Repent

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” – Acts 17.30-31

Repentance is not a new topic. It has appeared all throughout the word of God. It is complete turning, a 180, in our heads and our hearts in relation to sin. In the Old Testament God ‘winked at’ the specific need of accepting Christ as Saviour because He had not come yet. But now that Christ has come God requires the specific that all men everywhere must repent.

Sometimes people can make salvation sound so simple that they forget the call to repentance. Sometimes all that we present is praying an ‘A-B-C pray after me me’ plan of salvation. This has given a lot of folks a false hope of salvation. It leaves out the ‘all me everywhere must repent’ aspect of salvation. Repeating a prayer without a real change of heart and mind is just words.

Repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out. Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

As we share the gospel we need ot make sure that people know that the root of their problem is sin and the only solution to sin is confession, repentance, and the grace of God.