Riches of Salvation - Week 10 - Repentance

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Definition of Repentance: 3 Parts (Westminster Shorter Catechism Q87)

A true sense of sin - sorrow, grief, and hatred of it - Acts 11:18; 2 Timothy 2:25
Apprehend the mercy of God in Christ - Psalm 51:1-4
Turn from sin unto God - 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; Luke 1:16-17

Marks of True Repentance in Scripture

Changed attitude toward sin - sorrow for sin - Luke 15:18-19; Psalm 51:17
Changed attitude toward self - agreeing with God’s judgement of oneself, crucifying the flesh - Galatians 5:25; Ephesians 4:22; Psalm 51:3-4
Changed attitude toward God - apprehension of God’s grace, It is the grace of God that causes us to fear Him and that relieves our fears! - Psalm 130:3-4

Faith and Repentance

Faith is based on the knowledge or Awareness of who Christ is, and repentance is based on sorrow or Awareness of our sin
Faith is loving and receiving or Accepting Christ, and repentance is renouncing and hating sin, or Accepting what God says about my sin.
Faith is trusting or the Action of turning to Christ, and repentance is the Action of turning from sin unto Him.

Faith and repentance are two halves of the same heart attitude. We cannot have one without the other! A Christian believes penitently, and repents believingly!

Discussion Questions:
Are faith AND repentance necessary for salvation?
Where does repentance fit in the order of salvation?
What does true repentance look like?
Is repentance required in order for us to have saving faith?
If we are leading lives of continual repentance, how do we react when someone accuses us of sin?

Westminster Confession of Faith and Shorter Catechism on “Repentance unto Life

WCF Chapter 15

Of Repentance unto Life
I. Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace, the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of the Gospel, as well as that of faith in Christ.
II. By it, a sinner, out of the sight and sense not only of the danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to the holy nature, and righteous law of God; and upon the apprehension of His mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, so grieves for, and hates his sins, as to turn from them all unto God, purposing and endeavouring to walk with Him in all the ways of His commandments.
III. Although repentance is not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof, which is the act of God's free grace in Christ, yet it is of such necessity to all sinners, that none may expect pardon without it.
IV. As there is no sin so small, but it deserves damnation; so there is no sin so great, that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent.
V. Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man's duty to endeavor to repent of his particular sins, particularly.
VI. As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof; upon which, and the forsaking of them, he shall find mercy; so he that scandelizeth his brother, or the Church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance to those that are offended; who are thereupon to be reconciled to him, and in love to receive him.

WSC Q87

Q. 87. What is repentance unto life?
A. Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience.

Other Resources

The Christian Life by Sinclair Ferguson
Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray
Systematic Theology by John Frame

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