Admission vs Repentance

[Sue J Love]

Many people confuse admission of sin with repentance of sin. They are not one and the same. For some people may admit their sins with their lips, and even feel sorrowful over the wrongs they have done, and still never repent of their sins. For to repent is to have a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior. To repent is to stop doing the wrong that you were doing and to now to do what is right. It is to completely change course, to go the opposite direction of where you had been going, to no longer living in addiction to sin but now to living as slaves of God and of His righteousness.

[Matthew 3:8; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 11:20-21; Matthew 12:41; Matthew 21:28-31; Mark 1:15; Mark 6:12; Luke 5:32; Luke 9:23-26; Luke 13:3,5; Luke 15:2-8; Luke 24:47; Acts 3:19-20; Acts 5:30-31; Acts 8:22; Acts 11:17-18; Acts 17:29-31; Acts 19:18-20; Acts 20:21; Acts 26:18-20; Romans 2:4; Romans 6:1-23; 2 Corinthians 7:8-10; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Ephesians 4:17-32; 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 2 Timothy 2:24-26; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 1:5-10; Revelation 2:5,16; Revelation 3:3,19]