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REPENTANCE

Luke 5:27   After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow

me.” 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.

Luke 5:29   And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining

at table with them. 30 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink

with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to

repentance.”

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BEEN SAVED?

μετάνοια a change of mode of thought and feeling; turn

Question Do you renounce Satan and all the spiritual forces of wickedness that rebel against God? Answer I renounce them.

Question Do you renounce the evil powers of this world which corrupt and destroy the creatures of God? Answer I renounce them.

Question Do you renounce all sinful desires that draw you from the love of God? Answer I renounce them.

Question Do you turn to Jesus Christ and accept him as your Savior? Answer I do.

Question Do you put your whole trust in his grace and love? Answer I do.

Question Do you promise to follow and obey him as your Lord? Answer I do.

THE PRODIGAL

SON

“Faith and repentance begin the Christian course; ‘repent and believe the gospel,’ was the sum of

the apostle’s sermons: and all the way after it is, ‘faith working by love.’ Repentance puts the first spirit and life into faith, and charity preserves it and gives it nourishment and increase; itself also

growing by mutual supply of spirits and nutriment from faith.”

- Jeremy Taylor

IT’S HARD FOR US TO REPENT BECAUSE WE DON’T THINK THERE’S ANYTHING

WRONG WITH US.

What competent doctor, when asked to cure a sick person, would simply follow the desires of the patient, and not act in accordance with the

requirements of good medicine? The Lord himself testified that he came as the physician of

the sick, saying, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” How, then, are the sick to be made strong?

How are sinners to repent? Is it by merely holding fast to what they are presently doing? Or, on the

contrary, by undergoing a great change and reversal of their previous behavior, by which they had

brought upon themselves serious illness and many sins? Ignorance, the mother of intractability, is

driven out by knowing the truth. Therefore the Lord imparted knowledge of the truth to his disciples, by

which he cured those who were suffering, and restrained sinners from sin.

So he did not speak to them in accordance with their previous assumptions, nor answer

according to the presumptions of inquirers, but according to sound teaching, without any

pretense or pandering. - St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies

We do not presume to come to this your table, merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in your abundant and great mercies. We are not worthy so

much as to gather up the crumbs under your table. But you are the same Lord, who always delights in showing mercy. Grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the

flesh of your dear Son Jesus Christ and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he

in us. Amen.