True Repentance

True repentance requires awareness of sin at the heart level, willingness to accept full responsibility for our actions, and the determination to change.

A real repentance is to TURN AROUND, to move in the opposite direction.
It’s a gift of God’s grace – godly grief based on love for God and the person that we sinned against, heartache for the wounding that was caused.
Fully turning to God without any excuse or reservation, with a broken spirit.

Remorse is wishing we had done better
Feeling sorry for what we have done because we where ‘caught out’
Being brokenhearted for ourselves only
It’s of the flesh, for the flesh, never coming to true repentance or freedom.
As soon as they have the forgiveness they will continue with the wrong.

Saulish repentance expects God to understand, seeks to avoid painful consequences and is without surrender. Also offers a good reason for disobedience and continue by self-exaltation. The result is that they miss the blessings of God (King Saul died broken – He lost his Kingdome and his mind, and lived out his life in delusion.)

Davidic repentance accepts the truth when confronted makes no excuses and takes responsibility for their own actions. Focus attention upon the wounded one – including God. They feel the damage done to the other as if it were done to them. They are willing to change and allow God to change them. They are unwilling to compromise and stay with new disciplines. The result is increasing of blessings and wisdom. (King David’s repentance was a full surrender to God, without excuse. As a result, he grew in stature and wisdom and his descendant, Jesus, reigns eternally)

God accepts a broken spirit and a contrite heart – Psalm 51:17

People must also distinguish between repentance and to be born again. We can get born again, only once in our lifetime but we do repent several times, sometimes daily. When born again our spirit that was inactive start to be active again but we are all humans and will fall from time to time and then we will need to repent.

We also have to repent from stuff we do to our brothers and sisters. Its of no use to chop off someone’s head, put it underneath his arm and say ‘Oh! I am so sorry!!!” Tomorrow you do that very same thing again, and continually in this behavior, YOU STILL HAVE TO FORGIVE

Luke 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother TRESPASS AGAINST THEE, REBUKE HIM; and IF he REPENT, FORGIVE him.
Luke 17:4 And if he trespass against thee SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou SHALT FORGIVE HIM.

Thanks for all the interest in this topic Gerry, Blessed-one and Bsign24 – for many years there was so much contradictory about forgiveness and repentance. Still today I find that Christians see repentance and to be born again as the very same thing. There is much more to be born again as to turn away from the wrong way.
What do you people think?

Thanks GraftMeIn, I always value your opinion highly.