Repentance That Lead To Revival Series

Many people are sorry Only for the effects of their sins or for being caught, and they don’t allow that sorrow to bring lasting change.]

Its one thing to be sorry that you got caught, its another thing to Not let that sorrow bring lasting change in your life

Let’s compare two men who are filled with remorse for having denied Jesus: Peter & Judas.

Judas’s act of remorse in bitterness leads to suicide…Peters remorse leads him to a place of repentance

3. His Remorse Leads to Repentance

“At the end of that time, I Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven…” Daniel 4:34

Neb who is in the midst of the consequences of his actions, stops to “lift his eyes toward heaven. It shows us that in trials that we put ourselves in we can still look to heaven with a repentive hearts and be forgiven.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus… so that you will not grow weary and loose heart. Heb. 12:2

2 Cor. 7:10 for God can use sorrow in this world to help us turn away from sin and turn to salvation. We will never regret that kind of remorse.

The kind of remorse that leads to a sorrow that leads to repentance… can we start this year off, as we Rev it up…

…by allowing our regrets lead to remorse and our remorse leading us ultimately to repentance?

Look many of us have had the guilt heaped on us, (falsely I might add) that, “you’re only sorry cause you got caught” and the one who got hurt is unforgiving toward you…

Or “if you didn’t get caught you’d still be doing it.” Well thank God for His grace that we have been caught, because in that Regret remorse may come…

In that remorse Repentance can be found if it’s a Godly remorse that will lead you to repent and change.

It matters NOT how you got to repentance, what matters is that you get to a place of Godly sorrow that leads to repentance.

And do you know what flows from a repentive heart? From a repentive heart comes a heart for worship…

“I honored and glorified Him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; His kingdom endures from generation to generation.” Daniel 4:34

Neb starts to worship the God of Daniel verbally. He confesses God as “The Most High” v.34 and gives honor to the Lord.

The fact that the king (who at one point wanted all to worship him) is now UNASHAMEDLY worshiping the King of kings, the creator God in the presence of all others will cause others to react the same.

When we begin to let the worship of God flow out of our gratefully repentive hearts, others will begin to participate in that worship.

4. A Godly Repentance Leads to Restoration.

“at the same time my sanity was restored, my honor and splendor were returned to me… I was restored to my throne and WAS EVEN GREATER THAN BEFORE.” Daniel 4:36

It seems that a great strain is lifted off of Nubuchadnezzar as soon as he recognizes his sin and turns toward God. Something happens within him. “My Sanity was restored”