"7 Acts of Repentance" PT. 1, Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr.

grab the Word of God turn to James chapter 4 James chapter 4 James 4 and I want to start I want to reverse it 7 through 10 I know it's been read once already Barbara and Dawson but for this crowd I need to read it maybe two or three more times verse 7 therefore submit to God resist the devil and he will flee from you draw near to God and He will draw near to you cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded lament and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He will lift you up amen I want to talk about seven acts of repentance somebody say seven acts of repentance look at your neighbor say you need to repent go ahead I don't know what from because I can look at your teen there's something you need to repent from now how many y'all would acknowledge it there's something in your life you need to repent from let's see it whose hands is down okay alright y'all could be seated thank the Lord I noticed when I mentioned the subject today they wasn't out there wasn't a whole lot of celebration about it if I if I ever have see it I'm gonna talk to you today about prosperity people to say whoo praise the Lord amen but the reality is the subject today is even more important in prosperity because repentance is one of those areas of life one of those areas in our Christian walk that is essential for you to experience the prosperity of God you have to have a lifestyle of repentance so matter of fact if you don't if you don't have a lifestyle of repentance repentance is one of those things that if you don't have a lifestyle of repentance it's impossible for God to bless you as a matter of fact here's what the the Bible says no good thing will God withhold from them who walk upright before him you do the right things before God and it postures you to be in the position for God's favor and power to rest in your life we live in the midst of a culture today where people want the blessings of God without repentance in their life we want to do what we want to do live the way we want to live make our own choices make our own decisions be our own boss and still expect God to shower us with his blessings but I hate to tell you then work that way amen I see what kind of message this is going to be for the rest of the day I thought I ought to talk about it because some people don't even know what repentance means repentance doesn't mean that you're sorry you got caught let me let that sink in right here that's not what we pictures me doesn't mean I'm sorry that I got caught repentance means that I realized that the way I have been walking the direction I've been going in I need to make an about-face repentance is a 180 degree turn not 360 a 180 is this way a 360 I'll be right back head is still in the same direction repentance means I make a 180 I get off the road I'm going in and get on a different Road I stopped hanging with the people I'm hanging within I hang with different people repentance means I stop and make a change and it is an important ingredient that God is calling for us to do our nation lacks repentance in fact we brag on our sin boast about it we make our sin legal we legalize it we promote it we run on a platform about it amen I can see I have to encourage myself faster it's troubling to me that our nation is now rapidly month after month and year after years on the fast track to do it seem like we're trying to do as much as we can against the Word of God as fast as we can y'all too slow stop too slow y'all just too slow we're about to legalize some states have already legalized marijuana weed what else y'all call it are the other names for it yeah what loud drone Yanni Crawford gospel singer come and tell me where all of the names of them are winner of Sunday's best here she is right here give us loud Lau Lau L oh you did oh you did draw draw DRO I don't know how to spell it okay um Gunja done jure Gunja Gunja it's some kind of creepy creepy uh-huh fighter spider I don't know and you got all the flavors and everything all lined up here Wow Wow hmm thank you for the courage to share with us the scope of your knowledge I'm proud of you and what here's what's amazing to me is we haven't learned the tragedy of what has happened to our nation when we legalized alcohol that millions of people have been killed or affected by drunk drivers amen people have gotten marriages people have gotten addicted on alcohol to have addictions to alcohol there they they have it is ruin families marriages and lives so rather than us getting rid of it we are now expanding and now we're going to legalize another addictive substance now people want to get high and go out and drive I got are y'all listening to me do you some what lies are going to be killed summaries are going to be destroyed it's going to lead people down the path because marijuana is the introduction drug we haven't learned our lesson so repentance is not the order of the day for our country the order of the day and what is spreading across our country let me do what I want to do let me be what I want to be let me let me live the life the way I want to live it it's my choice the problem is we claim to be a Christian nation and yet it's the Christian politicians I'm making it okay to do let me thank all 17 year old for that rousing amen I wanted to talk about it I felt the compelled of God to dialogue about this and to talk about it because if we're going to claim to be Christians and children of the Most High God there is a call from God for us to have two particular components in our life there's a lot of components in our life but when you read Hebrews chapter 6 I don't have time to turn it if you're taking notes write it down in Hebrews chapter 6 matter of fact it starts in chapter 5 the latter part of chapter 5 it says this that people are unable to make good choices because they've grown dull in their hearing he says by this time in life you ought to be mature enough and seasoned enough that you ought to be a teacher but instead you need somebody to teach you again then when he gets in in chapter 6 he says hee hee exit out of chapter 5 talking about that and in chapter 6 he says let's not have to keep on going back and relearning the elementary principles of the of the faith the elementary principles of living for God and he says in chapter 6 he says these are the six he mentioned six elementary things and the first two are faith and repentance in other words if you want to be a Christian you have to walk by faith and you have to walk with the level of repentance in your life you have to walk by believing God that's what faith means I believe God I'm trusting him to fight my battles I love the twelve o'clock service I can take my time and talk about it the way I want out I have to rush and here's what it says when I am a child of God and I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and I am living for him there's gonna be faith here's what that faith means it means that no matter what I am approached with in life no matter what comes down the pike to confront me I am gonna face it with faith knowing that I serve God who has the capacity and who will work it out faith and repentance listen to me repentance is the second component we got to live a life of repentance he says that faith and repentance and here's the deal about repentance God is calling us to live a life of repentance let's be clear repentance is not a one-time act it's not something you do one time in your life repentance is a life style right debt down it's a lifetime it's a lifestyle that you live for a lifetime that's what Christians do dude I discovered in my walk with God when you have a relationship with God God will consistently and regularly reveal to you areas of shortcomings in your life stuff that you need to bring correction to things that you need to change and that's what repentance means that God keeps showing me I discovered that the Holy Ghost here's how God speaks to me here's here how's he corrects me he corrects me through his word I've been reading this word and I see something here that it's not like that my life is not lining up and so repentance means I gotta live my life up with what description teachers then God teaches me and challenges me through His Holy Spirit because see when you have a walk with God the Spirit of God lives in Saudi when you can say the Spirit of God comes and takes residency inside of you and when he lives inside of you when you're about to do something when you head it down the road that you shouldn't be going when you're about to do something you shouldn't do say something you have no business in or if you do those things something inside you saying uh-uh oh you're there y'all go acting like I don't know why I said this it is a it's a Spirit of God whose sin don't take that call don't go to that event don't give that person your phone number don't go to that website why y'all acting like y'all don't know what I'm talking about how does any does anybody here ever have those experiences that okay I mean y'all so quiet I don't know if y'all say Amen together nobody know I'm talking about you but everybody here who has a walk with God ought to be able to identify that there's a something inside of you see before you got saved but before you got Jesus living inside of you in his Spirit living inside of you you do things that didn't bother you but now that you are saved and he's living inside of you the stuff you used to do you can freely do no more you can't walk down that road it's some insidey that makes the level of easiness a discomfort something that tells you shouldn't do that or you shouldn't be going there you should be having that conversation you shouldn't be talking to that person you don't need don't watch that television program change the channel the whole evil don't you him saying turn scandal off don't you him saying that to you y'all don't hear that do y'all say I didn't hear that past but no you drown it out you put you to the background cuz I don't care I'll reap it later God speaks to me through his word through the Holy Ghost and in my life I have a second Holy Ghost it's called my wife my wife is the second holy girl she knows how to point out my deficiencies in my shortcomings and I keep trying to tell her anybody other than me got a second Holy Ghost in their life did look at all the brothers all over in the camp got there he got both his hands up over the 8004 I keep telling my wife the Holy Ghost don't need your help I better leave that alone right now see the second Holy Ghost just looked at me and said you better shut it down you better shut it down he is the tragedy if you are a person of faith if you have a relationship with God if you walk with God he lives with you he pokes you he says do you leave that alone don't do that listen there's some people you need to get out of your life I don't need to tell you the old ho the Holy Ghost has already been telling you there's some habit some things you've been doing that you shouldn't be doing some desires that you've been pondering in your mind and heart that the Holy Ghost is saying don't go there leave that alone the call of God is for us to repent that's an important point because because some of us some people think that you don't have to repent you don't have to live a lifetime of repentance and here's the thing listen let me tell y'all something oh Lord I haven't said this all day but I feel the Holy Ghost said telling me to say this now the stuff you need to repent from see see you don't have to repent from the stuff that you don't want to do the roof the roof the roof is on fire no no it's the stuff that you want to do nobody hesitated to repent from the stuff that you ain't doing it's the stuff that you want to do it's the stuff that you like you are attracted to it you want it that's what you need to read you need to stay away from it that's what this term repentance means it's a lifestyle you need to turn away from it God's call to us is to repent why is that so important here's why follow me for just a second I promise I'll be through in just a few minutes but here's the thing here's why it's so important here's why it's critical it's kriticos these two components of faith and repentance go together in Hebrews chapter 6 the first two elementary things of the Christian faith are a Christian walk of faith repentance and here's what James says James is talking about faith in this book of James and here's what he said it's faith without works is dead what does that mean that means if you say you have faith but there's no works to back it up your faith is not a genuine faith if you say you believe in Jesus but you're living a raggedy life you really don't believe in Jesus that was tough when I was media I did that was tough some of y'all having a tough time swallowing that why because your life is not lining up with it you thought you're all you had to do is just believe but James says if you have faith but there's no works attached to it your faith is dead as a matter of fact we work here is histor deal here's how it works we don't work to get saved we're not serving to get saved we don't do right to get saved we serve and do right because we are saved Oh y'all missed a great spot that that's a get that that's a clear distinction there's a clear distinction between doing it to get something or doing it because of something I want to obey God that's why I live a repentant life I want to please God because I have a relationship with him if I didn't have a relationship and I was trying to get it that's what some people are trying to do they're trying to get a relationship with God they're trying to earn salvation you're trying to work their way to heaven you can't work your way to heaven you can't sing your way to heaven you can't serve your way to heaven you get saved first and when you are saved the evidence is the relationship you have with him you want to do right you want to please him you want to honor him because something inside of you won't let you do anything else I'm not listen don't get me wrong I'm not saying that we're perfect we are not perfect you don't get insane and all of a sudden you perfect y'all know that ain't nobody on your roast perfect look up and down your road then subject up people on your route okay don't look up a 9 year old just look right here you got a jacked up pastor I'm not perfect but I can say listen to this I haven't quite arrived I am not all that God wants me to be it does not yet appear what I'm going to be I haven't gotten there yet but I can say that I look back over my life and see that I'm not at the same place that I used to be whoo here's the problem if you're looking back over your life a year two year three years four years and you still got the same issues and the same stuff and doing the same behavior and doing the same scent and it's not bothering you and you're still making provisions for it and you enjoying it and you liking it and you want to keep doing it then you better re-examine whether or not you are truly saved whoop leaned over to a neighbor's tight by this right wow that's a tough message right here it's meaty it's rough it's rough it's rough but the reality is if you have a walk with God you ought to be growing and developing in your life look at your neighbor ask them are you developing and growing here's the deal listen it is I'm almost finished with my introduction if you saw a thought if you saw a thought you reap an act you think about it you do it if you sow an act you reap a habit you do it one time you do it again then you do it again then you do it again and before you know what you have a habit if you sow a habit you reap a lifestyle before you notice what you do all the time it's a part of who you are it's a part of your behavior and if you sow a lifestyle you reap a destiny what does that mean pasture here's what it means when you sow a lifestyle you determine your destiny here's what the scripture says in first write this down I don't have time to turn there but in first Corinthians chapter 6 verse 9 and 10 listed in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verses 9 and 10 are a list of behaviors a list of X that if this is your lifestyle if this is your behavior that's a part of your life the scripture says you will not inherit the kingdom of God I didn't write that I know some people like to take that verse out of the Bible but it's in there and it says that this is what you're doing and there's a whole slew of them and some of y'all matter of fact list hey this is a twelve o'clock service let's turn there read it real quick I ain't got to rush come if somebody got to go y'all just leave I'm going to take I'm going to take my time I ain't gonna fuss at you for leaving the Dave you got to go go ahead is your loss not mine a man I'm going to heaven right die can I read this to you I didn't write this shot this was here first Corinthians chapter 6 did I tell y'all that verses 9 and 10 do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God do not be deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor homosexuals nor sodomites verse 10 nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers that means partygoers iana nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God is that in your Bible do y'all see that there's a list of things that this is if this is your lifestyle but look at what look I got to talk about verse 11 while I'm here can I talk about 11 verse 11 and such were some of you but you were washed but you were sanctified but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God somebody ought to thank God that's the way you used to be that's where we were that's what our behavior used to be we did those things we're guilty of those things and we didn't feel good good we didn't feel bad about it but now that we are saved now that we got the Spirit of God living inside of us he will not let us keep living that way we have repented and some of you here today and these are still is still your life it's still the way you live and my summit is to tell you need to repent hallelujah okay let me go back to James you will not be able to stand before God and say that Pastor John Cage Incas did not tell you what you needed to do to get your life right with him James says in verse 7 he gives us seven acts of repentance seven ways to repent and in verse seven he says therefore submit to God you'll see that it starts off with the word therefore and therefore whenever you see therefore you have to ask yourself what therefore is there for it's a conjunction here's what it means what I'm about to say it's tied to what I just said and what he just said is in verse six that God gives more grace somebody read verse six but it gives more grace therefore he says God means just to proud but gives grace to the humble therefore submit to God since God gives grace here's what this means since God gives us grace that empowers us to be and do what we need to be and do therefore submit to God here's the first sign of a person who's repentant you is submission to God write that down point one submission to God a willingness to be submitted to God and the word submitted means to place yourself under to yield to to obey submission to God means he calls 2shot not me he tells me what to do I'm going to do what he does tells me to do you see we live in a country where can't nobody tell nobody anything can't nobody tell you nothing you do what you want to do you your own God you make your own choice see some of you nobody no pastor can tell you nothing your parents can't tell you nothing your boss can't tell you nothing the Bible can't tell you another God can't tell you know some of y'all can't even tell yourself nothing you your own boss and my assignments they tell you that if you live in your life where you have no authority and you're not submitted to God you are in a dangerous state and the scripture says when a person is repented they're willing to do what God tells them to do that's where repenting means heed him I don't call it a shot he calls the shots I do what he says and that's why he gives us instructions in this Bible it gives us his his life his friends our lives and God says when you are submitted you do what I say do not what you want to do this country is full of people who are full of themselves I almost said something else right there come on point your hand toward me and pray for me come on say fire lord please help the passing night to live that cutting spear jump on him right now pray for me real quick I'm calling my name I god help him in Jesus name I feel a cussing spirit coming upon me but because I'm submitted to God I'm not gonna do it even though I want to that's what submission means I'm not gonna do what I want to do I'm going to do what he tells me to do I'm gonna do what God tells me to do but some of us you don't listen to anybody nobody can tell you anything so when God tells me that I'm to honor him I have to do what he says I honor him if he says I'm supposed to tie that time you're too late y'all too slow if he says I'm gonna be with one woman for one lifetime I have to do what he said and I can go on down the long list of things that we want to do the opposite of what God says but we're submitted to him that's what submission means you are yielded to obey Him who's calling the shots in your life who are you submitted to here's number two that was the number one y'all got submit to God everybody meet em can I say this one more thing I'm almost finished I'm only going to do three of these today so I'm almost finished the reality is the sad thing about it is unfortunately it's very tragic here's where everybody needs to know everybody is submitted to something or someone the question is who were you submitted to the scripture says we ought to be submitted to God therefore verse 7 a sign of repentance is a person is submitted to God matter of fact submitted means to be under I think I said to be under to obey to yield somebody say to yield so so Bonnie Wilson used this illustration when she said if you're on a two-lane highway that's narrowing down to one lane and you're driving a Volkswagen in the right lane and then the left lane is a tractor-trailer truck this two-lane road is narrowing into one one lane and it's narrowing into the right-hand Lane which you are in and you have the right away you're trucking along and they're here you drive your little Volkswagen and in the left lane that's Lane other Lane is this tractor-trailer and it ain't backing off so you can keep on rolling see I got the right away and the tractor-trailer can come right on over and you can be right but you'll be dead right you would be wise to back off and say go ahead that's what yielding means I yield I let you go I'm surrendering to you go ahead I put you in front of me the problem here God is always right and we would do well to yield to him because he always has our best interest in heart for our future if we yield to him some of y'all are afraid to yield to God because you're afraid of what God may do with your life but I'm here to tell you that nobody can do better for you than the cartel you say wait a minute there's somebody here today who's not right with God they're not saying you're never you never surrendered your life to him and my assignment is to tell you the best thing you can do is yield to Jesus Christ here's number two right here in verse seven I don't need as he say therefore submit to God but he also says resist the devil here's point two a sign of repentance is a person will resist the devil and that's an important point too because resist means to oppose to stand up against it the problem is people are not resisting the devil we are inviting the devil in we are partying with the devil we drinking with the devil we smoking with the devil we watching the show with the devil we read in the magazine winter them you see there are two voices that's talking to you every day on one side is God on the other side is the devil and the question is whose voice are you listening to who you want to yield to and the scripture says here resist him oppose him stand against him the devil must be resisted matter of fact look at look at verse seven it says if you resist the devil he will flee from you and that word flee in the in the Greek means he will run away vanish somebody say vanish look at your neighbor say vanish it means he'll disappear you resist the devil he'll leave you alone but no you know why he's still there because you'd like it you liked it it you enjoy what he's saying you liking the pictures he's rolling around in your mind you are enjoying the images and the pictures and he's putting in front of you you are you love to entertain the thoughts of what it would be like who preacher or pastor Jacobs you enjoy those you enjoy allowing him to talk to you and the scripture says repentance means you stand against it instead of letting the movie play in your mind instead of letting it pond around in your heart when you repent you fight against it here's the third thing and I'll leave y'all alone I'm done I know I'm right on the edge of your attention span somebody on your reel got a DD go ahead look up and down the road and see rubles verse 8 says draw near to God where that's powerful draw near to God I love that if you draw near to God look at this and he will draw near to you you move toward God he moves close to you you reach out to what God he reaches back towards you you make a step toward God he makes this step towards you draw near to God approach God the question I have today is what are the patterns of your life that demonstrate you are approaching God if I were to follow you around for 24 hours without you knowing it how much evidence would I see that you are pursuing God repentance means I stop living my life doing what I want pursuing my own passions repentance means I'm seeking God I want to do his will I want to do the things he wants me to do and so I'm going to draw near to God and I love the promise from God he says you draw near to God he'll draw near to do you you make a step toward God he'll make a step toward you if you are not as close to God as you used to be make no mistake about who's the one that's gone astray some of you started off with God but you drifted aside he's nowhere in your thoughts and away in your life in the way in the practice of your life other than you come to church on Sunday but how many of you know meeting and drawing near to God it's much more than showing up at First Baptist Church of lanai swimmers here's a promise from God you draw me to him he'll draw near to you that's a promise from God you make a step toward him he's making steps towards you some of you are here today because there's a series of things that have been going on in your life and God's been trying to get your attention and God's been trying to draw you to him and it's culminating with you coming here today and he told me to tell you the next step you need to do is to surrender your life to Him totally and so the best thing you need to do is get up out your seat right now as a matter of fact and make your way down here and you'll wipe your slate clean forgive you of your sins break the bondage on your life come and live inside of you and make your life over and make you brand new all over again you look at yourself a few months from now and you will not be the same Cox I'm the best thing you can do is get up now and make your way here right now draw near to him he'll draw near to you come on that's right I see you come on amen best choice you could have ever made in all of life I'm proud of ya don't stop clapping encourage him y'all at all so far baby step right down this for me step right down god bless right down has food crazy right now moving all the way down yeah that's right that's right come on they are still coming y'all this is keratin so proudly sweetheart I'm gonna what's going on in your life with dots my children you're watching me okay baby by Del T and right over here thank you yeah praise the Lord hallelujah my design I brought a book step all the way down there near godbless she's all the way down I'll be fine yeah

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Length: 37min 10sec (2230 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 28 2014