Repent and Believe Podcast w/ Cynthia Smalls

Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #723, Season 7.

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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: If we will not repent, Jesus has one word for us, “Woe, to you” (Matthew 11:21). In order to receive the free gift of salvation by grace through faith, one must REPENT! There must be a change of mind that will lead to a change in one's sinful lifestyle of living, actually regretting it! No one is excluded from Jesus’ demand to repent. He made this clear when a group of people came to Him with news of two calamities. Innocent people had been killed by Pilate’s massacre and by the fall of the tower of Siloam (Luke 13:1-4). Jesus took the occasion to warn even the bearers of the news: “I tell you, no; but unless you repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways and live changed lives], you will all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3, 5). What did He mean by perish? He meant that the Final Judgment of God would fall on those who don’t repent!

After He had risen from the dead, Jesus made sure that His apostles (and us) would continue the call for repentance throughout the world. He said, “And so it is written, that the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and that repentance 👉🏾[necessary] for forgiveness of sins would be preached in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.” (Luke 24:46-47).

The Bible declares in Ephesians 1:4 that God in His love, "...chose us in Christ [actually selected us for Himself as His own] before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy [that is, consecrated, set apart for Him, purpose-driven] and blameless in His sight." Some argue that if He has chosen before the foundation of the world those who would be holy and blameless in His sight, why the need to repent? Isn't God being unjust? “Why does He still blame me [for sinning]" (Romans 9:19)?

The answer to that preposterous arrogant question is found in Romans 9:14-15! It states plainly that God is not unjust in any way. “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion” (Romans 9:15). God is sovereign over His creation. He is free to choose those whom He will choose, and He is free to pass by those whom He will pass by. The creature has no right to accuse the Creator of being unjust! The very thought that the creature can stand in judgment of the Creator is absurd to Paul, and to us, as well!!

Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #722, Season 7.

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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: The Lord has not left us clueless about the things that are to take place before He returns! He warns us to not be deceived by false prophets, nor to be misled into error! For many will turn from sound doctrine and heap upon themselves teachers that will tickle their ears and lure them into immoral freedoms! Beloved, there is much deception going on in the world today, do not get caught up in it! The Bible teaches us that in the last days, people will increasingly become more insensitive to sin, their consciences will be seared, and their hearts hardened to others!

The reason why we follow the Lord Jesus Christ's voice and His teachings, it's so that we don't get caught up in a deception that has blinded many to the truth of His Word! We see in the current times in which we are living, there is much deception happening! There is much misleading, and there is great distortion of the Scriptures that has caused confusion and misunderstanding! And if we are not truly abiding in Jesus and listening to His voice alone, we too, will be led astray back on that broad road that leads to everlasting fire and we all perish! This is of utmost importance that we heed to sound doctrine!

The Bible warns of deception by Satan in the last days! We see the evil workings of end time prophecy being planned and put into place; readying for their Antichrist's (the “man of lawlessness") ascension to power. These recent current events of wars and rumors of wars, can easily set people against each other, especially if we don't understand their purpose according to God's will and His plans for a nation. In the last days, people will depart from the truth and they will believe what is false; because of this God will send a strong delusion (study 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12).

God will cause the world to be deceived. Now why will God do that? God gives us the answer. He will do it “in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth but took pleasure in wickedness.” That is, God will intentionally cause those who have already ultimately and finally rejected Jesus Christ and are indulging in the pleasures of sin to be completely deceived! He gives them over because they have completely rejected Christ. Then when God judges them, His judgments will prove He is righteous and just! They will prove they deserve ! DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE STRONG DELUSION THAT'S SURE TO COME!!

Amen!

🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Thus saith the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY:

The people are ignorant in their ways. They seek me in vain when there's trouble on every side. I see all that's happening and it's going according to my plan for Israel. The wicked will not prevail. The haughty will not prosper in their plans to overthrow me! I laugh at their attempts. My anger and vengeance will be upon those who have rejected and caused my Israel to fear! My remnant will be saved. Do not focus on worldly events, but focus on My Son Jesus. The righteous will be saved and the wicked will be lost. Thus saith the LORD. My hand is on everything. I have not forgotten Israel's wickedness and rejection. I love those who love My Son and I will never turn My back on them. I've always have had a remnant of those who truly love Me and those who faithfully follow Me. Be not afraid of wars and rumors of wars. These things must take place before the Son of Man is revealed. One day with Me is like a thousand years. Be still and focus on Me. I will judge this world in righteousness. I have not forgotten my covenants and promises. My wrath will be swift and just and righteous, it won't be delayed. The righteous will not be forsaken. The wicked will perish. Turn from your evils and transgressions and turn back to Me. Turn! Turn! Turn! Thus saith the LORD.

October 12th, 2023, 9:35 am CST

Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #720, Season 7.

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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: Don't go through and then end up IN !!! REPENT! You must put away all sin and make no provision for the flesh! The majority of the Christ confessing world, are not truly followers of Christ and therefore they live lives of depression, heartache, defeat, misery, and pain due to their disobedience to Lord Jesus!

These lukewarm "Christians" want to have a "safety net" to stay and play around in willful, deliberate sin! Their "safety net" that "legitimizes" their sin is called grace! Yes, they are abusing God's amazing grace at a profound rate! Those who are deceived to believe that they can disobey God and live HOWEVER they want, while claiming Jesus is their Lord and Savior, still testify that they will inherit the Kingdom of God ANYWAY! They are using grace as a veil, a smoke screen, to abuse the freedom we have in Christ! God forbid! These are they, that are making their sanctification hard and unattainable because they refuse to obey God in all their conduct, therefore, disqualifying themselves to be of use for His service and glory!

Can they get away with this? Let's talk about it! Beloved, now that we are born-again and filled with God's Spirit, we are called into sanctification! The testimony of Scripture is unanimous, we must put away all sin, remain faithful and obedient to Lord Jesus, and again, make no provision for the flesh! We are commanded in Scripture to depart from iniquity. We are told not to sow to the flesh, for we shall reap eternal destruction! The sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit is to conform us into the image of Christ, as we obey Him in all of His teachings, commandments, and instructions!

And if we continue to take God's grace as a license to sin, we too shall all likewise perish! Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #719, Season 7.

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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: God Almighty tells us EXACTLY who will end up in the Lake of Fire! We who are born of God, do not practice sin!! The Word from Heaven is: Fear God and turn from your wicked evil ways and turn back to God - AND I'M TALKING TO BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS!! Those who say they follow Christ Jesus, but are still practicing sin in their delusional, comfortable, worldly, self-centered life - this warning is for you! I'm talking about those who would rather hang on the heretical word of the apostate bishop rather than on the One who bought them with His precious blood that was shed on Calvary's hill! Talking about "once you're saved, you're always saved!" Rule #1, you cannot willfully continue to disobey God and expect to inherit His Kingdom!

To the unbelieving and lost, if you do not repent, you will spend eternity separated from God and from Jesus Christ forever, tormenting in the Lake of Fire! The Bible says:

"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." (Revelation 21:8)

Beloved, I beseech you by the mercies of God, that you repent and put away all sin in your lives - ALL OF IT!! For Christ Jesus is coming quickly, in flaming fire, to judge the inhabited world in righteousness!! Let us who have called on the Name of the Lord to be saved, turn from all iniquity, lest we forget what is written in Revelation 22:15:

"Outside are the dogs [the godless, the impure, those of low moral character] and the sorcerers [with their intoxicating drugs, and magic arts], and the immoral persons [the perverted, the molesters, and the adulterers], and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying (deception, cheating)."

1 Peter 4:17-18 “For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And “if the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” 😭

Amen!

🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #718, Season 7.

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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: No follower of the Lord Jesus Christ who has repented and received forgiveness of their sins through His shed blood, can ever please God and walk in DARKNESS at the SAME time!! Not possible! We are either in the Kingdom of God or the kingdom of Satan! You see beloved, darkness is more than just sinning. It is a WAY OF LIVING that takes no thought of God into account. It is to dwell in ungodliness and not care about the consequences, and that's INIQUITY personified! If we are in fellowship with God our Heavenly Father, we must walk in the Light. And that Light is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let us get some biblical understanding under our collective belts. We see the Messiah over here in John 12:46 declaring, "I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes and trusts in Me [as Savior—all those who anchor their hope in Me and rely on the truth of My message] will not continue to live in darkness."

He also declares in John 8:12, "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." Amen!

So what does it mean to walk in darkness? It means to conduct our lives without any thought toward God. It is to let sin have its complete reign over you. It is most tragic when we profess that Christ is our Savior and God is our Father and yet continue to walk in darkness under the distorted doctrine of grace: "once you are saved, you are always saved," even in your willful, blatant, deliberate, habitual, sinful lifestyle - you can live however you want and still go to Heaven ANYWAY! God is not the King for those who walk in darkness; Satan is! We may think that we are in control of our own lives. But the spiritual reality is that when we live in sin, we are submitting ourselves to Satan’s ways, not God’s.

Peter says we are called, “Out of darkness into his marvelous light” (I Peter 2:9). Elsewhere Paul calls us, “Children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness” (I Thessalonians 5:5). BE NOT DECEIVED BELOVED!! "30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Hebrews 10:30-31).

Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #717, Season 7.

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😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort the Body of Christ: You and I cannot live a life of WILLFUL SIN and expect to inherit the Kingdom of God! We must conduct ourselves worthy of our calling! Most "Christians" and Christian denominations believe in the false doctrine of "Once Saved Always Saved" (OSAS) or "assured eternal security." According to that doctrine, if someone is born-again, that person can "never lose their salvation, no matter how they live." However, this doctrine is nowhere to be found in the Holy Scriptures. Namely, because a person GIVES UP their salvation. It's not lost. THEY forfeit it by their offensive disobedient acts of rebellion against the One who saved their soul from God's wrath! Those who fall away and withdraw from Christ, to their eternal demise, fall from grace by their own doing! Lord Jesus says:

🚩 "If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken off] branch, and withers and dies; and they gather such branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned" (John 15:6).

Therefore, let me make this as painless as possible. The one who endures until the end, the one who remains abiding in Christ Jesus, the one who lives a repentant holy and righteous life, as they are being led and prompted by the Holy Spirit, the one who stays out of willful deliberate sin, the one who strives to enter the narrow door, the one who obeys the Father and the Son, the one who loves the brethren, the one who is truly about the Father's business, the one who lives a consistent, sensible, godly, and upright life... that's the man, that's the woman Christ Jesus was talking about that no man can pluck out of His hand (study John 10:27-30)! Jesus said the one who endures until the end, is the one who will be saved (study Matthew 24:13). It will NOT be the one who only makes a professing confession of Christ, but yet their lives are willfully characterized by sin!

BOTTOM LINE: When we can turn against Him and rebel against His will and purpose; we can and will fall from grace and be forever lost because of our own free and foolish choices. If that happens, it is not God’s fault, it is ours!

Amen!

🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God

Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #716, Season 7.

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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: We have been deceived long enough! We need to wake up and live clean and holy! We have been deceived by the apostate church long enough who spews out false doctrines and teachings of the devil to those who refuse to sit quietly with the Lord to be taught His doctrine by His Holy Spirit! We have been deceived by seducing lying spirits long enough! We have been deceived long enough that we can stay in willful sin, have "eternal security," thumb our noses at the One who died and shed His blood for us, and still make it into the Kingdom! The Bible warns, be not deceived, do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? (Study 1 Corinthians 6: 9-10).

Who do you think is grieving the Holy Spirit? IT'S NOT THE ATHEIST! It is God's Spirit-filled wayward children! That's who! In these last days, the LORD is having to send prophet after prophet, messenger after messenger to give correction to His children, whom He loves, because some have gone rogue and are rejecting rebuke - righteous rebuke NONETHELESS! The Lord doesn't want to have to judge them, but He will!! These wayward ones are out here, still attached to this "world," doing their own thing! And thus, are grieving the Holy Spirit, when in Ephesians 4:30, we are commanded NOT to do so!

The Lord is obviously concerned about our eternal fate, so much so, that He's telling us to always pray that we be found worthy of Him when we stand before the Son of Man (study Luke 21:36), so we can hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord" (Matt. 25:23), AND not hear, "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity" (Matt 7:23).

Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #715, Season 7.

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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: Many people cannot handle the truth of the Word of God! Many people cannot handle Jesus' teachings! We are warned, by the unanimous testimony of Scripture, if we, born-again saints of the Most High God, continue to indulge in those things He has declared to be sin, we gamble with our souls! And if we do not stop it, we are going to perish in the Lake of Fire for all of eternity! Or have you not read, we are commanded in 1 Peter 1:14, "[Live] as obedient children [of God]; do not be conformed to the evil desires which governed you in your ignorance [before you knew the requirements and transforming power of the good news regarding salvation]." Therefore, we are without excuse as to why some are STILL living in willful, deliberate, rebellious sin! This gamble my friend, will cost you your soul!!

💥 “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord stand apart from wickedness and withdraw from wrongdoing” (2 Timothy 2:19). Amen!

Do you not know that God hates spiritual adultery! Spiritual adultery is unfaithfulness to God. It is having an undue fondness for the things of the "world." The "world's" system, with its contrived and deceitful scheme of phony values, worthless pursuits, and unnatural affections, is designed to lure us away from a pure relationship with God. Spiritual adultery, then, is the forsaking of God’s love and the embracing of the "world’s" values and desires! The Bible tells us that people who choose to be friends with the "world," are an “adulterous people” having “enmity against God” (James 4:4–5)!

All this spiritual adultery and reckless wicked living among confessing believers, flies in the face of what Christ has done for us! The Bible tells us that Christ became sin for us; that He was the propitiation for our sins, averting (turning away) the wrath of God by the offering Himself as the atoning sacrificial Lamb on our behalf! And this is the thanks we give Him 🤦🏾‍♀️?! ASTOUNDING!!

Listen, if any one of us continue to indulge in these things: fornication, emulation, adultery, homosexuality, lying, idolatry, murder, lasciviousness, gossiping and the like, guarantees you will not inherit the Kingdom of God, but rather go straight to a burning as you await the Final Judgment of your soul! So don't gamble with it!! Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

** (DISCLAIMER) @ the 13:29 mark, the correct Scripture is 2 Chronicles 18:16-40)** Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #714, Season 7.

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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: What looks good in the moment can also destroy your soul. Some claim they follow Jesus and are born-again, but they are not really following the Lord Jesus Christ! You're not following Him if you are still continuing in sinful lifestyles with no shame, with no remorse, without any repentance, nor regret! The Bible provides lists of the types of people who will not inherit the Kingdom of God if they continue to practice those things that God has clearly defined as sin and perversion!

The verses in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (that I'm highlighting today) contain one of the many lists in Scripture of the works of the flesh. Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, specifically told his readers that fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, sodomites, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners will NOT “inherit the kingdom of God.”

Even professing Christians have rejected the clear teaching set forth in these passages. Paul keeps the mind in sobriety when he says in verse 12: "Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything [and brought under its power, allowing it to control me]."

We must come away from any and all things that will put us back to the broad road that leads to destruction and ruin! We all once lived in debauchery, lust, sexual immorality, and all manners of lifestyles that were a stench in the nostrils of holy God! That's how we USED to live, but NOW as born-again children of the Most High God, filled with His Holy Spirit, we must remember we: "were washed [by the atoning sacrifice of Christ], you were sanctified [set apart for God, and made holy], you were justified [declared free of guilt] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God [the source of the believer’s new life and changed behavior]."

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17). We no longer practice those things that will disqualify us from the Kingdom!!

Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!