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Hello and welcome to the
Middletown Baptist Church podcast,

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where we are proclaiming the
truth to the world.

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My name is Pastor Josh, and I
want to thank you for listening to

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this podcast.

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I hope that this podcast can
be a blessing to you and strengthen

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you in the word of God.

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Now, come along, let's look
into the Bible and see what God has

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for us here today.

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Well, if you have your Bibles
here in our service today, we're

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going to go ahead and be in
Second Corinthians chapter 7.

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You can find that in your
phones, in your.

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On your.

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On your Bible, in your Bibles,
on your iPads, whatever you're going

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to be looking it up here with today.

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Second Corinthians, chapter 7.

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The title of this sermon this
morning is Real Repentance for Revival.

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Real Repentance for Revival.

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And there's a lot wrapped up
in that.

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I do want you to understand
here this morning that we're going

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to be using this term
repentance quite a bit, and we do

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need to be able to define what
repentance is before we start talking

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about it at great lengths here
this morning.

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A lot of times people think
that repentance means that I stop

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doing any wrong.

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Now, I think all of us in this
room can realize in our lives that

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none of us can get to a point
in our lives where we have stopped

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doing the wrong, okay?

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Because we still deal with the flesh.

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We still have issues in our life.

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None of us are perfect.

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And so repentance doesn't mean perfection.

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All repentance really means is
turning away from something and turning

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to something else.

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I'm turning away from this,
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It's actually a military term
for going in and about face.

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Okay?

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So I'm walking one way, I'm
turning and going another way.

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And so for us, in the context
of our faith and for the context

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of Scripture, repentance is
turning away from my ways, turning

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away from my works, turning
away from the ways of the world,

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turning away from evil and
turning to Christ.

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We're going to talk about that
dynamic here this morning in Second

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Corinthians, chapter seven.

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And so real repentance, right?

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Because what we can have in
our lives is what we would call artificial

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repentance, superficial repentance.

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You've heard me say this
before, probably, if you've been

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to our church, that I can say
whatever I want to say.

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But that doesn't mean it's
true about me.

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Like, I'm the greatest father
in the world.

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I'm the greatest husband in
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That doesn't make me the
greatest father or the greatest husband.

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It just makes me someone who
has said a lie publicly.

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Right?

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And so the truth is, is that
we can say that we are repentant

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and there can be some sorrow
in our failures, but what we can

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realize is that worldly sorrow
does not necessarily equate repentance.

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We're going to talk this
morning about a phrase, Godly sorrow

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works.

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Repentance.

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And so for us this morning, we
need to realize that just because

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we say that we are repentant,
just because it's our intention to

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repent, that doesn't mean that
real repentance has manifested in

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our life.

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And then the last part of that
title is real repentance for revival.

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Now, what is revival?

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Revival is a change of heart.

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It's renewed passion for God.

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It's a renewed desire to serve
him, to love him, to.

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To love the things that he
loves, to get to a point in our lives

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where we want him more and
more in our daily walk.

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And so all of us, I hope, to
some degree, want revival in our

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lives.

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All of us, I think, to some
degree, need revival in our lives

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today.

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And so we see here in
Scripture that repentance, real repentance,

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is needed for that revival,
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And so last week we looked at
the topic of the comfort of God.

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The comfort of God in the
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We're all going to face
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The good news is that as a
believer, God gives us comfort, and

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he gives us comfort in many
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One of the ways that God gives
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of the Spirit.

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The comforter, right, that's
one of his names, the comforter.

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And so the comforter comes in
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the peace of God and the peace
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But the Bible also tells us in
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other people who have received
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And so, yes, we look for
others to comfort us in the midst

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of our trials.

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But ultimately, that passage
of Scripture was all about me receiving

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the comfort of God and looking
to show that comfort to other people

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around me.

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And so we see the comfort of God.

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But with the comfort of God
also comes the conviction of God.

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The Holy Spirit is a comforter
which we're thankful for.

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We want that comfort.

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We want that peace.

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We want that feeling of
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But to get that comfort, many
times in our life, we have to embrace

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the conviction.

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What is the conviction?

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That's the pricking of our hearts.

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That's the.

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That's the understanding that
I am wrong in the sight of God and

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that I need to change, that I
need to repent.

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And so many times we celebrate
the comfort of God, but we don't

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celebrate the conviction of God.

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And we're going to talk today
about the conviction of God through

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the Holy Spirit.

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And so this week, we're going
to look at what the Bible says about

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true repentance that leads to revival.

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Repentance is necessary in the
life of the believer for salvation,

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for revival, for restoration,
for all the things that we desire

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in our life in the eyes of God.

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When it comes to walking in
his will, we need repentance.

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And we also know that the
Bible tells us very clearly that

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it is God's desire for us to
come to repentance.

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So you're in Second Corinthians.

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I'm gonna read a passage in
Second Peter, 2 Peter, chapter 3,

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verse 9.

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Some of you might be familiar
with this passage.

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It says, the Lord is not slack
concerning his promise.

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Basically, God keeps his
promises as some men count slackness,

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but is long suffering towards
us, meaning he's patient with us,

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not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come

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to repentance.

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It is the heart of God that
all of us come to repentance in our

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life.

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Repentance for salvation,
repentance for revival, repentance

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for restoration, repentance to
walk in the will of God, in our lives

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in obedience to Him.

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And so, lest you think this
morning that repentance is not for

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you, we just saw in Second
Peter, chapter three, verse nine,

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that God wants all to come to repentance.

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This is a message for all of
us this morning.

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Whether you're walking as a
Christian for 50 years or whether

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you've walked into this
building not knowing anything about

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the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
repentance is necessary for us to

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have a relationship with God.

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And so therefore, we're going
to see this morning that sometimes

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the word repentance can be
misunderstood or misapplied.

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Today we're going to look at
what Paul has to say about the Corinthian

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Church and their repentance.

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We're going to also see what
we can learn from this.

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Hopefully we will be able to
see the example of this biblical

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repentance and follow with
biblical repentance in our life as

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well.

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Let's look at this passage in
Second Corinthians, chapter seven.

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We're going to start in verse
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And we're going to go down to
verse number 12 again.

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This is Paul speaking to the
Corinthian Church, and he's talking

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about a confrontation that
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He wrote them a letter.

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He wrote them a letter that
confronted them on their sin.

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And so he's talking about that
verse 8 for though I made you sorry

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with a letter, I do not repent.

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Meaning he's like, I don't
regret this, though I did repent.

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Meaning he regretted it
before, but now he sees the outcome

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of it and he's thankful that
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He says, for I perceive that
the same epistle or letter with hath

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made you sorry, though it were
but for a season now I rejoice that

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now not that ye were made
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for ye were made sorry after a
godly manner, that ye might receive

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damage by us in nothing.

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For godly sorrow worketh
repentance to salvation, not to be

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repented of, but the sorrow of
the world worketh death.

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For behold this selfsame thing
that ye sorrowed after a godly sort.

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What carefulness it wrought in
you, yea, what clearing of yourselves,

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yea, what indignation, yea,
what fear, yea, what vehement desire,

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yea, what zeal, yea, what
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yourselves to be clear in this matter.

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Wherefore, though I wrote unto
you, I did it not for his cause that

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had done the wrong, nor for
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that our care for you in the
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and you might say, what?

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What is he talking about here?

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We're going to dig deeper into that.

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He's essentially stating why
he wrote this letter of confrontation.

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He's saying, really, what was
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learn from this when it comes
to following Christ and following

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him in repentance.

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And so let's go ahead and pray
and we're going to jump right into

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our main thoughts here this morning.

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Lord, I thank you for this time.

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I thank you for this
opportunity to study your word.

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Lord, I thank you for the
opportunity to receive the comfort

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of the Spirit in our lives.

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Lord, I also thank you for the
conviction of the Spirit in our lives.

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Lord, we thank you for the
fact that we can change our path,

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that you have given us hope,
that you have given us power to not

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only see the truth, but also
follow you in that truth through

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your power.

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Lord, I pray that everyone
here today that is a believer that

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has come to this place of
repentance in their life and trusted

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in you, Lord, that this can be
a day of renewal and revival and

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change.

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But also, Lord, I do pray for
the folks that might not know you

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as Savior that today can be
the day of repentance to come to

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life, to come to that
marvelous life that was already demonstrated

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through our special song here
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Lord, you've taken us and you
moved us from darkness into marvelous

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light.

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So, Lord, I pray that you
remove distractions from our minds.

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Lord, help us to focus on your
word here this morning.

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Help us to see the biblical
topic of repentance not just as a

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topic, though, but as an
application in our lives.

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Lord, I pray that you bless us
in this time, teach us how we can

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love you more.

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We ask all these things in
Jesus name.

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Amen.

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All right, let's look at point
number one here.

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If you're taking notes, you
can put this down as your first point.

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Truth brings the turn.

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The turn.

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Right.

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Repentance is turning right.

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We're going one way in a
lifestyle or a decision.

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We're going in a path that is
not the right way.

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And something has to turn us.

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Something has to get our attention.

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We're not just going to feel
like, hey, you know what?

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I better stop this now.

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You might say, well, I've done
that in my life.

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I've been going the wrong path
and something woke me up and turned

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me.

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But what I'm going to tell you
here this morning is it's the truth

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of God that turns us.

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It's the truth of God that
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wrong path.

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It's the truth of God that
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Faith cometh by hearing and
hearing by the word of God.

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It is the truth of God that
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change.

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And so what we can see here,
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is that Paul spoke the truth
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He's like, I wrote a letter to you.

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He says, I made you sorry with
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I don't repent.

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I don't regret it, even though
at the time I did regret telling

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you the truth because it hurt you.

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He says, I don't regret it now
because of what happened in your

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life, that change that
happened in your life.

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And so he made the church
sorrowful because he revealed to

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them many spiritual issues in
their life.

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So what happened?

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Paul's truth that he spoke to
them exposed their sin.

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He shined the light into their
lives, and that light exposed their

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darkness.

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It exposed where they were wrong.

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It exposed to them how much
they had fallen short of the glory

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of God.

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That is what the truth does.

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That that is the power of the
Word of God, that it says in second

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Timothy, chapter three, that
all scripture is profitable for doctrine,

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for reproof.

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Reproof is telling us that we
are wrong, folks.

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It's okay to be told that
we're wrong.

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Sometimes that doesn't feel good.

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All right?

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I remember certain times in my
life when people have come and told

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me that I'm doing something wrong.

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It's embarrassing, it hurts
our ego, sometimes it makes us even

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defensive.

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But what I would tell you here
is that there's nothing better for

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a Christian than to realize
that, hey, look, the truth of God

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is telling me that I'm wrong.

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And I can change that, because
there's more in 2 Timothy, chapter

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3.

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It's for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, so that

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we can change, and for
instruction in righteousness.

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And so the truth is a good
thing, but the truth will expose

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the sin in our life.

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And so what Paul does is he
says, I wrote you a letter, and I'm

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not regretting it.

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He says, but that made you sorry.

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Verse 8, though it were for a season.

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And so the truth exposed the sin.

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The light revealed what was
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And so when Paul wrote this
first sorrowful letter carried by

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a guy named Titus, which we
talked about last week, he didn't

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enjoy the idea of being confrontational.

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I mean, Paul is saying, I
don't like, get joy in confronting

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you in your sin.

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I can speak from experience on that.

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Some people like
confrontation, okay?

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If you're that type of person,
okay, you're different than me, okay?

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I do not like confrontation.

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I don't like going to someone
and saying, hey, look, this is something

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that I'm noticing.

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This is something that has
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That.

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That is not something that's enjoyable.

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And Paul says, I don't enjoy that.

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And so even though the
Corinthian church deserve confrontation,

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Paul says, I don't enjoy that.

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He said, I regretted it at a
time, but now I don't regret it.

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Because why?

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Because of the response of
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They change.

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We're going to get to that
here in a little bit.

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But Paul says, it was worth it
to confront you in the truth because

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there is revival in your heart
because of the repentance.

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So Paul was essentially not
happy about confronting the people,

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but he was happy or joyful for
the effect that it had on them.

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And that's why he says, I
regretted it.

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In the moment because I didn't
enjoy it, but.

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But I don't regret it now
because of the result.

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You all understand that principle.

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Sometimes we have to do
difficult things to get to a place

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in our life where we need to be.

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And that is repentance.

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That is the word of God.

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Thus saith the Lord.

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Look at all the preaching
throughout all the Bible.

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Where does it start?

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It says, repent and believe.

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John the Baptist, Jesus, Peter.

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If you study their sermons, it
starts with repentance.

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It starts with a change of mind.

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Why?

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Because we need to see the
great need for Jesus's grace in our

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life.

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If we think that we can handle
it in and of our own selves, we don't

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think we need it.

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We don't think we need Jesus.

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We don't think we need his grace.

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We say, hey, I'll add that to
my life.

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The Bible's a good thing to
add to my life.

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The good morals that come with
it, right?

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It's a good community within
the church.

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No, you must see.

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I must see.

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We all must see that the
Gospel and the grace of Jesus Christ

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is a necessity for us because
we are all on a path of destruction

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without the goodness and grace
of God.

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And so it is a need for us.

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And so sometimes the truth
hurts and sometimes speaking the

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truth hurts.

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But what Paul does is he says,
I do this in love for you.

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I do this in love for the need
of God in your life.

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And so the truth doesn't
automatically change us just because

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we preach the truth right here.

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Because this is what Paul says here.

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Go back to verse number eight
with me if you're following along.

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He says, for I perceive that
the same epistle, the same letter

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hath made you, sorry though it
were, but for a season.

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Meaning for some of you, this
sorrow just ended at sorrow.

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It didn't continue on to repentance.

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And so just because we preach
the truth doesn't mean that everyone's

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just going to repent and
believe and have revival.

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If that was the case every
church in America that preaches truth,

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there would be no problems
anymore, right?

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So, so.

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So the truth in and of itself
does not change us, but it begins

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to start the shift in our life.

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It begins the turn in our life.

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Without the truth, we cannot
have repentance.

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Without the truth, we cannot
have revival.

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Without the truth, we cannot
have salvation.

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If I got up here and just told
you my feelings and my emotions and

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the whims of this society, right?

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And that changes daily.

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Like if I was up here
preaching 30 years ago, culture would

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tell us different things, and
every decade, there's different cultural

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changes.

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And if I got up and just
preached cultural things to you,

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that would not be the
everlasting truth of God.

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The Bible says that the word
of God is everlasting.

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Nothing can destroy that.

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Our culture can be destroyed.

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My opinions can be destroyed.

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I've changed my opinions on a
lot of things over the years, right?

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So, for example, oh, man, I'm
gonna really offend some people with

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this.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna do it.

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Okay.

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When I lived in Florida and I
was a Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan, some

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of you don't even know where
I'm going with this.

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I used to think that every
single person that liked the Philadelphia

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Eagles was like, what they
portrayed on television.

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All these bad people, all
these terrible fans.

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And I got up here and I met
some Eagles fans, and you know what

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I did?

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I struggled.

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I was like, oh, no, I don't
know what I'm going to do.

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My perception of the Eagles
fans changed after meeting them,

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right?

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Because I realized that
they're good people.

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They love Jesus, too.

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And that's a silly example, right?

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But my perception of certain
types of people have changed in my

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experience.

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So you would say, well, what's
wrong with that?

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There was nothing wrong with that.

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But if we see objective truth
like that, like, well, now that I've

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experienced this, then maybe
this, what the Bible says can change.

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Or maybe this can be adjusted.

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Because my experience, folks,
the Bible, the truth of scripture,

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cannot change.

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It does not bend, it does not break.

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And so what we need in our
lives is to understand that that's

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the starting place for revival.

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You can't have revival without
the truth of God's word.

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I can't get up here and preach
a message that's going to change

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people's hearts unless the
word of God is proclaimed.

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That's why we see so many
people coming to church.

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That's why we see so many
people in buildings today that call

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themselves Christians.

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But there's no change because
the truth of God is not presented.

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That's the starting place.

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The starting place is the
truth of God.

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And so the truth of God brings
the turn.

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But then we see number two,
that sorrow sustains the shift, right?

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So just as much as we need
that turn, we need to shift our thinking.

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And so sorrow is needed to
sustain that shift.

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So go with me there in verse
number nine, he says, now, I rejoice

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not that you were made.

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Sorry.

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He says, I wasn't excited
about your sorrow.

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Okay?

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I Didn't go, yes, they're sorrowful.

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He says, I don't rejoice that
you're sorrowful, but that ye sorrowed

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to repentance.

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So he says that sorrow was a
necessary thing to happen to get

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you to repentance.

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Therefore, I'm okay with it.

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So he didn't want to just
preach to bring them sorrow and sadness.

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You know, sometimes we'll see that.

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Sometimes we'll see preachers,
including myself.

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Sometimes we just want to hit
it on the head and make sure everyone

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feels like they're broken down.

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But God doesn't break our
spirits, right?

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The way that God does is he
wants to convict us.

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He wants to change us, but he
doesn't want to break our spirits.

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And so what Paul here is
saying, he's like, I just don't want

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to bring sorrow to you.

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I want to bring repentance.

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But sometimes that sorrow is needed.

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He says, but that he sorrowed
to repentance.

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And so Paul makes a clear
separation between sorrow and repentance.

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I want you to see that they're
two different things.

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Sorrow is needed, but it is
not repentance.

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One can be sorry for their sin
without repentance.

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Okay?

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Someone can be sorry for what
they did.

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Like, man, I shouldn't have
done that.

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Maybe it was before they even
got caught.

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Maybe it was when they got caught.

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But it was like, oh, you know what?

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I feel so bad about that.

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I feel terrible about that.

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That in and of itself is not repentance.

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That's godly sorrow.

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Or maybe it's worldly sorrow.

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Who knows?

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We can't judge that.

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We can't say, like, okay, this
person's sorry because they're caught,

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or they're sorry because God
has got a hold of their heart.

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But really what we can see
here in this case is that sorrow

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describes a feeling, but
repentance describes a change both

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in mind and in the life.

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Okay?

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Both in mind and in action.

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So sorrow is the feeling or
the motion that comes with brokenness.

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But.

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But it is the repentance
that's actually the action of changing

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from that path.

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Sorrow should be brought about
through exposing truth.

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Sorrow, though, can fade.

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Why?

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Because it's a feeling.

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So godly sorrow, if not
addressed quickly, does not turn

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into repentance.

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It can just be like, man, I'm
really sorry, but I'm going to go

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right back to that.

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How many times have we seen that?

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How many times have we seen
people that are like, man, I really

481
00:20:27,477 --> 00:20:27,885
feel bad.

482
00:20:27,925 --> 00:20:29,383
I really don't want to go back
into that.

483
00:20:29,469 --> 00:20:30,107
I really don't.

484
00:20:30,131 --> 00:20:31,507
And it's a struggle that we
all have.

485
00:20:31,611 --> 00:20:33,003
But that's not repentance.

486
00:20:33,059 --> 00:20:33,795
Repentance is.

487
00:20:33,875 --> 00:20:35,295
I'm turning from this.

488
00:20:35,635 --> 00:20:40,707
I'm giving my wholesale focus
to God and not to this issue that

489
00:20:40,731 --> 00:20:42,455
is plaguing my life.

490
00:20:42,835 --> 00:20:46,415
So Paul made the Corinthian
Christians feel bad about their sin.

491
00:20:46,715 --> 00:20:49,067
But what we can see here is he
did it in a godly way.

492
00:20:49,171 --> 00:20:50,651
This is really interesting.

493
00:20:50,843 --> 00:20:51,387
Verse 9.

494
00:20:51,411 --> 00:20:55,341
He says, Now I rejoice not
that you were made sorry, but that

495
00:20:55,373 --> 00:20:59,533
ye sorrow to repentance, for
ye were made sorry after a godly

496
00:20:59,589 --> 00:21:00,305
manner.

497
00:21:00,605 --> 00:21:04,013
So what we can tell with this
is that we can make people sorrowful

498
00:21:04,069 --> 00:21:05,781
for the wrong way or the right way.

499
00:21:05,813 --> 00:21:09,013
We can make people sorrowful
in the eyes of the world, or we can

500
00:21:09,029 --> 00:21:10,605
make people sorrowful in a
godly manner.

501
00:21:10,645 --> 00:21:12,781
Paul says, I did it in a godly manner.

502
00:21:12,813 --> 00:21:14,053
I pointed you to truth.

503
00:21:14,149 --> 00:21:15,781
I pointed you to the word.

504
00:21:15,853 --> 00:21:18,661
I pointed you to the way that
God wants you to live in your life,

505
00:21:18,693 --> 00:21:20,753
not just making you feel bad
for your failures.

506
00:21:20,869 --> 00:21:23,881
And so there's a way that we
can make people sorrowful in the

507
00:21:23,913 --> 00:21:24,321
flesh.

508
00:21:24,433 --> 00:21:26,209
We can just make them feel bad
about their failures.

509
00:21:26,257 --> 00:21:26,721
Look at you.

510
00:21:26,753 --> 00:21:27,345
Look again.

511
00:21:27,465 --> 00:21:29,033
Look at all those mistakes
that you make.

512
00:21:29,129 --> 00:21:31,393
Look, you fall short so many times.

513
00:21:31,529 --> 00:21:33,177
And there's a way to bring
people to.

514
00:21:33,201 --> 00:21:35,665
That we're going to talk about
here, worldly sorrow.

515
00:21:35,785 --> 00:21:38,209
Or there's a way that we can
bring people to, as it says here

516
00:21:38,257 --> 00:21:42,345
in verse number nine, this
godly manner of sorrow.

517
00:21:42,505 --> 00:21:44,325
And so what Paul says is this.

518
00:21:45,425 --> 00:21:48,181
I did this in a godly way.

519
00:21:48,353 --> 00:21:51,825
He used the truth, not lies or exaggeration.

520
00:21:52,125 --> 00:21:56,573
There's a way that we can make
people feel sorry and broken by lying

521
00:21:56,629 --> 00:21:58,981
to them or exaggerating what's happened.

522
00:21:59,133 --> 00:22:01,061
Paul says, I didn't do it in a
worldly way.

523
00:22:01,093 --> 00:22:02,069
I didn't exaggerate.

524
00:22:02,117 --> 00:22:04,413
I didn't overcompensate your wrong.

525
00:22:04,469 --> 00:22:06,485
All I did was point you to the
truth of God.

526
00:22:06,605 --> 00:22:09,909
This is how we bring people to
sorrow and repentance.

527
00:22:10,077 --> 00:22:14,069
I can sit up here and
manipulate you with hidden agendas

528
00:22:14,157 --> 00:22:17,213
and get you all to a place
where you might feel like, hey, I

529
00:22:17,229 --> 00:22:17,945
am a failure.

530
00:22:18,045 --> 00:22:20,081
Maybe I am not so good of a person.

531
00:22:20,193 --> 00:22:22,185
And Paul says, no, I didn't exaggerate.

532
00:22:22,225 --> 00:22:23,049
I didn't lie.

533
00:22:23,137 --> 00:22:23,889
I was honest.

534
00:22:23,937 --> 00:22:25,025
I had no hidden agendas.

535
00:22:25,065 --> 00:22:26,325
I had no manipulation.

536
00:22:26,745 --> 00:22:28,965
He simply told the truth in love.

537
00:22:30,705 --> 00:22:34,105
Not every person who does this
can say they did the same thing as

538
00:22:34,145 --> 00:22:34,765
Paul.

539
00:22:35,745 --> 00:22:39,129
Over the years, some people
have tried to make people sorrowful

540
00:22:39,257 --> 00:22:41,401
in very selfish ways.

541
00:22:41,513 --> 00:22:43,925
To use them, to manipulate them.

542
00:22:44,065 --> 00:22:47,109
And, folks, it's my job here
as a preacher not to make you feel

543
00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:49,597
bad by manipulating you and
lying to you.

544
00:22:49,661 --> 00:22:52,245
It's my job to give you the
truth of God's word and let the work

545
00:22:52,285 --> 00:22:55,685
of God do that in your heart,
the Holy Spirit, to change you.

546
00:22:55,765 --> 00:22:56,741
I cannot change you.

547
00:22:56,813 --> 00:22:58,005
I'm not the Holy Spirit.

548
00:22:58,085 --> 00:22:59,693
No preacher is the Holy Spirit.

549
00:22:59,829 --> 00:23:02,093
No preacher can come into your
life and force you to change.

550
00:23:02,189 --> 00:23:06,029
It is a relationship between
you and God and that Holy Spirit

551
00:23:06,077 --> 00:23:08,461
conviction through the Word of
God that changes a person.

552
00:23:08,573 --> 00:23:10,723
That is the only true change
that can happen.

553
00:23:10,829 --> 00:23:14,247
That's the only substantial,
sustaining change that can happen

554
00:23:14,271 --> 00:23:15,295
in someone's life.

555
00:23:15,455 --> 00:23:17,511
I'm gonna tell you, I could
sit here and I said this before.

556
00:23:17,583 --> 00:23:19,767
I could sit here and give you
a list of all the things that I think

557
00:23:19,791 --> 00:23:21,327
you should do to be a good Christian.

558
00:23:21,431 --> 00:23:23,519
And you could try to follow
them to the best of your ability.

559
00:23:23,567 --> 00:23:25,095
But that is not true change.

560
00:23:25,255 --> 00:23:27,823
That is me trying to
manipulate you and force you into

561
00:23:27,879 --> 00:23:29,951
following some path of legalism.

562
00:23:30,063 --> 00:23:32,575
I can tell you what the Bible
says about being a good Christian,

563
00:23:32,695 --> 00:23:35,215
but the truth is, is that it
cannot happen in your life unless

564
00:23:35,255 --> 00:23:37,697
it's a true change in your
heart through the conviction of the

565
00:23:37,721 --> 00:23:37,921
Spirit.

566
00:23:37,953 --> 00:23:41,705
And so Paul says here, it is a
work of God that has happened here,

567
00:23:41,745 --> 00:23:44,329
not a work of me, not a work
of my own doing.

568
00:23:44,457 --> 00:23:47,165
And so no guilt trips, no manipulation.

569
00:23:47,585 --> 00:23:51,217
Only the Spirit's conviction
through the truth of God's Word brings

570
00:23:51,241 --> 00:23:53,201
us to repentance and to revival.

571
00:23:53,393 --> 00:23:58,001
And so here in this case, Paul
says, it is done in a godly manner

572
00:23:58,033 --> 00:24:01,329
that you might receive damage
by us in nothing.

573
00:24:01,377 --> 00:24:04,467
Meaning, I don't want to harm
you in this process of bringing you

574
00:24:04,491 --> 00:24:05,535
to repentance.

575
00:24:06,315 --> 00:24:10,219
There's a way that I could,
again, I'm gonna speak for myself

576
00:24:10,267 --> 00:24:12,515
here, that I could bring
someone here and break their spirit

577
00:24:12,555 --> 00:24:14,755
so much and harm them with the
way that I deal with them.

578
00:24:14,835 --> 00:24:17,699
That we get to a place in the
life where there is no hope for restoration

579
00:24:17,747 --> 00:24:18,219
for them.

580
00:24:18,307 --> 00:24:20,467
There is no hope for revival
for them, because I've just beat

581
00:24:20,491 --> 00:24:21,171
them down so much.

582
00:24:21,203 --> 00:24:24,415
And Paul says, we didn't want
to damage you through this process.

583
00:24:24,835 --> 00:24:26,011
And this is difficult.

584
00:24:26,123 --> 00:24:28,619
And I can't say that I've been
perfect in this in any stretch of

585
00:24:28,627 --> 00:24:29,403
the imagination.

586
00:24:29,539 --> 00:24:31,251
But what Paul's desire here is this.

587
00:24:31,283 --> 00:24:33,251
He says, I bring the truth to you.

588
00:24:33,363 --> 00:24:36,763
I bring the word of God to you
so that there can be conviction happening

589
00:24:36,859 --> 00:24:40,295
Change happening and so that I
don't damage you in any way.

590
00:24:40,835 --> 00:24:44,491
So Paul says, we have to have
a godly focus in the midst of preaching

591
00:24:44,523 --> 00:24:47,315
the truth and seeing revival
happening in people's lives.

592
00:24:47,435 --> 00:24:49,395
So sorrow sustains the shift.

593
00:24:49,435 --> 00:24:51,099
It doesn't make it happen.

594
00:24:51,227 --> 00:24:53,163
So truth begins the turn.

595
00:24:53,339 --> 00:24:55,979
Sorrow sustains that shift
into repentance.

596
00:24:56,107 --> 00:24:58,695
But again, sorrow in and of
itself is not enough.

597
00:24:58,995 --> 00:25:00,499
Some of us have sat here.

598
00:25:00,627 --> 00:25:05,387
I've sat here and heard
preaching and agreed with the preaching,

599
00:25:05,571 --> 00:25:09,555
understood where I was wrong,
even maybe came forward and prayed

600
00:25:09,675 --> 00:25:11,027
and made decisions to say, you
know what?

601
00:25:11,051 --> 00:25:12,323
I don't want to do that again.

602
00:25:12,459 --> 00:25:15,075
But how many of us have fallen
right back into that trap because

603
00:25:15,115 --> 00:25:18,771
we have not continue on to
that place of repentance to turn

604
00:25:18,803 --> 00:25:20,435
away from, to cut it out of
our lives?

605
00:25:20,555 --> 00:25:21,379
What if you came to.

606
00:25:21,427 --> 00:25:24,751
What if you came to a doctor
and they said, hey, you've got this

607
00:25:24,943 --> 00:25:29,247
cancer on your body, in your
body, and it's going to take over

608
00:25:29,271 --> 00:25:30,675
your life, okay?

609
00:25:31,055 --> 00:25:32,687
It's going to eventually kill you.

610
00:25:32,871 --> 00:25:35,543
There's a way that we could
cut it out right now, and you're

611
00:25:35,559 --> 00:25:39,207
going to lose a good portion
of a part of your body, but we can

612
00:25:39,231 --> 00:25:40,311
take it out right now.

613
00:25:40,423 --> 00:25:42,655
And some of us might say,
well, I don't want to lose that.

614
00:25:42,735 --> 00:25:44,063
I don't want to lose that part
of me.

615
00:25:44,159 --> 00:25:44,855
You understand?

616
00:25:44,935 --> 00:25:46,543
That's the same thing
sometimes in our life when we've

617
00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:49,025
got that sin that's attached
to us like a cancer.

618
00:25:49,175 --> 00:25:51,781
And God says, take that out of
your life and you can get that out

619
00:25:51,813 --> 00:25:54,157
and you can be healed and you
can be walking in the truth.

620
00:25:54,181 --> 00:25:55,557
And we go, yeah, but I like that.

621
00:25:55,621 --> 00:25:56,725
No, you don't like that.

622
00:25:56,845 --> 00:25:58,613
You like the idea of not
losing something.

623
00:25:58,669 --> 00:25:59,253
You like that.

624
00:25:59,309 --> 00:26:01,813
You like the benefits that you
think it's coming to you.

625
00:26:01,829 --> 00:26:04,701
I know in my life, there's
been sins in my life that I've justified

626
00:26:04,813 --> 00:26:05,829
that I felt good about.

627
00:26:05,877 --> 00:26:06,645
Because you know what?

628
00:26:06,725 --> 00:26:07,845
It makes me feel comfortable.

629
00:26:07,885 --> 00:26:09,501
It makes me feel like I'm winning.

630
00:26:09,533 --> 00:26:10,741
It makes me feel like I'm on top.

631
00:26:10,773 --> 00:26:13,533
And I'm going to tell you,
every time, sin is like a disease.

632
00:26:13,589 --> 00:26:15,403
It will take away, it'll grow.

633
00:26:15,509 --> 00:26:16,959
And the Bible says, cut that out.

634
00:26:17,007 --> 00:26:17,767
That's repentance.

635
00:26:17,831 --> 00:26:18,991
Getting rid of that.

636
00:26:19,143 --> 00:26:20,895
And so sorrow sustains the shift.

637
00:26:20,935 --> 00:26:24,071
But I want you to see lastly
here, point number three.

638
00:26:24,183 --> 00:26:27,295
It's real repentance that
brings revival.

639
00:26:27,415 --> 00:26:31,555
Real repentance that brings revival.

640
00:26:33,015 --> 00:26:35,607
Look at it there in verse
number 10, he says, for godly sorrow

641
00:26:35,671 --> 00:26:37,035
worketh, repentance.

642
00:26:37,575 --> 00:26:42,599
Repentance to salvation, not
to be repented of, but the sorrow

643
00:26:42,647 --> 00:26:43,791
of the world worketh death.

644
00:26:43,823 --> 00:26:47,599
And so he says there's godly
sorrow that brings repentance, and

645
00:26:47,607 --> 00:26:48,735
then there's worldly sorrow.

646
00:26:48,775 --> 00:26:50,743
And what does he say that
worldly sorrow brings?

647
00:26:50,839 --> 00:26:55,395
It worketh for death, it
worketh for destruction.

648
00:26:56,255 --> 00:26:58,695
Because what that means is
that if I'm in my worldly sorrow,

649
00:26:58,735 --> 00:26:59,919
I'm gonna go right back to it.

650
00:26:59,967 --> 00:27:03,383
Eventually, when that feeling
wears away and I don't feel so bad

651
00:27:03,439 --> 00:27:07,479
anymore, and I become more
desensitized to sin over time, and

652
00:27:07,487 --> 00:27:10,751
I see other people doing that
same sin, that sorrow will fade away.

653
00:27:10,783 --> 00:27:12,581
And that's not true biblical conviction.

654
00:27:12,703 --> 00:27:15,457
And therefore I will go back,
and that brings forth death.

655
00:27:15,601 --> 00:27:19,169
So he says it is godly sorrow
that works repentance, not worldly

656
00:27:19,217 --> 00:27:19,913
sorrow.

657
00:27:20,089 --> 00:27:23,833
And so sorrow itself does not
produce anything except for bad feelings.

658
00:27:23,889 --> 00:27:27,005
But godly sorrow produces repentance.

659
00:27:27,305 --> 00:27:31,525
And so since repentance is a
change in both thinking and action,

660
00:27:31,825 --> 00:27:35,585
we can tell if sorrow is
really godly by seeing what it produces

661
00:27:35,625 --> 00:27:36,289
in our life.

662
00:27:36,377 --> 00:27:38,025
And so what kind of sorrow is this?

663
00:27:38,065 --> 00:27:39,801
Well, what is being produced
in my life?

664
00:27:39,913 --> 00:27:43,441
If it's a change, if it's a
shift into thinking about the things

665
00:27:43,473 --> 00:27:46,793
of God, if it's a shift into
thinking about how I can desire after

666
00:27:46,849 --> 00:27:47,233
him.

667
00:27:47,329 --> 00:27:51,025
Therefore, that is biblical
sorrow that led to repentance.

668
00:27:51,065 --> 00:27:53,725
And so godly sorrow cannot be
measured by feelings.

669
00:27:54,465 --> 00:27:55,601
And hear me out here.

670
00:27:55,713 --> 00:28:00,761
Godly sorrow cannot be
measured by feelings, tears, emotions,

671
00:28:00,953 --> 00:28:05,415
but only what it is produced
after what is produced after.

672
00:28:05,585 --> 00:28:08,295
What is the effect of this
godly sorrow?

673
00:28:08,595 --> 00:28:09,815
Is there change?

674
00:28:10,635 --> 00:28:12,051
If there's not any change in
our life?

675
00:28:12,083 --> 00:28:13,975
We haven't made a decision to change.

676
00:28:14,435 --> 00:28:16,963
And obviously we know that
there is the power of God that comes

677
00:28:16,979 --> 00:28:18,595
into this, which we're gonna
talk about here in a few moments.

678
00:28:18,635 --> 00:28:20,651
You can't change of your own self.

679
00:28:20,803 --> 00:28:22,227
You have to rely on the power
of God.

680
00:28:22,251 --> 00:28:24,827
You have to rely on the power
and the grace of God.

681
00:28:24,891 --> 00:28:26,575
And there's forgiveness when
we fail.

682
00:28:27,315 --> 00:28:28,979
First John, chapter one, verse nine.

683
00:28:29,067 --> 00:28:31,723
If we confess our sins, he's
faithful and just to forgive us our

684
00:28:31,739 --> 00:28:33,477
sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

685
00:28:33,611 --> 00:28:34,833
So the Bible says, hey, you
know what?

686
00:28:34,849 --> 00:28:37,033
There's going to be times even
in your repentance that you're going

687
00:28:37,049 --> 00:28:37,569
to sin.

688
00:28:37,657 --> 00:28:38,737
That doesn't mean that you failed.

689
00:28:38,761 --> 00:28:39,697
It doesn't mean that you quit.

690
00:28:39,761 --> 00:28:41,945
It just means that you get
right back up and you say, lord,

691
00:28:42,025 --> 00:28:43,113
I need forgiveness.

692
00:28:43,249 --> 00:28:45,249
Give me forgiveness, give me grace.

693
00:28:45,337 --> 00:28:47,209
And that's not forgiveness of
getting sins.

694
00:28:47,297 --> 00:28:49,977
You know, I'm going to get
saved over and over and over again.

695
00:28:50,041 --> 00:28:52,537
What that's talking about is
restorative forgiveness.

696
00:28:52,681 --> 00:28:55,609
So, for example, I've used
this analogy before with my children,

697
00:28:55,697 --> 00:28:55,945
right?

698
00:28:55,985 --> 00:28:57,485
Micah can be mad at me.

699
00:28:57,825 --> 00:28:59,137
I could discipline him.

700
00:28:59,161 --> 00:29:00,397
Mike is my nine year old son.

701
00:29:00,481 --> 00:29:01,573
I could get him in trouble.

702
00:29:01,669 --> 00:29:02,733
He could get mad at me.

703
00:29:02,789 --> 00:29:04,077
He could stop talking to me.

704
00:29:04,141 --> 00:29:06,173
He could run up to his room
and says, I'm never talking to my

705
00:29:06,189 --> 00:29:06,789
dad again.

706
00:29:06,877 --> 00:29:09,149
Okay, is he still my son?

707
00:29:09,317 --> 00:29:09,901
Yes.

708
00:29:10,013 --> 00:29:12,301
I don't go, well, he's not
talking to me today, so he's no longer

709
00:29:12,333 --> 00:29:12,725
my son.

710
00:29:12,765 --> 00:29:13,901
That's not how it works.

711
00:29:14,053 --> 00:29:14,957
I can't deny him.

712
00:29:14,981 --> 00:29:15,957
He's my son.

713
00:29:16,141 --> 00:29:18,469
So the truth is that's how it
is in the relationship with God.

714
00:29:18,517 --> 00:29:20,613
But could our fellowship be broken?

715
00:29:20,669 --> 00:29:21,261
Yes.

716
00:29:21,413 --> 00:29:23,541
And it doesn't mean that I
want to stop talking to him.

717
00:29:23,613 --> 00:29:25,733
He might say, I'm locking my
door, dad, you're never coming in

718
00:29:25,749 --> 00:29:26,141
here.

719
00:29:26,253 --> 00:29:29,101
It's he who is drawing that
divide there.

720
00:29:29,213 --> 00:29:31,981
And so for us as Christians, a
lot of times when we fail in our

721
00:29:32,013 --> 00:29:35,797
sin, we get so ashamed of our
sin that we reject God and we turn

722
00:29:35,821 --> 00:29:36,277
away from God.

723
00:29:36,301 --> 00:29:38,165
It doesn't mean God has left us.

724
00:29:38,205 --> 00:29:40,341
It doesn't mean that God has
forgotten about us.

725
00:29:40,373 --> 00:29:42,173
It means that we have turned
our backs to him.

726
00:29:42,269 --> 00:29:45,357
And when we come back and all
it takes for Micah to come back and

727
00:29:45,381 --> 00:29:48,981
to be received again and say,
dad, I'm sorry, I apologize.

728
00:29:49,133 --> 00:29:49,725
Can we.

729
00:29:49,805 --> 00:29:50,661
Of course, let's go out.

730
00:29:50,693 --> 00:29:51,729
Let's go out and do something.

731
00:29:51,837 --> 00:29:52,841
That's how it is with God.

732
00:29:52,913 --> 00:29:55,121
He wants us to come back in forgiveness.

733
00:29:55,273 --> 00:29:58,993
And so I don't want to
perceive, I don't want to paint a

734
00:29:59,009 --> 00:30:01,625
picture of perception that,
hey, look, you know what repentance

735
00:30:01,665 --> 00:30:01,793
means?

736
00:30:01,809 --> 00:30:02,425
You never sin.

737
00:30:02,465 --> 00:30:03,337
It means you're Mr.

738
00:30:03,401 --> 00:30:03,777
Holy.

739
00:30:03,841 --> 00:30:05,249
It means that you never have
any problems.

740
00:30:05,297 --> 00:30:08,601
No, the Bible says that even
in repentance, it happens over and

741
00:30:08,633 --> 00:30:10,105
over again in our lives.

742
00:30:10,265 --> 00:30:13,485
And so repentance must never
be thought of as something we do

743
00:30:13,785 --> 00:30:15,409
before we can come back to God.

744
00:30:15,457 --> 00:30:18,121
Repentance actually is coming
back to God.

745
00:30:18,273 --> 00:30:21,689
Repentance describes the very
act of coming to God.

746
00:30:21,817 --> 00:30:25,065
A lot of people think, well,
now I have to be repentant to get

747
00:30:25,105 --> 00:30:25,689
back to God.

748
00:30:25,737 --> 00:30:27,601
No, it's you seeking after God.

749
00:30:27,633 --> 00:30:30,241
That is the repentance because
you're turning away from the things

750
00:30:30,273 --> 00:30:30,905
of this world.

751
00:30:30,985 --> 00:30:34,001
You're turning away from that
sin that so easily besets us.

752
00:30:34,193 --> 00:30:36,801
It's turning away from that
bondage and saying, lord, I'm turning

753
00:30:36,833 --> 00:30:37,605
to you.

754
00:30:38,385 --> 00:30:40,257
And so this isn't an act of will.

755
00:30:40,321 --> 00:30:43,041
This isn't an act of like,
well, just try harder as a Christian,

756
00:30:43,073 --> 00:30:44,159
you got a sin in your life.

757
00:30:44,257 --> 00:30:45,203
Just work harder.

758
00:30:45,299 --> 00:30:46,275
Stop watching that.

759
00:30:46,355 --> 00:30:47,083
Stop doing this.

760
00:30:47,139 --> 00:30:48,443
No, it's not that.

761
00:30:48,539 --> 00:30:49,979
It's not just stopping the bad.

762
00:30:50,027 --> 00:30:51,627
It's turning to the good.

763
00:30:51,771 --> 00:30:54,815
It's saying, I want to desire
God and not the things of this world.

764
00:30:55,235 --> 00:30:57,859
And so I think a lot of times
for me growing up, it was this, stop

765
00:30:57,907 --> 00:30:58,835
doing bad.

766
00:30:58,995 --> 00:31:00,331
Just stop doing bad.

767
00:31:00,483 --> 00:31:03,203
But the truth is that a lot of
times in our life, if we don't replace

768
00:31:03,259 --> 00:31:06,323
that bad with our desire for
Christ, we're eventually going to

769
00:31:06,339 --> 00:31:07,683
divert right back into that.

770
00:31:07,779 --> 00:31:10,877
Because if we divert our
flesh, we're just gonna go to something

771
00:31:10,901 --> 00:31:12,189
else fleshly, right?

772
00:31:12,357 --> 00:31:15,333
If I try to stop doing
something in the flesh, I'm just

773
00:31:15,349 --> 00:31:17,061
gonna go to something else in
the flesh.

774
00:31:17,253 --> 00:31:19,477
I'm gonna move from one vice
to the other vice.

775
00:31:19,541 --> 00:31:22,077
I'm gonna move from one sin to
another sin, or I'm gonna go back

776
00:31:22,101 --> 00:31:23,133
to the same sin.

777
00:31:23,269 --> 00:31:25,141
And so it's clinging after God.

778
00:31:25,213 --> 00:31:28,645
And so repentance is not what
we have to do to get to God.

779
00:31:28,725 --> 00:31:31,125
It is the actual act of coming
back to Him.

780
00:31:31,205 --> 00:31:35,677
You can't turn towards God
without turning from the things that

781
00:31:35,701 --> 00:31:36,633
he's against.

782
00:31:36,829 --> 00:31:37,953
Hear me out on that.

783
00:31:38,089 --> 00:31:41,705
You can't turn to God and
still be clinging on to the things

784
00:31:41,745 --> 00:31:46,745
that he hates, the things that
he rejects, the things that he's

785
00:31:46,785 --> 00:31:47,365
against.

786
00:31:47,825 --> 00:31:50,849
And so sorrow in itself
doesn't produce anything except bad

787
00:31:50,897 --> 00:31:51,605
feelings.

788
00:31:54,265 --> 00:31:57,537
But repentance brings true transformation.

789
00:31:57,721 --> 00:31:59,345
All right, look at there with
verse number 11.

790
00:31:59,385 --> 00:32:01,009
He says, for behold the self.

791
00:32:01,057 --> 00:32:03,537
Same thing that you sorrowed
after a godly sort.

792
00:32:03,561 --> 00:32:05,353
So he said, you had a godly sorrow.

793
00:32:05,529 --> 00:32:07,805
What carefulness it wrought in you.

794
00:32:08,145 --> 00:32:11,945
And so he's gonna explain the
product of biblical repentance.

795
00:32:11,985 --> 00:32:13,361
And I think this is important
for us to see.

796
00:32:13,393 --> 00:32:16,009
Cause you might say, well, am
I biblically repentant?

797
00:32:16,177 --> 00:32:17,889
Paul says, these are the signs.

798
00:32:17,937 --> 00:32:20,977
These are the outward
manifestations of what's happening

799
00:32:21,001 --> 00:32:21,841
in your heart.

800
00:32:21,953 --> 00:32:26,033
This will be a test of what
happens as a product of repentance.

801
00:32:26,209 --> 00:32:27,381
This is verse number 11.

802
00:32:27,424 --> 00:32:27,598
Okay?

803
00:32:27,642 --> 00:32:29,145
So he says here, verse number 11.

804
00:32:29,185 --> 00:32:30,025
For behold this cell.

805
00:32:30,065 --> 00:32:32,321
Same thing that ye sorrowed
after a godly sort.

806
00:32:32,353 --> 00:32:33,255
What was the product?

807
00:32:33,385 --> 00:32:33,699
What?

808
00:32:33,747 --> 00:32:34,219
Carefulness.

809
00:32:34,267 --> 00:32:35,411
It rotten you.

810
00:32:35,603 --> 00:32:36,907
That is the actual idea.

811
00:32:36,971 --> 00:32:38,747
That's an old way to say diligence.

812
00:32:38,891 --> 00:32:39,827
Diligence.

813
00:32:40,011 --> 00:32:42,035
It brought seeking after God.

814
00:32:42,075 --> 00:32:44,255
To be diligently seeking after God.

815
00:32:44,555 --> 00:32:49,035
So one Mark of repentance is
diligently seeking after the Lord.

816
00:32:49,155 --> 00:32:52,995
But then he says here, he says
that you were careful, carefulness,

817
00:32:53,035 --> 00:32:53,947
it rot in you.

818
00:32:54,051 --> 00:32:57,787
Yea, what clearing of
yourselves, clearing of yourself

819
00:32:57,851 --> 00:33:01,397
in the original language here
has this idea of, of justification,

820
00:33:01,461 --> 00:33:02,541
your defense.

821
00:33:02,733 --> 00:33:05,653
Okay, I have a defense against
this sin in my life.

822
00:33:05,749 --> 00:33:06,789
It means you have hope.

823
00:33:06,837 --> 00:33:09,733
It means you have something
behind you that you're saying, you

824
00:33:09,749 --> 00:33:10,213
know what?

825
00:33:10,309 --> 00:33:14,173
I'm not what Satan says that I
am because I have this substance

826
00:33:14,229 --> 00:33:14,725
in the Lord.

827
00:33:14,765 --> 00:33:18,581
So a clearing or a defense in
the wrongs that I have done because

828
00:33:18,613 --> 00:33:20,197
Satan is the accuser of the brethren.

829
00:33:20,301 --> 00:33:22,733
And what Satan wants to do is
he wants you to think that you've

830
00:33:22,749 --> 00:33:24,653
done too much wrong to see God
in your life.

831
00:33:24,709 --> 00:33:26,573
You've done too much wrong to
be used by God.

832
00:33:26,629 --> 00:33:28,733
And, and so what the Bible
says is that true repentance leads

833
00:33:28,749 --> 00:33:29,773
us to that place of defense.

834
00:33:29,829 --> 00:33:32,541
No, Satan can't say that about
me because I'm going off of what

835
00:33:32,573 --> 00:33:33,645
God has said about me.

836
00:33:33,725 --> 00:33:35,757
My identity is not when Satan
says about me.

837
00:33:35,821 --> 00:33:37,797
My identity is not in what the
world says about me.

838
00:33:37,861 --> 00:33:40,661
My identity and my defense is
in what Jesus Christ says about me.

839
00:33:40,733 --> 00:33:44,629
The great advocate, the one
who is appealing for me, the one

840
00:33:44,677 --> 00:33:49,325
who is the propitiation, the
one who is fighting on my behalf.

841
00:33:49,365 --> 00:33:52,425
And so there is a clearing,
there is a confidence.

842
00:33:52,915 --> 00:33:54,347
He goes on to say more.

843
00:33:54,491 --> 00:33:56,715
He says, yea, what indignation.

844
00:33:56,875 --> 00:33:58,123
Indignation to what?

845
00:33:58,179 --> 00:34:00,323
Indignation towards sin and evil.

846
00:34:00,419 --> 00:34:03,347
One of the marks of true
repentance and revival in our lives

847
00:34:03,451 --> 00:34:04,539
is that we hate sin.

848
00:34:04,587 --> 00:34:07,027
We hate the things that God
hates, we reject the things that

849
00:34:07,051 --> 00:34:07,883
God rejects.

850
00:34:07,979 --> 00:34:11,615
We don't have an inordinate
love for the things of this world,

851
00:34:12,155 --> 00:34:12,579
folks.

852
00:34:12,627 --> 00:34:15,291
One of the marks of a
backslidden Christian is someone

853
00:34:15,323 --> 00:34:19,275
who is comfortable in the
things of this world, someone who

854
00:34:19,355 --> 00:34:21,275
embraces the sin of this world.

855
00:34:21,315 --> 00:34:23,891
Folks, revival is, I don't
like that, doesn't mean that I'm

856
00:34:23,923 --> 00:34:26,379
perfect, but it means that I
reject that in my life.

857
00:34:26,547 --> 00:34:29,587
And so an indignation or a
hatred towards sin.

858
00:34:29,691 --> 00:34:30,843
He says, yea, what fear.

859
00:34:30,899 --> 00:34:33,735
This is a fear or respect for
God and his Word.

860
00:34:34,275 --> 00:34:38,763
He says these are all products
of someone who has biblical repentance,

861
00:34:38,939 --> 00:34:45,425
diligence, a clear heart
hatred towards sin, a respect for

862
00:34:45,465 --> 00:34:46,105
God.

863
00:34:46,265 --> 00:34:50,553
He goes on to say more, yea,
what vehement desire this is, this

864
00:34:50,609 --> 00:34:54,465
understanding of having a
desire for God and his Word, having

865
00:34:54,505 --> 00:34:56,161
a desire for the things of God.

866
00:34:56,273 --> 00:34:59,361
And so we see that he says
that there's desire there.

867
00:34:59,473 --> 00:35:00,513
Yea, what zeal.

868
00:35:00,609 --> 00:35:04,201
This word zeal has in the
literal Greek means heat being on

869
00:35:04,233 --> 00:35:04,985
fire for God.

870
00:35:05,065 --> 00:35:08,001
One of the definitions of
someone who is in repentance and

871
00:35:08,033 --> 00:35:09,965
in revival is they're on fire
for God.

872
00:35:10,495 --> 00:35:12,995
Folks, I'm gonna tell you that
when we are.

873
00:35:14,615 --> 00:35:18,543
All right, let me speak as
clear as I can.

874
00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:22,575
When we get annoyed by someone
being excited for God, that's a sign

875
00:35:22,615 --> 00:35:24,847
that we are not where we need
to be.

876
00:35:25,031 --> 00:35:25,655
Okay?

877
00:35:25,775 --> 00:35:26,951
You say, what do you mean by that?

878
00:35:27,023 --> 00:35:28,591
When someone's excited about
Jesus Christ.

879
00:35:28,623 --> 00:35:30,271
And we go, oh, yeah, okay.

880
00:35:30,463 --> 00:35:31,711
They'll cool off in a little bit.

881
00:35:31,743 --> 00:35:34,327
Folks, that's a sign that we
are not where we need to be.

882
00:35:34,431 --> 00:35:35,997
We all should be excited for that.

883
00:35:36,071 --> 00:35:38,081
And when someone else is
excited for God, we should have that

884
00:35:38,113 --> 00:35:38,817
same zeal.

885
00:35:38,961 --> 00:35:42,137
The Bible says In Romans,
chapter 12, fervent in spirit.

886
00:35:42,241 --> 00:35:45,385
It literally means a fire
boiling in our hearts, fervent in

887
00:35:45,425 --> 00:35:46,977
spirit, serving the Lord.

888
00:35:47,161 --> 00:35:50,025
And so one of the marks of
someone who is living in repentance

889
00:35:50,105 --> 00:35:52,825
and revival is that they're on
fire for God.

890
00:35:52,985 --> 00:35:54,289
We see more here.

891
00:35:54,457 --> 00:35:56,537
He says, yea, what zeal.

892
00:35:56,601 --> 00:35:57,769
Yea, what revenge.

893
00:35:57,817 --> 00:35:59,481
Now, revenge is not our job, okay?

894
00:35:59,513 --> 00:36:00,465
We don't do the revenge.

895
00:36:00,505 --> 00:36:02,971
But what it says here is
there's justice or vindication.

896
00:36:03,113 --> 00:36:05,599
We're excited about God's justice.

897
00:36:05,647 --> 00:36:07,831
We're excited about his holiness.

898
00:36:07,903 --> 00:36:12,255
We're excited about those
things that God is doing in our world.

899
00:36:12,295 --> 00:36:13,351
You say, what do you mean by that?

900
00:36:13,423 --> 00:36:15,943
When God judges those that are
unrighteous, we should say, hey,

901
00:36:15,959 --> 00:36:16,479
you know what?

902
00:36:16,567 --> 00:36:17,711
Hey, that's justice.

903
00:36:17,823 --> 00:36:19,583
He's working out my justice.

904
00:36:19,679 --> 00:36:21,247
He's working out my vindication.

905
00:36:21,351 --> 00:36:24,735
The Bible says, vengeance is
mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

906
00:36:24,855 --> 00:36:26,959
So we're excited.

907
00:36:27,047 --> 00:36:28,843
We rejoice in God's judgment.

908
00:36:28,959 --> 00:36:30,771
And then we see here, what
does it say more?

909
00:36:30,923 --> 00:36:33,291
It says, in all things, ye
have approved yourselves to be clear

910
00:36:33,323 --> 00:36:33,795
in this matter.

911
00:36:33,835 --> 00:36:34,963
It's a clear heart.

912
00:36:35,139 --> 00:36:36,535
It's no regrets.

913
00:36:36,915 --> 00:36:38,747
It's not living our lives and
saying, you know what?

914
00:36:38,771 --> 00:36:39,411
There's something here.

915
00:36:39,443 --> 00:36:41,675
It's just I have a clear heart
before God.

916
00:36:41,835 --> 00:36:44,695
That's the product of repentance.

917
00:36:45,435 --> 00:36:49,435
There is that diligence, that
defense, the hatred towards sin,

918
00:36:49,475 --> 00:36:53,227
that fear of God, that desire
for God, that passion for God, that

919
00:36:53,251 --> 00:36:56,523
zeal for God, the justice or
vindication that God brings us in

920
00:36:56,539 --> 00:36:58,245
our life, that clear heart.

921
00:36:58,365 --> 00:37:01,293
And so Paul's purpose in
writing the Sorrowful Letter was

922
00:37:01,349 --> 00:37:02,717
not to take sides.

923
00:37:02,741 --> 00:37:04,421
That's what he says in verse 12.

924
00:37:04,613 --> 00:37:09,005
He says, Wherefore, though I
wrote you, I did it not for his cause

925
00:37:09,045 --> 00:37:11,205
over here that had done the wrong.

926
00:37:11,245 --> 00:37:13,253
So he's like, I didn't write
on behalf of the person that did

927
00:37:13,269 --> 00:37:16,549
the wrong, nor for the cause
that suffered the wrong, the person

928
00:37:16,597 --> 00:37:18,773
that was the person that
received the wrongdoing.

929
00:37:18,829 --> 00:37:21,425
He said, I wasn't taking sides
when I wrote this letter.

930
00:37:21,725 --> 00:37:23,957
I wasn't taking sides and
saying, I'm on this person's side

931
00:37:23,981 --> 00:37:25,053
or I'm on this person's side.

932
00:37:25,109 --> 00:37:25,285
He.

933
00:37:25,315 --> 00:37:26,105
He's on God's side.

934
00:37:26,145 --> 00:37:29,809
He says, but that our care for
you in the sight of God might appear

935
00:37:29,857 --> 00:37:30,305
unto you.

936
00:37:30,345 --> 00:37:33,329
He says, okay, I wasn't taking sides.

937
00:37:33,497 --> 00:37:37,161
All I was doing was
demonstrating my concern for where

938
00:37:37,193 --> 00:37:41,585
you were and the hope that you
would come to conviction in the Spirit

939
00:37:41,665 --> 00:37:43,881
so that you could get right
with God, so that you could live

940
00:37:43,953 --> 00:37:48,393
as this way with zeal, with
joy, with hatred towards sin, with

941
00:37:48,449 --> 00:37:49,897
love for God's word.

942
00:37:50,081 --> 00:37:53,901
And so a mark of someone who's
living in repentance, a mark of someone

943
00:37:53,933 --> 00:37:56,845
who is living with that
revival in their hearts, will desire

944
00:37:56,885 --> 00:37:57,821
the things of God.

945
00:37:57,933 --> 00:37:59,717
I'll boil it down to a very
basic thing.

946
00:37:59,821 --> 00:38:03,333
Desire the things of God, be
passionate about the things of God,

947
00:38:03,469 --> 00:38:08,061
hate the things that God
hates, and live without any guilt

948
00:38:08,253 --> 00:38:10,261
or condemnation in their life.

949
00:38:10,453 --> 00:38:12,165
That's a person living in repentance.

950
00:38:12,205 --> 00:38:14,029
It doesn't mean a person
that's perfect.

951
00:38:14,077 --> 00:38:16,261
It doesn't mean a person who's
going to do everything right.

952
00:38:16,293 --> 00:38:20,153
It means a person who can live
without the fear of their failures

953
00:38:20,309 --> 00:38:22,005
ruling and reigning in their life.

954
00:38:22,585 --> 00:38:25,537
It's someone who desires the
word, someone who doesn't just read

955
00:38:25,561 --> 00:38:28,849
the Bible because someone's
watching them, or someone who's serving

956
00:38:28,977 --> 00:38:31,417
just because they want to
serve, not just because they have

957
00:38:31,441 --> 00:38:32,201
to serve.

958
00:38:32,353 --> 00:38:34,569
That's the idea of someone
that's living in repentance.

959
00:38:34,617 --> 00:38:37,193
And so it is that real
repentance that leads to revival.

960
00:38:37,249 --> 00:38:38,609
So what does revival look like?

961
00:38:38,697 --> 00:38:40,105
Revival looks like change.

962
00:38:40,225 --> 00:38:41,961
Revival looks like a different path.

963
00:38:42,033 --> 00:38:44,169
And so repentance leads to revival.

964
00:38:44,297 --> 00:38:47,605
And revival is where we see
God working in our lives.

965
00:38:48,065 --> 00:38:50,089
Do we want to see God working
in our church?

966
00:38:50,217 --> 00:38:52,281
Do we want to see God working
in our lives?

967
00:38:52,473 --> 00:38:57,561
That means a prerequisite for
that godly sorrow from the truth

968
00:38:57,593 --> 00:38:58,273
of God.

969
00:38:58,409 --> 00:39:02,657
That brings repentance, that
brings a change, that allows us to

970
00:39:02,681 --> 00:39:03,769
trust in the power of God.

971
00:39:03,817 --> 00:39:05,185
So hear me out this morning.

972
00:39:05,225 --> 00:39:09,137
I'm not talking about, hey,
stop sinning, and then the God's

973
00:39:09,161 --> 00:39:10,057
going to clean up your life.

974
00:39:10,121 --> 00:39:11,089
That's not what I'm saying.

975
00:39:11,177 --> 00:39:13,965
I'm saying turn away from that
sin and turn to Jesus Christ.

976
00:39:14,305 --> 00:39:15,913
That is the response.

977
00:39:16,049 --> 00:39:17,729
The response is, I need Jesus.

978
00:39:17,857 --> 00:39:19,329
I need his grace in my life.

979
00:39:19,417 --> 00:39:20,857
I need his word in my life.

980
00:39:20,961 --> 00:39:22,425
I need his transformation.

981
00:39:22,545 --> 00:39:25,405
Romans, chapter 12, Be transformed.

982
00:39:26,105 --> 00:39:28,977
Not conformed to this world,
but transformed by the renewing of

983
00:39:29,001 --> 00:39:29,845
your mind.

984
00:39:30,465 --> 00:39:32,481
And some of you might say,
well, I repented.

985
00:39:32,553 --> 00:39:33,337
I was.

986
00:39:33,521 --> 00:39:34,481
You know what?

987
00:39:34,633 --> 00:39:37,765
We had a revival back in 1986.

988
00:39:38,265 --> 00:39:39,401
And I remember that day.

989
00:39:39,473 --> 00:39:40,473
I got revived.

990
00:39:40,609 --> 00:39:41,707
Praise God for that.

991
00:39:41,801 --> 00:39:44,743
But I'm gonna tell you, if the
last time you've been revived and

992
00:39:44,759 --> 00:39:48,527
your spirit was 1986, you
might need a new sense of revival

993
00:39:48,591 --> 00:39:49,355
this morning.

994
00:39:49,975 --> 00:39:51,735
You see, I was repentant.

995
00:39:51,855 --> 00:39:53,319
I was sorry that I got caught.

996
00:39:53,407 --> 00:39:56,355
I told everyone that I was
sorry, and I let you know, okay,

997
00:39:56,775 --> 00:39:59,835
remember, sorrow is not repentance.

998
00:40:00,415 --> 00:40:02,311
I hope that you're sorrowful
for your sin.

999
00:40:02,423 --> 00:40:04,995
Biblically speaking, we should
be sorrowful for our sin.

1000
00:40:05,775 --> 00:40:07,599
But the true test is, what
have I done next?

1001
00:40:07,647 --> 00:40:09,635
What's the next step after my sorrow?

1002
00:40:10,085 --> 00:40:16,197
Is it godly sorrow that works
repentance, or is it worldly sorrow

1003
00:40:16,221 --> 00:40:18,585
that leads me back to that
same destructive path?

1004
00:40:19,245 --> 00:40:20,597
These are tough topics.

1005
00:40:20,741 --> 00:40:21,301
Okay?

1006
00:40:21,413 --> 00:40:23,261
When I was going through
Second Corinthians, I'm like, oh,

1007
00:40:23,293 --> 00:40:24,653
great, we're gonna preach
about repentance.

1008
00:40:24,709 --> 00:40:28,197
No one loves to be preached at
about repentance, but we have to

1009
00:40:28,221 --> 00:40:29,413
preach about it, right?

1010
00:40:29,589 --> 00:40:30,813
We have to preach about it.

1011
00:40:30,869 --> 00:40:32,945
And so the idea here this
morning is this.

1012
00:40:33,765 --> 00:40:39,539
Have you in your life realized
the necessity of repentance in every

1013
00:40:39,627 --> 00:40:40,915
spiritual element of your life?

1014
00:40:40,955 --> 00:40:43,963
So for salvation, you realize,
I think all of us could realize that

1015
00:40:43,979 --> 00:40:46,095
there is a need to repentance
to come to Christ.

1016
00:40:47,035 --> 00:40:50,267
But how many of us in that
sanctification process, remember,

1017
00:40:50,331 --> 00:40:51,787
that's the spiritual growth process?

1018
00:40:51,891 --> 00:40:55,123
How many of us realize the
necessity of repentance in that process

1019
00:40:55,179 --> 00:40:55,891
as well?

1020
00:40:56,043 --> 00:40:58,235
How many of us have realized,
hey, I need to get back on the right

1021
00:40:58,275 --> 00:40:58,859
track.

1022
00:40:59,027 --> 00:41:00,363
How many of us have realized,
you know what?

1023
00:41:00,379 --> 00:41:02,571
I need to get back into my
scripture reading, because sometimes

1024
00:41:02,603 --> 00:41:05,099
it's repentant for things that
we're doing.

1025
00:41:05,267 --> 00:41:08,779
There's sins of commission,
meaning I've done this wrong.

1026
00:41:08,827 --> 00:41:09,995
I need to stop doing that.

1027
00:41:10,035 --> 00:41:13,163
But we haven't really planted
a lot on this morning about the sins

1028
00:41:13,219 --> 00:41:14,371
of omission.

1029
00:41:14,563 --> 00:41:15,935
You know what I mean by that?

1030
00:41:16,235 --> 00:41:20,095
Sins that mean that I'm not
doing what I should be doing.

1031
00:41:21,355 --> 00:41:23,107
Sometimes that's the tougher one.

1032
00:41:23,291 --> 00:41:25,787
Sometimes I need to be doing
something in my life, but I haven't

1033
00:41:25,811 --> 00:41:26,211
been doing that.

1034
00:41:26,243 --> 00:41:29,579
Maybe I need to repent about
that maybe I need to turn away from

1035
00:41:29,627 --> 00:41:31,059
my apathy.

1036
00:41:31,147 --> 00:41:34,595
Maybe I need to turn away from
my carelessness in my family.

1037
00:41:34,675 --> 00:41:36,411
You know, transparency.

1038
00:41:36,483 --> 00:41:37,811
I'll tell you the truth here.

1039
00:41:37,923 --> 00:41:42,379
There have been times in my
life as a father that I've had to

1040
00:41:42,467 --> 00:41:46,107
repent from not caring enough
about my children to lead them in

1041
00:41:46,131 --> 00:41:47,331
a godly manner.

1042
00:41:47,523 --> 00:41:48,331
You say what?

1043
00:41:48,403 --> 00:41:48,955
A pastor?

1044
00:41:48,995 --> 00:41:49,355
Yeah.

1045
00:41:49,435 --> 00:41:50,275
Cause guess what?

1046
00:41:50,315 --> 00:41:51,495
Pastors get busy.

1047
00:41:51,795 --> 00:41:55,059
Pastors have, believe it or
not, we don't just work on Sunday

1048
00:41:55,107 --> 00:41:56,295
mornings for one hour.

1049
00:41:56,765 --> 00:41:57,309
Okay.

1050
00:41:57,397 --> 00:41:58,705
Or hour and a half.

1051
00:41:59,445 --> 00:42:02,597
So there's sometimes there
have been long days in my life, long

1052
00:42:02,661 --> 00:42:05,637
workdays that I come home and
my kids are there and I go, you know

1053
00:42:05,661 --> 00:42:05,845
what?

1054
00:42:05,885 --> 00:42:08,581
It'd be a lot easier for me to
say, hey you guys, it's an early

1055
00:42:08,613 --> 00:42:09,701
night to go to bed, go to bed.

1056
00:42:09,733 --> 00:42:11,465
My dad just needs to relax.

1057
00:42:12,245 --> 00:42:17,061
I have to confess that before
God and say, lord, I have failed

1058
00:42:17,093 --> 00:42:22,365
in that I need to be actively
pursuing my role as a father within

1059
00:42:22,405 --> 00:42:23,189
these children's lives.

1060
00:42:23,237 --> 00:42:27,883
And so I need to repent from
my lack of action.

1061
00:42:28,059 --> 00:42:30,835
And so some of us, it's like,
hey, I need to repent from my actions.

1062
00:42:30,875 --> 00:42:32,003
My actions are bad.

1063
00:42:32,099 --> 00:42:33,027
And we can do that.

1064
00:42:33,091 --> 00:42:35,315
But there's also times in our
life where we need to repent from

1065
00:42:35,355 --> 00:42:39,723
those non active moments where
we should be doing something for

1066
00:42:39,739 --> 00:42:40,635
the cause of the gospel.

1067
00:42:40,715 --> 00:42:44,067
How many of us haven't shared
our faith with anybody for decades?

1068
00:42:44,251 --> 00:42:47,051
I'm going to tell you folks,
we need revival to see that, hey,

1069
00:42:47,083 --> 00:42:48,691
we need to start sharing our faith.

1070
00:42:48,843 --> 00:42:51,175
We need to start telling
people about Jesus Christ.

1071
00:42:51,505 --> 00:42:55,545
And so just as much as this is
turning away from an action, it might

1072
00:42:55,585 --> 00:42:59,793
be turning to an action away
from inactivity when it comes to

1073
00:42:59,809 --> 00:43:00,473
our life.

1074
00:43:00,609 --> 00:43:02,641
And so the challenge is out
there, here this morning, Number

1075
00:43:02,673 --> 00:43:06,257
one, have you come to a place
in your life in repentance that you

1076
00:43:06,281 --> 00:43:06,845
need?

1077
00:43:07,225 --> 00:43:10,161
That you realize that you need
Jesus for your Savior, that you need

1078
00:43:10,193 --> 00:43:11,185
Jesus for your forgiveness.

1079
00:43:11,225 --> 00:43:12,657
You can't earn it yourself.

1080
00:43:12,841 --> 00:43:14,441
You can't be good enough.

1081
00:43:14,593 --> 00:43:17,321
You know, folks, Jesus came
and died on a cross because we were

1082
00:43:17,353 --> 00:43:18,083
not good enough.

1083
00:43:18,209 --> 00:43:21,591
Jesus came and died on a cross
so that he could pay the price that

1084
00:43:21,623 --> 00:43:22,935
none of us could pay.

1085
00:43:23,095 --> 00:43:26,903
And we must be in a place of
repentance to realize that we have

1086
00:43:26,919 --> 00:43:29,975
to turn away from our own
works and turn to Christ for our

1087
00:43:30,015 --> 00:43:30,631
salvation.

1088
00:43:30,743 --> 00:43:33,311
That's the first step of
repentance for a Christian's life.

1089
00:43:33,463 --> 00:43:36,359
But secondarily, how many of
us have said, I've trusted in that.

1090
00:43:36,447 --> 00:43:39,895
But over time I've allowed
myself to drift away from the truth.

1091
00:43:39,935 --> 00:43:41,535
And I live a life of just.

1092
00:43:41,655 --> 00:43:42,279
You know what?

1093
00:43:42,327 --> 00:43:44,279
I'm satisfied with what I have
in my flesh.

1094
00:43:44,327 --> 00:43:46,055
I'm satisfied with what I have
in this world.

1095
00:43:46,095 --> 00:43:49,037
Folks, it might be time where
we get dissatisfied with the things

1096
00:43:49,061 --> 00:43:52,109
of this world and get more
satisfied with the things of God.

1097
00:43:52,237 --> 00:43:54,705
I encourage you to think about
that here this morning.

1098
00:43:55,045 --> 00:43:55,901
This is tough.

1099
00:43:55,973 --> 00:43:59,509
And I will tell you this this
morning, as I am preaching to you,

1100
00:43:59,597 --> 00:44:01,065
I am preaching to myself.

1101
00:44:02,285 --> 00:44:04,853
Lest you think that Pastor
Josh is up here saying, hey, I've

1102
00:44:04,869 --> 00:44:05,525
got it, all right?

1103
00:44:05,565 --> 00:44:08,397
And you guys need to repent,
folks, we all need to get back to

1104
00:44:08,421 --> 00:44:11,947
that place of repentance in
our life, brokenness before God.

1105
00:44:12,101 --> 00:44:13,435
Lord, I need you.

1106
00:44:14,415 --> 00:44:16,235
Every hour, I need you.

1107
00:44:16,775 --> 00:44:19,039
And let's amend that song.

1108
00:44:19,207 --> 00:44:20,463
Every minute, I need you.

1109
00:44:20,519 --> 00:44:21,767
Every second, I need you.

1110
00:44:21,871 --> 00:44:23,455
Folks, we need Jesus in our life.

1111
00:44:23,495 --> 00:44:24,527
We need to see that.

1112
00:44:24,631 --> 00:44:27,519
And when we see that need,
when we come to that place of thanksgiving,

1113
00:44:27,607 --> 00:44:30,471
like Christina sang about this
morning, when we think about what

1114
00:44:30,503 --> 00:44:32,991
Jesus Christ has done for us,
and that brings us a spirit of thanksgiving,

1115
00:44:33,023 --> 00:44:35,823
that also should bring us a
spirit of a contrite heart, of a

1116
00:44:35,839 --> 00:44:37,207
broken heart before God.

1117
00:44:37,351 --> 00:44:38,473
Lord, I need you.

1118
00:44:38,599 --> 00:44:41,277
I don't deserve what you've
given me, so I give it all over to

1119
00:44:41,301 --> 00:44:41,865
you.

1120
00:44:42,165 --> 00:44:44,573
So this morning, if that's
something that's been speaking to

1121
00:44:44,589 --> 00:44:46,725
you, we're going to have a
time of reflection.

1122
00:44:46,765 --> 00:44:48,221
We're going to have a time of invitation.

1123
00:44:48,333 --> 00:44:50,517
I'm going to ask everyone if
you're able to stand with me.

1124
00:44:50,581 --> 00:44:52,805
Every head bowed, every eye
closed, no one looking around.

1125
00:44:52,925 --> 00:44:54,861
As the music plays this
morning, you have an opportunity

1126
00:44:54,893 --> 00:44:55,785
to respond.

1127
00:44:56,765 --> 00:45:01,909
Respond in repentance, respond
in conviction, respond in humility.

1128
00:45:01,997 --> 00:45:03,705
Respond in your brokenness.

1129
00:45:04,335 --> 00:45:06,767
You don't have to get it all
clean and get it all right to come

1130
00:45:06,791 --> 00:45:07,415
before God.

1131
00:45:07,495 --> 00:45:10,527
He wants you in your
brokenness so he can mend you, so

1132
00:45:10,551 --> 00:45:13,351
he can restore you, so that he
can revive you.

1133
00:45:13,383 --> 00:45:15,439
How many of us want revival in
our church?

1134
00:45:15,527 --> 00:45:17,663
How many of us want revival in
our families?

1135
00:45:17,759 --> 00:45:20,919
How many want us have revival
in our own lives?

1136
00:45:21,007 --> 00:45:24,527
Hey, today is the day you say,
lord, that's a change in my heart.

1137
00:45:24,631 --> 00:45:26,351
That's a change in my life.

1138
00:45:26,463 --> 00:45:30,521
Before I look for anybody
else, I need to look to you here

1139
00:45:30,553 --> 00:45:30,865
this morning.

1140
00:45:30,905 --> 00:45:32,001
Some have already come.

1141
00:45:32,113 --> 00:45:37,137
If you need to come forward
and recommit your life to that repentant

1142
00:45:37,201 --> 00:45:40,045
spirit, hey, come give that to
him this morning.

1143
00:45:40,545 --> 00:45:42,969
If you need Jesus as your
personal savior, we're going to be

1144
00:45:42,977 --> 00:45:45,393
up here we can show you in the
Word of God what it means to come

1145
00:45:45,409 --> 00:45:47,609
to him in repentance and trust
in him in faith.

1146
00:45:47,697 --> 00:45:49,537
But folks, if you're a
believer this morning, but you need

1147
00:45:49,561 --> 00:45:50,617
to commit to Him.

1148
00:45:50,721 --> 00:45:52,217
Hey, come for this morning.

1149
00:45:52,361 --> 00:45:55,625
First John, Chapter one, Verse
nine if we confess our sins, confess

1150
00:45:55,665 --> 00:45:58,423
just means to agree with him
about what our sin is.

1151
00:45:58,519 --> 00:46:01,567
If we confess our sin, he's
faithful and just to forgive us our

1152
00:46:01,591 --> 00:46:03,671
sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1153
00:46:03,743 --> 00:46:06,287
Lord, I pray that you be with
us in this time of invitation, work

1154
00:46:06,311 --> 00:46:07,207
in hearts and lives.

1155
00:46:07,311 --> 00:46:12,071
Pray that you can lead us in
the truth, lead us in that conviction,

1156
00:46:12,143 --> 00:46:14,135
lead us in that change in
Jesus name.

1157
00:46:14,175 --> 00:46:14,407
Amen.

1158
00:46:14,431 --> 00:46:16,727
As the music plays, some have
already come Follow as the Lord leads

1159
00:46:16,751 --> 00:46:17,595
here this morning.

1160
00:46:18,135 --> 00:46:20,695
Thank you again for listening
to the Middletown Baptist Church

1161
00:46:20,735 --> 00:46:21,503
Podcast.

1162
00:46:21,679 --> 00:46:24,195
I hope that this sermon has
been a blessing for you.

1163
00:46:24,665 --> 00:46:25,945
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1164
00:46:25,985 --> 00:46:28,361
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1165
00:46:28,393 --> 00:46:33,485
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1166
00:46:33,945 --> 00:46:38,409
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1167
00:46:38,457 --> 00:46:41,177
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1168
00:46:41,321 --> 00:46:45,965
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1169
00:46:46,345 --> 00:46:47,409
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1170
00:46:47,537 --> 00:46:48,393
God Bless.

1171
00:46:48,529 --> 00:46:49,545
Have a wonderful day.