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REPENTANCE!!!

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For many of us, "repentance" is almost an offensive word. It sounds so remorseful.

In reality, it isn't remorseful at all. The root word for "repentance" is the Greek word metanoia, from which our word "metamorphosis" comes. The great image of this is the butterfly emerging from its cocoon; the caterpillar being transformed into new life.

No one is remorseful about that! Nor should we be with repentance, which involves leaving the past and emerging into new life!

-from the First Word, first lutheran church and school april 2009
 
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Craig, you were doing so well until you uttered this statement, "Not feeling remorseful"
Do you understand what Jesus did and why he did it, do you understand what his Father
had to put him through to make salvation our salvation sure, do you know what was in
that cup he drank when he prayed that night in the garden. In verse 10 it says it
pleased the Lord to bruise him, bruise means his Father crushed him as in a wine press,
Craig, that cup he had to drink to make our salvation complete was filled with the
wrath of God the Father, he did that for the world and unless a person believes on his
Son Jesus "They Will Face The Wrath Of God"

John 3: 36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

II Corinthians 7: 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
 
In the Hebrew the idea of repentance is to return, or turn around and come back. The word is shouv or teshouvah. It is exemplified in the act of the prodigal son who returns to his father's house with a contrite heart.

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2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
 
I don't think I really have a contention with you guys.

I may be mistaken, but I think the author is trying to get across that the repentance part, the metamorphosis (or turning in Hebrew), should be a joyful one. We shouldn't drag on this remorseful feeling through that. The changing is joyful!

The verses you posted does make me think about what "godly sorrow" really is. I think it's different than groveling after the fact. I think its a real "pure" sorrow that brings about repentance, then forgiveness, and then that's that.... no sulking or dwelling on how bad we are after that.
 
The joy is the renewal by God...after we have returned to Him. It is the break of day after the dark night of the soul. The transformation is in the knowing of God in a greater way. We have a difficult time believing in the amazing goodness of God. We usually spend our lives running from Him. The transformation is that we love the truth the more after our new experience of intimacy with Him. Thus we grow from faith to faith and glory to glory. :-)


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