The Importance of Repentance!!

 Many believers believe that by only believing in Jesus that you will get you into heaven.  But it is totally wrong!! You can't just say I believe in Jesus and now I'm saved.  Wrong again!! Jesus said you have to be born again.  Not on the world's terms but on God's terms!! To be born again you need to change!!!!!  You need to REPENT first OFALL from all your sins!! Turn away from your old ways!!! Ask for forgiveness!! And how many people are willing to do it? They want to be Christians on their own terms in their comfort zone!!

It is a challenge to change your lifestyle!!  And many don't like challenges.  The end result is that if you don't want to do it God's way, you will not be saved.  It is a different lifestyle from the world's lifestyle.  

2 Corinthians 5:17: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

By repentance you crucify the old life.  You don't want to do the worldly things anymore.  You are turning your back on the old.  You ask Jesus to come into your life, and to change you.  It is no longer I but Christ in me.  You are a changed, new person. You are no more a sinner because you are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus!! 

And to live a godly lifestyle you need to  chang into a new person.  And it starts with Repentance!!!

But you need to REPENT first!!

Acts 3:19: "Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out."

2 Peter 3:9: "The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance."

Acts 2:38: "And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."

2 Chronicles 7:14: "If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."

Matthew 3:8: "Bear fruit in keeping with repentance."

Acts 17:30: "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent."

Luke 13:3: "No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."

1 John 1:9: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Luke 5:32: "I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”