{"id":304,"date":"2013-01-08T18:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T01:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2013-05-22T17:04:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T23:04:26","slug":"repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Whole Bible Christianity’ chapter 2, ‘Repentance’<\/p>\n

Repentance and love for God go hand in hand. We can\u2019t have one without the other. If we repent, we stop doing bad things and start doing good (1 Kings 8:47<\/a>; 2 Chronicles 6:37<\/a>; Job 42:6<\/a>; Jeremiah 8:4-13<\/a>; Ezekiel 14:6<\/a>; Matthew 11:20, 21<\/a>). The first recorded word out of the mouths of John the Baptist (Matthew 3:2<\/a>) and Jesus (Matthew 4:17<\/a>) for their public ministries was \u2018repent.\u2019 If we are going the wrong way on a road, we would change directions once we realized our error.<\/p>\n

\u2018Feeling sorry\u2019 for what we have done or are doing, yet continuing to go the wrong way, is not repentance. It is certainly not love. A lot of times, \u2018sorry\u2019 feelings are very strong, to the point of weeping or other expressions of anguish. But the feelings are not true repentance if they don\u2019t produce a change in behavior (2 Corinthians 7:9-10<\/a>). True repentance is when we change what we are doing (Matthew 3:8<\/a>; Luke 3:8<\/a>). We go from ignoring His Law to following it.<\/p>\n

Biblically, repentance also means restitution. According to the Word, when a thief repents, not only must he stop stealing, but repay what he stole plus a penalty amount (Exodus 22:2, 7<\/a>). Zacchaeus (Luke 19<\/a>) restored four-fold what he might have defrauded, and gave half his goods to the poor. We do not follow through with this in modern times. A lot of times \u201cfeeling sorry\u201d is the limit of repentance. But feelings of sorrow, by themselves, are not enough by God\u2019s standards. If we repent, we make things right as much as we can.<\/p>\n

10For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. (2 Corinthians 7:10<\/a> NASB95)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Whole Bible Christianity’ chapter 2, ‘Repentance’ Repentance and love for God go hand in hand. We can\u2019t have one without the other. If we repent, we stop doing bad things and start doing good (1 Kings 8:47; 2 Chronicles 6:37; … read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,222,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-living","category-repentance","category-whole-bible-christianity-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}