<h1><strong>CALL TO REPENTANCE</strong></h1> CONTENT <ol> <li>The Meaning of Repentance</li> <li>King David Obeys God’s Call to Repentance (2 Sam. 12:7-13, Ps. 51:1-19)</li> <li>Zacchaeus Responds to the Call to Repentance (Luke 19: 1-10)</li> </ol> <br> <h2><strong>The Meaning of Repentance</strong></h2> To repent means to regret, be sorry, feel sorrow or feel ashamed for any wrong done. Therefore, repentance is the act of regretting or feeling sorry or ashamed for any wrongdoing. It is the realization that what we have done is bad/wrong and we are ready to apologize and ask for forgiveness. <h2><strong>King David Obeys God’s Call to Repentance. 2 Sam. 12:7-13, Ps. 51:1-19</strong></h2> David was the second King of Israel. The Israelite army was fighting against the Ammonites. David did not go to fight the war. One day as he was walking on the roof top of his house, he saw a beautiful woman next door taking her bath. David asked his servants who the woman was. They told him that she was Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, one of his soldiers fighting in the war against the Ammonites. Later, he told his servants to bring the woman to his palace. The woman came and David slept with her and she became pregnant.

<h1><strong>CALL TO REPENTANCE</strong></h1> CONTENT <ol> <li>The People of Nineveh Repent of their Sins (Jonah 3 : 1-10)</li> <li>John the Baptist Calls for Repentance (Luke 3 : 1-14)</li> </ol>   <h2><strong>The People of Nineveh Repent of their Sins (Jonah 3: 1-10)</strong></h2> The people of Nineveh were evil in their ways. They did many evil things to one another. They were wicked. They did not help those in trouble. They did not feel sorry for all the wrong that they had done and they continued to do. God told the Prophet Jonah to go and call the people of Nineveh to repentance otherwise He would destroy them. At first he refused and ran away from God’s directive to Tarshish but later went to the town of Nineveh and called the people there to repentance. God said through Jonah that Nineveh would be overthrown in forty days time. The people felt sorry of all the bad things that they had done. They repented by <strong>proclaiming a fast, putting on sackcloth, the king arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes and asked God for forgiveness.</strong> And, God forgave them.