60 years on this earth being permanently blinded okay you know that that for me would be a very depressing lifestyle now my heart goes out to people who are blind and you know find a way to be happy and love the Lord and God bless them you know that's very commendable i would probably find that worse than dying and going to heaven straight away to be honest so you know you can actually there's other ways to look at that other than just well if it's worse than death it must be hell well not necessarily because there there are worse things that a believer can go through especially a very very miserable life and so once again we have no proof text that samson lost his salvation now people assume he lost his salvation and they assumed he got it back when he prayed this final prayer even though there's no evidence in this prayer that he was remarkably sorry for what he did he just prayed you know to go out with a bang essentially i'm obviously paraphrasing there there's nothing that said he he lost his salvation there's nothing said that he had to get it back there's nothing to say that he wasn't truly we've got none of that we've got nothing to go on if we're going to start making statements like that but what have we got to go and well we can see how samson suffered greatly on this earth because of his sins we can see that in the bible we have proof text of that happening and so again we see this fleshly punishment for his unrepentant sin but that doesn't undermine his faith being commended in in Hebrews 11 so i hope you start to understand you know what what's actually going on here and david is my last example i think it's probably the best example because you know we have all the psalms and we just know so much about david so david killed uraya so that he could get away with his adultery committed with best sheba second samuel 11 the prophet nathan then warned him that his sins would be exposed and that evil would be raised against his house that was in second samuel 12 so what were the consequences to david's various sins and i haven't even really listed all of the things that nathan would happen i'm just you know what what does the story tell us that happened to david well we know that many of his children were killed and died prematurely okay it's not evident that david had any happy marriages and his wife uh mickle plurian probably not pronouncing that right but she she bemoaned him that was in second samuel six you know she was a bit sarcastic with him there probably not really very happy with him his own son absalom tried to overthrow his king satan provoked david to carry out an illegitimate sent uh census after which he had to choose from a range of three very harsh punishments on his nation and so um although david maybe didn't go through as many personal sufferings that samson i mean david wasn't permanently blinded obviously but emotionally you know he went through probably much worse things than than samson did in many ways but once again his faith was also command uh commended in hebrew's 11 and we have we have actually got scriptures that that deal with god's mercy on david and so picking up on this point that once again no proof text that david lost his salvation there is no verse that says that nathan doesn't describe that as one of his punishments okay but we can see him suffering in this life certainly right so let let's look at psalms that that deal with god's mercy on david and that that's really going to be important be important with this issue of unrepentance in so i've chosen psalm 89 to uh express this point because i just think it's it's one of the most clear psalms for discussing this issue so between verses 28 to 36 it says my mercy will i keep for him david forever more and my covenant shall stand fast with him his seed also will i make to endure forever in his throne as the days of heaven watch this if his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments if they break my statutes and keep not my commandments well what will you do god what will happen well verse 32 then will i visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes nevertheless my loving kindness will i not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail my covenant will i not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips once have i sworn by my holiness that i will not lie on to david his seed shall endure forever and his throne as the sun before me so this is this is really interesting this is so helpful this because we see if david's children were to break god's law so if they sin god would not forsake his covenant with david and would not forsake his mercy his faithfulness his loving kindness now it doesn't say he won't forsake eternal life but isn't that part of his loving kindness though if it's by his grace you know if that's his mercy it isn't that a part of that but what will happen if they break his sins does it say that though there's their salvation no it says i will visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes which is synonymous with with beatings okay god will give them beatings for their sin but he will not utterly take his his faithfulness and his loving kindness from them he will not suffer his covenant to break well how can we apply that in the new testament well again we can expect to be beaten with stripes metaphorically speaking if we transgress his laws but he won't forsake his loving kindness and what does this mean his covenant will not break well what has god agreed with us in the new testament he says whosoever believers in him shall not perish but have everlasting life that's what he said they're his words not not mine he said that that's his agreement with us he cannot go against what he said okay but he may still have to visit with stripes and and this is you know this is super important and we have we have verses in the new testament that deal with this now the new testament doesn't give us as much to go on but but we do have something Hebrews 12 is really good to explain this point so verses 5 to 11 and you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks on to you as on to my children my son do not despise your chasening of the lord nor faints when you are rebuked of him for who the lord loves he chasens and scourges every son who he receives if you endure chasening god deals with you as with sons for what son is he who the father chasens not but if you be without chastisement whereof all are partakers then are you bastards and not sons furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall shall we not much rather be in subjection on to the father of spirits and live for they verily for a few days chasened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness now no chasening for the present seems to be joyous but grievous nevertheless afterwards it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness on to them which are exercised thereby so it's a great passage this this is the new testament is clear god will chastise his children doesn't say unsaved not dealing with unbelievers this is god's children the sons of god they are sons they partake of his chastisement so if they still have sins that he yet to be repented from they can expect god's chastisement we are chastised for our sins for what purpose so that we may yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness and be partakers of his holiness but again this is directed to those who are the sons of god it does not speak of unsaved people so then let's recap in the examples we looked at and there are more in the bible by the way there are no proof texts at all that abraham samson and david lost their salvation now people assume that david or samson did but they have no fundamental proof text saying this there are no proof texts that they weren't really saved yet because they hadn't truly repented of all their sins yet again you can assume that that was the case but you've got no proof text that says that we don't have any examples of samson being very apologetic about his things now we can see examples of david being apologetic people assume but people assume in samson's final prayer to god that that that he was you know repenting of his sin in that final prayer but again no proof of this there's nothing in that prayer that that's about him turning from his sins and being sorry about it it's just god give me strength to take down these philistines help me to get revenge that that's what his prayer is concerned with there is nothing about him returning from his sins in there and being sorrowful about it but we can prove that these men were rewarded for their sins in this life okay and and this is the fundamental difference between how god judges believers of unrepentance in versus how god judges non-believers okay non-believers it doesn't matter if they don't get punished for their sins in this life because they're already condemned anyway believers have been saved well god can't go against his covenant that if you believe on christ you shall be saved okay christ said those that the father gives me i shall lose nothing you either believe christ when he says that or you don't but that's his covenant that's what he said he can't go against what he said but he will visit our iniquity with stripes if he was a christian continue living in sin and you insist on testing the lord okay now on the issue of actually losing salvation or not being saved in the first part or anything like that well i'm not going to address that in this video this has already been such a long video and i want to keep it on repentance but you can go find a study video on my channel on john chapter six where i i deal with that issue and so i'll just point you that way for that so then should we repent or turn from our sins well yes as long as we understand the correct purpose for doing so okay now if you are a saved believer to be blessed by god and not cursed then yes as god's people we should turn from our wicked ways that's the believers repentance so that we may not be chastised solely by god and so that god may bless us but to to be saved onto life everlasting though for the unsaved person no salvation is by believing on jesus christ that is the unbelievers repentance okay that's sinners bring brought to repentance the joy in heaven for the sinner that comes to repentance jesus calling sinners to repentance he's calling them to believe on him that by believing on his name they might have everlasting life and so to add your own turning from the sins to the gospel is frankly it's just to make works with works with faith for justification frankly you know we we've seen that so so you know just i'm saying the same thing here but i've got a diagram just in case anybody's still not getting this the unsaved they're dead in sin they're sinners repentance for salvation believe on the lord jesus christ and you shall be saved all right say now once you saved you pass from death onto life then the repentance for the believer is sanctification growing in holiness turning from your wicked ways denying yourself daily follow christ be filled with the spirit and its fruits thereof but that is for somebody who's already saved okay that's not to be saved you can't turn from all of your wicked ways to get saved you believe on christ first and then you turn from wicked ways people who say first repent of your sins and second believe in christ alone and just putting the gospel backwards i already addressed that early but that that's exactly what they're doing they're giving the gospel backwards that that's just what they're doing but let's just conclude what we've talked about so far okay if repenting of your sins was such an essential component of the gospel we should expect the bible to say over and over again especially when salvation and eternal life is the key topic like in roman's gospel sorry like in roman's and like in john's gospel okay whosoever believes in him and repents of all this sin shall be saved not what it says for by grace are you saved through faith and not of yourselves as long as you repent of all your sins still not what it says okay this phrase it's not appearing in the bible and whenever people quote these verses that show that it's in that they're just quoting verses that say repent they don't say of your sins this phrase is not appearing but we keep hearing it like a parrot from all of these different christians of all denominations and all persuasions calvinist or minionist catholic protestant they're all they're all chirping this same phrase okay the clearest verses about repenting for salvation refer to belief only that is consistent with the gospel of john in which jesus never told anyone to repent of their sins to be saved now the clearest verses about turning from our wicked ways and you know repenting of this sin or repenting of that sin we've looked at and we've studied them we've put in the hours if you've put being with me this far into the video you have put in the time we have seen this they're not talking about eternal salvation as the intended purpose you have to make it say that you can't prove that it says that you're making it say that if you still want to want to flog that dead horse okay only an earthly punishment for god's own children can be proven as the reasoning or or the earthly judgment of a city irrespective of whether it individuals in that city actually believed that's the purpose of turning from sins so that you don't suffer on this earth earthly judgment or a city doesn't get destroyed on this earth and so with all of that in mind then the the last major point that i really really need to talk about is is just where is this false repent of your sins gospel coming from where is it coming from and this is not something new folks it's being passed on and passed on and passed on it's just a mantle that's being carried forward by everybody who thinks that they have something to do with them being saved okay so that that's what we're going to explore in the next thing as we eventually do draw this study to a close now although we could go through the old testament because a lot of the uses of the word repent are in the new testament it just makes more sense to cover this from the new testament so even during jesus's time he dealt with the Pharisees he dealt with a lot of jews who who wouldn't believe on him okay now a good illustration of this is is john chapter nine so there's the man who was blind jesus healed him and it happened to have been on the sabbath day when he was healed so then the Pharisees find out about this and they start questioning the man about jesus so so obviously they confront him for healing for being healed on the sabbath day by jesus so then the Pharisees get a bit worked up in about this in in 16 so therefore said some of the Pharisees this this man referring to jesus is not of god because he keeps not the sabbath day others said how can a man that is a sinner do such miracles so there was obviously a bit of a conflict there there was a division among them so the fact that some were saying that he could do miracles shows that this wasn't doing work in the conventional sense you know it's not like a doctor going to work or a physician so the getting worked up about jesus working on the sabbath but if it's a miracle then then you know what hard work did he actually do so they don't have all of the salient facts but but they're already making these ridiculous accusations and then because so but you know because of this one isolated incident they essentially accuse jesus of being a sinner okay jumping to the conclusion that he's not of god even though they don't know all of the facts behind this and they've not even questioned jesus directly yet and then we see it wasn't just the Pharisees but you know many jews did not believe concerning him so there was a big problem that the jews would not turn to believing the christ and that's not isolated to this chapter that's just you know a chapter that i've picked out later then in the same chapter they confront the healed man again so they're still accusing jesus of being a sinner even though they don't know all of the facts they haven't questioned him directly so you know there's a few things going on in this in this passage so then the man that was healed he answered that the people questioning him so he says we're hearing is a marvelous thing that you know not from where he is and yet he has opened my eyes so you know this is a wonderful thing that this man has opened the eyes of the blind but but they're getting angry about this you know over something that they don't even know what happened and then he says a statement here we know that god hears not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of god and does his will him he hears so the healed man reminds him that he is already aware that god hears those who do his will now we're you know i'm not i'm not taking that to be a salvation statement per se that he doesn't know who the christ is yet so this is just him making a statement to the Pharisees that they would you would assume that they would agree with that statement they wouldn't really have a problem with that it then goes on to say since the world began it was not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind so this is this is a new thing this is quite an incredible thing if this man were not of god you know he could do nothing or how could he not do such thing so even though what he's saying here is plainly obvious and it's also plainly indisputable as well they answered and said on to him you were all together born in sins and yet you know do you teach us and then they cast him out so they do not accept being lectured to by the man that was healed they accuse him of being born in sin and unworthy to teach them and so the Pharisees are elevating their own status above the man that was healed assuming that he was a sinner and they're not so you know although it's we're not using the terminology repent from sins we still see how their righteousness is then thinking they're not a sinner because they think they don't transgress the law because that's what sin is it's the transgression of the law so picking up on verse 31 particularly about his statement god here's not sinners you know if any man be a worshipper do his will and supposedly as far as we understand he's not making any statement that the Pharisees would actually doctrinally object to there now they still accused him of being a sinner and you know not worthy to to tell them anything but he's already acknowledged god he is not sinners and you know how how is this man healing this blind man then it's not entirely clear from this conversation whether eternal life or righteousness could be considered as the context of his statement there because they're not talking about that topic strictly speaking you know that we're talking about whether Jesus has had the ability to do Mary calls but what we can see is essentially you know his views in verse 31 would be uh uh in agreement with the Pharisees on one principle that someone who sins even if just one sin which they didn't even know all the facts because they accused Jesus of being a sinner for working on the Sabbath day when he did a miracle which how much hard work is that they don't know all the facts but they're pitting that as the opposite of someone who does the will of god so there is sinners and there are those that the the do the will of god they're putting those as opposites now the repent of your sins to be saved crowd they use Jesus's own statement in Matthew 7 21 in a similar way putting those who sin as being the opposite of those who do the will of god that is necessary to enter into the kingdom of heaven so you know they interpret the statement not everyone who says to me lord lord as meaning the opposite well sorry it's meaning that it's not just enough to to believe so that's Matthew 7 21 not everyone that says on to me lord lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that does the will of my father which is in heaven but the problem with interpreting it this way though is that Jesus didn't actually define in Matthew 7 what it actually means to do the will of god in order to get into heaven but he did define in John chapter 6 so we have this statement in Matthew 7 21 not everyone that says to me lord lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven but he that does the will of my father so the repent of your sins crowd will take that and say well it's not just enough to believe because not everyone who says lord lord you know you have to be doing the will you have to be doing the works you have to repent of your sins but Matthew doesn't define what that Jesus didn't say Matthew 7 what that actually means do do my will to enter in seven he hasn't defined in Matthew 7 but he did define it in John chapter 6 in a separate conversation so he's talking to a group of Jews in John chapter 6 and he says and this is the father's will which has sent me that's all of which he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day and this is the will of him that sent me that everyone which sees the son and believes on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day so to do the will of god at least for salvation eternal life anyway we need to believe the son if we make that comparison so when the bible talks about doing works or obedience that we must do for the will of god this is after somebody's already been saved but in works salvation models including the repent of your sins to be saved crowd they mix that obedience and self righteousness with the entry requirements to heaven okay so I have done a video on John chapter 6 already so if you want to check that out I do talk about that issue of the father's will because if it says here the father's will is that you believe on him but then there are other passages like Thessalonians where it says this is the will of god that you should abstain from fornication well that's also God's will but not necessarily for eternal life though and that's where the conflating the two so we have the will of god for eternal life believe on him but then we have the will of god for your sanctification you know and that is abstaining from fornication or turning from your wicked ways so if you want more of a study on that I could just point you to John chapter 6 in my channel because I have covered that somewhere in there okay but just getting back to this point because obviously let's try and stick on topics so this is consistent then this that you have to believe on him with the definition of repentance according to what we read earlier in Matthew 21 the publicans and harlots enter the kingdom now they're a type of sinner okay they enter the kingdom but it doesn't say that they enter because they turned from all of their sins to do the will of god but because they believed John the Baptist's preaching about Jesus to do the will of god so that's how the publicans and harlots did the will of god they believed on him whereas the chief priests did not believe and we've already covered this earlier in the video so Matthew 21 32 for John came on to you in the way of righteousness and you believed him not but the publicans and the harlots believed him and you when you had seen it repented not afterwards that you might believe him so how did the sinners like the publicans and harlots do the will of god to enter the kingdom of heaven well they believed him they believed in the preaching they believed in the Christ that was being preached about whereas the chief priests it's not that they wouldn't let go of their sins and believe in Jesus it's that they wouldn't believe in Jesus that was the problem and that's the context of their repentance there and we'll come back to that verse a few slides later when we look at how bibles translate that differently so going going back to John 9 then so 934 that's when the Pharisees answered him and said you were you was altogether born in sins and yet you teach us and then they cast him out so the Pharisees refused to be lectured by this man because he was born in sin essentially so by him being born in sin he was you know he was not considered worthy the problem with that though is that in Psalm 51 5 David says behold I was shaping an iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me so by that logic then that the Pharisees are using we would have to throw David out too because he himself and then after god's own heart claimed to be conceived in sin okay that was his own claim so everybody is born in sin you know according to Romans we inherit sin from Adam but also according to Romans we are justified not because we turn from all of our sins but by faith because the grace of god is a free gift turning from sins to obtain it is not a free gift that's a conditional reward so you know just a handful of Romans 5 passages for you Romans 5 is a good one on this so 12 to 15 wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world that's Adam and death by sin and so death passed on upon all men for that all have sinned so you know through Adam all have sinned for until the law of sin was in the world but sin not imputed when there is no law nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression who is the figure of him that was to come but not as the offence so also is the free gift for if through the offence of one many be dead much more the grace of god and the gift by grace which is by one man jesus christ has a bounded on to many and then at the beginning of that chapter in the first two verses said therefore being justified by faith we have peace with god through our lord jesus christ by whom we have also have access by faith into the grace wherein we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of god so faith another term for belief it's your faith in god what you believe in god that's how you're justified that's how you have peace through god it's not turning from all of your sins to have peace through god you have the faith to have peace through god that's where you start now we can again talk about turning from sins after someone's had the faith but that's where we start we don't first say turn from your sins then have the faith and romans 519 it's actually a very key point because if you're going to say that you have to turn from sins for your salvation you have to be obedient to do the will of god as it were while romans 519 says for as by one man's disobedience adams many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous so it's the obedience of jesus you can't be righteous because you've turned from your sins and now you obey it's christ's obedience it's the obedience of one that you can be made righteous as opposed to being a sinner okay so to add your own obedience to that is then you're now making your righteousness by your obedience instead of the obedience of one and so you know when we looked at the earlier passages earlier in the video about jesus calling sinners to repentance okay making sinners righteous well that's by one man's obedience and that's justified by faith so sinners believe on the lord jesus christ they are made righteous okay now that they're made righteous and you can still have this issue of the flesh wrestling against the spirit then we can deal with sanctification turning from sins the chastisement of god and holiness but we shouldn't confuse that with the reason why sinners actually get saved okay and so in conclusion then we've clearly and indisputably seen from romans that it's the obedience of one man christ that makes the many sinners righteous they don't turn from their own sins to be righteous because it doesn't come from other men's obedience and this is really consistent with acts 326 that jesus was sent to bless you in turning every one of you away from his iniquities doesn't say you turn from your own iniquities okay jesus christ blessed you in turning you away from them and this is just further proof that saying you have to repent of your own sins it takes the emphasis away from christ's obedience for our salvation and onto our own obedience for salvation so the repent of your sins crowd they're really just teaching workspace salvation but the thing is they won't admit doing it now in another breath they will say that salvation is by trusting in christ alone and they'll say it's a free gift but the thing is though the catholics and the jehovah's witnesses also say this just because you say you're still proclaiming that it's christ alone or it's a free gift doesn't mean it's true you can say that but then if you're still going to say this other stuff with it anyway you're just really talking out of two sides if you mouth there and so i will revisit that issue of of the free gift but um in you know in summary it will come to something like this it's by faith not of works but dot dot dot it's not your obedience to the law but dot dot dot it's a free gift but dot dot dot you know you must trust in christ alone but dot dot dot it's by one man's obedience but dot dot dot you don't have to be perfect but you you know you must be sorry enough to stop sitting so it's like well again which one is it and we'll come back to that but you know that that's just a finish on showing you how unsaved people think it's like well they can't dispute something but then they have to they always have to put in a put in a catch so let's move away from the Jews let's move to Paul so Galatians 1 starting at verse 6 i marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of christ onto another gospel which is not another but there be some that trouble you would pervert the gospel of christ but though we are an angel from heaven preach any other gospel onto you then that which we have preached onto you will let him be accursed as we said before so i say now again if any man preach another gospel onto you then he that you have received him let him be accursed for do for do i now persuade men or god or do i seek to please men for if i yet pleased men i should not be the servant of christ but i certify you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man for neither i received it of man neither was i taught it but by the revelation of jesus christ for you have heard of my conversation in the times past in the jews religion how that beyond measure i persecuted the church of god and wasted it and profited in the jews religion above many my equals in my own nation being more exceedingly zealous of the tradition of my fathers but when it pleased god who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace so let's just summarize what's going on here so we've seen a few examples you know we've seen an example of the jews having a false gospel in jesus time and now we see paul you know probably just a few decades later warning the new testament church about people among them already troubling them with a false gospel and that they're accursed paul himself used to be zealous of the jews religion which was really just a passing of traditions from those who came before and repent of your sins to be saved is really just the same tradition being passed down through the ages but we've just changed the vernacular from the jews to various early accursed early christians to catholics to prophets and evangelicals and we're just going to see that journey in the upcoming slides but notice that paul's gospel was revealed by the revelation of jesus christ well what did christ reveal in john's gospel whosoever believes in him should not perish he doesn't say whosoever repents of their sins that's not what christ revealed christ revealed whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life and so you will start to see that from the time of paul until today the gospel has been perverted and passed down from generation to generation in two ways so first you have the preachers or theologians or clergy you know pastors ministers whatever they've redefined repentance bible translators have replaced reworded and or redacted repentance so look for these two types of men the preachers and the bible translators okay they're the ones responsible for this and that's what we're going to see so here's a good early church father example okay even as early as the second century men like tutulian were making repentance onto salvation about turning from one's own sins so you can find this out there i'm not going to read the whole lot it's very long so i'm not going to read all of it for the sake of time but if you want to read it fully look for tutulian on repentance okay that's what it's called and it's divided into a few chapters so um i haven't actually got that it doesn't have verse numbers so i'm you know i haven't provided any verse references but it's just the chapter so in chapter two he says but that where there is no fear in like manner there is no amendment where there is no amendment repentance is of necessity vain for it lacks the fruit for which god sold it that is man's salvation so um again you see this repentance there has to be this turn of character there there has to be this amendment to one's life it then goes on to say of these blessings the title is briefly one the salvation of man the abolition of former sins being the preliminary step so again that's how he's defining it now he does is not quoting the bible showing this he's just making statements and because he's an early church father we're just supposed to believe that he was closer to the truth than we are even though paul already warned about this stuff from his own time further no deed put an evil one deserves to be called sin nor does anyone err by well-doing but if he does not err why does he invade the province of repentance the private grounds of such dessert so you know again if you've not turned from your sins why do you even invade the province of repentance whatever that's supposed to mean further down in chapter five he says thus he who through repentance for sins had begun to make make satisfaction to the lord will through another repentance of his repentance make satisfaction to the devil and will be more hateful to god in proportion as he will be more acceptable to his rival so making a very sort of elaborated statement there about again still defining repentance from sin so and also as well this is the title here i haven't actually quoted what i've quoted the title of the chapter so chapter six is actually titled baptism not to be presumptuously received it requires preceding repentance manifested by amendment of life so notice what the title is showing here okay the or amendment of life must come before you can be baptized so you can't believe in christ be baptized amend your life you have to first amend your life essentially before you can believe in christ and be baptized so you've got to abolish your sin as part of your repentance before you can even come to jesus and be baptized well that's not what jesus said he said the publicans and harlots believed him okay now you know we would assume that they probably stopped living as publicans and harlots after that hopefully they did but the bible doesn't tell us that because that's not the relevant bit the relevant bit is the publicans and harlots believed him okay so if you read the full book on repentance i've put you can see the link on the video there but i will put it in the description if i can fit it in there because you can obviously you can't click at it from here so um if you read that you'll notice some things about the way that titullian writes this book okay there is a lot of emphasis about men changing their ways and living a pure life bearing in mind that's his definition of repentance by which he said that a lack thereof if you're not doing this repentance salvation is then not the fruit of repentance so if you if you don't live this pure life you won't have the fruit there it he does mention it but there is very little emphasis in believing on christ or what christ actually did to take away our sins all the emphasis is on man amending his character okay you'll also find just from a secular point of view that he writes in a very poetic way using many fancy words that you know you may have not even heard of before and he structures sentences in a way that no ordinary person would use in everyday speech uh you would only use this style of writing if you were very passionate about writing literature such as poetry okay this language that titullian writes in it's very difficult for a normal person to understand a novice christian who wanted to further study on repentance would find this book very difficult to read and understand even though it very obviously has been translated into english by someone who can quite competently and um read the underlying latin i mean if you can understand the latin and translate it into these fancy english words that's obviously a very good translator okay it's because even in the latin he's writing in a very fancy poetic style of writing okay and because of this very drawn out poetic style of writing he does not make very direct clear statements like the bible does he takes a very long time to make points in an entire paragraphs really that could easily just be made with a few short sentences he justifies very little about what he says from biblical text or if he does supposedly quote the bible he actually severely paraphrases it or he quotes texts that aren't really relevant to the subject but most of the time he's just making statements and we're just expected well he's a church father that's authority you know he's close to the truth so he must be right about this regardless of whether he's just writing poetically and not actually using the bible and you'll find actually this is very similar to Charles Spurgeon's writing style taking huge paragraphs to say what could be made in small sentences churning out statements and just making quotes and making you know elaborate statements without actually defining it from the bible very very similar writing style in that regard so i understand that if you're someone who enjoys literature maybe you enjoy that style of writing but for people like me who don't it's very boring it's very frustrating to read it takes me 10 times longer to read than it needs to take and most importantly it's just really hard to understand what he's talking about because he just uses pompous fancy talk i mean if i just move these red bits out for you you know but if he does not a why does he invade the province of repentance well why not just say if he doesn't turn from sin he hasn't repented that would just be a much simpler statement but it's all this pompous fancy talk and you know using this repentance of his repentance makes satisfaction to the devil and more hateful to god in purport it's just fancy talk that's that's all it is really and then while we're on to Tullian on this on repentance book i've picked out one last extract for you but some think as if god were under a necessity of bestowing even on the unworthy what he has engaged to give and they turn his liberality into slavery but if it is of necessity that god grants us the symbol of death then he does so unwillingly but who permits a gift to be permanently retained which he has granted unwillingly for do not many afterward fall out of grace is not this gift taken away from many so again we're using just fancy speech here we're just using pompous ways of saying something which could be said in a much more direct statement but in normal pit person speak okay this is what he's saying god gave us a gift eternal life or Christ but he does so unwillingly okay he's not willing to do this he does it because it's of necessity he just has to do it notice how he also uses a very strange euphemism to mean this the symbol of death that's that's some symbol for eternal life it's not the symbol of life isn't Christ the symbol of life he died and rose again so that's a very very strange euphemism but again it probably sounds really smart and fancy to somebody who likes this poetic style of writing he also says god can take this gift away which in the context of this article means they can sin after their so-called repentance but let's see what the bible says well the bible says in 2nd Peter 3 9 the lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but his long suffering to us would not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance so he says god grants this repentance unwillingly Peter says god is not willing that any should perish so god you know that's what he's willing that we shouldn't perish John 1 12 to 13 says but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of god even to them that believe on his name which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of god it is god's will that men are are born into being the sons of god that that's what it says that's what the bible says but but he doesn't quote any of that he's just making his own statements and it sounds super smart and theological to someone who's reading this stuff think wow this guy's amazing he knows all of this stuff and he's really close to what Christ believed but he could churn out any old rubbish and we're just expected to laugh it up and then these some other verses for 2nd Corinthians 7 10 for godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of but what is he saying he's saying you can then turn back from your repentance okay you can reverse repentance essentially you know you god can take this gift of repentance away jesus said in john 6 39 this is the father's will which has sent me that all of which he has given me i should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day jesus also said in john 29 10 29 my father which gave them is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand so then we see peter someone who believed christ very consistent with christ not losing him and also this repentance to salvation not to be repented of simon peter answered him lord to whom shall we go you have the words of eternal life in other words what peter is saying is there's nowhere else to go jesus has the words of eternal there is nowhere else to go and we believe and are sure that you are the christ the son of the living god that's that's opposite to what tutulian's saying okay he's saying they can fall away from this gift well christ said i'm not going to lose them paul said this salvation is not to be repented of and peter said where else would we go but that's not what tutulian wrote but then he's not quoting bible he's just making statements and we're just expected to blindly believe it and so just as the repent of your sins crowd today and a well respected early church father engages in this buttism it's a gift but insert man made exception here jesus said he would lose nothing we will not be plucked out of his hand but insert my man made exception here tutulian did it and that's still what preachers are doing today so as these early church fathers started to introduce various different kinds of heresies and strange teachings we then saw a catholic system evolving from that now i've put roman catholicism but obviously there's the eastern side of the catholic church as well before they split but the western side started to speak in latin as their main language and so they would then translate the bible in latin and then the latin would become their authority instead of the greek and so an example of how differently they read there in matthew 4 17 we have the king james translated from the greek that says from that time jesus began to preach and to say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand well in the duae reams it says do penance it doesn't say repent and that's that's because they have a very old tradition of translating repentance in this way as far back as the fourth century jerome's vulgate translated repent as and i apologize for my pronunciation but ponitentium agitate make penitence instead of reciprocity now that being said i did read that in the latin these words are perhaps more interchangeable than in other languages but this has affected how the roman catholic church has then translated that into english i mean this is this is a case in point but but they do it in other verses as well so in ax 238 pete said onto them repent and be baptized but in the duae reams that becomes do penance and be baptized in ax 3 19 repent you therefore whereas it becomes be penitent therefore now some modern catholic translations do now translate repentance correctly such as the new catholic bible so even the catholic church has had to recognize that penitence is not an accurate translation okay you know penance or penitence you know they they've made a doctrinally biased translation there because of all of this redefining repentance and you see how that's crept its way into the bible and so throughout various times there were attempts to get the word of god translated accurately and correctly so in the english language for example the first full bible translation was compiled to be compiled was the wickliffe bible in the 14th century so in ax 3 19 john wickliffe did correctly correct the translation back to repentance in the reformation era various bible translations were now available and so would likewise translate repentance correctly but during the reformation era even while the king james version was still being translated the roman catholic church started to complete for english readers sort of compete sorry by releasing the duet reams where they continue to translate it as penance instead of repentance such as in the examples that were just looked at so while penance is arguably one of the possible definitions of repentance you could put it under the category of be sorrowful it's not the only definition and it's not what the holy spirit inspired the bible authors to write and so translating it as penance forces this since a specific definition on to repentance so as i said you've got the bible translators and you've got the preachers preachers like tutulian redefined it and then the bible translators are replacing it so they're replacing repentance with penance okay or they're just exchanging it for something else so then fast forward a couple of centuries after geromes vulgate we then end up with the karan we have these the emergence of this new religion islam and it's a spin-off religion from judaism and christianity a possible link is that muhammad may have learned things from a catholic but i can't quite remember on that and i don't know if history is a bit hazy on that but then since then islam has become the second largest religion in the world after christianity and he's actually larger than the roman catholic denomination if you take a whole denomination so we have this other book now competing with the bible to be the declared word of god so in the karan 2082 it says and most surely i am most forgiving to him who repents and believes and does good and then continues to follow the right direction so you see how repentance has now become a whole lifestyle change instead of just believing to be saved you have karan 539 but who whoever repents after his iniquity and reforms himself then god will turn to him mercifully and god is forgiving and merciful so again who's god going to have mercy on those who reform themselves and we keep hearing preachers that we've got to do this first okay this reformation of character comes before believing on christ karan 7153 and as to those who do evil deeds then repent after that and believe your lord after that is surely most forgiving and merciful so again the repentance of the evil deeds comes before the belief just like a lot of christian preachers are doing today and then karan 9 11 but if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor rate they are your brethren in faith so it's not your brethren are those who believe like you they have to keep up doing the work so you see how works is a part of the repentance it's not just you do the works be fitting for your repentance the works are the repentance there okay so you know this counterfeit is is tying and turning with sins and doing good works as a necessary component for repentance it's not enough to believe now we keep hearing repent of your sins repent of your sins we can't find it in the bible for salvation but we are seeing it mixed with belief in the karan okay and so all of this stuff with Catholicism and the karan you know that's going down the age as it's just been passed on and passed on and passed on and then as we get to the early to mid 19th century the book of Mormon comes out so we have this book compiled Mormonism pretty much carries the mantle of Catholicism by basing many of its beliefs on writings outside of the bible so they use non-inspired text but they still claim to be a bible based religion so they they then have their own book which they now use as their holy book and you start to see where the catchphrase is coming from because when when the catholic church was replacing repentance with two penance and saying that it means turn from sin they didn't come up with they weren't coming up with the catchphrase repent of your sins so this is going to show you where the catchphrase is coming from Alma 6 2 neither did they receive any onto baptism save they came forth with a broken heart and a contrite spirit and witnessed onto the church that they truly repented of all of their sins so those who came forth to be baptized oh do you believe well it doesn't matter if you believe as long as you have repented of all of your sins that's what counts Alma 22 16 but Aaron said on to him if you desire this thing if you are bowed down before God yeah if you will repent of all your sins and will bow down before God and call on his name in faith believing that you shall receive then shall you receive the hope which you desire so you can see how um his copying biblical language there he's trying to make it sound like the bible because all this desirous and you know the language then shout that wasn't 19th century vernacular okay that was all you know that was an older form of english but he's trying to make it sound like the bible to make it convincing and again see how this repent of all of your sins comes before the faith okay that's where it comes from helman 7 23 for behold thus says the lord i will not show onto the wicked of my strength so one more than the other save it be onto those who repent of their sins and harken onto my words now therefore i would that you should behold my brethren that it shall be a better for the laminates than for you except you shall repent so even Mormons who have already gone through this process and then got baptized there's still this ongoing repent of your sins or you may fall for everything that you've done up to now so you see how it's the same mantle it's just reworded and repackaged differently jacob 38 oh my brethren i fear that unless you shall repent of your sins that their skins will be whiter than yours when you shall be brought with them before the throne of god now the book of Mormon is a racist book that teaches that the whiter your skin is the more holy you are okay it's utterly ridiculous but that's what the book proclaims so you have to then do this ongoing repentance of sin not even for your own holiness but to compete against other people by trying to have whiter skins than other people so you see how it's just competing against everybody else to show who's turned from their sins the most so we keep hearing this parroted phrase repent of your sins then believe Jesus repent of your sins then believe Jesus we can't find the bible saying repent of your sins to be saved but this counterfeit book is telling us to do it over and over and over again and it's even putting it before faith just like a lot of christian evangelists and pastors are doing today they say first repent of your sins second believe in Jesus just like the book of Mormon so you can see where the catchphrase is starting to develop now and only a few decades after the book of Mormon we then have Charles Haddon Spurgeon in the Protestant world now i'm not going to read all this out because we did already look at this earlier in the video so i won't read all that out for you but let's just recap so we remember that when we looked at his book the soul winner Spurgeon redefined repentance essentially is turning from sin to the point of not doing it anymore and he defends this blatantly by discounting what the greek word actually means in favor of a hymn so he didn't defend the definition from the bible itself now like many christians today Spurgeon already had the presupposition that repentance means turning from sin instead of turning from belief towards belief so at round about Spurgeon's time the catchphrase repent of your sins wasn't creeping into christianity yet because it's still stuck with the Mormons but but the definition is still there even if the catchphrase is not there right so you know we've had the reformation we've now got a bible that shows that god repented or repentance doesn't always mean turning from sin we've got the armor of god but then we're creeping away from that again by just redefining repentance anyway and Charles Spurgeon pretty much does the same thing that Tertullian did making these poetic oversensationalized long-winded statements instead of just using the bible itself to define repentance and let's look at a couple more of his quotes so here's a couple of other statements from Charles Spurgeon so in this in this one why some seekers are not saved he says there is no real salvation except salvation from sinning so your sin must be quitted i put this question to any man here who is a hearer and a seeker and yet he does not find peace is there not some sin that you have yet to abandon in another quote from soul saving our one business he says once more when the apostle wished that he might save some he meant that being regenerated and being pardoned they might also be purified and made holy for a man is not saved while he yet lives in sin while he lives in sin so Charles Spurgeon essentially taught sinless perfectionism but earlier in our study you see we looked at an article much earlier in this video from Living Waters that actually quoted some quotes by Charles Spurgeon but that clearly taught on that same article that repentance doesn't mean being perfect so we don't have to be perfect but let's quote a man telling us that we have to be perfect because if they're still sinning your life you're essentially not saved and so you know again it's no wonder why Christians are so confused on the requirements for salvation because this is what we're getting it's by faith alone but dot dot dot it's a free gift but dot dot dot it's not by works but dot dot dot so just like Tatulian did and just like other church fathers did and just like various catholic and Protestant theologians and pastors preachers have done throughout the ages we just see this being carried forth from person to person redefining repentance and trying to replace what God actually said about the subjects with our own interpretation thereof and obviously it's not this has just been passed on today Charles Spurgeon is long gone now but this has just been passed to it got passed to Billy Graham and now it's been passed to Franklin Graham it's been passed to Ray Comfort not only have the preachers redefined God's word but the translators have replaced or reworded or redacted it so in Charles Spurgeon's time there was in the non-catholic world there was for the most part really only the King James Bible used you know with a few exceptions but across the English speaking world it was pretty much the Bible you wouldn't even need to call it a King James you just call it the Bible because that's essentially what it was but then round about Charles Spurgeon's time then the English revised version started to hit the market and become available and then since then we've been undated with you know many more and so you see all these now competing with the King James for the you know the primacy in the English language and so even after centuries and centuries of the Catholics trying to replace repentance with penance the Reformation-era Bibles fix that for us but we're getting back into old habits again we're just doing it in a slightly different way you know we're now doing it where we keep the word repentance but we change it in some way always substitute it in some way so for example Acts 26 20 in the King James it says but showed you first onto them of Damascus and at Jerusalem and throughout all the coasts of Judea and then to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God and do works meet for repentance so we quite clearly see a distinction between the repentance and the doing works meet for that repentance okay now it gets slightly hazier in the ESV which we'll talk about in a moment but ESV says repent and turn to God performing deeds in keeping with with their repentance but then in the New World translation this is the Jehovah's Witness Bible they've changed it to repent and turn to God by doing works that befit repentance so in the King James version the use of a conjunction shows that clear difference between the repentance itself and the works that are fitting for that repentance okay now most formal translations at least in the modern era tend to use a present participle instead of a conjunction so this this distinction is slightly less clear because it then makes the works a continuation when I've looked at it in the again I don't speak Greek I just this is all second hand information but this this is just considered more accurate with the underlying Greek because there's no word for and before that but but even so we can still maintain that there is still a difference between the repentance itself and the doing the works of the repentance but in the New World translation instead of a conjunction or a present participle they've used this preposition so they've explicitly made the works a part of the repentance itself and this contradicts justification by faith without works because you can't say well we're justified by faith without works if you do your repentance by doing these works they've made the works the repentance itself instead of just something that comes after the repentance because it's befitting for that repentance now in the evangelical world obviously we kind of expect the Jehovah's Witnesses to change God's word like that but in the evangelical world paraphrase bibles are widely used so if we take Acts 26 20 in these other versions so we have the message it says I started preaching this life change this radical turn to God and everything it meant in everyday life and so notice how the word repent isn't there it's just being defined as a life change it's you know your works your self reformation which you know is what the Quran said fully enough and then again this radical turn to God that that's not there that that is emotionally charged language to make it more embellished and then everything it meant in everyday life so again whatever the repentance is that's what it's not that you do the works for repentance it's just how you will live your life is defining it the voice translation it says turn from their past and toward God and align their deeds in the way of life with this new direction so again it's making the works a part of repentance but they've also removed the word repentance as well the living bible says must forsake all of their sins so again we have this catholic or early church for the definition of repentance put straight into the bible there that they must forsake their sins and turn to God and prove their repentance by doing good deeds so how do you turn to God well believe on Christ apparently not yet you must forsake your sins and that's how you turn to God so you see how again it's taking the emphasis away from Christ and it's putting it back on yourself to reform your character for God and then the new living translation which is a very very widely used bible that they almost repent of their sins see how they've added those three words again the new living translation keeps doing this by the way they keep tacking those of your sins at the end of repent the underlying greek doesn't say that the new living translation has added those three words and then prove that they have changed by the good things that they do so again it's this trying to justify themselves by works in the sight of God for salvation now obviously i know there is obviously uh james too with the issue of being justified by uh works and faith which i can't really cover in this video just because it that would be too far off topic unfortunately but it's making a works the part of the repentance for the purpose of eternal life now it's putting works back into the gospel okay and so uh paraphrase obviously i've just said the widely used by evangelical christians but the the thing is what's so ironic about this is that the producers of these paraphrases bear in mind these these are not translations these are paraphrases because that that's not what God said you're just paraphrasing what God said they claim to be helping christians by making the bible easier to understand but really what they've done is they have dangerously mistranslated what God actually said putting works into repentance for salvation so that you cannot consistently advocate justification by faith without works using these bibles because say well you believe on christ it's not of works it's what he did oh but then there's this thing about turning from your sins and living this new life and well that's all the stuff i've got to do so you know you see our works has crept its way back of there and i can only assume that the people who wrote these paraphrases do not believe that salvation is a free gift but they masquerade as evangelical or mainstream christianity and it wouldn't surprise me if they don't believe in the free gift because frankly you know the bible does warn us about people who amend God's word having their name blotted out so if their name is blotted out well then why would they believe the right gospel that would just be contradictory and in fact while i'm on the living new living translation let me give you some more examples because unlike the other paraphrases this is a widely used bible and it's the one bible that keeps top tacking on these of your sins at the end of the word repent so here's another example Matthew 4 17 Jesus says repent for the kingdom of God is at hand and they've made that repent of your sins and turn to God which the turn to God isn't even in there now we saw it in the ax example it's not in Matthew but they've put that in there so that you turning from your sins is the equivalent of you turning to God irrespective of what you actually believe so it's like reading this verse it doesn't even matter what you believe it just matters that you've turned from your sins whether you believe or not is neither here nor there so there are you know any other bible like the king james the ESV they just say repent here but they keep putting this of your sins and this definition of repentance this belongs to Catholicism it belongs to Islam it belongs to the Jehovah's Witnesses it belongs to the Mormons they all have a workspace salvation but you see how it's crept into a bible used very very widely by evangelical Christians now some of you maybe didn't need me to tell you that maybe you already know that paraphrases are bad but what about the more formal translations well of the more formal and commonly used modern translations so for example the new american standard bible the english standard version the niv that new international or you know the new king james in some instances translators will say that they're actually more accurate than the king james which i can't comment on that but you know that that's the claim that in some verses well the word repentance in many instances in those bibles has actually been substituted with an alternative reading now unlike the catholic bibles they're not trying to bend that meaning like you know they're not replacing repentance with penitence but they are replacing repentance with something else that says what repentance actually means in that context so this is this is particularly problematic in the Old Testament Hebrew but also apparent in the handful of new testament greek instances where metamelemia is used instead of metanoia now it's problematic because the thing is from a translator's point of view this substitution is not indefensible okay repentance is a flexible word we've already seen examples of that much earlier in the video you know we saw it can absolutely mean change your mind it can absolutely mean be sorrowful or feel remorse it can absolutely mean relent or it can absolutely mean turn from something which may be of sin so they are contextually correct by translating it using these different words but because they're not consistently translating it into the same verb in english what what happens is we lose our proof texts for showing that repentance doesn't always mean turning from sin we can't defend that with a modern bible anymore and then it comes as no surprise then that we have all of these oversensationalized embellished definitions of repentance because you can justify that with a modern version because we're losing our rebuttal verses so we're losing our weapons of warfare the sword of god's mouth is being blunted and this is at a time when christians are being given mixed messages about how to repent onto salvation so let's just look at some examples of how this is done so in genesis six seven i've used this example multiple times throughout this video now so in the king james bible god was the first individual to repent and in fact it doesn't actually strictly say that god repented so much as it says it or the situation or the wickedness of man repented him so the repentance was not even a directly carried out action but rather just a reaction so the situation repented god okay so it says that it repents me that i have made the earth because of all the wickedness in the new king james that has become i am sorry so repentance has been substituted with i am sorry likewise the esv does what the new king james does there in the new and then in the new american standard also does this i am sorry and then in the new international version it repents me or i am sorry that has become i regret okay now i remember somebody telling me at one time that the king james is actually wrong here because it makes it look like god made mistakes and has to apologize for his own decisions he said that that's why it was wrong to say repent but if repent just means to change your mind or change course and which in this case is only changing course because it's in reaction to man's behavior then which one of these translations actually makes it look like god makes mistakes because here he says he's sorry like he has to apologize for his own decisions and here he says he regrets like he wish he never did it but he already knew that this was going to happen so again it's because it it's because he had that loaded definition that repent means to turn from all of your sins and self reform your character whereas we just say it means change of mind then actually this translation the king james makes more sense than any of these okay so in the king james bible then i have a fundamental indisputable proof text that repentance does not always mean turning from sin but because other bibles have now substituted this we've essentially lost the proof text so i can't take out an esv or an asb and say well here look let me show you an example of where god repented so it doesn't always mean turning from sin i can't do that anymore because i've lost my proof text and they do that quite consistently throughout the old testament when there's multiple examples of god repenting now i might you know if i if i said well look here where here's where god repented someone will just point to that and say well no it says he was sorry he doesn't say repent it's not the same thing you know if they if they don't realize that you know that there's the similar word in in Hebrew or Greek now i could say to someone well if you go back to the original language but i don't speak Hebrew i don't speak Greek and the chances are that the person i'm explaining it to probably doesn't either so for all they know i could make up any old garbage about what the Hebrew and Greek believes that's why it's important to have it correctly translated in English now in a way you from a translational point of view you can absolutely argue that these bibles have not mistaken the translation they're not technically wrong because repent can mean be sorrowful it can mean have you know have regret but that means that each passage that uses a variation of the same Hebrew or Greek word is being translated into so many different expressions in English that the read is never going to join those two things together so in the New Testament when we have repent for the kingdom is at hand or repent for the remission of sins or repent and baptized and so on and so on someone's not going to make that connection between God repented of flooding the earth or God repented of this or God repented of that now if we had that connection you'd say well okay repentance doesn't always mean turn from sin so if the New Testament says repent and i don't know what it means i need to look for where it defines what it means to repent but because we don't have that Old Testament proof well now someone can just tell me it means turn from sin so as soon as i see the word repent oh right okay well that means turn from sin because that's what it means and so you see the problem there we're losing our rebuttals we're losing the fact that repentance is a flexible word that can be for all sorts of things and even in the Hebrew and Greek it just has many different forms of the same word being used in many different contexts but we've lost that connection now another great verse that again is being diluted and we're losing our sortie is Jonah 310 we looked at this earlier and we saw that turning from our wicked ways is our works right it's like God saw their works that they turned from their evil way so when you turn from your evil way that's your works now the ESV and the NIV have then substituted this with a more diluted turn of phrase so that it's not as explicit that it was indeed their works because instead of saying God saw their the works that they turned it's God saw what they did how they turned from their evil way so it's not explicit that them turning from their evil way was their works because he could say well it was their faith God saw what they did as part of their faith how they turned from their evil way you've lost that that proof text there that that fundamental proof the new american standard uses the word deeds instead of works which is not wrong in of itself but because works is more the word we use in our biblical terminology for salvation you know it says we're saved by a great through faith not of works we don't say not of deeds you might miss that connection if you're trying to compare these verses over a concordance and in one of the ceramic verses we actually did read that repentance was with deeds it didn't use the word work so deeds tends to be a bit more of islamic terminology rather than christian terminology so to me i don't know why they wouldn't have just just said works instead also notice again we've got this proof text that God repented so again repent doesn't always mean turning from sin but that's now become God relented now again that that's not wrong to say that God relented that's what he did but we're losing that connection now between all of the Hebrew instances of repentance and therefore the greek instances where it actually quotes the um Hebrew and so then when you're trying to explain this to people what now happens is we started with pure fresh orange juice okay we have a strong healthy drink but now what we're doing is we've now we're now on to dilute squash and notice that in the newer and more common editions of the bible used today we've got lower concentrations you know we're diluting it more and more this would be a clear proof text that God repented this would be a clear proof text showing that you turning from your sin is your works it's not part of your faith it doesn't say that God saw your faith God saw what you did your works but we're now losing this helpful proof text so what would be a really good rebuttal verse to show somebody we've lost that now we we don't have that sharp sword anymore another very very important example Matthew 21 32 we looked at this earlier in the study this was clear indisputable proof that repentance that john preached about was for the remission of sins was based on belief not turning from sin because Jesus referenced this he said you the chief priests repented not afterwards that you might believe him so that you might believe that continues what he means by you did not repent essentially so in the new king james that's now become relent and believe so then when you see when you see uh john's preaching it says john preached repent for the kingdom of hand or john preached repent for the remission of sins you'll get to that and it doesn't say repent so then you don't know that the repentance was changing from unbelief to belief it just relented you're not going to make that direct correction anymore uh the new american standard translates this as even have second thoughts like maybe you just considered it but that that's not even uh you know that's not even a true repentance really you can have second thoughts but that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to change it but you see how they're diluting again and again you've lost that connection because you don't know that that is the repentance that he preached about anymore okay so you know john can preach repent turn from your sins and then jesus can say you did not believe and and believe you did not relent and believe him when he told you to turn from your sins you see how that that's now possible because we don't have the link between this and the word repent the esv says change your minds and believe him well change your mind is one of the definitions of repent and that's essentially what it means in this context but because they won't use the word repent again you've got no direct connection between john preaching repent and jesus saying the repentance was that you might believe him but you didn't repent now the niv um unusually does actually use the word repent here which it's actually very unusual the niv is usually the worst bible to use for him among the most popular ones anyway the more formal ones i just find it terrible but yeah it's quite amazing that they did actually use the word repent there um but when i looked at this on the concordance um that there is no greek word for and all that it's just it's embedded in the word believe by just having it in a different form but obviously english has to use separate words to express that so but in english and is not always it's not always a very good word for when two things are separate or two things are actually combined so for example you could say god the father and the son okay well is the son very separate from the father then you know is the son not god or you could say god father and the son in that both the father and the son are god it's not a very good word in english to decide whether two things are actually combined um or separate and so it's not as clear as the king james that the believe him is actually the repentance that that's how it's defined it's because if repent means turn from sin then then it could be saying you did not turn from your sins and believe him because we've now got and instead of that it's not as clear whether those two things are put together and then the nlt just spells it out for you that they separate the two you know they just say you refuse to believe in him and repent of your sins you know they're up to their old tricks again just tacking these three words on the end making turning from sin something distinct from believing as if you have to do two things and again you can see where preachers are actually getting it from because it's in a bible that many of them use so with matthew 2132 being taken from as we we can't use that rebuttal anymore with with modern versions well acts 19 for is then perhaps our secondary proof that we and we could still use the esp and esp or nkjv actually in this case but the nl that the niv and the nlt have separated into two sentences so even when they do use the word repent they're still trying to separate it from the belief so you know in the king james we have but john verily baptized with the baptism of repentance comma saying on to the people that they should believe in him in other words that's the repentance that they should believe in him that's what he was telling them for their repentance now the new king james does still allow this so we still have our secondary proof text there the new american standard still enables this and then so does the english standard version but then in the n in the niv it says john preached the baptism of repentance full stop he told the people to believe in the one coming after him so like as if they're now two separate things like he preached repentance stop he told the people it's like that they're separating it by putting that sentence stop in there and then the nlt obviously does the same thing but puts those two words from sin again which just aren't in there but they've put it in there once again you know putting corrupting god's word saying something that god didn't actually say and and this would be the proof text once again that repentance was that the people should believe in him that's the repentance that john preached they've managed to include the word and yet they've still butchered that concept um with what they've done and so as i said you've got the bibles and you've got the preachers well we saw preachers like tutulian and charles spurgeon redefining repentance we then saw the bible translators going with that and trying to reword and replace some substitute or redacted repentance and then it just goes back and forth and we're on to the preachers again and so you know in our modern era we still have preachers redefining repentance so billy graham was one of the most famous people who thought that you must be willing to change your life before you can believe in jesus because this is essentially what he said the first thing you have to do is be willing to repent of all your sin that means to change the way you're living now he essentially gave contradictory statements because he wouldn't say do we actually have to change or do we just have to be willing to change which is it because it either means one or the other live a new kind of life be willing to give up some of those wrong things in your life and then he will ask retrospectively have you repented are you sure of it did that change take place you can't just say lord i'm sorry or lord i said that's not repentance it means a change and then the second thing you must do is receive him by faith so before anyone accuses me of misquoting him or taking what he said out of context i'm just going to show you the clip of him doing this you say well billy what what really do i have to do first you have to be willing to repent of your sin you say well what does that mean that means to change your way of living to change your thinking about christ and about god and about yourself it means to live a new kind of a life it means that you're willing to give up some of those wrong things in your life and walk with him that's repentance and jesus said except the man repent he can't see the kingdom of god have you repented are you sure of it did that change take place i'm not talking about did you say oh lord i'm sorry that's not repentance oh lord i've sinned that's not repentance it means a change all things have passed away and everything becomes new and then the second thing you must receive him by faith but as many as received him to them gave him power to become the sons of god even to them that believe on his name just simple faith like a little child believes in its father its mother you believe jesus said you have to become like a child you may be the professor at the university in mathematics or some of the sciences but you have to become like a little child when you come to christ in faith believing just as i have confidence in faith in this platform to hold me that's what the word faith means you put your confidence in you put your strength in you put your everything you have in jesus price and really so so there is folks there's the evidence so you know that's what he taught first we have to change our life we must reform our character there must be a change in our life first because he said that's the first thing you've got to do but he did contradict himself by not making it clear whether there must be an actual change or a willingness to change that's not exactly the same thing but remember this is all before you can come to jesus so are you willing to change have you experienced that change before you can then believe on christ that that doesn't make any and then he ironically calls that the simple faith of a little child well that doesn't make any sense folks because how much change is enough for me before i can then decide that i have the faith of a little child this is contradictory this is backwards so you know he says that we must put all our strength confidence and faith in jesus christ despite saying that we must change our life first it doesn't make any sense it's completely backwards it makes no sense and it's not just him this is still happening today with our preachers i mean ray comfort is pretty much carrying on exactly where billy graham left off so let me show you a clip of ray comfort doing it you've got to repent all your sin so what you've got to do justin is repent of your sins what you've got to do in response to that is repent that is turned from your sins is repent don't just say i'm sorry but turn from those sins you've got to repent that means turn from all sins now from those clips i didn't make those edits okay i didn't trim that video i just found it someone else had done so it didn't include the bit where he tells them to believe in christ but if you watch most of his videos that's what he will tell people to say there's two things he must do first and he'll say you've got to turn from your sins you know by which they mean fix your life and reform yourself second believe on jesus after you have reformed yourself so you see how they're giving the gospel backwards you see how putting the car before the horse here so and you know we already looked at his article earlier in this video where the same article in one paragraph it tells us you know if you're putting your trust in anything other than christ you need to repent or change your mind about trusting something other than christ but then earlier in that same article it said that there's got to be this radical you know transformation of the entire person in fundamental turnaround but they're not emphasizing that that's just a life of the believer after you're saved this is all part of the prerequisite to being saved so essentially you're asking an unregenerate person who doesn't believe in jesus yet and doesn't have the holy spirit yet to first redeem themselves as a fleshly person and first fix the life and then they come to Jesus that makes no sense it's just completely and utterly backwards and all that article and all that is just throwing word salad around all the time and it's just confusing people and this is why Christians don't know how to be saved because they've just been listening to too much of this word salad being thrown around now here's another famous preacher John MacArthur I've extracted this from his website but I'll open that website just to give you the full context of what he says and so this is an article on his website what is biblical repentance and it looks as if he wrote it himself he's going to do a lot of what Ray comforts website did where again quoting somebody he gets space on the page to put his quotes but we still have to hover our mouse to actually see what the bible says and then the first bible verse he quotes doesn't even mention the word repentance but it's being used to define it and then in this case it's not even a behavior reform so somehow it's now more embellished than behavior reform which is an already embellished term term but he's you know he's defined it that way from the very beginning he's got the presupposed idea that that's what it means and then he says you know it's not it's got all of these intellectual and emotional and volitional ramifications well what's his justification for that well he just quotes some other Calvinist from you know however many years ago and again we're just quoting other people saying it so you see how it just gets passed down the line not because we can open the bible and prove it but because somebody makes these dramatic statements and then somebody else studying his work copies those dramatic statements and repackages it and it's just been regurgitated but with you know with the words changed slightly but we're just quoting everybody else saying it and then that's how we define it this must be what it means because some guy who came before me says that that's what it means so you just see that he's just doing the same thing that we've already seen living waters do he then goes on to criticize the no lordship view so those who are against lordship salvation which includes free grace by the way and then he says if the issue is simply what must I do to be saved the answer is to believe on the lord Jesus Christ he calls that a peculiar formula while quoting the bible verse that even says that you know that's what it says in Acts but that's a peculiar formula which is just the formula that they gave him in Acts which I just find it very very bizarre really that that he calls it that and then he says that it's absolutely staggering that people believe this you know it's staggering that someone would just read Acts see that the apostles told somebody to believe in the lord to be saved and then we believe that and that's staggering that that's all there is to it you know but then he goes on about all this harmonious terms with God and then you know no sense no sense of gravity towards it well this is just emotional embellishment folks that there is no such term in the bible as being harmonious to you know he doesn't say whosoever be harmonious with God shall enter into it we're just making emotional statements that sounds really puffed up and wise to people that follow these kind of people and then I can't actually believe that he even has the audacity to write this he says the predominant lord no lordship view on repentance is simply to redefine repentance as a change of mind not to turning from sin or a change of purpose I mean that is just the most audacious statement like change of mind is one of the most basic definitions of repentance that's literally as basic as you can define it okay turning from sin is his loaded definition but we've redefined it no he's redefined it and all the people he's copied it from has redefined it we've not redefined it we've just gone back to what it originally said and how it was used and at the beginning you know earlier in this video we look through the concordance for the underlying Hebrew word and we saw it appear in all these passages where it then changed your mind or it meant you know relenting or it meant changing course and you know even God repented that's how the bible phrased it that's how it appeared in the Hebrew and that's how it's been translated in the in the English King James so it's just ridiculous and just audacious for him to accuse the no lordshipers of redefining it that way when that's what it in its most basic definition means if it means the change or returning there's got to be context as to what's being changed from you can't just tax in on every time because that's not even how it's originally used he's made it that way because he's quoted other people and he's got that predetermined definition that that's what it actually means and so you know he just makes this really rich rather arrogant accusation you know those who reject lordship of saying that they've redefined repentance is just a change of mind but the thing is we've done more than enough study in this video to know that change of mind is the literal and simplest definition of repentance with the surrounding context telling us of what's being repented of now sometimes it is sin absolutely repentance can be of sin in certain contexts but there's plenty of times when it's not and we've just been through and seen the evidence we've done all the study we looked at all these different verses we looked at how Jesus referenced the preaching of John the Baptist and how Paul also referenced referenced it as well we've done that we've done the homework now but the reason he thinks that we've redefined it is because just like Tatulian just like Billy Graham just like Charles Spurgeon and Ray Comfort he embellishes the definition he cannot comprehend this idea that it's just a simple noun like any other noun in the bible okay it's really not that complicated and that's why I has to go through all of these word salads throw all these words around and sound really emotional and you know on his knees and crying out to really tell us what it means because you just can't look it up in a dictionary and find out what it means you know you've really got to feel this stuff and it's just it's just emotionalism frankly and then the last guy I'm going to cover to really wrap up this point before we come up to the very last part of the video it's this John Piper so not all of these articles were actually written by him but they are all on his website written by his staff so here's an article what is repentance sounds like a simple question John this should be able to give a fairly simple answer to this well the guy who put this article hasn't actually written anything himself he's just put three quotes okay that's all these put they're all quotes of other people telling us what repentance is so we're doing it again we're just parroting and parroting and parroting other people tell us what it is but what does the bible tell us what repentance is I've read the bible and it's told me to repent so what is repentance in the bible oh well this person says this load of rubbish and this person says this load of rubbish and this person says this load of rubbish and none of them have proven it from the bible they've just made a statement that's what it means so when you read it in the bible that's what it means folks it's just absolute garbage this is another article then written by another member of staff who to be fair does use a lot more bible than the other person did which was none at all so unless you stop loving sin it's titled the heart of repentance but again forcing this definition on repentance ignoring the fact that it can mean plenty of other things as well so he introduces what Jesus said about the Galileans that they suffered things but they weren't any more sinful than anybody else well we already studied that earlier in the video so we already looked through that and then as Jesus said unless you repent you will all likewise perish and then he goes on to say you know calling people to repentance is the reason why Jesus came and again at least this guy does actually seem to verify most of what he's claiming and not quoting a bunch of other people which is a refreshing change and then we get to the heart of repentance and so this is where this is where the emotionalism kicks in again this is where repentance has about eight million definitions and it means all this and it means all that and it means all the other so he goes on to say about you know bare fruit keeping with repentance and John John the Baptist preaching but again he's making it about John the Baptist telling you to turn from your sins when really Jesus defined it as turn from unbelief towards belief and bring forth fruits meet for that belief which he also said that to a very specific group of people but we all we already dealt with that earlier in the video and then he goes on to define it from the uh John John Piper he quotes John Piper is defining it from the Greek so change of mind with perceptions and dispositions and purpose as well John MacArthur said it wasn't a change of mind we redefined it as that apparently so you know they just contradict each other with what they're saying to be honest it does mean a change of mind oh but it's not just a change of mind it's got to be all this as well what does it mean then you know who can tell what it really means and then he goes on to say more emotionally embellished statements about you know we see god for who he is and great and glorious and desirable well yeah i get that god is all those things but i didn't i didn't realize that god was all those things just because i saw the word repent okay i didn't get that from the word repent i got that from where the bible tells us that god is great or where the bible that tells us that god is glorious or desirable i didn't get all that because i read the word repent changed all my behavior and now i see all that in god that that's not how that worked at all and then we see sin for what it is diminished ugly and repulsive but again i didn't get all that meaning about sin from the word repent all right i had to actually read the bible where it said that sin was was all of that stuff but you know it's just emotionally charged stuff so then he goes on to say how repentance is a commitment to a profound change of direction reorientation of our lives away from sin and towards god but again those two things are not polar opposites because there are still people in the bible who believed god and still sinned so that's again this idea that sin is the opposite of believing that they're not polar opposites okay there are people in the bible who sinned but they still believe god okay and then this is his defense so this change of perception and direction is something we're commanded to do in acts 2 and this is his defense defense verse well nothing in there in that verse there tells us about seeing god for who he is and seeing sin for what it really is and seeing all this and seeing all that in your mind will be you know blown away by all these things it doesn't say anything like that it's just a simple statement the bible uses this word as a very simple word it does not have all this complicated meaning behind it and we already looked at this first when it said be baptized well what does baptism follow mark 16 hear that repentance and is baptized shall be saved okay and then you know forgiveness of sins you will receive the holy the gift of the holy ghost well again what did john seven tell us that the holy ghost follows it go it goes to them that believe so that's what that means repent and be back well you have to believe to be baptized you have to believe to receive the holy ghost so that's the context but he's made that a big thing about turning from all of your sin and a complete change of direction and seeing all the mighty stuff of god you don't get all that from someone telling you to repent okay seeing god for who he is requires more study in the bible than just somewhat some preacher throwing his arms around like this you know aching his heart out telling you to repent you don't get all that from just someone making a you know a big a big fancy speech like that okay you have to read the bible to know who god is and you have to read the bible to know to understand what sin is okay and then i'm not going to read this paragraph because that's just one of one of his personal anecdotes so i'll just go to the last paragraph repentance for eternal life so we've had all of this stuff about how repentance means to you know throw your life to jesus and see him for who he really is and all of this overloaded stuff and if that's how he's defined repentance and we need repentance for eternal life well here's how it is then but then trying to do good won't save us from god's eternal judgment well i certainly agree with that no one feels feeling sorry for sin or saying sorry for sin or becoming more and more a person well that obviously is true that they're all important to do but on their own none go deep enough you know we need to go deeper than that we need to hear jesus say again unless you repent you will all likewise perish we need to see the beauty and the love and the holiness of the triangle again this is just emotionalism folks and then it's just this last thing we need to turn from the false promises of sin and aim our lives towards him this is repentance and this is like well none of the verses that he's quoted prove that okay all of that stuff about him being the triangle again you don't get that from the word repentance you actually have to read other parts of the bible to actually understand that it's just you know overloaded statements and then the false promises of sin folks i have never met somebody who thinks that they have eternal life because of their sin i have never bumped into anybody like that nobody sins and then says i have a promise of eternal life because of the promises of sin that i don't know what that means but again they're trying to pit those who sin as the opposite of believing on christ when they're not they're not directly polar opposite and just because i've already spent a long time and you know we need to wrap this up i'm not going to read this last article how to repent but what you can see from this when you hover and show all of the different verses none of these mention repentance okay they they don't mention the subject but again because we've got this preloader definition whenever we then define how to repent we have to go to other verses that don't mention repentance to tell us how to repent which frankly makes no sense and so you know it's just the same thing everybody's doing it this is not unique to one person you see how this is just going on and on we're defining repentance with verses that don't define it for us and then we're just redefining the verses that actually do tell us to repent instead of letting those verses define themselves and so again you know it's just this constant writing of oversensationalized embellished articles quoting a bunch of other people are just making emotional fancy speech that doesn't mean anything i mean one of the quotes from this article was that the fog of unworthiness needs to take shape into clear dark pillars of disobedience then you can point to them and repent and ask for forgiveness and take aim with your gospel i mean is he writing a psalm or a poem or is he actually just trying to give practical instructions because this first sentence that's not a practical instruction all right that's poetry that's not a very clear answer to telling people what repentance is all right but you know now if confession and feeling sorry for our sins is the life of a safe believer then fine okay now i have all you know in a different way already argued that sinned sorry saved believers should turn from their sins but if that involves taking aim with a gospel bazooka then does that mean then that it's an inherent part of getting saved because is it no longer enough to believe in jesus jesus never said any of this embellished stuff when preaching god john's gospel so did jesus not preach the gospel properly when he just said whosoever believe within me he didn't say see me for all of my divine glorious beauty and realize how terrible all yours is you know jesus never said anything like that but you know did jesus redacted repentance then in the gospel of john because he didn't say any of this stuff this is all men saying it jesus is not saying this stuff jesus is making quick easy simple statements that even a child can understand he doesn't have to say things in a dramatic poetic way and quote all of these random people with all this emotionalism he just doesn't talk like that folks it's only these preachers with their theological degrees that talk like this no normal person talks like this and so you can see how it's just been repackaged or changed but it's been the same old tricks you know essentially redefining what it means and then trying to replace it in the bible with what we think it should mean and then you know that just they just feed each other constantly doing that back and forth so with all that in mind we can wrap that to a close and the very last thing to sort of cover really here is just to answer a few common objections and although we've really dealt with this in a way it just helps to package it into a neat little conclusion if you like so objection number one if repent means to turn from sin in some context at least it must mean this in every context including salvation now you can't really argue that with the king james bible because god repented in the king james but obviously in a modern bible you might have that question well yeah when you're not sure what a word means in the bible it does help to look up other instances where it appears so that you know that will help you define it if you're not sure who the sons of god are well then just look every time that appears and you'll find it but even if such terms have a particular definition that that does not always mean that they apply in the same way or in the same context every time that word appears so i'll give you an example of this so the word sanctification so in john 1790 this is jesus praying for his disciples and for their sakes i sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth and then in 1st Thessalonians 4 3 to 4 it says for this is the will of god even your sanctification that you should abstain from fornication that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor so both of these verses talk about sanctification but not in the same context okay abstaining from fornication is part of sanctification in 1st Thessalonians 4 but we know that Jesus didn't need to do this for his own sanctification he never sinned so he wasn't being sanctified by abstaining from fornicate he never fornicated okay but he did say in his prayer that he must be sanctified and that that's referring to the process that he's going to go through now all of his work ministry on the earth was done at that point you know he said that he'd done the work that God had gave him to do but then he still got to go through this final death burial and resurrection there and then from that the disciples will be solidified in their confidence in him his belief that that's a separate study so we won't cover that now um so yeah in some passages repentance absolutely is about turning from sin and we already looked at them we look through revelation okay we look through other passages so it's not like we don't know that there we've already done that homework now but not where salvation is concerned repentance for salvation is about changing who or what you believe in and so even if we were to say that repentance is turning from sins for salvation let's just say if that meant recognizing we are sinners and deserving condemnation but believing on Christ to save us well then there wouldn't be an issue okay but then what i have to ask you is what what does that have to do with all of this emotional sensationalism and embellishment like making repentance louder than the sin and the vomit of the soul the bible does not make such dramatic statements like that okay and also what you know even if you say well you know as christians you know we should turn from this and we should turn from that and you know no no such person who does this will inherit the kingdom of god etc etc well yeah i'm not arguing against that but what does that have to do you know what does the christian life growing in holiness have to do with that when that that's something that should come after we believe not before so we're conflating the christian life post-belief with the initial gospel and salvation about how you believe because then first clean up your life you know repent of your sins second you must trust in jesus for christ alone well no first you must trust in jesus for christ alone that's how you get saved and then we can talk about the christian life growing in obedience and so on and so forth now if we are to say that repentance is a change of mind or returning at its most basic core definition then only the surrounding context around how the word is used can tell you how it applies in that situation so it you know if someone said to you turn full stop with no context you wouldn't know what they meant okay now you wouldn't think back to some other time when that person told you to turn like driving in a car and then apply that definition again oh is he thinking is he talking about driving because i'm not driving right now that that statement would not make any sense turn full stop there has to be some context as to what's being turned from and uh or you know towards and repentance needs that likewise but but you see this is what people are doing with repentance they're conflating it with something else where it does mean something in a particular instance and so just imagine right imagine if we embellished the definition of continuation like we do repentance right now if i said to you this statement you all know what this means this is a really simple statement there's not really much to it continue working at your job don't give up and resign and there's the keyword continue okay now imagine these princes of preachers and big time theologians telling us what this means they'd probably say something along the lines of well it's not enough to just carry on working you must pour out your heart and soul into the job and if you're not breathing a fiery passion every working hour of your life then you are not truly continuing continuation doesn't just mean carry on if you go back to the greek it means to turn from your miserable attitude about your job and completely transform the way that you work until every day at work is a good successful day that flows from the core of your being a person who truly continues his job will never want to quit an apparently famous nobody defined it well he said if you don't want to continue working beyond your paid hours if you don't want to stay with the same employer forever if you don't want to put up with all of that bad management and all of the obstacles to success you don't truly want to continue this is the true definition of continuation and then this would be their biblical proof text that's you know first Timothy 416 take heed onto yourself and onto the doctrine continue in them for him well doing this shall you both save yourself and then that hear you that would be their proof text for all of that you see how they're doing it with the repentance this would be ridiculous if we did this with this statement right here that continue means all of this rubbish okay you cannot get that from that statement but this is essentially what they're doing with the bible taking a simple statement like repent and dot dot dot and just putting all of this loaded stuff around it you know just putting a bit too much cheese on the chips or let me give you another example to show that how the word is not used in the same way in different passages so you know what about the word amusement well in the uk treasure island is an amusement park all right as various rides that you know you would expect from such a place you can see some of the rides in the picture there now in the uk at least i don't know if it's the same in the states but small casino arcades are referred to amusement centers you know we don't tend to have the big vegas places over here so much but we do have lots these pokey little shops for gambling and so forth and then there is this particular place somewhere that's a family amusement center so you know that is indoor arcade games including those suitable for children like you know the racing arcades you put your coin in you erase each other all that kind of thing okay now you wouldn't say to treasure island well you're not an amusement park you're not a true amusement park because it doesn't have a casino okay that's not the true definition of amusement you wouldn't say to the casino you wouldn't accuse the casino of not being an amusement center or picking a bad name to refer to themselves just because they don't have indoor roller coasters and ferris wheels right you know well the amusement park has all of this stuff so it must be included in your amusement center that's not how the word works folks all right you wouldn't then accuse the family amusement center of not being an amusement center because it probably doesn't have a casino if it's suitable for families but the thing is folks amusement is just the noun of the verb to amuse it does not automatically mean the same thing in every encompassing you know everywhere it's used so you amuse yourself at an amusement park you amuse yourself in a casino arcade well i don't but you know some people do you amuse yourself in an you know a family entertainment center you amuse yourself with different kinds of activities and that's just what amusement is well you can repent of different things you can repent of sin you can repent of unbelief you can repent of judging the earth so repentance covers that as the noun but it doesn't mean the same thing everywhere it's used okay and so you know you wouldn't embellish continuation you wouldn't embellish amusement in this way so you know my rhetorical question is why do we do it with repentance it's a simple word it does not come with all of this deep hidden meaning that would require expert theologians and bible college qualified experts to pretend to sound smart when they explain it to you now we only think it does because we keep being told by all these preachers and evangelists and theologians that it means all of this other stuff but the bible doesn't use the word in such a dramatic way and the thing to be repented of is not the same in every context where the word is used now again i've said this many times now sometimes the context may be turning from sin absolutely nobody's pretending that it doesn't but not in every context that's the point that i'm trying to get across now objection number two is that the orthodox or traditional christian definition of repentance is turning from sin and that's you know what the early christians and church fathers believe that's what most christians have believed for a long time well i already really addressed that because we've already seen in the last section that believing in a false gospel does go back all the way as far as paul in jesus' time and so there's nothing pure or special about christians from the third to fifth centuries okay and moreover if the catholic church has been the largest denomination propagating the works of salvation you know why would they elevate early christians to an honorable status or sainthood and preserve their writings if they didn't agree with catholic doctrine all right the catholic church has only preserved the writings of christians who aren't too objectionable for their dogmas or you know where they have preserved someone denouncing other christians as heretical so history really only tells us one side of the story jesus himself said that not everyone who says on to me lord lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven okay jesus said the gates onto life is narrow few there be that find it that's what he said okay if the vast majority of christians have believed that repentance for salvation means to clean up their life and turn from all their sins before they come to jesus well guess what the vast majority of christians have also been going through for wide gate to destruction okay objection number three if god hates sin and we cannot allow for a doctrine that enables sin which you know i don't disagree with that i agree with that perfectly if repentance for salvation is belief only and doesn't mean turning from sin then and this is the straw man that they always you know pull out these kind of straw men arguments a murderer or child molester could go on sinning willfully and still go to heaven that that's you know the straw man that they always pluck out well the thing is we have already seen that god chastises those he loves okay he scourges every son whom he receives the chastisement of the believer deals with the issue of a believer that sins if believers cannot be punished in hell they must be punished on this earth and that's why the wicked world gets away with evil on earth but saved christians do not excuse me saved believers can't go on sinning willfully because they will completely ruin their life on this earth you know they could go to prison they could have an accident and lose their arms or legs or eyes even if they do still make it to heaven okay jesus can make sure that they will get their punishment the bible is full of examples of god's own people sinning like abraham or david or samson or solomon okay we already saw examples of this david a man after god's own heart killed innocent blood so there that's where the straw man falls apart immediately but god now god's people made it to heaven but they did severely suffer in this life much more than most of us are you know accustomed to i'm not accustomed to the same level of suffering that david went through okay but i've not slept around with loads of women and killed a bunch of people either so you know he suffered for his sins on this earth we've already seen that turning from sins comes after believing on christ not before so turning from sins first then believing on jesus is still a backwards gospel whichever way he puts it okay paul himself said if i sin it is no longer i that do it but the sin that dwells in me referring to his flesh that's in roman 717 i haven't really done a study on romans yet but you know i plan to eventually and really the the burden of proof lies with the repent of his sins to be safe crowd to explain why a born-again believer who is a new creature in christ would want to go out and kill people and or less children because being an actual born-again believer like i can't think of any good reasons so this is just a complete straw man like well you could do this and still go so well guess what folks i don't do it because i don't know why anyone would want to do that all right those things are sick right so you know it's just a complete straw man and you know most of the people who do those things on telly are predominantly not bible-believing christians okay and the thing is folks people who preach repent of your sins to be saved they're hypocrites because they haven't turned from all of their sins themselves now you already saw an example of this earlier we looked at a video of a repent of your sins evangelist trying to challenge a well-studied pastor trying to deceive him about filming him and publishing on youtube despite claiming repent of your sins to be saved and then you go on their youtube channel in the comments and they're just making excuses for themselves all the time well he didn't have a youtube channel it's i who do we just didn't tell him that you know what i mean we already looked at that so you know we just saw an example of that hypocrisy the catholics will tell you that you have to turn from all your sins but they've not repented of calling their priest's father as his title when Jesus said call no man on earth your father and you actually show them that and you confront them about that and what you will find is excuses they have not repented of bowing down to statues when the bible said not to bow down to graven images nor serve them yet their catechism claims repentance must include an enter sin that's what their catechism claims okay but they still do those things they haven't they won't repent of doing that you confront them about it well we're not worshipping them we're venerating them they just make excuses for it folks that's what that's what repent of your sins people do the average Protestant minister has not repented of wearing long robes when Jesus said beware of those who walk about with long clothing so when you see these Anglican Protestants with all these long flowing robes Jesus said beware of those people i guess they think it doesn't apply to them or you know we even the Protestants are the ones putting female ministers in the position of pastoring a church when the bible says i suffer not a woman to teach in a church context now even the Catholics aren't doing that but the Protestants who claim that they come out of that and they've cleaned up and reformed everything well they haven't cleaned up that bit have they they've actually got worse because they're the ones who are pushing that all right the Jehovah's witnesses have not repented of denying Jesus the title of mighty god when it was prophesied of him in Isaiah 9 6 and Jesus himself said there is none good but God and we all know as Christians that Jesus is good so either he's good and he's God or he's not good which one is it and you try and confront them with these scriptures and they just try and deflect you and push you off into an irrelevant subject and bring out all of this irrelevant scripture that has nothing to do with the issue they tell you that you need to turn from all your sins but they won't turn from their specific things and the lordship salvationists they have not repented of putting works into the gospel while still masquerading as justification by faith without words they have not repented of writing poetic emotionally sensationalized embellished statements and quoting other preachers to override what the bible actually says so all of these repent of your sins types they always have excuses and exceptions for their own sins and the thing is we know this issue of not of not enabling sin in our doctrine well if there are you know a handful of preachers that are lifted up in the evangelical world as great men of God because unlike blatant false prophets like your obvious ones like Joel Osteen they do or when they were alive they did actually preach hard against sin so you know for example the ones that we've just looked at like John MacArthur or John Piper but also others like Francis Chan and Paul Washer and David Paulson David Wilkinson Leonard Ravenhill I've obviously named but a few these men absolutely did preach hard against it more than most which many preachers behind pulpits just aren't brave enough to do because they you know just want to fill bottoms on the seats so I accept that these men did preach holiness I accept that they did preach against sin and of course they were right to do so it's right to preach against drunkenness and fornication and idolatry and so on if you're preaching to the right audience if you're preaching to the congregation of believers not to tell and save people how to be saved though but the thing is just because these preachers were bold enough to preach against the sin and preach a holy standard of living that does not automatically mean that they were or are men of God because all of that falls apart if the gospel preached was a false gospel all right now Jehovah's Witnesses preachers also preach against sin I'm sure many Jehovah's Witnesses probably hold themselves up to a higher standard of living than most average Christians lose it using that word very loosely okay but all of their righteous living comes to note if the gospel they preach is still false okay so your Jehovah's Witness elder probably isn't running around getting drunk and partying and sleeping with a bunch of women he's probably living quite a clean life and he tries to be friendly with people and he tries to love his neighbor and all of that jazz but guess what it means nothing if the gospel you preach is false you can turn from your sins as much as you want to Muslim preachers have even been accused of hate speech for preaching hard against sin from a Christian perspective they were often right to preach against some of those sins or you know preach loving God which obviously they refer to it as Allah even in English language but you know from the general perspective they're preaching to serve God but all that still comes to note if the gospel they preach is false all right and so wrapping that up then it's precisely because God hates in so much that you cannot turn from your sins to be saved because it doesn't matter how hard you try or how well you do at repenting of your sins you still fall short of the glory of God okay you must come to him by faith in what christ did it is his obedience that many shall be made righteous so only those who have faith can turn from their sins to be pleasing to God in any way whatsoever because without faith it is impossible to please him so belief must come first then we can deal with behavioural modification after somebody's already believed but not before and not for the purpose of getting saved and so that leads me then on to the next objection number four if all we have to do is believe in Jesus or on Jesus to be saved you might wonder well then why use the word repentance at all why not just say belief every time and thereby eliminating this entire controversy well in certain situations though it made more sense to preach repentance specifically because belief is a one-way verb right it just tells you to believe but that that doesn't in of itself tell you to stop believing in something else whereas repentance is a two-way verb because you move away from one thing towards another thing so sometimes in the bible it is more appropriate to use this word for salvation so you know for example we cannot add believing and trusting in Jesus to trusting in other things as well so you know work salvation being the case in point but also other gods or false christs we absolutely need to ensure we believe in the true Jesus and the true gospel alone because we were warned about another Jesus and another gospel in the bible this is not clear from the from the word belief in of itself so the repentance adds the turning away from trusting in that which is not Jesus to then trusting in that which is Jesus and so and by the way many many people already claim to believe in Jesus including Muslims and Hindus as well so but the thing is they have a false view about who Jesus is or they don't trust him for their salvation or they add Jesus onto something else such as their own turning from sins or their plethora of other idols you know they end up with well i believe in Jesus but i also believe that i have to do all this and so you know it repentance is emphasizing moving away from what you thought you believed or what you were trusting in to believing in Jesus now as well that the Jews who heard Peter and John the Baptists preaching when they said repent in a manner of speaking they were believers so named the children of Abraham and believers in Jehovah but but for the Jews specifically at that time what they needed to acknowledge was that the Holy One had now come okay they were no longer waiting for the Holy One as they were in the Old Testament so they also needed to recognize that it was the Jews who killed the Holy One so they needed to move away from Old Testament thinking and transition into the New and Better Testament they needed to acknowledge that believing in the Lord God Jehovah must include believing in Jesus the Son of God so you cannot remove the Son from the Godhead which Judaism has continued to do since that time and so that's why to a Jewish audience it made more sense to preach repent because yes you have to believe in Jesus but that is a part of believing God so you need to repent into this new covenant way of thinking another good reason to use the word repentance is that it's a good all-encompassing word it's an easy word for an orator who is summarizing a story and includes the fact that preaching may include other topics as well so let's take the story of John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness for example well we have much more dialogue in Matthew but Mark Luke and Acts just summarize the story without giving us all of the dialogue so the story can be summarized by saying John preached repentance Matthew 21 helpfully clarifies that the repentance he preached was in regards to entering the kingdom of heaven that it was by belief not from turning from sins so in a way we could say that John preached belief but this would be vague and incomplete because of the aforementioned issue that that Jews needed to transition into the New Testament way of thinking and furthermore believing in the coming Christ was not the only thing that John preached or did because he also preached about who Christ is and the readiness of his coming he he baptized people he told the Pharisees to bring forth fruits meet for repentance but you know the fruits are not the repentance itself it's important that you don't get those two things confused and he preached the eventual baptism of the Holy Ghost and so saying that he only just saying that he preached belief does not really capture all of that whereas we can say he preached repentance because it's a more inclusive word that can capture the additional things that John preached which are not not for salvation itself but they ought to come after belief onto salvation such as the the baptism and the bringing forth fruit so it's just a good all-encompassing word for that and then further building up on the issue with John so instead of saying you know instead of repent for the kingdom of God is at hand or or repent for the remission of sins what if John had said something else so although none of these would be entirely wrong there's a good reason for not using these expressions so for example if he said believe for the kingdom of God is at hand well this is the essence of what he said but as seen in previous slides this does not capture the issue that the Jews would already claim to be believers as according to the Old Testament but they needed to change into the New Testament way of thinking recognize the Holy One is here okay so to continue your belief in God that must include the acknowledgement of the Holy One he could have said be justified for the kingdom of God is at hand but justification means to have good reason for so if you just said have good reason for the kingdom of God is at hand or have good reason for the remissi