GW Sermon #32: A Penitent Heart.

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Rev. George Whitefield’s sermon entitled: A Penitent Heart will be summarized here.

If we could rightly consider, “how heinous and aggravating our offenses are” to a holy God we would pursue every avenue possible to refrain and repent of them. However we don’t.

When we do repent but are in the next temptation overcome by sin though grace is there for us and we still do sin this is highly offensive to God. However, His mercy remains in the person of Jesus Christ. Therefore the command to repent in Christ.

GW seeks in this sermon to:

I. Show the nature of repentance.

II. Consider the several parts and causes of repentance.

III. Why repentance is necessary to salvation. 

IV. Exhort all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to endeavor after repentance.

I. Repentance is the transition or conversion from a carnal and corrupt disposition in the soul of a man into a renewed and sanctified disposition. In other other words the soul is converted from one with a sin nature to one with a divine nature.

Signs of repentance:

  1. the motley mixture of the beast and devil is gone
  2. You receive the knowledge of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ;
  3. Your wills are obedient and comformable to the will of God. 
  4. You will love Christ and His people.

II. Consider the several parts and causes of repentance.

  1. The love of God.
  2. Your own evil deeds.
  3. The Lord will pardon you.
  4. God is the cause of our repentance.

III. Why repentance is necessary to salvation

  1. No unholy thing can be in God’s presence.
  2. God will not dwell with that soul that is unclean.
  3. You must be as holy as God to dwell with God.
  4. Through faith in Christ you receive His Spirit and will Iive and reign together forever.

IV. Exhort all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to endeavor after repentance.

  1. If you remain unrepentant and die in your sins you will perish.
  2. You will dwell with devils and damned spirits forever.
  3. To sin is to live in slavery.
  4. Jesus at your death will become your Judge vs. Savior.
  5. You cannot hide your sins from the Judge.
  6. You must repent before your death and come to he Savior.
  7. Jesus will give you His Spirit upon repentance to live according to His word.
  8. You cannot say you have sinned too much. His blood cleanses all sin.

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