Repentance - A Spiritual Journey to Forgiveness
Explore the profound concept of repentance as a transformative act of faith and forgiveness. Delve into the essence of repentance, guided by powerful quotes and reflections on divine mercy and self-transformation. Discover the path to spiritual growth and inner peace through the lens of repentance.
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-1- The Need for Repentance
God commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead (Acts 17:30 31).
Do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? (Rom. 2:4).
God is a loving Father who want me to be happy all the time.
God shows great latitude when it comes to what I believe and how I behave.
The cross is merely an event whereby God shows me how special I am.
Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, in saying, Repent , meant the whole life of the faithful to be an act of repentance. Martin Luther, first thesis
The Instrument of Salvation: faith alone The Way of Salvation: repentance (hope, fear, love, etc.)
-2- The Nature of Repentance
Return to Me (Zech. 1:3). shuwb to return, go back, or bring back You will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return (Gen. 3:19).
For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come (1 Thess. 1:9 10).
The essence of mans sin is to love himself supremely, to seek himself finally, and to make himself, in one shape or another, the center to which all his thoughts, cares and pursuits constantly tend. Self is the great idol which man is naturally disposed to worship (John James).
Six Ingredients Thomas Watson
All things become visible when they are exposed by the light (Eph. 5:13).
Thoughts of love and sin laid together make the soul blush. John Owen
It witnesses They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them (Rom. 2:15).
It testifies For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity (2 Cor. 1:12).
Gods arbitrator It gives testimony by determining what we have done or not done. It gives judgment by determining what was well done or ill done.
It makes this determination based on an objective standard God s law.
I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn (Zech. 12:10).
He grieves truly who weeps without a witness. George Swinnock
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me (Ps. 51:5).
I pulled out of my driveway and straight into the bus. But it wasn t my fault. It was five minutes early.
The pedestrian had no idea which way to turn, so I ran over him.
The other car drove into me. I have no idea how fast it was going because I wasn t looking.
The telephone pole was approaching fast. I attempted to swerve out of its path when it struck my front end.
Returning home late at night, I turned into the wrong house and struck a tree that wouldn t normally have been there.
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? (Ps. 130:3).
O LORD (Yah) God s eternality and immortality God sees all
O Lord (Adonai) God s authority and sovereignty God judges
God sees and judges our sins. A double marking of sin. John Owen
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! (2 Cor. 7:10 11).
The feel-good doctrine of automatic forgiveness. Cheap grace offers comfort without requiring change.
There are two words for repentance in the NT: metameleia (Matt. 27:3) and metanoia (2 Tim. 2:25).
The first signifies sorrow for a fault committed. The second signifies a change of the mind. After betraying Jesus, Judas felt remorse, yet he went away and hanged himself.
But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared (Ps. 130:4).
Amendment of life is the best repentance. John Trapp
