The Most Difficult Command

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The Most Difficult Command

• The Five
• Rs of
• Repentance

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The Five Rs of Repentance

• Repentance is not easy because it requires
  radical change (Ezekiel 1820-32)
• We must do it (Luke 133,5 Acts 1730)
• God wants us to repent (Romans 23-6 2 Peter
  39)
• We need to understand the nature of true
  repentance.

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The Five Rs of Repentance
Repent Usage Number A-1 Part of Speech Verb
Strong's Number ltG3340gt Original Word µeta????,
metanoeo Usage Notes lit., "to perceive
afterwards" (meta, "after," implying "change,"
noeo, "to perceive" nous, "the mind, the seat of
moral reflection"), in contrast to pronoeo, "to
perceive beforehand," hence signifies "to change
one's mind or purpose," always, in the NT,
involving a change for the better, an amendment,
. . . .
Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New
Testament Words
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The Five Rs of Repentance

• Recognition (i.e., acknowledging
  sin)
• Remorse - (regret and grief over
  sin)
• Resolve (i.e., a change
  of mind)
• Reformation (i.e., a change in
  lifestyle)
• Restitution (i.e., making
  amends wherever possible)

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The Five Rs of Repentance
i.e., Acknowledging Sin

• The first step TO repentance Luke 1517 Psalm
  511-4 Jeremiah 313,14 Acts 237,38 James
  417
• How can we repent of sin that we refuse to
  acknowledge Acts 1730,31

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The Five Rs of Repentance
i.e., Regret and Grief Over Sin
2 Corinthians 79-10 Now I rejoice, not that
you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to
repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly
manner, that you might suffer loss from us in
nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance
leading to salvation, not to be regretted but
the sorrow of the world produces death.
Remorse, in and of itself, is not repentance.
But it is necessary TO repentance.
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The Five Rs of Repentance
i.e., Regret and Grief Over Sin
Matthew 273-5 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing
that He had been condemned, was remorseful and
brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the
chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned
by betraying innocent blood. And they said,
What is that to us? You see to it! Then he
threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and
departed, and went and hanged himself.
Does not ALWAYS lead to repentance
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The Five Rs of Repentance
i.e., A Change of Mind

• Be humble, pray, seek, and turn away
  (2 Chronicles 714).
• Get yourself a new heart (Ezekiel 1831).
• Be transformed by renewing your mind (Romans
  122).

• At the very heart of repentance is the resolve to
  change ones mind and will
• Proverbs 2813 1 Peter 42

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The Five Rs of Repentance
i.e., A Change in Lifestyle
Luke 1517-20 But when he came to himself, he
said, . . . I will arise and go to my father,
and will say to him, Father, I have sinned
against heaven and before you, . . . And he
arose and came to his father.
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The Five Rs of Repentance
i.e., A Change in Lifestyle
Ezekiel 1821-22 But if a wicked man turns from
all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My
statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he
shall surely live he shall not die. None of the
transgressions which he has committed shall be
remembered against him because of the
righteousness which he has done, he shall live.
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The Five Rs of Repentance
i.e. A Change in Lifestyle
Ezekiel 1827-28 Again, when a wicked man turns
away from the wickedness which he committed, and
does what is lawful and right, he preserves
himself alive. Because he considers and turns
away from all the transgressions which he
committed, he shall surely live he shall not
die.
If no change in action, then no real Repentance.
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The Five Rs of Repentance
i.e., Making Amends Wherever Possible
A thief? A liar? A slanderer? An unscriptural
marriage? A murderer?

• Fruits worthy of repentance Matthew 37-9
  Luke 38
• Zacchaeus Luke 198
• The Philippian jailor Acts 1633

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The Five Rs of Repentance

• Repentance is not easy because it requires
  radical change (Ezekiel 1820-32)
• We must do it (Luke 133,5 Acts 1730)
• God wants us to repent (Romans 23-6 2 Peter
  39)
• We need to understand the nature of true
  repentance.

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The Five Rs of Repentance

• Recognition (i.e., acknowledging
  sin)
• Remorse - (regret and grief over
  sin)
• Resolve (i.e., a change
  of mind)
• Reformation (i.e., a change in
  lifestyle)
• Restitution (i.e., making
  amends wherever possible)