What is repentance and why is it important? Most of us believe that we are a good person, and that we are going to Heaven. Repentance sounds like a cure. I’m a good person, I’m not sick, so why do I need a cure? Lets find out how good of a person you are: how many lies have you told? What do they call people that tell lies? Have you ever taken something that didn’t belong to you? What do they call a person who steals? Jesus said if you look at a woman with lust you commit adultery with her in your heart. Have you ever looked at a woman with lust? Have you ever used Gods name in vain? Do you love your mom? You wouldn’t use her name as a cuss word because you respect her. Yet you don’t respect the God that cave you a mother, that’s blasphemy. Very serious. Punishable by death. 

I’m not judging you, but you told me you are a lying, thieving, blaspheming adulterer. So, if God judges us on the 10 Commandments, would you be innocent or guilty? Heaven or hell? 

    The 10 commandments are the moral law. God wrote them in everyone’s conscience so every one of us knows when they are doing wrong. You and I broke the moral law And our wages are payment for breaking the law his debt. The Bible says the wages of sin is death. What did Jesus do to take the death penalty off guilty sinners like you and me?

    Most people know he died for our sins but stay focused if you can get ahold of this next part it will change everything for you. We broke the law Jesus paid to find. If you’re in court and you have speeding fines the judge can set you free if someone else pays the fines, he’ll say even though you’re guilty you’re out of here. That what it means by Jesus paying our debt on the cross he took the death penalty in our place. That’s why he said it is finished He takes the death penalty off of us when we put our trust in Him, and it’s legal. Would you jump out of a plane without a putting on a parachute? Of course not! Your motivation is fear. The parachute is your friend not your enemy. I tried to put the fear of God in you, to make you a little afraid. That fear is your friend not your enemy.  When are you going  to repent and put your trust in Jesus.

    Repentance is not guilt or remorse. The definition of repentance is. “In its fullest sense it is a term” it’s a complete change of orientation involving a judgment upon the past and a deliberate redirection for the future. (Repentance is a process!) However we bring guilt, regret, remorse, shame and limitations when we judge our past. As we go through the repentance process God gives us a new heart and new desires our limitations start falling away. Old things pass away, all things become new.

    A word of caution! If we refuse to go through the repentance process and choose not to let old things pass away by hanging on to the sins of our old lifestyle, we become double-minded, with no stability. We are not obedient enough to walk under God’s blessing.  We become an excellent target for the enemy to bring doubt, fear, confusion and mostly lack. When we are willing to go through the repentance process and do good things out of love not duty, the Christian Walk becomes easy, when we are not willing to repent the Christian Walk becomes impossible. “A friend” experienced exactly that kind of drama and turmoil for too many years before implementing “The key to deliverance” (Psalms 91:14 NKJ)