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Revive: Repentance
March 10, 2019
Introduction
This morning, we are continuing our series, “Revive.”
This series is meant to prepare our hearts for our upcoming revival.
Our revival is April 7-10.
Don’t pencil these dates on your calendar; write them with a permanent maker.
Make it a priority to be here each service during our revival.
During this season of revival, we want God to renew us.
We want righteousness restored.
We want to see lost people saved.
We want our revival to spread to our city and uplift our city.
God can make these things happen.
But revival starts inside our hearts.
Today, we are going to be looking at again.
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In , we find two ingredients for revival: Prayer and repentance.
We talked about prayer last week.
I want to encourage you to keep praying for revival.
Pray for revival to start in your heart.
Today, we want to focus on repentance.
Illustration: Sandra Bullock won the 2010 Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Leigh Ann Tuohy in The Blind Side.
The sensational film chronicles a Christian family who took in a homeless young man and gave him the chance to reach his God-given potential.
Michael Oher not only dodged the hopelessness of his dysfunctional inner city upbringing, but became the first-round NFL draft pick for the Baltimore Ravens in 2009.
At a recent fund-raiser, Sean Tuohy noted that the transformation of his family and Michael all started with two words.
When they spotted Michael walking along the road on a cold November morning (the movie depicts it as nighttime) in shorts and a T-shirt, Leigh Ann Tuohy uttered two words that changed their world.
She told Sean, “Turn around.”
They turned the car around, put Michael in their warm vehicle, and ultimately adopted him into their family.
Turn around — that’s what repentance is all about.
It’s turning from our sins to God.
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Turn from your evil ways — repentance is about turning from the path of sin and turning toward and going down the path of God.
Repentance is all about turning our lives around.
We need repentance in our church.
Let’s face it.
We all mess up.
It’s kind of like what Paul says.
Those things I know I shouldn’t be doing; I do them anyway.
The things I should be doing; I don’t know.
We all mess up.
We all sin.
We all backslide.
We all drift away from God.
We all stray from the commands of God.
We need repentance is this church.
Without this repentance, we will never experience revival.
Revival requires repentance.
1.
No Condemnation but an invitation
Repentance is not condemnation but an invitation from God.
The message of repentance steps our on our toes, but it’s not meant to beat us up.
The message of repentance should convict us of sin, but it doesn’t condemn us because of our sins.
Repentance is an invitation to experience something good.
Illustration: If I were to invite you to my house, would I serve you leftovers that had been in the fridge for over a week.
Would I make you wash your own plate and silverware?
Would I serve you cold coffee from that a morning with a stale dessert?
Would we watch a documentary how glue is made instead of watching the LSU ballgame?
NO!!!
If I invited you to my house, I would give you a hot meal, hot coffee with a fresh dessert.
Kim and I would clean up the dishes.
Against my better judgement, I would turn on the LSU ballgame.
A invitation is about experiencing something good.
Repentance is an invitation to experience something good.
Repentance is an invitation to experience forgiveness and healing.
Repentance is an invitation to experience God’s love, mercy, and grace.
Repentance is an invitation to change the course of our lives, to move from sin to God.
Repentance is an invitation to experience God sent revival.
Repentance is invitation to experience something good.
Revival requires repentance.
How do we experience repentance in our lives?
2. Steps to Experiencing Repentance
A. We must acknowledge our sin.
Remember, the story of David and Bathsheba.
David has an affair with Bathsheba.
She ends up pregnant.
To cover up his sin, David has Bathsheba’s Uriah killed on the battlefield.
David marries Bathsheba and goes about his life as if he had never sinned.
God send the prophet Nathan to David.
Nathan tells David about a poor man who had one little lamb.
The lamb grew up with the poor man’s kids.
The lamb was a member of the family.
Living next door to the poor man was a rich man with a flock of sheep.
A traveler shows up at the rich man’s house.
The rich man didn’t want to kill one of his lambs to feed the rich man.
So, he went and killed the lamb of the poor man.
David was outraged at the actions of the rich man.
Nathan said to David, “David, you are that man.
You took from Urriah and had him killed.
David, you have despised the commands of God.
David had to come face to face with his sins.
Look at what David writes about this experience in .
(KJV) For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Often, we are like David.
We sin, then we go about our lives as if we have never sinned.
We don’t acknowledge our sins.
We don’t seek to get our sins right before God.
I am saying today that we need to come face to face with our sins.
We will never experience revival without first acknowledging our sins.
B. We must get serious about sins.
Remember the story of Jonah?
God called Jonah to go to Nineveh to preach a message of repentance to them.
Jonah wanted nothing to do with Nineveh.
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