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Robert Jeffress - Choose Your Attitudes, Change Your Life

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Choose Your Attitudes, Change Your Life | January 12, 2026

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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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Robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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Repentance is not a long complicated process.
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It doesn't involve making excuses or finding alternatives
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Or trying to undo mistakes.
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All repentance requires is a change of mind that leads to a
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Change of direction in life.
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Today, i'm urging you to turn away from your sin and ask god
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For his forgiveness.
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He's waiting to relieve you from the shame you're experiencing.
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My message is titled, "choosing repentance over guilt," on
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Today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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Jeffress: before we look at how to develop an attitude of
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Repentance in our lives, let's talk about the opposite of
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Repentance, and that is guilt.
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Guilt is one of the most debilitating of all
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Human emotions.
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Guilt produces, first of all, a distance from god.
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That is, sin breaks our fellowship with god.
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Remember in james chapter 1, verses 14 and 15, james explains
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How sin actually happens.
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I call it the temptation equation.
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Remember he says in james 1, verse 15: "then when lust has
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Conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is
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Accomplished, it brings forth death."
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When you have lust and an opportunity come together, you
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Have sin.
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And when sin is fully accomplished, it does its work,
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It produces death.
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Death.
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That word "death" means separation.
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Thanatos means separation.
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What does james have in mind when he says that sin
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Produces death?
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Is he talking about physical death?
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Well, in a general sense, yes, i mean, the reason all of us die
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Is because of adam's sin.
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And we've inherited that sin virus in our life.
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And so we all die physically.
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1 corinthians 11:28 and 30 says, furthermore, some christians die
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Prematurely, at least from their point of view.
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You can live in such a state of rebellion against god that god
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Decides you're an embarrassment to him and to the cause of
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Christ, and he takes you home prematurely to be with him, so
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You can't do any further damage.
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1 corinthians 11:28 and 30 talks about that.
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But let's face it.
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If death were always the punishment for sin, none of us
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Would be here today, would we?
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I mean, think about it.
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If god zapped us the moment we sinned, you wouldn't be here
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Listening to me and i wouldn't be up here preaching to you.
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We'd all be gone to heaven.
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So he can't be primarily thinking about physical death.
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Some people say, "well, maybe he's talking about
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Eternal death."
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Eternal death is the separation of our spirit from god for
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All eternity.
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If we die without having confessed christ as savior,
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We're separated from god.
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Is that what he's talking about?
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I don't think so because, after all, james is writing to
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Christians here.
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I think what he's talking about is a deathlike existence for
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Christians who sin and don't receive god's forgiveness.
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When we as christians--now listen to this.
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When we as christians sin, our position with god
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Doesn't change.
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We don't become unjustified or unborn again.
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Our salvation is forever.
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We are never more forgiven than the day we trust in christ
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As savior.
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I--god doesn't change his attitude about us when we sin,
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But we change our attitude about god when we sin.
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When we sin, it's not that god moves away from us; we move away
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From god.
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And that's one of the spiritual ramifications of guilt instead
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Of repentance.
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Not only does sin produce a distance from god, it ensures
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The discipline from god.
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We talked about this last time.
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But when david said, "i felt god's heavy hand upon me,"
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During this time of unconfessed sin, i think he was talking
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About he was beginning to feel god's discipline in his life.
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Things in the kingdom just were not going well.
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Things in his own household were not going well.
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He began to experience the discipline of god.
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The writer of hebrews says in hebrews 12, verses 6 to 8: "for
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Those whom the lord loves, he disciplines, and he scourges
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Every son whom he receives.
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It is for discipline that you endure; god deals with you as
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With his sons; for what son is there whom his father does
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Not discipline?
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But if you are without discipline, of which all of us
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Have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and
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Not sons."
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If you're able to sin and you experience no discipline from
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God, it means you're an illegitimate child of god.
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You don't really belong to him.
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One sign that you're a christian is god doesn't let you get away
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With anything.
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He loves you too much for that.
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He is going to bring discipline, sometimes painful discipline,
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Into our life in order that we might be corrected.
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In these final minutes, i wanna talk to you about five ways to
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Develop that attitude of repentance in your life.
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First of all, identify areas of your life where you have failed
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To meet god's standard.
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The very first step of repentance is an honest
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Evaluation of your life.
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In psalm 139, verses 23 and 24, david prayed: "search me, o god,
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And know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and
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See if there be any hurtful way in me.
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And lead me in the everlasting way."
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God search me, see if there's anything displeasing to you.
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I don't know if you do this in the company where you work.
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Ben has us doing it at the church.
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When it comes time for staff evaluations, we engage in a
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360 review.
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Have you done that at your company?
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You know what it is?
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You first of all, seek input evaluation of yourself from your
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Superiors and then you ask your subordinates what they think of
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You and then you look around you at your peers and then you look
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Inwardly at your own evaluation of yourself.
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A 360 review.
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Well, all of us need to do a 360 spiritual review of our lives
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From time to time.
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I've noted some questions there to ask yourself.
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First of all, vertically, that's your relationship with god.
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Ask god to point out anything that is wrong there.
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Look at your relationship with god.
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Secondly, look horizontally, at those around you, your
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Relationship with your family, that is parents and siblings,
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Perhaps your relationship with your mate, not putting him or
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Her first in that relationship, your relationship with your
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Children, perhaps relationships with other people, immoral
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Relationships, people you have offended.
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And then finally look inwardly.
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Are there addictions, habits, in your life that need to
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Be forsaken?
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Maybe your possessions, trusting in money, dishonest dealings,
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Failure to be a good steward.
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We all need to do an honest spiritual inventory and allow
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God to speak to us.
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Secondly, acknowledge your failure to god.
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You know, david made the most amazing statement when he
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Finally was willing to repent.
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He said in psalm 51, verse 4: "against thee, thee only, have i
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Sinned and done what is evil in your sight."
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Now, that seems a little bit ridiculous when you think
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About it.
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Against god and god only, you sinned, david?
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Well, what about bathsheba?
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What about uriah?
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What about your children?
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What about your family?
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What about the whole kingdom?
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You sinned against them.
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He wasn't denying that.
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But what he was saying is all sin, first of all, is sin
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Against god.
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It starts with god.
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And our acknowledgment of our sin has to start with god
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As well.
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You know, i think one reason we're so hesitant to acknowledge
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Our sin to god, we keep going down the wrong road further and
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Further away from god.
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We're afraid to acknowledge our sin because we're afraid of what
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God might think of us if we acknowledge our sin to him.
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Can i give you some just liberating news today?
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When you confess your sin to god, you're not giving god any
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New information he doesn't already have.
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He already knows about your failure.
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What he wants to know is, do you know about it?
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Do you realize it?
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You know what it means to acknowledge your failure to god?
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It simply means to quit arguing with god about your sin, quit
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Rationalizing it, quit minimizing it.
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Instead, say, "god, you know what?
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You're right and i'm wrong.
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You're right and i'm wrong."
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Acknowledge your failure to god.
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Thirdly, and then accept god's forgiveness.
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Here's the good news: when you acknowledge your sin and you ask
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For god's forgiveness, god forgives not just some of the
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Times, not most of the time; he forgives every time your sin.
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In psalm 32, verses 1 and 2, he said, "how blessed," literally,
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How happy, "is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose
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Sin is covered!
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How blessed is the man to whom the lord does not impute
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Iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit!"
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That phrase, "he doesn't impute iniquity," it means he no longer
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Charges sin to our account.
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That's literally what it means.
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When jesus said in john 19:30: "it is finished," do you know
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What the word means?
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Finished, "tetelestai," paid in full.
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We never have to worry that god is gonna dig up our sin one day
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Or that when we stand before him in heaven one day, he's gonna
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Remind us of our sin.
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That sin has been forgiven, forgotten forever.
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That's what it means to be a christian.
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We're forgiven.
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It's all over.
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Now, let me add an aside here that's very important to
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Understand: some of you may be saying, "well, pastor, i've done
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That and yet i'm still suffering the consequences of my sin.
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If god has forgiven me, why am i still going through the break-up
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Of a marriage, the loss of a child or business?
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Why am i still suffering from a bad reputation if god has
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Forgiven me?"
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Listen, when god forgives us, he removes the eternal consequences
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Of our sin, not necessarily the temporary consequences.
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When god forgives us, it means we never have to worry about us
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Spending eternity in hell one day.
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That's been forgiven forever.
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But god's forgiveness does not always remove the
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Temporary consequences.
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Even david, who was talking about how wonderful it is to
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Experience god's forgiveness, he spent the rest of his life
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Experiencing temporary consequences of his sin
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With bathsheba.
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First of all, a dead child.
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The child that bathsheba gave birth to ended up dying.
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So david grieved over that.
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He had to experience a disloyal son.
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God did raise up absalom his son to bring a rebellion against him
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And he suffered the effects of a divided kingdom.
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Israel virtually split in two because of david and all of the
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Aftermath of his fall.
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You say, "well, that means god doesn't love me if i'm
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Experiencing consequences."
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No, the reason he allows you to experience consequences is
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Because he does love you.
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You know, even david said that.
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He said, "before i was afflicted with all of these consequences,
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Before i was afflicted, i went astray from god.
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But now i obey your word."
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Every time, from the time david received forgiveness until the
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Time he died, that he even thought about another woman, he
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Even thought about rebelling against god, he felt the sting
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Of the consequences of his sin.
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He was reminded that he better walk with god or he would keep
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Experiencing even more consequences.
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He saw god's discipline and these consequences as a reminder
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In his life to keep him close to god.
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Accept god's forgiveness.
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It does remove the eternal consequences of our sin.
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Fourth, to develop repentance, make restitution
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Where necessary.
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Yes, we start with asking forgiveness from god, but
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Sometimes we need to go to other people as well and ask for
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Their forgiveness.
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Now, don't be surprised.
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I have found that god is much more forgiving than other
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People are.
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Nevertheless, we need to make the effort to do that.
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In fact, in matthew 5, verses 23 and 24, listen to what
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Jesus said.
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He said, "if therefore you are presenting your offering at the
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Altar, and there remember that your brother has something
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Against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go
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Your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and
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Present your offering."
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He's saying if you're sitting in church and you remember not that
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You have something against somebody else.
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If you're sitting here right now and you're thinking about
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Somebody who did you wrong, you don't go have a confrontation
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With them.
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Jesus said right here in that pew, you're to forgive them, to
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Let go of it.
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Let god settle the score.
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That's not what he's talking about here.
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Mark 11 says if you're worshiping and remember you have
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Something against somebody else, it doesn't matter where that
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Person is, in the next pew, in the next state, in the cemetery,
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You let go of it, forgive.
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No, he's talking here about you're in church and you
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Remember somebody has something against you.
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What are you to do?
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You're to get up from your pew, you're to walk out of the church
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And make reconciliation.
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The first attempt you make: going to seek that
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Person's forgiveness.
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They may or may not forgive you, but you're to make that attempt.
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Now, if we see anybody leaving the service early, we're going
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To assume you have done something horrible that you need
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To go.
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So that's a great motivation for staying here for a few
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More minutes.
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But do you get the importance of that?
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So we have to make restitution if we're going to resolve
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Our guilt.
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That's what true repentance does.
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Sometimes our restitution may involve monetary payments.
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Remember zachaeus, the tax collector?
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He had cheated people of their money.
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And when he found the lord, what did he do?
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Voluntarily, he stood up and announced, "i'm going to go and
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Repay four times whatever it is that i have stolen."
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Make restitution where necessary.
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And then finally, and most importantly, turn away from
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Known sin in your life.
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After all, that's what repentance is.
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It is a turning around.
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In psalm 51, verse 10, that great psalm of confession, david
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Said: "god create in me a clean heart, and renew a steadfast
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Spirit within me."
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In the hebrew mind, the heart wasn't just the center
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Of emotion.
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It was the center of our thought and our will.
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He said, "god, i'm in a new relationship with you.
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I want a new heart, a clean heart, so that i might walk in
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The right direction toward you."
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That was david's repentance, a change of mind that led to a
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Change of direction in his life.
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In a remote portion of canada, there is a tiny village
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Named wabush.
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For many years, there was no road that led into the
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Tiny village.
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But recently a road was cut, but it was only one road.
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You could travel down that unpaved road for 6 to 8 hours
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And finally reach wabush.
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But if you decided you were ready to leave, there was only
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One way out.
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You had to turn around and go out the same way you came in.
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You know, i'm speaking--i know i'm speaking to many of you in
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This room.
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Many of you listening or watching this broadcast and you
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Have been traveling down a road for months, perhaps years, that
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Has left you farther and farther and farther away from god.
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You never really imagined that you would end up the place that
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You are one day.
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And you're wondering, how do i go back to god?
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How do i start going in the right direction that leads to
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Eternal life?
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By acknowledging that you are going in the wrong direction and
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Then turning around.
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God is calling you today to turn around and that's the essence of
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What it means to choose repentance over guilt.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: i can't think of a better decision today than
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Choosing repentance over guilt.
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That's why christ came: to take the punishment for the shame we
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Feel before god.
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God stands with open arms prepared to warmly embrace you
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And to forgive you as you repent and turn to him for forgiveness.
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Well, in the time remaining today, i wanna share with you a
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Letter i received from cliff in ohio.
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Cliff wrote: "pastor jeffress, i cannot thank you enough for
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Teaching the whole counsel of god's word--especially on the
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Topic of grace.
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I heard it said once that grace is not the freedom to do what we
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Want, but the power to do what we ought to do according to the
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Creator's guidebook for our life.
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Your teaching has helped and encouraged me tremendously."
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Well, thank you, cliff, for those words of encouragement and
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Know god's love and forgiveness as never before by engaging in
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True repentance.
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Robert Jeffress - Choose Your Attitudes, Change Your Life

January 12, 2026 | 27:29

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