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“ Summary, Part 4 (final) ” III. MANY BLESSINGS FLOWING FROM THE FRUITS OF TRUE REPENTANCE. A. THE BASIC BLESSING: PROOF OF SALVATION: repentance is a saving grace; it is required individually and corporately. B. SEVERAL CONSEQUENTIAL BLESSINGS: 1. Holy unity in the church: Corinth was a motley crew that tolerated wickedness; when they came into unity in Christ, they confronted it without and within. 2. Public vindication before the world and before other churches: Corinth cleared itself of charges of carnality and compromise, and we must honor churches that take sin seriously and attempt to be holy before the Lord. 3. Personal reconciliation with pastoral leaders: Paul did not shake Corinth’s dust off his sandals; he prayed for it and welcomed it with open arms when he saw their spiritual sincerity (cf. HEBREWS 13:17). 4. Encouraging pastoral validation: Corinth’s repentance caused Paul to rejoice; though it stumbled, Paul was eager to tell of God’s work in it. 5. Enlarged pastoral affection: Corinth’s humility endeared itself to Titus. What good Christian would not want to make the heart of a good leader glad?
Ian Migala (11/25/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 3 ” 4. Spiritual longing (“what longing”): the church at Corinth longed to be reunited with the Lord, Paul, and the brethren (cf. PROVERBS 27:6). 5. Zeal to do what is right (“what zeal”): zeal for holiness is a characteristic of walking closely with the Lord. 6. An earnest righting of wrong (“what avenging of wrong”): the church avenged wrong by removing the unrepentant member, and then addressing their own pride. A sense of justice for sin is basic to our moral character.
Ian Migala (11/25/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” B. GODLY SORROW IS GOD’S GRACIOUS WORK. Godly sorrow leads to salvation because it focuses upon God; it causes us to hate our sin and not make excuses for it; it looks to Christ as God’s remedy for sin; it makes a decisive break with sin and a turn to God. It is inward (it runs to the root, even without outward manifestation), genuine, mixed with faith, great, corrective, and lasting. II. THE FRUITS OF TRUE REPENTANCE. A. THE BASIC FRUIT: A DILIGENT DESIRE TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT BEFORE GOD. Godly sorrow makes us diligent in dealing with our sin; deep feeling and truth-seeking takes the place of unconcern. The repentant will apply his new understanding and practice vigilance in avoiding sin. B. SEVERAL RESULTING FRUITS: OBSERVABLE EFFECTS OF A DILIGENT DESIRE TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT BEFORE GOD (all seen in v. 11, expressed in exclamatory phrases). 1. Personal vindication from sin (“what vindication of yourselves”): a biblical response to our sin is liberating. 2. Righteous indignation toward sin (“what indignation”): something is wrong if we are not indignant about our sin. 3. Holy dread (“what fear”): (a) dread of offending God, (b) dread of repeating our sin, (c) dread of punishment from godly leaders.
Ian Migala (11/25/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” True Christians are repentant; they deal with and acknowledge their sin continuously. They take sin seriously, as their Lord does. In this message, we will see a happy contrast to Saul’s insincere repentance, which we examined on November 3, 2013. In 1 Corinthians 5, we saw Paul calling a church to repentance for its tolerance of a member’s scandalous sin and the pride it took in that tolerance. In 2 Corinthians 7, the member has turned from his sin and been restored, and the church had repented of its indifference. I. THE GRACIOUS SOIL AND ROOT OF TRUE REPENTANCE: SORROW FOR SIN ACCORDING TO GOD. A. GODLY SORROW MUST NOT BE CONFUSED WITH WORLDLY SORROW. We approach sin much differently than the world does. One can feel sorry for his sin without turning from it; he regrets the problems is causes him (and perhaps even others), but doesn’t grasp its evil (cf. JOHN 7:7, 1 JOHN 5:19). Worldly sorrow has several characteristics: it broods over sin’s effects, but not sin’s offense to God; it is secretive; it hardens sinners to God; it produces irritability, but not a joyful sense of God’s forgiveness; it causes sinners to despair of God’s mercy; it leads to further wickedness and ends in eternal death; it is shallow and short-lived (cf. Esau, Judas).
