First Kings Twenty-One - True Repentance

 

"But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up. And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning. And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house,'" 1 Kings 21:25-28, NKJV. #TrueRepentance

True repentance is when God from heaven recognizes a spiritual change which has taken place within the heart of an individual or a group of people, an acknowledgment and turning away from sinfulness, not just empty lip service, and as a result in the past the punishment for that sin was postponed, often to subsequent generations; but now, when the Lord sees the validity of a person admitting that they are a sinner and asking forgiveness, He honors it with the salvation of eternal life, which comes from the power in the death and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ.

2 Samuel 12:13-14, Jonah 3:5-10 and Luke 18:9-14.