What is Repentance?
Repentance: remorse for a sin or wrong doing
Repent: To feel sorry, to regret
What make us feel sorry?
Greek: Repent - “change of heart”- metanoia, met-an'-oy-ah; (subj.) compunction - deep remorse (for guilt, including reformation); by implied reversal (of [another's] decision):--repentance. (From Strongs)
How can we change our heart?
Is there a difference between feeling sorry and changing your heart?
What did John mean when he told the Pharisees and Sadducees, “Show Proof that you have changed your hearts”?
Deep Thought: We have not repented until we have chosen to think, feel and do differently about that which has made us sorry.
2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (ESV) For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
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