Repentance

We saw last week that regeneration is nothing less than a spiritual resurrection from the dead. It is a sovereign act of God's Holy Spirit whereby he makes a spiritually dead sinner alive and responsive to God. Jesus compared this work of the Spirit to the wind. Like the wind, you can't see it, but you can know it by the evidence of its activity. What are the evidences of regeneration or new birth? Faith and repentance. Faith and repentance are not causitive of regeneration, but are fruits of new life. Where you find one, you will always find the other. This morning we want to look at the biblical doctrine of repentance...