REPENTANCE
"Repentance is the process where there is a total transformation of the direction and attitude and function of ourselves as believers.. Although it is painful, repentance is the joyful experience of seeing our old life slip away, as we desire more and more to know, and do and be only what Lord Jesus Christ wants us to know and be and become A person can talk about Jesus and his Faith but unless his actions in big and little things demonstrate a real change, what is claimed as Faith is nothing more than false piety. " Pastor Mike Mazzalongo
Lord Jesus Christ tells us himself in Luke 13:3 (KJV)
3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
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WHAT IS REPENTANCE?
REPENTANCE CAN BE BROKEN DOWN INTO 3 PARTS
PART #1 - A CHANGE OF MIND
Godly Sorrow + A change of Mind = A Changed Life
PART #2 - Involves GODLY SORROW
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
PART #3 - A CHANGE OF LIFE > Fruit of repentance
Father God requires REPENTANCE from US
Acts 17:30 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
An example of Repentance in The Holy Bible is:
Mathew 21:28-29 28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
