{"id":1076,"date":"2011-12-03T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:10","slug":"repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acts 20:21, Cor. 2 7:10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Repent &#8211; To be patient, comforted, eased, feel sorry for or to regret, to repent one&#8217;s choice regret for past action. To turn back or have another mind.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>J.B. Lawrence &#8220;Certainly, repentance is necessary, but repentance is the 1st step in faith. No one can believe on Christ and accept him as Saviour and Lord without turning away from sin.&#8221; (Kindlings for Revival Fires, pg. 116).<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The mind must be moved in the act of repentance, but that&#8217;s not all:<br \/>\nThe confession, &#8220;I have sinned,&#8221; is made by many. Hardened Pharoah <strong>Exodus 9:27<\/strong>, Double-minded Balaam <strong>Numbers 22:34<\/strong>, Remorseful\u00a0Achaean<strong>\u00a0Joshua 7:20<\/strong>, Insincere Saul <strong>Samuel 1 15:24<\/strong>, and despairing Judas <strong>Matthew 27:4<\/strong>.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;There must be a change of purpose.&#8221;<strong> Jeremiah 25:5, Proverbs 28:13, and Psalm 51:5.<\/strong><br \/>\n3. &#8220;True repentance is manifested by confession of sin before God.&#8221; <strong>Luke 18:13.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>True repentance will bear fruit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 20:21, Cor. 2 7:10 Repent &#8211; To be patient, comforted, eased, feel sorry for or to regret, to repent one&#8217;s choice regret for past action. To turn back or have another mind. J.B. Lawrence &#8220;Certainly, repentance is necessary, but repentance is the 1st step in faith. No one can believe on Christ and accept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}