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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PART ONE: What is Repentance?
1. What is Repentance?
2. Repentance: Its Progression and Perfection.
3. An Invitation to Repentance.
4. Do Not Despair.
5. Repentance between struggle and grace.
6. The importance of repentance.
7. The obstacles of repentance.
8. Repentance and the church.
PART TWO: The Incentives for Repentance.
CHAPTER ONE: If you know who you are, you will rise above sin.
CHAPTER TWO: If you know what is sin, you will escape from sin.
Sin is Death
Sin is delusion and loss.
Sin is defeat and not victory.
Sin is separation from God.
Great difference between favour and animosity.
Sin is deprivation from God.
Sin is opposition to the Holy Spirit
Sin is corruption of the human nature.
Sin is impurity, fornication and disgrace.
CHAPTER THREE: If you know the results of sin, you will flee from sin.
Fear and Unrest
Torment of the Conscience
Other results of sin.
CHAPTER FOUR: If you know the punishment for sin, you would be afraid of sin.
God's goodness and severity
God's Mercy is just:
God's Fearful Punishments.
The terrifying torture of eternity
Two punishments for sin: Earthly and Eternal.
Punishments for God's beloved saints.
CHAPTER FIVE: Other incentives for repentance
PART THREE: Means of Repentance
1. Be with yourself.
2. Avoid justifications and excuses:
3. Do not delay repentance and do not lose the chance.
4. Do not harden your heart
5. Avoid the first step, and beware of the small foxes.
6. Avoid stumbling blocks, and escape from the sources of sin.
7. Do not be tolerant with sin.
8. Reassess your behaviour & beware of the disguised lambs
9. Flee from your beloved sins & your points of weakness.
10. Be concerned with your eternity and calculate the cost.
11. Keep God's love in order to cast out the love of sin.
12. Wrestle with God and obtain help from Him.
PART FOUR: The Signs of Repentance
1. Confessing the fault.
2. Embarrassment and Shame.
3. The regret, the suffering and the tears.
4. The Tears
5. Contrition and humility.
6. Repairing the results of the fault.
7. Compassion for the sinners.
8. Other feelings.
9. Spiritual fervour.
10. Proceeding in the virtuous life
11. Purity
PART FIVE: The Purity of Heart
Purity from sin.
Testing purity.
Purity from thoughts and dreams.
Purity from Vanities
The positive side of purity.
The purity of heart from knowing sin.
The Poem: ‘I drenched my couch with my bitter tears’.
PART SIX: Protecting Repentance
The ability to return.
They started in the Spirit and completed in the flesh.
The Canaanites on earth.
Do not falter between the two opinions.
The separation between light and darkness.
Caring for the Spirit.
Other Means
Some Questions on Repentance
