The Repentant
Who are the repentant, according to the New Testament
Scriptures? Biblical repentance is a change of heart and mind leading to a
change of attitude and behavior. You were going one direction. Now you have
turned, and you are going the opposite direction, away from sin and to God and
to obedience to His commands. It is a lot like making a U-turn on a road. You
were going west, but now you are going east. You are now heading in the
opposite direction of what you were heading, only from a spiritual perspective.
And repentance is indeed required by God for salvation from
sin and for eternal life with God. Without repentance we do not have
forgiveness of sins. If we do not deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in
obedience to His commands, as a matter of life practice, we do not know God, we
are not saved from our sins, and we do not have eternal life with God,
regardless of what our lips profess. This does not mean we must be absolutely
perfect (1 John 2:1-2), but that lack of perfection is no excuse for deliberate
sin.
[Matthew 3:8; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 11:20-21;
Matthew 12:41; Matthew 21:28-31; Mark 1:15; Mark 6:12; Luke 5:32; Luke 9:23-26;
Luke 13:3,5; Luke 15:2-8; Luke 24:47; Acts 3:19-20; Acts 5:30-31; Acts 8:22; Acts
11:17-18; Acts 17:29-31; Acts 19:18-20; Acts 20:21; Acts 26:18-20; Romans 2:4; Romans
6:1-23; 2 Corinthians 7:8-10; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Ephesians 4:17-32; 1
Thessalonians 1:9-10; 2 Timothy 2:24-26; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 1:5-10; Revelation
2:5,16; Revelation 3:3,19]
The Wicked Are..
Isaiah 57:20-21 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
20But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea,
for it cannot be still,
and its waves churn up mire and muck.
21“There is no peace,” says my God,
“for the wicked.”
The picture that the Lord is giving me this morning of the
wicked is not just those who make no professions of faith in Jesus Christ, but
they are all who have not repented of (turned from) their sins, but who are
still following a sinful course of behavior, still deliberately and habitually
sinning against God and against others as a matter of life practice, who are
not obeying God in daily practice. They are the unwise, foolish, reckless, and
the self-indulgent who habitually abandon what is right and who chase after
what is sinful.
They are like a storm-tossed sea, which cannot be still, and
its waves churn up mire and muck. In other words, these are those who are
continually wandering, drifting, who are spiritually lazy and asleep, who are
corrupt, vile, immoral, dishonest, crooked, perverted, and the sexually immoral.
They are those who act foolishly, unwise, recklessly, selfishly, and
irresponsibly as a matter of practice, for they are still living according to
the flesh. Rather than submitting to God, they surrender to their flesh over
and again.
There is no peace for the wicked, says God. For one cannot
continue on a sinful course, repeating the same sins over again, foolishly
looking only to (or primarily to) self and to self-pleasure, and then be at
peace with God. You cannot habitually “churn up mire and muck” (moral filth)
and be at peace with God. For Jesus Christ gave His life up for us on that
cross to put our sins to death with Him so that, by faith in Him, we will deny
self, die to sin, and obey God in lifestyle. There is no peace for those who
practice sin.
But The Wicked Are..
An Original Work / August 14, 2026
Christ’s
Free Servant, Sue J Love
An
Original Work / August 29, 2018
Christ’s
Free Servant, Sue J Love
Your bond is broken with your Lord and
Savior
And your testimony is separate from
Him.
Your words not matching your actions
today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and
pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.
Purity’s lacking in your life and
witness,
For you profess one thing, but other
you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the
flesh.
Not living in truth to what you
confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.
Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis
true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it
true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord
God.
Because of how you live, you are a
fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life
to God.
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