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TRUE REPENTANCE
An elderly woman had just returned home from an evening of church services, when she was startled by an intruder.
She caught him the act of robbing her home of it’s valuables and she yelled, “Stop!
!” (Repent and be baptized, in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins may be forgiven…)
The burglar stopped in his tracks.
The woman calmly called the police and explained what she had done.
As the officer hand cuffed the man to take him to jail, he asked the burglar , “Why did you just stand there?”
The burglar said, “All the lady said, she had an ax and two 38’s!”
This morning I want to talk to you about Repentance, not just repentance, but TRUE REPENTANCE.
Repentance is a Biblical word.
Repentance is found in both the Old Testament, as while, as the New Testament.
What is Repentance?
Repentance is to turn away from your transgressions, so that your iniquities (sins) will not return.
The Old Testament thunders, the word Repent.
Ezekiel 18:30
The New Testament vigorously, exhorts men and women to repent.
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The Apostle Paul talks about the word Repent in the books of Acts.
The Bible commands it.
Our wickedness demands it.
Justice requires it.
Christ preached it.
God expects it.
God commands men every where to repent.
Acts
I. What Is Not Repentance.
Repentance is not penance.
Penance is the voluntary suffering of punishment for sin and does not involve a change of character or conduct.
People who lie on a bed of nails,
Throw themselves headlong on the ground.
Those people are doing penance.
This is a Catholic believe: Penance and Purgatory.
I promise you there is no purgatory,
I promise you, you can not work off your sins
I promise you there is a hell
It’s eternal suffering
It’s eternal darkness
It’s eternal punishment
It’s eternal burning
It’s eternal residency
In other words, Once you go there, and If you do, You go as a trespasser.
Repentance is not remorse
THERE IS NOWAY OUT.
The only way you can get forgiveness for your sin is from the Lord.
Not a priest
Not a pastor
Not a rabbi
But the Lord.
Only the Lord can forgive sins, and there is only one way to Heaven!
Judas was remorseful over his sin of betrayal of the Son of God.
But his hallow regret led to suicide instead of God.
Because remorse is not true repentance.
Repentance is not self-condemnation.
You may hate yourself for your sinfulness.
But self-condemnation only opens wider the wounds of guilt and despair.
We should hate our sins, not ourselves
Hate your false ways
Hate your vain thoughts
Hate your evil passions
Hate your lying tongue
Hate your coetousness
Hate your greed
But, don’t hate yourselve
Self-hatred leads to self-destruction.
It is wrong to destroy that which was created in God’s Image.
Repentance is not a word of weakness.
II.
Then What Is Repentance?
Repentance is a word of Power and Action.
It is not a self-effacing emotion.
But a word of heroic resolve.
Repentance is an act that breaks the chains of captive sinners.
And sets Heaven to singing.
The Bible says in the book of .
A. Three Elements Of Genuine Repentance.
Element is Conviction.
You Must know what is right before you can know what was wrong.
If you get on the wrong road, you will never know it until you have some knowledge of the right road.
You stray off the highway, and first you miss the familiar markings, the customary scenery, and then suddenly the conviction strikes you that you have lost your way.
There can be no turning back unless first there is a conviction that you are going the wrong way.
Element is Contrition.
The Bible says in the book of
2 Corinth
We must have Contrition or a godly sorrow.
As it is called in .
It is a sincere regret over past sins and an earnest desire to walk in a new path of righteousness.
Peter, that rugged man who meant so much: and erred so often,
When he denied, he went out and wept bitterly.
Matthew
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BROKENNESS, with godly sorrow for sin, is the second step towards TRUE REPENTANCE.
Element is Change.
Repentance carries with it the idea of changing
Your Mind
Your Attitude
Ways.
The Bible says, in the book of
If we truly repentant, our will is brought into action.
We will make a reversal of direction.
And God seeing that we are in earnest (serious, you have a sincere imply) gives us the gift of eternal life.
God has given His Son the Lord Jesus Christ to die on the Cross of Calvary to shed His precious blood for your sins and mine.
Listen to this: GOD DID IT OUT OF LOVE.
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