I wonder how many of us know people who in times of trouble, they never miss church,

you never miss Sunday school, they never miss prayer meeting.

Every time the doors are open at church, they are there.

And as soon as the trouble is over, they hardly be seen again.

I wonder how many of us know people who more readily confess their sins, repent of their sins,

more readily surrender simply because they want God to answer their prayers and they want to get on God's right side.

And as soon as the trouble is over, the repentance rolls just

like a cloud. I have seen folks like that through the years of my ministry. And I've seen people

who act with their emotions. And as soon as the emotions are over, it's all over. In fact, I am told about the story of

some of the old-fashioned confession meetings. Some of you may remember those and some of you

might not, I have been to one or two, where people gather together and they confess really more

the symptoms of the sin than the sin itself, and they get caught

in that emotionalism of confession. And in one of those meetings, one man got up and he said,

I have been smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. I am going to quit. Somebody else got up

and he said, oh, I've been drinking too much and I'm going to quit. And then third man got up and he said, oh, I've been drinking too much and I'm going to quit.

And then third man got up and he said, well, I have been carousing and not living a holy life and I'm going to quit.

Well, a little girl was caught up in all this emotionalism.

She got up and stood on her chair so everybody can see her and she said, I haven't done

anything, but I'm going to quit.

That tells you more about what I'm going to talk to you about today than anything else.

Because God calls shallow repentance, temporary repentance, cheap repentance.

Unfortunately, we have too much of that.

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