70c — What Is Repentance?
Is Repentance Necessary for Salvation?
For you budding theologians, here is a video produced by Got Questions Ministry that gives an easy-to-understand explanation of repentance. Watch the video all the way through and then see if you can:
1) Fill in the missing blanks in the Repentance Review below the video.
2) Explain how Zacchaeus is an example of true repentance.
My Prayer
Dearest Father, Thank you for Jesus. I recognize that he is Lord and Christ — the one who died on the cross to pay for my sins. I accept him by faith and gladly receive salvation. Thank you for giving me eternal life and a new desire to change my behavior so that I can be more like you. Amen.
Repentance Review
In the Bible, the word repent means: to change one’s __ __ __ __ .
For salvation, repentance means changing your mind from __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ of Christ to
__ __ __ __ __ in Christ.
There are 3 possible ways to reject Christ:
1) W __ __ __ __ __ __ R __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ = “I don’t believe Jesus is the Son of God.”
2) I __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ = “There are many religions. One is probably as good as another.”
3) D __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ = “I’m a pretty good person. I don’t think I really need a Savior.”
It is important to remember that repentance is not a work we do to __ __ __ __ salvation.
As John the Baptist preached in Matthew 3:8: “Produce __ __ __ __ __ in keeping with repentance.”
In other words, repentance is a change of __ __ __ __ about Jesus that results in a change of
__ __ __ __ __ __ in my life. Therefore, when my mind (or heart) is changed, my behavior will
begin to __ __ __ __ __ __ also.
