1.25- Dak Prescott was interviewed after the football game that the Cowboys lost on Sunday.

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Dak Prescott was interviewed after the football game that the Cowboys lost on Sunday.  He was asked a question that set him up for a mistake.  They asked him what he thought about people throwing cans at bottles at the people as they left the field.  He said he thought that was bad.  Then the reporter said that actually they were not throwing at the players but at the referees.  He said, "Well credit to them then.  If they were not throwing at us but the referees, credit to them.  Maybe that is why the referees were running off the field."

One of the reporters gave him another question to allow him to back track and clarify and take it back.  He did not.

Then on Monday there was no apology for saying that throwing cans and bottles at the refs was okay.

No apology on Tuesday.

On Wednesday the NBA referees came out with a condemnation of the fans and Prescott's words.

After that Dak issued an apology.

True repentance is only known between a person and God.  There are secrets of the heart that only God knows. 

True repentance of the heart is a good thing.  A prostitute can be in better position with a Holy God with true repentance than a religious leader who will not repent.  

What causes people to notice something that seems to them genuine repentance?

1. A desire to vindicate yourself.

2. Indignation.

3. Fear.

4. Longing.

5. Zeal.

6. Desire for punishment for the wrong.

7. Push for innocence. 

I wish Dak had said, "I think the fans should not throw things at anyone."

I wish Dak had apologized on Monday before the NBA refs letter.

I don't think the $25,000 fine will affect him too much.  It is probably like a $50 for most of the rest of us.

Again I say, True repentance is only known between a person and God.  There are secrets of the heart that only God knows. 

Matthew 21.

28 “But what do you think? A man had two [j]sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘[k]Son, go work today in the vineyard.’ 29 But he replied, ‘I do not want to.’ Yet afterward he regretted it and went. 30 And the man came to his second son and said the same thing; and he replied, ‘I will, sir’; and yet he did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They *said, “The first.” Jesus *said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes [l]will get into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even [m]have second thoughts afterward so as to believe him.

2 Corinthians 7.

11 For behold what earnestness this very thing, this [e]godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter. 12 So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness in our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God. 13 Because of this, we have been comforted.