PENITENCE-IMPENITENCE
PENITENCE-IMPENITENCE
(A) REPENTANCE
(1) Duty of
2Ki17:13; 2Ch 30:6; Pro 1:23; Isa 22:12; Jer 25:5
Eze 14:6; Eze 18:31; Eze 33:11; Dan 4:27; Hos 14:2; Joe 2:12; Mal 3:7
Mat 3:2; Luk 13:2; Luk 13:3; Act 3:19; Act 8:22; Act 17:30; Act 26:20
–SEE Confession of Sin, CONFESSION
Cleansing, CLEANSING
Divine Pleadings, INVITATIONS
(2) Promises to the Penitent
1Sa 7:3
Answer to Prayer
2Ch 7:14; 2Ch 30:9; Neh 1:9
Pardon, for sin
Isa 55:7; Jer 3:12; Jer 31:9
Life
Eze 18:21; Zec 1:3
Comfort
Mat 5:4; Luk 15:7
The Gift of the Holy Spirit
Act 2:38
For other promises to the Penitent, See PROMISES, DIVINE
(3) Examples of
Ahab
1Ki 21:27
Josiah
2Ki22:19
Israel in Ezra’s Time
Ezr 10:1
Job
Job 42:1; Job 42:6; Psa 38:18; Jer 3:21; Hos 6:1
The Ninevites
Jon 3:6-9
Peter
Mar 14:72
The Prodigal Son
Luk 15:21
The Publican
Luk 18:13
–SEE 2711
Religious Awakening, AWAKENINGS
Pardon, SALVATION
(4) Ascribed to God (change of purpose)
Gen 6:7; Exo 32:14; 1Sa 15:11; Psa 106:45; Hos 11:8; Joe 2:13; Jon 3:9
(5) Fasts Proclaimed in connection with
1Ki 21:9; 2Ch 20:3; Ezr 8:21; Est 4:16; Jer 36:9; Jon 3:5
(B) RETURNING TO GOD
(1) General References to
1Ki 8:48; Psa 78:34; Isa 19:22; Isa 30:15; Isa 55:7; Hos 6:1; Hos 14:1; Mal 3:7
Luk 15:20; 1Pe 2:25
(2) Promises to those who come in Contrition
Psa 34:18; Psa 51:17; Isa 57:15; Isa 66:2; Joe 2:13; Zec 12:10; 2Co 7:10
–SEE Confession of Sin, CONFESSION
(C) IMPENITENCE
(1) Warnings Against
Lev 26:23; Pro 1:24; Ecc 8:11; Jer 7:13; Hos 7:10; Amo 4:6; Hag 2:17
Mat 11:20
–SEE Stubbornness, SELF-WILL
(2) Examples of
2Ki17:14; 2Ch 28:22; 2Ch 33:23; Neh 9:29; Jer 6:15; Dan 9:13
Luk 16:31; Rev 9:21
–SEE Perverseness, PERVERSENESS
Stubbornness, SELF-WILL
(D) CORRECTION DESPISED
Isa 1:5; Isa 9:13; Isa 42:25; Jer 2:30; Jer 5:3; Amo 4:9; Zep 3:7
Heb 12:5; Rev 16:11
–SEE Stubbornness, SELF-WILL
& SELF-WILL
Blindness, BLINDNESS-VISION
Perverseness, PERVERSENESS
Divine Call, INVITATIONS
(E) HARDNESS OF HEART
(1) Condemned
Psa 95:8; Pro 28:14; Pro 29:1; Isa 42:25; Rom 2:5; Heb 3:13
–SEE Stubbornness, SELF-WILL
(E) HARDNESS OF HEART
(2) Examples of
Exo 8:15; 2Ch 36:13; Neh 9:17; Psa 78:32; Jer 5:3; Dan 5:20; Zec 7:12
Mar 3:5; Mar 8:17; Mar 16:14
–SEE Perverseness, PERVERSENESS
Self-will, SELF-WILL
Divine Call, INVITATIONS
Despisers, DESPISERS
(F) INSENSIBILITY, physical and spiritual
Pro 23:35; Isa 42:25; Act 28:27; Eph 4:19; 1Ti 4:2
–SEE Dullness, DULLNESS
Spiritual Deafness, DEAFNESS
Dead in Sin, 2164
Spiritual Sleep, SLEEP