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1 | True repentance | Acts 2:38 | teragram123 | 62099 | ||
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Repent means far more than being sorry for the deed done, because of just punishment. It is a changed mind toward that sin, and a commitment to abandon it permanently Repent - Greek 3340, Strong's - metanoeo, to think differently or afterwards, i.e. reconsider (moral feel compunction) :- repent. "TRUE REPENTANCE True repentance has a distinct and constant reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. If you repent of sin without looking to Christ, repentance is shallow. If you are so lamenting your sin as to forget the Savior, you have a need to Whenever we repent of sin we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross; or, better still, let us have both eyes upon Christ, seeing our sin punished in Him, and by no means let us look at sin except as we look at Jesus. A man may hate sin just as a murderer hates the gallows but this does not prove repentance if I hate sin because of the punishment, I have not repented of sin; I merely regret that God is just. But if I can see sin as an offense against Jesus Christ, and loathe myself because I have wounded Him, then I have a true brokenness of heart. If I see the Savior and believe that those thorns upon His head were put there by my sinful works; if I believe that those wounds in His heart were pierced by my heart-sins; if I believe that those wounds in His feet were made by my wandering steps, and that the wounds in His hands were made by my sinful deeds, then I repent after a right fashion. Only under the cross can you repent. Repentance elsewhere is remorse, which clings to the sin and only dreads the punishment. Let us then seek, under God, to have a hatred of sin caused by sight of Christ's love." ---author unknown |
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2 | True repentance | Acts 2:38 | CDBJ | 62506 | ||
That was a great post on repentance. I lot of people think that to repent means to be sorry. I would like to add a verse to your post. 2 Cor. 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. The word for repented here is as follows. ametameletos, from Greek 1 (a) (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of Greek 3338 (metamellomai); irrevocable without repentance, not to be repented of. Notice what the sorrow of the world brings death. It is wordly because it is sorrow without Jesus being involved. Metanoeo carries a directional connotation, from something to something. For the repentance to be effective it must be a change of mind about the person of Jesus Christ. It is interesting to note the repentance and faith are two sides of the same coin, you can’t have one with out the other if it is going to work. |
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