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Repentance: The Joy Filled Life
Book by M. Basilea Schlink
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First published January 1, 1959
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September 18, 2021
Mycket bra skrift om omvändelse, botgöring och ånger inför Jesus. På svenska heter boken "Bot-ett glädjefyllt liv'
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February 15, 2024
A book that looks right into one's heart and provides the keys to deal with the pretensions and hypocrisy that are so common in our churches.
I really should read this book more than once.
I really should read this book more than once.
May 4, 2017
M. Basilea Schlink was the founder and director or the Sisterhood of Mary.
This small book that was published 46 years ago, based on a letter sent to a friend 68 years ago, makes the case for daily repentance of the believer over sin which then leads to the joy-filled life. No repentance, no joy.
She makes this case based on the scripture verse Micah 7:18: "Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity!"
-Joy is lost over sin not confessed and repented of, p8
-He gives us the opportunity to confess and overcome sin, bit by bit, p9
-Only penitent sinners-to whom forgiveness is given-are on fire with love for Jesus. p10
-To live means to repent. Dead are those Christians who have never wept over their sins or who have long ago ceased to weep over sins. p14
The first characteristic of the Kingdom of Heaven- joy, great joy- will be kindled through contrition and repentance. Repentance is the only gate through which the Gospel is received. Repentance is the entrance to the joy-filled life with Christ. p22
-Mary Magdalene brought nothing but her sin to Jesus, a what a terrible sin it was. But her life was changed as she stood before Him with repentant heart receiving His forgiveness. p24
-There is only one way to continually experience the Kingdom of Heaven: We must take refuge in the cross; we must come immediately to the Lord, and when necessary to men, in contrition and repentance. p24
- The church has grieved the heart of God by declaring in certain places, that God is dead p27
- The Way to Repentance
1. Realize we have no repentance.
2. We can't generate this, on our own. He has to teach and lead us. No one is able to change his own hard heart into one that is soft and broken. p30
-everyday we need to ask for the grace of repentance and to accept the chastening that comes along with it. p32
- a holy life grows out of contrition and repentance. p33
- Ostacles
1. No repentance because we are proud, self-righteous, unwilling and make excuses p.35
2. No repentance because we do not recognize the voice of God in His judgments and the pain/suffering we feel p41
3. No repentance because we do not take God's Word (ex. Sermon on the Mount) as the standard measurement for our life but set our own up. p46
- we must repent of loving other things more than Him p50
- we must repent of receiving His blessings as if we are due rather than with grateful hearts in addition to His forgiveness for our sin which illustrates our unworthiness to be blessed. p51
- repentance must come from God's people; sin will be judged in the end times and we must be ready to rejoice for His righteous judgments p58.
While I am not sure of all of her interpretations of various passages, I am draw to the thesis of the book: daily repentance over daily sin brings daily joy.
This to me is another way to "Preach the Gospel" to myself.
It helps.
“Biblical repentance, then, is not merely a sense of regret that leaves us where it found us. It is a radical reversal that takes us back along the road of our sinful wanderings, creating in us a completely different mind-set. We come to our senses spiritually (Luke 15:17). Thus the prodigal son’s life was no longer characterized by the demand “give me” (v. 12) but now by the request “make me . . .” (v. 19). This lies on the surface of the New Testament’s teaching. Regret there will be, but the heart of repentance is the lifelong moral and spiritual turnaround of our lives as we submit to the Lord.”
This small book that was published 46 years ago, based on a letter sent to a friend 68 years ago, makes the case for daily repentance of the believer over sin which then leads to the joy-filled life. No repentance, no joy.
She makes this case based on the scripture verse Micah 7:18: "Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity!"
-Joy is lost over sin not confessed and repented of, p8
-He gives us the opportunity to confess and overcome sin, bit by bit, p9
-Only penitent sinners-to whom forgiveness is given-are on fire with love for Jesus. p10
-To live means to repent. Dead are those Christians who have never wept over their sins or who have long ago ceased to weep over sins. p14
The first characteristic of the Kingdom of Heaven- joy, great joy- will be kindled through contrition and repentance. Repentance is the only gate through which the Gospel is received. Repentance is the entrance to the joy-filled life with Christ. p22
-Mary Magdalene brought nothing but her sin to Jesus, a what a terrible sin it was. But her life was changed as she stood before Him with repentant heart receiving His forgiveness. p24
-There is only one way to continually experience the Kingdom of Heaven: We must take refuge in the cross; we must come immediately to the Lord, and when necessary to men, in contrition and repentance. p24
- The church has grieved the heart of God by declaring in certain places, that God is dead p27
- The Way to Repentance
1. Realize we have no repentance.
2. We can't generate this, on our own. He has to teach and lead us. No one is able to change his own hard heart into one that is soft and broken. p30
-everyday we need to ask for the grace of repentance and to accept the chastening that comes along with it. p32
- a holy life grows out of contrition and repentance. p33
- Ostacles
1. No repentance because we are proud, self-righteous, unwilling and make excuses p.35
2. No repentance because we do not recognize the voice of God in His judgments and the pain/suffering we feel p41
3. No repentance because we do not take God's Word (ex. Sermon on the Mount) as the standard measurement for our life but set our own up. p46
- we must repent of loving other things more than Him p50
- we must repent of receiving His blessings as if we are due rather than with grateful hearts in addition to His forgiveness for our sin which illustrates our unworthiness to be blessed. p51
- repentance must come from God's people; sin will be judged in the end times and we must be ready to rejoice for His righteous judgments p58.
While I am not sure of all of her interpretations of various passages, I am draw to the thesis of the book: daily repentance over daily sin brings daily joy.
This to me is another way to "Preach the Gospel" to myself.
It helps.
“Biblical repentance, then, is not merely a sense of regret that leaves us where it found us. It is a radical reversal that takes us back along the road of our sinful wanderings, creating in us a completely different mind-set. We come to our senses spiritually (Luke 15:17). Thus the prodigal son’s life was no longer characterized by the demand “give me” (v. 12) but now by the request “make me . . .” (v. 19). This lies on the surface of the New Testament’s teaching. Regret there will be, but the heart of repentance is the lifelong moral and spiritual turnaround of our lives as we submit to the Lord.”
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