SJF - Daily Worship, Word and Spirit - Nov. 4, 2023

Repentance includes these three things: 1) a heart change which impacts a person’s attitude, 2) a confession change which impacts a person’s speech, and 3) a behavior change which impacts a person’s outcomes. Godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation. Salvation is a change of outcomes. God’s Salvation in all of its forms is defined as deliverance and preservation which manifests itself in one being cured, healed, preserved, recovered, and restored in every way - spirit, soul and body.

If all a person does is feel bad (condemnation) about what they are doing, they are just killing themselves - figuratively and literally. Think about how addiction produces worldly sorrow but no change - only death. Sorrow that does not produce repentance will never change your outcomes.

“For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.” (2 Corinthians 7:10–11, NKJV)