{"id":990,"date":"2010-08-27T07:31:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T13:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.returningking.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2010-08-27T07:31:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T13:31:55","slug":"the-gospel-truth-pt-11-lordship-the-product-of-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel Truth: Pt. 11 – Lordship, the Product of Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This is a continuation of The Gospel Truth<\/a><\/em> video blog series.\u00a0 This post assumes the prerequisite watching of earlier videos in the series.\u00a0 Click the link above to watch the entire series up to this week\u2019s installment.)<\/p>\n

\"\"A great storm is stirred up each time the terms “Lordship” and “gospel”\u00a0 are uttered in the same sentence; let alone the same title of a message.\u00a0 This debate involves what is described as “Lordship Salvation;” a theological\u00a0debate with\u00a0substantially sound doctrinal minds on both sides.<\/p>\n

This post is, of course, not about Lordship Salvation as a subject; but a continuation of this series on the gospel at the point in which the issue is raised that “Lordship” of Christ is in fact at issue in the very subject matter of repentance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As has been observed the past few weeks: faith\u00a0is demonstrated in scripture to be an\u00a0active response<\/em> to belief rather than just an academic acknowlegement of certain facts.\u00a0 That response is repentance.\u00a0 <\/em>Repentance is defined as a turning “from” one’s former understanding and allegiances “to” the trust in Christ.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This act of turning, it will be demonstrated today, is consistently decribed in scripture as an acquiescence to the Lordship of Christ: a confession to his deity and belief that He is the Son of God; and is God incarnate as he said.\u00a0 Such acknowledgment is not synonymous with stating that a new convert “must give every aspect of their lives to Christ” at the moment of salvation – for no sinner even knows<\/em> “every aspect” of their lives which Christ will demand.\u00a0 Yet, such an acknowledgment is<\/em> an affirmation to the person<\/em> of Christ as God himself.\u00a0 As such, a person necessarily at least begins<\/em> the process of acquiescence – which will be described next week as the process of “sanctification” – by the very turning in faith to Christ as God.<\/p>\n

Thus, the idea of “confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord” is not a preconditioned\u00a0“work” which\u00a0mandates certain identifyable steps.\u00a0 It is rather the very element of faith expressed in repentance: the knowlege – by faith – of who Christ is.\u00a0 He is Lord.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Gospel Truth: Pt. 11 – Lordship – The Product of Repentance<\/a> from Jeff Kluttz<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(This is a continuation of The Gospel Truth video blog series.  This post assumes the prerequisite watching of earlier videos in the series.  Click the link above to watch the entire series up to this week’s installment.) A great storm …<\/p>\n

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