Nature of repentance
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· 4 viewsScripture stresses the necessity of repentance from sin if individuals and communities are to have full fellowship with God. It also uses the term to refer to God’s relenting of sending judgment on his people, usually in response to human repentance.
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Repentance is a requirement for fellowship with God
Repentance is a requirement for fellowship with God
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Repentance involves turning from sin
Repentance involves turning from sin
Sorrow for sin
Sorrow for sin
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Confession of sin
Confession of sin
“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’
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Forsaking specific sins
Forsaking specific sins
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Making appropriate restitution
Making appropriate restitution
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Repentance involves turning to God
Repentance involves turning to God
Faith in God
Faith in God
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says:
“In repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it.
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Obedience
Obedience
“But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die. None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live. Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
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Repentance demonstrated by actions
Repentance demonstrated by actions
First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
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Repentance must be sincere
Repentance must be sincere
In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the Lord.
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The repentance of God
The repentance of God
Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done.
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