6. Church people fade the meaning of repentance

 6. Church people fade the meaning of repentance

 

Church people often understand the word repentance as a word to repent, confess, and ask for forgiveness for the wrongdoings they have committed while living in the world. When they have done something that is not right in the eyes of God, or have done something bad to others, or have done something that others would point fingers at as a child of God, they come to church, repent for their actions, and ask God to forgive them.

If you understand the meaning of Jesus' words, "Repent" as "Repent for a mistake, confess, and ask for forgiveness," then you are misunderstanding the Bible. Repentance is when a sinner who has turned away from God turns back to God.

There is a parable of the prodigal son in the Bible. In Luke 15:11-24, it says that a father had two sons, and the younger one asked his father for his share in advance. So the father gave him the inheritance, but he went to a foreign country and lived a dissolute life, becoming almost a beggar, eating the husks that pigs were eating. When he returned to his father's house, he thought he had sinned against heaven and against his father, and could not call him father, so he asked to be made a hired servant. The story is about the father who thought his son was dead, but when he returned, he held a feast for his son.

Repentance must begin with the realization that the human beings living in the world were evil angels who left God because they wanted to become like God. Therefore, we must abandon the desire to become like God and return to God. The desire to become like God is contained in the body of sin. This has become the idol of self and is reigning. That is why Jesus told us to deny ourselves and take up our cross. Repentance is when the idol of self (old self) dies with Jesus who died on the cross and is resurrected with Jesus who was resurrected and returns to God. Therefore, we can say that repentance is the death of the old self. People who cling to the sins of the world do not realize the true meaning of repentance.

Romans 6:6-7, "For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin." The dead person is the death of the old self.

In the Old Testament, when sinners committed a sin, they brought a sacrificial offering to the sanctuary, killed the offering, poured the blood on the altar, and burned the meat. The blood symbolized the forgiveness of sins, and burning the meat symbolized the death of the body of sin. Although the sacrificial offering died, the sinner died like this. If you do not realize that the sinless Jesus died on the cross, but that death was your own death, then you have never repented.

Today, people in church communities believe that they must examine themselves every day in light of the law and live their lives sinning, and that if they break even a little of the commandments, they must confess their sins and repent in order to be saved. They are typical of those who believe in the gospel but are still captive to the law.

God says that those who die with Jesus will never again be held accountable for their sins. Romans 8:1 says, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,” and Hebrews 10:17-18 says, “And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Wherefore, wherefore, wherefore, there is no more sacrifice for sin.”

When a sinner repents and dies with Jesus, a change in spiritual identity occurs. One’s identity changes from the physical self to the spiritual self. The old person dies and is born again as a new person, and a change occurs in the temple in the soul. The old temple is destroyed, a new temple is built, and the resurrected Jesus returns to the new temple and enters. The owner of the old temple was oneself, but the owner of the new temple is Jesus Christ. The kingdom of God is realized in the soul of a repentant sinner. Repentance is returning to the previous state.


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