The preacher can demand in his preaching that the sinner REPENT. Nay, the preacher MUST demand ALL to REPENT (Acts 17). Men MUST REPENT in order to get prepared for God coming to 'em in salvation. Repentance is making the high hills of pride, low; the crooked ways of iniquity, straight; and to bring the low ways of lawlessness, up in order that Jesus Christ may walk in to you and dwell within you. Repentance is a total upheaval in your life, a complete severing of the wicked root of YOU and the chopping down of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which brings forth wicked fruit in YOU. Repentance is Preparation to Receive Jesus Christ. Repentance is the Holy Ghost walking you down the hallways of unctionized conviction and IF and when you get to the end, the Holy Spirit will introduce you to Christ Jesus. Do you believe this??? Then get to your knees and cry tears of repentance, seek the Lord until you bring forth fruits meet with repentance. Oh, for normal Christian societies of this sort and not the catching monkeys sort.
This earth has been visited by God, and the world killed Him. God is coming again to completely overthrow unrighteousness and all the unrighteous in it! Until He comes again, you have time to REPENT and lay down your arms of rebellion (the military calls it 'stacking arms') and make the pleasing of Him the ultimate and single aim of your life.
The scandal of the Cross is that you and i must accept His terms or die in a bitter, awful hell. It will serve you NO good to send you to hell, but it will satisfy God's just wrath that rests upon you.
IS there One sin left in you- like a boil coming to a head - that One sin you will not give up (rebellion)? Man is willing to be cleansed of all sin but one; he wants to be forgiven of all sins but one pet sin. Jesus Christ won't save you with a stand or strand of rebellion left in you or one sin you are unwilling to yield up. Christ Jesus the Lord demands you to drop your rebellion, throw down your weapons of enmity against God - its got to go! You have not 'accepted' Jesus, you have not received Jesus Christ as Lord, until you let Him raze that last citadel of rebellion in your life, that place you run to for security and safety and to hide from the face of God. You've got to come out and surrender, sinner! Christ has to conquer all of you. Christ the Lord will have all of you or NONE at all.
Judgment waits a little while. Mercy. Mercy is yours if you want it. But it's mercy for Guilty Sinners. If you'll take your place as a guilty sinner, God will show mercy to you.
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This earth has been visited by God, and the world killed Him. God is coming again to completely overthrow unrighteousness and all the unrighteous in it! Until He comes again, you have time to REPENT and lay down your arms of rebellion (the military calls it 'stacking arms') and make the pleasing of Him the ultimate and single aim of your life.
The scandal of the Cross is that you and i must accept His terms or die in a bitter, awful hell. It will serve you NO good to send you to hell, but it will satisfy God's just wrath that rests upon you.
IS there One sin left in you- like a boil coming to a head - that One sin you will not give up (rebellion)? Man is willing to be cleansed of all sin but one; he wants to be forgiven of all sins but one pet sin. Jesus Christ won't save you with a stand or strand of rebellion left in you or one sin you are unwilling to yield up. Christ Jesus the Lord demands you to drop your rebellion, throw down your weapons of enmity against God - its got to go! You have not 'accepted' Jesus, you have not received Jesus Christ as Lord, until you let Him raze that last citadel of rebellion in your life, that place you run to for security and safety and to hide from the face of God. You've got to come out and surrender, sinner! Christ has to conquer all of you. Christ the Lord will have all of you or NONE at all.
Judgment waits a little while. Mercy. Mercy is yours if you want it. But it's mercy for Guilty Sinners. If you'll take your place as a guilty sinner, God will show mercy to you.
Read catching monkeys