About My Father's Other Business: The John the Baptist Generation—II
Study Guide

• Luke 3:3/Matthew 3:2

  • John came preaching "a baptism of ______ ________ ."
    
    
    • mea culpa (Latin)— "______ ____________"
      
      
    • metanoia (Greek)—"_________________"
      
      
    • "I have _____________ ."
      
      
  • Kittel's Theological Dictionary of the New Testament:
    "_______________ was the basic note in the message of the Baptist. The coming of God's lordship is imminent and His judgment is close at hand. What John advances is the ancient prophetic summons for conversion, for a __________ with the ungodly and sinful past, for turning to ______ , because God, active in history, turns to man." (1000)
    
    
  • Luke 3:3 NLT: ". . . preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from theirs sins and turned to God to be forgiven."
    
    
    • Turning ________ your sins—and turning ___ your Savior.
      
      
    • "Repent!" means to change your __________ , turn completely _________ and go the __________ way.
      
      
• Luke 3:7-9
  
  
  • A ____________ message for the _______ !
    
    
  • Oh, the danger of a very false __________ in a very orthodox __________ .
    
    
  • The story of two sinners—Luke 18:9-14
    
    
  • "God does not regard all sins as of equal magnitude; there are degrees of guilt in His estimation, as well as in that of man; but however trifling this or that wrong act may seem in the eyes of men, no sin is small in the sight of God. Man's judgment is partial, imperfect; but God estimates all things as they really are. The drunkard is despised and is told that his sin will exclude him from heaven; while pride, selfishness, and covetousness too often go unrebuked. But these are sins that are especially offensive to God; for they are contrary to the benevolence of His character, to that unselfish love which is the very atmosphere of the unfallen universe. He who falls into some of the grosser sins may feel a sense of his shame and poverty and his need of the grace of Christ; but pride feels no need, and so it closes the heart against Christ and the infinite blessings He came to give." (Steps to Christ 30)
    
    
  • You and I can repent of our ___________________ .
    
    
• Two steps toward "a spirit of repentance":
  
  
  • Step #1—Ask God to reveal to you your _______ .
    
    
    • Psalm 19:12
      
      
    • Psalm 139:23, 24
      
      
    • Because until you and I are convicted (convinced) of our _____ —we will never truly and deeply seek our ____________ .
      
      
    • Warning—never undertake Step #1 without quickly taking Step #2.
      
      
  • Step #2—Ask God to reveal to you your sin-pardoning _________ .
    
    
    • John 1:29
      
      
    • So every day:
      • Read Matthew 27:24-54's story of the Lamb of God
      • Gaze upon a picture (on the wall or in your Bible) of the cross
      • "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away my sins."
      • "Pride and self-esteem cannot flourish in the heart that keeps fresh in memory the scenes of Calvary." (2T 212)
        
        
  • "The nearer we come to Jesus, and the more clearly we discern the purity of His character, the more clearly shall we see the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the less shall we feel like exalting ourselves. There will be a continual reaching out of the soul after God, a continual, earnest, heartbreaking confession of sin and humbling of the heart before Him. At every advance step in our Christian experience our repentance will deepen. We shall know that our sufficiency is in Christ alone and shall make the apostle's confession our own: ‘I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.' ‘God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.' Romans 7:18; Galatians 6:14." (Acts of the Apostles 561)

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Pastor, I would like to join you in daily seeking from Jesus "a spirit of repentance."

Pastor, I would like to repent and be baptized and follow Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

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Answers: mea culpa, my fault, repentance, sinned, Conversion, break, God, from, to, direction, around,
opposite, judgement, saved, security, theology, unrepentance, sins, sins, Savior, Savior