Is your church or pastor on the list?

Received this in email Thursday. The Repentance Blacklist website.

I told Sanderson to add my name to the list. The Word of God tells us "...Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."

Repentance is necessary according to Peter's declaration on the day of Pentacost.

 

repentanceblacklist.com says that the phrase “repent of their sins” is “never found in the Bible.”

But, if one diligently searches the Scriptures as the Bereans of Acts 17 did, one would find that the command to repent of one's sins is in the Word of God.

Here, God is looking for those who would repent of their wickedness. He found none.

Here is a clear command to repent and turn from idols and abominations.

Here, Stephen pleads with those about to stone him to repent of their wickedness.

Paul spoke of those who had not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness.

Repent of fornication.

While there is no direct quote in the Bible stating “repent of their sins,” or "repent of your sins", there are commands to repent of wickedness, uncleanness, fornication, lasciviousness, deeds, murders, sorceries, thefts, and idols.

Now, unless those things are not sins, it is clear God does want man to repent of sin.

 

Bitsy,

The Hylots use Acts 16:31 to show all one has to do to be saved is believe.

But they fail to realize that the jailor was repentant. If he had not been repentant, he would not have asked, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?'.

True conviction of sin brings repentance.

 

Bitsy,

I do encourage you to look at the website. You will hear no preaching. It just gives a list of many preachers who have been blacklisted by the Hylots for their stance on repentance.

And get this...

They even put three dead preachers on the list! What a joke. They want so much to be right, that they will add preachers of the past to their list. Nevermind that the Word of God backs what these preachers believed concerning repentance.

 

I figured you were in agreement from your posts, I just thought you might have thought the link I provided was a sermon in itself.

It is sad that many believe that one need not repent though.

 

Praying for ya

 

Repentance is a two part action, carrierwave. Many say it means a change of mind toward God. And that is correct. But if one has a change of mind toward God, their mind must have been elsewhere before. They were before men who "loved darkness because their deeds were evil."

Now turning to God means one would have to turn from evil as Job clearly is said to have done in Job 1:1. He "feared God and eschewed (turned his back on) evil."

Does that mean Job never sinned? I am sure it did not. But... Job did not commit sins intentionally. That is, if he knew it to be evil, he turned away from it.

Repentance is turning from sin to God. One has a change of mind about what sin is. The sin one knew prior to Salvation should be repulsive to that one who has professed Christ.

The Psalmist wrote in Psalm 66:18 "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear me." One must be repentant of sin or one will not be heard by God.

17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

A broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart is exactly what caused that trembling jailor to ask Paul and Silas, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"