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    Let the peace of the Lord feel your mind now as you feel the  truth of him, who gives us peace.

By  Rev. Dr. D.D. Isaac Luk

 

 Television Sermon   on Cox Cable Channel 22.

 

Hosted by: Community Telecasts Inc. (CTI) Omaha Nebraska

 

Title: Repentance

 

Day: Saturday

 

Date: 8/18/07

 

What is Repentance?

 

Repentance:

 

Define as a feeling and action in, which one recognizes a mistake, and tries to right a wrong. Or gain

 

forgiveness from someone that they wronged.

 

 In religious contexts it usually refers to repenting for a sin against God.

 

It always includes an admission of guilt, and also includes at least one of: a solemn promise or resolve not to

 

repeat the offense which one committed;

 

It is an attempt to make restitution for the wrong, or in some way to reverse the harmful effects of the wrong

 

where possible.

Christ amplified this thought in

 

 Matthew 18:3: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will

 

never enter the kingdom of heaven" (New Revised Standard Version). The Greek word

 

translated "change" means "to turn quite around or

 

Reverse, to convert" (Strong's Exhaustive Concordance).

 

This generation of our time is not different from Lots, generation, because we have been filled with a spirits of

 

corruptions in our hearts and minds, which resulted into many crimes.  These crimes are as follows:  divorce,

 

suicides act of homosexuals, and etc.  And from the biblical perspective, these crimes are destroying the life

 

which God has given us, “abundantly” in Christ Jesus.

 

 many people of our days are already  fill with spirits of errors in their hearts, such as those

 

mentioned above.  These were some of the evils done during the Old Testaments day. 

 

For example: Sodom and Gomorrah, which were destroyed by God because of:

 

Violence, wickedness, and homosexuality, and because of these God was saddened

 

about these crimes, which had lead Him to destroyed mankind.

  

The word of God says:

 

“He sent two angels to the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. “ The two angels arrived at

 

Sodom in the evening, and Lots was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw

 

them, he got up to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground.” “My

 

Lords,” he said, please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and

 

spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning” “No,” they answered,” we

 

will spend the night in the square.” But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him

 

and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking breads without yeast, and

 

they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all men from every part of the city of Sodom-

 

both young and old surrounded the house. They called out to Lots, “Where are the men

 

who came to you to night? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them” Lot

 

went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, “No, my friends.”

 

Don’t do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who had never slept with a man.

 

Let bring them to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to

 

these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

 

{Genesis 19: 1-8} {NIV}

 

Based on the discussion  between  Lots  and the people of Sodom, the two angels, who were

 

sent by God to Lots and to the City of Sodom and Gomorrah, were reluctant over the

 

destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. But their courtesy towards Lots was disrupted by

 

the wickedness of Sodom.  This was because the men of Sodom and Gomorrah were so

 

lustful in their hearts and they were ready to defile themselves with the angels.  They had

 

a desire to commit sexual sins with the angels. 

 

What could have happen to them if they could have seen the wrath of God? Which the

 

angels were bringing upon the City of Sodom and Gomorrah?

 

 - If they could have seen the wrath of God upon, which the Angels brought upon them, with spiritual eyes,

 

they could have not spoken these wicked words to Lots: “Bring them to us so that we can have sex with them

 

(angels)”

 

Look!  It was not by surprise to Sodom and Gomorrah that God sent angels to the earth

 

to warn men of their evil deeds. It was because men did not think of their sins as evil.

 

And so it made God angry. This lead to the destruction of Sodom with fire, it was not

 

God’s first priority to destroy them. This is because the men of Sodom and Gomorrah

 

were not outspoken of their sins.  And God was displeased by those who walked

 

crookedly in His sight.  Lot had found favor before God, because He had walked

 

blamelessly before Him as one who fears committing sins among the generation of

 

Sodom and Gomorrah.  He offered his two daughters to the men of Sodom, in order to

 

avoid them from committing sins with the angels, because they had lost the fear of God

 

in their hearts.  The men of Sodom have given their hearts to lusts, sexual sins, and

 

violence then to God.  It has reached a time when their sins were higher than their heads,

 

and the pride of their hearts was too continuously to do evil.  These caused them to call

 

out to Lots in demand for defiling themselves with the angels.  They wanted to defiles

 

everyone, who lives in the city of Sodom, but God didn’t allow them.

 

He destroyed the wicked of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and He saved Lots with his

 

two daughters from the fire.  And the concept which you to consider here is that God do

 

not destroy:

 

 The wicked with the righteous, God destroyed Men of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire,

 

and saved the life of Lots and His family.   

 

Does it mean that God can destroy the men of the 21^st century if they rebel against God?

 

This could happen to these days if: nations, kingdoms, tribes, and clans, have turned

 

their back to God, and followed the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah.  It is also true

 

that if this generations, have chosen to serve the Idols, witchcrafts than to give their

 

hearts and their soul to the almighty God of heaven and earth.

 

Have you given your life to God?

 

 If you have answered this question yes, then thanked be to God, who has sent His Son Jesus Christ, who

 

have come to washed away your sins and mind. 

 

And if you have answered this question No, you are still on the game, and you can now repent be forgiven of

 

your sins, as long as you make Jesus the Lord of Your heart.

 

Repentance, would let you know the truth of God’s love in your heart, and if you have harden your heart by

 

not repenting your sins to God, then you will never knows the truth of God’s love, but instead you are

 

condemns for the sins you are committing daily.

 

The word of God says, Abraham, an uncle of Lots, plead with God for the safety of Lots. He asked God,

 

“Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?”

 

 {Genesis: 18: 24}{NIV}

 

 And through Abraham petitioning with God, Lots and his two daughters were saved

 

from the fire of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the wicked were destroyed by fire, because

 

of the wrath of God.

 

And I know that you may be asking this general question in your mind:

 

 If Abraham pleaded with God for the Safety of  Lots and  his two daughters, then who is ready to be

 

pleading with God  for the safety of this generation about its wickedness during the thousand

 

years?  So that God should not bring down His wrath upon us.

 

 I hope you should thanked God, for bringing me here  today,  through this telecast, to tell you the answer, to

 

this question, which  you need to know during your life time on earth that God did not destroyed the wicked

 

with the righteous during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. 

 

If your heart has lead you in doing the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah, repent of it

 

before it is too late.

 

If you have shaded blood as an act of violence in your neighborhoods,   repent of it before it is too late.

 

If your heart commits the sins of:  violence, homicides, abortions, and lust which are opposition of God’s

 

covenant to Adam: that said: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and

 

they shall become one flesh”

 

 [Genesis: 2:24} [NIV}

 

 You should repent of it, because God does not want anyone to perish, but live.

 

 Now as someone living in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah do you know what to

 

do?  How do you prevent the wrath of God from happening in your area?

 

  If your answer is No to this question, you need to repent of your own sin first, and then cry out to

 

God afterward, for the sins of your area and you will prevent the wrath of God from happening to

 

your country, your nation, your  family.

 

 When you repent of your sins, you know what to do. You have prevented the wrath of God from

 

happening to your area, because God is seeing you standing with a broken hearted  in the gap for

 

your family, your nation, your neighborhood, your workplace, your school, your continent.

 

But if you refused to repent, or you have hardened your heart from God, you don’t know what to do,

 

because God needs your heart, and He will uphold His wrath from happening in your area.

 

This is the burden which God has laid in my heart I may put this words in writing  through this book,

 

“ Give Eyes to A thousand Years,” so those of you are sleeping may Give Eyes to A Thousand

 

Years,” with confidence in your hearts that Jesus, die, and  rose, so that He can   come and live in

 

your hearts, daily.

 

 God has given me this burden that we should repent as: nations, kingdoms, and tribes, of those sins as the

 

few: fornications, lesbianism, homosexuality, abortions, suicides, homicides, and more. This is because the

 

ends of these things are to the lake of fire and the wrath of God. We should not let our sins go higher than our

 

heads, because the end result is death.

 

A true repentance will make you escape the wrath of God as: an individual, a nation, and etc, in our lives.

 

 We have seen Lots and His family were saved from the fire of Sodom and

 

 Gomorrah, among his generation, because of his upright walk with God.

 

 God wanted us to think the same way like Lots, who walked blameless before God.

 

Thanked be to God, because you and I can make that decision now of becoming the

 

righteous of God in our areas just like Lots. God wanted me and you to become His

 

righteous, whose hearts are after Him. This is only if we should not be following the

 

lustfulness of our hearts, or not even to follow the violence of Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

And if we do as His righteous, God would be pleased with us. With our decisions of

 

becoming His righteous, God can save the entire:  state, a country, a nation, where we

 

live, because of our obedience to His word.

 

Just because you are standing in the gap God is healing your nation, your neighborhood, your workplace,

 

because of your obedience.

 

Surely He does needs those who can stand in the gap for others, so that He can heal the Land. 

 

The land in this case can be a hard core, like the sins committed during the days of

 

Sodom and Gomorrah.  You can become the 2^nd John the Baptist, who was making  the

 

ways ready for the Lord in your:  country,  village, locations, sub-locations,  a town, 

 

state, and in the nation, by you  calling out to them that they should be aware  of the

 

wrath, which God may bring, because of sins.  And by leading others to repentance and

 

into confession of their sins to God, they may not fall into the lake of fire, which is the

 

second death.

 

And together, we become the righteous of God, and the unity of:  believers, apostles, pastors, bishops,

 

evangelists, elders, deacons, for the commission of Jesus Christ, because He was the first born from death.

 

He has the power to over the power of darkness. And through the gifts, which He had given us, we should use

 

His Name; it has the power to saved, so that it overcomes our wickedness, during the thousand years.  And

 

God will reverse the wrath of sins, which would have come upon our generation.

 

And because God, can forgive and forget, we ought to pray and repent as individuals, nations, states, so that

 

we may find favor in His Eyes.

 

I know you may ask this question, as it is ringing in your mind now: Who are those evil doers in our

 

neighborhoods?

 

Well, the answer may be true to say that they are those, who are living within your neighbors, but have you

 

ever asked yourself this question: Am I living in the thousand years?  Yes, you are living in the thousand years,

 

which is the beginning of birth pains. 

 

The Jesus this question: “Why do you notice the little piece of dust in your friend’s eyes, but you

 

don’t notice the big piece of dust in your own eyes?  [Mathew: 7: 3-5] [NIV]

 

The question which Jesus  asked, the Pharisee, is the same question, we are asking,  so that we can change,

 

and repent of our own sins first, before we can  go any farther to solve others  people’s problem.

 

This mean we have to confess our sins to God, daily that we are sinners, and He can forgive us our sins.

 

God has brought me here today into your home, through this telecast that I can encourage you and not to hurt

 

you, concerning your daily life on this world, It is to show you the way, which God wanted you to live,

 

because you are on a race, and you are looking forwards to heaven, when you die, and not in hell.

 

This means that before you can go ahead to pray for your:  family, children, relatives,

 

nation, kingdom, continent and your country, you first need to take a step of making

 

everything right with God, and then with men in your heart. The wrong things others

 

have done to you, or the wrong thoughts you have thoughts against others.  And if you

 

can, please go to those who wrong you, or those whom you have wronged, and ask of

 

their forgiveness.

 

This means, if you are a divorcee, you will first need to repent and  give your life to God,  make peace with

 

your wife, or a husband, be together, then go ahead and bring others, who are divorcees, to be together.  If

 

you’re a drug addict first quit from drugs, repent of your sins to God, and give your life to God, then go and

 

bring your friend who is a drug addict and change their lives for God.  If you are pornography, first stop from

 

pornography, repent of your sins to God, and change your life for God, then go and bring your brethrens,

 

friends, who are in pornographic, and change their lives for God.

 

If you are a murder, first surrender your life to God, and be forgiven that you may not fall into the lake of fire,

 

then repent of your sins, and change your life for God, then go out and convince your friends, who are

 

gangsters, to turn their lives around for God, because God wants their souls in heaven and not in hell.  And all

 

in all God will reward you for your good work, when you let those precious souls be renewed for eternity and

 

not hell.

 

What can you say about the thousand years? It is true to say that the devil has been release for the destruction

 

of nations. It has no boundary, whether you are:

 

-     An American, African, Korean, Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese, all these by birth

 

don’t’ scare the devil, if you have opened back a door for it to enter into your heart

 

through: drugs, pornography, stealing, suicides, homicides, genocides, abortion.  The

 

devil will still want to harm your soul, no matter what, because these solid grounds are

 

his tools to win you. During the thousand years, the devil is having more jobs opening

 

for those, who should go to hell with him. So, don’t be surprised of what is happening

 

around you.  Some of these things may be frightening, and others may be horrible for

 

eyes to see during the thousand years. The word says, the beginning of birth pains are

 

the occurrence of: wars, earthquakes, pestilence, famines. And they are happening

 

because this is the time for us to be making critical decisions. It is whether we should

 

live to become the righteous of God, by us repenting of our sins now, or to harden our

 

hearts, and by not repenting of those hard core  of Sodom and Gomorrah and to  follow

 

the devil with its naughty plans during the thousand years. 

 

-   Make  that decision now, because  God wants you to turn  away  from your  wrong

 

doing and  change your life for God, Remember, God didn’t  destroyed  Lots with the

 

wicked  during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Can you be one among the

 

thousands in this generation? Who can find favor in the eyes of God, because you have

 

go down on your  knees, and  repented  than someone  who have not yet make that

 

decision of  making a change for God, in his heart or her heart by not repenting of his 

 

sins to God. It is just like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, when God didn’t

 

destroyed the righteous with the wicked.

 

Things need to be left behind to reach the goal:

 

Paul the apostle of Christ advice, the Philippians, that they should forget those things that are behind and look

 

forward to the goal.

 

And one of those things is sins, wealth, or riches.  Sins are those things that are overwhelming and stumbling

 

blocks, or roadside blocks of live, they hider us to reach the goal of heaven, but hell.

 

Wealth or riches, are those things that make us rest, or sleep, they hider us not to go

 

ahead to do the work of God, but rest on our accomplishment. 

 

Paul wrote to the church of Philippians that they should not rest unless they have reach

 

to the goal of Christ for their calling. And if they have not reach the end of their calling,

 

they should continue in the race of their calling, and because they have not reach to the

 

perfection, let them aimed for Christ.

 

1^st Corinthian 9:24-27

“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get

 

the prize. Everyone who completes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get the crown that will

 

not last; but we do it to get the crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running

 

aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I

 

have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”

 

Paul said: (Read Roman 1:24-32)

 

I have forgotten the ground I have covered in the race of Christ Jesus.

 

I cannot waste time over the past (He was the murderous of Christians)

 

(Act 8:3-4)  But Saul, latter named Paul, began to destroy the church, going from house

 

to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.”

 

I reach forth to that which is before me (Gospel) in the race.

 

I strain every nerve and muscle and use every ounce of my strength to the win the lost for Christ.

 

My future depends on the (Gospel) race!

 

I press toward the mark! That is Christ Jesus!

 

-         The Bible says, “That if you confess your with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord”

 

and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”  

 

[Roman 10:9} [NIV]

 

Make your heart clean by repenting now, because God will come and search the hearts of men.

 

Prayer:

 

 You can repeat this pray after me, saying:

 

 Lord Jesus Christ, I’m a sinner, and I have come today, that you can forgive me of all my sins, and

 

believe in my heart that you die for, my sins. Take my name away from the book of death, and write

 

my name in the book of life.

 

Today Lord Jesus Christ, I have confessed you as my Lord and Savior. Amen

 

If you have pray this pray with all your heart, to God, knowing that He can forgive your sins, then

 

you’re sins are forgiven and you are a new creature in Christ Jesus.

 

Thank you

 

Yours truly,

 

Rev. Dr. D.D, Isaac Luk

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