Couples For Christ

Christian Life Program Talk 4

We need to repent,
Our
proper response
is
to
reform
our
lives.
Now it is time

repentance and faith.

And we need to believe in the gospel,

to
respond.
Mk 1:14-15.
have faith
in Jesus
and the message he brings.

Repentance and faith go together.

To simply
believe
Faith
To just
reform
our
lives
is
an
without doing anything
inadequate
response
to
God.
necessarily
In other words,
to reform
our lives

It is a
double-action
We
need
to
believe
in
faith
without
needs
to
be
to become pleasing
works
is
dead.
Him and
in
His
plans
and
response.
connected
to
to God is also
promises.
morality.
inadequate.
We cannot
just have one
without the other.

More specifically, repentance means a

turning away from sin, evil,
wrongdoing and running your own life.

METANOIA

Further,
it
is
It is not just a
turning
to
a
life
of
simple confession
obedience
to
God
of wrongdoing.
change
having
Jesus
Rather, it refers to a and a
change in direction. on the throne of
of
mind
your life.

Repentance

What repentance is not.

It is not dependent on feelings.
It is not being sorry for sin
What
must
we
because we are afraid of the
do
to repent?
consequences.

Be honest.

Ask God's
forgiveness.

For Catholics,

we need to avail of the

Exercise of Reconciliation
Sacrament
humility.

Renounce
sin.

 Involvement by a Christian in
non-Christian religions.
Spiritualism and the occult.
specific sins we
There
Sexual are
wrongdoing.
need
to renounce.
Serious
crimes
such as murder,
rape,
kidnapping,
These
serious robbery,
sins are:
corruption, etc.
Drunkenness (not just drinking but drunkenness)
and getting stoned on drugs.

Faith is belief in the gospel, which is the

good
news ofonly
salvation
inthe
Jesus
Christ.
Repentance
Remember
that
becomes
complete
point

afterhere
totally
turning
away
from
evil
is not to feel bad
and accepting Jesus as Lord.

about yourself for past sins,

but
toneed
decisively
away
Accepting
and turn
letting
him
Our
lives
to Jesus
come under
his management.
Webe
need
to of
let
Jesus
have
the
run
of
things.
Lord
our
lives
require
faith.
from them.

Belief in the messenger,

Jesus,

and in the message

that he brings.

an
FAITHanMEANS
indispensable

urgent
act
act with our minds
not just believing

(an intellectual
belief)
that
an
a
is the
Savior,
Faith isindividual
a Jesus
personal
act
and decision.
deliberate
act
It has several
aspects
act (Rev 3:20).

a believing in our hearts that he

but
definite
came to be our personal Savior.
act

 Not
Not
Not

What

God has promised

just a FEELING. us new life.
Faith is accepting that
life
and
letting
God
show
us
just WISHFUL THINKING.
how to live it.
We must be willing to do
a BLIND
LEAP.
whatever
God wants of us, and
actually do it.

is not.

Consequences of
Repentance and Faith
Acts 16:31
A promise of salvation from sin, Satan, death
A promise of forgiveness and eternal life w/ God

Luke 11:9-13
A promise of new life in the Spirit
We can pray for a greater release of the power
of the Holy Spirit in our lives

Conclusion.
2,000 years ago, Jesus sounded the
Then
take
God
up
toAccept
repentancethe
and faith.
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respond
positively,

on
His
promises,
and
is the same
torepent
us today.
GodItchallenge
promises
us call
salvation
from sin,
to
expect
to
experience
We
are
called
to
turn
away from
sin life,
forgiveness and reconciliation,
eternal
and
believe
in
Jesus.
the
peace
and
joy
and
all obstacles
to Spirit
God, and
andour
to lives.
and the
power
of the Holy
for
acceptof
Jesus
Lord.in
power
theasLord
your lives.

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