The Gospel Of Repentance

This past Sunday April 16th I heard a sermon where the Pastor felt the need to apologize to unbelievers who may have been sitting in the congregation and those who may have been watching online. He did this because of the hypocrisy of Christians toward them - the unsaved. He said many unbelievers will not attend church due to Christians two-faced lifestyle. While I have to admit that many “Christians” live hypocritically, it is unfair to write a blank check and label all Christians hypocrites. A lot of us are living holy and faithful (never perfect) lives before God and man.  I want to analyze some reasons why unbelievers do not attend church. True worship and Bible teaching will convict them ·         The last thing a sinful person wants is to feel bad about the life they’re living. Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil (John 3:19).  A person that is hostile toward God and His children is unwilling to sit still long enough to hear the word of God, ha

A lament of the bankrupt soul Breathe on me now Lord please renew my soul Like you rose Lazarus from the grave Display your power on me afresh for my inner man is a corpse Dead man walking due to countless sins  I see but I’m blind, I hear but I’m deaf Quicken me now give me a new heart for the one that beats now is calcified  Compel me to seek your way to delight in your laws Shower me with your grace Can these bones live oh Lord you know Naturally living yet spiritually dead  My depravity is perfect as the Canaanite of old Be pleased to save a wretch like me Can these bones live the wind of your Spirit must hasten  My transgressions necessitate your power  For I was in born in sin shapen in iniquity I’m stillborn in spirit All things are possible with the great I AM You produce mighty works in me My being is alive I’m among the elect What you’ve begun you’ll complete in me They laugh at my affliction hopeless to save they say  A fool petitions a God he can’t see  

         Careless of that which is not your own Frivolous spender of the Master’s charity Foolhardy you are sands of time falling swiftly Expiration is near will you return to sender Realize your time here is on loan Will you use it prudently or cast lots with idols The Almighty is watching do you value His trust in you  Did He waste His time on you What will you do with my Lord's house money

 The Gap Theory is the idea that between Genesis 1:1-2 there was a gap in time - some believe millions or perhaps billions of years. The reason for this idea is because of one word, the word “and." The verses read, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And verse two, and the earth was without form and void and darkness covered the face the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Tragically a false theology has been built on the one-word  and.  Proponents of the gap theory or gappists some call them, also have said that between these verses a cataclysm happened, a flood, Lucifer's flood as a result of him being kicked out of heaven. It is also believed this is when the dinosaurs died which resulted in all the fossils. This of course is impossible because if that were true, then you have death before sin entered into the world. Bible clearly teaches death is a result of sin (Romans 5:12).Also, why would God call what He created v

  The reason I ask the question is because of Revelation 1:12-15. It reads, “Then I (the apostle John) turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; and in the middle of the lampstands, I saw one like the Son of Man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash. His head and His hair were white like wool , like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire. His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, an d His voice the sound of many waters." ” A similar description appears in the book of Daniel 10:4-6, “On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was on the bank of the great river Hiddekel (which is the Tigris), I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a certain man dressed in linen, whose loins were girded with a belt of pure gold of Uphaz. His body was also beryl [i] , his face had the appearance of lighting, his eyes were like flami

I would imagine to most of the known world to be anti-Semitic means one has hatred or is racist toward Jews. The word/phrase anti-Semitic does not appear In the Bible. Reportedly it is an invented word that came into the English language around 1879 by a man named Wilhelm Marr (1819-1904). [i] Wilhelm was convinced Jews were a threat In Germany and had to be eliminated during his time. Jews were considered inferior. He wrote an essay entitled: “Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums uber das Judenthum.  (“The Way to Victory of Germanicism over  Judaism ” )   The Anti-Semitism phrase caught on as new word phrases often do and it has been used to express hostility and or hatred toward Jews ever since.   Let us go back in history to see where the word comes from.   The prefix anti means against. The word Semite is a derivative of the Biblical name Shem. Shem was one of the Sons of Noah. These are the descendants of Shem:   And children were born also to Shem, the father of

  “ His divine power has given us everything we need for godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us great and precious promises, so that through them you may be partakers in the divine nature , having escaped the corruption in the world by evil desires.”                                                                                                                                                           - 2 Peter 1:3-4 I pondered this verse wondering what it means. Can we as sinful humans be partakers of God’s holy nature? Seems impossible. One commentator said that regarding our partaking is “that we do not become God, but we possess the righteousness that comes from God and share fellowship with the Godhead.”              It is true. We who are in Christ are partakers of God’s nature because we are born again. It is the only way we can be accepted as children of God. Without God’s Holy Spirit we are dead hu