THAT I REPENT

Mark 1: 14-15

The first time the Lord Jesus Christ opens his mouth ... was to preach the message of repentance.

John the Baptist preached this message and also said that He would come Another greater than him ... and "people could ask, what could this speak to us". When John was imprisoned, this moved Jesus to preach and continue the message of John the Baptist ... but he was no longer an ordinary man, but was God himself made flesh to call man to repentance.

The word REPENTANCE comes from the original Greek METANOEO which means change of intention and change of mind ... Jesus when he told him that someone repents, the original idea is that you change your intentions as a consequence change the way of your life. It is a 180º turn

The message of life that Jesus preached is strongly linked to repentance, that when there is no true repentance there is no life in that person, everything is spiritual death, eternal damnation.

John Wesley never had peace, until he had a true repentance, who was this man, John Wesley grew up in a religious family, prepared to evangelize the Amerindians when America was being populated, one might think, that great man of God was East. To work more glorious intends to do, going to preach to another nation to the pagans, far from home, but John Wesley, to the get there and preach religion, according to also doing this to ensure his soul in heaven, he he realized, of the lack of life that was in himself and of the ineffectiveness of his words, back in his country, he thought about himself realizing that he did not even understand the gospel and had no peace in my soul, and said : "I went to America to preach to the Indians to become the Indians, but who converted me to me" I DIDN'T HAVE A TRUE FAITH, BECAUSE I DIDN'T ALSO HAVE A TRUE REPENTANCE in a few words his religion could not give Life to his soul

WITHOUT A REAL REPENTANCE THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS OR LIFE

Luke 3: 3

And he went throughout the region adjacent to the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins ... 

They baptized people that it was a symbol or an external rite of something that had already happened in the heart, when there was true repentance then there was a forgiveness of sins ... now people have only left the rite (baptize) but have not had a true repentance (which is the essence of baptism).

Without repentance, forgiveness of sins will not come and there will be no life

Acts 11:18

Then, having heard these things, they kept silent, and glorified God, saying: So God also has given repentance to life! 

The apostle Peter arrives with the early church and speaks to them as he had preached the gospel to the Gentiles (not Jewish) and not to the Jews (something that was controversial) and how it was that they were saved, and the church understood the following: how good, Gentiles have repented for life ”, if you thought that repentance was not necessary for salvation, you are seeing in the Holy Word that for the soul of man to have life, there must be a repentance and they will have life . A person will never have real life, no peace, no grace if he does not have a TRUE REPENTANCE.