SCRIPTURES
Job 42:6 - a good way to repent
Jer. 8:6 - no man
repented him of his wickedness
31:19 - surely after
that I was turned, I repented
I Ki. 8:47 - repent,
and make supplication unto thee
Eze. 14:6 - repent,
and turn from your idols
18:30 - repent and
turn from all your transgressions
Matt. 3:2 - repent
ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
3:8 - bring forth
fruits meet for repentance
3:11 - I baptize you
with water unto repentance
4:17 - repent: for
the kingdom of heaven is at hand
9:13 - come to call
the sinners to repentance
11:20 - to upbraid
because they repented not
11:21 - they would
have repented long ago
12:41 - the repented
at the preaching of Jonas
21:29 - said, I will
not: but afterward he repented
21:32 - repented not
afterward
27:3 - Judas
repented himself
Mark 1:4 - baptism
of repentance for the remission of sins
1:15 - saying repent
ye, and believe the gospel
6:12 - and they
preached that men should repent
Luke 13:3, 5 -
except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish
15:7, 10 - joy over
one sinner that repenteth
16:30 - if one went
unto them, they will repent
17:3 - rebuke him;
and if he repent, forgive him
17:4 - turn again to
thee, saying, I repent
24:47 - repentance
and remission of sin should be preached
Acts 2:38 - repent,
and be baptized every one of you
3:19 - repent ye
therefore, and be converted
5:31 - give
repentance to Israel, and forgiveness
8:22 - repent
therefore of this thy wickedness
11:18 - then had God
granted repentance unto life
13:24 - the baptism
of repentance to all the people
17:30 - commandeth
all men everywhere to repent
20:21 - repentance
toward God, and faith toward our Lord
26:20 - they should
repent and turn to God
Rom. 2:4 - goodness
of God leadeth thee to repentance
11:29 - gifts and
calling are without repentance
II Cor. 7:8 - I do
not repent, though I did repent
7:9 - ye sorrowed to
repentance
7:10 - godly sorrow
worketh repentance to salvation
12:21 - have not
repented of the uncleanness
II Tim. 2:25 -
peradventure will give them repentance
Heb. 6:1 -
foundation of repentance from dead works
6:6 - to renew them
again unto repentance
12:17 - he found no
place of repentance
II Pe. 3:9 - but
that all should come to repentance
Rev. 2:5 - repent,
and do the first works
2:16 - repent; or
else I will come unto thee quickly
2:21 - repent of her
fornication
2:22 - I will cast
except they repent of their deeds
3:3 - remember and
hold fast, and repent
3:19 - chasten: be
zealous therefore, and repent
9:20 - repented not
of the works of their hands
9:21 - neither
repented they of their murders
16:9 - and they
repented not to give him glory
16:11 - blasphemed
and repented not of their deeds
IMPORTANCE
The consequence of unforgiveness is the most
important lesson that God has taught us about
DELIVERANCE. Unforgiveness is a sin against God. The
first thing you do is repent to God for having
unforgiveness. Jesus Christ gave his life so that you
can be forgiven for your sins. You come to realize
what someone has done to you is insignificant as
compared to what God did for you.
God taught us basic
DELIVERANCE in the middle of the night in the middle
of our bed. DELIVERANCE saved our marriage and
daughter, and may have even saved our lives. We use
forgiveness as a basic technique in DELIVERANCE. When
you think about forgiveness, you are forgiving those
who have sinned against you.
This is a study
about repentance. The subject is so important that it
overwhelms me. I feel that my knowledge of repentance
is inadequate for this important task. However, few
ministers are willing to deal with the subject so here
goes. This is a study of the words: repent, repentance
and repenting.
FORGIVING
SIN
Only Almighty God can forgive sin. No human
being in any office such as priest can forgive sin.
God does not have any representative on earth that He
has transferred that authority to. That authority will
always be with God.
FORGIVING
OTHERS
God forgives sin but we forgive ourselves and
others. We have the authority and responsibility to
forgive human beings that have hurt us by sinning
against God. We forgive ourselves for doing things
that hurt us and our loved ones.
REMITTING
AND RETAINING SIN
See John 20:21-23; verse 23 says Whos soever
sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose
soever sins ye retain, they are retained. We can remit
(to send away) or retain (to lay fast hold of) sins of
those who have sinned against God and affected our
lives. In other words, we can hold on to the sins
against us or we can release those sins.
When I forgive
someone, I visualize that person being released. I can
hold on to the sins of others against me and try to
get even in some way. When I release others, I am also
releasing myself. There is freedom in releasing others
from any bondage to ourselves. When we hold others in
bondage, we also hold ourselves in bondage.
When you retaliate
against others, you also retaliate against yourselves.
Earline is a good
teacher about this area of retaliation.
SINS OF OUR
ANCESTORS
The Bible clearly teaches that the sins of
the ancestors will be visited on their descendants.
Earline had heart trouble and sought the Lord about
the answer. God told her to look in Exodus 20,
Leviticus 26 and Ezekiel 18 for the answer. This is
how we learned about how to release ourselves from the
sins of our ancestors.
Ex. 20:3-5 Thou
shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not
make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of
any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor
serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate
me.
There was a lot of
marrying between races of whites and Indians before
1900, so much so, that the writers of Britannica could
find few pure bred Indians and very few who could
speak the language of their tribe. These Indians
worshiped demons, therefore cursing all their
descendants for three to four generations.
If no one in the
family line worshiped other gods until the time ran
out, the curse would cease. I am not four generations
from my Indian ancestors, so the curse was on me.
I remembered at this
time that my Dad had practiced a little witchcraft
himself. He had our mountain well water-witched and he
practiced a little folk medicine to get rid of my
brother's warts. Innocent as these things may seem,
they began the curse all over. Not only did he and
most of his brothers and sisters have heart trouble
and some died early deaths, but all my brothers and
myself had heart problems.
Then I was led to
read Ezekiel 18 in which I found it was not the will
of God for children to be punished for their fathers
sins, provided that the children were not following in
their fathers footsteps.
Ezekiel 18 discusses
how God deals with just and wicked ancestors and
descendants: just ancestors and wicked descendants,
and wicked ancestors and just descendants. The just
soul shall live and the wicked soul shall die. As a
Christian, you would fall into the category of the
just soul if you are not following the iniquities
listed in this chapter. First, we confess our
ancestors iniquity, trespasses and contrary walk
towards God. Second, we forgive them for what they
have done to us. Third, we break any curses brought on
us by our ancestors.
Then Lev. 26:39-42,
When in the land of bondage if you will confess your
sins and the sins of you father and how you have all
dealt treacherously with God He will remember you,
forgive and heal you when your heart is humble. I just
followed the instructions and have been healed all
these years.
First, we confess
our iniquities. Second, we confess the iniquities of
our fathers. Third, God remembers His covenant. God
promises to remember those that repent. Fifth, God
blesses those who have repented.
CONFESS -
REPENT - BREAK - CAST - DISCIPLINE
There is a sequence of events that we need to
follow depending on the situation that we are in.
First, we must realize what that situation is so that
we can confess it to God. It could be brought on by
ourselves or our ancestors. Second, we must repent of
our sins and forgive those that have hurt us. Third,
we must break curses and soul ties that have been
brought on us by our sins and the actions of others
such as our ancestors. Fourth, we must cast out any
demons that inhabit our bodies because of our sins or
the curses transmitted by our ancestors or others.
Fifth, we must discipline our lives to not repeat the
sins of our ancestors or the wrong habits of our
lives.
Six Basic
Steps To Your DELIVERANCE
1. Identify your
problems.
2. Forgive, pray and
get yourself right with God.
3. Break the curses
and soul ties on you and your descendants.
4. Cast out your
demons.
5. Pray for healing
of your soul and body.
6. Discipline your
life by changing your way of thinking and acting. It
is easy to cast out demons but hard to discipline your
life.
KNOWLEDGE -
BLOOD - AUTHORITY - CHANGE
There is a parallel sequence of events that
are necessary to accomplish CONFESS - REPENT - BREAK -
CAST - DISCIPLINE.
First, you need to
obtain knowledge. You must have a working knowledge of
the Bible and DELIVERANCE. You need to be a workman
who is not ashamed of rightly dividing the Word of
Truth. You can learn DELIVERANCE from teaching,
ministry, counseling, studying, experience, etc.
Second, you need to get right with God and get your
sins under the Blood of Jesus so that you will be
cleansed. Third, now that you are forgiven by God, you
have the right to take authority over all the
authority of the enemy and break curses and soul ties.
Fourth, it is necessary to change your life: the way
you think and act.
NEED FOR
REPENTANCE
The greatest need in the Christian life is
the need for repentance; forgiveness is a major part
of repentance.
The basic method we
use is to find out what a person or their ancestors or
others did that affected their life. Then, we get the
person to confess and repent about these actions.
Then, demonic ties are broken and demons are cast out.
Finally, we counsel the person about disciplining
their mind and body.
We have used this
method successfully in our ministry for many years
after God showed us this truth. It is easy to
visualize when you realize that God thought it was so
important that He died for our sins so that we could
be forgiven when we repent. See Matthew 18:15-35 about
how to deal with others when they offend us.
One of my pet peeves
is the ministers who are unwilling to fully confront
sin by teaching, ministry and counseling. These same
ministers try to confess and repent for others rather
than getting those guilty of sin to repent. What good
do you think it accomplishes when the person is still
guilty of that sin and has not repented or forgiven
the one that hurt them? If the demons leave, they have
a right to come back because of unbroken demonic ties,
and unconfessed sin and iniquity.
We have worked with
people at camp in mass DELIVERANCE, and then the next
day worked with someone in individual DELIVERANCE. We
find that person not to have repented in mass
DELIVERANCE but repents in individual DELIVERANCE. The
demons do not leave in mass DELIVERANCE but leave in
individual DELIVERANCE because of repentance brought
about by individual counseling.
OLD
TESTAMENT
To repent means to be penitent, to be eased,
to comfort self, to turn back. This means to change
your heart, disposition, mind, purpose or conduct. If
we do not repent, then we are in rebellion against
God.
When God repented,
He changed his mind. He would alter a course of action
planned for his people when they repented and changed
their course of action. He never changed his mind from
punishing sin. I Sam. 15:29 And also the Strength of
Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man,
that he should repent.
"Repentance with
reference to sin is not so prominent as that change of
mind or purpose, out of pity for those who have been
affected by one's action, or in whom the result of the
action have not fulfilled expectations, a repentance
attributed both to God and to man." (Expository
Dictionary of New Testament Words).
NEW
TESTAMENT
To repent means to be careful or concerned
with, to have another mind, a change of mind, or not
to be careful or concerned with. We are not to repent
or change our purpose about gifts, calling and
salvation. We perceive our sin, and change our mind
and purpose for the better in Christ. We regret our
sins and repent to God.
"The subject chiefly
has reference to repentance from sin, and this change
of mind involves both a turning from sin and a turning
to God. The parable of the prodigal son is an
outstanding illustration of this. Christ began His
ministry with a call to repentance to the individual."
(Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words).
EASY
BELIEVEISM
In the traditional church, there is a tendency to
simply get the people to join the church. You can join
the church as you would join a social club and with
the same effect. In the full-gospel church, there is a
tendency to simply get the people to accept Christ on
their terms. You have to accept Christ on His terms
not on your terms or that church's terms. There is no
way to Christ and His salvation without repenting and
confessing your sins.
The Roman's Road to
Salvation: Romans 3:23, 6:23a, 5:8, 6:23b and 10:9, 13
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God. For the wages of sin is death. But God commandeth
His love toward us; in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. But the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. That, if
thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For whosoever
shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved.
Easy believeism is leading people to Hell. There is
only one way to God through Jesus Christ and in
accordance with The Holy Word Of God.
Easy repentance is
leading people to stay in bondage. Unless the
repentance is acceptable to God by the Bible, the
person is deceived and will remain in bondage although
he may think he is free. Many people are being
deceived by ministers and lay Christians by telling
them they are free when they are still in bondage. The
sad part of this charade is that you see people
leaving the church and going back out into the world
when their lives are not working out as told to them
by others who should know better. These former church
goers may end up in Hell.
SIN IN YOUR
LIFE
Any sin in your life will keep you from the
full blessings of God that you would receive in the
areas of mental, physical, spiritual and material.
There will be confusion in the mind, disease in the
body, problems in the spiritual life, and poverty in
the financial area.
If you have sin in
your life, you have opened the door for Satan and his
demons to attack you, your family and your church. Sin
is a crack in your armor whether known or unknown to
you. You or your ancestors have invited Satan to come
into your life and work havoc.
The Bible is a book
of blessings and curses. Every verse you obey carries
a blessing; every verse you disobey carries a curse.
If you obey half of the Bible, you are half blessed
and half cursed.
It is your choice
what you do; God didn't make you as a robot. You have
a free will given by the Lord. You choose to go to
Heaven or you choose to go to Hell. You choose to live
the abundant life or you choose to live the life in
poverty here on earth. Jesus has finished His work; it
is up to you now.
SIN IN THE
MINISTER'S LIFE
The minister needs to surrender fully to God and throw
open all the doors and windows of his/her life to the
searchlight of the Holy Spirit. The work of the
ministry can be a difficult undertaking. Effective
weapons used against ministers are carelessness,
pride, immorality, taking God for granted, spiritual
weakness, and affliction of wife/husband where the
minister refuses to yield to God.
The person
ministering in the area of DELIVERANCE is in a
position of all- out warfare with the forces of evil.
Many have fallen by the wayside because of ignorance
of Bible and of DELIVERANCE, still having many demons
within themselves, women and men ministering by
themselves, being lured by false doctrines, etc.
SIN IN YOUR
POSSESSIONS - You must clean your home and your person
(body) of cursed objects. If you have cursed objects,
you become cursed and you will have demons living with
you. They don't just come to live in your home or on
your person, they come to torment you and your family.
Five Steps
To Cleaning Your House
1. Seven-way prayer
of forgiveness: you forgive your ancestors,
descendants and others for all sins; ask God to
forgive and bless them with all spiritual blessings;
ask God to forgive you; you forgive yourself for sins
against your body; and finally ask forgiveness for
worshiping other gods).
2. Break curses and
soul ties from others (ancestors) and to others
(descendants); and break curses of psychic or Catholic
prayers.
3. Clean out house
of your objects, or cast out demons in objects you do
not own.
4. Anoint house and
objects with oil, and cast evil spirits out of house.
5. Cast demons out
of people that came in thru curses from demonic
objects.
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
1. What is sin and
the standard against sin? - Sin is the thought or deed
we commit that is contrary to the teaching of the
Bible. The standard that is used to judge sin is the
Holy Inspired Word of God, The Bible.
2. Who do we commit
sin against? - I Cor. 8:12 But when ye sin so against
the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin
against Christ. The results of our sins affect
ourselves and others. We sin upward against God,
outward against others, inward against ourselves and
downward against our descendants.
3. How do we sin
against God? - We sin against God by disobedience to
the commandments and precepts of the whole Bible.
4. How do we sin
against others? - We sin against others by doing
something to them that is contrary to the Bible.
First, see what is a sin in the Bible. Second, that
would be a sin against others. For example, the
spreading of lies about another person is sin. We are
telling lies which is a sin against God and it is also
hurting another person.
5. How do we sin
against ourselves? - I Cor. 6:18 He that commits
fornication sins against his own body . Every other
sin that man does is outside of the body except for
fornication.
6. How do we sin
against our descendants? - We sin against our
descendants either directly or indirectly. We can
directly sin against our children or indirectly
against our children's children to the tenth
generation. For example, we conceive a bastard. It is
a sin against that child, our other children and our
children's children to the tenth generation. The
curse, created by conceiving a bastardy, will bring
problems and grief: primarily alienation from the
church and conceiving bastards generation after
generation.
7. Who forgives
sins? - Only God can forgive sin by the shed Blood of
Jesus Christ. We can remit (send away) sins and retain
(hold fast) sins (John 20:23). What you bind on earth
is bound in Heaven; what you loose on earth is loosed
in Heaven (Matt. 16:19; 18:18). Other passages are
judging others (I Cor. 5:1-5), forgive in the sight of
Christ (II Cor. 2:10) and Christ speaking in me (II
Cor. 13:3).
8. Who confesses
sins? - We confess our sins and the sins of our
ancestors, and humble ourselves before God (Lev.
26:40-42). Earline has a testimony about how God
healed her heart after she dealt with her Indian
ancestors. God gave her a series of steps about how to
counteract the sins of her ancestors who worshiped
demons. The ideal is to have the descendants forgive
their ancestors (especially their parents). The most
sure method is for the person to forgive those who
have hurt them or committed acts which affect their
lives.
9. What do we do
after our sins are forgiven? - First, we get our sins
forgiven and we forgive others for sinning against us.
We then have the right to break curses, soul ties and
cast out the demons. Second, we break the curses on
ourselves, our mate if he or she is affected, and our
descendants. We can break curses placed on us by
others, curses placed on us by ourselves, and curses
placed on our descendants by ourselves. Third, we
break soul ties brought about by sexual sin and
witchcraft. Fourth, we cast out the demons that came
in through sin and curses. Fifth, we go and sin not
more.
ERASING THE
RESULTS OF SIN
The traditional church and most of the other
churches (full gospel, Pentecostal, charismatic,
glossolalia, evangelistic) believe that the job is
finished when the person repents. That is spiritual
fantasy. Repentance means that God has forgiven us,
and given us the authority to continue to clean our
houses: souls and bodies. We need to eradicate, as
much as possible, the evidences of sin in ourselves.
We must break curses
on ourselves and our descendants to keep the curse
from continuing and repeating the same sins. We need
to break soul ties with those we have had sex with
other than our only legitimate mate (which is a godly
soul tie). We need to break soul ties with anyone who
has exercised an ungodly control over us. We need to
get rid of demonic objects in our living quarters and
on our being.
PRAYER
Lord, I repent of my wickedness. I turn away
from my sins, transgressions, iniquity and idols. I
make supplication to you. I do not want to perish in
the Lake of Fire and Brimstone. I forgive all others
for anything they have done to me. I am sorry for my
sins and mistakes.
Help me to have
faith in God necessary to accomplish this prayer. Help
me to have works that follow my conversion. Help me to
hold fast to my salvation and be zealous for the Lord.
I believe the Gospel
and accept it in simple childlike faith. I accept all
of the benefits of being baptized with water. I will
bring forth Fruits of the Spirit. I will quit being
double minded about my sins. I will tell others of my
salvation. I will rebuke my brother/sister and then
forgive him/her. I will be baptized when I am
converted. I will do these things as the Holy Spirit
leads and with the help of God.
Thank you that the
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Thank you for your
goodness and mercy. Thank you for your gifts, calling
and salvation. Thank you that all of these blessing
have been provided for me. All these things I ask in
the Blessed Name of Jesus Christ, my Lord, Master and
Savior. Amen.