Why Repentance Matters

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Why Repentance Matters
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Theme of OT Prophets

• Jeremiah 185-10
• Ezekiel 1830-32
• Ezekiel 3310-11

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A Major Theme of the NT

• John the Baptist Matthew 31-2
• Jesus Matthew 417
• Apostles, Limited Commission Mark 612
• The Great Commission Luke 2444-49

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What Is Repentance?

• To feel remorse, contrition, or self-reproach for
  what one has done or failed to do be contrite.
• To feel such regret for past conduct as to change
  one's mind regarding it.
• To make a change for the better as a result of
  remorse or contrition for one's sins.
• Biblical repentance involves all of the above

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A Biblical Example of Repentance

• Matthew 2128-31 ASV
• 28But what think ye? A man had two sons and he
  came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day
  in the vineyard. 29And he answered and said, I
  will not but afterward he repented himself, and
  went.

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A Biblical Example of Repentance

• 30And he came to the second, and said likewise.
  And he answered and said, I (go), sir and went
  not. 31Which of the two did the will of his
  father? They say, The first. Jesus saith unto
  them, Verily I say unto you, that the publicans
  and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before
  you.

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Repentance Involves

• Sorrow or regret
• 2 Corinthians 79-10
• Godly sorrow produces repentance
• Worldly sorrow produces death

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Repentance Involves

• Sorrow or regret
• A change of mind
• A change of the will
• A change of action

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Repentance Involves Change

• Ezekiel 1830-32 - 30"Therefore I will judge
  you, O house of Israel, every one according to
  his ways," says the Lord GOD. "Repent, and turn
  from all your transgressions, so that iniquity
  will not be your ruin. 31Cast away from you all
  the transgressions which you have committed, and
  get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For
  why should you die, O house of Israel? 32For I
  have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,"
  says the Lord GOD. "Therefore turn and live

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Repentance Involves Change

• Jeremiah 1811-12 11Now therefore speak to the
  men of Judah and to the inhabitants of
  Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD "Behold,
  I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan
  against you. Return now every one from his evil
  way, and make your ways and your doings good." '
  " 12And they said, "That is hopeless! So we will
  walk according to our own plans, and we will
  every one obey the dictates of his evil heart."

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The Great Commission
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Luke 2444-49

• 44Then He said to them, "These are the words
  which I spoke to you while I was still with you,
  that all things must be fulfilled which were
  written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and
  the Psalms concerning Me." 45And He opened their
  understanding, that they might comprehend the
  Scriptures.

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Luke 2444-49

• 46Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and
  thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer
  and to rise from the dead the third day, 47and
  that repentance and remission of sins should be
  preached in His name to all nations, beginning at
  Jerusalem. 48And you are witnesses of these
  things. 49Behold, I send the Promise of My Father
  upon you but tarry in the city of Jerusalem
  until you are endued with power from on high."

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Repentance Preached

• Acts 238
• Acts 319
• Acts 1730
• Acts 2620

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Repentance is produced by

• Preaching of Gods message
• Luke 1132
• Godly sorrow
• 2 Corinthians 710
• The goodness of God
• Romans 24

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Repentance Matters Because

• God commands it Acts 1730-31
• It is connected with forgiveness
• Luke 2447
• Acts 319
• It brings joy to heaven Luke 151-10
• Without it we will perish
• Luke 133-5
• Matthew 1120-21
• Matthew 1241