This document discusses the importance of belief, confession, repentance, and baptism. It notes that mankind has always needed to repent throughout biblical history, from before the flood to the early church. True repentance is produced by godly sorrow over sins, as evidenced in 2 Corinthians. Repentance involves a reformation of one's life, not just being sorry or changing behaviors, as shown by various biblical examples like the Ninevites and Thessalonians. Genuine repentance includes being convicted of sin, experiencing sorrow in a godly manner, and a change of will through repentance that produces fruits of repentance.
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Repentance
1. Belief Confession Repentance
Baptism
Mankind Has Always Needed To Repent:
Before the Flood (2 Pet. 2:5; 1 Pet. 3:18-20)
John the Baptizer (Matt. 3:2)
Jesus (Matt. 4:17; Mk. 6:12)
Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:38)
Message to Gentiles (Acts 17:30)
Christians (1 John 1:8-10; Acts 8:22)
2. Produced by Godly Sorrow:
Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your
sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a Godly
manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For Godly
sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be
regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. For
observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a Godly manner:
What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves,
what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal,
what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear
3. Fruits = Reformation of Life
but declared first to those in Damascus and in
Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of
Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should
repent, turn to God, and do works befitting
repentance (Acts 26:20).
Matt. 21:28-32 Luke 3:7-14
4. Ninevites (Jonah 3:8-10)
Thessalonians (1 Thess. 1:9)
Zaccheus (Lk. 19:8-9)
David (2 Sam. 12:13; Ps. 51:1-4)
Peter (Matt. 26:69-76; Acts 2:14, 37;
Gal. 2:14; 2 Pet. 3:15)