SABAOTH WINTER 2021 FORESIGHT OF THE MASTER PLANNER – The Eternal Purpose
The Sacrifices of God Are A Broken spirit: A Broken And A Contrite Heart
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Repentance – Empowerment for a yielded will to turn away from sin to God
In the series The Sacrifices of God Are A Broken spirit: A Broken And A Contrite Heart, we have looked at Conviction – Empowerment To See The Spirituality of God’s Law. Where we saw that just as insufficient power from a dead battery to the starter motor of a vehicle renders it unable to start itself; as no food can in any way provide energy for a dead man; although it is the function food to give energy: Spiritual truth cannot provide Spiritual liveliness to a mind that is dead to righteousness; as such the mind is unable to capture the essence of the truth and similarly, Spiritual truth cannot make an unregenerate will to believe.
We have also looked at Faith – Empowerment To Persuade The Mind That God’s Law And Power Is True And Real. Where we looked at the first part of the Conversion Process which follows regeneration (at point of quickening); these being Faith (Saving Faith) and Repentance working hand in hand in an indivisible process. We saw that saving faith is trust in Jesus Christ as a living person for forgiveness of sins and for eternal life with God: That it is faith that propels one to take the next step past simply having knowledge of Christ and believing in the facts presented.
We will now have a look at repentance in:
Conviction – Empowerment To See The Spirituality of God’s Law.
Faith – Empowerment To Persuade The Mind That God’s Law And Power Is True And Real.
Repentance – Empowerment for a yielded will to turn away from sin to God.
The Eternal Value of A Sound Conscience
Confession – Its Power to Remove The Sting of Sin
Circumcision of The Regenerated Heart.
Dead To Sin – Empowerment to overcome indwelling sin
Alive To Christ, Jesus – Empowerment to live a righteous and Godly life.
The Consecration, Quickening (or Awakening), Faith and Repentance Needed For Revival
God’s Way of Restoration & The Cleansing That Leads To Joy.
Repentance – Empowerment for a yielded will to turn away from sin to God.
Sin is not doing the good you know. We sin knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally and that is our nature (sin nature) as Adam’s descendants thus we need to live in Jesus Christ; repenting for the washing our sins. It (sin) can also come in the form of transgression which is rebellion against God’s authority and law; to violate God’s law or command.
There is also iniquity, which is being wicked or immoral in nature or character. Primarily, it indicates “not an action, but the character of an action”, and is so distinguished from “sin”. Therefore, we have the phrase “the iniquity of my sin” (Psalms 32:5). Iniquity can be described as the core of wrongdoing or evil, while sin is this quality actually enacted in the world. It is the essence of the ‘old man’
The word repentance expresses a radical change of mind toward sin and implies a conscious moral separation from sin and a decision to forsake it and agree with God.
While faith is our receiving of the grace “offered us in Christ.” and repentance is availing ourselves of this grace and utilizing the power of it to turn to God. It is paramount we realise that faith will always precede repentance as it impossible for one to utilise what he/she does not have an understanding of – we need first to understand this mercy of God as provided for us in the finished work of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ before we can now say we will go to God in repentance: it is this LEVEL OF OUR TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE DEPENDENCE ON GOD (from which faith is derived) that is a launch pad for our willingness to repent.
Repentance is an act by which we realise we have offended an Holy and righteous God; this act is characterised by a deliberate turn away from the sinful act(s) in question, begging for God’s forgiveness and turning to him and his ways. Repentance is also that window that opens for us to see what we are called to; this being that, we are to represent God’s living and working in human life; how the effects of sin’s offensive attack on God defeats this purpose and how it can be remedied by means of the lordship of God’s Spirit over man’s spirit, soul and body.
REPENTANCE IS THE REAL TURNING OF OUR LIFE TO GOD THAT STEMS FROM OUR LOVE FOR HIM WHICH LEADS TO A RIGHTEOUS FEAR OF HIM. THAT LOVE COMES FROM A PURITY OF HEART, GOOD CONSCIENCE AND SINCERE FAITH.
Prayers:
We continually pray:
- Lord, that as we are convicted of our own sins; the Holy Spirit of conviction and Holy Spirit inspired repentance will flow through us to others in our surroundings and beyond.
- Lord, that The Holy Spirit will open the eye of our heart in order that we may see the true state and condition of our heart.
- Lord, that You will work in us to replace our heart of stone that is cold and unyielding with a heart of flesh that is alive and responsive to You.
- Lord, that The Holy Spirit will show us our condemnation; that we may be able to SEE OUR SINS; FEEL, REALISE AND ACKNOWLEDGE OUR GUILT AND CONDEMNATION IN A GODLY SENSE.
- Lord, for there is ONLY ONE WAY; ONE WAY ALONE and You are The Way; The Truth and The Life and no one comes to The Father except through You. Reveal Yourself to unbelievers deep down in their heart that they may see You and be relived of their burden of sin.
- Holy Spirit, in times of evil guilt from an evil conscience that seeks to block our access to God, imprint in the inner recesses of our being that the Blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ wholly satisfies God.
- That deeply in our inner being, Holy Spirit, will constantly convict us of our sins by the Blood of Jesus, in the Name of Jesus
- Lord, that You will circumcise our hearts, that we may be able to enter the covenant of being Your people, who are fully joined to You and fully submissive to You.