100:00:01,000 –> 00:00:08,100Now you see that is what worldly sorrow will do to you.200:00:08,100 –> 00:00:15,100It will make you bitter and it will distance you from God.300:00:15,100 –> 00:00:19,820It’s what happened to Esau and the book of Hebrews uses this as a warning to Christian400:00:19,820 –> 00:00:23,020believers and says now don’t let that happen to you!500:00:23,020 –> 00:00:26,719Welcome to Open the Bible With pastor Colin Smith. I’m David Pick.600:00:27,040 –> 00:00:32,259Glad you could join us today and Colin, you just talked about what worldly sorrow is,700:00:32,259 –> 00:00:37,779and evidently, it is very different to godly sorrow so today we will spend some time hearing800:00:37,779 –> 00:00:38,779about that.900:00:38,779 –> 00:00:43,419Yeah, and it is full of hope. I mean, the main point of this whole series is for us1000:00:43,419 –> 00:00:49,320to understand what the Bible means by repentance that would bring joy to the angels in heaven.1100:00:49,320 –> 00:00:53,220We tend to think of repentance too often, I think, as beating up on ourselves, and oh1200:00:53,220 –> 00:00:56,520I failed and all this kind of thing.1300:00:56,540 –> 00:01:02,180But actually it is the hidden path of a transformed life and that is what we are looking at today,1400:01:02,180 –> 00:01:08,120the hope that is in the Gospel and that is in repentance towards the Lord Jesus Christ.1500:01:08,120 –> 00:01:11,959It’s not simply remorse looking at the failures of the past.1600:01:11,959 –> 00:01:17,480Repentance is looking to the future, and what by God’s grace I can become through His mercy.1700:01:17,580 –> 00:01:22,360So for the person who tends to look at something that they’ve done maybe in their past,1800:01:22,760 –> 00:01:27,519and they’re still beating themselves up about it and confessing it repeatedly to God1900:01:27,519 –> 00:01:32,199– how can they begin to let go of that sin that they have already confessed?2000:01:32,199 –> 00:01:37,379Well, the corner is turned at the cross because at a certain point where we’ve looked into2100:01:37,379 –> 00:01:43,019our own hearts and we’ve seen there’s this sin, there’s this failure, and it’s2200:01:43,019 –> 00:01:47,379wretched and I confess it and I hate it, what am I going to do with it?2300:01:47,379 –> 00:01:51,519I’ve got to bring it to the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, I’ve got to lay it down2400:01:51,699 –> 00:01:57,339there. I’ve got to say this, this is the sin for which He died and for which His blood2500:01:57,339 –> 00:02:02,699is sufficient and I’m going to lay it down at the cross, and I’m going to thank2600:02:02,699 –> 00:02:09,179the Lord Jesus Christ and look to Him, trust in Him, for this to be cleansed and for this2700:02:09,179 –> 00:02:14,360to be a means by which I am brought into a newness of life, not going back to the old2800:02:14,360 –> 00:02:17,940way, but living a richer and a fuller life that’s going to be for His glory.2900:02:17,940 –> 00:02:21,639And that repentance is a wonderful thing. It brings you into newness of life. That’s3000:02:21,639 –> 00:02:25,619why the angels rejoice over it, and if the angels rejoice we should learn to rejoice3100:02:25,619 –> 00:02:26,619over it too.3200:02:26,619 –> 00:02:31,720So that’s what today’s message is all about, so join us if you can in 2 Corinthians3300:02:31,720 –> 00:02:38,4407 as we continue the message, Distinguishing Marks of True Repentance. Here is Pastor Colin.3400:02:38,440 –> 00:02:45,619I found in my reading this week a very striking statement from Charles Hodge, who was at one3500:02:45,880 –> 00:02:51,940time the professor of theology at Princeton University, in an earlier century, and writing3600:02:51,940 –> 00:02:58,199on this passage in Corinthians, Hodge who had great spiritual insight writes these words.3700:02:58,199 –> 00:03:05,199He said, it is a great mistake to suppose that the natural tendency of pain and sorrow3800:03:07,759 –> 00:03:14,720is toward the good. A great mistake to think that it naturally moves in a good direction.3900:03:14,740 –> 00:03:21,740The natural tendency of pain and sorrow rather is to excite rebellion against God and all4000:03:24,220 –> 00:03:31,220evil feelings. It is only then he says when these are sanctified, that is, made by the4100:03:32,740 –> 00:03:39,740Holy Spirit, to bring into exercise patience and faith in the sufferer that they then bring4200:03:40,380 –> 00:03:47,380forth the good fruit of righteousness. You see what he is saying? This is very important.4300:03:48,259 –> 00:03:55,259The natural tendency of sorrow and pain is not good. The natural tendency of sorrow and4400:03:57,660 –> 00:04:04,660pain is to excite within you some resentment towards God. To excite within you all kinds4500:04:05,660 –> 00:04:12,660of, he says, evil feelings. And therefore there is a particular need for a Christian4600:04:14,160 –> 00:04:21,160believer to ask God to walk with us in our sorrow. To sanctify it. To cause it to go4700:04:24,440 –> 00:04:30,579in a different direction. To make it godly sorrow, that will not harm you in any way,4800:04:30,720 –> 00:04:33,660but rather will bring forth the fruit of righteousness.4900:04:33,660 –> 00:04:40,619I was very struck just by one of the verses of the hymn that we sang earlier this morning5000:04:40,619 –> 00:04:47,619which exactly frames this prayer. That the Holy Spirit would sanctify our sorrow. Move5100:04:48,540 –> 00:04:52,839it in a different direction from where it would naturally take us. Listen to this that5200:04:52,839 –> 00:04:54,239we sang earlier.5300:04:54,239 –> 00:05:01,239In life’s dark maze I tread. And griefs around me spread. Be thou my guide. Bid darkness5400:05:06,679 –> 00:05:13,600turn today. Wipe sorrow’s tears away. Nor let me ever stray from thee aside.5500:05:13,600 –> 00:05:20,480Do you know what that’s saying? It’s saying don’t let me be like Esau. Save me from that.5600:05:20,619 –> 00:05:25,799Don’t let bitterness rise within me in my sadness. Don’t let me distance myself from5700:05:25,799 –> 00:05:30,260you. And please, oh Lord, do not distance yourself from me. You know where we have the5800:05:30,260 –> 00:05:35,500model of that kind of praying, that grief will be sanctified, that it will be godly5900:05:35,500 –> 00:05:41,779rather than worldly sorrow? We see it in David, right there in Psalm 51. How does he pray?6000:05:41,779 –> 00:05:46,540He’s asked for forgiveness. He then says, create in me a clean heart, oh God, what comes6100:05:46,720 –> 00:05:53,720next? Do not cast me from your presence. Don’t take your holy spirit from me. You see what6200:05:54,140 –> 00:06:00,959he is saying? I’m going through such sorrow right now, oh God. I need you to walk with6300:06:00,959 –> 00:06:07,959me. He seeks God in his sorrow because he knows that if God walks with him he will make6400:06:08,220 –> 00:06:15,220it through. That’s a distinguishing mark of godly sorrow.6500:06:17,440 –> 00:06:24,440that leads to life and leaves no regret. Light from God, desire for God.6600:06:31,339 –> 00:06:38,239Here’s the third thing. Hope in God. Again if we are to look for a contrast that6700:06:39,660 –> 00:06:44,160will show us the difference between worldly and godly sorrow at this point I think the6800:06:44,279 –> 00:06:48,980very obvious contrast is again between David whose our model of godly sorrow on the one6900:06:48,980 –> 00:06:55,980hand. And Judas who is the example given to us in the Bible of a man who gave way to despair7000:06:56,480 –> 00:07:03,480and let go of hope with tragic consequences. Now we remember that Judas betrayed our Lord7100:07:05,380 –> 00:07:12,380and Saviour Jesus Christ. That was a terrible thing to do. And let’s just earth that before7200:07:13,299 –> 00:07:14,200we go further,7300:07:14,200 –> 00:07:20,420because there will be some in the congregation today and you have done a terrible7400:07:20,420 –> 00:07:27,420thing and it plagues your conscience. You think about it at night and it’s there with7500:07:27,859 –> 00:07:34,859you in the morning. Now the gospel tell us that when Judas had betrayed Jesus and then7600:07:35,100 –> 00:07:42,100saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse. Notice that word remorse that7700:07:42,739 –> 00:07:47,660looks backwards, very different from repentance that moves forwards. He was seized with remorse7800:07:47,660 –> 00:07:53,720and he returned the 30 silver coins to the chief priests and to the elders.7900:07:53,720 –> 00:08:00,220This looks kind of like repentance, he is giving the money back. You must be really8000:08:01,019 –> 00:08:08,019really sorry, but it was only worldly sorrow and we know that for this reason, that although8100:08:10,480 –> 00:08:15,760Judas experienced great sadness and great remorse that was very intense within him,8200:08:15,760 –> 00:08:22,760yet it was not the sorrow that led to life. Here’s what happened. Judas says to himself,8300:08:23,739 –> 00:08:30,739look, what I’ve done. I have betrayed the son of God. There’s no hope for a man like8400:08:33,760 –> 00:08:40,760me now, not after what I’ve done. And so the Bible tells us he went out and he hanged himself.8500:08:40,780 –> 00:08:46,619And so the Bible tells us he went out and he hanged himself. Worldly sorrow leads8600:08:48,559 –> 00:08:55,559in the ultimate case here of Judas to death. Now I want to suggest to you that the greatest8700:08:55,679 –> 00:09:02,679tragedy of Judas’ life was not that he betrayed Jesus. The greatest tragedy of Judas’ life8800:09:02,760 –> 00:09:09,760was that he gave way to despair when he could have found hope in Jesus Christ. See think8900:09:11,580 –> 00:09:18,119about this. If he had sought after God, the blood of Jesus Christ could have covered for9000:09:18,119 –> 00:09:24,000his sin also. There could have been cleansing and hope and forgiveness and life even for9100:09:24,000 –> 00:09:31,039Judas. There was for Peter who denied the Lord. But the tragedy of Judas’ life is that9200:09:31,099 –> 00:09:36,880he followed the path of worldly sorrow that is without light and without God, and ultimately9300:09:36,880 –> 00:09:42,559without hope. Therefore he gave way to despair rather than seeking the path of repentance9400:09:42,559 –> 00:09:49,559which is saturated with the presence of God. So I want to say this to whoever in the congregation9500:09:53,059 –> 00:10:00,059may be feeling near to despair today, you’ve become consumed in your sorrows. You’ve become9600:10:01,059 –> 00:10:06,200in sorrow and it weighs upon you and you feel that there is no way out of the darkness in9700:10:06,200 –> 00:10:13,200which you find yourself. I want to ask you some questions. Where are you going with this9800:10:14,539 –> 00:10:21,539sorrow? How sorry do you think you have to be? What are you accomplishing by this pattern9900:10:22,119 –> 00:10:29,119of beating up on yourself that continues? Being sorry won’t cleanse you. See, that10000:10:42,780 –> 00:10:49,780was grasped most clearly by Augustus Toplady. What a name! Augustus Toplady. His middle10100:10:49,799 –> 00:10:55,219just for good measure, but he wrote a marvelous hymn called Rock of Ages that some of us know10200:10:55,219 –> 00:11:02,219I think reasonably well and in that he has these lines that are deeply perceptive. He10300:11:04,179 –> 00:11:11,179says, could my zeal no respite know? You know, could I be passionately committed with everything10400:11:12,440 –> 00:11:15,039within me, with all my zeal, to the WorkChimely Jesus10500:11:15,039 –> 00:11:19,039Christ for the rest of my life without a single moments break, night or day? Could my zeal10600:11:19,059 –> 00:11:26,059no respite know? Could my tears forever flow if I were to cry over my sins and my failure10700:11:27,599 –> 00:11:34,599forever so that my tears never stopped? Could my zeal no respite know? Could my tears forever10800:11:37,320 –> 00:11:44,320flow? All for sin, could not atone. You must save and you alone.10900:11:45,280 –> 00:11:52,280Now you see what he’s saying? The intensity of your sorrow, the length of your sorrow11000:11:54,099 –> 00:12:01,099cannot cleanse you. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that can cleanse you and that is why11100:12:01,359 –> 00:12:08,359in the very next verse Top Lady says nothing in my hand I bring. Simply to your cross I11200:12:09,299 –> 00:12:16,299claim and naked I come to you for dress and helpless run to you for grace foul I to the11300:12:17,840 –> 00:12:23,780fountain fly. The picture of being washed by the blood of Jesus Christ. I come there.11400:12:23,780 –> 00:12:30,780Wash me savior or I die. Now you see the movement he has realized it’s not the length or the11500:12:31,059 –> 00:12:38,059intensity of sorrow that will bring newness of life. It is the blood of the Lord Jesus11600:12:39,400 –> 00:12:46,119Christ that will bring light and the presence of God and hope into my life and there for11700:12:46,119 –> 00:12:53,119from my sorrow I must now embrace him. I must with an open hand and an empty hand, nothing11800:12:53,260 –> 00:13:00,260in my hand I bring. I must receive grace, forgiveness, which is what Peter did with11900:13:01,159 –> 00:13:07,500David and Judas did not do. It is what David did and Judas did not do. You see it in David12000:13:07,500 –> 00:13:14,500in Psalm 51, restore to me the joy of your salvation. What right does David have to pray12100:13:17,239 –> 00:13:23,539like that after what he has done? Restore to me the joy of your salvation, that’s how12200:13:23,539 –> 00:13:30,500a man or woman prays when you believe the Gospel. When you know that there is grace12300:13:31,020 –> 00:13:38,020and mercy in God. You don’t stay in a life of sorrow. Godly sorrow brings us to repentance.12400:13:42,179 –> 00:13:46,260That’s why it is infused with hope and there is all the difference in the world from12500:13:46,260 –> 00:13:53,260that and the kind of sorrow that leaves you in despair. So two kinds of sorrow. Worldly12600:13:53,419 –> 00:14:00,419sorrow, which is sorrow without light, sorrow without God and sorrow without hope. It leads12700:14:03,200 –> 00:14:10,200to death. It kills you. It just says death all through it.12800:14:10,239 –> 00:14:16,640Then there is godly sorrow, in which you have light from God and a desire for God and hope12900:14:16,719 –> 00:14:23,719in God. That godly sorrow brings you to repentance and therefore to salvation, and leaves you13000:14:26,479 –> 00:14:27,919without regret.13100:14:27,919 –> 00:14:33,780You are listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith, and a message called Distinguishing13200:14:33,780 –> 00:14:38,280Marks of True Repentance, and we gotta pause the message briefly, but we’ll be back very13300:14:38,280 –> 00:14:43,919shortly. So please do stay with us! The message is part of a longer series called,13400:14:44,359 –> 00:14:49,640The Hidden Path to a Transformed Life, and if you have missed any of the series or if13500:14:49,640 –> 00:14:54,719you want to go back and catch up with it again, you can do that by coming to our website,13600:14:54,719 –> 00:15:00,979that’s at OpenTheBible.org.uk, also on your favourite podcast site, you can find it by13700:15:00,979 –> 00:15:07,979searching for Open the Bible UK. Back to the message now, here again is Pastor Colin.13800:15:08,219 –> 00:15:16,179Now I want in these last moments to give three very simple and practical applications of13900:15:16,179 –> 00:15:20,539what we have been learning together from the Bible here. Now the question is what is the14000:15:20,539 –> 00:15:25,820use of knowing this, how do we apply this? And I want to suggest three very different14100:15:25,820 –> 00:15:31,260and distinct ways in which these distinguishing marks of true repentance may be useful to14200:15:31,260 –> 00:15:33,900us.14300:15:33,900 –> 00:15:41,460The first is that we may use these marks as a guide for discerning true repentance in14400:15:41,460 –> 00:15:45,219another person.14500:15:45,219 –> 00:15:49,739Now none of us likes to be in a position where we have to make judgments, but all of us are14600:15:49,739 –> 00:15:56,140called on, in very practical ways, sometimes in ordinary life, to do this. I doubt that14700:15:56,140 –> 00:16:01,400there is ever a month that goes by without one of our pastors being asked a question14800:16:01,599 –> 00:16:05,359like this.14900:16:05,359 –> 00:16:13,400He says he’s sorry, but how do I know if he’s really changed?15000:16:13,400 –> 00:16:20,960That’s a real question for a person who is wanting to know whether it is safe to trust.15100:16:20,960 –> 00:16:29,080She says she is back to the Lord, but how do I know if her repentance is real?15200:16:29,479 –> 00:16:33,440What are the criteria that you would use for answering questions like that?15300:16:33,440 –> 00:16:34,440How do you discern?15400:16:34,440 –> 00:16:40,039These are important questions not just for us as individual Christians.15500:16:40,039 –> 00:16:44,559They’re important questions for elders of the church in relation to issues of church15600:16:44,559 –> 00:16:49,479discipline and restoration and trust with regards to responsibility.15700:16:49,479 –> 00:16:55,200They are important issues on the national scale for denominational leaders, dealing15800:16:55,460 –> 00:16:59,299issues of trust in relation to responsibility?15900:16:59,299 –> 00:17:04,540How do you measure true repentance?16000:17:04,540 –> 00:17:06,300Do you count the number of tears?16100:17:06,300 –> 00:17:13,000We’ve all seen people go with extensive performances of tears that may or may not16200:17:13,000 –> 00:17:15,000mean anything.16300:17:15,000 –> 00:17:20,699Do you simply count the number of months since a particular sin has been committed?16400:17:20,699 –> 00:17:23,060No.16500:17:23,119 –> 00:17:30,300What you do is you look for the distinguishing marks of true repentance, and they will guide16600:17:30,300 –> 00:17:34,339you in the kinds of questions to ask.16700:17:34,339 –> 00:17:40,619Does this person have light from God with regards to what they have done?16800:17:40,619 –> 00:17:42,540Does he or she see it clearly?16900:17:42,540 –> 00:17:45,660Is there ownership?17000:17:45,660 –> 00:17:49,920Have they faced it without excuse or evasion, without blaming other people, without trying17100:17:50,000 –> 00:17:53,199to trivialize or minimize it?17200:17:53,199 –> 00:17:59,180Does this person hate not only what came as a result of their actions, but hate the sin17300:17:59,180 –> 00:18:00,280itself?17400:18:00,280 –> 00:18:03,719Is this person’s focus on their own pain?17500:18:03,719 –> 00:18:10,319Is their focus simply on their own reputation, like Saul’s was, or is this person taking17600:18:10,319 –> 00:18:14,599genuine ownership of what he or she has done?17700:18:14,599 –> 00:18:19,859Do we see in this person a desire now to walk with God more closely?17800:18:19,859 –> 00:18:23,160Is there evidence of a new hunger for the Word, a new commitment to prayer?17900:18:23,160 –> 00:18:28,380Are there changing patterns that we see that reflect a drawing near to God in this person’s18000:18:28,380 –> 00:18:29,380life?18100:18:29,380 –> 00:18:35,140Is this person laying hold of the grace of God as one who evidently and deeply is believing18200:18:35,140 –> 00:18:36,560the gospel?18300:18:36,560 –> 00:18:42,760Now, you see, when you see these things, the distinguishing marks of true repentance, you18400:18:42,760 –> 00:18:50,439have every reason to be joyfully confident that real and lasting change is happening18500:18:50,439 –> 00:18:56,239and will continue to happen in the life of another person.18600:18:56,239 –> 00:18:57,239So that’s the first application.18700:18:57,239 –> 00:19:02,400It’s a very important one, that the marks, distinguishing marks, of true repentance are18800:19:02,400 –> 00:19:06,520useful to us as a guide for discerning true repentance in another person.18900:19:06,520 –> 00:19:12,140It’s something you will have to do in different situations of life.19000:19:12,719 –> 00:19:15,000second and more immediate and I think more importantly.19100:19:15,000 –> 00:19:22,219These distinguishing marks are useful to us as a guide for deepening repentance in our19200:19:22,219 –> 00:19:23,839own lives.19300:19:23,839 –> 00:19:30,739Now, here we come again to another very practical issue.19400:19:30,739 –> 00:19:38,280What are you to do about the sin that you’ve fallen into again and again and again, the19500:19:38,280 –> 00:19:40,979repeated sin?19600:19:41,160 –> 00:19:47,739The thing that you have stumbled over at different times, many times, in different places, and19700:19:47,739 –> 00:19:49,819it keeps happening.19800:19:49,819 –> 00:19:57,319Now, evidently at that point, if that is the situation, your repentance needs to be deepened19900:19:57,319 –> 00:20:00,119at this point.20000:20:00,119 –> 00:20:04,439And the distinguishing marks of true repentance will give you a guide as to how to pursue20100:20:04,439 –> 00:20:05,439that.20200:20:05,599 –> 00:20:07,859Ask yourself questions like these.20300:20:07,859 –> 00:20:15,400Have I really seen this sin as God sees it?20400:20:15,400 –> 00:20:24,180Have I felt the weight of this thing that I keep doing as Jesus felt the weight of it20500:20:24,180 –> 00:20:28,719when he died for this sin of mine on the cross?20600:20:28,719 –> 00:20:30,959Because he felt it’s weight.20700:20:30,959 –> 00:20:33,800Have I?20800:20:33,800 –> 00:20:41,640Do I hate this sin honestly as much as God hates it or is there a part of me that still20900:20:41,640 –> 00:20:47,439secretly cherishes and holds onto it?21000:20:47,439 –> 00:20:53,040Have I really faced the darkness in my own soul that makes me keep behaving like this?21100:20:53,040 –> 00:20:58,939Am I therefore sincere in my desire to walk with God and am I now ready to embrace the21200:20:58,939 –> 00:21:02,239gospel in this regard?21300:21:02,239 –> 00:21:08,900To trust Christ for forgiveness, not as some kind of cheap grace that allows me simply21400:21:08,900 –> 00:21:14,599to go out and easily do the same thing again, but recognizing that this forgiveness flows21500:21:14,599 –> 00:21:20,239from His pierced hand to me for this sin.21600:21:20,239 –> 00:21:25,459And do I in embracing the gospel therefore believe and trust in the power of His Spirit21700:21:25,660 –> 00:21:32,079that I may overcome it and gain victory over it in the days that lie ahead?21800:21:32,079 –> 00:21:39,239And that brings me to the last application that, that these distinguishing and wonderful21900:21:39,239 –> 00:21:44,319marks of true repentance may help us not only in discerning where it exists in other people22000:21:44,319 –> 00:21:52,859and deepening true repentance in ourselves, but directing our prayers also in times of22100:21:52,859 –> 00:21:53,859great sorrow.22200:21:54,420 –> 00:21:56,780How should you pray?22300:21:56,800 –> 00:22:02,020How should you pray when you find yourself in great sorrow?22400:22:02,020 –> 00:22:10,060Well, ask God to deliver you from worldly sorrow.22500:22:10,060 –> 00:22:18,099Ask Him to direct your sorrow away from where it otherwise might naturally take you.22600:22:18,099 –> 00:22:22,619Ask Him to give you light as you examine your own heart.22700:22:23,119 –> 00:22:28,819Ask Him to walk with you by His spirit as you commit yourself to the path of obedience.22800:22:28,819 –> 00:22:38,900Ask God to give you hope as a person who truly now, in your sorrow, embraces the Gospel.22900:22:38,900 –> 00:22:43,040Godly sorrow brings repentance.23000:22:43,040 –> 00:22:49,760This is what gets you on the hidden path that so many never find to a transformed life.23100:22:49,819 –> 00:22:52,880And it leads to salvation, Paul says.23200:22:52,880 –> 00:23:01,459And because God wipes all tears from the eyes of His people, it will leave you without regret.23300:23:01,839 –> 00:23:08,199Great message today from Pastor Colin about what godly sorrow is, how it leads to real23400:23:08,219 –> 00:23:12,920repentance, and how real repentance leads to lasting change.23500:23:12,920 –> 00:23:17,099You’ve been listening to Open the Bible with 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