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 |
A Call to Repentance  |
Bob Deffinbaugh |
A Call to Repentance (.pdf)  |
Paul David Washer |
A Public Call to Repentance  |
Richard Bennett |
Accepting Christ  |
I.C. Herendeen |
Biblical Repentance: The Need of This Hour  |
L.R. Shelton, Jr. |
Biblical Repentance:The Need of This Hour  |
L.R. Shelton, Jr. |
Can a Believer Repent? (.pdf)  |
Geoff Ashley |
Conviction for Sin  |
Gardiner Spring |
Directions for Hating Sin  |
Richard Baxter |
Do You Grieve Over Sin?  |
Donald Whitney (mp3) |
Does God Love the Sinner and Hate Only His Sin?  |
John H. Gerstner |
Faith and Repentance - Gifts of God or the Fruits of Free Will  |
Sam Storms |
Faith and Repentance Inseparable  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Faith--Spiritual Knowledge--Seeking--True Repentance  |
John Newton |
God's Part and Man's Part in Salvation  |
John G. Reisinger |
Grace, Works, and Faith  |
Conrad Murrell |
Great Quotes on Repentance  |
Grace Gems site |
How Repentance is Given  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Is it Wrong to Confess Your Sin?  |
Ra McLaughlin |
John the Baptist and the Brood of Vipers  |
John Piper |
Judgments, A Call to Repentance  |
James Henley Thornwell |
Of Repentance unto Life  |
Gordon Clark MP3 |
Of Repentance unto Life  |
Robert Shaw |
Of Repentance unto Life  |
Westminster Confession of Faith |
Of Repentance Unto Life and Salvation  |
London Baptist Confession 1677/89 |
Phoney Repentance  |
Roger Ellsworth |
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’. |
Preaching for Repentance  |
Paul Gardner MP3 |
Repent or Perish  |
A.W. Pink |
Repentance  |
A.W. Pink |
Repentance  |
P.G. Mathew |
Repentance  |
R.L. Dabney |
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 |
Repentance and Conversion  |
George Whitefield |
Repentance Unto Life  |
A.A. Hodge |
Repentance Unto Life  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Repentance Unto Life  |
Bob Burridge |
Repentance Unto Life (Spurgeon)  |
Charles Koelsch MP3 |
Repentance, Baptism & The Gift of the Holy Spirit  |
Ned Stonehouse |
Repentance, Forgiveness, and the Gift of the Spirit  |
John Piper |
Repentance: According to 2 Corinthians 7:11  |
John Calvin |
Repentance: The Fruit of Revival (.pdf)  |
John Richard de Witt, Reformation & Revival 1:2 (Spring 1992): 83-96. |
Repenting of our Good Works  |
Thomas Watson & Joseph Alleine |
Serving the Lord with Humility, Tears, and Trials  |
John Piper |
Sorrow for Sin  |
Samuel Rutherford |
Sorrow Unto Life  |
Tom Gibson (mp3) - 2 Corinthians 7:8-11 |
Subjective Soterioloty: Repentance Unto Life  |
Bob Burridge |
The Backslider Characterized; Or, The Evil And Danger Of Defection Described.  |
Ebenezer Erskine |
The Blessed Mourners  |
Brian Schwertley |
The Change of Mind  |
Jim Elliff |
The Conviction of Sin  |
Robert Murray M'Cheyne |
The Difference Between True and Counterfeit Repentance  |
John Colquhoun |
The Doctrine of Repenance  |
E.C. Wines |
The Good End of Godly Regret  |
John Piper |
The Gospel and Repentance  |
William Webster |
The Lordship of Christ: True Repentance  |
James A. Stewart |
The Need and Nature of Conversion  |
Charles Spurgeon |
The New Nature  |
Charles Spurgeon |
The Prophets Speak: True Repentance  |
David Ellis MP3 |
The Unrepenting Repenter  |
Jim Elliff |
The Way Up is the Way Down: Repentance  |
Steve Childres MP3 |
True and False Repentance  |
John Calvin |
True Repentance  |
Jay Wegter |
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. |
Understanding the Lordship Controversy  |
J.I. Packer |
What is Repentance?  |
Steve Brown MP3 |
What Is the Fruit That Befits Repentance?  |
John Piper |
What's Wrong With Preaching Today?  |
Al Martin |
When Is Saving Repentance Impossible?  |
John Piper MP3 |
When Is Saving Repentance Impossible?  |
John Piper |
“What is repentance unto life?”  |
James Fisher (1753) - The Shorter Catechism Explained (Q87) |