that to God that’s why you pray without

ceasing it’s not just an event it’s it’s

a way you

flow that I’ve let you down God I’ve

hurt you and I I am sorry and and and

and every day there may be something to

repent of why because you don’t want to

go a long stretch with this broken

relationship so it repairs the

relationship but let me tell you another

thing repentance might do what

repentance might

do is it gives God the prerogative to

prevent terminate reverse or limit

judgment and

consequences cuz the bad thing about

leaving God is you run into

consequences you want into the

repercussions of the decisions okay and

they’re like consequences all in this

building no things that are the result

of our walking away from

God but God in his grace has the option

it’s his choice but at least you’ve

created the option of him adjusting

consequences he determines that but the

point is that is how important

repentance is to continuing our road

with God and getting back on our road to

rewards in Matthew chapter

3:8 John the Baptist says and bring

bring forth the fruit of

repentance

ah let’s say you got this internal

resolve I’m gonna turn I’m G I’m gonna

turn away from this away from my apathy

away from my sin I’m gonna get back on

track with god let’s say you say

that how do you know you meant it how do

you know you didn’t just say it because

you heard a sermon on the loss of

Rewards

or somebody made you feel guilty and you

say yeah I’mma get straight I’mma how

you know you meant it just because it’s

January 1st and you made a New Year’s

resolution he said true repentance has

fruit bring forth the fruit of

repentance when when when you go to the

airport and you board the plane you know

what they goingon to ask you they’re GNA

say let me see your

ID and you can say well don’t you

believe me when I tell you who I am

no we want to see proof of your

identity so the way you know that you’re

for real and that other folk know when

you said I’m sorry that you’re really

sorry and you are for real is that there

are some apples on this tree some

oranges on this tree some pears on this

tree that is you are doing visible

things that demonstrated when a person

says I’m sorry but I’m not taking

visible steps to prove that they have

turned in another Direction you know

that’s false

repentance it’s not true repentance

because there’s no fruit cuz fruit is

always visible you’ve never seen

invisible fruit in your

life there’s no such thing as invisible

fruit fruit is always visible and fruit

will always tell you what’s happening at

the

root you may not be able to see the root

downside but you can see the fruit up

front and if the fruit is there there

that means that the root is producing

that fruit so if you have a question

about your own sincerity your own uh

doubts or other people question does he

really mean it does she really mean it

this time check the fruit don’t just

hear discussion about the

root he says bring forth the fruit of

repentance why so that we get back on

the track of rewards because he had has

in his will a plan for you and Heaven is

the

bomb it is a beast there’s so much going

on up there Paul said I can’t even talk

about it he said it is unlawful for me

to speak on so any disappointment you

had on Earth things that you wish you

could have been a part of but you

weren’t a part of you got your ticket

too late or you whatever it was and you

were disappointed the disappointment

there because of what will be there is

going to

be livid in your

experience because of all that God has

to have has to offer for the life that

is to come and he wants us to value that

appreciate that and the sacrifice he

paid and to get back on track with that

because of who he is and what he has

done he’s given you free suff look look

look your child

was born free of

charge they didn’t have to buy birth

they showed

up okay they’re just here cuz they are

here it cost them nothing to be

here how dare you tell me you don’t want

to wash no dishes and you don’t buy no

food I dare you tell me you don’t want

to clean your room when you don’t you

haven’t bought a a bed or a dresser or

nothing how how dare

you in other words you don’t appreciate

what you got for

free you

here cuz I got you here and now you’re

going to tell me God saying to his TR

you don’t care what I gave you for

free I gave you eternal life and you

can’t serve me you can’t try to follow

me you can’t give to me you can’t

witness to me you can’t you can’t do any

of that and you got here

free cuz I picked up the tab at the

cross doesn’t I deserve better than

that what God wants you to know is he

deserves a little bit better than the

junk we giv him and a little bit here

and a little bit

there he deserves what he is the king of

kings the Lord of lords the savior the

Creator the sustainer he deserves all

that we have to give because he is

worthy of

it so we don’t give him leftovers we

give him our best Excellence commitment

love dedication and when we fall short

we repent and get back on track