Repentance You Can Count On
by Pastor Mark Downey
March 30, 2014
Scripture Reading: Matthew 4:12-17
When Jesus launched His ministry, in what would become a three year exhortation to our race exclusively, the first thing He declared was repentance. Of all the things He could have said as the opening salvo (because it was spiritual warfare), He choose something the people really didn't want to hear, even though it had a lot to do with deliverance. They envisioned a Deliverer who would come to destroy the Romans. Their Great White Hope would have said, “Come follow me, and we shall slice the Legions to ribbons.” I hope you got the gist of the title i.e. the similarity between repentance and change. When America's first black dictator made the campaign promise for “change you can count on,” the voters didn't think he meant a Marxist change agent



