Rebuke, Repent, Forgive

 

 
If someone sins, Yeshua has instructed us to rebuke that person.  If that person repents, we are to forgive him or her.  As often as the one who sins repents, we are required to forgive. 

To Repent:

v If one sin against another, that one should confess that he or she has committed a wrongful act. 

v If one sin against another, he or she should feel true remorse for the wrongful thing that was done. 

v If one sin against another, he or she should labor to repair the damage that was done. 

v If one sin against another, he or she should make every effort to not repeat the wrong again. 

Our God is a righteous God.  We are required to walk in His righteous ways.  We are required to repent when we fall into sin.  When we repent, He is faithful to forgive us. 

This is the message of the Kingdom of God:

Luke 24:45-47

Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

⁴⁵ Then he (Yeshua) opened their minds, so that they could understand the Tanakh, ⁴⁶ telling them, “Here is what it says: the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day; ⁴⁷ and in his name repentance leading to forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to people from all nations, starting with Yerushalayim.   

It is written that God is angry with the wicked every day.  The wicked will have no place in God’s soon coming Kingdom.  They will be held in a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth! 

 

Some people try to twist this precept and make it backwards.  Instead of asking the wicked to repent so that they may obtain forgiveness, they are insisting that the righteous forgive the wicked without requiring their repentance!

Be sure to watch the video below to listen to the song 'Search Me' from Psalm 139.  I think you'll like it.