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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

Real Repentance

This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

First thing John the Baptist says, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Now, if the kingdom of heaven was at hand 2000 years ago, is the kingdom of heaven at hand now?

That means eternal life is within your reach, but it begins with repentance.

Well, friends, we're talking this week about the science of salvation, what it means to be born again, to get the new heart.

You know, Jesus said in the message to the church of Laodicea.

And matter of fact, I might read that and you find it in Revelation chapter 3, verse 17.

Because you say I'm rich and I've become wealthy and have need of nothing.

And you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and blind and poor and needy.

I counsel you to buy of me gold refined in the fire that you might be rich and white garments that you might be clothed that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and your eyes anointed with eyesalve that you may see as many as I love.

And that's the theme of our message this morning.

We're going to be talking about what real repentance looks like.

You know, before God can wash away the stain of sin, first you need to be aware that there is a stain on the garment, and that happens as you approach the light of God.

So you read in God's word, his word is a lamp and a light.

You look at the goodness and the glory of Jesus on the cross.

That then, by contrast, reflects on our lives and we recognize there's a problem.

When I was a little boy, oh, I must have been 4 and a half, 5 years old, living with my father in Southern California.

And My dad had an interesting piece of equipment there in the hallway upstairs by his bedroom.

It was a chrome motor that basically had a pedestal that sat on the carpet and it had a brush, a black brush that stuck out 1 side, big furry black brush and a red brush.

He had a red brush because he had no red shoes that stuck out of the other side and a big button on the top.

And before my dad went to work, he'd walk out in the hall, he'd step on the button and all of a sudden the machine would begin to spin very fast, powerful motor, and he would go, and he'd buff his feet under his shoeshine machine.

Once I used to love to play with a shoeshine machine when I was that age and I just sit there and I turn it on.

I tried to stop it and it would make my hands hot because I could never quite stop the motor, it was too powerful.

I walked out in the hall and saw for a few minutes I played with a shoe shine machine.

Turned it off, turned it on, turned it off, turned it on.

And then I thought, well, this is not made for just, you know, turning it off and on.

He used to always kick his shoes off by the wall.

And I picked up his 2 black dress shoes and I brought them out in the hall.

I quietly shut the door and I was going to shine his shoes.

If I'm not mistaken, there's some shoe polish underneath the sink in the bathroom.

So I went into the bathroom, I opened the cupboard, and sure enough, there was that bottle of shoe polish.

Now see, this was the liquid Griffin shoe polish that you apply with an applicator.

And so I'm trying to figure out how this all works.

And I figured, well, black shoe polish, it was clear the bottle was black.

Black shoe polish must go on the black brush.

So I fought this applicator off the top and I poured a generous amount of black shoe polish on the black brush, and then I turned on the machine.

First, the machine began to bounce because all of it had soaked on 1 side and it was out of balance.

And so the machine's hopping a little bit and then it picks up speed and it's all this happens in a fraction of a second, picks up speed and it goes whoosh!

And it just sprayed up basically a black rainbow up the wall, through the face on the painting of a Spanish soldier, a conquistador my dad had on the wall, across the ceiling, down the other side and through the carpet.

And I saw that almost instantly I hit the button.

I turned it off because I knew that was not how I was supposed to shine the shoes.

And I looked at that black rainbow and I thought, wow, I better go back to bed.

So I just left all the apparatus there in the hall and I went back into the bedroom and I acted like I was asleep and I shared a bedroom with my brother and I also had a stepbrother down the hall.

I heard my father, he was making the noise.

I could hear he's waking up and the pretty hurt some bang in the bedroom and I heard the bedroom door open and he walked out into the hall and then I And then he called out my name.

And I thought, why is he calling my name?

And he comes and he opens up the bedroom door, turns on the light.

I said, Yeah, you know, I'm acting like I'm waking up.

So I kind of crawl out of bed and I go off into the hall and I must be looking pretty guilty.

He points to this black mess in the hallway and he said, you know anything about this?

I'm thinking, you know, I wanted to tell the truth, but I thought I'm going to be in big trouble.

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