Name: 不要期待完美的悔改--保羅-華舍爾。 (Don't Expect a Perfect Repentance - Paul Washer)
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Question: One of the uh responses we get to a lot of people who have never heard

Uh biblical preaching before, Maybe you can say hard preaching,

That causes you to examine yourself. Uh they'll send us an E-Mail saying

I'm trying to believe but I can't. How would you council them?

Paul Washer: Well, first of all There is also another fad out there

That I have seen You know in America basically the offering

People superficially pray this little prayer I'm saved

Well there is a whole other group of people that are rising up

I've come in contact with them It's amazing

Their almost saying I'm seeking God I been seeking God for months

Or even a year There's just no genuine repentance

It's as though their seeking to brag and boast and point out that their not like all these

superficial people That they're completely different

And their testimony for some reason will be heightened because of all this

That they've moved out of the context of evangelical Christianity

The Bible commands you to repent I would go through text after text

Saying this is what the Bible commands you to do

But then I would also help them with the scriptures To discern what is biblical repentance

I would tell them all the scriptures That talk of

That command us to believe But then I would help them to understand biblical

If I go through all the characteristics of repentance

And these are the perfect expounded Biblical characteristics of repentance

And this is what you must have To truly repent unto salvation

No one's going to be saved You see repentance

When its portrayed in the Bible We have all of these characteristics of what

genuine biblical repentance really is When a person comes to Christ we can't expect

them to have a full blown mature repentance They will have the kernels of repenting

They'll be understanding something of their sin

They'll be broken over their sin to a certain degree

But even after they're saved They're going to grow in repentance

They're repentance is going to become deeper Those characteristics are going to manifest

We shouldn't be telling converts They must have this exquisite perfect biblical

repentance in their life in order to have repented

In order to have repented unto salvation Because you don't even have that

You are growing in repentance It's the same way with faith

They're faith isn't going to match this pristine biblical picture

Of what faith is They won't have this exceedingly deep faith

Because I'm even growing in that After 26 years of following Christ

So you don't want to make it too hard for people to come into the kingdom

We go through repentance And we go through the characteristics

And we help them see Are there the seeds of genuine repentance?

Of genuine repentance? Are you believing as a child in Christ?

Have you thrown yourself upon Him? And I think a lot of these people are struggling

Because they actually believe that they have to have this perfect manifestation of these

Now let's talk about this for a moment Because there's something that's been bothering

With the uprise of so much good theology And people taking true conversions seriously

I think there's also a problem I have so many people who come to me

And they doubt the assurance of their salvation Because in their scrutiny of their own repentance

They're expecting They're almost demanding

That the saving repentance Be the repentance of a mature believer of

thirty years They scrutinize every aspect of their life

And if they don't look like a puritan They say I can't be converted

What you need to understand Is repentance

In it's initial seed It's simply a changing of the mind

I need a savior You say but the bible describes repentance

But are you expecting a full blown repentance The very second God begins to work in your

heart? As I study repentance in scripture

I look back at the moment I was converted And my repentance was a very singular thing

I need to be saved But now after twenty five years

As I grow in scripture The repentance matures

When scrutinize your life To wonder whether or not you're saved

And you're looking for repentance That can only be found in someone who's walked

with God for decades I hope I'm making myself clear

I believe in repentance But repentance can merely mean I'm falling

And I can't save myself It's turning from self worth

As brother Charles once told me It's just giving up

I'm gone I have a thing that I've work through

Several years ago On the doctrine of repentance

If you take Every thing the bible teaches

About repentance You will have a very big book

Amazing things are said They all should be learned

We should grow into them But to take the entire full or biblical course

Before someone can have assurance of their salvation

Is absolutely proposterous We have a lot of young people

And a lot of other people Who are not assured of their salvation

Because their expecting to see In their wee years

As a babe in Christ A full blown sanctification of a man forty