Webbijbel
Gert-Jan Van Zanten
Repentance.
Jona 3.
Sorry is a beautiful word.
The hardest thing in conversion.
-Luke 13: 1-3
-Acts 17: 30
1.
What is repentance?
Act
26:20 but declared both to them of Damascus first and at Jerusalem,
and throughout all the country of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles,
that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of
repentance.
What is repentance?
-Gen. 6: 6
-Deut 4: 30
-Ezech. 14: 6
-Hosea 12: 6
Thayer:
1) a
change of mind, as it appears to one who repents, of a purpose he
has formed or of something he has done.
Strong:
From G3340; (subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including
reformation); by implication reversal (of [another’s] decision): -
repentance.
Compunction:
A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt.
A sting of conscience or a pang
of doubt aroused by wrongdoing or the prospect of wrongdoing.
Psa 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the
hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.
The predominantly intellectual understanding of metanoia as change
of mind plays very little part in the N.T. Rather the decision by
the whole man to turn round is stressed.
Wabush, a town in a remote portion of Labrador, Canada, was completely isolated for some time. But recently a road was cut through the wilderness to reach it. Wabush now has one road leading into it, and thus, only on one road leading out. If someone would travel the unpaved road for six to eight hours to get into Wabush, there is only way he or she could leave---by turning around.
Each of us arrives in a town
called Sin. As in Wabush, there is only one way out--a road built by
God himself. But in order to take that road, one must first turn
around. That complete about face is what the Bible calls repentance,
and without it, there's no way out of town.
What is repentance:
-Matthew 21: 28-29
-Luke 11: 32
-Acts 26: 20
Examples of repentance.
-Luke 15: 11-32
-Matt. 26: 75
2Co 7:9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.
2Cor 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2Cor 7:11 For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
2Cor 7:12 So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.
2Cor 7:9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.
2a. What did it bring?
Earnest care.
From G4692; "speed", that is, (by implication) despatch, eagerness, earnestness: - business, (earnest) care (-fulness), diligence forwardness, haste. striving
A clearing of yourselves.
ap-ol-og-ee'-ah
From the same as G626; a plea("apology"): - answer (for self), clearing of self, defence.
1) indignation, irritation, vexation
Fear.
1a) that which strikes terror
Longing
Zeal
1a) zeal, ardour in embracing, pursuing, defending anything
1a1) zeal in behalf of, for a person or thing
1a2) the fierceness of indignation, punitive zeal
1b) an envious and contentious rivalry, jealousy
Avenging.
1) a revenging, vengeance, punishment
In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church's
integrity problem is in the misconception "that we can add Christ to
our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a
change in behavior." He goes on to say, "It is revival without
reformation, without repentance."
Acts 2: 42, 46
Steadfastly:
From G4314 and G2594; to be earnest towards,
that is, (to a thing) to persevere, be constantly
diligent, or (in a place) to attend assiduously all the
exercises, or (to a person) to adhere closely to (as a
servitor): - attend (give self) continually (upon), continue (in,
instant in, with), wait on (continually).
Luk 15:7 I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.
