Living Hope Fellowship Church

SIGNS OF REPENTANCE

Training Material

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

SIGNS OF REPENTANCE

Preface

(changing, overcoming the flesh & the devil)

          Romans 6:14 says, “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”  Sin will not have dominion over you if your flesh does not rule you, because that is the devil’s sphere of operations!  We get tripped by our thought life or by fleshly, carnal, natural living.  The Bible says in James 1:14, “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”

          However, Proverbs 16:6 says, “By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.”

          2 Corinthians, Chapter 7, lists some signs of repentance.  God lets us know what He expects from us.  That way we can learn to walk perfectly before Him!          

SIGNS OF REPENTANCE

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

          In order for God to move in our lives, there has to be a change.  He is limited in moving in us the way we are now, so there has to be repentance.  I’m not talking about getting saved again and again.  Some call it sanctification, but it is turning completely around to God.  As you turn completely around toward God, you turn your back completely on the world!  How is it that you would turn to God, and still have your eyes on the world?  You could get a broken neck!  You become inefficient, and you stumble and fall. 

          Romans 6:1-2 says, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”  It is talking about that open grave (rut) that you get in. 

          A Christian has to be dead to sin and alive to God.  Verse 14 says, “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”  Sin doesn’t have dominion over you - it isn’t in your life at all.  The Old Testament law couldn’t help us insomuch that it was dependent on the works of flesh. 

          Verse 15-16 says, “What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”

          Can the members of a Christian be used for the devil?  They certainly can, especially the tongue.  Romans 8:7 says, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”

          When we got saved, we did not lose our minds, although we may have been accused of it!  God wants us to overcome, and He gives us the power to do it.  He draws us closer to Him, and this is part of the repentance factor.  It is the turning away of our own opinions, prejudices, and plans.  It is literally forsaking them.  It is the turning away of our own partiality.  We are partial to family, but Jesus said in Luke 14:26, “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”

          Many people think that is a terrible thing for Jesus to say, but the priority must be Jesus Christ!  If it is not, then you are already wrong, and little else will function correctly in your life.  You are going to be limited in your prayer life, because the Lord isn’t your priority.  This is a totally different mind set than the way we are naturally in this world.

            God forbids continuing to sin.  Repentance is the beginning act of translation when we are drawn by His Spirit.   He deals with us mightily, and we are broken before God.  It is the turning from one direction to a full about-face to God. 

          If we would die at the time we call upon the name of the Lord, heaven would be our home, but we generally live on for years.  From the time that we are born again to the end of our lives (or until Jesus comes back, which ever comes first), we must walk in the place where sin does not have dominion over us!

          Sin will not have dominion over you, if your carnal mind and flesh does not rule you, because that is the devil’s sphere of operations!           

          We get tripped up by our thought life or because of the activity of fleshly, carnal, natural living.  The Bible says in James 1:14, “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”

          Would you like to just close the door altogether where the devil couldn’t tempt you any more?  Is that possible?  Yes!  The Bible says every man is tempted - when?  When he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.  There has to be something there for the devil to work with!  However, Jesus said that He has given you power to overcome.  The devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, but his teeth will not sink into that which is of God!  It will only sink into carnality; it will only bite “flesh”- that which is “available” to him.

          If we have given no place to the devil (see Ephesians 4:27), then he has nothing in us (see John 14:30).  We must attain to this.  The Bible gives us a guarantee that sin shall not have dominion over us!  Habits, mentalities, and our ways of living must be broken down and destroyed.  Our way of thinking must be cast out, and our minds must line up with the Word of God.          

          He said that we could even be transformed, which is a picture of full blown repentance.  Romans 12:2 says, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

          When you are transformed, the devil has nothing to work with anymore!  Can you imagine the liberty?  Every day we face temptation, and we choose to go with God or the world.  What if we choose to go all the way with the Lord?  He said that He went to prepare us a place; it is the same place where He was walking (see John 14:3). 

          The Bible says in Hebrews 4:9-10, “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.”  This doesn’t mean dying and going to heaven.   

          Romans 6:14 says, “For sin shall not have dominion over you. . . .”  Repentance turns us away from sin.  We can continue to turn away from sin to where there is less and less that the devil can use in our lives. 

          The Bible says that the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.  Death works in us normally.  We are a body of death (see Romans 7:24).  Carnality and worldliness are against God.  Rebellion and stubbornness are against the Word of God.  To be argumentative is against God.  These things need to literally be killed off.  We do not have to sin.  Sin must not have dominion over us. 

          Repentance takes you from being lost and undone without hope to the place God has called you.  Can you imagine the glorious liberty of getting up in the morning and not having a battle?  Can you imagine the glorious liberty of running into a situation that could be total chaos, yet you remain as peaceful as a river? 

          It makes no difference what goes on around you, because your eyes are fixed on Him.  He is so much greater than your problems. 

          If you get your eyes off of Him and get them on the problem, you will be caught up in it, and your carnality will swallow you up.  Then your witness will be shot to pieces!  Your children, your spouse, and the people that you are witnessing to will say that you don’t have what you say you have! 

          The devil can operate and manipulate Christians who are not aware of his tricks.  Paul said in 2 Corinthians 2:11, “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

          The devil will try to get you focused on other things!  One of his tactics when we are trying to pray through is diverting our attention.  Some people have asked God to forgive them, but they haven’t fully prayed through.  Jesus said that you would know a tree by its fruit.  Inside the tree is the ability to bear fruit. 

          If a tree bears rotten fruit, evil is in the tree.  However, God can take the poison and worldliness out of your system!  He can take the worldliness out of you so you don’t bear rotten fruit.  He has ordained that you bear fruit and that your fruit would remain, not be cast down prematurely by a terrible witness or false thinking. 

          Divorce, sickness, and mental illness rates among Christians are nearly as high as they are in the world.  Something is wrong with this picture.  There is un-repented sin.  The Bible says in Numbers 32:23, “. . . be sure your sin will find you out.”

          A ten degree turn is not repentance.  Just keep turning, and turning until your back is away from where you used to be, and your eyes are set on the things of God!  The church is not in a full blown 180 degree turn, because a tree is known by its fruit!  Much of the fruit is rotten, and that means that there is un-repented sin, worldliness, laziness, and all the other things associated with carnality. 

          Repentance is the key that unlocks the door of bondage, sickness, disease, and confusion.  The Word of God is true, and when you read it you don’t have to pray whether it is so or not.  If you can’t get past that, you are not going to get into the Kingdom of God at all! 

          Isaiah 55:8-9 says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”  Let your mind be renewed, and be yielded to the Lord.

          There is confusion when people don’t fully repent.  They know to do good, and they don’t do it.  Then they are in a knot.  Some people aren’t hard of hearing; they are in rebellion.  1 Samuel 15:23 says, “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. . . .”

          You say you don’t worship idols, but are you stubborn?  You say you are not into witchcraft, but are you in rebellion?  It has the same judgment.

          Some people have one eye on Jesus, and one eye on their own plans.  You can get cross-eyed that way!  Some people are frustrated, disappointed, and angry.  They are distraught and in despair, because they haven’t repented.  It isn’t what is happening to them that is making them that way.  It is the fact that they haven’t repented.  They have set themselves up for a fall!

          When you put your hand on a hot stove, you are going to get burned.  If you don’t repent, you are going to have problems.  Yes, you repented when you got born again.  However, you may be just now discovering all the things that were the root problem of your sins in the past.  Those things are stuck between your ears, so get into God’s Word, and He will flush them out!  God wants to take away your capacity to live in the sewer you came out of.  He doesn’t want you to return to it! 

          Road rage is caused by the devil!  Ecclesiastes 7:9 says, “Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”  God calls a person who is perpetually angry a fool.  Those are hard words, but those are God’s words.  A fool shall not enter heaven.

          Something that shows a lack of repentance is the lack of shame.  The Bible talks about people who got to the place where they were not ashamed, neither could they blush.  Jeremiah 6:15 says, “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.”

          I have preached to some people who looked right over the top of me.  I have counseled people who looked past me while I was talking to them.  You can’t get to them, because they aren’t listening.  They look around you, above you, or under you, but they won’t look at you. 

          We must repent and turn from our wicked ways.  Some people say that this is not the message for the church, but for the sinner.  Church people are supposed to be born again, but they do sin!

          Repentance does not happen just at the point of being born again.  It happens continuously.  It is a turning away from the ways of your past.  It is a looking unto Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of your faith.  That is how you walk as a Christian.  If you are sitting still you are backsliding, and you will produce fruit thereof!

          When a person sits still and has to wait, they may get irritable.  They want to know when something is going to move!  When is this revival going to come that Brother Kevin talks about?  My question is, When are you going to repent? 

          You have to repent or you can’t go.  You can’t go until you repent.  Do we continue in sin that grace may abound?  God forbid.  Some church folks think that they have some kind of corner on the market where they can sin, and it is different from the sin of the world.  However, when a Christian sins, it is far worse abomination!  The world is just doing what they normally would do!

          A Christian in sin is a hypocrite!  What comes out of your mouth can defile you.  The tongue is a world of iniquity.  It is a telegrapher, a messenger, a demonstrator.  It manifests what is in your mind and heart.

          We should have a repentant heart that continues to turn, and turn, and turn until we do a full 180 degrees away from the things that we used to be!  Then we will be straight toward God.  Repentance is the power of God unto salvation!  If there is no repentance, there is no remission for sin.  If sin (little or big) has dominion over you, how can you go to heaven?

          People say that is awfully hard, because there are a few things they enjoy that they know aren’t exactly right!  Do you have to do it?  Why do you have to get the last word in?  Is it pride?  Why is it that you have to have cigarettes?  Why is it that you have to have a drink?  Why is it that you have to have these other things?  What is it that is missing in your life that Jesus cannot provide if you are truly born again?  What is lacking?

          I say we have not quite repented of something, and turned, and let God fill the void!  Jesus mentioned in two places in John 17 that his disciples were “not of the world” even as He was “not of the world”.  That is a sign of true a Christian; they aren’t worldly.  They don’t talk like the world or act like the world.  They are a supernatural people. They are a spiritual people, and the Spirit of God should be manifest. 

          What gives you boldness in the day of trouble?  A clean heart before God.  How far have you repented?  Mark 4:24 says, “. . . with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you. . . .”  The amount that you have turned away from the world is the amount of strength that you are going to have from the Lord.

          In 1 Corinthians 5:1 Paul brought out that there was a man who had his step-mother to wife.  Paul said that there was no such thing named even among the Gentiles.  In 1 Corinthians 5:13 he said to put away that wicked person!  If there is a possibility that he would pray through, so be it, but get that sin stopped!  This shows us a spiritual truth about all repentance. 

          2 Corinthians 7:9 says, “Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance. . . .”

          You can be sorry that you got caught, or you can be sorry you did it.  You can always tell if a child is going to do it again, after you have whipped him, by looking in their eyes.  If that rebellion is still there whip him again, because it isn’t out yet.  Proverbs 22:15 says, “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”

          Proverbs 19:18 says, “Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.” 

          Proverbs 23:14 says, “Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.”

          Sorrowing to repentance is being sorry that you did it, and you are humbly willing to make restitution for it.  There is judgment sometimes.  If you step out from under your witness in Christ Jesus, you are stepping out from under grace.  If you step out from under grace, you are stepping out into the hands of the law, and you are subject to penalty. 

          If you get caught speeding, shut up and pay up.  Trying to lie out of it is a stinking witness to the officer, to the judge, and anybody sitting in the vehicle with you!  Confess your wrong and ask God to forgive you. 

          God sees the sin between your ears and under your fifth rib. I’m talking about the mind and the heart.  The Word is a discerner.  God knows.  You may not pay now, but you will pay sooner or later.  I’m talking to Christians who are behaving like sinners.  The church is not in revival, because we don’t have the basics like this down. 

          2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

          Jesus had to cleanse the temple.  John 2:16 says, “And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.”  The people were coming in there to buy and sell, not to get redeemed!  The reason we come to the house of God is not to promote an image, or because we know it is expected of us. 

          We need to come to the house of God expecting to meet with God!  If you don’t feel God anymore, it could be that there is sin in your life you haven’t repented of!  You say, Well, there are some things that I just can’t quit doing!  You know me.  That is just the way I am.  You are wrong again!  If you can’t quit sinning, you have a bondage!  You say, I can’t quit.  You must get on your face, and fast and pray until God gives you power to lay it down!  It has to be important enough to you to seek the face of the Lord.  That is repentance. 

          2 Corinthians 7:9 says, “Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”

          If you ask God to forgive you, and you repent in a godly way, you won’t repeat it.  Salvation is not to be repented of.  In other words, you won’t backslide.  Do you have something that just keeps coming back, and you just can’t get victory over it?  God will give victory.

          Repentance is when you are sorry enough to QUIT!  You can quit if you will fast and pray until God breaks it out of you.  You don’t need patches or drugs.  You don’t need a shot, and you don’t need surgery.  You don’t even need counseling in some situations, because your mind is fixed.  You need to repent. 

          The sorrow of the world works death.  That is melancholy.  A lot of people go around and say, Oh, I’m no good; I’m no good.  I’ll just go eat a bucket of worms!  They wrestle with unworthiness.  God hates that just as bad as somebody that struts around in pride. 

          What happens if you don’t get your way?  Some people are full of spite!  The devil is spiteful, trying to get back at God by pulling souls down.  He tells them, You don’t have to repent. You don’t have to fool with all of that.  The world considers it amusing to be arrogant, proud, lewd, and blaspheming, but God isn’t laughing. 

          Jesus said in Matthew 7:22-23, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

          2 Corinthians 7:11 says, “. . . ye sorrowed after a godly sort. . . . ”  Whether a sinner, a Christian, or a backslider, there are certain characteristics that must be evident for full repentance!  2 Corinthians 7:11 continues, “. . . what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.”

          When you have truly repented, you are going to be careful not to do that sin again.  “Carefulness” means to be attentive and cautious to avoid mistakes.  Ahab, Jezebel’s husband, was vile and abominable, but when Elijah prophesied judgment to him, he fasted and walked “softly”.  However, he did not attain carefulness.  Carefulness causes you to be serious about sin.  If you are truly repentant, you don’t joke about your past bondage.  You become concerned about what really matters. 

          Another trait of true repentance is clearing of yourselves.  You clear your name; you clean up your witness.  The children of Israel, even when God killed thousands of them, continued to backslide.  They were used to complaining when they were in Egypt.  When God set them free and led them, they continued to complain!  God gets angry about it.  He hears your whispered complaints, and if you think it, and don’t bring it into captivity of Christ, God hears that too!

          Clear yourself of unholy things.  Now, I’m not talking about being “holier than thou”.  Destroy your affection for sin and remove your association with it.  When you get born again you don’t run with the same crowd, but do you fuss, and complain, and nag, and argue, and bicker, and gossip?  God exalts the humble, but He resists and fights the proud.  You can’t whip God.

          Another trait of being fully repentant is indignation.  Indignation is anger over something that is unjust or not right.  Have you ever been angry with yourself for what you just said or for the way you behaved?  If you really have indignation against what you have said or done, you will not excuse it later.  Don’t try to explain your way out of it.  Just say, I was wrong; please forgive me. 

          Shame is rarely seen among children or adults.  Someone who is genuinely ashamed may drop their head, their face may turn red, and tears may run.  They will say, “I am sorry.” 

          Many are unrepentant and unashamed of their sinful behavior.  Romans 3:18 says, “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

          If you are justifying yourself over sin, then you are not truly repentant.  Job said in Job 42:6, “Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

          To abhor means “to turn from in disgust”.  I have been in prayer and agony over the condition of the church and certain people’s lives, and I began to get disgusted.  I thought, Lord, I have not measured and made the mark, and got disgusted at myself.  When you repent of your failure to please God, you loathe the shortcoming.

          If murmuring is your way, you have to get to the place where you hate it and won’t tolerate it in yourself.  I find that some people murmur and complain, and they don’t like to be outdone!  Romans 12:21 says, “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

          When you get indignant with yourself, you will have more compassion for somebody else who is doing the same thing.  The fully repentant person is a fully charitable person.  When you aren’t tolerant of other people’s weaknesses it shows a sure fruit of the fact.  When your own weakness has been exposed, then you know what they are going through.  We have to turn from our own wicked ways.

          There is more power in repentance than there is in judgment!  James 2:13 says, “. . . mercy rejoiceth against judgment.”

          Godly sorrow also works the fear of God in you.  Proverbs 16:6 says, “By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.”

          I know what it is like for weeks on end to fight the planning of Satan to destroy someone.  It wasn’t the case of what to do with them, but how to go about it in a Christian fashion.  I know what it is like to stand toe to toe with the devil and tremble in my physical body, as well as in my soul.  I was resisting temptation so I would do what I knew was right.  One thing and one thing only stopped me; that was the fear of the Lord.

          Did you know that your houses are protected because of the fear of the Lord in the thief?  The enemies of the armies of David would tremble because of the fear of the Lord. 

          If you truly fear God you would repent and turn from your wicked ways.  I get scared about some of the things that cross my mind that the devil didn’t send; I thought them up.  However, I fear God, so I depart from evil!  You must repent of your plans to sin!

          Godly repentance wrought vehement desire.  You will find an example of that in James 5:16.  It says, “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”  He will instill a fire in you, and you will say, Oh, God, I have got to obey you!

          You are at the strongholds of hell, and it makes you pray harder.  Under pressure, the real you comes out.  We have a choice to take the matter into our own hands or say as Job did in Job 13:15, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. . . .”

          I know of a beautiful place in Colorado.  It is so quiet there; nobody bothers you.  I think about it from time to time, and then God wakes me up from my little dream world and asks me what I’m doing.  I answer, Well, lately I have had leaving on my mind.  However, when you have a “vehement desire” you want to see God, and you aren’t going to run.  You wait until God comes down and changes the situation!  God wants to purge you and get you tough! 

          Zeal shows true repentance.  John 2:17 says, “. . . The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.”  Jesus cleared out the temple.  Money changers were sitting there, and people were selling animals for sacrifices.  Today it is the same thing as people making merchandise in the house of God.  “Religion” is big business. 

          Ever so often Jesus would clear a crowd, and then He would preach to them.  He knew who was there to hear what He had to say! 

          If you are repentant you will have a zeal for righteousness, and holiness, and the presence of God in your life.  Zeal denotes the personality of Christ.  I think we have the mentality that Jesus was sober all the time, but sometimes He got emotional.  He got happy, but He also got angry.  The Bible says to be angry and sin not, but it was zeal that ate Him up. 

          It took zeal before miracles could occur.  Zeal is not being foolish and stupid.  Zeal is whenever you say, I don’t care what it costs!  I want what God wants in my life.  Then you throw out all of your old records, your playing cards, and anything that resembles sin in your past. 

          Acts 19:19 says, “Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.”  They didn’t sell them and give the money to the church.  They burned them at a loss to show their true repentance and zeal. 

          Sometimes people use zeal as a cloak of unrighteousness.  They need to repent.  Zeal can cause you to do some really strange things.  If you get crossways of the Word, God will chastise you, but He loves child-like faith.  Babies in Christ are precious to God.  Babies are pure, and they are innocent.  True repentance brings the kind of zeal where all you want is God.  It is so simple!

          One more trait that shows true repentance is revenge, but not like we usually think.  Revenge means an “opportunity for getting satisfaction”.  I will even extend that and say it means “getting satisfaction for a wrong done”.  Revenge is your opportunity to get satisfaction for a wrong done to you.                    

          I want to read another definition to you that the Lord told me to look up.  It said, “a method and a way in which to do something for a wrong done” or “an opportunity for satisfaction for a wrong done”.  This is identical with the definition of revenge.  That word is atonement. 

          Atonement is the opportunity, and the act of getting satisfaction for a wrong done; so is revenge.  Which way is God’s way?  2 Corinthians 7:11 says, “For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea . . . what revenge. . . .”

          If you are truly repentant it wrought revenge in you.  It doesn’t mean for you to get even with those who have hurt you or yours!   It is an opportunity to get back at the devil for what he has stolen from you.  Your enemy is not flesh and blood, even though you may think so.  Your enemy is the devil who is walking about seeking whom he may devour.

          People are influenced by the devil.  Some people get possessed by the devil, and maybe somebody that you deal with is that way, but your enemy is still the devil, not the person. 

          Matthew 16:19 says, “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

           Bind it on earth, God will bind it in heaven, and He will take all the wind out of their sails, and pretty soon they will be flat on their face.  They are either going to repent or die.

          Revenge and atonement have the same definition.  It is satisfaction for wrong done.  God said that vengeance is His!           Romans 12:19-21 says, “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.  Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

          I realize now how God gets revenge on the devil.  Instead of destroying man, he saves him, and the devil has to watch Him do it!  He even sent us the Holy Ghost, which the devil cannot understand.  God prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies.  God is not willing that any should perish if we will repent. 

          I have showed you some traits of true repentance.  If you do not repent, don’t expect any move of God in your life.  There is only so long that we can ride on grace.

          Jesus gave council, and He said to count the cost.  There is a price to pay.  How much do you value your children, real revival, a soul, and your own soul?  It is worth it all, isn’t it? 

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These condensed Bible studies have been published to help new Christians in their new walk with the Lord.  Kevin Badgley, the author, is the pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.

This is a Living Hope Fellowship publication.