Getting right with God

"Repentance"

The decision to get right with God which in turn, avoids or ends, temporal judgment.

Three common elements in the OT

1) Violation of the Law.

2) Temporal consequences without repentance.

3) Repentance leads to forgiveness, mercy and often a lifting of temporal consequences.

1 Kings 8:46-49

•Starts with violation of the Law•Time element

•Description of repentance•Removal of temporal wrath

Psalm 51:1-4; 16-17

How it's done!

Psalm 81:8-16

•Violation of the Law

•Temporal wrath

•Mercy upon repentance

Jeremiah 8:8-13

•Violation of the Law

•Time element

•Temporal Judgment instead of...

•Life by obedience

Jeremiah 25:4-11

Long violation of the Law

•Temporal (70 years) wrath

•End led by Daniel's prayer of repentance

(Dan. 9)

•Restoration

Ezekiel 18:21, 23, 29-31

•Violation of the Law is the problem•The issue = temporal life or death

•Repentance brings removal of wrath

Joel 2:11-13

The Day of the Lord is in view

What repentance looks like and the response of God.

Jonah 3:3-10

Maybe the best OT illustration of repentance.

Malachi 4:4-6

The last thing Israel heard for 400 years.

•The Law

•Eli's coming!

•Get right with God or...

•Temporal wrath

Luke 1:16-17

Where have we heard this before?

What was his mission and message?

Matthew 3!

Matthew 3

Four hundred years have passed.

We are still in the Old Testament.

The message is the same!

Matthew 3

"Remember the Law..." = "Repent"

The Kingdom is coming!

For those who will not, temporal judgment!

Matthew 4

John is locked up.

Jesus picks up his message!

Getting right with God

Israel doesn't respond to God.

Instead, they kill His Son.

Mt. 27:22-24

Repentance for Israel involved...

1. Violating the Law

2. The result of which was temporal wrath

3. Repentance was the decision to get right with God which in turn, avoids or ends, temporal judgment.

Getting right with God

In 70 A.D., Titus of Rome leveled the city of Jerusalem.

The Gentiles took center stage.

Getting right with God

Romans 11:19-20

Be careful, Gentiles, and learn from Israel's mistakes.

Romans 11:28

Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election

they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

Getting right with God

The ball was passed to the Gentile world.

Next week, we talk about what they must do to not fumble the ball.

Getting right with God

What about the world today?

What about the Church?

Getting right with God

In the first of his 95 theses, Martin Luther wrote that.. "our Lord and Master Jesus Christ...willed

the entire life of believers to be one of repentance."

Was he right?