1. Repentance is taking full responsibility for the sin
2. Repentance is turning from the idol we serve to the true God
What do we mean by idols? How does that tie into sin? Sin is not just a transgression of a law of God. It involves a turing from God in unbelief and turing to something else as a "god". When I sin I am saying to God, "I do not trust you. I do not believe your way is good and best. I do not believe you are wise." In place of the true God I worship pleasure, a lover, a lie, my money, a career advancement, my reputation etc. We cannot worhsip God and sin. we cannot sin without worshipping idols. Deep in the heart of man there is a powerful pull of idolatry. We want to worship this other god because of the pleasure it brings us. That love for sin and out false lover can actually keep us from repentance.
- Mark Lauterbach - The Transforming Community 142-144
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Notes |
The Doctrine of Repentance  |
Thomas Watson |
All of Life is Repentance  |
Tim Keller (pdf) |
Repentance: Roman Catholicism, American Evangelicalism & Lutheranism  |
Chart - Issues, Etc. |
Here Comes the Judge  |
Michael S. Horton |
The Logic and Lyric of Contrition  |
Robert C. Roberts |
When Is Saving Repentance Impossible?  |
John Piper MP3 |
Repentance, Baptism & The Gift of the Holy Spirit  |
Ned Stonehouse |
God's Part and Man's Part in Salvation  |
John G. Reisinger |
The Difference Between True and Counterfeit Repentance  |
John Colquhoun |
Faith and Repentance - Gifts of God or the Fruits of Free Will  |
Sam Storms |
Repentance: According to 2 Corinthians 7:11  |
John Calvin |
Directions for Hating Sin  |
Richard Baxter |
Great Quotes on Repentance  |
Grace Gems site |
Repentance Unto Life (Spurgeon)  |
Charles Koelsch MP3 |
What is Repentance?  |
Steve Brown MP3 |
Of Repentance unto Life  |
Gordon Clark MP3 |
The Way Up is the Way Down: Repentance  |
Steve Childres MP3 |
Preaching for Repentance  |
Paul Gardner MP3 |
The Prophets Speak: True Repentance  |
David Ellis MP3 |
Repentance Unto Life  |
A.A. Hodge |
True Repentance: God's Highway to the Heart (Part 1)  |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
True Repentance: God's Highway to the Heart (Part 2)  |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
True Repentance: God's Highway to the Heart (Part 3)  |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
True Repentance: God's Highway to the Heart (Part 4)  |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
Subjective Soterioloty: Repentance Unto Life  |
Bob Burridge |
Repentance Unto Life  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Biblical Repentance:The Need of This Hour  |
L.R. Shelton, Jr. |
The Unrepenting Repenter  |
Jim Elliff |
The Change of Mind  |
Jim Elliff |
How Repentance is Given  |
Charles Spurgeon |
True Repentance  |
Jay Wegter |
Phoney Repentance  |
Roger Ellsworth |
Repentance Unto Life  |
Bob Burridge |
Of Repentance Unto Life and Salvation  |
London Baptist Confession 1677/89 |
True and False Repentance  |
John Calvin |
Biblical Repentance: The Need of This Hour  |
L.R. Shelton, Jr. |
“What is repentance unto life?”  |
James Fisher (1753) - The Shorter Catechism Explained (Q87) |
Of Repentance unto Life  |
Robert Shaw |
Repentance  |
A.W. Pink |
The Gospel and Repentance  |
William Webster |
When Is Saving Repentance Impossible?  |
John Piper |
What Is the Fruit That Befits Repentance?  |
John Piper |
John the Baptist and the Brood of Vipers  |
John Piper |
The Good End of Godly Regret  |
John Piper |
Repentance, Forgiveness, and the Gift of the Spirit  |
John Piper |
Serving the Lord with Humility, Tears, and Trials  |
John Piper |
The Lordship of Christ: True Repentance  |
James A. Stewart |
Repentance and Conversion  |
George Whitefield |
Faith--Spiritual Knowledge--Seeking--True Repentance  |
John Newton |
The Backslider Characterized; Or, The Evil And Danger Of Defection Described.  |
Ebenezer Erskine |
The Need and Nature of Conversion  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Faith and Repentance Inseparable  |
Charles Spurgeon |
The New Nature  |
Charles Spurgeon |
The Doctrine of Repenance  |
E.C. Wines |
Repentance  |
P.G. Mathew |
A Call to Repentance  |
Bob Deffinbaugh |
Repentance  |
R.L. Dabney |
Of Repentance unto Life  |
Westminster Confession of Faith |
Does God Love the Sinner and Hate Only His Sin?  |
John H. Gerstner |
A Public Call to Repentance  |
Richard Bennett |
What's Wrong With Preaching Today?  |
Al Martin |
Understanding the Lordship Controversy  |
J.I. Packer |
Grace, Works, and Faith  |
Conrad Murrell |
Judgments, A Call to Repentance  |
James Henley Thornwell |
Accepting Christ  |
I.C. Herendeen |
Do You Grieve Over Sin?  |
Donald Whitney (mp3) |
The Conviction of Sin  |
Robert Murray M'Cheyne |
Is it Wrong to Confess Your Sin?  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Repent or Perish  |
A.W. Pink |
The Blessed Mourners  |
Brian Schwertley |
Phony Repentance, Abundant Mercy  |
Roger Ellsworth - from The Story of Elijah: Standing for God. One of the major problems of the church today is ‘phoney repentance’. Multitudes have walked down the aisle, mouthed the right words, and joined the church only to become ‘inactive members’. |
Conviction for Sin  |
Gardiner Spring |
Repentance  |
J. C. Ryle |
Repentance (.pdf)  |
William S. Plumer, J.C. Ryle, Thomas Watson, John Murray, C.H. Spurgeon, John Gill, Arthur W. Pink, Samuel Davies, Edward Payson |
Sorrow Unto Life  |
Tom Gibson (mp3) - 2 Corinthians 7:8-11 |
Sorrow for Sin  |
Samuel Rutherford |
Can a Believer Repent? (.pdf)  |
Geoff Ashley |
A Call to Repentance (.pdf)  |
Paul David Washer |
Repenting of our Good Works  |
Thomas Watson & Joseph Alleine |
Repentance: The Fruit of Revival (.pdf)  |
John Richard de Witt, Reformation & Revival 1:2 (Spring 1992): 83-96. |