マタイ２７ 「悔い改める」
Matthew 27 “Repentance”
Matthew as a discipleship manual.
Considering the definition of evil. Evil in world news. Evil in culture.
Evil in Matthew 27, Pilate, the elders, the crowd, the romans...
Book: Everything Sad is Untrue. Thoughts on evil. Evil is also the good you should have done but didn’t do.
The repentance of Judas.
The first thesis of Luther’s 95 Theses: “When Jesus said repent (Matt 4:17) he meant the whole Christian life should be one of repentance.”
Repentance goes beyond maintaining a “clean heart”
The steps of true repentance:
1: Hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit
2: A decision to respond with the Holy Spirit
3: Making a public declaration empowered by the Holy Spirit
4: Acting out your repentance so it bears fruit through the Holy Spirit
Humorous example: Decision to diet as a kind of repentance
Consider Romans 12:1-2
God’s great project: the undoing of evil. The evil of Matthew 27 is undone. God wants to make untrue the evil you have experienced and the evil in your heart.
Jeremiah 29:11-13