1. GCC FAMILY – BECOMING A PART IV
PATHWAY TO MEMBERSHIP AT GARDINER COMMUNITY CHURCH
PASTOR DAVID KOBELIN – April 30, 2017

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Listening to Jesus
How have you been listening?
What has He been saying?
What have you been doing?

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Ephesians 2:19 Living Bible (TLB)
19 Now you are no longer strangers to God and foreigners to heaven, but you are members of God’s very own family, citizens of God’s country, and you belong in God’s household with every other Christian.

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Gardiner Community Church exists to glorify God and make disciples by building relationships, creating community, and helping people discover who they were truly created to be.

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Building Relationships
With God
Understand who God is and who we are
Repentance

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Repentance
Correct View of Man
Romans 3:23 New King James Version (NKJV)
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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Man is Inherently Sinful Romans 5:12 New King James Version (NKJV) 12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—

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Salvation Only Comes Through Jesus Christ
John 14:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

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Acts 4:10,12 New King James Version (NKJV) 10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

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Hamartia: "to miss the mark; to be in error; to fall short."

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Two Kinds of Repentance
Metamelomai
False, incomplete repentance; regret for consequences rather than the cause

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Example: Judas
Matthew 27:3-5 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,  

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4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!” 5 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.

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Metanoia
True, complete repentance, change of mind and attitude which results in change of behavior in turning and going the other way.

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Acts 3:19 New King James Version (NKJV) 19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, Acts 3:19 New Century Version (NCV) 19 So you must change your hearts and lives! Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins. Then the Lord will send the time of rest.

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Example: David (Psalm 51) Example: Peter (Post Resurrection)

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Process of Repentance
Glad Reception of Conviction
Acts 2:37-38 New Century Version (NCV)
37 When the people heard this, they felt guilty and asked Peter and the other apostles, “What shall we do?”

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38 Peter said to them, “Change your hearts and lives and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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2 Corinthians 7:9-11 New Century Version (NCV) 9 Now I am happy, not because you were made sad, but because your sorrow made you change your lives. You became sad in the way God wanted you to, so you were not hurt by us in any way. 10 The kind of sorrow God wants makes people change their hearts and lives. This leads to salvation, and you cannot be sorry for that.

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But the kind of sorrow the world has brings death. 11 See what this sorrow—the sorrow God wanted you to have—has done to you: It has made you very serious. It made you want to restore yourselves. It made you angry and afraid. It made you want to see me. It made you care. It made you want to do the right thing. In every way you have regained your innocence.

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Admission of Need
Luke 18:13 New Century Version (NCV)
13 “The tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even look up to heaven. But he beat on his chest because he was so sad. He said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

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Confession of Sin
1 John 1:9 New King James Version (NKJV)
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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James 5:16 New Century Version (NCV) 16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen.

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Response To Truth
Acts 2:40-41 New King James Version (NKJV)
40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” 41 Then those who gladly[a] received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

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Results of Repentance
Gratefulness
Worship
Turning Away From Sin

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John 8:11 New King James Version (NKJV)
11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and[a] sin no more.”

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Fruit of the Spirit
Matthew 3:8 New King James Version (NKJV)
8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, (love, joy, peace, etc.)

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Restitution As Necessary
Luke 19:8 New King James Version (NKJV)
8 Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.”

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A Desire To Share With Others
John 1:40-45 New King James Version (NKJV)
40 One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus.

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Now when Jesus looked at him, He said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah.[a] You shall be called Cephas” (which is translated, A Stone). Philip and Nathanael 43 The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

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45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

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John 4:28-29 New King James Version (NKJV)
28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
John 4: The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"

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How Might You Receive, Apply, and share the Wonderful Gift of Repentance Today?