What is Repentance?

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What is repentance? One definition says, “To repent means to change. Repentance is a change of thinking which results in a change of life.”

In this video Billie Humphrey speaks of repentance.

He talks about how some people draw near to God at church only to go home and be the same person they were before they came.

He says, “You don’t recognize that Satan has reeled you in and you’ve become ensnared in his trap”. You put your Christian face on…..meanwhile the devil is laughing at you.

Repentance is not walking to an altar and it’s not crying……repentance is turning away from the things you were doing before that was breaking God’s heart.

Repentance involves being broken before God and recognizing that your sin nailed Jesus to the cross.

Repentance is a change of heart.

Repentance is not just walking away from sin but it’s walking towards God in obedience.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance

John Mac Arthur says in the article, “What is Biblical Repentance”:

“Genuine repentance pleads with the Lord to forgive and deliver from the burden of sin and the fear of judgment and hell. It is the attitude of the publican who, fearful of even looking toward heaven, smote his breast and cried, “God, be merciful to me, the sinner!” (Luke 18:13). Repentance is not merely behavior reform. But because true repentance involves a change of heart and purpose, it inevitably results in a change of behavior.”

Question answered on Grace to You Website: What is repentance and how does it relate to salvation?

Here is an excerpt:
“What does the Bible teach about the relationship between salvation and repentance? First, it teaches that repentance is essential to salvation. One cannot truly believe unless he repents, and one cannot truly repent unless he believes. Repentance and faith are two sides of the same coin (but they are not synonymous terms). Acts 11:18 and 2 Peter 3:9 are two of the many verses that teach that repentance is necessary for salvation. Perhaps 2 Timothy 2:25 best sums up the relationship between repentance and saving faith when it speaks of “repentance to the acknowledging of the truth” (see also Acts 20:21).”

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