Forgiveness -1- The Need for Repentance “God
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slide1. Forgiveness<br>
slide3. -1-
The Need for Repentance<br>
slide4. “God commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead” (Acts 17:30–31).<br>
slide5. “Do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?”
(Rom. 2:4).<br>
slide7. God is a loving Father who want me to be happy all the time.<br>
slide8. God shows great latitude when it comes to what I believe and how I behave.<br>
slide9. The cross is merely an event whereby God shows me how special I am.<br>
slide10. “Forgive us our trespasses.”<br>
slide12. “Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, in saying, ‘Repent’, meant the whole life of the faithful to be an act of repentance.”
Martin Luther, first thesis<br>
slide13. The Instrument of Salvation:
faith alone
The Way of Salvation: repentance
(hope, fear, love, etc.)<br>
slide14. -2-
The Nature of Repentance<br>
slide15. “Return to Me” (Zech. 1:3).
shuwb – to return, go back, or bring back
“You will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Gen. 3:19).<br>
slide16. “For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:9–10).<br>
slide17. “The essence of man’s sin is to love himself supremely, to seek himself finally, and to make himself, in one shape or another, the center to which all his thoughts, cares and pursuits constantly tend. Self is the great idol which man is naturally disposed to worship” (John James).<br>
slide18. “Six Ingredients”
Thomas Watson<br>
slide19. 1. “Sight of Sin”<br>
slide20. “All things become visible when they are exposed by the light” (Eph. 5:13).<br>
slide21. “Thoughts of love and sin laid together make the soul blush.”
John Owen<br>
slide23. It witnesses
“They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them” (Rom. 2:15).<br>
slide24. It testifies
“For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity” (2 Cor. 1:12).<br>
slide25. God’s “arbitrator”
It “gives testimony” by determining what we have done or not done.
It “gives judgment” by determining what was well done or ill done.<br>
slide26. It makes this determination based on an objective standard – God’s law.<br>
slide27. 2. “Sorrow for Sin”<br>
slide28. “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn”
(Zech. 12:10).<br>
slide29. “He grieves truly who weeps
without a witness.”
George Swinnock<br>
slide30. 3. “Confession of Sin”<br>
slide31. “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me”
(Ps. 51:5).<br>
slide32. We stop making excuses.<br>
slide33. “I pulled out of my driveway and straight into the bus. But it wasn’t my fault. It was five minutes early.”<br>
slide34. “The pedestrian had no idea which way to turn, so I ran over him.”<br>
slide35. “The other car drove into me. I have no idea how fast it was going because I wasn’t looking.”<br>
slide36. “The telephone pole was approaching fast. I attempted to swerve out of its path when it struck my front end.”<br>
slide37. “Returning home late at night, I turned into the wrong house and struck a tree that wouldn’t normally have been there.”<br>
slide38. 4. “Shame for Sin”<br>
slide39. “If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?” (Ps. 130:3).<br>
slide40. “O LORD” (Yah)
God’s eternality and immortality
God sees all<br>
slide41. “O Lord” (Adonai)
God’s authority and sovereignty
God judges<br>
slide42. God sees and judges our sins.
”A double marking of sin.”
John Owen<br>
slide43. 5. “Hatred of Sin”<br>
slide44. “For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment!”
(2 Cor. 7:10–11).<br>
slide45. ”The feel-good doctrine
of automatic forgiveness.”
Cheap grace offers comfort without requiring change.<br>
slide46. 6. “Turning from Sin”<br>
slide47. There are two words for repentance in the NT: metameleia (Matt. 27:3) and metanoia (2 Tim. 2:25).<br>
slide48. The first signifies sorrow for a fault committed. The second signifies a change of the mind. After betraying Jesus, Judas “felt remorse,” yet he
“went away and hanged himself.”<br>
slide49. “But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared” (Ps. 130:4).<br>
slide50. “Amendment of life is the
best repentance.”
John Trapp<br>
slide51. -3-
The Fruit of Repentance<br>
slide52. It pleases God<br>
slide53. “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise” (Ps. 51:17).<br>
slide54. It leads to forgiveness and
restores fellowship.<br>
slide55. To forgive sin is to remove it.
“The Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him” (Isa. 53:6).<br>
slide56. To forgive sin is to cover it.
“You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin”
(Ps. 85:2).<br>
slide57. To forgive sin is to erase it.
“I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins”
(Isa. 43:25).<br>
slide58. To forgive sin is to scatter it.
“I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you” (Isa. 44:22).<br>
slide59. To forgive sin is to cast it into
the depths of the sea.
“He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins into the depth of the sea” (Mic. 7:19).<br>
slide60. Forgiveness doesn’t mean God acts like nothing happened, nor does it mean that He lessens the consequences of our sins. It means that He dissolves the obligation to punishment because of Jesus.<br>
slide61. -4-
The Cause of Repentance<br>
slide62. Forgiveness<br>
slide63. -1-
Remember that it’s your glory to overlook an offense (Prov. 19:11)<br>
slide64. Does it violate God’s Word?
(2) Does it tarnish God’s honor?
(3) Does it harm God’s people?<br>
slide65. -2-
Talk to the person who has sinned
against you (v. 15)<br>
slide66. Guard your words.
“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt” (Col. 4:6).<br>
slide67. Show kindness.
“Be kind to one another” (Eph. 4:32).<br>
slide68. Mortify anger.
“Be slow to anger, for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God”
(James 1:20).<br>
slide69. Pursue peace.
“So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding” (Rom. 14:19).<br>
slide70. Demonstrate humility.
“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Phil. 2:4).<br>
slide71. A superiority complex will cause us to seek confrontation. We think we’re better than others, and we’re happy to engage in situations that re-enforce our self-delusion.
(2) An inferiority complex will cause to avoid confrontation. We crave others’ approval, and we’re afraid to do anything that might jeopardize it.<br>
slide72. -3-
Rebuke the person
if he’s obstinate (vv. 16–20)<br>
slide73. -4-
Forgive the person
if he’s penitent (vv. 21–22)<br>
slide74. Changing a feeling
Paying a debt
Restoring a relationship<br>
slide75. God is willing to forgive everyone.
God offers forgiveness to everyone.
God’s offer is based on His satisfied justice.
God’s offer is conditional on our repentance.
Forgiveness through repentance produces reconciliation.<br>
slide76. -5-
Keep your eyes on God’s forgiveness
of you (vv. 23–35)<br>
slide77. “Amazed” by God’s forgiveness
“Melted” by God’s forgiveness
“Changed” by God’s forgiveness<br>
slide78. Oh, wonder of all wonders, That through Your death for me, My open sins, my secret sins, Can all forgiven be.
Then melt my heart, O Saviour, Bend me, yea, break me down, Until I own You Conqueror, And Lord and Sovereign crown<br>
slide3. -1-
The Need for Repentance<br>
slide4. “God commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead” (Acts 17:30–31).<br>
slide5. “Do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?”
(Rom. 2:4).<br>
slide7. God is a loving Father who want me to be happy all the time.<br>
slide8. God shows great latitude when it comes to what I believe and how I behave.<br>
slide9. The cross is merely an event whereby God shows me how special I am.<br>
slide10. “Forgive us our trespasses.”<br>
slide12. “Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, in saying, ‘Repent’, meant the whole life of the faithful to be an act of repentance.”
Martin Luther, first thesis<br>
slide13. The Instrument of Salvation:
faith alone
The Way of Salvation: repentance
(hope, fear, love, etc.)<br>
slide14. -2-
The Nature of Repentance<br>
slide15. “Return to Me” (Zech. 1:3).
shuwb – to return, go back, or bring back
“You will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Gen. 3:19).<br>
slide16. “For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:9–10).<br>
slide17. “The essence of man’s sin is to love himself supremely, to seek himself finally, and to make himself, in one shape or another, the center to which all his thoughts, cares and pursuits constantly tend. Self is the great idol which man is naturally disposed to worship” (John James).<br>
slide18. “Six Ingredients”
Thomas Watson<br>
slide19. 1. “Sight of Sin”<br>
slide20. “All things become visible when they are exposed by the light” (Eph. 5:13).<br>
slide21. “Thoughts of love and sin laid together make the soul blush.”
John Owen<br>
slide23. It witnesses
“They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them” (Rom. 2:15).<br>
slide24. It testifies
“For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity” (2 Cor. 1:12).<br>
slide25. God’s “arbitrator”
It “gives testimony” by determining what we have done or not done.
It “gives judgment” by determining what was well done or ill done.<br>
slide26. It makes this determination based on an objective standard – God’s law.<br>
slide27. 2. “Sorrow for Sin”<br>
slide28. “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn”
(Zech. 12:10).<br>
slide29. “He grieves truly who weeps
without a witness.”
George Swinnock<br>
slide30. 3. “Confession of Sin”<br>
slide31. “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me”
(Ps. 51:5).<br>
slide32. We stop making excuses.<br>
slide33. “I pulled out of my driveway and straight into the bus. But it wasn’t my fault. It was five minutes early.”<br>
slide34. “The pedestrian had no idea which way to turn, so I ran over him.”<br>
slide35. “The other car drove into me. I have no idea how fast it was going because I wasn’t looking.”<br>
slide36. “The telephone pole was approaching fast. I attempted to swerve out of its path when it struck my front end.”<br>
slide37. “Returning home late at night, I turned into the wrong house and struck a tree that wouldn’t normally have been there.”<br>
slide38. 4. “Shame for Sin”<br>
slide39. “If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?” (Ps. 130:3).<br>
slide40. “O LORD” (Yah)
God’s eternality and immortality
God sees all<br>
slide41. “O Lord” (Adonai)
God’s authority and sovereignty
God judges<br>
slide42. God sees and judges our sins.
”A double marking of sin.”
John Owen<br>
slide43. 5. “Hatred of Sin”<br>
slide44. “For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment!”
(2 Cor. 7:10–11).<br>
slide45. ”The feel-good doctrine
of automatic forgiveness.”
Cheap grace offers comfort without requiring change.<br>
slide46. 6. “Turning from Sin”<br>
slide47. There are two words for repentance in the NT: metameleia (Matt. 27:3) and metanoia (2 Tim. 2:25).<br>
slide48. The first signifies sorrow for a fault committed. The second signifies a change of the mind. After betraying Jesus, Judas “felt remorse,” yet he
“went away and hanged himself.”<br>
slide49. “But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared” (Ps. 130:4).<br>
slide50. “Amendment of life is the
best repentance.”
John Trapp<br>
slide51. -3-
The Fruit of Repentance<br>
slide52. It pleases God<br>
slide53. “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise” (Ps. 51:17).<br>
slide54. It leads to forgiveness and
restores fellowship.<br>
slide55. To forgive sin is to remove it.
“The Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him” (Isa. 53:6).<br>
slide56. To forgive sin is to cover it.
“You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin”
(Ps. 85:2).<br>
slide57. To forgive sin is to erase it.
“I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins”
(Isa. 43:25).<br>
slide58. To forgive sin is to scatter it.
“I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you” (Isa. 44:22).<br>
slide59. To forgive sin is to cast it into
the depths of the sea.
“He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins into the depth of the sea” (Mic. 7:19).<br>
slide60. Forgiveness doesn’t mean God acts like nothing happened, nor does it mean that He lessens the consequences of our sins. It means that He dissolves the obligation to punishment because of Jesus.<br>
slide61. -4-
The Cause of Repentance<br>
slide62. Forgiveness<br>
slide63. -1-
Remember that it’s your glory to overlook an offense (Prov. 19:11)<br>
slide64. Does it violate God’s Word?
(2) Does it tarnish God’s honor?
(3) Does it harm God’s people?<br>
slide65. -2-
Talk to the person who has sinned
against you (v. 15)<br>
slide66. Guard your words.
“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt” (Col. 4:6).<br>
slide67. Show kindness.
“Be kind to one another” (Eph. 4:32).<br>
slide68. Mortify anger.
“Be slow to anger, for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God”
(James 1:20).<br>
slide69. Pursue peace.
“So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding” (Rom. 14:19).<br>
slide70. Demonstrate humility.
“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Phil. 2:4).<br>
slide71. A superiority complex will cause us to seek confrontation. We think we’re better than others, and we’re happy to engage in situations that re-enforce our self-delusion.
(2) An inferiority complex will cause to avoid confrontation. We crave others’ approval, and we’re afraid to do anything that might jeopardize it.<br>
slide72. -3-
Rebuke the person
if he’s obstinate (vv. 16–20)<br>
slide73. -4-
Forgive the person
if he’s penitent (vv. 21–22)<br>
slide74. Changing a feeling
Paying a debt
Restoring a relationship<br>
slide75. God is willing to forgive everyone.
God offers forgiveness to everyone.
God’s offer is based on His satisfied justice.
God’s offer is conditional on our repentance.
Forgiveness through repentance produces reconciliation.<br>
slide76. -5-
Keep your eyes on God’s forgiveness
of you (vv. 23–35)<br>
slide77. “Amazed” by God’s forgiveness
“Melted” by God’s forgiveness
“Changed” by God’s forgiveness<br>
slide78. Oh, wonder of all wonders, That through Your death for me, My open sins, my secret sins, Can all forgiven be.
Then melt my heart, O Saviour, Bend me, yea, break me down, Until I own You Conqueror, And Lord and Sovereign crown<br>