The Five R’s of True Repentance

• The Five R’s of ..
• 2 Corinthians 7:8-10
• Question in many minds ..
• What if a person commits a sin they repent of but they keep going back to it again and again … will God forgive?
• A Serious Subject ..
• Luke 13:3 I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.
• Day of Judgment ..
• Acts 17:30-31 God now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained…"

• Most Difficult Commandment ..
• A very common commandment ..
– 127 times ..
– Plan of Salvation ..
– As a Christian ..
• Misunderstanding ..
• If you are guilty of a sin that comes out and becomes known .. need to go forward and confess it ..
• What is Repentance ?
• Definition ..
– Repentance is a change of mind produced by godly sorrow that results in a reformation of life ..
• What is Repentance ?
• Definition ..
– Repentance is a change of mind produced by godly sorrow that results in a reformation of life ..
• The Five R’s of ..
• 2 Corinthians 7:8-10
• 1 .. Receive
• Repentance begins when you receive the information that you are a sinner..
– Matthew 4:17 Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
– Matthew 3:1-2 John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"

• 1 .. Receive
• "What happened to repentance? You rarely hear the word mentioned in most churches today. Even in Baptist and Pentecostal and Evangelical circles, pastors nowadays seldom call for their congregations to sorrow over sin or to mourn and grieve over wounding Christ by their wickedness …
• 1 .. Receive
• "Instead the message we hear from many pulpits today is just believe, accept Christ, and you'll be saved… in many places they are teaching salvation without sorrow. They skip right on to how to be saved without first convicting the individual that he's a sinner and without having godly sorrow." (David Wilkerson)
• 1 .. Receive
• Acts 2:36-37 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
• 2 .. Remorse
• Remorse is the reaction to the message
– 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

• 2 .. Remorse
• 2 Corinthians 7:10 godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation..; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
– 1st Sorrow itself is not repentance ..
– 2nd There is a godly sorrow .. (Peter)
– 3rd There is a worldly sorrow .. (Judas)
• Worldly sorry is for the wrong reason

• 3.. Reverse
• After I receive the information and experience remorse, it causes me to have a reverse in my thinking ..
• 3.. Reverse
• Some say it is change of life .. not true
– Definition: Repentance is a change of mind produced by godly sorrow that results in a reformation of life ..

• 3.. Reverse
• Repentance takes place in our mind .. a reverse in our thinking ..
– Matthew 21:28-32 A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, 'Son, go, work today in my vineyard.' 29 He answered and said, 'I will not,' but afterward he regretted it (repented) and went ..
• 4.. Reformation
• The reverse in my thinking should result in a reformation of life ..
– “Fruits of repentance” ..
– John the Baptist in Matt 3:8 “Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance ..
– Ephesians 4:28 Let him who stole steal no longer ..

• 4.. Reformation
• You can tell a lot a man’s repentance by his reformation of life ..
– 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

• 5.. Restitution
• Restitution means restoring as much as possible that which belongs to another (giving back, replacing, repaying) ..
– The natural response to repentance ..
• 5.. Restitution
• Leviticus 6:1-5 "If a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord by lying to his neighbor about what was delivered to him for safekeeping, or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or if he has extorted from his neighbor, 3 or if he has found what was lost and lies concerning it, and swears falsely — in any one of these things that a man may do in which he sins: 4 then it shall be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore what he has stolen, or the thing which he has extorted, or what was delivered to him for safekeeping, or the lost thing which he found, 5 or all that about which he has sworn falsely. He shall restore its full value, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whomever it belongs, on the day of his trespass offering ..
• 5.. Restitution
• Luke 19:8-10 Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold."
• What repentance is not ..
• Confessing because they got caught ..
• Merely ceasing to sin..
• Simply experiencing sorrow ..
• Because someone else wants you to..
• “Repent” but not intending to stop
• Repenting of one sin while continuing another ..

• Question ..
• What if a person commits a sin they repent of but they keep going back to it again and again … will God forgive?
– Matthew 18:21-22 Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" 22 Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven

• The Five R’s of ..
• 2 Corinthians 7:8-10