(11/6/2014) Thursday NEW: The Character of Genuine Saving Faith, based off of Pastor John MacArthur. NEW There are 2 lists. Please read these salvation character traits and what they mean. Reading the Bible in One year will continue to be provided also. Today’s study is posted for everyone at Christian Kids of Kingman on Facebook, and my Facebook Home Page. Click either “Continue Reading / See More” to read it. READ the BIBLE in one year chronologically. TODAY: Mark 13 Or READ BIBLE in one year (AM New Testament; PM Old Testament) TODAY: Morning Heb. 3 Evening Jer. 37, 38, 39 2 Corinthians 13: (NASB77) Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you–unless indeed you fail the test? List 2: The Fruit / Proofs of Authentic / True Christianity: NASB77 (B. Repentance from Sin: 4 of 5) 2 Cor. 7:10 2Cor 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to [the will of] God produces a repentance (leading to a salvation without regret) without regret, [leading] to salvation; but the sorrow of the world produces death. (Mickelson’s Enhanced Strong’s Greek and Hebrew Dictionary, 2008, KJV) REPENTANCE: G3341 μετάνοια metanoia (met-an-oy-ah) n. 1. (subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including reformation) 2. (by implication) reversal (of (anothers) decision) [from G3340] KJV: repentance Root(s): G3340 SALVATION: G4991 σωτηρία soteria (so-tay-ree-ah) n. 1. rescue or safety (physically or morally) [feminine of a derivative of G4990 as (properly, abstract) noun] KJV: deliver, health, salvation, save, saving Root(s): G4990 (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1915) 3. Repent--to Turn Over, to Turn Upon, to Turn Unto: The word epistrepho, is used to bring out more clearly the distinct change wrought in repentance. It is employed quite frequently in Ac to express the positive side of a change involved in New Testament repentance, or to indicate the return to God of which the turning from sin is the negative aspect. The two conceptions are inseparable and complementary. The word is used to express the spiritual transition from sin to God (Acts 9:35; 1Thess 1:9); to strengthen the idea of faith (Ac 11:21); and to complete and emphasize the change required by New Testament repentance (Ac 26:20). There is great difficulty in expressing the true idea of a change of thought with reference to sin when we translate the New Testament repentance into other languages. The Latin version renders it exercise penitence (poenitentiam agere). But penitence etymologically signifies pain, grief, distress, rather than a change of thought and purpose. Thus Latin Christianity has been corrupted by the pernicious error of presenting grief over sin rather than abandonment of sin as the primary idea of New Testament repentance. It was easy to make the transition from penitence to penance, consequently the Romanists represent Jesus and the apostles as urging people to do penance (poenitentiam agite). The English word repent is derived from the Latin repoenitere, and inherits the fault of the Latin, making grief the principal idea and keeping it in the background, if not altogether out of sight, the fundamental New Testament conception of a change of mind with reference to sin. But the exhortations of the ancient prophets, of Jesus, and of the apostles show that the change of mind is the dominant idea of the words employed, while the accompanying grief and consequent reformation enter into ones experience from the very nature of the case. (Digital, The MacArthur Bible Commentary, 2005, NKJV) Pg. 2 Cor. “7:10 godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation. Godly sorrow refers to sorrow that is according to the will of God and produced by the Holy Spirit (see note on 2 Tim. 2:25). True repentance cannot occur apart from such a genuine sorrow over one’s sin. The word leading is supplied by the translators; Paul was saying that repentance belongs to the realm or sphere of salvation. Repentance is at the very heart of and proves one’s salvation: unbelievers repent of their sin initially when they are saved, and then as believers, repent of their sins continually to keep the joy and blessing of their relationship to God (see notes on 1 John 1:7-9). sorrow of the world produces death. Human sorrow is unsanctified remorse and has no redemptive capability. It is nothing more than the wounded pride of getting caught in a sin and having one’s lusts go unfulfilled. That kind of sorrow leads only to guilt, despair, depression, self-pity, and hopelessness. People can die from such sorrow (cf. Matt. 27:3).” (Commentary Critical and Explanatory of the Whole Bible, KJV) REPENTANCE: repentance . . . not to be repented of—There is not in the Greek this play on words, so that the word qualified is not repentance merely, but repentance unto salvation; this, he says, none will ever regret, however attended with sorrow at the time. Repentance implies a coming to a right mind; regret implies merely uneasiness of feeling at the past or present, and is applied even to the remorse of Judas (Mt 27:3; Greek, stricken with remorse, not as English Version, repented himself); so that, though always accompanying repentance, it is not always accompanied by repentance. Repentance removes the impediments in the way of salvation (to which death, namely, of the soul, is opposed). The sorrow of the world is not at the sin itself, but at its penal consequences: so that the tears of pain are no sooner dried up, than the pleasures of ungodliness are renewed. So Pharaoh, Exod 9:27; Exod 9:28-30; and Saul, 1Sa 15:23-30. Compare Isa 9:13; Rev 16:10; Rev 16:11. Contrast Davids godly sorrow, 2Sa 12:13, and Peters, Mt 26:75. If you would like to start developing a relationship with Jesus Christ click the Manzanita Baptist Church’s Web Page link bellow. manzanitabaptist.org/ John 3:16 Num. 6:24-26
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