U-Turn SignWhat is Repentance?

In Rebellion

Jesus

How Do We Receive Salvation

through Jesus?

You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house. I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.

Acts 20:20-21 (NIV)

Repentance & Faith

Denition of Repentance

The Greek word for repentance is metanoia. It means to change one’s mind.

Denition of Repentance

The Hebrew word for repentance is shub. It means to turn back, return, return to the starting point, restore and come back home again.

What is Repentance?

It is a change of mind, that leads to a change of heart, that leads to a change in actions.

This change involves both a turning from sin and a turning to God.

Denition of Faith

The Greek word for faith is pistis. It means conviction, confidence, trust, belief, reliance, trustworthiness, and firm persuasion.

What is Faith?

Belief → Trust → Embrace

Head → Heart → Action

Luke 13:3

I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.

Luke 13:3 (NKJ)

Repentance

John 12:40

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.”

John 12:40 (quoting Isaiah 6:10) NKJ

Repentance

John 12:40

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

Acts 3:19 and 17:30 (NKJ)

Repentance

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9 (NKJ)

Repentance

What is Not Repentance?

Two Men Praying

Church

Sad Man

U-Turn SignWhat is Repentance?

What is Repentance?

“Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, because they have transgressed against Me! Though I redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me. They did not cry out to Me with their heart when they wailed upon their beds…

Hosea 7:13-14 (NKJ)

2 Corinthians 7:10

F o r g o d l y s o r r o w p r o d u c e s repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

2 Corinthians 7:10 (NKJ)

What is Repentance?

What is Repentance?

Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Isaiah 6:10 (NIV)

Man with hands in face

2 Corinthians 7:10

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Psalm 51:3-5 (NIV)

What is Repentance?

Acts 26:20

… but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

Acts 26:20 (NKJ)

What is Repentance?

1. Conviction of Sin

2. Confession of Sin

3. Turning from sin to God

4. Restitution through Jesus

5. Restoration

What is Repentance?

One Who is Truly Repentant

1.Realizes in their heart that they have sinned against God and deserve to be punished.

2.Agrees with God that they deserve judgment, hell and the wrath of God because of their sin.

3.Understands that sin cannot exist in the presence of God for His holiness will not allow it.

4. Knows there is nothing they can do in order to make themselves right with God for their sin.

5. Accepts what the gospel says with joy and turn in their hearts from sin to God placing their faith in Jesus and everything He did for them.

6. Lives a life in keeping with repentance.

One Who is Truly Repentant

Repentance & Faith

1. Unbelief

2. Idolatry

1. Repentance

2. Faith

Summary

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2 Peter 3:9

“You see, to repent is to realize that all your thinking, your entire view about reality was wrong. And then to see and to submit to God’s truth...”

Paul Washer

Repentance

Jesus on Throne

Bowing before King

The fundamental difference between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of self is captured by one question. Who

resides at the center?

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