Gospel on the Ground

God Man Christ Response

“faith apart from works is dead”

James 2:26

Our Response of Faith: Repentance

Submission, Worship, Obedience, Gratitude and Love

Two characteristics of God

• Justice• Mercy

Rom. 3:23

Mankind DeathRom. 6:23

Sin

Justice

Step 1

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

2 Pet. 3:9

Christ

Life Love offering

Life

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 14:6

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Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and

forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Romans 2:4

Mercy

Christ

Life The Great Exchange

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin … 2 Cor. 5:21a

Sin

We

Life The Great Exchange

… so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Cor. 5:21b

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RepentanceJesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.“

Mark 1:14b-15

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.“

Acts 17:30

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

2 Cor. 7:10

Spiritual Malady

Temptation

Think/Obsess

Action

SpreeInjuries (pain)

DEATH

Remorse

ResolutionsGOD Grace (Romans 5:17)

Christ

Insanity Cycle of Sin

REPENTANCE 2 Cor. 7:10

Desire for Relief

Luke 15

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical Horizontal

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual Emotional

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness Demanding

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive Passive

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive PassiveHopeful (looking forward)

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive PassiveHopeful (looking forward) Hopeless (looking back)

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive PassiveHopeful (looking forward) Hopeless (looking back)Grateful

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive PassiveHopeful (looking forward) Hopeless (looking back)Grateful Begrudging

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive PassiveHopeful (looking forward) Hopeless (looking back)Grateful BegrudgingPerseverant

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive PassiveHopeful (looking forward) Hopeless (looking back)Grateful BegrudgingPerseverant Temporary

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive PassiveHopeful (looking forward) Hopeless (looking back)Grateful BegrudgingPerseverant TemporaryHumble - unworthy slave - takes responsibility - accepts consequences

Biblical Repentance Worldly SorrowVertical HorizontalGod/Others focused Self-focused (self-pity)Spiritual EmotionalWillingness DemandingActive PassiveHopeful (looking forward) Hopeless (looking back)Grateful BegrudgingPerseverant TemporaryHumble - unworthy slave - takes responsibility - accepts consequences

Prideful - angry - avoids responsibility (blames, justifies and minimizes) - avoids consequences

SuppressGames People Play:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Rom. 1:18

Avoidance

CoveringGames People Play:

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.

Isa. 64:6

Good Works

PenanceGames People Play:

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

Gal. 2:21

Self-punishment

HidingGames People Play:

Labels

Spiritual Malady

Temptation

Think/Obsess

Action

SpreeInjuries (pain)

DEATH

Remorse

ResolutionsGOD Grace (Romans 5:17) Christ

Insanity Cycle of Sin

SpiritLife and Peace

Gal. 5:22-

23

Desire for Relief

Spiritual Malady

Temptation

Think/Obsess

Action

SpreeInjuries (pain)

DEATH

Remorse

ResolutionsGOD Grace (Romans 5:17) Christ

Insanity Cycle of Sin

SpiritLife and Peace

1 Cor. 10:13-14

Desire for Relief

Spiritual Malady

Temptation

Think/Obsess

Action

SpreeInjuries (pain)

DEATH

Remorse

ResolutionsGOD Grace (Romans 5:17) Christ

Insanity Cycle of Sin

Flesh

SpiritLife and Peace

(prid

e)

Rom. 8:5-6

Desire for Relief

Spiritual Malady

Temptation

Think/Obsess

Action

SpreeInjuries (pain)

DEATH

Remorse

ResolutionsGOD Grace (Romans 5:17) Christ

Insanity Cycle of Sin

Flesh

SpiritLife and Peace

(prid

e)

Rom. 6:12-14

Desire for Relief

Fear of the Lord

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;  fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Prov. 1:7

“Right-sized before God”

Isa. 6:1-8

Wholly Yours I am full of earthYou are heaven’s worthI am stained with dirt, prone to depravityYou are everything that is bright and cleanThe antonym of meYou are divinityBut a certain sign of grace is thisFrom the broken earth flowers come up Pushing through the dirt

You are holy, holy, holyAll heaven cries “Holy, holy God”You are holy, holy, holyI want to be holy like You are

You are everything that is bright and cleanAnd You’re covering me with Your majestyAnd the truest sign of grace was thisFrom wounded hands redemption fell downLiberating manBut the harder I try the more clearly can I feelThe depth of our fall and the weight of it allAnd so this might could be the most impossible thingYour grandness in me making me clean

Glory, hallelujahGlory, glory, hallelujahSo here I am, all of meFinally everythingWholly, wholly, whollyI am wholly, whollyI am wholly, wholly, whollyYours

I am full of earth and dirt…and You Behind the Song:“ And so, like any good country song, the punch line comes at the end with such a simple turn of phrase that is the difference between life and death, decay and newness, winter and springtime.' - David Crowder

I am full of earth and dirt…and You Behind the Song:“ And so, like any good country song, the punch line comes at the end with such a simple turn of phrase that is the difference between life and death, decay and newness, winter and springtime.' - David Crowder

Traditional Step Three: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over

to the care of God, as you understand him. 

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.“

Acts 17:30

Redeeming Truth of Step Three

Having had the Holy Spirit illuminate our desperate and helpless condition before God and having received the hope that comes

through the gospel of Jesus Christ, we step out in faith and repent as an act of worship and obedience, surrendering our will and lives to

Christ’s care and control. 

and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

2 Cor. 5:15