{"id":4127,"date":"2025-11-04T18:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:56:42","slug":"preaching-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/?p=4127","title":{"rendered":"Preaching Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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There is a great need in Honduras for understanding of the importance of true <\/span>repentance <\/b>as an inseparable part of salvation.\u00a0 On my first opportunity to preach I felt lead to preach out of Genesis 4 the contrast of a life with and without repentance using the example of Cain and Abel. \u00a0 Both brought an offering, which indicates a type of duty that could only be related to the testimony of three things; <\/span>1)<\/b> the testimony of Adam and Eve of the glory that once was theirs and then was lost; <\/span>2)<\/b> the prophecy of the redeemer in Genesis 3:15; <\/span>3)<\/b> the substitution, or efficacy, in the covering of skins and the blood that had to have been shed to obtain the skins.\u00a0 Abel obviously repented of his sins and by faith believed God, and that is why he brought the blood sacrifice.\u00a0 Consider how much a step of faith it was for Abel by the fact that the instruction for the usage of animals for food only came after the flood.\u00a0 Neither Abel\u2019s nor Cain\u2019s offering were random selections for something to bring.\u00a0 It was simply that Abel\u2019s offering followed the pattern of instruction from God, but that Cain\u2019s followed the pattern of the serpent \u2013\u00a0 unrepentant disobedience.\u00a0 Cain deliberately did it his way.\u00a0 Cain\u2019s fallen countenance means that his soul was literally in torment by the study of the word.\u00a0 But even though God was speaking to Cain and encouraging and warning him in Genesis 4:6-7, Cain shows his hardness of heart and denial of his own sin by lashing out at Abel.\u00a0 Is it not amazing that Cain could be that way and even kill his own brother?\u00a0 So what we see in Cain is a life without repentance that suffers three things: The unrepentant heart, <\/span>1)<\/b> will not respond to discipline (Gen. 4:6-7); <\/span>2)<\/b> will not be saved (Gen. 4:11-14,16); <\/span>3)<\/b> will not pass on anything but a curse to his children as seen in Lamech (Gen. 4:15,23-24).<\/span><\/p>

I heard a story from a pastor about how he had observed how some Hondurans may make a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus and perhaps wait as much as six months to be baptized.\u00a0 During the time before their baptism they sometimes indulge themselves in sin before the baptism with the attitude that they will have to be serious about their walk after the baptism.\u00a0 My friends, that is not true repentance.\u00a0 That man or woman is not saved from the fire of hell.\u00a0 True repentance is a complete disgust of sin.\u00a0 No more lusts.\u00a0 No more fornication or even a hint thereof.\u00a0 Take to heart what 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 says.\u00a0 \u2013 Preaching the truth in love.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preaching Repentance 1\/13\/2016 There is a great need in Honduras for understanding of the importance of true repentance as an inseparable part of salvation.\u00a0 On my first opportunity to preach I felt lead to preach out of Genesis 4 the contrast of a life with and without repentance using the example of Cain and Abel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}