Bill Griese
(URL) Repent
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2013/jan.htm

http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/sin/repentance.htm

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Mat 4:17)

"14 ¶ Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." (Mar 1:14-15)

One thing that one does not hear preached in these evil days from any pulpit is: "REPENT".

Why is it so?



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for it is written


New International Version (©1984)
We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands.
New Living Translation (©2007)
And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
This is how we are sure that we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands.

International Standard Version (©2012)
This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And by this we sense that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

http://bible.cc/1_john/2-3.htm

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or one could say,

And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep the sabbath.



Truely, I did not write the Bible my friend, I just try
to hide his word in my heart so that I will not sin against him.

psm 119

psm 51

1 John 3:6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.



John 14:15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command.

John 15:10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

1 John 2:4 The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.




Why is obedience not taught in the churches of men?

Its in the scriptures.

We love our brother by obeying God, Yahushua, Jesus, the Bible. the word, our Master.

Love and obedience are one.

If we love our neighbor, we will not lie, cheat, steal, commit adultery, or covet our neighbors stuff. Love means obey God's laws.

1 John 5:2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

1 John 5:3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,

Revelation 12:17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring--those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.


Revelation 14:12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.

Revelation 2:5
Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place--unless you repent.


What does remove the lamp mean? No more light?

Do you believe the Bible, friend?


Jeremiah 25:3 "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the Lord has come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not listened. 4 And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to ...hear. 5 They said, 'Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. 6 Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.' 7 Yet you have not listened to Me," says the Lord, "that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.


As it was before, so it will be again;

there is nothing new under the sun.

Ezekiel 14:6
...'Thus says the Lord God: "Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.


Luke 13:5
"...but unless you repent you will all likewise perish."



The narrow way is the path of obedience, repentance, when we fall.

Church repent, Rev. chapter 2 and 3. Who was he mad at and why ?

Mt. 7: 21- 23