Repentance the word in the New Testament is the word metanoia which literally means a

changing of the mind. Suddenly I begin to see my sin for what it really is and where before I was not bothered by it or I rationalized it,

now I changed my mind and I'm ready to acknowledge the reality of my guilt and to turn from my rationalizing and my

attempts to deny the reality of my guilt. With genuine repentance there is forgiveness offered in the gospel, but what does that repentance look like?

This is the Wednesday edition of renewing your mind. I'm Nathan W Bingham and I'm glad

you're with us. Our guilt before God is real,

and the only cure for real guilt is real forgiveness.

The Bible is clear that to experience that forgiveness,

we need to repent. So what does that

repentance look like and what is the fruit of real and authentic forgiveness?

We have experienced forgiveness from God. For example does that mean we're simply to forgive anyone and everyone

who has ever sinned against us?

These are important questions.

So here's R.C. Sproll, with the five hours of real forgiveness.

30 years ago, when my daughter was just a little girl,

I was working on the staff of a church in Cincinnati and every year we had a special week of

services that we called the annual preaching mission and this was somewhat unusual

for a Presbyterian church that we would have a heavy emphasis for one week on evangelism. In fact every year we even during this week would have

altar calls in the church which was also unheard of in such circles and we would bring in a visiting preacher and I had to

participate and assist in the worship service on this particular evening and there was a children's program that went on simultaneously

in a different part of the church, and I took my little girl that evening and put her into the children's program and then I went

over to the church office and prepared for the worship service.

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