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Like No Other || True Repentance || January 12, 2025
- TRUE REPENTANCE REFLECTS ON SIN
- Sin has created valleys
- Sin has made paths crooked and unleveled
- Sin has created high points that need to be made low
- Sin has made places rough
- TRUE REPENTANCE KNOWS WRATH IS COMING
- There is and will be divine wrath - Judgement
- WHO TOLD YOU TO FLEE THE WRATH TO COME?
- There will be a hell
- There will be fire and burning
- Malachi 4:1
- EVEN NOW, the axe is laid to the ROOT of the trees.
- TRUE REPENTANCE REJECTS RELIGION
- They had been trying to stay faithful to the law
- Baptism will not save or rescue you
- Saying your prayers will not rescue you
- Attending worship will not rescue you.
- TRUE REPENTANCE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT WHO YOUR FAMILY IS
- It doesn’t matter who or where you come from.
- It doesn’t matter that your family was a believing family
- TRUE REPENTANCE BRINGS TRANSFORMATION
- Let’s see the Fruit
- Luke 3:8
- Luke 3:9
- This was common among the Israelites
- God consistently called His people back to Himself with the expectation there would be a change in how they lived.
- Mal 3:6-7
- God would say all the time, return to me and I will be your God and you will be my people.
- The returning is turning back to Him. THIS IS REPENTANCE.
- Eze. 36:25-27
- TRUE REPENTANCE IS FOUND IN SALVATION IN JESUS
- Luke 3:16-17
- John is making it clear that his message is to repent - to turn from the things of the world and to turn to the King, turn to Jesus - the One who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire.
- FIRE:
- Purifying Fire
- Mal 3:1-4
- Final, ultimate Judgement
- Mal 4:1
- Mal 4:5-6
Reflection/Application Questions:
- What does repentance look like in your daily life?
- Are there areas in your life where you need to "prepare the way for the Lord"?
- How can you ensure your faith bears fruit that reflects true repentance?
- What does that look like in your life?
- What obstacles might prevent you from fully turning your heart to God?
- How can you reflect the righteousness of God in your relationships and decisions?
- What steps can you take to rely more on the Holy Spirit in your daily walk?
- How does knowing you are part of God’s redemptive plan encourage you?
- What is one action you can take this week to prepare your heart for Christ’s continued work in your life?
Time of Response
Take a few minutes of silence. Allow your own thoughts to quiet and be still. Where does the Holy Spirit want you to decrease so that Christ could increase in your life? What part of your life, if reduced, would make more room for you to thrive spiritually?
QUESTIONS TO ASK WHILE READING SCRIPTURE
What does this reveal about God?
What does this reveal about you in relation to God?
What do you need to do about it?
The Covenant Prayer from John Wesley's Covenant Service, 1780 (adapted)
I am no longer my own,
but Yours.
Put me to what you will,
rank me with whom you will.
Put me to doing,
put me to suffering.
Let me be employed for You or laid aside for You,
exalted for You or brought low for You.
Let me be full,
let me be empty.
Let me have all things,
let me have nothing.
I freely and heartily yield all things
to Your pleasure and disposal.
And now, O glorious and blessed God,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
You are mine,
and I am Yours.
So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth,
let it be ratified in heaven.
Amen.
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How Can I Be Intentional When Reading Scripture?
One Method To Use When Reading Scripture:
The S.O.A.P.S. Method
S.cripture: Write down the Bible passage you will be studying.
O.bservations: Examine the text and write down what you notice and see. Start with the obvious and move to the deeper.
A.pplication: Apply God’s Word to your life in a practical way. What is God saying about Himself, about you and about what He is calling you to?
P.rayer: Respond to God’s Word with your own words.
S.hare: Commit to share what God is showing you with someone else.
- Inductive Bible Study:
- Observation (what does the passage say?)
- What is happening in the passage?
- Who is involved in the passage?
- What happened before and after the passage.
- Where are they located and how is that influencing the passage.
- Interpretation (what does it mean?)
- What is the passage saying considering everything I have observed and what I know from the rest of Scripture
- What does the scripture say within context of the entirety of Scripture?
- Application (how does it apply to my life?)
- What does the passage say about God?
- What does the passage say about me and to me?
- What am I being called to DO because of the passage of Scripture?
How do I talk with God?
WAYS TO PRAY
One Way to talk with God is to:
Pause.
Rejoice.
Ask.
Yield.
ANOTHER OPTION
Adoration
Confession
Thanksgiving
Supplication: Requests
