Couples For Christ

Christian Life Program Talk 4

 We need to repent,
to
Our reform our lives.
proper response
Now it is time is

repentance and faith.

And we need to believe in the gospel,
to respond.
have faith in Jesus
Mk 1:14-15.
and the message he brings.
 Repentance and faith go together.
To simply
Faithbelieve
To just reform our lives is an
inadequate
It is a
without doing anything
necessarily
response to God.
In other words,
to reform our lives
We double-action
need
needs
faith to believe
to be
without
to become pleasing in
Him andresponse.
in
works His
is
connected plans
dead.
to God is alsoto and
promises.
morality.
inadequate.
We cannot just have one
without the other.
 More specifically, repentance means a
turning away from sin, evil,
wrongdoing and running your own life.
METANOIA
It is not just a Further, it is
simple confession turning to a life of
of wrongdoing. obedience to God
Rather, it refers to a and a change
having Jesus
change in direction. on the throne of
Repentance of mind
your life.
What repentance is not.
• It is not dependent on feelings.

• It is not being sorry for sin

What must we
because we are afraid of the
do to repent?
consequences.
 Be honest. Ask God's
forgiveness.
For Catholics,
we need to avail of the
Exercise of Reconciliation
Sacrament
humility. Renounce
sin.
• Involvement by a Christian in
non-Christian religions.
• Spiritualism and the occult.
•There
Sexual are specific sins we
wrongdoing.
need
• Serious to renounce.
crimes such as murder,
These
rape, serious robbery,
kidnapping, sins are:
corruption, etc.
• Drunkenness (not just drinking but drunkenness)
and getting stoned on drugs.
 Faith is belief in the gospel, which is the
Remember
Repentance
good news ofonly that inthe
becomes
salvation point
complete
Jesus Christ.
afterhere
totally turning away from
is not to feel bad evil
and accepting Jesus as Lord.
about yourself for past sins,
but
Our toneed
lives decisively
Accepting to Jesus and turn
come under letting away
him
his management.
Webe need
Lord from them.
to of
let Jesus
our have
lives the run
require of things.
faith.
Belief in the messenger,
Jesus,

and in the message

that he brings.
 FAITHanMEANS an
indispensable
urgent
act
act with our minds
not just believing
(an intellectual
an belief) that
a
a Jesus
Faith isindividual is the
personal Savior,
act and decision.
deliberate
It has several
act aspects
act (Rev 3:20).
but
a believing in our hearts that he
definite
came to be our personal Savior.
act
• Not What God has promised
just a FEELING. us new life.
Faith is accepting that
• Not life and letting
just WISHFUL THINKING. God show us
how to live it.

• Not is not.
a BLIND
We must be willing to do
whatever LEAP.
God wants of us, and
actually do it.
 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
Ascallwe repentancethe
respond positively,
and faith.
on His promises, and
GodItchallenge
is the same
promises to
us call torepent
salvationus today.
from sin,
We expect
are called to
to experience
turn away from
forgiveness and reconciliation, sin life,
eternal
and
and
and the the believe
peace and
all obstacles
power in Jesus.
God, and
joy
to Spirit
of the Holy andour
for to lives.
acceptof
power Jesus
theasLord
Lord.in
your lives.
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