Repent and Believe Podcast w/ Cynthia Smalls

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: God has set a Day in which Christ Jesus will judge the inhabited world in righteousness. Therefore, He calls all men everywhere to repent (see Acts 17:30-31). With that in mind, we are commanded to snatch souls from 's fire (study Jude 1:23). We are to serve Christ in His harvest to rescue the lost unrepentant Christ-rejecting sinner by snatching them from the flames of judgment by preaching to them the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ! The commission to do this is given by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ in the Gospels. We find in Luke 24:46-48, that "repentance [necessary] for forgiveness of sins would be preached in His name to all the nations."

While evangelizing, or preaching in pulpits, or on street corners, or on our jobs, in our homes, or on social media, we tell people the bad news, then the Good News and the bad news, and then some more Good News, followed by more bad news, but ending with the greatest news of all, the return of the Lord Jesus Christ! We tell people that unless they repent and turn from their sins, we will all likewise perish! In today's episode, I'm giving us Scriptures and a framework for soul-winning. This is not a formula nor a doctrine. But just some Scriptures we can have handy while out bringing people to Christ. Sharing with them that God has made a way for sinners to be made right with Him, reconciled back to Him, when they place their faith and trust in Jesus Christ as both Lord and Savior!

😞 Bad news: without Christ, we are all filthy wretched sinners on our way to a burning as we await Final Judgment.

😃 Good News: by God's grace and through faith, we can be reconciled back to God through the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

😞 Bad news: if you reject Jesus Christ and His Gospel, you will be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord forever.

😃 Good News: the opportunity to come the Christ today is still open. But time is running out, you must come to Christ today before it is too late!

😞 Bad news: many will reject the Good News! Many will reject Jesus Christ and face the consequences of their choice by being tormented in the Lake of Fire for all of eternity.

😃 Most wonderful news of all: MANY WILL BELIEVE AND FOLLOW JESUS. CHRIST JESUS WILL REDEEM THESE LOWLY BODIES AND WE WILL HAVE GLORIFIED BODIES AS HIS! WE WILL SPEND ETERNITY WITH HIM AND THE FATHER IN HIS GLORIOUS KINGDOM!

Today is the day of salvation, do not harden your hearts any longer when you hear this Good News! CHRIST IS COMING SOON! Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss this question: Can Christians live without sinning? Beloved, I would like to share this post with you that was in response to this question. "The fact that God gives us grace is not a license to sin. Some Christians use God's grace and phrases such as "we all sin" as a crutch. That's most likely because these brothers and sisters have no power. They don't have the Holy Spirit operating in their life or either they are blatantly going against Him so that they can do what they want to do. I thank and I praise God that I can say with truth that by the GRACE of God Almighty, I do not live a life of willful sin, nor do I desire to. As you stated, I am tempted now and then, every once in a while I even slip up and do or say something I probably shouldn't have but the Holy Spirit convicts me of it quickly and I repent. It's great that we can go boldly to the throne of grace to receive forgiveness. But as far as willful habitual sin? Doing the old things that I used to do? Every day? If anyone is comfortable with that then I pray they will receive the power of the Holy Spirit and that God will open their eyes In Jesus' name. God bless." (Miranda T. April 14, 2019, 2:09 a.m.). Thank you Miranda T. you said it all!

🚩 Christ Jesus did not leave us as orphans to walk this earth as His disciples - following, listening and obeying His teachings. He did, in fact, send us help!

16 "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you. 18 “I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, bereaved, and helpless]; I will come [back] to you" (John 14).

And if He, the Spirit of Truth, indwells us (born-again believers) permanently, "9 No one who is born of God 👉🏾[deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, because God’s seed [His principle of life, the essence of His righteous character] remains [permanently] in him [who is born again—who is reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose]; and he [who is born again] 👉🏾cannot habitually [live a life characterized by] sin, because he is born of God and longs to please Him" (1 John 3) AMP. Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

(DISCLAIMER) **💥 AROUND THE 01:07:00 MARK, I MEANT TO SAY GALATIANS CHAPTER 5, NOT EPHESIANS CHAPTER 5) **Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: Sister Kasha's response to my posted question, because I thought I was going crazy! THAT how people claim that the blood of Jesus covers those who are in willful, deliberate, blatant sin - who REFUSE to come out of it! When clearly the Bible teaches the "unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God."

So I asked, what this means to people? Because some in the Body of Christ are playing games with God's grace! She said, "The unrighteous are those living and practicing sin. They will not go to Heaven but to . God's grace does not cover those in sin...The grace of God that saves, teaches one to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts." Amen! Thanks Sister Kasha, because I thought I was going crazy, we KNOW that the way is straight and it is narrow!

All born-again believers are children of God, but there is a vital difference between being saved as a son and following the Lord as His disciple. We are saved from the penalty (eternal separation) our sins, because we trusted Jesus as Saviour Who died on the Cross for our sins. We are saved by grace through faith in Christ. But to become a true disciple, we must take up our own cross daily, and follow the Lord Jesus. We are to walk the way of the Cross.

We are to be like Christ in His humanity and to deny ourselves if we are to be His disciples, but to do so, we are to surrender our lives to the Spirit, to give ourselves as a willing and living sacrifice to the Father, and then to say as did Christ, "Thy will not mine be done." Self, the self-life, and all that is connected with the old sin nature, must remain securely nailed to the Cross!

The "world" does not understand this kind of life, and carnal Christians have opted to keep self on the throne of their life. But to follow the way of the Cross, we are to give our lives to the Lord. Our life is to be a life of surrender, suffering, sacrifice, and service to Him. If you give up your life for the Lord, you will not lose it, but rather save it. Let us take these words spoken by Jesus to heart: "If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me" (Luke 9:23). AMEN! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE PLAYING IN WILLFUL, DELIBERATE, BLATANT SIN, THINKING YOU HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHEN IN FACT, YOU DON'T BECAUSE OF THE LIFE YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE! YOU ARE DECEIVED! Let us be reminded that there is a Day that's coming, it is fastly approaching, it is nearer now than when we first believed. A DAY of FINAL JUDGMENT. Where humanity and time as we know it, the course of this world's history, will come to a fiery culmination when the King of Glory, the Lord Jesus Christ come again to take away His bride and deal with His enemies once and for all! In flaming fire, He will put His enemies under His feet! May we be ever ready to be with the Lord on the Day He returns for us and, eventually, sets up His Millennial Kingdom! If we go by the way of the grave, until then, having lived a faithful life unto the Lord, may we be found blameless, spotless, and without stain in His sight as we stand before Him in Glory! In Jesus' Name, I pray! Amen!

Beloved, we have been warned and advised in the parable of the ten virgins by our Lord about what happens when some are ready to meet Him and some who KNEW He was coming, but WE'RE NOT FULLY PREPARED FOR HIS ARRIVAL! The five foolish virgins were caught off guard! They thought being half ready was enough! We must be COMPLETELY ready by living lives that are NOT characterized by sin before He returns or we die in the meantime. We understand from Scripture, that our God and Savior expects that His Church to be set apart, holy, sacred and faultless. We need to be prepared constantly to be able to present ourselves before God as a Holy and Blameless Church.

Now is the acceptable time and now is the day of salvation, (study 2 Corinthians 6:2). Isaiah 55:6: “Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call upon him now while he is near."

We should search for God and prepare ourselves before it is too late. Otherwise, we will be like the five foolish virgins who were not prepared and while they were out buying the oil, they should have had, when they'd returned knocking on the door saying, "11..., ‘Lord, Lord, open [the door] for us.’ 12 But He replied, ‘I assure you and most solemnly say to you, I do not know you [we have no relationship].’ 13 Therefore, be on the alert [be prepared and ready], for you do not know the day nor the hour [when the Son of Man will come]" (Matthew 25). Amen! BE WATCHFUL! BE VIGILANT! BE PREPARED TO MEET GOD!

🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: As I look around today, people really do hate Jesus and His message of "REPENT OR PERISH!" These are they who do not want to hear anything about them coming out of their sins! To them, we who are Christ's messengers in the earth, are an annoyance! We are stopping and blocking them from living their best LUSTFUL lives now! And so at every turn, we find more opposition and persecution and ignorance against the things of God! And this brings me to my point today. As followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, we should hate sin as does God. We are “sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness” (1 Thessalonians 5:5).

We must recognize that God has set us apart; we are “a holy nation, a people belonging to God” (1 Peter 2:9). We cannot become holy on our own, but God gives us His Holy Spirit to sanctify us (2 Thessalonians 2:13). We have His promise that He will help us in our struggle against sin (1 Corinthians 1:8).

We hate sin because it separates us from God. We hate it because it lessens our love and dulls our conscience, because it binds us and blinds us. We hate it because it grieves the Spirit of God (Ephesians 4:30). Therefore, we must not participate, tolerate, nor endorse sin! There are many lost souls out there who thinks the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is absolute foolishness. It IS foolishness to those who are perishing! SATAN HAS BLINDED THEIR MINDS SO THEY WON'T RECEIVE THE GOOD NEWS! They mock the gospel, they scoff and ridicule righteous living teachings. To them, it is one big joke! Nonetheless, we who have been born again and has gotten the log out of our eyes, we call all men to repentance in the Name of the Lord! Beloved, we cannot be in willful, blatant, deliberate sin ourselves and expect to be able to preach and teach holiness and righteousness and the coming of our Lord without being hypocrites! Let us never forget, judgment begins at the house of the Lord! Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: JUDGMENT DAY IS COMING! ARE YOU PREPARED? Beloved, you and I can't live for the devil here and live with God in the afterlife!! This Day of Judgment is fastly approaching! We cannot live ignorant lives about this one truth - Christ Jesus, the King of Glory will be coming back to this earth AND HE WILL HAVE HIS RECOMPENSE WITH HIM to give to every person according to his ways and the fruit of his doings!

People of this world may be laughing and mocking God and His people today, but I have read the last page of the Bible, and it tells us that God will get the last laugh when He pronounces judgment on all who have rejected and mocked Him and His children. I ask you today, which group will you be associated with: Those that are being laughed at or those doing the laughing? It may seem like fun to you today to mock God and live any way that you want, but realize that a Reckoning is coming. The Scripture tells us that whatsoever you sow, that shall you reap.

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting" (Galatians 6:7).

The Bible tells us everyone is going to stand before God one day and give an account of their life on earth.

"So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God" (Romans 14:12).

If you had to stand before God today, what would He say about your life? Would you hear Jesus say: "Well done, good and faithful servant" or would you hear him say: "Depart from me you workers of iniquity for I never knew you?" BE NOT DECEIVED, GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED!

🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today as I discuss: We as followers of Jesus Christ think we still have a say over these blood-bought bodies! We do not! It was bought with the precious, priceless, matchless, shed blood of Jesus Christ! We are not our own! The confusion comes into play when we still think we have a say about our lives! Our lives are now in Christ! This is not a democracy where the people have a voice like in the earthly satanic pagan secular world! The Kingdom of God is a theocracy! There is one King! One God! One LORD! One Spirit of Truth! One Head of the Body of Christ - Jesus Christ who willingly laid down His perfect sinless life for our sins. 3 days later, God raised Jesus from the dead! You and I are not our own!! We are bondservants to the One who ransomed us from the kingdom of darkness and saved us from the coming just wrath of holy God. We have been reconciled to God through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ! Some of us, still think that we have a right to do with these mortal bodies as we wish! Those in the world, this is their mantra: my body, my choice! Don't be deceived as these pagan unbelieving gentiles. Paul teaches us, by the Spirit of God, in Ephesians 4:17-24, that we "must no longer live as the unbelieving Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds and in the foolishness and emptiness of their souls, for their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded; they are alienated and self-banished from the life of God with no share in it; this is because of the willful ignorance and spiritual blindness that is deep seated within them, because of the hardness and insensitivity of their heart. And they, the ungodly in their spiritual apathy, having become callous and unfeeling, have given themselves over as prey to unbridled sensuality, eagerly craving the practice of every kind of impurity that their desires may demand. But you did not learn Christ in this way! If in fact you have really heard him and have been taught by him, just as truth is in Jesus revealed in his life and personified in him, that regarding your previous way of life, you put off your old self completely discard your former nature, which is being corrupted through deceitful desires, and be continually renewed in the spirit of your mind having a fresh, unparnished mental and spiritual attitude, and put on the new self, the regenerated and renewed nature, created in God's image, God-like in the righteousness and Holiness of the truth living in a way that expresses to God your gratitude for your salvation." Amen. Be holy. Live clean. Consider all your ways before the LORD! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! WE HAVE REACHED OUR 500th episode! BELOVED, thank you and bless you for your continued support in honoring our God and Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ who has made all of this possible! To God be the glory, both now and forever more!

** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: “For if we are willfully sinning after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice concerning sins.” “Willful sinning” in this passage carries the idea of consciously and deliberately rejecting Christ. To know God’s way, to hear it preached, to study it, to count oneself among the faithful, and then to turn away is to become, to your spiritual demise: APOSTATE!

Hebrews 10:26-29, warns against the sin of apostasy. Apostasy is an INTENTIONAL falling away or DEFECTION. Apostates who hear and understand the Gospel, walk with Christ for a while, but then reject what they have learned and turn away. These are people who are perhaps even aware of their sin and even make a profession of faith. But rather than going on to spiritual maturity, their interest in Christ begins to diminish, the things of the world have more attraction to them, rather than less, and eventually they lose all desire for the things of God and they turn away.

Apostates have knowledge, but no application of that knowledge. They are deceived to believe they have eternal life because they've made a confession with their mouths for Christ Jesus, but their hearts were and are far from Him! If you are willfully sinning as a lifestyle against Holy God, you have strayed from the faith. And if you do not repent, and return back to God, you are looking at forfeiting your salvation, because you rather have your sensual pleasures and wordly treasures more, rather than abiding in Christ Jesus! That is why it is of utmost importance that you repent, and return back to your first Love - the Lord Jesus Christ before it is too late! Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: Do you not know how much freedom we have in Christ Jesus? Because, if you let religious folk tell it, following Jesus is hard, because there's no rules and strenuous regulations to bind one to righteousness. They fail to realize this is a love relationship, all that we do in Christ, is love AND FOR LOVE'S SAKE! That's the centerpiece to our intimate relationship we have with our Heavenly Father! Love is the fulfillment of the Law!

We are no longer under the Law, but under grace (Romans 6:14–15). The Old Covenant has served its purpose, and it has been replaced by “a better covenant” (Hebrews 7:22). “In fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises” (Hebrews 8:6). Amen!!

Under the New Covenant, we are given the opportunity to receive salvation as a free gift (Ephesians 2:8–9). Our responsibility is to exercise faith in Christ, the One who fulfilled the Law on our behalf and brought an end to the Law’s sacrifices through His own sacrificial death. Through the life-giving Holy Spirit who lives in all believers (Romans 8:9–11), we share in the inheritance of Christ and enjoy a permanent, unbroken relationship with God (Hebrews 9:15). We have a better Covenant with God with better promises! Amen! TUNE IN TO FIND OUT WHAT THOSE BETTER PROMISES ARE! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I discuss: We are living in a day and age where evil and wickedness is all around us! Men and women are becoming more wicked, more ungodly, and more vile with each passing day! And you have to make sure you don't get caught up in the madness! Because it's easy to get caught up! And the next thing you know, you're lifting your eyes in a burning trying to figure out how you got there!

Beloved, evilness is prevalent! Deception lurks at every turn and if you are not careful, your adversary, the devil, who roams around like a roaring lion, will have you in his clutches! You have to pay attention to your surroundings and who you allow in your inner circle. You can't go everywhere. You can't watch everything on worldly secular television. You have to consider your comings and your goings! What steps are you taking? Are those steps leading toward eternal life, or have you made a detour and now you are facing God's Wrath. When at one time, you were on the shiny path to eternal life! 'Cuz let me tell you, there are many people who belong to Satan, but deceptively profess Christ! They are deceived and they are deceiving the masses! If you do not know the real Jesus Christ, if you don't have a real relationship with Him, you are going to get caught up in religion quick, fast, and in a hurry! There are groups (namely Torah-observants) still teaching that Christians must obey the Old Testament Law. Whether it is the Sabbath day or the food laws or all of the Old Testament Law, they declare observance of the Law is either required for salvation or at least, a crucially important aspect of the Christian life. DO NOT BE DECEIVED!!

Make no mistake, Christ Jesus came (not to point us to the Law), but to free us from the slavery of sin where we are no longer facing God's just Wrath by becoming the propitation for our sins! We have freedom in Christ as born-again followers, and are set at liberty (from keeping the Law) when we place our faith in Him ALONE for salvation! "Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions. 13 Do not go on offering members of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness. But offer yourselves to God [in a decisive act] as those alive [raised] from the dead [to a new life], and your members [all of your abilities—sanctified, set apart] as instruments of righteousness [yielded] to God" (Romans 6:12-13). Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!