Our Text:
2 Chronicles 7:19-22 “But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ 22 Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.’ “
Remember: As the
“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” - 2 Chronicles 7:14
So…
“IF you turn aside and worship other gods, and turn aside to worship and serve them”…
Q: What should we, ”who are called by His Name”, DO?
A: “IF my people…will humble themselves, pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways” (v.14).
POINT:
Q: What IS repentance?
A: “Repentance”means to “
Q: So what do “we who are called by God’s Name”, return TO?
A:
Remember: “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have eternal life” - John 3:16
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