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October 13th Morning
“Godly sorrow worketh repentance.” — 2 Corinthians 7:10
Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God.
Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow
naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except
divine grace works it in them. If thou hast one particle of real hatred for
sin, God must have given it thee, for human nature’s thorns never
produced a single fig. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh.”
True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of
sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will
be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our
transgressions only, in the light of His love.
True sorrow for sin is…
eminently practical. No man may say he hates sin, if
he lives in it. Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a
theory, but experimentally — as a burnt child dreads fire. We shall be as
much afraid of it, as a man who has lately been stopped and robbed is
afraid of the thief upon the highway; and we shall shun it — shun it in
everything — not in great things only, but in little things, as men shun
little vipers as well as great snakes. True mourning for sin will make us
very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be
very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each
night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and
each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold
us up that we may not sin against Him.
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This
dropping well is not intermittent. Every other sorrow yields to time, but
this dear sorrow grows with our growth, and it is so sweet a bitter, that we
thank God we are permitted to enjoy and to suffer it until we enter our
eternal rest.
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“Godly sorrow worketh repentance.” — 2 Corinthians 7:10
Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God.
Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow
naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except
divine grace works it in them. If thou hast one particle of real hatred for
sin, God must have given it thee, for human nature’s thorns never
produced a single fig. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh.”
True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of
sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will
be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our
transgressions only, in the light of His love.
True sorrow for sin is…
eminently practical. No man may say he hates sin, if
he lives in it. Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a
theory, but experimentally — as a burnt child dreads fire. We shall be as
much afraid of it, as a man who has lately been stopped and robbed is
afraid of the thief upon the highway; and we shall shun it — shun it in
everything — not in great things only, but in little things, as men shun
little vipers as well as great snakes. True mourning for sin will make us
very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be
very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each
night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and
each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold
us up that we may not sin against Him.
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This
dropping well is not intermittent. Every other sorrow yields to time, but
this dear sorrow grows with our growth, and it is so sweet a bitter, that we
thank God we are permitted to enjoy and to suffer it until we enter our
eternal rest.
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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