WEBVTT 00:00:25.940 --> 00:00:31.480 The very first step of entering the kingdom has always been 00:00:31.740 --> 00:00:33.740 Repent. 00:00:34.270 --> 00:00:37.260 The tragedy is so many people are becoming Christians 00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:39.120 today without repenting. 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:43.460 That God is having to tell Christians to repent in this country. 00:00:43.580 --> 00:00:46.920 He shouldn't need to be telling Christians to repent. 00:00:47.080 --> 00:00:50.480 The church should be telling the world to repent instead. 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:53.300 If you are hearing from God you know that He is 00:00:53.300 --> 00:00:56.540 telling the church, Christians, in Britain to repent 00:00:56.660 --> 00:00:58.220 and catch up 00:00:58.220 --> 00:01:00.580 on what they should have done years ago. 00:01:00.580 --> 00:01:03.090 So that is the first step. 00:01:03.210 --> 00:01:06.020 But what does it mean to repent? 00:01:06.300 --> 00:01:10.400 Most people think it is a matter of feelings, 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:12.540 of tears, 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:16.510 of feeling sorry for what you have done. 00:01:16.690 --> 00:01:19.660 But that may not be repentance. 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:21.700 It may be simply 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:23.350 regret. 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:29.820 A lot of people have feelings of regret about how they lived. 00:01:29.880 --> 00:01:33.780 I would be surprised if there was anyone here that didn't 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:37.760 regret some of the decisions they have made in life. 00:01:38.380 --> 00:01:40.880 And feelings of regret 00:01:41.140 --> 00:01:44.200 are about what you have done to yourself. 00:01:45.660 --> 00:01:47.780 What you have done with your own life 00:01:48.340 --> 00:01:50.340 and your own decisions. 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:54.280 There are other people who have deep feelings 00:01:54.620 --> 00:01:56.740 of what we call remorse. 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.400 And remorse is what you feel 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:02.710 about what you have done to others. 00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:06.390 I remember meeting a man 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:09.320 suffering from venereal disease 00:02:09.460 --> 00:02:12.220 as the result of his way of life. 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:14.420 And he had passed on 00:02:14.620 --> 00:02:17.720 this venereal disease to his daughter. 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:21.980 And he was filled with remorse 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.120 when he saw what he had done to someone else. 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.380 He had deep feelings of remorse about it. 00:02:28.740 --> 00:02:31.000 But that is not repentance. 00:02:31.720 --> 00:02:35.080 Repentance has this unique feature. 00:02:36.600 --> 00:02:42.240 That repentance is what you feel you have done to God. 00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:46.860 That is quite different from regret and remorse. 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:51.540 Suddenly you realize that it is God you have hurt most. 00:02:52.060 --> 00:02:56.220 Like the prodigal son realized it was not just his father he hurt. 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:58.500 He said, "Father I have sinned 00:02:58.740 --> 00:03:01.220 against you and against heaven." 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:04.780 As soon as that heaven dimension comes in 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.040 and you realize it's God you have hurt most, 00:03:08.220 --> 00:03:11.060 and you realize it''s God's laws you broke, 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:13.520 it's God's love you refused, 00:03:13.720 --> 00:03:15.880 it's God's anger you provoked, 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:18.280 it's God's judgment you deserve, 00:03:18.500 --> 00:03:22.800 it's God's mercy you need. When this God dimension enters in 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.360 it becomes what Paul calls, "the godly sorrow 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:29.520 that leads to repentance." 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:34.760 Regret and remorse do not necessarily lead to repentance. 00:03:34.980 --> 00:03:38.100 Cain regretted bitterly 00:03:38.300 --> 00:03:41.780 what he had done to Abel but he never repented of it. 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:44.560 He never put it right, 00:03:44.620 --> 00:03:46.220 he never confessed it. 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.880 He only regretted the punishment he was now experiencing. 00:03:51.440 --> 00:03:54.300 Well, that was a simple introduction. 00:03:54.980 --> 00:03:56.600 I now want to 00:03:56.880 --> 00:04:00.360 tell you that repentance involves three things. 00:04:02.140 --> 00:04:04.400 So we are looking now at repentance. 00:04:06.140 --> 00:04:08.680 In the New Testament repentance 00:04:09.200 --> 00:04:11.980 passes through three stages. 00:04:12.440 --> 00:04:14.440 Very simply: 00:04:14.440 --> 00:04:18.120 Thought, Word, and Deed. 00:04:19.780 --> 00:04:23.000 Therefore repentance takes time. 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:26.500 The trouble is when you are trying to lead someone 00:04:26.500 --> 00:04:29.280 to Christ in 5 minutes at the end of a meeting 00:04:29.380 --> 00:04:32.560 as the bus is waiting for them you can't 00:04:33.620 --> 00:04:35.620 take them through repentance properly. 00:04:36.580 --> 00:04:39.480 And so we make them say a sinner's prayer, 00:04:39.780 --> 00:04:44.380 "Lord Jesus I'm sorry for all my sins, I invite you into my life, Amen." 00:04:44.540 --> 00:04:46.760 That is not repentance. 00:04:47.760 --> 00:04:52.000 In fact, I doubt if you can repent in general. 00:04:53.580 --> 00:04:56.540 You probably know the general confession that is used 00:04:56.540 --> 00:04:58.670 in Anglican churches every Sunday. 00:04:58.670 --> 00:05:01.400 "I have left undone the things I ought to have done; and 00:05:01.400 --> 00:05:03.890 I have done the things I ought not to have done; 00:05:03.890 --> 00:05:05.620 And there is no health in us." 00:05:06.020 --> 00:05:09.260 All this starts as miserable sinners, which produces a lot 00:05:09.260 --> 00:05:11.180 of miserable congregations. 00:05:11.280 --> 00:05:14.360 We should be happy saints, not miserable sinners. 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.260 But a general confession, when I hear it, and 00:05:17.260 --> 00:05:19.720 my wife and I are often in Anglican churches. 00:05:20.020 --> 00:05:22.020 Now aah... 00:05:22.020 --> 00:05:23.320 One in our village... 00:05:23.320 --> 00:05:26.360 I look at the congregation when they are confessing 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:28.160 their sins and I wonder, 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.160 "Are you thinking of anything 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:31.780 you have done? 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.120 Or anything you have not done? 00:05:34.440 --> 00:05:36.730 Or are you just signing a blank check? 00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:40.600 You see I am going to show you that repentance is always 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:43.460 repentance of particular sins. 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:46.160 You can't repent of general sins. 00:05:46.980 --> 00:05:50.620 You can only repent of this, and this, and this. 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.040 And that involves these 3 steps. 00:05:54.260 --> 00:05:56.080 It involves first of all 00:05:56.280 --> 00:05:58.280 changing your mind 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:01.240 about particular things 00:06:01.430 --> 00:06:03.710 and thinking God's way about them. 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.880 And when you do this you come to 2 conclusions: First, 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:11.300 God is a much better person than I thought He was. 00:06:11.750 --> 00:06:15.980 And second, I am a much worse person than I thought I was. 00:06:16.830 --> 00:06:18.520 Usually it is the other way. 00:06:18.520 --> 00:06:20.710 When an unbeliever thinks about God 00:06:20.710 --> 00:06:23.970 he thinks God is unfair and himself fair. 00:06:24.810 --> 00:06:27.340 That he is better than God. Have you noticed that? 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.890 A number of people say, "Why does God do this, why 00:06:29.890 --> 00:06:31.800 does God allow that, why should God...?" 00:06:32.020 --> 00:06:34.660 ... "I know better than God and if I were running 00:06:34.660 --> 00:06:37.320 the universe I could do it better than He's doing it." 00:06:37.420 --> 00:06:39.240 That is what they are saying. 00:06:39.460 --> 00:06:44.140 And they are really setting themselves as a better person than God is. 00:06:44.430 --> 00:06:47.170 They are saying He is making mistakes which I wouldn't. 00:06:47.420 --> 00:06:49.640 He is treating people in a way I wouldn't. 00:06:50.380 --> 00:06:52.730 I am, therefore, a better person than He is. 00:06:52.870 --> 00:06:56.370 When you repent your thoughts take a somersault. 00:06:57.570 --> 00:07:01.920 And when you catch a glimpse of His holiness and His purity 00:07:02.090 --> 00:07:04.920 you begin to realize how lucky you are. 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.300 And you have a much lower view of yourself. 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:11.770 In fact, the higher your view God the lower your view yourself. 00:07:11.930 --> 00:07:14.190 Repentance is a change of mind. 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:19.070 The Greek word 'metanoia' means to have second thoughts: 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:23.340 'meta'- change or after: 'noia'- mind 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.260 To think again about the way you have been living. 00:07:28.260 --> 00:07:30.660 It begins when you change your mind. 00:07:31.090 --> 00:07:33.410 When you think God's way. 00:07:33.660 --> 00:07:38.200 And then you realize not only that your bad deeds are pretty horrible. 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.580 Amazingly you begin to see that your good deeds are just 00:07:42.580 --> 00:07:44.760 as offensive to God. 00:07:45.460 --> 00:07:47.580 It comes as a shock to many people 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.170 when they realize in their mind 00:07:50.540 --> 00:07:54.450 that the best things they have ever done are not good enough for God. 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:58.680 And that our righteousness has to be repented of as 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:00.470 well as our sins. 00:08:00.840 --> 00:08:03.760 That our good deeds as well as our bad deeds need 00:08:03.760 --> 00:08:05.360 to be put away. 00:08:05.500 --> 00:08:07.440 What a revolution that is! 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:09.440 Most people think repentance 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:11.500 covers the bad things you have done. 00:08:11.500 --> 00:08:14.670 But in the Bible it covers the good things you have as well. 00:08:14.760 --> 00:08:17.800 Let me give you 2 texts from the Bible which are a bit blunt to 00:08:17.820 --> 00:08:21.260 a Christian congregation. The Bible is a blunt book. 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:26.580 It has unfortunately been tidied up in English for polite congregations. 00:08:26.870 --> 00:08:30.100 But in the Hebrew and Greek it is a very earthy book. 00:08:30.110 --> 00:08:33.920 Isaiah said this, the ladies will understand this, 00:08:33.920 --> 00:08:35.520 Isaiah said, 00:08:35.980 --> 00:08:38.090 "Our righteousness, to God, 00:08:38.280 --> 00:08:41.090 is like a menstrual cloth." 00:08:41.380 --> 00:08:43.510 (A disposable napkin) 00:08:44.820 --> 00:08:47.080 That is how you feel about your righteousness 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:48.980 once you think God's way. 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:50.480 Here is one for the men. 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:52.710 Paul says in Philippians 3 00:08:53.060 --> 00:08:55.900 "When I consider the commandments I kept, 00:08:56.800 --> 00:08:57.960 not those I broke." 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:00.640 (And he kept 9 of the 10 commandments.) 00:09:00.640 --> 00:09:03.610 He said, "When I consider the ones I kept 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:06.300 I count them as dung." 00:09:06.300 --> 00:09:09.880 He feels like a little boy who emptied his bowels into a pot 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:13.170 and holds it up saying, "Look what I have done." 00:09:14.500 --> 00:09:17.990 And he uses a very down to earth Greek word for 00:09:17.990 --> 00:09:22.540 human excreta for which this is the well known English equivalent today. 00:09:23.380 --> 00:09:24.960 That is the Bible. 00:09:25.460 --> 00:09:29.520 In other words you realize that your righteousness 00:09:29.870 --> 00:09:34.310 is as far short of God's standards as your bad deeds. 00:09:34.660 --> 00:09:37.240 And you leave them all behind you and you say, 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.290 "Nothing in my hand I bring; simply to your cross I cling." 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:45.300 That is to come to the truth about yourself. 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:47.480 I love that story about 00:09:47.660 --> 00:09:50.950 an old preacher in the slave plantations 00:09:50.950 --> 00:09:53.540 in the deep south of America. He was preaching on the 00:09:53.540 --> 00:09:55.260 Prodigal Son and he said... 00:09:55.430 --> 00:09:58.380 "He took off his jacket and threw it away. 00:09:58.660 --> 00:10:00.890 And he took off his shirt and threw that away. 00:10:00.890 --> 00:10:02.940 He took off his vest and threw that away. 00:10:02.940 --> 00:10:06.060 And then, brothers, he just came to himself." 00:10:06.940 --> 00:10:09.140 You have missed the pun. 00:10:09.230 --> 00:10:11.410 You're not quite with me. 00:10:11.560 --> 00:10:15.160 To come to yourself means to finally strip away all the 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:19.070 covering and get to the real truth of your condition. 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:23.470 It is interesting, the closer you get to God the worse you feel. 00:10:24.350 --> 00:10:27.250 The more you understand how good He is, 00:10:27.420 --> 00:10:30.070 the more you realize how bad you are. 00:10:30.860 --> 00:10:35.240 And realizing and thinking that way is the first major step. 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.680 But that's not the end of repentance. 00:10:37.810 --> 00:10:39.810 The second step 00:10:39.860 --> 00:10:42.100 is the word of repentance. 00:10:42.820 --> 00:10:46.840 And that means first to confess sins. 00:10:47.620 --> 00:10:53.000 Protestants, in reaction to the Catholic practice of confession, 00:10:53.220 --> 00:10:55.300 have neglected confession. 00:10:56.260 --> 00:10:59.280 If you had asked John the Baptist for baptism 00:10:59.280 --> 00:11:00.750 he would have said, 00:11:01.060 --> 00:11:03.170 "Then before you go into the water 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:06.680 make a public confession of your sins." 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:08.970 He insisted on that. 00:11:09.100 --> 00:11:11.680 You search the New Testament and see how many times it 00:11:11.680 --> 00:11:15.290 says confess your sins, to one another. 00:11:15.900 --> 00:11:20.480 You know I found it is therapeutic if I am counseling an inquirer 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:22.480 to get them to name 00:11:22.640 --> 00:11:24.910 the sins they want forgiven. 00:11:25.890 --> 00:11:29.040 That does two good things for them. First of all, it helps 00:11:29.040 --> 00:11:33.150 them to be accountable for specific things. 00:11:33.330 --> 00:11:36.330 Somebody comes to me and says, "I'd like to be a Christian." 00:11:36.330 --> 00:11:38.450 -"Oh, you'd like your sins forgiven?" 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:39.560 - "Yes." 00:11:39.680 --> 00:11:41.860 "You'd like to be saved from your sins?" 00:11:41.860 --> 00:11:43.620 -"Yes." 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:48.040 -"Then you tell me what sins you want to be saved from." 00:11:48.860 --> 00:11:51.760 I find that's when repentance begins. 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:57.240 And somehow naming it gets it out into the light. 00:11:57.710 --> 00:12:01.760 My heart always leaps when somebody says to me in those situations, 00:12:01.780 --> 00:12:04.210 "I've never told anyone this before." 00:12:05.040 --> 00:12:07.650 I think there is a release coming in a moment. 00:12:07.990 --> 00:12:09.660 It's coming into the light. 00:12:09.660 --> 00:12:11.460 It's getting out. 00:12:11.540 --> 00:12:13.420 Even just saying it 00:12:13.620 --> 00:12:16.030 somehow does something about it. 00:12:17.040 --> 00:12:18.940 And it is specific then. 00:12:19.100 --> 00:12:20.640 "Lord it is this 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:22.070 and it is this 00:12:22.100 --> 00:12:23.400 and it is this." 00:12:23.710 --> 00:12:26.410 There is no confession of general sin 00:12:26.410 --> 00:12:29.280 in the New Testament. There are only confession 00:12:29.900 --> 00:12:32.050 of sins, plural, 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:33.560 a list. 00:12:33.760 --> 00:12:36.060 Confession also helps 00:12:36.520 --> 00:12:39.020 to make a person responsible. 00:12:39.690 --> 00:12:42.860 When you confess sins you can't make excuses. 00:12:43.220 --> 00:12:45.670 You can't say, "Well, it wasn't my fault." 00:12:45.670 --> 00:12:48.930 Because confession is to say, "It was my fault, 00:12:49.220 --> 00:12:51.200 I chose that way." 00:12:51.270 --> 00:12:53.690 Let me say something that could be misunderstood. 00:12:53.690 --> 00:12:56.350 There's an awful lot of 'inner healing' around now. 00:12:56.990 --> 00:13:00.150 And I find Christians would rather have 'inner healing' 00:13:00.180 --> 00:13:02.300 than forgiveness. 00:13:02.870 --> 00:13:05.370 Because forgiveness demands repentance. 00:13:05.460 --> 00:13:09.320 And it is so easy to blame someone else for my sins. 00:13:10.020 --> 00:13:12.660 And to say it was my parents and what they did to me. 00:13:12.660 --> 00:13:14.790 Because of what happened to me as a child. 00:13:14.790 --> 00:13:17.480 and to say, "I need healing, I don't need forgiveness, 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:19.090 I need healing." 00:13:19.100 --> 00:13:23.880 But listen, we are not the result of what has been done to us. 00:13:23.910 --> 00:13:28.160 We are the result of what we have done about what has been done to us. 00:13:28.920 --> 00:13:31.990 It's the choices of reaction that we have made, 00:13:32.140 --> 00:13:34.070 that has made us what we are. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:35.540 If I am bitter, 00:13:35.540 --> 00:13:39.050 it's because I have chosen to resent what was done to me 00:13:39.170 --> 00:13:41.060 rather than forgive it. 00:13:41.540 --> 00:13:45.380 And in fact I really believe that more people are in need of repentance 00:13:45.380 --> 00:13:47.170 than 'inner healing'. 00:13:47.430 --> 00:13:49.740 Although there is still a place for that, 00:13:49.740 --> 00:13:52.270 where the Holy Spirit can go back and sort out 00:13:52.350 --> 00:13:54.400 a problem from earlier years. 00:13:54.400 --> 00:13:58.230 But the basic need of mankind is not for 'inner healing' 00:13:58.250 --> 00:14:02.340 but for repentance that makes it possible for God to forgive: 00:14:02.800 --> 00:14:05.770 of saying, "I am what I am now 00:14:05.870 --> 00:14:08.130 because I chose 00:14:08.730 --> 00:14:11.120 at crucial points in my life 00:14:11.230 --> 00:14:13.820 a way that leads to this character. 00:14:14.630 --> 00:14:17.330 We are all a result of our choices. 00:14:17.390 --> 00:14:20.360 And to treat someone who is responsible for what they have 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.580 done is to treat them with the dignity of a human being. 00:14:23.580 --> 00:14:25.810 They are not a Pavlovian dog. 00:14:25.850 --> 00:14:28.940 You are saying to someone, "You are a human being. 00:14:28.940 --> 00:14:32.370 You have the will to choose. You have chosen." 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:35.010 I have heard men in court plead, 00:14:35.180 --> 00:14:37.600 "Well, I got into bad company Your Honor." 00:14:38.290 --> 00:14:42.460 I have never heard a man say, "I chose that company." 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.420 Just: " I got into bad company" 00:14:46.890 --> 00:14:51.000 But we choose our friends. We choose the company we keep. 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:53.700 We choose the ambitions we have. 00:14:53.980 --> 00:14:56.640 We chose, we choose. 00:14:56.640 --> 00:15:00.720 And confession is saying I made the wrong choice. 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:02.720 And I am responsible. 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:05.200 That is the beginning of lifting a person 00:15:05.250 --> 00:15:08.520 to the dignity of a responsible human being. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:12.280 And to get them to spell it out in words is very important. 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:16.000 If we confess our sins- not our sin. 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.660 If we confess our sins, which means, 00:15:18.730 --> 00:15:22.050 to name them one by one, individually. 00:15:22.510 --> 00:15:24.620 Then He is faithful and just 00:15:24.820 --> 00:15:25.960 to forgive 00:15:26.140 --> 00:15:27.680 each one-- 00:15:28.010 --> 00:15:29.760 of our sins... 00:15:29.990 --> 00:15:32.180 and His blood goes on keeping us clean. 00:15:32.620 --> 00:15:34.100 A beautiful promise. 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:36.240 As well as "Confession" 00:15:36.300 --> 00:15:39.110 that is one part of the word for forgiveness. 00:15:39.220 --> 00:15:43.300 It is also important with certain sins 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:47.420 to get a person to "renounce" that thing. 00:15:47.640 --> 00:15:51.750 To say, in words, before God, "I am finished with it, 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.320 I will not go back to it." 00:15:55.220 --> 00:15:57.040 To 'renounce'. 00:15:57.390 --> 00:16:01.020 In early baptism they were always asked to renounce 00:16:01.020 --> 00:16:03.190 the world, the flesh and the devil. 00:16:03.580 --> 00:16:06.740 And to say publicly, "I have nothing more to do 00:16:06.740 --> 00:16:08.740 with those false masters." 00:16:08.740 --> 00:16:10.460 To 'renounce' 00:16:10.490 --> 00:16:12.440 Now comes the hard part 00:16:12.670 --> 00:16:15.080 of repentance, which is 'deeds'. 00:16:15.280 --> 00:16:19.650 Here is a part of repentance that many people don't realize. 00:16:19.680 --> 00:16:21.990 This is what takes time. 00:16:22.770 --> 00:16:25.360 Repentance begins with THOUGHT 00:16:26.260 --> 00:16:28.860 It then comes out in WORDS 00:16:29.350 --> 00:16:32.700 but it must then come out in DEEDS. 00:16:32.860 --> 00:16:34.970 I'll give you 2 texts: 00:16:35.060 --> 00:16:39.740 John the Baptist said this when someone came to be baptized. 00:16:40.140 --> 00:16:43.620 "Produce fruit worthy of repentance 00:16:43.700 --> 00:16:45.700 then I will baptize you." 00:16:45.700 --> 00:16:47.580 They said, "What do you mean?" 00:16:47.580 --> 00:16:51.120 If you have too many clothes give some away. 00:16:51.870 --> 00:16:55.690 If you're cheating with your finance, get your books straight. 00:16:56.970 --> 00:17:00.970 If you are bullying someone because of your power, stop doing it. 00:17:01.510 --> 00:17:03.720 And then here is one for today. 00:17:04.140 --> 00:17:07.120 Be content with your wages. 00:17:07.810 --> 00:17:11.180 Where are the preachers in Britain preaching that today? 00:17:11.590 --> 00:17:14.890 Preaching it to the teachers preaching it to the nurses. 00:17:15.330 --> 00:17:17.300 Where are the preachers preaching that? 00:17:17.300 --> 00:17:20.190 We're not that because we are not preaching repentance. 00:17:20.500 --> 00:17:23.660 But boy there is a practical repentance. 00:17:23.660 --> 00:17:25.500 Be content with your wages. 00:17:25.500 --> 00:17:27.760 How many people who are baptized in your church 00:17:27.760 --> 00:17:30.290 do you ask them, "Are you content with your wages?" 00:17:33.120 --> 00:17:37.340 We laugh nervously because we know we are just 00:17:37.390 --> 00:17:40.320 getting them to repeat a general confession and 00:17:40.320 --> 00:17:43.370 the 'sinner's prayer'.We are not pinning it to reality. 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:45.740 Now Paul said this, 00:17:45.740 --> 00:17:49.080 "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision." 00:17:49.630 --> 00:17:52.700 But what heavenly vision was he not disobedient to? 00:17:52.760 --> 00:17:54.220 I wonder if you know? 00:17:54.580 --> 00:17:56.810 If you read the verse it says this, 00:17:56.810 --> 00:18:00.100 I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision 00:18:00.190 --> 00:18:04.820 but I preached repentance to the gentiles 00:18:04.820 --> 00:18:08.420 that they should turn or convert to God 00:18:08.460 --> 00:18:13.720 and prove their repentance by their deeds. 00:18:14.900 --> 00:18:19.380 And Paul's ministry was a ministry to get people to prove 00:18:19.580 --> 00:18:22.140 their repentance by their deeds. 00:18:22.460 --> 00:18:27.420 I believe we should stop baptizing people on profession of faith alone 00:18:27.470 --> 00:18:31.220 and baptize them on proof of repentance. 00:18:32.100 --> 00:18:34.220 Now just let that sink in. 00:18:34.850 --> 00:18:38.200 Zacheus...When Jesus came to have lunch with Zacheus, the little 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:40.610 man up in a tree in more ways than one. 00:18:40.700 --> 00:18:44.100 Jesus came to his house for lunch and Zacheus said, 00:18:44.280 --> 00:18:46.470 "I have been defrauding people." 00:18:46.850 --> 00:18:48.920 But from now on I am going to, 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:51.690 "I am going to honest and straight from now on." 00:18:51.750 --> 00:18:53.800 He did not say that 00:18:54.320 --> 00:18:57.310 He said, "I'm going to go to everyone I have defrauded 00:18:57.810 --> 00:19:01.880 and pay them back with interest, four-fold." 00:19:02.220 --> 00:19:06.980 And Jesus said, "Today salvation is come to this house." 00:19:08.040 --> 00:19:12.140 Repentance is putting the past right. 00:19:14.360 --> 00:19:16.650 You can't put all sins right. 00:19:17.170 --> 00:19:20.270 But there are some, the Lord will show you, can be put right. 00:19:20.750 --> 00:19:23.270 I preached in Canberra 00:19:23.490 --> 00:19:26.700 in the houses of parliament to members of both houses 00:19:26.700 --> 00:19:28.430 from Australia. 00:19:28.710 --> 00:19:30.560 And after the 00:19:30.560 --> 00:19:31.920 time together, which was 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:34.940 pretty hot as they know how to heckle a speaker there. 00:19:35.100 --> 00:19:37.460 And it was hot, but after a time 00:19:37.510 --> 00:19:40.790 one of their most prominent politicians 00:19:40.900 --> 00:19:43.560 as he left the room, whispered to me, 00:19:43.780 --> 00:19:49.020 "I'm going home to re-write my income tax returns." 00:19:50.270 --> 00:19:51.680 My heart lept! 00:19:52.180 --> 00:19:53.660 There were no tears 00:19:54.150 --> 00:19:56.210 but there was repentance. 00:19:56.800 --> 00:19:59.090 He had THOUGHT God's way. 00:19:59.490 --> 00:20:01.760 He put it into WORDS 00:20:01.820 --> 00:20:04.480 And he was going home to re-write his income tax. 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:07.050 That's where the rubber hits the road, as they say. 00:20:07.660 --> 00:20:09.410 That's repentance. 00:20:09.490 --> 00:20:11.320 DEEDS of repentance, 00:20:11.450 --> 00:20:13.540 doing something about it. 00:20:13.630 --> 00:20:15.500 Putting the past right. 00:20:15.500 --> 00:20:17.640 Bringing it to a proper conclusion, 00:20:17.670 --> 00:20:21.540 cutting the umbilical chord that ties you to Satan's kingdom. 00:20:21.610 --> 00:20:24.800 Tying it off so that you are free of it. 00:20:24.950 --> 00:20:29.020 It may involve a negative thing like destroying something. 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:33.430 The last time I was in Ashford I had to advise 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:37.800 someone to go home and burn his Freemason's apron, 00:20:37.890 --> 00:20:39.590 which he did. 00:20:39.990 --> 00:20:42.100 Sometimes we need to do that. 00:20:42.100 --> 00:20:44.490 In Ephesus they burned 00:20:44.600 --> 00:20:47.970 thousands of dollars worth of occult books. 00:20:48.090 --> 00:20:50.020 You read Acts 19. 00:20:50.020 --> 00:20:53.500 this is all part the of the DEEDS of repentance. 00:20:53.500 --> 00:20:56.880 And this has been so neglected in our preaching. 00:20:57.020 --> 00:21:01.070 It is no wonder that the Lord is having to tell Christians 00:21:01.110 --> 00:21:05.410 to go back and repent and put things right. 00:21:05.520 --> 00:21:08.310 But when they do there is a tremendous relief. 00:21:08.930 --> 00:21:13.980 I was preaching in Aberdeen for 3 nights in the Central Theater. 00:21:14.180 --> 00:21:17.340 And after the second night a girl came up to me. 00:21:17.340 --> 00:21:20.180 She was very upset, she was blotchy faced. 00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:22.480 She was crying, she was shaking 00:21:22.520 --> 00:21:26.280 and she said, "Oh Mr. Pawson you are frustrating me. 00:21:26.380 --> 00:21:30.020 I want to be a Christian; I've tried to be a Christian. 00:21:30.020 --> 00:21:32.920 I've gone forward at every evangelistic 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:35.480 meeting in Aberdeen for 18 months, 00:21:35.530 --> 00:21:37.780 including the Luis Palau Crusade." 00:21:37.940 --> 00:21:39.730 She said, "Nothing has changed 00:21:39.730 --> 00:21:42.270 nothing has happened, I've signed cards, I've been 00:21:42.300 --> 00:21:44.120 consoled, I've been to classes. 00:21:44.120 --> 00:21:46.220 Nothing has happened. I'm beginning to doubt 00:21:46.230 --> 00:21:48.080 if there is anything in it. 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:50.120 But I still want to be a Christian." 00:21:50.120 --> 00:21:51.900 What do you do with a girl like that? 00:21:51.900 --> 00:21:53.380 I looked her in the eye, 00:21:53.380 --> 00:21:55.660 I said, "Who are you living with?" 00:21:56.540 --> 00:21:58.580 She said, "I live with a young man." 00:21:58.640 --> 00:21:59.760 I said, 00:21:59.760 --> 00:22:01.440 - "Are you married to him?" - "No." 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:03.750 - "Are living like you are married?" - "Yes." 00:22:03.750 --> 00:22:06.500 - "Why aren't you married?" - "He doesn't believe in it, 00:22:06.500 --> 00:22:08.470 he says it is just a legal bit of paper. 00:22:08.470 --> 00:22:11.140 As long as we love each other that is all that matters." 00:22:11.140 --> 00:22:14.180 I said, "You have a very difficult decision to make. 00:22:14.180 --> 00:22:17.470 I wish I could make it for you but I can't. You've got to make it. 00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:21.130 You've got to decide which man you want to live with, 00:22:21.360 --> 00:22:23.800 that young man or Jesus." 00:22:24.260 --> 00:22:26.460 And then she really got angry. 00:22:27.010 --> 00:22:29.640 She said, "No one else told me I had to do that." 00:22:29.980 --> 00:22:33.750 I said, "But you've told me you are getting nowhere with any of the others." 00:22:33.780 --> 00:22:37.350 I said, "Jesus won't join in an arrangement like that. 00:22:37.380 --> 00:22:38.800 You've got to decide." 00:22:38.950 --> 00:22:41.980 Now if this were a preacher's story, I would tell you she fell 00:22:41.980 --> 00:22:45.570 on her knees, confessed and was gloriously saved. 00:22:45.620 --> 00:22:48.310 But it is not a preacher's story, it is the truth. 00:22:48.390 --> 00:22:51.580 So I better tell you the truth. She ran out of that theater 00:22:51.700 --> 00:22:53.870 sobbing her heart out. 00:22:54.060 --> 00:22:58.530 And I have thought of that girl again and again and again. 00:22:58.740 --> 00:23:01.620 I know how Jesus felt about the rich young ruler who 00:23:01.620 --> 00:23:03.910 wouldn't give up his money. 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:06.220 Do you know what the problem was? 00:23:06.220 --> 00:23:10.840 Everybody that consoled that girl had told her to believe in Jesus. 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:14.840 They hadn't started by saying "Repent". 00:23:15.590 --> 00:23:17.050 Do you see? 00:23:17.060 --> 00:23:19.170 And so she was stuck. 00:23:19.320 --> 00:23:21.990 And so often that is the problem. 00:23:22.040 --> 00:23:25.040 We have started at step number 2. 00:23:25.350 --> 00:23:29.570 Jesus and John the Baptist and Peter on the day of Pentecost 00:23:29.570 --> 00:23:32.440 all started with the word "repent". 00:23:32.990 --> 00:23:35.430 Now, at the practical level 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:37.320 to help someone to repent 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.180 you need to help them to do 3 things. 00:23:40.250 --> 00:23:43.500 The first thing we need to help them to do 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:45.680 is to be serious. 00:23:48.760 --> 00:23:51.520 Because repenting is a serious business. 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:54.320 It can't be taken lightly. 00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:57.420 I am going to repeat the words of the marriage service now. 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:00.260 These words should not be taken lightly. 00:24:00.360 --> 00:24:02.560 I can't remember them 00:24:02.800 --> 00:24:04.940 I knew I said them. 00:24:05.310 --> 00:24:08.400 Well now how do we help someone to be serious? 00:24:08.430 --> 00:24:11.880 I doubt very much if they will be serious 00:24:11.980 --> 00:24:14.980 unless something of fear 00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:16.840 is in the relationship 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:19.490 the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 00:24:20.520 --> 00:24:24.340 And we need to help people into the right kind of fear 00:24:24.460 --> 00:24:26.060 to be serious. 00:24:26.130 --> 00:24:29.480 And I think you can best do that by pointing out 00:24:29.810 --> 00:24:34.050 where their present way of life will lead them. 00:24:35.210 --> 00:24:39.580 The word I found most helpful for people to realize that 00:24:39.580 --> 00:24:41.520 is the word 'perish'. 00:24:41.800 --> 00:24:43.780 I say, "Do you realize 00:24:43.780 --> 00:24:47.550 what it is to perish?" Now that word, in English 00:24:47.590 --> 00:24:51.490 means exactly the same as it does in the Greek. 00:24:51.890 --> 00:24:54.860 If you have a perished hot water bottle, 00:24:54.860 --> 00:24:56.380 what do you have? 00:24:56.380 --> 00:24:58.940 Is it still a hot water bottle? 00:25:00.330 --> 00:25:03.650 Hands up of those who say it is still a hot water bottle? 00:25:04.800 --> 00:25:07.480 Hands up those who say it is not a hot water bottle? 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.190 Hands up those who don't like putting hands up. 00:25:11.570 --> 00:25:14.570 [The audience laughs] 00:25:15.100 --> 00:25:18.240 Well is it still a hot water bottle or isn't it? 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:21.330 It looks like one, doesn't it? 00:25:21.970 --> 00:25:25.790 It can't hold water. But is it still a hot water bottle? 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:31.520 Listen, when a hot water bottle is perished or a tire 00:25:31.820 --> 00:25:35.920 it can't be used for the purpose for which it was made. 00:25:36.130 --> 00:25:38.300 It still looks like one, 00:25:38.710 --> 00:25:40.620 it may feel like one, 00:25:40.820 --> 00:25:43.000 but it can't be used as one. 00:25:43.220 --> 00:25:47.320 A 'perished' human being still looks like a human being, 00:25:47.540 --> 00:25:49.620 feels like a human being, 00:25:49.800 --> 00:25:53.260 but can't be used as a human being. 00:25:53.810 --> 00:25:57.080 What do you do with something that is perished? 00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:00.820 You throw it away. 00:26:01.120 --> 00:26:04.440 Or you burn it in the incinerator. 00:26:05.340 --> 00:26:08.670 Hell is God's incinerator 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:11.220 for 'perished' people. 00:26:13.210 --> 00:26:15.500 They don't cease to be people 00:26:15.570 --> 00:26:17.560 they are just no more use. 00:26:18.780 --> 00:26:21.580 I think that is the most terrible destiny that a 00:26:21.580 --> 00:26:23.670 human being could ever have 00:26:23.710 --> 00:26:25.810 to become utterly useless. 00:26:25.830 --> 00:26:28.300 Unemployment and redundancy 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:30.540 is enough to destroy your self respect. 00:26:31.140 --> 00:26:35.200 But to know that you have ceased to be of any further use 00:26:35.300 --> 00:26:37.940 to God or to anyone else, 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:40.400 that is what 'perished' means. 00:26:40.590 --> 00:26:44.090 And God so loved us that He didn't want us to 'perish'. 00:26:45.040 --> 00:26:46.700 That's what hell is. 00:26:46.760 --> 00:26:49.960 It is a place where you are no use to yourself, 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.080 to others or to God. 00:26:52.080 --> 00:26:55.260 And you spend the rest of your existance 00:26:55.420 --> 00:26:58.480 with people who are no use to you 00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:01.160 or to themselves or to God. 00:27:01.380 --> 00:27:04.640 I can think of nothing more terrible than that. 00:27:04.980 --> 00:27:08.740 That is the end product of living without God. 00:27:09.420 --> 00:27:13.140 The fear of becoming utterly redundant 00:27:13.320 --> 00:27:15.060 in God's universe. 00:27:15.510 --> 00:27:17.300 That's the fear of the Lord. 00:27:17.900 --> 00:27:21.840 Jesus said something about nuclear disarmament, 00:27:22.060 --> 00:27:25.280 He said, "Don't fear those that can kill your body. 00:27:25.390 --> 00:27:28.920 Rather fear Him who can destroy body and soul 00:27:29.100 --> 00:27:30.420 in hell." 00:27:31.120 --> 00:27:33.070 'Perished' people. 00:27:34.980 --> 00:27:38.080 The second thing we need to do for people, 00:27:38.220 --> 00:27:43.760 to help them to repent is to help them to be specific. 00:27:46.020 --> 00:27:48.580 To confess sins. (plural) 00:27:49.260 --> 00:27:50.760 To name them, 00:27:50.870 --> 00:27:53.400 to get down to the nitty gritty. 00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:56.950 If you ask someone, "Do you want to be saved from your sins?" 00:27:56.950 --> 00:27:58.030 "Oh yes." 00:27:58.030 --> 00:28:00.090 "Which sins do you want to be saved from?" 00:28:00.090 --> 00:28:02.000 "Oh, all of them." 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:04.380 "Which ones shall we start with?" 00:28:06.020 --> 00:28:08.640 It is too easy for people to say, "Oh yes I'm a sinner, 00:28:08.740 --> 00:28:12.320 everybody is, everybody has sinned. I'm a sinner." 00:28:12.500 --> 00:28:14.780 "In what way have you sinned, then?" 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:19.940 We need to help people to be specific. So how can we do that? 00:28:20.060 --> 00:28:21.660 There are three ways. 00:28:21.800 --> 00:28:25.000 The first way is a guided conversation. 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.920 In which you steer them. 00:28:28.260 --> 00:28:30.840 Now you must keep their confidence. They must feel 00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:32.640 you will keep their confidence. 00:28:32.660 --> 00:28:34.050 But just steer them: 00:28:34.080 --> 00:28:36.540 "Then, what is your besetting sin?" 00:28:37.080 --> 00:28:40.120 What is the one you would most like to free of? 00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:42.880 Because Jesus wants to set you free of it." 00:28:43.750 --> 00:28:46.900 "What's the one you most hate yourself for?" 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:51.540 A guided conversation can become specific. 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.940 The second way is to give them a detailed list. 00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:01.060 And a friend of mine has actually prepared a list of all kinds of 00:29:01.180 --> 00:29:03.120 things that people get involved in. 00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:05.900 Before he consoles someone he gives them a sheet of paper 00:29:05.940 --> 00:29:07.880 and says, "Go through this list. 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:10.840 Have you you been involved in any of these occult things or 00:29:10.840 --> 00:29:13.280 in any of these perverted habits. 00:29:13.520 --> 00:29:15.540 And they go through and they tick them 00:29:15.620 --> 00:29:17.770 and then he's able to console them. 00:29:17.780 --> 00:29:20.000 It is a very practical way of doing it. 00:29:20.180 --> 00:29:24.300 The New Testament contains about thirty lists. 00:29:24.610 --> 00:29:28.880 And between them they cover 120 sins 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:31.440 which God counts as sin. 00:29:32.060 --> 00:29:34.700 And sometimes it helpful to have a detailed list 00:29:34.750 --> 00:29:36.200 and help them to through it 00:29:36.260 --> 00:29:37.720 and mark them off. 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:39.620 A third way: 00:29:39.820 --> 00:29:42.580 This is available to the counselor 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:44.800 who is moving in the Holy Spirit. 00:29:44.980 --> 00:29:47.350 It is an immediate revelation. 00:29:48.320 --> 00:29:50.820 Sometimes I have asked the 00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:54.070 Holy Spirit to show the person I'm counselling 00:29:54.120 --> 00:29:57.180 what the root problem is, 00:29:57.320 --> 00:29:59.940 what the tap root is. 00:30:00.760 --> 00:30:03.940 At other times I've ask Him to show me 00:30:03.990 --> 00:30:07.380 what the root problem is and then surprise them 00:30:07.540 --> 00:30:09.340 by asking them about it. 00:30:09.600 --> 00:30:13.700 But the Holy Spirit wants to reveal the tap roots. 00:30:14.190 --> 00:30:17.240 As a illustration, I found that 00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:21.200 behind every homosexual man that I've counselled is 00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:24.160 a sad history of a father and mother 00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:26.240 who exchanged roles. 00:30:26.820 --> 00:30:29.600 Where the mother became the dominant authority figure. 00:30:29.740 --> 00:30:31.700 and the father the comfort figure. 00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:35.520 That is why so much homosexuality is being produced. 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:38.400 Why the roles are being confused. 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:41.080 And it is the children and grandchildren who suffer 00:30:41.080 --> 00:30:42.730 from confusion. 00:30:42.790 --> 00:30:46.520 And I was counselling a lovely school boy; 00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:48.500 lovely Christian. 00:30:48.770 --> 00:30:51.240 But he was just crippled with this 00:30:51.380 --> 00:30:53.990 temptation, which he gave way to regularly. 00:30:54.520 --> 00:30:57.920 I felt sorry and said, "When did this begin?" 00:30:58.340 --> 00:31:00.590 He said, "At boarding school." 00:31:00.860 --> 00:31:04.930 Now, boy's boarding schools have a lot to answer for, believe me. 00:31:05.180 --> 00:31:07.960 But I said, "No, the Holy Spirit is telling me 00:31:08.120 --> 00:31:10.120 it began long before that." 00:31:11.560 --> 00:31:15.340 And he said, "No, I can't remember it beginning before boarding school." 00:31:15.370 --> 00:31:18.180 I said, "But the Holy Spirit tells me it was before that." 00:31:18.260 --> 00:31:20.040 "So tell me about your parents." 00:31:20.180 --> 00:31:24.040 It was a sad case of a wife who had been through 3 husbands. 00:31:24.100 --> 00:31:28.140 A dominate woman who just changed partners when she wanted to. 00:31:28.320 --> 00:31:30.970 He was the product of the third husband. 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:34.740 And the wife had taken the authority role in the home. 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:36.760 She had dominated. 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.060 The result was that when he wanted comfort 00:31:40.260 --> 00:31:43.160 he climbed into bed with his father not his mother. 00:31:44.040 --> 00:31:46.740 And did not realize that the father was not getting 00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:49.050 comfort from the mother. 00:31:49.060 --> 00:31:51.300 And was getting it from the son. 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:53.760 The whole thing emerged. 00:31:54.620 --> 00:31:58.260 And it was necessary for the Holy Spirit to reveal this. 00:31:58.520 --> 00:32:01.700 So that we could get down to the real root problem. 00:32:01.940 --> 00:32:05.300 These are the 3 ways to get down to the specifics. 00:32:05.380 --> 00:32:07.700 A guided conversation, 00:32:07.980 --> 00:32:09.820 a detailed list 00:32:10.040 --> 00:32:12.100 and an immediate revelation. 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.040 And finally, and this must be in one minute. 00:32:16.940 --> 00:32:19.000 To be sensible. 00:32:20.300 --> 00:32:23.120 That is necessary in 2 ways: 00:32:23.520 --> 00:32:26.100 First: to be sensible as far as the emotions 00:32:26.100 --> 00:32:28.120 of repentance are concerned. 00:32:28.260 --> 00:32:30.920 Sometimes people have an exaggerated sense of guilt 00:32:31.020 --> 00:32:32.890 over the wrong thing. 00:32:32.940 --> 00:32:35.090 Their feelings have deceived them. 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:39.240 It is possible for men to feel more guilty 00:32:39.300 --> 00:32:42.370 about masturbation, which is not mentioned in the Bible 00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:44.210 than murder. 00:32:44.900 --> 00:32:48.280 So we need to help them to be sensible in emotions. 00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:52.090 And not let their feelings get things out of proportion. 00:32:52.140 --> 00:32:55.370 Psychological guilt is not moral guilt. 00:32:55.410 --> 00:32:58.840 And it is moral guilt that Jesus cures. 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:02.950 Not what we feel guilty of, but what we are guilty of. 00:33:03.210 --> 00:33:05.890 And the other way we need to be sensible 00:33:05.980 --> 00:33:08.630 is in the actions of repentance. 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:11.810 You can't go back and put everything right. 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:16.030 So we need to help them to be sensible about what they do. 00:33:16.030 --> 00:33:18.660 One friend of mine went to the police and confessed 00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:20.700 to a crime he had committed. 00:33:20.750 --> 00:33:23.200 Taken to court he was given the lightest possible 00:33:23.260 --> 00:33:25.100 sentence of two months, 00:33:25.140 --> 00:33:26.540 went into prison, 00:33:26.600 --> 00:33:29.960 preached Jesus and the prisoners called him the bishop. 00:33:30.040 --> 00:33:32.550 So when he came out he confessed to another crime 00:33:32.550 --> 00:33:34.750 and got back into another prison and preached 00:33:34.750 --> 00:33:35.720 the gospel there. 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:39.200 He proudly told me I am the only evangelist in Britain 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:42.020 entirely financed by Her Majesty the Queen. 00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:44.180 [Laughing] 00:33:44.760 --> 00:33:48.340 Now that was within the realm of common sense. 00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:50.490 He might have gone overboard on it. 00:33:50.520 --> 00:33:53.200 We need to help people to be sensible about what 00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:55.780 can be put right and what can't. 00:33:55.900 --> 00:33:59.430 But is this way we have helped them to repent. 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:02.840 In the next talk we will talk about how to help people 00:34:02.840 --> 00:34:04.840 to believe.