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And we do appreciate that if you'd like to support the ministry through that means you can do that as well. So we thank you so much for that. See Alonzo, but Leonzo, I know you didn't know that. You're not the only one, my brother. I know you're not the only one. See? So yeah, that's what I make sure because again, I thought people may have known that but yes, knowing it's out the battle. So definitely appreciate that. But thank you. Thank you for being open and honest about that. So let's get into what we have come here to discuss. I want to thank you Rodney. Appreciate it, brother. Thank you. Appreciate it. I want to I want to also basically make a couple of statements before we get into tonight's tonight's study. Number one, there's no no reason in me acting as though last night's live did not have some unprecedented guests. Some surprise visitors. I understand that. And what those surprise visitors may have came comments and statements that are usually not the norm on this channel. And so I want to clear up some things. I wanted to clarify and also push back and combat one statement that I saw as I watched the replay of last night's video. And I'm pretty sure those of you who are watching you've seen it as well too. But I want to address this matter I want to put this matter to bed and to rest first and foremost and once and for all. Corey Miner is not a false teacher. Corey Miner is not a heretic. Corey Miner is a brother in Christ. Corey Miner is a fellow laborer of God's people. And he should never by God's grace should never be attacked or falsely accused of being anything other than that until proven by scripture. We can we can have disagreements as we do. We can vehemently disagree. We can we can vehemently disagree. We can passionately disagree. We can have barbershop style conversations. But what I would not allow on this channel on this platform and with the moderators is for anyone to come into our chat and make statements that cannot be biblically supported. You will be booted. You will be banned. You will be blocked. And you will never be able to come back here. This is not the place for that. I do not tolerate that. I for one know how that feels. Therefore, I will never allow that to go on under my watch as long as I'm aware of those things going on. So moderators you saw the pen statement. If you and I'm trusting your judgment. This does not mean let me go on record for saying this as well. This is not mean if it's something that you just don't like that the person needs to be banned. No, if it's deemed slanderous, if it's deemed inflammatory, if it's deemed harassing, then and only then should you all exercise that judgment and block ban and put these people out of here. There's too many things going on. I know there was a lot of moving parts and things going on in the comments last night. And so thank you moderators for for holding it down as best as you can. But I want to make sure that we are on record that I'm on record that we here at at the BCV channel, we don't put up with disrespect of any kind. I want to allow my moderators to do it. If I see it, I would deal with my moderators accordingly. But we're definitely I'm definitely not going to allow those who come into the chat visitors patrols to come in and try to cause confusion. We have this in zero tolerance for that type of behavior. You don't get three strikes on that one. You get one and then you're gone because you can't govern yourself accordingly and comport yourself accordingly. Then you don't belong here. And you're not welcome here. You're not welcome here. So number one, Cory Miner is not a wolf. He's not a false teacher. He's not a heritage. I made that abundantly clear. So just in case my brother watches this live as I know he watched last night, it is going on record. I do not believe and never have I stated that Cory Miner is a heritage. He's a wolf. He's a false. He's not. He's none of those things. He's a brother that I disagree with and he's a brother that I believe is an error when it comes to the doctrine of repentance and particularly public repentance for public sin. I believe he's in definitely an error with that. He's wrong in that. He's wrong and flip flopping in that. He's wrong of being a hypocrite in this issue. So I'm not going to rehash that. You can watch the video on yesterday and you can just pull that up yourself. Will the real Cory Miner please stand up? That's it. Now, with that being the case, what this particular live will be about, I want to do a Bible study. I want to do a Bible study because I did not have time to unpack a lot of things that I know that if I wanted to, would have been here for four hours. Wasn't going to do that. And I don't plan on being here long for this one. I know somebody is saying you're right. We'll see. Well, we'll see. We'll see. Thank you for the thumbs down. Whoever did that, thank you for the thumbs down. Appreciate it. I don't know why you hate me so much, but that's okay. But anyway, so, but let's get the likes up 79 that are watching 14 likes 79 watching 14 likes. Let's get the likes up. If you don't mind thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up. If you thumb it down. Okay, that's fine. Whatever. Actually, it is 101 on my screen. I'm looking at two different devices. There's 101 people watching and 75 concurrent viewers, but 101 that are actually watching. Appreciate it. But let's get the thumb. Let's get those thumbs up. Let's hit those likes. Definitely appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. So I want to I want to start with a text in regards of this of this subject because again, we know that it's been stated. We know that it's been said as I made the poll question and I'll I'll read the poll question again in case those of you may not have seen it. I said, what are your thoughts about public repentance for public sin? That is the poll question. If you're not participating in the poll question, feel free to do so. Again, what are your thoughts about public repentance for public sin? Seventy percent said the Bible teaches it. Eleven percent says the Bible doesn't teach it. Nineteen percent says waiting for Seiko to provide VCV. I put that I put that in there. So yeah, so 70 percent says that the Bible teaches. So let's let's see. Let's see because again, we want to say what the Bible says. I believe it does. But my job is to show where it does teach that. Where does it teach it? Implicitly, explicitly. Do we see precepts in the scripture? Do we see precedents in the scriptures? Has somebody sent me a text message earlier today telling me that my interpretation is it's a hermeneutical. What's the term that he used? Let me see here. Let me see what he said in light of this. And I know where this school of thought comes from. Very popular theological school. School that John MacArthur wrote books about. And yes, a hermeneutical stretching of the intent of the author, an extremely broad application, was seen to set a Christian requirement for all believers. And he watched the repentance, my responding, my response to Corey Miner's video. He believes that my my interpretation is a hermeneutical stretching in the intent of the author. And an extremely broad application which which seemed to set a Christian requirement for all believers. I'm not sure I would have heard you handle a text in that manner a few years ago. Is that new? No, it's not new. And I responded to my brother said no, it's not new. So this is this is, you know, Corey Miner is not the only person that holds to this view. There are many others. There are many others. But nonetheless, nonetheless, it's okay. I believe I've been holding to this view for for years, as long as I can remember. And I'm pretty sure a lot of you have as well too. And here lies the the divide. But we can divide without being divisive, I believe. Unfortunately, this has become a divisive matter because when you have the implications of these statements saying that public repentance is not required for public sin, it opens the door for so many other errors, so many other sins, and even grievous ones, and egregious ones as well. I mean, are we talking about the whole John MacArthur Eileen Gray situation, right? I mean, so then there's no reason for John MacArthur to to repent publicly for putting Eileen Gray out. There's no reason for John MacArthur to repent for firing or or forcing excuse me for forcing Han Show to leave after after requesting that he conduct a church investigation. There's no reason for him to apologize to Wendy Gray for writing a letter to this little girl at the time, whose father sexually assaulted her, and lested her. There's no reason to do that. There's no reason for any of us to to to repent when we do things publicly. That's an offense as ambassadors. And that's another thing as ambassadors, we represent Christ, we represent the kingdom of God. So therefore, when we while out when we act in ways that are unbecoming as a Christian, it puts the name of our God, and the name of our Christ, and the name of the Holy Spirit, the three in one. It makes them to be seen in disrepute. It puts a black eye on Christianity. And believe me, we are to have enough of that going on. We have enough of that going on. Someone said, the Sheriff King, Mr. Seiko, I owe you an apology. I thought all this was personal with Jay Mack and so on. But I believe you mean well. And I'm just trying to uphold biblical principles. I apologize for jumping the gun. Well, thank you. Thank you. Praise God. And I accept. Thank you very much. Thank you for going out of your way to to join this this channel and to to make that publicly known. I really do appreciate that. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. And welcome. So anyway, let's let's let's go ahead. And I want I wanted to just state that because again, when we talk about public repentance, when we talk about is public repentance required? I believe that it is. I believe the scriptures teach it. I believe that there are principles. I believe that there are precepts in scripture. I believe that there are patterns of practice that we can see that we can apply. And there's a biblical precedent for it. I believe that. And actually in this message that I just that I just read you an excerpt of the brother said these four P's that he that he heard me mention it concerned him. I don't I don't know why they're concerned. I'm just talking about how we can see scripture. And I just I just I just illiterated it. That's all he says. But those four P's of biblical interpretation and the explanation and use of those texts you provided was interesting seem to be much hermeneutical stretching of the intended author. Okay. But anyway, I hold to that position. I believe that it is it is biblical. I believe that I'm not stretching the text. I believe we see it applied. We see it implied and and clearly stated from the Old and New Testament. But first, let's go right into the to the scriptures to see why we should hold to public repentance for public sin. And I'm just going to lay out the and I'm just going to lay out the foundational text. All scripture is inspired by God. All of it. Paul at the time of this writing was referring to the Old Testament writings. The New Testament was not complete yet. So he's referring to Old Testament, but we have all of it now. All scripture is inspired God, breathe, fail. Newstas is God, breathe, and it's profitable for teaching. That's what we're doing tonight for reproof. That's what I did last night for correction. That's what I did last night for training and righteousness. I did last night and I'm going to do by God's grace tonight. Why? What's the purpose for it? Verse 17. So that the man of God or woman of God may be adequate, equipped, not ill-equipped. We should be equipped. We should be prepared for every good work, the Bible says. It's sufficient. The word of God is sufficient, ladies and gentlemen. It's enough. That's all we need. It's complete. It's enough. It's able to satiate us spiritually. And it says equipped for every good work. Every good work. And so that's the basis of what I want to, or foundation I want to lay out tonight. When we talk about scripture and when we hear people or we hear statements that say that public repentance for public sin is not, it's nowhere found. That was the word that I believe our brother mentioned in his video this past Sunday. It is nowhere found in scripture for us to do that. That should trouble us. That should trouble us. Because as I mentioned last night, our brother, he cited 1 Timothy chapter 5 verse 20 and 21 in his exegesis and defense of proving that when elders are in sin, they are to be rebuked in the presence of all so that the rest will be fearful of sinning. That's not the implications of repentance. If that's not what the purpose of church discipline for elders are for, for them to repent, I don't know what else is. Because he said rebuking in the presence of all so that the rest will be fearful. That's repentance. It's one of the aspects of repentance. So what I want to do tonight, I want to go through some Old Testament passages, some Old Testament texts to show you how public repentance is shown and seen and taught and explain both in the old and new Testament. So let's get right into it. Let's look at the first one. We're going to start in Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter, let's see, chapter 18. Jeremiah 18. And we're going to get verse 7. We started verse 7. God says at one moment, I might speak concerning a nation. This is, this is corporate. When I say public, this is corporate repentance. We see, we see now, these are just examples of corporate repentance with Israel, a nation. At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down or to destroy it. Notice what God says. Verse 8. If that nation against which I have spoken, look at the word right there, turns from its evil, turns from its evil. What does that mean? Turns from its evil? Sounds like repentance to me, does it not? Turns from its evil, I will relit concerning the calamity I plan to bring up on it. Then he says in verse 9. Or at another moment, I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to build up or to plan it. If it does evil in my sight by not obeying my voice, then I will think better of the good with it, which I had promised to bless it. So now then speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying thus saith the Lord, behold, I am fashioning calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh, turn back. Oh, turn back. Listen, turn back each of you from his evil way and reform your ways and your deeds. God is talking to Israel, rebellious Israel, and he's telling them this is what you better do or else I'm going to do this against you if you don't repent, if you don't turn back. We know that repentance, that's what it means to turn. The change course of direction, change of mind, change of mannerism of life, or manner of life. That's Jeremiah chapter 18 verse 7 3 11. Let's look at, let's look at Matthew. Let's go real quick over to Matthew. Matthew chapter 3. See this carried over for a second. Matthew chapter 3 verse 1 through 6. Now in those days, John the Baptist came notice preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, saying, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord, make his path straight. Now John himself had a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist and his food was locus of wild honey. Verse 5. Then Jerusalem was going out to him notice. This is not a private matter. This is public. This is public. Then Jerusalem was going out to him and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan and verse 6 says, and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their what? Their sins. Why would he need to confess their sins? Because he just read in the text. John is preaching the gospel of repentance and John is not baptizing anyone unless they repent confessing their sins publicly. And no, by the way, baptism is a public profession of what God has done in our lives. And we make it known before others that I have died with Christ as I go into this water and I'm coming up symbolizing being raised into Christ and with Christ in the newness of life that have died to my sin. So that is a public profession and public profession of one's faith and trust in Christ that they have turned from our sins. It does not mean that baptism saves. It does not mean them. I'm not talking about that. I'm just saying that baptism is a public profession of what Christ has done that once we have confessed our sins to God, we're making it known that, hey, I am a new creation in Christ. I don't want to live the way I used to live. And now I am by through the waters of baptism, I am symbolizing going down and coming up, being dead to sin, being raised into newness of life with Christ. And we see the same example in Luke 3. We don't have to go there. Same correlation of example. But let's go back again to the Old Testament. Who wants you to see a little bit of this here? Give you a little sample of a taste of that from the New Testament. God talks about repentance. John the Baptist talks about repentance. Jesus talks about repentance. Repent and believe the gospel. Mark 115. Repent and believe the gospel. Let's look at Numbers. Let's look chapter 21, verse 7. Numbers 21, verse 7. Now, we all know the background of this story. I'm pretty sure people of Israel, nation of Israel, rumbling, complaining, and God dealt with him. He sick some serpents on them. They get bit by fiery serpents. Why? Verse 5 of Numbers 21, the people spoke against God and Moses. That's not good. Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there's no food and no water. And we loathe this miserable food. So they have food to eat. They didn't like it. You know, like how we do sometimes. We complain, even though we have what we don't deserve, but God still supplies it. And oh, by the way, can I just say this? Can I just say this? God hates it when we are ungrateful. Yeah. I know it's not Thanksgiving yet, but we should be thankful every day. Amen. We should be thankful every day. We have a lot to be thankful for. We should be thankful that God has not dealt with us as our sins deserve. That's one. We should be thankful that he did not treat us as our sins deserve in an eternal hell. We should be thankful for that. We should be thankful that our names are written in Lamb's Book of Life. We should be thankful that God chose to save us. He didn't have to, but he chose to because it was his good pleasure and intention to do so. We should be thankful for that. We should be thankful for the activities of our limbs, whatever we may have, whether you are in a wheelchair or whether you are walking, whether somebody is assisting you. We should be thankful for whatever station in life that God has us in because we don't deserve any of his blessings. Every day we should be thankful. I am sitting here in my office in an air conditioned room with studio lights and equipment and I know, I know that I have 10 times if not more, much than people in third world countries. We have people right now in Sudan who can't get food right now as we speak. I have food in the other room waiting for me to consume, but there are people that don't have anything to eat and their hunger is consuming them. We should be thankful. We should be thankful. We should be thankful for the relationships that we have that God has given to us. Notice what I'm talking about, that God has given to us. I'm talking about abuse. I'm talking about that God has given to us as stewards to care for, to love, to receive, to give. We should be thankful for a lot of things that we sometimes minimize. And as the song says, count your blessings named in one by one. Yeah, simple song, but it is very substantial. We should count our blessings. Every last one of them. You got a car? Thank God. You got cars? Thank God. You taking over the work? Thank God. Getting picked up from work? Thank God. Thank God. Because there's always someone worse off than you. That's why we should never complain, let alone compare ourselves to others. We don't know what someone else had to go through to get what they got, a vice versa. So let's not do that. But these people here, we're no different in Israel. We're just in a different dissemination. And this is why God dealt with them in verse six. The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people so that many of the people of Israel died. So verse seven says, so the people came to Moses and said, we have sinned. There's confession. We have sinned. Why? Because we have spoken against the Lord and you. You see that? That's confession. Intercede with the Lord that he may remove the serpents from us and Moses interceded for the people. So if that was some of us, we'd be like, I ain't doing nothing. We'd be like, I ain't. Nope. Let it burn. We'd be like usher. Let it burn. But he didn't do that. Verse eight, then the Lord said to Moses, make a fiery serpent and set it on a standard and it shall come about that. And here's, here's the, listen. So we see a public confession. Right? We see public confession and now we're about to see public repentance. Look, make a fiery serpent. Verse eight, set it on a standard and it shall come about that everyone who is bitten when he looks at it, what happens if they don't look at it? That means they don't get, they don't get healed. They won't, they won't live. They're going to die. That's a sign of repentance. Ladies and gentlemen, everyone who is bitten, everyone who got bitten by those serpents, those fiery serpents, those burning serpents, when they bit you, that's what it felt like fire. Everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live. Not making this up is right there in the text. And so look what happened. And Moses made a bronze serpent, verse nine, and set it on a standard. And it came about that if a serpent bit any man when, there it is, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's fruits of repentance because if he didn't look to it, if he didn't turn to it, there'll be no healing. There'll be no life. They would die. So we see an Old Testament example so far, that sin brings about judgment, confession, must be meat, must be met with repentance and the fruits thereof. You say it's something you must do. You say, I'm going to provide, I'm going to provide the means to repent, but you must apply it. He's going to make a standard. Every one of you who is bitten, you, if you turn to it, you look at it, you will live. But if you don't, then you won't. Simple as that. Just giving you an example, ladies and gentlemen, I'm making myself clear so far. Are we good? I'm hoping I'm not speaking abstractly here. I hope I'm being clear with what I'm trying to present here tonight. So let's look at another example. So we see this is, this is with Israel's in the desert complaining, God had to deal with them, right? Let's look at Israel during the time of the judges. Let's go to judges. Let's look at Judges chapter 10. Judges 10. Let's start with verse 15. Let's do verse 15 and 16. Judges chapter 10. We all know that Israel, during this time, everyone did what was right in his own eyes. We remember that, right? And needless to say, God is kind of, yeah, he kind of pissed that because why? Because they're following idols. Look, let's go back to this. Let's go to verse one for a second. You need a little bit of context. Now after a Bemelec died, this is Judges chapter 10. After a Bemelec died, Tola, the son of Pua, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. He judged Israel 23 years, then he died and was buried in Shamir. After him, Jair, the Gileadite, arose and judged Israel 22 years. He had 30 sons. He rode on 30 donkeys and they had 30 cities in the land of Gilead that are called Havos Jair to this day. And Jair died and was buried and come on. Not like Michael. Come on. Let's talk about that. Verse 6. Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, served by the Auls and Asteroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Saitan, the gods of Moab, the gods of the sons of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines. Thus they forsook the Lord and did not serve him. Do you see the sin? It's not that they didn't serve one God. They were serving several gods. Verse 7. The anger of the Lord burned against Israel and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon. They afflicted and crushed the sons of Israel that year for 18 years. They afflicted all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan and Gilead and the land of the Amorites. The sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed. Notice this has always been a pattern. They sin, they cry, God deliver. They sin, they cry, God deliver. They sin, they cry, God deliver. Then the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, verse 10, saying, we have sinned against you. Oh, you think? For indeed, we have forsaken our God and have served and served the Baals. Verse 11. Verse 11. The Lord said to the sons of Israel, did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the sons of Ammon and the Philistines? Also when the Sedonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, you cried out to me and I delivered you from their hands. Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you. Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen. Let them deliver you in your time and your distress. Verse 15. The sons of Israel said to the Lord, we have sinned due to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day. Here's the repentance. It wasn't just one person who sinned. It's in the plural, us, the sons of Israel, the nation. So how did they show forth their fruits of repentance? So they put away the foreign gods among them and served the Lord and they could not bear the misery of Israel any longer. We need not have to say that God already made it clear that he does not want any of the gods before him. He said that in Mount Sinai. He said that in Exodus 20. He does not take too kindly having anything before him in front of his face, paraded as our God. They're showing you signs of corporate repentance publicly, public repentance for public sin. Let's look at Israel also when they were asking for their king. You remember at the time God was their king, but he wanted to be like everybody else. You know, monkey see monkey do. First Kings, I mean, first Samuel, first Samuel. Chapter seven. We'll look at verses three through four. Give us a king. We want a king. We want, you know, be like the other nations. And the men of Kariah Jereem came and took the ark of the Lord and brought it into the house of Abedadab on the hill and consecrated Eleazar. And consecrated Eleazar, his son, to keep the ark of the Lord from that day that the ark remained at Kariah Jereem. The time was long for was 20 years and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel saying, notice, notice, if you return to the Lord with all your heart, remove the foreign gods and the asteroth from among you and direct your hearts to the Lord and serve him alone. And he will deliver you from the hands of the Philistines. But you got to do this first. If you return, if you repent, you return to the Lord, remove the foreign gods and the asteroth from among you. Notice he's not talking in a private matter. He's speaking publicly to a nation. Samuel the prophet, one of these kings and not he got him. Ain't there something? If you turn, if you return to the Lord, if you return to the Lord, remove the foreign gods. He says, I'm not doing it for you. No, no, you do it. You did it. You do it. Remove the foreign gods and the asteroth from among you and direct your hearts to serve, direct your hearts to the Lord and serve him alone and he will deliver you from the hands of the Philistines. But you got to do what's right. Yeah, you got to do what's right. So notice what they did. You think they did that? Of course they did. Where's four? So the sons of Israel removed the Baals and the asteroth and served the Lord alone. Yeah. This is why God takes idolatry seriously, very serious, very serious. Let's see also in Isaiah, Isaiah, Isaiah 19 verse 22. So verse 21, Thus the Lord will make himself known to Egypt and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering and will make a vow to the Lord and perform it. The Lord will strike Egypt striking but healing so they will return to the Lord and he will respond to them and will heal them. This is this is all examples. I'm just giving you all of corporate or national public repentance. Let's go to the New Testament again. Oh, let me go let me go to Ezekiel first. I almost forgot Ezekiel 45. Ezekiel 45 and verse 9. Thus saith the Lord God enough you princes of Israel put away violence and destruction and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your explorations from my people declares the Lord God. Hmm. Do you see this? God says stop that. This is what I'm this is what I'm commanding you to do. Put it away. Turn. Put away violence and destruction and practice. No, practice justice and righteousness. Stop your exploration. Stop taking advantage of people. Mm-hmm. Again, Old Testament examples of public repentance and even even commanded commanded. Remember, all scripture is inspired by God. All of it. Repentance is not just something that happens in the Old Testament. It happens in the New Testament as well too. How are we saved? We're saved by grace, of course, but we say when we confess our sins and repent and oh by the way repentance is definitely a gift and only God can grant that to us. Let's look at another example. Let's look at Acts chapter 9. Acts chapter 9 verse 32 through 35. Now, as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he came down also to the saints who lived at Liddah. There he found a man named Anais who had been bedridden eight years before he was paralyzed. Peter said to him, Anais, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed. Immediately he got up, verse 35, and all who lived at Liddah and Sharon saw him and they turned to the Lord. We see nations. We see towns and cities, communities, public, public repentance, public repentance. We also see public repentance encouraged and exorted by leadership. Let's look at the Old Testament again. Let's go to Ezra. Ezra chapter, let's look at chapter 9. Ezra 9, 15. Oh, Lord God of Israel, verse 15. Oh, Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we have been left and escaped remnant as it is this day. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for no one can stand before you because of this. What happened? What were they doing? Well, remember committing sin again. Giving their daughters and their sons, basically, to foreign women. That was against God's law. And now they're receiving the consequences of their sin. Verse 10, I mean, chapter 10, verse 1. Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel for the people wept bitterly, for the people wept bitterly. Now, again, just to show you all examples of what we see in scripture of corporate public repentance. Let's go to Second Kings. Second Kings, 23. And we'll start at verse one in this seven. Then the king sent and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. So again, a public public situation. King Josiah, who is the youngest king in Israel, notice verse two, the king went up to the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord. This is a public matter, ladies and gentlemen. Something is about to happen. Verse three, the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul to carry off the words of this covenant that were written in this book and all the people entered into the covenant. Verse four, then the king commanded Healchia, the high priests and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels. Notice signs of public repentance, all the vessels that were made for Baal, the Asherah, or for all the host of heaven. And He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel. He did away with the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem. Also, those who burned incense to Baal to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations as the stars and to all the hosts of heaven. Verse six, and He brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron and burned it at the brook Kidron and grounded to dust and threw his dust on the graves of the common people. He broke down the houses of male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah. Then He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense from Giba to Beersheba. And He broke down the high places of the gates, which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the city gate. Public repentance met by fruits of repentance is the point. So we see Josiah, he leaves the people of Judah. By the time the kingdom is now split. Israel and Judah now split. It's not one nation, it's two. Look at it now. So, Josiah, right? Let's see also. Let's see Asa, second chronicles. He's looking at another king, another leader, second chronicles, chapter 15, 15, verse one, and we'll start verse 15. Now, the Spirit of God came on Azariah, the son of Odeh. And He went out to meet Asa and said to him, listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. For many days, Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law. But in their distress, they turned, verse four, but in their distress, they turned to the Lord God of Israel and they sought Him and He let them find Him. In those times, there was no peace to Him who went out or to Him who came in for many disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every kind of distress. But you, verse seven, be strong and do not lose courage for there is reward for your work. Verse eight, now when Asa heard these words and the prophecy which Azariah, the son of Odeh, the prophet spoke, he took courage and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the Lord, which was in front of the porch of the Lord. He gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who resided with them for many defected to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the 15th year of Asa's reign. They sacrificed to the Lord that day, 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep from the spoil they had brought. They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul and whoever who would not seek the Lord, God of Israel, should be put to death whether small or great or man or woman. Moreover, they made an oath to the Lord with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets and with horns. All Judah rejoiced concerning the oath for they had sworn with their whole heart and had sought him earnestly and he let them find him. So the Lord gave them rest on every side. Verse 16, got to read this one. He also removed Makkah, the mother of King Asa from the position of Queen Mother. Why? Because she made a horrid image as an Asherah and Asa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook, Kidron. Like, yep, mama can get it too. Again, another Old Testament example, another Old Testament example of public repentance. Let's look at 2 Chronicles 30. Stay in the same book. Let's see what Hezekiah did. Chapter 30 verse, let's see what we can start at verse 6. The couriers went throughout all Judah, I mean all Israel, excuse me, and Judah, with the letters from the hand of the king and the princess, even according to the commander of the king saying, O sons of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham. He's telling them to do something. They're speaking on behalf of God. These messengers, these messengers, O sons of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped and are left from the hand of the kings of Assyria. Do not be like your fathers and your brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror as you see. Now do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to the Lord and enter His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, that His burning anger may turn away from you. 4 verse 9, if you return to the Lord, can I just say repent? If you return to the Lord, your brothers and your sons will find compassion, will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. Why? For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him. Know how many times the God is saying this? Do these messengers of the Lord? Return, return. If you return, I will do this. If you return, they're showing you all examples again of public repentance. When we sin and when Israel sin, there was confession and that confession was accompanied by public repentance when it was done publicly. Of course, we see private examples of repentance. We know that, but the issue is what we were told that Scripture doesn't record us being required to repent publicly for public sin. Well, we're looking right now in the Old Testament that there's a lot of requirements going on and a lot of repentance as well. So, 2 Chronicles 30, verse 10. So, the courier's paths from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mock them. Nevertheless, some men of Asher, Manasseh, Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart, to do what the king and the princess commanded by the word of God. So, Hezekiah is leading Israel and Judah into repentance. We see this, right? Now, we see Ezra and we're going to go to chapter 10 of Ezra. Ezra, after the exile, He leads the Israelites into repentance. So, I'm just showing you how leadership also is responsible to teach people to repent and how to do it practically, practically. Ezra, chapter 10. I think we're already ready. I'm just going to make sure I go through it again. No, we didn't. So, verse 10, then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, you have been unfaithful and have married foreign wives, adding to the guilt of Israel. Now therefore, 11, verse 11. Now therefore, make confession to the Lord your God. Why? For being unfaithful. Verse 10, for being unfaithful and having married foreign wives and adding to the guilt of Israel causing trouble, making sin and the consequences for others because someone else is sin. Verse 11. Now therefore, make confession to the Lord your God, to the Lord God of your fathers and do His will and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives. Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice. Wait a minute. So, this is not private? Nope. Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice. That's right. As you have said, so it is our duty to do. What? It is our duty. It is our responsibility. It is our obligation. Can I use that word? Verse 13 says, but there are many people. It is the rainy season and we are not able to stand in the open nor can the task be done in one or two days. For we have transgressed greatly in this matter. Do you know what I'm saying? Lord, we have done so. We know we've messed up. It's going to take a while for us to get this thing right. We'll make sure that we do everything we need to do to make sure you see Lord that we are serious about our sin. So notice what they did. Verse 14. Let our leaders represent the whole assembly and let all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at appointed times together with the elders and judges of each city until the fierce anger of our God on account of this matter is turned away. Notice it's turned away from us. Plural. Plural. Plural. Not private. Oh, but I gotta, I gotta discover one more, one more Old Testament passage. Oh, Jonah. Oh, Jonah. Chapter three. That's right, Hippolyta. Thank you very much. Right. Exactly. The king of Nineveh. I'm about to read that. And the people, the book of Jonah. Yep. King Azure's book of Esther. Yep. You have Abner who assaults uncle who publicly repented by handing back the kingdom. Exactly. We got some Bible readers in here. Exactly. Just giving us some examples, ladies and gentlemen. But thank you, sister. Good looking out. Thank you. So she cut my workout for me. I was going to go, I'm going to go to this last one, but those examples that she just mentioned as well, too. I'm reading the last example here in Jonah. Amanda, you had said, what did you say, Amanda? I'm sorry. You said, hello, everyone, joining, hello, everyone, joining late, trying to learn. If you repent in private when you sin in public, will you go to hell? No. No. No, losing rewards, maybe. I mean, but no, no, no. I would not say that. We got to deal with you. Yeah. Yeah. But now I would not go as far as say that. The issue is that you repented, but I would say this. I would say this. The principle is clear. What you do, what you do in private, you need to make it right in private. And what you do in public, you need to make it right in public. Because in how people know that you are genuine about what you've done on either, on either front. But far as being a sin, I will not go as far to say that, sis. I would, no. I believe the lower brain conviction wherever it needs be. I do believe that. Yes, it is. Yes, it is sis. Blazentore says, even Shimei, who cursed David was publicly repented. Yeah, but you know what happened? David was wrong for that, man. But yeah. If y'all remember that story, David was on the death bed until Solomon. Yeah, get Shimei back for what he did to me. I mean, that's just like, come on, bro. I mean, but we see these examples, y'all. We see these examples. Not a problem, sis. Not a problem. So let me just read, let me just read, let me just read Jonah, chapter three. We started verse four. Let me get the context again, because now Jonah is being, after he gets, you know, vomited up. And now he's told, you know, what I just tell you, go to Nine of them, verse two, proclaim to it the proclamation which I'm going to tell you verse three. So Jonah arose and went to Nine of them according to the word of the Lord. Now Nine of them was an exceedingly great city at three days walk. He didn't have a car, y'all. Just telling you. Then Jonah began to go through the city one day's walk. And he cried out and said, he cried out and said, yet 40 days and Nine of them will be overthrown. Then the people of Nine of them believed in God and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. When the word reached the king of Nine of them, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. He issued a proclamation and it said in Nine of them by the decree of the king and his nobles. Do not let man, beast, herd or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. Both, both, both, I mean, but both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn, there it is again, turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. Who knows the king is saying God may turn and relent and withdraw his burning anger so that we will not perish when God saw their deeds that they turned from their wicked way. They turned that sounds that smells that looks like repentance. Yeah, that would be yes. Yes, that would be yes. Yes, it would be both. When I see the blood outpass over you, God told Israel. When the death angel came, they were protected because they applied it did what was what was necessary. It's a sign and it's also sign of obedience because when you repentant, you will obey. When God saw their deeds that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which he had declared he would bring upon them and he did not do it and he did not do it. So, once you see the examples, that's in the Old Testament, right? Well, yeah, bro, that's in the Old Testament. We don't see none of that in the New Testament. No problem. Let's see if we can find some. Ah, yeah, we can't, right? Yeah, let's start in Corinthian, second Corinthians that is chapter seven, verse nine through 11. I now rejoice Paul is writing to the church of Corinth. I now rejoice not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of Paul is writing to the church of Corinth here. We know that we know, we know how Corinth was, right? We do, right? Paul says, I now rejoice not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance, for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. Verse 10, for the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance, a repentance without regret, leading to salvation. I mean, I don't know what to tell you on this one so far. I mean, it seems to be pretty clear in the text, produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. For behold, verse 11, what earnestness, this very thing, this godly sorrow has produced in you. He's writing to the church. He's not talking about one person. He's talking about the body of Christ. He's talking about the body of believers at Corinth. For behold, what earnestness, this very thing, this godly sorrow has produced in you, what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong. You see these expressions and examples of fruits of repentance and everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter. Well, let's look at another one. We've got a few verses in here. Let's go to Revelation and we'll end it here in Revelation. Revelation chapter 2, verse 4 and 5. Revelation chapter 2, verse 4 and 5. What's the church he's writing to? We know it is, right here, church of Ephesus. He's writing to the church of Ephesus. It's seven churches that John, that Jesus has now told him. Yeah, these churches, I got some things to say. Only two of them didn't get any rebuke. Smyrna put a deaf ear. The rest, the Lord has some words to say to them, and Ephesus was one of them. To the angel of the church, excuse me, in Ephesus write, the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks among the seven golden lampstands says this, I know your deeds, your toil, perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil, that you cannot tolerate evil men. And that you put to the test, those who call themselves apostles and they are not, and have found them to be false. And you have perseverance and have endured for my namesake and have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore, remember from where you have fallen and repent and do the deeds you did at first or else I am coming to you and I will remove your lampstand out of this place unless you repent. Pergamum, chapter 2, same chapter. To the angel of the church of Pergamum, write, the one who has the sharp two-edged sword says this, talk about Jesus, I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is, and you hold fast my name and did not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one who was killed among you where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balaak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things, sacrifice the items, to commit acts of immorality. So you also have some who, in the same way, hold to the teachings of the Nicolaean in verse 16, therefore repent. Therefore repent, or else I am coming to you quickly and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth, public, corporate, not private, public, public, repentance. Thy attire to the angel of the church of Thy attire, write, the Son of God who has eyes like a flame of fire and his feet are like burnish bronze says this, I know your deeds and your love and your faith and service and perseverance and that your deeds of late are greater than at first. But I have this against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess and she teaches and leads my bond service astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things, sacrifice the idols. I gave her time to repent, Jesus said verse 21, and she does not want to repent of her immorality. Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation unless they repent of their deeds. I'm showing you all public examples of public repentance. It's biblical, ladies and gentlemen. It's biblical. Revelation chapter 3, church of Sardis, to the angel of the church of Sardis, right? He who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says this, I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Wake up and strengthen the things that remain, which we're about to die. For I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of my God. So remember what you have received and heard and keep it and repent. But he says in verse four, but you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments and they will walk with me in white for their worthy. Philadelphia gets a pass, but not Laodicea, to the church in Laodicea, right? The Amen, the faithful and true witness to beginning of the creation of God says this, I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth because you say I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing. And yet you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. Crystal, like you may want to watch yesterday's program. I'm not really sure why you're not getting it from here because this is, I've showed it here. Repentance is a requirement. It's a command. Are you saying it's not a command? So far I see, so far we see people, so far we see people repenting in some public but still no word of a requirement. Okay. All right, moving on, moving on. Verse 18, verse 18, verse 18, I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich and white garments so that you may clothe yourselves and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed and I salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. Those who I love, I reprove and discipline. Therefore, be zealous and repent. I don't know what that person said, but nonetheless, it's right here. It's an imperative. It means it's a command. It means it's a command. I don't know, Crystal Light, maybe, maybe, I'm not sure what you're reading, but it is what it is. And if that's your opinion, that's your opinion. You just want to be able to find an inscription that this is an opinion. No, it's an obligation. We're required to repent when we sin publicly. Verse 20, behold, I stand at the door and knock. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and will dine with him and he with me. This is not an altar call verse. First of all, New Testament churches don't have altars, but that's just another topic. I mean, we'll be finding altar calls or altars in the New Testament church. Yeah, Old Testament Israel, yeah. They were actually sacrificing stuff. Christ is our sacrifice. Therefore, we'll need altars in the New Testament church. But that is not a verse you want to use. People saying that Jesus is standing at the door of your heart, waiting to get in. No, he's standing at the door of his own church, telling the church let him in so he can fellowship with them because they're in sin. He says, if anyone hears my voice, opens the door, I will come into him and will dine with him and he with me. Verse 19 says, therefore, be zealous and repent. I see how it's not a requirement for a public sin. They're sinning publicly. Jesus is making all these known publicly to these churches that are in sin. And I just made it clear in other scriptures and other examples, but if you don't think that repentance for public sin is required, then what does that say about your testimony? That means you can do whatever you want. Is that what we're saying? So, again, I guess the question is that John McArthur does get a pass, and then we can say that people can just sin and do whatever they want and not make right what they've done publicly. That's what we're saying. If that's the argument, it's a weak one. It's a very weak one at that. So, we already did that, Christa Light. We're not going back and forth with you on that one. We already mentioned that. That's why I'm sure you haven't watched the live yesterday. Again, I encourage you to watch the live that we did yesterday. So anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that's it. I just wanted to present this information to show you from the Old and New Testament where public repentance is required for public sin, both in the Old and New Testament. And some did it through conviction because they recognized, only by God's grace, by the way, that they sinned and they needed to make it right publicly. I don't know why this would even be an issue. It has been made an issue. Unfortunately, it has been made an issue because we're not clear or the Word of God is not clear on how we are to deal with sin. Again, what is the purpose of church discipline? What is the purpose of church discipline? If church discipline is for the purpose of restoring the sinning brother or sister back into the fellowship when they have refused to repent privately, and then publicly. And then now the church has to not execute step four and put them out until they repent. And if they repent now, it has to be done publicly. Again, these are some of the same things that was discussed last year when Corey did it and I've been discussing it for years. Someone said what? I'm not sure what you said. Okay, you said the sad part is, if someone disagrees or doesn't see what you see, then that person has made the feeling. I'm not I'm not responsible for how you feel though, Chris Delight. That's how you feel. I'm not responsible for your feelings. I'm responsible for what I say to you and I haven't said anything disrespectful to you. I just told you need to watch the live again because you probably haven't paid attention to watch it because it was clearly explained last night for two hours and 45 minutes clearly explained. So this ain't about me. And again, I don't know you. So I'm not really sure what what what issue you're bringing, because I'm not making you feel anything. I can't I'm not responsible for how you feel. I'm responsible for what I do and what I say. Appreciate that, Sheriff. Thank you. I hope I'm saying is it Sheriff or Sharif? Is it Sharif? I think it's Sharif, right? Anyway, but I'm glad you I'm glad you uh you can. The Mrs says I guess the other question would be as believers. Why wouldn't we want to repent publicly when we've seen publicly? Why wouldn't we? That's that's that's that's a better question. That's a better question. That's a better question. That is a better question. Why wouldn't you want to do what's right? I mean, Zacchaeus did it and that was public. Paul is a perfect example of public repentance. The disciples couldn't even trust and believe he was changed until he showed it. And in fact, and let's go a little bit further to Hippolyta, Barnabas had the vows for Paul. Barnabas had the vows for Paul. They didn't believe Paul. They like, man, hold up, bro. We know what you did, Paul. Paul. No, no, no, not you. And Barnabas had to come alongside and let it know he good, y'all. He good. He good. He good. He good. Gracious me says, she quotes Micah six, eight, which is excellent. He has shown you, oh man, what is good and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Sounds like sounds like repentance, commanding, commanding repentance. And if you say that's Old Testament, I just read to you. I just read earlier. I just read earlier. All scripture that's including the Old Testament is inspired by God. And it's profitable for teaching, for a proof, for correction, for instruction and righteousness. So the demand of a woman of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. Envy. You have a few minutes. What is your question? Envy, I zero seven. What's your question? What's your question? And that is your opinion, Chris Delight. Again, we've already discussed it. So I'd encourage you to watch the live again, but thank you for your comment. What is your question, Envy? Oh, why did, why did God allow murder? I'll just put it this way, the same way, the same reason he allowed the murder of his son, because sin, when Adam, when Adam sinned, sin came into the world. And so now we have all of this evil. Now there's some things that God can stop and he does stop. We don't know all of the evil and all of the things that we see in our, in our land and in our world, to be honest with you. But he allows things sometimes to happen and some things we don't, we don't understand. We don't understand why God would allow babies to be killed, allow children to be molested. He can stop it and some things he does stop, but it's because of sin. But he has, he has also instituted laws to, to govern and to try to restrain some of the evil that we do see, but he does, but he does allow things to happen for his own purpose and also because man is wicked, man is sinful. And man left to himself, trust me, would do more than what God has allowed them to do, if it were not for God's restraining power. Boyan again, creature says, why does God allow any of us to sin? I mean, he can, he can stop it if he wants to. There's some things he does, he does stop us from doing, but again, because of, because of our, because of our sin, because of our sin, we sin by nature, by choice. That's why, but there will come a day when there will be no more sin because man's heart is wicked and man's heart is depraved. Man does what he does. Well, there is a way to know God exists. God exists because number one, he created us in his image and there, and in your heart, you know God exists. So there's a way to know God exists. Just look at, look at creation. I'm pretty sure you, you live in a home or live in an edifice. You didn't build it. Someone else built it. Look at your body. Look at the structure of man's body. Man's body is complex, but it is, it is made by a creator whose mind we would never be able to fathom. Never. Let's see. Yes, you are definitely welcome here. Thank you for your question. RJC, you said, would you consider those who are defending public sin to be arrogant? Yeah, I would. Listen, I would, I would consider any of us when we defend public sin to be arrogant. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes, I would. Yes, I would. Absolutely. Anybody defending public sin, yes, they're arrogant. Absolutely. No, no question. What our question? Absolutely. That's a, that's, that's a fast. Yes. You don't, we don't, we don't make excuses for sin of any kind, of any kind. Oh, he is? Well, welcome, brother. Welcome. God bless you. God bless you, RJC. God bless you. Where's your church located? RJC, where's your church located? Is it, it's a small town, small city? Where's it, where's it located? The fact that you are here now, listen to, but yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. It's not by accident. This, this MB, I call this a divine setup. This is the first time I've guessed being here, um, God orchestrates all things. He causes all things to occur, good and bad before its purpose. And so, like, like, uh, Pastor RJC said, yeah, you, you're here, you're here on purpose. You're here on purpose for a purpose because God wants you to hear this truth. God wants you to hear this truth. You say you was a pastor in New Jersey, moved to Florida during the pandemic and working at a local church. Okay, good. Welcome, man. Thank you for joining. How did you hear about the channel? How'd you hear about the channel? First time, I guess, tuning in. So, but yes, I just wanted to answer a few questions before I let you all go. I didn't want to, I don't want to be before you're too long. I just wanted to, I believe this was important for me to at least present. And again, there are going to be many of you that disagree like Crystal Light. That's fine. I have no, I have no problem with that. I have no problem with that, but I believe the scriptures teach this. Why would we not, why would we not publicly repent when we've publicly sinned? And then again, what would be the purpose for church discipline? Because church discipline, if carried to his, to his full extent, places the individual outside of the covering and protection of the local church until they do repent. And now that repentance must be made public because the sin has now been made public. And now they're required to repent because they refuse to repent privately, which led up to the four steps of church discipline. And we find that example again in second Corinthians chapter two, verse five through 11. So when I hear people say, well, there's not required. Why would you even say that? If public repentance isn't required for public sin, then, then we need to throw the whole, the whole pattern that we see of church discipline and what we see God does with sin out the door, out the door. And we will pray for you as well too. We'll pray for you as well to envy. Again, it's not by, it's not by accident that you're here. But God, God can be known. He definitely can be known. I would encourage you to read Acts 17. He's not, he's not far from any of us. You read Acts 17 and ask for God to, to save you and open your eyes. In fact, this is how a person become saved. Number one, you must recognize that you and I are in offense to a holy God. That means there's nothing that you have done or can do that would warrant the pleasure and acceptance of a holy God because he says that he is holy and we are not and the wages of sin is death. And since the wages of sin is death, and as in Romans six, the free get the God eternal life. Therefore, when you and I understand our sinfulness and only God can give us that understanding, he has to open our eyes to see our sinful state. And so the question we have to ask ourselves is what good can I do? What good can I render to one who is ultimately good to the one who demands us to be perfect and we cannot be perfect. The absolute standard to be a child of God and to enter into his heaven is to be perfect. And so since we cannot be perfect, we must rely on the perfection that God himself provides through Jesus Christ. He who knew no sin became sin for us that we may become the righteousness of God through him. So you and I need to understand that we are in an offense to God. The wages of our sin is death, eternal death and an eternal hell awaiting the lake of fire. But you don't have to go there. And again, and be the fact that God allowed you to be here and to hear this broadcast. I pray that he is doing a work in your heart. I don't know if you're a male or female, but nonetheless, you are you are made in the image and likeness of God. And he wants you to know him before it is too late. Because I will tell you this, as the writer Hebrew says today, if you hear his voice, don't harden your heart, that appeal, that exhortation, that admonition is for you as well, my friend. That tomorrow is not promised to you. Tomorrow is not promised to any of us. But we can face tomorrow those of us who have been saved by the blood and redeeming work of Christ because we placed our faith and trust in him. That simply means this, that what God did through Jesus Christ on that cross, he saved us if we confess our sins. And that means that we must say what God says about our sin, that we deserve to die, but Christ died on our behalf. So we confess our sins, all of them. You don't have to make a long list. God knows our heart. Lord, save me. I know that I sinned against you because your word declares I've sinned against you. All have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God, Romans 3, 23. And so since we all have sinned, we can never, even on our best day, hit the mark. But God through Jesus Christ sent his Son in our place, that if you turn from your sin and you trust Christ, the Bible says in Romans 10, those who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. And you can be saved. You plead for the, for God's mercy. You plea that he save you and he will do that. And there are those of us here who are living witnesses. Turning from sin is a requirement. That's repentance. Confessing Christ as Lord. That's a requirement. That's admitting that he is sovereign, admitting that he is master. He is sovereign ruler overall and not just overall, but over myself and my life. He's Lord. I don't make him Lord. He's already Lord. He's Lord of my life because he bought me with a price. Therefore, I belong to him. And if I belong to him, then I do what the one who redeemed me tells me to do. So again, I encourage you that this broadcast that you may play this video back, you can reach out to me, Seiko Woods at yahoo.com. And we can have a conversation. You leave a number if you would like. And we can, we can, we can hopefully reason with the scriptures, but there's no reason, none whatsoever for anyone to say that God cannot be known. That is a lie from the pit of hell. Satan doesn't want you to know him. Satan doesn't want you to know God. He wants you to rely on your intellect. He wants you to rely on your understanding. And the Bible says you don't, you're not to rely on your own understanding. You're not to lean on your own understanding. So I would encourage you turn to Christ, run to Christ, ask for God to save you because eternity is a long time to be somewhere without Christ and incur his wrath. And so I would encourage you turn to Christ today, turn to Christ today. All right, y'all. That's all I have. Again, the email, Seiko Woods at yahoo.com. You can reach out to me if you'd like to do that. And others as well. Yes, he will. Yes, he will. We're living witnesses, y'all. We're living witnesses. I know that's right, Christina. Yeah, his record is, he has an impeccable record, no defeats, none. But anyway, that's all I have, ladies and gentlemen. Again, please like the video. Please like the video, share the video. Hopefully for those who are looking for clarity, this is clear. But please like the video, share the video. Give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. I mean, how do you want to do it? Either way goes all good. I know what God has called me to do. But yeah, like the video, share the video. 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And if you love the truth, then God will make it clear to you all as well. So anyway, I'm done, y'all. Y'all have a great evening. I hope you all have a blessed night. Get you some rest. I know I will, but God's grace. And y'all know the drill. Until next time, y'all know the drill. Whatever you do, do all to the ground of God. God bless. Thank you for sharing this night. God bless you. Good night.