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 as I discuss: What does it mean that Jesus is God’s only begotten son? Because there's confusion on whether or not Jesus was a created being, that He was procreated or that human reproduction played a part in His humanity. But first let me say this, "Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ" (Colossians 2:8 NLT). I say that, to say this, when you have sound doctrine from the Word of God, you are to not let ANYONE deceive you about the truth you hold on to. The Bible tells us exactly who Jesus is. Scripture after Scripture tells us that Jesus is God!! Let's not be mistaken, Jesus said, "That is why I told you that you will die [unforgiven and condemned] in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am the One [I claim to be], you will die in your sins” (John 8:24)

AMP.

👉🏾John 1:1 - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

👉🏾John 1:14 - "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth."

👉🏾John 8:58 - "Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

👉🏾John 10:30 - "I and the Father are one.”

👉🏾Colossians 2:9 - "For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily."

The phrase “only begotten Son” occurs in John 3:16, which reads in the King James Version as, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The phrase "only begotten" translates the Greek word MONOGENES. This word is variously translated into English as "only," "one and only," and "only begotten."

It’s this last phrase ("only begotten" used in the KJV, NASB and the NKJV) that causes problems. False teachers have latched onto this phrase to try to prove their false teaching that Jesus Christ isn’t God; i.e., that Jesus isn’t equal in essence to God as the Second Person of the Trinity. They see the word "begotten" and say that Jesus is a created being because only someone who had a beginning in time can be "begotten." What this fails to note is that "begotten" is an English translation of a Greek word. As such, we have to look at the original meaning of the Greek word, not transfer English meanings into the text. SO MAKE SURE YOU TUNE IN TO GET FULL CLARIFICATION!

🎯 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 I was in the middle of doing a lesson on the Gospel that as a sinner, Christ died for us, when in the middle of the podcast out of nowhere, the Holy Spirit came on me to exhort on peddling God's Word! The Holy Spirit expounded that we are to NOT make merchandise of God's people! In righteous indignation, I went off! Something about the notion of taking Scriptures and putting it on a card, a t-shirt, a backpack, a keychain, a hat, etc., just riled up anger in me! How is it possible, that you can put a price tag on the precious blood of Jesus that was shed for you?

I know many of us had aspirations of making products, be it a book, apparel, or music that would enlighten the Body of Christ, uplifting the brethren through inspiring words from the Bible. We were in ERROR!! You are in gross error to take any part of God's Word and make merchandise of it! That is a sign of a peddling priest, a charlatan, a wolf in sheep's clothing. And this does not only apply to the fake phony pastor in the apostate church. It is for any one of us to think that we can take Holy Scripture and phrase it in such a way, that we can actually slap a retail price on it! God forbid!! You are deceived and we all need to repent! In holy rebuke, I came down hard on the brethren and those alike! I was led by the Holy Spirit to rebuke anyone who is peddling God's Word and to demand that they stop it! I agree wholeheartedly with my Lord: "Jesus said to them, “It is written [in Scripture], ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.” (Matthew 21:13)

💥 Jesus Clears the Temple

13 "It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. 14 In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money. 15 Jesus made a whip from some ropes and chased them all out of the Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers’ coins over the floor, and turned over their tables. 16 Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them, “Get these things out of here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”

17 Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me" (John 2). 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: God has given humanity a gift - that gift is salvation! Salvation was won through the shedding of Christ's blood, in payment for the sins of the whole world, on the cross at Calvary! Jesus won!

Christ was crucified and, in Him, so were we:

"I have been crucified with Christ [that is, in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me" (Galatians 2:20 AMP).

Ephesians 2:8 tells us, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." Salvation is a free gift from God. Salvation flows from God's amazing grace! You can do nothing to deserve a gift; for a gift by definition is free!

What must you do to get this gift? "BELIEVE." God's gift is through faith - FAITH in His Son! Believe in Jesus Christ and you will be saved! Believe in Christ now and that free gift is yours forever! God gives it by grace. We receive it through faith. In Christ, we have redemption! In Christ, we have reconciliation! In Christ, we are clothed in His righteousness, sealed forever by the Holy Spirit! We must repent and stay out of sin so that the sanctifying work of God's Spirit may have its work in us! Let us always remember, God has made a way for sinful man to be reconciled to Him and that is through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ! Praise the Living God! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God! (Scriptures as promised) 👉🏾 https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/The-Effect-Of-Christ~s-Death

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https://www.openbible.info/topics/dying_to_self

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: Real simple, you are to live clean and holy lives before the LORD! Please make sure you tune into today's message! We are going to be taking a look at what it means to be pure before God and how to live a life of holiness. For the command has gone out folks, "Be holy, for I am holy"

(1 Peter 1:16). AND THAT'S JUST IT IN A NUTSHELL! BOTTOM LINE: Christ Jesus tells us in John 15:3-7, - “I am the true Vine. My Father is the One Who cares for the Vine. 2 He takes away any branch in Me that does not give fruit. Any branch that gives fruit, He cuts it back so it will give more fruit. 3 You are made clean by the words I have spoken to you. 4 Get your life from Me and I will live in you. No branch can give fruit by itself. It has to get life from the vine. You are able to give fruit only when you have life from Me. 5 I am the Vine and you are the branches. Get your life from Me. Then I will live in you and you will give much fruit. You can do nothing without Me." 6 “If anyone does not get his life from Me, he is cut off like a branch and dries up. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire and they are burned. 7 If you get your life from Me and My Words live in you, ask whatever you want. It will be done for you." (New Life Version) Amen!

** HERE ARE THE 42 SCRIPTURES AS PROMISED ON HOLINESS: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Holiness 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!

**APOLOGIES FOR THE LOW SOUND QUALITY** 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 who are in Christ, have been delivered from sin's penalty: ETERNAL SEPARATION (see Romans 6:23) FROM GOD AND FROM HIS SON FOREVER IN THE LAKE OF FIRE! The Bible says that this Lake, which burns with EVERLASTING fire and brimstone (burning sulfur), is the second death (Revelation 20:10-15)!

Many people will admit that they commit sin and are, therefore, sinners. However, most sinners are not aware of the biblical penalty for sin in the sight of God. Today in society, many people do not clearly know what sin is according to the Bible.

1 John 3:4 declares that sin is lawlessness: "4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness [ignoring God’s law by action or neglect or by tolerating wrongdoing—being unrestrained by His commands and His will]." Sin is disobeying a scriptural law of God. For example, murder, lying, and stealing are sins because these actions violate the ten commandments. God has pronounced that the penalty of sin is spiritual death and separation from Him in a place of eternal judgment called The Lake of Fire: “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). The apostle Paul declared in Ephesians 2:1-6, that every sinner is spiritually dead in trespasses and sins, but God in His mercy and grace has provided a way to escape sin’s condemnation. Salvation (or deliverance from sin’s penalty) has been provided through the atoning sacrifice of Christ Jesus - AND IN HIM ALONE!

Romans 5 tells us in verse 6: "While we were still helpless [powerless to provide for our salvation], at the right time Christ died [as a substitute] for the ungodly." Amen! It is a blessed truth to know that we can be forgiven our sins and go to Heaven, instead of going to a burning as we await final sentencing at the Great White Throne Judgment (see Revelation 20). The Gospel proclaims that Jesus paid sin’s penalty through His substitutionary death as a sin offering, thereby saving believers from the coming wrath of God! Jesus died, was buried, and rose again, proving that God accepted His payment for sin. Jesus was punished for our sins so that we could be forgiven and avoid sin’s punishment. This is the true concept of salvation.

Salvation is a gift of grace and is received by believing the gospel. The gospel, when believed, “is the power of God to Salvation for everyone who believes.” (Romans 1:16). When a sinner personally believes the gospel, he becomes justified as a completely righteous person before God! 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: To whom do you rely on? Who is it that you depend on and trust in? Because if it's not the Lord Jesus Christ, you're in serous trouble my friend!

For believers in Christ Jesus, He is our ONLY TRUE HOPE! Hope is found in none other! How did Peter respond to Jesus? "66 As a result of this many of His disciples abandoned Him, and no longer walked with Him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve [disciples], “You do not want to leave too, do you?” 68 Simon Peter answered, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You [alone] have the words of eternal life 👉🏾[you are our only hope]" (John 6) AMP.

Is there any hope? Is there any hope for salvation?”

The answer to that question is, “Christ is the only hope for a salvation that is desperately needed.” The Bible says that without Christ, people have “no hope” and they are “without God in the world” (Eph. 2:12). Those who are without Christ have no hope beyond this life, and no hope of spiritual and eternal blessings. They are spiritually lost, “condemned already” (John 3:18).The Bible tells us that condemnation is reserved for the one that doesn’t believe. There are only two kinds of people in the world: those that have everlasting life as a result of faith in Christ; and those that have not believed and as a result, stand condemned already! They are already sentenced (condemned) and are only waiting for the execution of that sentence - The Great White Judgment (study Revelation 20:10-15). Not tomorrow, not next year, not at age twenty one, not at death, but now, already condemned! They are condemned, because, without Christ, people are spiritually trapped in sin... AND LEFT WITH NO HOPE! THE WORLD NEEDS JESUS AS LORD AND SAVIOR! 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: Uh-oh! Y'ALL BETTER SURE YOU TUNE IN TODAY! Somebody's in trouble with the Holy Spirit and He wanted me to address the Body of Christ with today's exhortation! SO I GOT MY HAMMER OUT! You who call yourself a "believer" and are still in willful, deliberate, practicing, blatant sin, are playing with 's fire and you better REPENT! DO NOT BE DECEIVED, THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD!

Yes, folks I got my hammer out today AND I AM FILLED WITH RIGHTEOUS VEXATION! Because I was minding my own business this afternoon, when the Holy Spirit arrested me to come on the podcast with this searing message to the one whom He has already spoken to about their continuing sin! Somebody's in trouble y'all! You (and I don't know who you are), but you are deceived to believe that you can continue in your practicing sin and still get to go to Heaven off the false doctrine of ONCE SAVED/ALWAYS SAVED," believing that Jesus was talking to YOU that "no man can snatch you out of My hand." I can assure you my friend, He was not speaking about you! Ain't happening my friend! AIN'T POSSIBLE! BECAUSE IF THAT'S THE CASE THEN I CAN GO RIGHT BACK TO MY HARLOTRY, ADULTERY, FORNICATION, WEED SMOKING, BED-HOPPING, LYING, STEALING AND CUTTING UP...AND STILL GET TO GO TO HEAVEN, RIGHT?! THAT'S RIDICULOUS AND YOU AND I BOTH KNOW IT! So I'm here to tell you: STOP PLAYING!! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "BELIEVING SINNER" who wants to call themselves both a saint and a sinner - you can't have it both ways! That's taking God's grace and as a license to sin! The Father has made it clear in Hebrews 10:26-31:

26 "Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. 27 There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. 28 For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us. 30 For we know the one who said,

“I will take revenge.

I will pay them back.”

He also said,

“The Lord will judge his own people.”

31 It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God." 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: A Heart Sprinkled From an Evil Conscience: Hebrews 10:22, "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."

A good conscience leads the way to a healthy life, while chronic guilt leads only to emptiness, pain and emotional fatigue! Guilt will not allow one to be emotionally or spiritually healthy! Guilty feelings are useful when they drive us to REPENTANCE. However, Satan can also use guilty feelings to drive us AWAY from God.

What is "An Evil Conscience?" An evil conscience is a conscience that continues to feel the guilt of sin. An evil conscience is a conscience still burdened. An evil conscience is a troubled conscience; an evil conscience is a conscience diseased by guilt. Guilt is heavy, it is oppressive, and by its very nature suffocates the soul! Guilt is inward and deeply affects the heart and mind, even to our spirit.

Jesus is the only One who is able to break the bond of guilt; He completely frees one from the guilt of every sin; there is no such thing as partial forgiveness! He died for all past sins and He frees from the guilt of every sin; little sins, big sins, and the unspeakable! When we accept what Jesus has done for us at cross, we receive Him as Lord and Savior of our lives. He then takes all our past sins and every one is placed on His bloody back. He becomes our sin offering, the Lamb of God. As people of faith, we accept that our punishment for sin was borne by Jesus. He is our Savior because He bore the GUILT and PENALTY of our sins! If we have sinned, then we turn from our sins (REPENT) and ask forgiveness, for He is faithful and just to forgive our sins. Amen! THAT IS WHY WE MUST BE BORN-AGAIN!

🎯 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: Jesus paid for our sins by dying on the cross, making atonement, answering the charge of our guilt of sin! He made up for the sin debt that we racked up and stake up against Holy God! Certainly we could not pay this sin debt due to our sinful fallen nature! It took the precious blood of Jesus, the unblemished untainted unadulterated blood of Jesus to wipe our slate clean before the LIVING God! He's our substitute standing in the gap of the broken fellowship that we caused between our Creator. We broke rank! We rebelled! We disobeyed and disappointed! We could not help ourselves out of the path of God's wrath even if we wanted to! We needed Jesus to come from Heaven to this sinful dark vile laden of a world to save us from the bondage of sin! He has redeemed us from the kingdom of darkness. We have been ransomed and transferred by God to the Kingdom of His Son, whom He dearly loves!

God's righteous justice demanded payment for sin! Christ Jesus on our behalf paid that payment in full by sacrificing Himself on the cross for our sins, shedding His blood so that sinful man can be reconciled back to the Father. Whereby God's justified and holy wrath would no longer be upon us, as rightly deserved, but Christ Jesus paid our past sin debt in full by lying down His life for us! Christ Jesus was the necessary sin offering that appeased God's anger toward us who sinned continuously against Him and broke His laws. Jesus was the perfect Lamb slain and His sacrifice was accepted by God for payment of sin. God's acceptance was evidence by raising Jesus from the dead. Christ Jesus was sinless and perfect and therefore by His total obedience to the Father's will, Jesus was given all authority as Judge. God has set a day in which He will judge the inhabited world by a man, Christ Jesus. And the credible proof of this is, that God raised Jesus from the dead! Jesus is alive today, sitting at the right hand of God, a place of honor! Christ Jesus is the only Mediator between holy God and man and as Savior, He intercedes on behalf of His saints. Long story short, we needed a Savior to save us from our wretched rebellious sinful wicked life! We deserved to die for our sins, but God, in His love and compassion for mankind, demonstrated this divine attribute by sending us a Savior that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life! Christ Jesus is the Light of the world, in Him, there is no darkness and those who come to Him to be saved, they too will no longer walk in darkness because they now have the Light living in them! Christ Jesus is the Light and the Life that we all need! He is the Way, the Truth and the Life, and no man can come to the Father, except through Him! To reject Him is to be already condemned! Why? For you have rejected the only One that could have saved you from everlasting destruction in the Lake of Fire! It behooves all of us to come to Christ today. When you hear the Gospel that how Christ laid down His life in a brutal violent horrific bloody mutilating fashion for you because you were a sinner, you need not harden your heart, but to come to Christ Jesus. As the Father draws you, don't reject that call - for it is to your eternal destruction to do so! Repent! Repent! God has commanded all men everywhere to repent - for Judgment Day is coming! It is nearer now than ever before! Come! Let the bride say come! Let the Holy Spirit say come! Today is the day of your salvation! Don't be found wanting when Jesus come because He is coming with His reward and He will give to every man according to his ways and according to the fruits of his doings! Jesus is coming very soon! Be prepared and ready to meet the Lord Jesus Christ, King of kings! Lord of lords! 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: A Christian's reality check by looking at Romans, chapter 8: are you really a child of God? Does the Holy Spirit in fact lives in you? Because "Those who are in the flesh [living a life that caters to sinful appetites and impulses] cannot please God" (Romans 8:8) AMP.

BELOVED, my brethren, now that we are born again, we are commanded to live holy! If you are living in direct opposition to the Word of God, meaning you are in willful, deliberate, practicing sin and still THINK you have God's favor in your life, irregardless to the command, then you are deceived and you need to repent! "For if you are living according to the [impulses of the] flesh, you are going to die. But if you are living by the [power of the Holy] Spirit you are habitually putting to death the sinful deeds of the body, you will [really] live forever" (Romans 8:13) AMP. Amen!

Sobering thought: "However, you are not [living] in the flesh [controlled by the sinful nature] but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God lives in you [directing and guiding you]. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him [and is not a child of God]" (Romans 8:9) AMP. Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!