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A Picture Of Repentance – Voddie Baucham Sermon Excerpt

The following 14-minute sermon excerpt is from a 72 minute sermon by Voddie Baucham wherein he was talking about the Sermon on the Mount, specifically, Matthew 7: 13 and 14, the narrow and wide gates.

The sermon is also posted below and is very worthy of your attention as he provided an overview of texts in the Sermon on the Mount before preaching focusing on his texts. That overview gives a fuller picture of the true kingdom citizen.

That is, the beatitudes describe that person, the 6 antitheses of chapter 6 describe the kingdom citizen’s lifestyle, and then his sermon text deals with how the true kingdom citizen enters into that life and walks it.

I cut off the tail end of his sermon because it describes repentance and a biblical view of sin. I have created posts from other books of the Bible and other preachers that emphasize these things, but considering the corrupt and diluted state of the contemporary church, I believe that one can’t hear these things enough, as they must be known, understood, believed and practiced – I’m not quite there myself.

Sermon HIGHLIGHT points, which cannot convey Baucham’s message, but let readers know content he covered [emboldening and bracketed statements are mine]:

 

 

The entire 72-minute sermon is below:

 

 

Below are Jonathan Edwards’ ‘struggle of faith’ and link to the post from which is came, on the sinner’s prayer:

https://sheeplywolves.com/the-sinners-prayer-if-that-is-how-you-were-born-again-then-please-read-this-post-to-understand-the-dangers-that-threaten-your-soul/

Edwards established a 5 stage process which he termed, the struggle of faith:   1) horror of being eternally lost; 2), the sinner’s attempt to stop sinning via his will power [it cannot be done independently of God’s Spirit]; 3), realization that only God can save him from sin [indicates that one sees his powerlessness to save himself]; 4), conviction, the sinner beginning to see that God’s judgment is just [because he sees his continued sinning and is comprehending his wretchedness]; 5), awakening to God with genuine religious affections [given by God’s Spirit to those within whom He has worked salvation].

The following prominent Christians spent many years between stages 1 and 5 of Edwards standard of assessment for genuine conversion:

John Calvin, 12 years; Wesley, 23 years; Whitefield, 10 years; Fox, 12 years; Edwards, 5 years; Brainerd, 9 years; Newton, 6 years; Spurgeon, 4 years….

Which stage or stages are you presently walking in?

If the sinner’s prayer has given you counterfeit assurance and you have no fear of hell but only contemplate God’s love [like so many contemporary Christians], then you have not reached stage one of Edwards 5-stage struggle of coming to saving faith.

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