What Is Repentance?
What Is Repentance?Chapter 4 — Salvation
Lesson 27: What Is Repentance?Repentance means turning away from sin and toward God with a sincere heart.
Explanation
Repentance means seeing sin the way God sees it, grieving over it, and turning away from it toward the Lord. It is not just sadness that you were caught or that you had trouble, but a real change of heart and mind.
True repentance goes together with faith. We do not only turn away from something; we turn toward Someone.
Bible story
When the prodigal son reaches the end of his strength, he sees his sin and turns back to his father. He does not come with demands, but with an admission of his guilt. His return is a good picture of the heart of repentance.
Remember
- The truth: Repentance means turning away from sin and toward God with a sincere heart.
- Repentance is not only regret, but a real turning toward God.
- Whoever repents sincerely comes to the Lord Jesus without excuses and without pride.
Acts 3:19
“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;”
Tap to open the verse in Scripture and mark it as read.
- Confess the specific sin, not just in general that you have not been good.
- Leave the wrong road behind, and ask for help to go in a new direction.
- Do not put off repentance; every day of delay hardens the heart toward evil.
1. What does repentance mean?
2. Repentance has to do with…
3. Can you be sad about sin without true repentance?
4. What does repentance change?