<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.

<h1><strong>CONSEQUENCES OF LACK OF REPENTANCE (I SAMUEL 3:18, 4:10-21)</strong></h1> CONTENT <ol> <li>Consequences of Lack of Repentance (I Samuel 3:18, 4:10-21)</li> <li>The Consequences of Sin</li> <li>Moral Lessons</li> </ol>   <h2><strong>Consequences of Lack of Repentance (I Samuel 3:18, 4:10-21)</strong></h2> God is not happy with those who lack repentance. He punishes them for their refusal to feel sorry in repentance, regret their actions and ask for forgiveness. In the Bible, Hophni and Phinehas were two brothers whom God punished for their lack of repentance. Hophni and Phinehas were the sons of Eli - a Prophet in Israel in charge of the house of God at Shiloh. His sons were assistant Priests who helped him with the work of God. Hophni and Phinehas did so many evil in the sight of God with hardened heart. At times, they desired their share of the meat for sacrifice raw and even forcefully. At other times, the women that came for sacrifice were forced into sin right at the altar of God.