Repentance

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Repentance

• Luke 133,5 2447 Acts 1730-31 Acts 238 319

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Repentance

• Repentance is not
• Just recognition of sin (Acts 2425 Rom. 132)
• Just Acknowledgement of sin (Matt. 273-4)
• Just a change of Conduct (Acts 2132)

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Repentance

• Involves a change of mind, but not just
• Intellectual - that is faith (Rom. 109-10)
• Relationship - that is Baptism (Gal. 26-27 2
  Cor. 517 1 Cor. 1213)
• Emotional - (Ezra 101)
• Repentance is a change of mind which is
  accompanied by an amended life - Luke 37-14
  Matt. 2128-31

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Repentance

• Repentance involves Godly Sorrow
• Godly Sadness produces an unregretted change of
  heart into salvation, but worldly sadness
  produces death (2 Cor. 710)

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Repentance

• Sorrow that is directed toward God.
• Not toward self (I let myself down)
• Not toward others (I Hate what Ive done to..
• Godly Sorrow is sorrow because of what I have
  done to God!!

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Repentance

• God wants all to be saved (2 Pet. 39) But Sin
• Insults God
• Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. -
  Isaiah 4324
• And when the mourning was past, David sent and
  fetched her to his house, and she became his
  wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that
  David had done displeased the LORD. - 2 Samuel
  1127
• Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and
  canst look on iniquity Habakkuk 113

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Repentance

• Sin
• Grieves God (Gen. 66 Matt. 2337)
• Shames God (Heb. 125-12) - Our spiritual father
  is shamed by our sins just as the Physical (Prov.
  2915)
• We are led to repentance by Goodness of God
  (Rom. 24 56-8 Jn. 1513)
• Never reminisce of past sins with a smile!
• Never think of the cross as cheerful!