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Class 2 Repentance
Class 2 Repentance REPENTANCE is that act whereby one recognizes and turns from his sin, confessing it to God. It's subsequent correlative is FAITH in Christ. The two together - repentance and faith - constitute a genuine conversion. Negatively, the incentive for turning from sin is recognition of its offense against God. Whereas, positively, the incentive for turning to Christ is a realization of His work in atoning for our sins.
Class 2 Repentance WHAT REPENTANCE IS NOT!
Class 2 Repentance REPENTANCE It is not Remorse. Many a sinner is not ready to repent, because he is not ready to give up his sins. Heaven is full of repentant one time sinners; however hell is full of remorseful ones. Repentance is godly sorrow for the grievance against and the anguish caused God by our rebellious disobedience.
Class 2 Repentance Matthew 13:42-50 NIV 42They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
Class 2 Repentance The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl 44"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. 45"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.
Class 2 Repentance The Parable of the Net 47"Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. 48When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. 49This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous 50and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Class 2 Repentance Revelation 6:15-17 15Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"
Class 2 Repentance REPENTANCE It is not making New Year's resolution, or turning over a new leaf. No one truly repents unless and until he sees something of the heinousness of his sin in God's sight.
Class 2 Repentance Isaiah 6:5 NIV 5 "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."
Class 2 Repentance Psalms 51 NIV For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. 5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts [a] ; you teach [b] me wisdom in the inmost place. 7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
Class 2 Repentance Psalms 51 NIV continued 10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. 13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you. 14 Save me from bloodguilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. 15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. 17 The sacrifices of God are [c] a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 18 In your good pleasure make Zion prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then there will be righteous sacrifices, whole burnt offerings to delight you; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Class 2 Repentance Psalms 34:13-22 NIV 13 keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies. 14 Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry; 16 the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. 18 The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. 19 A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all; 20 he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken. 21 Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned. 22 The LORD redeems his servants; no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him.
Class 2 Repentance Psalm 32:3-5 NIV 3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. Selah 5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD "— and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
Class 2 Repentance REPENTANCE It is not the same as doing penitence. Penitence is tinged with the idea of gaining merit before God. Nothing can be added to Christ's work as far as atoning for our sins is concerned.
Class 2 Repentance Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.
Class 2 Repentance Titus 3:5 NIV 5he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
Class 2 Repentance WHAT REPENTANCE IS!
Class 2 Repentance The word repentance literally means "a change of mind". This indicates that repentance is a "mental attitude toward sin". The repentant sinner faces his sin and God at the same time and he makes no attempt to conceal or excuse it. He openly declares it before God.
Class 2 Repentance Psalm 38:18 NIV 18 I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
Class 2 Repentance Legal Repentance - is the fear of damnation. It makes us fear the wrath of God. Evangelical Repentance - is the fear of sinning. It makes us fear the cause of that wrath, which is sin. To advance from the fear of God's wrath to the fear of causing that wrath is to make progress in repentance. Even the demons tremble in fear of God's wrath; however it does not lead them to repentance.
Class 2 Repentance THE THREE SIDES OF REPENTANCE
Class 2 Repentance EMOTIONAL INTELLECTUAL VOLITIONAL
Class 2 Repentance There must be a recognition of our condition and of what sin is. (Sin by the way is ANY act, disposition of state that is contrary to God or His will.) One must realize he PERSONALLY has sinned. INTELLECTUAL
Class 2 Repentance Psalms 51:4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. Luke 15:21 "The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' INTELLECTUAL
Class 2 Repentance The true sense of one’s sinfulness ALWAYS produced godly sorrow. One’s emotional reaction may vary due to his temperament. There is no set number of tears that must flow before one is truly repentant. EMOTIONAL
Class 2 Repentance Psalms 38:18B I am troubled by my sin. Psalms 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. EMOTIONAL
Class 2 Repentance Acts 9:17-20 17 Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.“ 18 Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized, 19 and after taking some food, he regained his strength. EMOTIONAL
Class 2 Repentance This has to do with the will, for it is the base of the triangle of repentance, on which the remainder rest. If we have gone no further than the intellectual and emotional stages of repentance, we have not gone for enough. In order to be forgiven our sings, we must forsake them. VOLITIONAL
Class 2 Repentance Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. Proverbs 28:13 He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy. VOLITIONAL
Class 2 Repentance REPENTANCE AND RESTITUTION
Class 2 Repentance Luke 3:8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. Luke 19:8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."
Class 2 Repentance NEW TESTAMENT CHARACTERS WHO PREACHED REPENTANCE
Class 2 Repentance PETER
Class 2 Repentance Acts 2:38 Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Class 2 Repentance PAUL
Class 2 Repentance Acts 17:20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean." Acts 20:21 I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
Class 2 Repentance JESUS
Class 2 Repentance Luke 24:47 and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Class 2 Repentance WHO SHOULD REPENT
Class 2 Repentance Acts 17:30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. Revelation 2:5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. Revelation 3:19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.
Class 2 Repentance WHY SHOULD WE REPENT
Class 2 Repentance Sin of Omission James 4:17 Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins. Sins of Commission 1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 1 John 5:17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
Class 2 Repentance HOW REPENTANCE IS PRODUCED
Class 2 Repentance 2 Timothy 2:25 Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, Romans 2:4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?
Class 2 Repentance Jonah 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. 2 Timothy 2:25 Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,
Class 2 Repentance 1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Mark 2:17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Luke 5:32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Class 2 Repentance Job 42:5-6 5 My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. 6 Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
Class 2 Repentance THE RESULTS OF REPENTANCE
Class 2 Repentance Luke 15:10 In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.