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To repent is to turn. Literally, repentance is a matter of rejecting the actions and attitudes of unbelief, and beginning to live in faith. That is a simple statement with far-reaching implications. I can talk about repenting all day long; if I don’t change my attitudes and my actions I have not repented.

Many years ago one of my children had hit a sibling (notice how I don’t identify them by name?). At dinner that night it was apology time. As the apology was given above the table, there was a kick going on below the table. The lips had moved, but the soul was still unchanged. It is that way with children. It is that way with unrepentance and unbelief, no matter how old a disobedient Christian may be.

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