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Call To Repentance
Revelation
3:18-19 says, “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the
shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that
thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore,
and repent.” This is a time where
God is bringing His people to a place of repentance and brokenness.
God
is calling us to buy of Him His substance.
Isaiah 55:1 says, “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,
and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.” When
we, as the Church come to this point, the nations of the world will run to the
Church for answers. Isaiah 55:5b says, “...nations that knew not thee
shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel;
for he hath glorified thee.” God
says to seek Him, and call upon Him while He is near. This is the place where most saints miss it.
The Word says, “call upon Him while He is near.”
You must be able to discern when God is near.
God is always near when we call upon Him in truth (Ps 145:18). The
Word says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
is not in us. If we confess our
sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. If we say that we
have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us (I John
1:8‑10). We have all sinned
against God. When
we call upon the Lord, we must turn away from our sin.
God will have mercy upon us and will pardon us.
We may not be guilty of certain sins, but all sin is from a common root.
To
call upon the Lord in truth, we must say what He says. He says that at our best, our righteousness is as filthy
rags (Isaiah 64:6). Hosea
10:12 says, “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your
fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain
righteousness upon you. To
be able to seek the Lord, we must break up our fallow ground.
Our fallow ground is our hearts. Fallow
ground is ground that used to be useful. The
fallow ground has become stony. God
says that He will take out the Stony heart and give us a heart of flesh (Ezekiel
36:26). A heart of flesh can be
broken, in fact, must be broken to be used by God.
As
we break our hearts before God, we must deal with our sins and be obedient to
God. The Bible says, “Come now,
and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as
wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land (Is
1:18-19). Joel 2:12-12 says, “Therefore also now, saith the
LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with
weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn
unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of
great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.” After
we have submitted our hearts to brokenness, God said that “He will turn again,
he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt
cast all their sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:19). God promises that He will have compassion on us and will
forgive us. Psalms 103:12 says,
“As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our
transgressions from us.” As
our hearts are broken before the Lord, our sins, the sins of our city, and the
sins of our fathers, will be brought before us.
The prophet Habakkuk cried out , “O Lord, how long shall I cry, and
thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for
spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and
contention (Hab 1:2-3). As
we repent of those sins, God promises that He will work a work in our day, so
marvelously that we would not believe it, even if it was told us (v 5).
Jeremiah 33:3 says, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew
thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”
The Bible says that eyes haven’t seen, nor ears heard, neither have our
heart conceived what things God has prepared for those that loves Him (1 Cor
2:9). God
is bringing the Body of Christ to a place, so that we can possess the land that
God has purposed for us. Then God
says that there is nothing too hard for Him (Jer 32:17). The
last thing I want to leave you with is that when we come to true repentance,
God’s glory will be seen upon us. Isaiah
60:1-3 says, “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord
is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and
gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory
shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to
the brightness of thy rising.” Praise
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