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 😊💥 Being a warrior for the Lord Jesus Christ, is being a warrior against sin! Against evil! Against the flesh (the sin nature without the Holy Spirit)! It means forsaking all others for Christ! It means daily picking up your cross of execution (dying to oneself)! It means denying yourself of selfish self-seeking ambitions, lustful pleasures and worldly treasures, and go follow Jesus! Not only following and believing, but ACTUALLY listening and OBEYING Jesus! It doesn't mean that you can justify sin - claiming His Name - and still believe you have unbroken fellowship with Him! When in fact, the Bible teaches us that we are to abide in Jesus. Remain in Him and endure until the end (study John 15:4-21). "My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples" (John 15:8). The Lord Jesus Christ says in Luke 10:27, "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”

Beloved, you got to fight!! You got to fight the good fight of your faith! Don't let willful sin disqualify you from inheriting God's Kingdom! Be holy. Live clean. Consider all your ways before the Lord as we will all be judged at the Bema Seat of Christ! 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 as I discuss: The Day of the LORD is fastly approaching! We must live our born-again lives producing fruit in keeping with our repentance, as we await this Day! The Bible teaches, 9 "For God has not destined us to [incur His] wrath [that is, He did not select us to condemn us], but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died [willingly] for us, so that whether we are awake (alive) or asleep (dead) [at Christ’s appearing], we will live together with Him [sharing eternal life]" (1 Thessalonians 5) AMP. Amen!

Beloved, you must understand the price we pay for sin is DEATH! That is why we must turn from any and all wickedness, turn from riotous living, turn from sexual immorality, turn from worldly lust and passions, turn from rebellion against God... And turn to the only One that can save us - the Lord Jesus Christ! You are now free to be holy - now don't return back TO THE SLAVERY OF SIN! We have been set free to live clean, holy and righteous lives! Christ Jesus has set us free! If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed! The Lord Jesus Christ makes it clear in John 8:12 when He said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." So, the implication and expectation that if we ARE following Christ, then we will NOT walk in darkness! We cannot be in violation of the Scriptures and expect for all to be well in our lives!

Therefore, we will be going over those Scriptures that teaches us emphatically: when we continue to practice and indulge in evil works of the flesh, we will not inherit the Kingdom of God! It is pertinent to our salvation that through God's grace, we live sensible, upright, and godly lives; rejecting ungodliness and worldly (immoral) desires! Amen! Live clean. Be holy. Consider all the ways you take before the Lord! 🎯 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: 1 John 2:28, "Now, little children (believers, dear ones), remain in Him [with unwavering faith], so that when He appears [at His return], we may have [perfect] confidence and not be ashamed and shrink away from Him at His coming. 29 If you know that He is absolutely righteous, you know [for certain] that everyone who practices righteousness [doing what is right and conforming to God’s will] has been born of Him."

Absolutely! As followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, we strive to live a life characterized by RIGHTEOUSNESS. We no longer make excuses to defend willful sin. We no longer indulge the flesh in it's desires. We long to please the Father by doing those things (bearing good fruit in keeping with our repentance) that honor and glorify His Name in Christ! The Lord Jesus Christ teaches us, "My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples" (John 15:8). He also teaches us these biblical truths in John 15:1-2; 6:

"I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit]..."6 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."

THE WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE IS THROUGH CHRIST JESUS! "And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son" (1 John 5:11). Amen! Live clean. Be holy. Love the brethren. Consider all your ways before the Lord! 🎯 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 must never forget this one biblical truth: when Christ Jesus returns, He will have His reward with Him and He will give to every man and woman according to their ways and according to the fruit of their doings! With that being said, we who have called on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved, we better make sure that we are, indeed, in right standing with the Father when Jesus returns! Beloved, we only get one shot at this born-again life before we die. We must be found blameless when Christ returns! We are called to live holy, clean, and godly lives. We don't get to go back to the old way of living which was sinful, detestable, rebellious, and wicked in the sight of holy God! When we show appreciation, gratitude, and reverential awe & fear towards the Father, it fosters a lifestyle of faithful obedience... simply for the fact that we have been snatched from 's fire!

We must be grateful for our salvation and work it out with fear and trembling. And we show that gratitude by being obedient. By being peaceful. By being loyal and faithful to Lord Jesus. By being a loving people. By producing fruits of the Spirit that backs up our repentance. James told us that faith without works is dead. And so, we live "sensible, upright, and godly lives [lives with a purpose that reflect spiritual maturity] in this present age," as we "reject ungodliness and worldly (immoral) desires" (study Titus 2:11-14).

God has promised His children a wonderful gift: ETERNAL LIFE! And this life is found in His Son; made available to those who have put their faith and trust in His shed blood. "Therefore, since we have these [great and wonderful] promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, completing holiness [living a consecrated life—a life set apart for God’s purpose] in the fear of God" (2 Corinthians 7:1). Amen! Live clean. Be holy. Consider all your ways before the Lord! 🎯 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: Join me today on the podcast for some open-air preaching! The message was REPENT or PERISH! The Holy Spirit gave me a brutal, blunt, harsh message to preach to the people today! Whew! It was all about telling them the honest truth about the eternal state of the sinner: They are perishing and must repent! They are foolish to think that they can live a life of deliberate sin and not be held accountable on the Day of Judgment! They are looking down the barrel of 's fire if they don't turn and go back to God! The Holy Spirit, in all holy boldness, gave me a message that, I pray, pricked the hearts of the hearers! It was blunt, it was hard, but nonetheless, the truth of the matter is that no unrepentant Christ-rejecting, God-denying sinner will inherit God's Kingdom! The Bible says that a fool is the one who says in their heart, there is no God! Only a fool, according to Scripture, do not fear the LORD and the consequence of their sin! "A (closed-minded) fool does not delight in understanding, but only in revealing his personal opinion (unwittingly displaying his self-indulgence and his stupidity)" (Proverbs 18:2).

It is ABSOLUTELY foolish and arrogant to think that we, who have been given, by the grace of God, this wonderful opportunity to repent TODAY, can live a life apart from Holy God and not be subject to His Judgement! Although this message may be hard to listen to, the hammer came down to break stony hearts. To turn stiff necks to God! I pray that people got woken up today! To God be the glory! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

** (DISCLAIMER): Hello everyone, my apologies with today's audio on the podcast. It appears that the first 5-7 minutes or so, the audio is very static. It may be my mic or something in the uploading. Again, my apologies, but it does get better. Just hang in there until the end! LOL! Love you all! Thanks for supporting the podcast! 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: Beloved, you know on this podcast, I have endeavored to bring to our awareness the satanic devices of wolves-in-sheep's clothing (false teachers) who head up these apostate churches. They prey on the unlearned in the Body with indoctrinations, traditions of men, and false doctrines! We have been commanded to "mark and avoid" those who cause divisions and promote heresies among the brethren! HOWEVER, what we are talking about here, is false accusations that are being launched throughout the Body all "willy-nilly" (haphazardly)! We must call this pseudo-exposé out as well! It is a fine line between messiness and exposing. The Lord Jesus Christ gave us the instruction on how to call the brethren into account: (Matthew 18:15-17) “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.” Amen! THIS IS HOW IT IS DONE! 🚩 What has come to light, is that if you are in this Body, we cannot idolize and put on a pedestal anyone who teaches us the Word of God! We cannot and must not be a fan of people! This is what some are doing: idolizing mere mortals! Because once you find fault with that person, whom you have deemed to be someone "special" in your head, and when they somehow "offend" you, then you want to claim impropriety in their ministry or organization. Where there are unfounded claims, there will always be: pettiness, messiness, slander and extortion! If the brethren is doing wrong, we go to them privately, and we rebuke them or counsel them to repent. What we don't do, is jump up on social media, defaming and assassinating people's character without "receipts!" Don't throw gasoline on a fire claiming this person is a wolf just because you don't like something about their character - that has nothing to do with doctrine. So the question becomes, are you truly loving the brethren or are you just a busybody? Be holy. Live clean. Consider all your ways before 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 as: We take a biblical walk through the book of Ephesians, to learn and study the blessings of our redemption and how we ought to live now that we are in Christ Jesus.

In Him...,

👉🏾 We are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms (study Ephesians 1:3).

👉🏾In God's love, He chose us in Christ (actually selected us for Himself as His own) before the foundation of the world so that we will be holy and blameless in His sight (study Ephesians 1:4).

👉🏾He predestined and lovingly planned for us to be adopted to Himself as His own children through Jesus Christ (study Ephesians 1:5).

👉🏾We have redemption (that is, our deliverance and salvation) through His blood, (which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in) the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin, in accordance with the riches of His grace (study Ephesians 1:7).

👉🏾We have received an inheritance, having been predestined (chosen, appointed beforehand) according to the purpose of Him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His will (study Ephesians 1:11).

👉🏾 When we heard the Good News of our salvation, (and as a result believed in Him), we were stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit as owned and protected by God (study Ephesians 1:13).

Amen! Therefore beloved, by these wonderful blessings, you and I are made alive in Christ! We were once spiritually dead and separated from Him because of our transgressions and sins. We were following the ways of this world influenced by this present age, in accordance with the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit who is now at work in the disobedient (the unbelieving), who fight against the purposes of God. But God, being (so very) rich in mercy, that even when we were (spiritually) dead and separated from Him because of our sins, He made us (spiritually) alive together with Christ! For by His grace, you, and I, have been saved from His judgment! (study Ephesians 2).

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). We must be continually renewed in the spirit of our mind (having a fresh, untarnished mental and spiritual attitude). We must put away all sin, and do not give the devil an opportunity to lead us into sin! We must not grieve the Holy Spirit of God (study Ephesians 4), as we are in this wonderful sanctification process! We are called and commanded to be imitators of God, to be holy, to live clean, and to consider all our ways before the Lord as we await his soon coming! We are to walk as children of Light (study Ephesians 5)! 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 as I discuss: How cheap "grace" seeks to hide the cost of discipleship from people. It seeks to claim that as long as we make a profession of faith, we are saved. Salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, is so much more than simply mouthing the words “Jesus is Lord.” We are not saved by a profession of faith! We are not saved by praying the Sinner’s Prayer. We are not saved by signing a card or walking an aisle. We are saved by a living and active faith, a faith that manifests itself in repentance, obedience, and love of God and our neighbor. Salvation is not a transaction; it’s a transformation!

Ezekiel 36:25-27 tells us, God will give us a new heart. Our old heart of stone is thrown out! Our new hearts are touched by God. Our new pliable, teachable, tender hearts are changed and molded by the Lord. By the power of the Holy Spirit, we become more like God and His Son. You see, when you surrender your life to Jesus Christ, He begins to transform you! This is the process of sanctification, which is the action of being untangled from the power sin! Christ died to sin on our behalf and, therefore, we have been freed from its bondage. Now, we must live our life out in that biblical truth!

Never forget, God is calling His people to be changed and shaped by the gospel (the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ). Since we have a new heart, we can be changed. The real Gospel of Jesus Christ will challenge and convict you. It will lead to a change in your sinful habits and cause you to repent. The gospel does not teaches: you are forgiven and STAY the way you were! That would be the cheap "grace!" This cheap "grace" says you're forgiven, but does not call you to be changed! However, real Grace teaches us to turn away from sin and live clean, holy, and upright lives before 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 as I discuss: In these last days, we must be vigilant and sober-minded! Because what you believe, will determine whom you will serve: God or mammon (the demon god of money)! You can't serve both! 1 Corinthians 10:21 teaches, "You cannot drink [both] the Lord’s cup and the cup of demons. You cannot share in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons [thereby becoming partners with them]." Amen!

Scripture is unanimous, we who have called on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved, we put our trust in Him. NOT MAN!!

👉🏾We believe in one God, Creator of all things, the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

👉🏾We believe that man was directly created by God in His own image, but fell into sin. The entire human race is, therefore, lost and only through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, and regeneration of the Holy Spirit, can salvation and spiritual life be obtained.

👉🏾We believe the Lord Jesus Christ, without any change in His eternal deity, became man through conception by the Holy Spirit and virgin birth and that He died on the cross, a perfect and complete sacrifice, in our stead and for our sins according to the Scriptures. He rose bodily from the dead three days later, and ascended into Heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He is now our High Priest and Advocate.

What we believe and Whom we trust in, will determine where we will spend eternity! 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 as I discuss: In the Book of Proverbs' opening chapter, Solomon, son of David, king of Israel, teaches us the usefulness of proverbs. Proverbs are truths that are not clearly expressed or easily understood. They are mysterious sayings or adages. They are abstruse, meaning they are difficult to understand. These words of truth goes against everything in this wicked, Christ-rejecting, God-denying, ungodly pagan world! Wordly wisdom leads to spiritual darkness and a darkened understanding! Those in the "world" who reject Christ Jesus, are NOT wise, irregardless of their puffed up notions/philosophies, education, wealth and standing! The unrepentant simpleton (fool) will always reject Christ, who is Wisdom!

In the Book of Proverbs, Wisdom is personified as a woman and speaks in the first person of godly wisdom. We can read the word "wisdom" in Proverbs, as the wisdom of God! And we know that Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:24 says, "Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God."

Proverbs 1:1–7 outlines the four distinct ''to'' statements, or purpose statements of the book of Proverbs. This section culminates with the identification of the only source of true wisdom, the Lord Himself. The purpose of the book of Proverbs is to recognize wise instruction and apply knowledge wisely. Most importantly, this all begins with a reverent fear of the Lord and the rejection of foolish ways. It is written: "The [reverent] fear of the Lord [that is, worshiping Him and regarding Him as truly awesome] is the beginning and the preeminent part of knowledge [its starting point and its essence]; but arrogant fools despise [skillful and godly] wisdom and instruction and self-discipline" (Proverbs 1:7). Amen! Be holy. Live clean. Fear the Lord and consider all your ways before Him! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!