Sermon Tone Analysis

The call to repentance

Lk 5:32; Jas 5:19–20

See also Je 25:4–6; Eze 33:7–9; Mk 1:4; Lk 24:47; 2 Ti 2:24–26

Repentance opens the way for blessing

It is the only way to escape God’s judgment

See also Job 36:12; Je 18:7–8; Je 26:3; Ho 11:5; Jon 3:10; Lk 3:8–9; Re 2:5

It prepares the way for God’s kingdom

See also Mt 3:2

It brings forgiveness and restoration

2 Ch 7:13–14; Is 55:7

See also Dt 30:1–10; Ne 1:8–9; Job 22:23–25; Job 36:10–11; Is 44:22; Ac 2:38–39; Ac 3:19; Ac 5:31; Ac 11:18

God desires that all people should repent

He wants everyone to be saved

His patience with the unrepentant

See also Is 65:2; Ro 2:4; Re 2:21

His discipline encourages repentance

See also Is 10:20–21; Is 19:22; Ho 2:6–7; Ho 6:1

Taking God’s opportunity for repentance

Is 55:6; Ac 17:30–31

See also Heb 3:13–15; Heb 4:7; Ps 95:7–8

Refusing God’s opportunity for repentance

Examples of those who refuse to repent

See also Je 5:3; Mt 11:20; Mt 21:32; Re 9:20–21; Re 16:9–11

God confirms those who refuse to repent in their hardness of heart

Mt 13:14–15; Ac 28:25–27; Is 6:10

Repentance may not remove the effects of human sin

Nu 14:39–45 The Israelites’ repentance could not prevent the wandering that resulted from their refusal to enter the promised land; 1 Sa 15:24–26 Saul’s repentance is too late to escape God’s judgment on his kingship; 2 Sa 12:13–14 Despite David’s repentance the son of his adulterous relationship with Bathsheba still died; Heb 12:16–17 Esau’s repentance could not bring back the birthright he had sold to Jacob.