Repentance
The sign of Jonah
Jonah swallowed by a whale, spat out with a message to Nineveh to repent because of their
evil behaviour or be judged.
Their response was to repent, wear sack cloth and ashes to show remorse and sorrow for
the sin they had commited and God forgave them and did not judge them.
And this is the sign of Christ to a fallen world.
"I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” Luke 5:22
But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die. None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live.
Ezek 18:21-22
But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.
Ezek 18:24
This is true repentance.
in pauls words
... romans 8:12-13 "Therefore, brethren, WE ARE DEBTORS, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live AFTER THE FLESH, ye SHALL DIE: but if ye through the SPIRIT do MORTIFY THE DEEDS OF THE BODY , ye shall LIVE."
....romans 8:15-18 "-What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? GOD FORBID. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants TO OBEY, his servants YE ARE to whom YE OBEY; WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH, or of OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTOEUSNESS ? But God be thanked, that ye WERE the servants of sin, BUT YE HAVE OBEYED FROM THE HEART THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE WHICH WAS DELIVERED YOU . BEING THEN MADE FREE FROM SIN, ye became the SERVANTS OF righteousness."
Galatians 5:16-21 "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall NOT FULFIL THE LUST of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth AGAINST THE SPIRIT, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But IF ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD."