Repent or Perish - Part 2 - The Nature of Repentance - Albert Martin

Albert Martin explains from Scripture the answer to the question, "What is repentance unto life?" View or download from SermonAudio: https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninf... 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should PERISH, but that all should come to REPENTANCE. God has no way to save sinners apart from repentance. (3:50) If you remain a stranger to repentance, you will perish! "Remember the issue at stake: this is not a matter of reshuffling a little bit of your mental furniture about a biblical doctrine. We are dealing with issues of life and death, issues of eternal glory or eternal shame, issues of heaven and of hell." — Albert Martin (7:05) "Repentance unto life—if you are a stranger to that, you have no spiritual life." — Albert Martin (14:10) "If you say 'I don't have a clue what that is in my experience; what shall I do?' Cry to the exalted Christ who, from His place as Prince and Savior, stands ready to give what He demands, and without which you will perish." — Albert Martin (24:50) Strategies for understanding the nature of evangelical repentance (8:25) Acts 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE." What is repentance unto life? (13:30) "Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, does, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience." — Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 87 2 Major Categories of the Nature of Repentance (14:25) I. Source — Repentance unto life is a saving grace (14:45) 3 texts in which repentance is said to be given by God (16:40) 1. Acts 5:30-31 (16:55) 2. Acts 11:18 (18:15) 3. 2 Timothy 2:24-26 (20:05) II. Soil (25:50) 2 things constitute the soil out of which true repentance grows: 1. A Spirit-Wrought Conviction of Sin (27:00) a. Romans 3:19-20 (29:25) b. John 16:8 (34:45) c. Acts 2:37 (35:28) d. Romans 7:7-9 (36:00) e. Luke 15:17-19 (42:40) 2. A Spirit-Imparted Grasp of Christ (45:20) True repentance is not a one-time act but a continuous state (22:30) How can God hold me accountable for something I can't do? (24:14) "All true faith is permeated with repentance; and all true repentance is permeated with faith." — John Murray (48:00) Definition of True Faith and Repentance (48:30) How much conviction must I have? (51:50) How strong must the faith in Christ be? (55:22) The Apostasy of Contemporary Evangelicalism (27:05, 38:00) The law versus the work of the law on the heart (30:36) A wrong picture of effectual calling (57:50) Beware of compromising the gospel! (58:43)