Join me tonight, if you would,
in our study of the book of Judges. Judges chapter 4, and we're going
to be looking again at some of the verses that we looked at
last time. We noticed there in verse 1, the children of Israel
did evil in the sight of the Lord when Ehud was dead. And we're noticing here again
the age-old problem with natural man. This evil is a total disregard
for God. That's what sin is, a total disregard
for God. God is not in the equation. We
may say that we love God, but that sin keeps us from that.
We find out that there's a total enmity for God in our natural
state. There's nothing positive about
the evil that these people got into. There's nothing positive
about the gods they went to worship. There's nothing positive about
their prayers in that attitude. There's nothing positive about
their life. There's nothing positive about the evil that they have
found themselves in one more time. And this is the children
of Israel. And if it's with the children
of Israel, think what it is with the Gentiles. They have not had
any of that guidance. And they just pretend like they
didn't have any of that guidance. Would you turn with me to the
book of 1 John chapter 2, as we think about the evil in the
sight of the Lord. This is evil in the sight of
the Lord. And in the book of 1 John chapter
2, 1 John chapter 2, we have the summation of what took place
there in the Garden of Eden, but we also find out the very
success, and maybe that's not a strong enough word, but the
Lord, as He dealt with the temptations from Satan, was dealing with
exactly the same things that Adam was dealing with in the
Garden of Eden, or Eve was dealing with the Garden of Eden, and
it's brought out here in the book of John chapter 2, and this
really sums up what we are attracted to. As it tells us here, for
all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of
the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is
of the world. This could just sum up everything
that we are attracted to in our natural state. And that's what
we have here with the children of Israel. One more time, they
turned away from the Lord, they left the Lord, and in reality,
they were never with the Lord. In the book of James, as we follow
this thought for just a couple of three verses, in the book
of James we read this with regard to the same subject, James chapter
1. And verse 15, as we look at the
evil that was here, the total disregard for God by the children
of Israel and turning aside to worship dumb idols. It says here,
then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin,
when it is finished, bringeth forth death. The soul that sinneth,
it must die. So we're gonna find out that
there's gonna have to be a soul that dies. There's gonna either
have to be the substitute or ourself, and Jesus told a whole
group of people, you shall die in your sins. Backing up just, going ahead to in this book of
James, James chapter 4, James chapter 4 and verse 17, we read
this, that God left us here, therefore to him that knoweth
to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin. So these people
they turned aside, they turned aside, they turned aside, and
I think it's 12 times here in this book we find similar words
used with regard to the children of Israel. And then in 1 John,
1 John chapter 3, 1 John chapter 3, we read these words about
this problem, the age-old problem of natural man. 1 John chapter
3, and there in verse 5 it says, And ye know that he was manifested
to take away our sin, and in him is no sin. I wrote down here, and this is
what I wanted, whosoever commit a sin transgresses also the law,
for sin is a transgression of the law. No, verse four, whosoever commit
a sin transgresseth also the law, for sin is a transgression
of the law. So we find the condition that
they're in, the position that they're in is a continuous transgression
of the law. And we find during the life of
the Lord Jesus that those people, they even said to one of the
men that Jesus healed of blindness, are you telling us we're sinners?
Are you accusing us of sin? They felt that they were past
that point and they were truly in the pinnacle of arrogance
when they would say that sort of thing. Well, as we go back
to the book of Judges, it shares with us in the book of Judges
chapter 4, as we look at this again, we find that in Judges
chapter 4, there in verse 2, Judges chapter 4 in verse 2,
the Lord sold them. You know, for a people to say, I don't disagree with that. I
can see God's will in that. You know, it takes something
that God had to do with inside of us, in our heart, for us to
accept God as He is God. Religion never changes our view
of God. Religion never changes from one
religion to another. It doesn't change our view of
God. We always come up with a wrong God. But we find out here as
we read this, I've had people tell me In verses similar to
this verse of Scripture, my God wouldn't do that. My God's a
God of love. Well, there's a problem with that, because God does that.
Now, there's a couple of verses I want to read in the Psalm. Psalm 115. Let's turn to Psalm
115 for just a moment. And we read in Psalm 115 that
God is going to do as He sees fit. Now, it may not fit our
plan, and it may not fit our purpose. But it is going to fit
God's plan and God's purpose exactly. In Psalm 115 and verse
3, we read these words that were left to us for us to help our
feeble mind understand the activities of Almighty God. Now we don't
understand much about that, but God has left us some information
just as He did here. But our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever He hath
pleased. Now, you know, as we read, if
it's happening to someone else, that's very easy to say. He does
what He pleases. And yet, when it's happening
to us, He still does what He pleases. This is God. He's the
God of the Bible. He's the God of heaven. He's
the God of creation. He's the God of salvation. It
is He that has said about Himself, He hath pleased to do whatsoever
takes place. In that same vein, or line of
thought, let's turn over here to Psalm 135, and we find another
verse of Scripture that shares with us, that gives us some inside
information, that when we find an issue, that we can go and
look at and say, Psalm 135, verse 6, the Scriptures share this,
Whatsoever the Lord please, That he did he in heaven, in earth,
in the seas, in all the places, whatever he pleases. So it pleased
the Lord to sell Israel into the hand of the Canaanites. Now
there has to be something take place in the hearts of his people
for them to not argue with that. It has to happen. And we find
out that God provides that very thing so that we will not argue
with God over things like this. Natural man will argue with God
all the time. And even carrying a Bible or
the correct translation of the Bible, argue with God when you
bring it out to them. I have that happen almost every
Wednesday. an argument about the Bible. Now, when I meet with the other
young fellow, there's no argument because he didn't have any background
to argue with. Well, someday he's going to get to the point
that he's going to argue about it. But here we find that we,
by nature, want to argue with God on how he does his business.
And we find out that God has to do something for us that causes
us not to want to argue with him over everything. And you
know what that is? We find out that God has to grant
to us repentance. Now, I heard this last weekend
about repentance and that's groveling and that's begging and I had
a preacher friend down in Roseville, California that told me that
for 30 days he groveled and finally prayed through. And that was
repentance. That's not godly repentance. We may call that repentance and
we call repentance for sin not found in scripture. That term
is not found in scripture. We don't repent of sin. We don't
repent of sins. God does much more for us than
that. And we will have a different
view of sin, but we better have a different view of God. If we
don't have a different view of God, but we have a different
view of our sin, then we haven't got anywhere. God must have a
different view in our mind, in our heart, and that comes by
the new birth. And the new birth brings many,
many gifts with it, and two of them are repentance and faith.
The new birth, the gifts of the new birth, the fruit of the new
birth is repentance and faith. And we're commanded to do that.
We're commanded to repent and we're commanded to have faith,
but just like keeping the Ten Commandments, an impossibility.
We cannot get there from here. We cannot repent with godly repentance,
and we cannot have faith with godly faith. We have to have
those gifts given to us. So as we look at this, we find,
and I read this yesterday in preparation, and by the way,
I'm having a wonderful time getting ready for the book of Acts. I'm
on a field day. It's just refreshing and it does
have a lot of the Old Testament so we'll have some fun with that.
But I read this, the weakness of modern preaching is that preachers
leave repentance out. Now if it's true, it's a true
statement if we understand the word repentance. Now, if I call
on someone to repent of their sins, that's not repentance.
That's not true repentance. And people do that all the time.
They grovel about themselves. They get down. They feel bad
about their sin. They make a decision for Jesus.
And before long, they are back at it and they have to rededicate
their lives because they're in the same pit they were in. And
it's just a revolving door. Well, when God grants his repentance,
it's once. because He gives the new birth
once. He gives salvation once. He delivers us from our sin once
and for all time. All right, let's look into the
scriptures. This word in the New Testament
is translated from a Greek word meaning changing one's mind. Now we don't even change our
own mind. We have to have that done for
us. It's a transformation, change of heart, a change of mode of
thoughts and feelings. I've read too that this was the
command given by someone in charge of soldiers to have them go in
the opposite direction that they were going. A change of direction. He commanded them and they followed
the command. Very likely was the very beginning
of that word. 1 Thessalonians 1. Would you turn with me to 1 Thessalonians
1 and verse 9? First Thessalonians chapter one
and verse nine, we read this, this is so all encompassing chapter
about what God does when he saves his people. He brings the gospel,
he declares in the gospel that he is in charge of salvation.
God saves his people from their sins. This is the result of that
salvation. And then it tells us what God
will do with us and in us. In 1 Thessalonians chapter 1
and verse 9, the scriptures share this, for then they themselves
show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye
turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God. Now
this is the most important, most valuable thing that God does
for us as a gift of the regeneration. He gives us the gift of repentance
and that repentance gives us a total change of mind about
God and then everything else under it. We don't learn in repentance
a change of attitude towards sin. That comes after we have
a review of God. God gives us a view of himself. That is what repentance is. And
how we turn to God from idols to serve the living and true
God. It is the most sad condition
where religion leaves people You make a profession of faith,
you still have the same view of God that you went into it.
You have no change. God didn't do anything for you.
When we just have a feeble, sign the card, walk the aisle, repentance,
whatever it takes to get someone to make a decision for Jesus.
It's the most sad condition, but we find out religion does
not change our view of God, but God changes our view of God.
And in it, it is called, he grants unto us repentance, a change
of mind about God. In the book of Acts chapter 20,
Acts chapter 20, it's no wonder that there were some people in
Israel that could say, when God sold them, well, that's my God. When God sold Israel into the
Canaanites, handed the Canaanites, they could say, that's my God.
Now, I don't understand it, but that's my God. He's the God that
does things like that. And He challenges us in what
He does, but we don't question what He does. That's my God.
When He told a whole group of people, you are not my sheep,
that's my God. When He says, you'll die in your
sins, that's my God. When He said to a whole group
of goats on the left-hand side, depart from me, ye workers of
iniquity, the church can say, that's my God, because He has
granted to me repentance. He has granted me a change of
view about God. Now in my old state, in my old
religion, I would argue about that. But when God saves us,
He does not give us that privilege. We will have repentance towards
God. And then we'll find out all things
become new. We have a new view of the Bible.
We have a new view of sin. We have a new view of heaven,
a new view of hell. We have a new view of the church. We have a
new view. It's all new. Everything spiritual is new.
But he's granted repentance. All right. Look with me here
in the book of Acts chapter 20. The book of Acts chapter 20.
No wonder there were some that could say in that day and time,
that's my God. You know, Essentially, that's
what Stephen said when he said, don't lay this charge, this sin
to their charge. This is my God. All right. Acts chapter 20, verse 21. Acts
chapter 20, verse 21. Notice this with me as we look
into the scriptures about this all important subject, and that
is repentance. testifying both to the Jews and
also to the Greeks, repentance towards God and faith toward
our Lord Jesus Christ. And we ask ourselves, how can
I get there from here? And then we find out you must
be born again. And a result of that, this is
the fruit of the new birth. I grant unto you repentance,
a change of heart, a change of mind about me, and I also give
you the faith to believe what God has said about Christ. This
is testifying, repentance towards God, and backing up in the book
of Acts, Acts chapter 5. In Acts chapter 5 and verse 31. Acts chapter 5 and verse 31.
It's no wonder there were some that could say, He sold us into
prison. He sold us to the Canaanites.
I wonder what Caleb and Joshua said. It's really been a thought
in my mind. I don't have one record of them
complaining about 38 more years. This is my God. He's the one that said it, and
he's going to carry it out, and he's my God. But he's going to
supply the manna for the rest of the trip. He's gonna supply
the water for the rest of the trip. He's gonna take care of
my clothes for the rest of the trip. He's gonna take care of
my shoes for the rest of the trip. And we find out after 40
years, their shoes didn't wear out, their clothes didn't wear
out, and they had manna, and a whole flock of those guys said,
we loathe this light bread. And Joshua and Caleb says, this
is the best I've ever had. Because it declares Christ. All right, the book of Acts,
chapter five, verse 31. Him hath God exalted with his
right hand to be a prince and a savior. And we know who that
is. For to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. To give repentance to Israel.
What was it that John the Baptist said to a whole group of Pharisees
when they came to ask to be baptized? You generation of vipers. Who
hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth
fruits, or works, meet for repentance. And what is that going to do?
It means you've left that nonsense over there. You're no longer
attached to that nonsense over there. You're no longer attached
to legalism and keeping the law. You're no longer attached to
the Sanhedrin court. You're no longer attached to
that. You have a different view about God and you have the godly
view about God. If you bring forth works meet
for repentance, you have a change of heart about God. And that
means God had a change of heart for you, gave you a new heart.
So grant, give repentance to Israel and the forgiveness of
sins. We find out that this repentance, this faith is a gift of God. It's grace gift. It comes as
a result of God giving us the new birth. And without the new
birth, we cannot see and we cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
We have nothing spiritual without the new birth. But as the new
birth is given to us, we are granted repentance. And lo and
behold, we see God. How did Peter see God? Thou art
the Christ, the Son of the living God. How did Thomas see Him? My Lord and my God. So there
was a different view about them. They were like everybody else.
But when God saved them, God gave them the new birth, they
had a different view about God, and they were able to confess
that. And Jesus shared with Peter, flesh and blood did not reveal
this unto you, but my Father which is in heaven. This is a
gift of regeneration. This is a fruit of regeneration. You have a different view about
God. And he's my God. All right, let's look a little
further along this line. We find there that in 2 Peter
3 9 is that verse of Scripture we've used recently quite a bit.
It has so much to say, and I've shared with you that I don't
discuss the subject of the world in this verse of Scripture. 2 Peter 3 9. 2 Peter 3 9. The Lord is not slack concerning
his promise, as some man can't count slackness, but is long-suffering
to usward. Now we have a lot of words before,
not willing that any should perish. He identifies who's speaking,
he identifies what he's speaking about here, and then he says
he's not willing that any should perish, but notice what it goes
on, but that all should come to what? A change of mind about
God. But all should come to repentance. God is going to grant repentance. It's a blessing of grace that
He gives us repentance. And then, we don't have an argument
about a sovereign God. The sovereignty of God? Who would
argue with that if God has granted them repentance? And if he hasn't
granted repentance, you can't convince him of it. They'll argue
till the last breath of their face. We find that people cringe,
just cringe. Why do people cringe at the mere
mention that God elected a people to repent, elected a people?
They have no true repentance. When God gives true repentance,
He gives us a correct view about God. And we don't argue about
it. We say, thank you, Lord. Because
if it wasn't for that, we'd be in the pit. Why do people cringe
at the mere mention that Christ died for the sheep? Because they
don't have true repentance. And true repentance comes from
the new birth. It's just a sign that they've never been born
again. And if they have been, God grants
them repentance, and this repentance gives them a view about God that's
a biblical view about God. A God that created the heavens
and the earth, no argument, but also that He creates life for
us. We are a new creation, a new
creature in Christ Jesus, created in much the same way as He did
the heavens and the earth, but with a lot more resistance. We
say, no, no, no. And lo and behold, He speaks
loud. and draws powerfully and we come and we see a different God. We see a God that is high and
lifted up. We see a God that is holy, holy,
holy. We see a God that does all His
pleasing. We see a God that is in our best
interest. We see this. Why do people cringe
at the mention of total depravity? because they haven't been given
repentance. If we ever see God and we find
ourselves totally depraved, we have a sin issue. God's taking
care of it, but we have a sin issue. Woe is me. Woe is me. It is not progressive
getting better. It is, as the Lord demonstrates
through the Apostle Paul, the farther along we go in this life,
we find out, I am undone. It's worse than I thought. And
that's the true view of progress. Oh, wretched man that I am. A true view of progress. All
right. Join me if you would, again,
in the book of Acts chapter 11. Acts chapter 11. Acts chapter 11 and verse 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. They have a view of God now.
You know, the Gentiles, we Gentiles, have a strong history of following
almost identically the same gods that was in Canaan at that time.
Our grandson was up here and he's talking about the, he's
been listening to books on tape about the Greek mythology and
Roman mythology. And you know what? That's the
gods of the Gentiles. That's the God that was up there
on Mars Hill. That's the God that Paul said,
you got a whole bunch of junk here. Let me talk to you about
the unknown God. May he grant repentance unto
you. May you see him as he is. So
the Lord sold them out. That's his business. Whatever
he wants to do is his business to do that. And the saints are
convinced by the new heart, the new birth that they are convinced
that let God be God. That's my God. He's the one that's
doing this. He's the one that rules over
this earth. He's the one that rules over all the presidents
and all the kings and all the magistrates and every insignificant
dog catcher that has ever been. He's the reason behind all of
them. He's my God. In the book of Romans
chapter three, would you turn there with me to Romans chapter
three? Romans chapter three. When God does that, we can just
say to ourselves, that's my God. He granted them peace for 80
years. And now they go off and worship false deities as they
are prone to do. And he sold them into captivity
into the hands of the Canaanites. and they're going to be oppressed
for 20 years, that's my God. Now, I don't pretend to understand
it. But I'm able to say, that's my God. He's revealed that about
him. And every other thing the scriptures
have, when God has somebody come along and share with us the scripture,
the truth of the scripture, the truth of the gospel, we find
out that's right. That's exactly right. Because
he's granted repentance to the Gentiles, and he's granted repentance
to the Jews. Here in the book of Acts chapter,
Romans, Romans, excuse me, Romans chapter three, Romans chapter
three, verse three. For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the
faith of God without effect? God forbid, yea, let God be true. But every man a liar, as it is
written, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and
mightest overcome when thou art judged, you might be justified
in your sayings. What's he saying? My word is
right. Take it to the bank, believe
it, and believe all that you read about me. That is granted
in repentance. Repentance is a gift of God.
And we read that with regard to Peter. We read that with regard
to the book of Ezekiel chapter 36. A new heart also will I give
you, and you shall know me. That just tells us without the
new birth, we don't know God. We know a God. And we may even
read the God of the Bible, but we don't know him. He has no
real significance to us. We don't believe what he has
to say. I'll never forget what that preacher
told his daughter. You're not a sinner, and you
don't believe the report. That's one thing about conversion,
one thing about the new birth. You will believe the report.
This is God's Word. And we don't understand it. Mike
and I were talking the other day how little insignificant
amount we do understand, but I'm glad for that, for the amount
that we do have. All right? A new heart also will
I give you. Cause you to walk in my statutes.
In Jeremiah, I'll give them one heart and one way, and they may
fear me forever. What a blessing it is to have
repentance granted, a change of mind about God. And then we
read in Corinthians, all things become new. All things are passed
away. Behold, all things become new.
And there's not a spiritual thing that we don't have a different
view of than we did before we were born again, before we were
saved. We had it all figured out and
now we don't have it figured out except he reigns. He rules. He's in charge. He's sovereign. He's king. He's
in charge of me. He's in charge of my family.
He's in charge of the church. He's in charge of the county.
He's in charge of the state. He's in charge of the world.
He rules. I will not even take one second
and have people tell me that the devil is running things.
It's God. Now, if the devil is involved
in it, he's God's devil, just like he did with Job. He's God's
devil. All right. For in Christ Jesus,
a new creature One that has been brought to repentance. And so
this biblical view of repentance, God is God. And when He said,
I sold them, the church says, He could have done that to me. He probably did that to me. He
sold me into this religion, to that religion. But thank God
for His great grace that He brought me the new birth and repentance
towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And then going
back to the book of Judges, the book of Judges chapter four,
we find the normal thing. If there's a problem, if there's a problem, a natural
man, we're going to cry out to some God. I mentioned that book,
I read about, there's 12 stories of people having their boats
disappear out from under them there in the Bering Sea. And some of them got into their
special suits and some of them didn't. And almost every instance,
prayer came up. Never prayed in their life, but
now is the time to pray. Well, notice here what happened
in the book of Judges chapter 4 and verse 3. Judges chapter
4 and verse 3, the children of Israel cried unto the Lord. And this is why. They are bothering
us. 900 chariots of iron. It's a
terrible thing that they have there. Now, in verse 4, we read
about Deborah. You know, she's not the only
prophetess in the Word. I found three of them counting
her. Miriam is called a prophetess. And she sang a song after the
deluge of all that Egyptian army. She is a prophetess. Let's look
in the book of Exodus 15. Exodus 15, we'll find out here. Now they all have something very
much in common. They all have something very
much in common. We find out that these three prophetess have something
common. It's not an attempt to gather
praise to themselves. They are here because of God. All right, in the book of Exodus
chapter 15, Exodus chapter 15, our first prophetess is Miriam. Exodus chapter 15 and verse 20. It says here, but God, excuse
me, and he, I'm in judges. Let me get it over to the book
of Exodus. Exodus chapter 15 verse 20. It says, And Miriam
the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her
hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and
with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing
ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. The horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the sea. Seeing ye unto Jehovah. She was not trying to garner
value to herself, importance to herself. She was doing that.
And then we find that there's one over in the book of Second
Kings. Second Kings chapter 22. In Second
Kings chapter 22, there is another prophetess that's mentioned here.
And again, she brings the word of the Lord. Second Kings chapter
22 and verse 14. 2 Kings 22 and verse 14. So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahiakum,
and Akbor, and Shaphan, and Azahiah went unto Huldah the prophetess,
the wife of Shalom. the son of Tikva, the son of
Harahas, keeper of the wardrobe. Now she dwelt in Jerusalem in
the college, and they communed with her. And she said unto them,
thus saith the Lord God of Israel, tell the man that sent you to
me, thus saith the Lord, behold, and this is almost what Deborah
is going to share with Berak, you've been told. God has shared
this. You're going to be used to defeat
this army. God's already given you the victory.
Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants
thereof, even all the words of the book which the King of Judah
hath read, because they have forsaken me and have burned incense
to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all
the works of their hands. Therefore, my wrath shall be
kindled against this place and shall not be quenched. And that's
a prophetess of the Lord. Miriam, a prophetess of the Lord,
and Deborah, a prophetess of the Lord. You know, there's a
country song that I hear quite a bit on KODL. It's kind of a loop. Anyway,
it says there's a country singer, and he has these words in a song.
Now there are some preachers on TV with suit and tie and vest,
and they want you to send your money to the Lord, but they give
you their address. Because all of your donations
are completely tax-free. God bless you all, but most of
all, send your money. Now that's not why these three
prophets prophesied. They weren't interested in money.
They were not interested in fame. They were interested in serving
the Lord. Why? Because they'd been granted
repentance. They knew something about God.
They knew something about the Lord. will deliver you by his
hand. That's what we find Deborah sharing
with us there in the book of Judges chapter four, beginning
with verse six and down through verse 16. And I just want to
read a couple of verses, verses six and seven of Judges chapter
four, and we'll call this to a close until the next appointed
time. Judges chapter four, Judges chapter
four, and there in verse six, Oh, that God would grant repentance. A view of God only comes through
the new birth, but a view of God that is biblical, not argumentative. God be God. And she sent and
called Barrett. This is Deborah and she has been
a judge, she's been giving judgment under a palm tree, and the children
of Israel have come to her for judgment, and she sent and called
Barak, the son of Abunayim, out of Keddesphilip, Philae, and
said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying,
Go and draw together draw toward Mount Tabor, and take with thee
10,000 men of the children of Naphtali and the children of
Zebulon, and I will draw unto thee to the river Chisholm, Sisera,
the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and with his
multitude, and I will deliver him into thy hand." That's the
God of repentance. true repentance. I will take
care of the problem. I will put this problem to side. And we're going to find out that
that's exactly what he's going to do. He is going to deliver
the children of Israel. The promise is declared. God
is not a man that he should lie. Neither the son of man that he
should repent. Hath he said and shall he not
do it? Or hath he spoken and shall he
not make it good? And that's in the book of Numbers
chapter 23 and verse 19. So He has declared He's going
to bring it to pass. Oh, thanks be unto God that he
has granted repentance to the Jews. He's granted repentance
unto the Gentiles. All of the lost sheep of the
house of Israel will be granted repentance. They'll be granted
faith. They'll be given faith. They'll
have a new view about God, a new view about sin, a new view about
themselves. They'll have a new view about
heaven, a new view about hell. They'll have a new view about
the word of God. They'll have a new view about the church.
they'll find out that God has placed in the church all those
that should be saved. Isn't that an easy, simple way
of God doing his business? May God grant us repentance.