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#541: The Cross Requires Repentance

• Loren Hicks

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The Big Idea: 

One of the reasons we fail to offer God true repentance is that we don’t always see sin as sin. It seems awful to call it a sin, so we call it something more acceptable. We’ll say it is a struggle, a mistake, a challenge, or even a failure. But we must see sin through God’s eyes. Sin is missing the mark. It’s missing God’s standards and for our sins, He calls us to repent.


Main Points:

1. What we often do is to ask Jesus for forgiveness.  But there is a next step.  It is confession and repentance.  We want what the cross gives us but we don’t always want to give what the cross requires. When we come to the cross, we believe Jesus' death paid the penalty for our sins, but the cross also requires us to repent of those sins.
2. Godly sorrow brings us to a place of recognition that we are sinners. We have a personal sorrow and sadness over our sin, but while we feel this sorrow, we do so with a sense of hope. There is the hope of forgiveness and restoration by Jesus.
3. Our loving Heavenly Father offers us grace and mercy when we sin. The Holy Spirit, our internal guidance system, helps us see when we have missed the mark. If you have sinned, offer God your true repentance. He is merciful and will forgive.


Today’s Scripture Verses:

Matthew 4:17 - “From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

2 Corinthians 7:10 – “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.”  

Ephesians 4:21-24 -  “if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.”


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