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CFC CLP Talk 4 - Repentance and Faith
CFC CLP Talk 4 - Repentance and Faith
CFC CLP Talk 4 - Repentance and Faith
We need to repent,
Our
proper response
is
to
reform
our
lives.
Now it is time
to
respond.
Mk 1:14-15.
have faith
in Jesus
and the message he brings.
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.
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
Be honest.
Ask God's
forgiveness.
For Catholics,
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.
afterhere
totally
turning
away
from
evil
is not to feel bad
and accepting Jesus as Lord.
Jesus,
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).
Not
Not
Not
What
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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