Uncle Albert – Lyrics by Paul McCartney

We’re so sorry, Uncle Albert
We’re so sorry if we caused you any pain
We’re so sorry, Uncle Albert
But there’s no one left at home
And I believe I’m gonna rain

We’re so sorry but we haven’t heard a thing all day
We’re so sorry, Uncle Albert
But if anything should happen we’ll be sure to give a ring

This is not repentance, not even close, yet in an odd way it is how many repent.

“I am sorry Lord, forgive me. If it should happen again, I’ll be back.”

2 Corinthians 7:10 English Standard Version (ESV) For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Repentance that is not painful to the heart of man produces no change in behavior. It is a worldly sorrow that says I do not want to get caught, so I will be more careful next time not to get caught. That doesn’t work for God.

Hebrews 4:12 English Standard Version (ESV) For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Acknowledgement of wrong in the mind is meaningless without a change of heart. So often we think of repentance as changing direction, turning back to God and ignore what led us to go astray in the first place.

Psalm 3:8 English Standard Version (ESV) Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people! Selah

Psalm 68:20 English Standard Version (ESV) Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

Salvation belongs to the Lord and deliverance from death is His right.

The sticking point for religions outside of Christianity is the deity of Christ. The deity of our Lord is a critical truth which must be agreed upon.

Acts 4:10-12 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁰ let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. ¹¹ This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. ¹² And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Fully man and fully God was a concept not only foreign to the Jews, it was considered blasphemy.

Consider this when trying to reconcile this concept. Sin could only touch His humanity. In order for Christ to carry the burden of all sin for all time, only His humanity could touch sin. Now consider the sacrifice for sin, all sin, and that the deliverance from the penalty for sin is the purview of God and God alone. His deity had the authority to put an end to sin as a reason for eternal death. That eternal death is being separated from God for eternity.

If we cannot accept the deity of Christ as the son of God, we are doomed. We must agree on this.