Is It Ever Too Late To Repent?Posted by Mouridsen Rosales on March 30th, 2021 And he did so without a thought, without a care, without a blush - because he cared nothing for the birthright. He regarded it as less than the worth of a single meal. Repentance means more than sorrow or regret for a mistake, but also requires that it be corrected. When i sin and others see my sin am I more concerned about my lost reputation , or more concerned about my lost relationship with God. Nothing is more important than our relationship with God and within that understanding and knowledge should come true repentance that seeks to find peace with God. In response to John Bartel’s statement, I have unfortunately found myself in much the same situation and state of mind. In my case I have felt myself in this utter pit of despair time and time again, but kept returning to my sinful habbits and lifestyle. I am a college student, and I constantly had poeple and situations to lure me into sin although I kept repeanting and seeking forgiveness. In my life there have been many wonderful spiritual experiences, and I have felt the love and forgiveness of God. In other words, John is trying to strike a balance between the absolute necessity of the new birth, which necessarily gives a significant measure of victory over sin. On the other hand, there’s the reality that we do in fact as Christians commit sins and can find forgiveness as we confess them. Esau’s problem was not that he wasn’t a son. It was that he did not value spiritual things. The point is that Esau lost the birthright of being the firstborn and could not get it back. He lost all of the benefits of that birthright. That’s why so many married Christians go after someone else, who makes them feel better and more loved. That’s why so many Christian students and workers hide their Christianity from their friends at school or work, lest it cost them the approval and acceptance of others. B. And He was always sacrificing His own life in impossible to repent order to feed others. The worst problem about the sin of Esau is what he gave up, what he discarded, what he despised. The worst problem about the sin of Esau is not preferring a trivial and temporary pleasure over a more important, longer-term benefit. E. But short-sightedness is not the only problem with Esau’s sin. David committed much greater sins; however, he repented for the right reason and in the right way. He realized that the greater loss was his broken fellowship with God, and that as bad as his acts were with people (he had someone killed!) - his greater offense was toward God. He wanted to restore fellowship with God. “He ate, he drank, he rose, he went his way”. There is something even in the expression of Moses that suggests carnality, so carnal, that one feels, cannot help but feel some contempt for Esau, for the likeness with which he took the privilege of fellowship with God. After all, God had promised him the birthright. He could have waited, but Jacob is not sanctified yet. He has the right adjustment in his life; the priorities of the Lord are there. He is fundamentally committed to the Lord God, but he is not yet sanctified. So, we should not expect him to live in the way that he will live later. He wants to nail it down now, so in the power of the flesh, he will have this birthright. “First, swear to me.” But on the other hand, while we criticize Jacob, notice Esau. While Jacob’s methods are not admirable, his interests were. On the other hand, in the case of Esau, his interests are very, very bad. That is when God let's your will prevail over his and locks you into that mode. Then your heart is hardened, like Pharaoh, whose resolve to destroy God's people caused him to destroy his country and finally his own life in the heart of the Red Sea. When it says he sought it, it means he sought repentance. It’s not that he repented and repented and cried over his repentance, and God wouldn’t forgive him. If we repent, God is faithful to restore us with things that honor him, but God will not automatically give us back the thing we lost while acting out in sin. Piper’s other delusion is that only those who got saved by turning from their sin, forsaken their old life, committed themselves to Christ and make him Lord of their will be saved…. and even then, only those who endure in good works, hold out faithful, do not practice sin and endure to the end of their lives can be saved. When we begin to turn, He is watching for us and waiting for us. The word in Hebrew means primogeniture, used evidently by metonymy for its rights and privileges. Not only a double portion belonged to the first-born, but also the paternal blessing, which included things temporal and spiritual. The notion that the priesthood at that time and from the beginning of the world belonged to the first-born, has nothing to support it. The reason it is a hidden path is that many people never find it. There are many who would love to be free from bitterness, pornography, or alcohol. for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it. For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to secure the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no opportunity for undoing what he had done, though he sought the blessing earnestly with tears. for you know that also afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for he did not find a place of conversion, though having sought it with tears. For you know that afterwards, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he could not find any opportunity to repent, even though he begged to repent with tears. When Esau sold Jacob his birthright to Jacob (Gen. 25), this referred to his stake in the Abrahamic Covenant. Esau didn’t die and go to hell, but he was excluded from God’s plan in the world. Later in Genesis, we have every reason to believe that Esau continued to believe in and worship God. Nothing in the text of Genesis suggests that Esau ceased being a believer. At first glance, this passage is troubling to some. It appears as if Esau repented in sincerity and could not find forgiveness. Build a biblical foundation for your life through the daily teaching of Colin Smith on Unlocking the Bible. You'll discover the message of God's Word from beginning to end is a riveting story of a loving God rescuing lost people through His son Jesus Christ. May grace now be given to you to bring you to yield to this glorious command. May you now believe in him who came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. who shall narrate thy achievements, or write thy victories? Thou hast carried the cunning Jacob into glory, and made him white as the angels of heaven, and thou shalt carry many a black sinner there also, and make him glorious as the glorified.Like it? Share it! More by this author |