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Repentance

LESSON TWO: Repentance

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Scripture Reading: Matthew 3:1-12

This is the first foundation stone mentioned in Hebrews 6:1-3. It is very important that we know the truth concerning repentance.

There are two words translated "repent" from the original Old Testament Hebrew. (1) "Naham" refers to the aroused emotions of God or man when undertaking a different course of action. It implies "difficulty in breathing," hence, "to pant," "to sigh," or "to groan." (2) "Shubh" is the Old Testament term generally employed to express the Scriptural ides of a RADICAL CHANGE IN ONE’S ATTITUDE TOWARD SIN AND GOD. It implies conscious, moral separation, and a personal decision to forsake sin and to enter into fellowship with God. It is employed extensively with reference to man’s turning away from sin to righteousness.

In the New Testament there are also two words translated "repent," "mentamelomai" and "matanoeo." (1) "Metamelomai" signifies "to have a feeling or care, concern or regret. Like "Nahan, it expresses the emotional aspects of repentance. (2) "Metanoeo" expresses the true New Testament ides of a spiritual change implied in the sinner returning to God. It means "to have another mind." In the noun and verb form it occurs some fifty-seven times in the New Testament. It is also associated with the word "turn" and "describes that deep and radical change whereby a sinner turns from idols of sin an self unto God."

Repentance involves the informing and changing of the mind, the stirring and directing of the emotions to urge the required change and consummating in the action of the yielded will in turning THE WHOLE MAN AWAY FROM SIN UNTO GOD!

I. THE IMPORTANCE OF REPENTANCE.

A. Repentance is (encouraged-commanded?) by God. Acts 17:30

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B. What is one of the reasons the Lord Jesus Christ came to earth? Luke 5:32

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C. What did our Lord commission believers to do? Luke 24:47

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D. The alternative to repentance is ____________________________________

_______________________________________. Luke 13:3, 5.

E. Repentance is necessary to the receiving of ___________________________

__________________________________________. Acts 11:18

F. Who does God desire to come to repentance? II Peter 3:9. _______________

G. Repentance is a part of the ________________________________________

of our Christian life. Heb 6:1

II. THOSE IN THE BIBLE WHO PREACHED REPENTANCE.

Who in the following Scriptures preached repentance?

A. Matthew 3:2 ___________________________________________________

B. Matthew 4:17 ___________________________________________________

C. Mark 6:12 _____________________________________________________

D. Acts 20:21 _____________________________________________________

III. THE CAUSE OF MAN’S REPENTANCE

The motives for repentance are chiefly found in THE GOODNESS OF GOD, in DIVINE LOVE, in THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN, in the universal demands of the Gospel, and in the hope of spiritual life and membership in the Kingdom of Heaven. (ISBE)

What is shown as a cause of repentance?

A. Romans 2:4 ___________________________________________________

B. Matthew 9:13 _________________________________________________

C. Matthew 12:41 ________________________________________________

D. Luke 17:3 ____________________________________________________

E. Revelation 3:19 ________________________________________________

F. II Cor 7:10 ____________________________________________________

Remember, in Luke 6:48, the man who built securely on the ROCK "digged deep"!

G. Acts 11:18 ___________________________________________________

Also Acts 5:31 and II Tim 2:25.