Repent

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Repent. When was the last time you repented? This one verse says sooooo much…


Luk 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he REPENT, forgive him.
Luk 17:4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I REPENT; thou shalt forgive him.


IF he repent forgive him.
IF he commits the same offense over and over… and he REPENTS forgive him.


This says so much to us.


God forgives us as we forgive others.


Over and over and over again. Several times in one day. Repenting we need to truly repent not just assume we are forgiven without repenting. Not just ask for forgiveness without feeling the sorrow for our wrong. Not just ask for forgiveness because we KNOW what we've done is wrong. People know all the time what they do is wrong but they still do it without feeling any remorse at all whatsoever. We can't get to that place where we sin and stop feeling the remorse - if we do then we can't repent of that sin. It's better to live in sorrow for sin than to live in acceptance of sin. Better to feel the pain of sin than to cherish the relief of a painless existence and not repent, we can't be forgiven if we don't repent. Sometimes we feel as if we could live in pain forever our sinning is so great, but better to live in that pain and understand the transgressions, right? People want to have a happy, happy life. Anything for happiness. People will tell you that the Bible says we are suppose to live in joy… 'count it all joy' and that's true as well, but not joy in sin. We are to joy in Christ, in the forgiveness that Christ gives to us, in the life Christ offers us, the hope we find in Christ. We can't be happy in our own selves, but only in Christ and we need to learn that. We can repent and we can be forgiven and we can glory in Christ's unending grace but never believe that any sin we commit is acceptable and not worth repenting of.


May God open our hearts and our eyes to our sins so we can ask for the forgiveness we need to ask for, so that we can repent of those sins.

Maybe we'll keep sinning but that's no excuse to accept the sins, not ever. We have to fight the good fight against sin by seeking forgiveness and repenting always…always!

Please Lord bless us, keep us, help us, save us.

In Your love, through Your grace, by Your righteousness now and forever.


Amen.



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Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and REPENT in dust and ashes.


Eze 14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; REPENT, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.


Mat 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
Mat 3:2 And saying, REPENT ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Mat 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.


Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, REPENTt: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.


Luk 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye REPENT, ye shall all likewise perish.


Luk 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he REPENT, forgive him.
Luk 17:4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I REPENT; thou shalt forgive him.


Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, REPENT, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.


Act 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;


Act 8:22 REPENT therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.


Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to REPENT


Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and REPENT, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou REPENT.


Rev 2:16 REPENT; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.


Rev 2:21 And I gave her space to REPENT of her fornication; and she REPENTED not.


Rev 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they REPENT of their deeds.


Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.


Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and REPENT.

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Repent
RE'PENT, a. [L. repo, to creep.] Creeping; as a repent root.


REPENT', v.i. [L. re and paeniteo, from paena, pain. Gr. See Paint.]


1. To feel pain, sorrow or regret for something done or spoken; as, to repent that we have lost much time in idleness or sensual pleasure; to repent that we have injured or wounded the feelings of a friend. A person repents only of what he himself has done or said.

2. To express sorrow for something past.

3. To change the mind in consequence of the inconvenience or injury done by past conduct.

Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return. Exo 13.

4. Applied to the Supreme Being, to change the course of providential dealings. Gen 6. Psa 106.

5. In theology, to sorrow or be pained for sin, as a violation of God's holy law, a dishonor to his character and government, and the foulest ingratitude to a Being of infinite benevolence.

Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13. Acts 3.

REPENT', v.t

1. To remember with sorrow; as, to repent rash words; to repent an injury done to a neighbor; to repent follies and vices. [See Repentance.]


G3340
µeta??e´?
metanoeo¯
met-an-o-eh'-o
From G3326 and G3539; to think differently or afterwards, that is, reconsider (morally to feel compunction): - repent.


G3338
µetaµe´???µa?
metamellomai
met-am-el'-lom-ahee
From G3326 and the middle of G3199; to care afterwards, that is, regret: - repent (self).


H5162
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na^cham
naw-kham'
A primitive root; properly to sigh, that is, breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, that is, (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself): - comfort (self), ease [one’s self], repent (-er, -ing, self).


H7725
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shu^b
shoob
A primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbially again: - ([break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep]) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call [to mind], carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back) X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get [oneself] (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), [go] out, hinder, let, [see] more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), X repent, requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.



Repenting-

To be sorry.

To remember with sorrow.
To morally feel compunction.


Compunction--
1.
a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse.
2.
any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.