Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

So we are in a series called Good News. I talked to you last week about how the word gospel literally

means good news, but that the word refers to not just the news, but the one who brings the good

news, the messenger, and that messenger being Jesus Christ. And then we're four weeks, this is our

second week, and then I'm taking a word that is really bad news without the gospel, but the gospel

can take that word and make it good news. And last week we talked about the word condemnation.

That condemnation is a death sentence, but through Christ it becomes an eternal life sentence instead

of eternal death sentence. There is no death sentence for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8.1 says,

so this week I'm going to take a word that I think many believers think is a bad word,

and it's actually a good word. It's good news. And the word is repentance.

So I really believe that many believers have a bad view of this word and don't like it.

And I can remember when I first found out the definition, which will go into a little deeper,

but I was in Greek class, so that's, I was in Greek class one years ago. And anyway,

when you look back on your college years, you don't remember a lot of what the professor said,

but ever now then there was something said that impacted you that you remember to this day,

probably. And I do remember economics class. Economics class, I bought my economics book for $80

and then sold it back to him for $4 at the end of the semester. So I'm not sure I learned much

about Bilo and sell high from that class, but anyway, in Greek class one day, the professor said

the word repentance and he was just going, just kind of going on using it as an example,

but he said, it means change mind or change the way you think, the verb would be changed the way

you think, the noun in your mind, change your mind. And then he just went on. And it just kind of,

it didn't set right with me because if you remember when I was in college, I was already

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