Repentance is an action word.
What is repentance?
(1) To turn away from your sins
Jeremiah 26:13[13]Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
1 Kings 8:47
[47]Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
Jeremiah 15:6
[6]Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
2 Chronicles 7:14
[14]If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Which basically refers to being humble, praying to TMH and changing our ways to draw closer to our Father.
(2) To follow TMH and his commandments
Jeremiah 26:13
[13]Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Revelation 2:5
[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.
This basically states that we should remember when we have fallen and do the first works of the commandments so that we may be forgiven.
(3) To feel sorry or remorse
Joel 2:13
[13]And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Job 42:6
[6]Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Jeremiah 8:6 states that you must be sincerely sorry and repent for what you have done from your heart.
(4) To never return to sin
Ezekiel 14:6
[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.
tell us to turn away from our sins and abomination, in other words you shall not return to your former doings.
Ezekiel 18:30
[30]Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Proverbs 28:13 Proverbs 28:13[13]He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
It clearly states that we are to confess and forsake our sins in order to have mercy meaning to never return to what we once did as sin.
How do I repent?
(1) Pray and ask for forgiveness.
Acts 8:22
[22]Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
states that we should pray and repent of our wickedness so that we may be forgiven.
Ecclesiasticus 18:21
[21]Humble thyself before thou be sick, and in the time of sins shew repentance.
(2) Fast starve the carnal feed the spiritual
Galatians 5:16[16]This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
states that we should walk in the spirit so that we may not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
(3) Read your bible
Joshua 1:8
[8]This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
states we should meditate on TMH's word day and night to make our way prosperous
Ecclesiasticus 6:37
[37]Let thy mind be upon the ordinances of the Lord and meditate continually in his commandments: he shall establish thine heart, and give thee wisdom at thine owns desire.
(4) Resist temptation
James 4:7
[7]Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
tells us to submit ourselves to TMH and the devil will flee from us.
Luke 22:46
[46]And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
(5) The difference between the confession under the Levitical priesthood vs the new way of confession where TMH is the high priest and hears us through prayer to make intercession for us to our Father.
Leviticus 16:21
[21]And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Romans 14:11-12
[11]For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
[12]So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
Who needs to repent?
1 John 3:4[4]Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
tells us sin is the transgression of the law therefore sinners would need to repent.
Why do we repent?
(1) We have sinned
Romans 3:23
[23]For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;tells us for all have sinned and come short of the glory of TMH.
(2) We want to be forgiven
Acts 3:19
[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;
states that we should repent in order for our sins to be blotted out in other words be forgiven.
What will happen if you don't repent?
Luke 13:3,5
[3]I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
[5]I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.clearly tells us that except we repent we will perish.
Ezekiel 18:21-23
[21]But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
[22]All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
[23]Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
2 Peter 2:20-22 which states,
[20]For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
[21]For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
[22]But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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