Do You Need to Repent?

<p>Repent<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p>The repentance (metanoia) called for throughout the Bible is <strong>a summons to a personal, absolute and ultimate unconditional surrender to God as Sovereign</strong>. Though it includes sorrow and regret, it is more than that. ... In repenting, one makes a complete change of direction (180° turn) toward God.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Repentance involves recognizing that you have thought wrongly in the past and determining to think rightly in the future. The repentant person has “second thoughts” about the mindset he formerly embraced. There is a change of disposition and a new way of thinking about God, about sin, about holiness, and about doing God’s will. True<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>repentance is prompted by “godly sorrow,” and it “leads to salvation” (<a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2%20Cor%207.10">2 Corinthians 7:10</a>).</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Psalm 51 </strong></p> <p>Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.</p> <p><strong>2 </strong>Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.</p> <p><strong>3 </strong>For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.</p> <p><strong>4 </strong>Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.</p> <p><strong>5 </strong>Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.</p> <p><strong>6 </strong>Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.</p> <p><strong>7 </strong>Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</p> <p><strong>8 </strong>Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.</p> <p><strong>9 </strong>Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquit