Repentance, Key to Restoring Your Relationship with God

By Jean Tshibangu

Repent, the Kingdom of God is near.
Where there is law, there is sin and where there is sin, there is the salary that is death. Man, by his disobedience, broke his covenant with God. This created a barrier in his relationship with God.
As the Lord God is compassionate God, He does not please in the death of the wicked, but He wants him to repent and have eternal life. He says it in his word: "God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son so that anyone who believes may not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).
To restore this relationship torn because of the sin, God turns towards the man He had created in his own image and according to his likeness. He gave him the way to encounter Him, the way of repentance. It’s all the author recalls in this book the immensity of God's love in these times of the end that precede the return of Jesus Christ. He talks about it in detail so that everyone can review their lives and embark on the path of salvation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728362700

Jean Tshibangu

Jean TSHIBANGU is senior Pastor and founder of the CAREMS Ministries based in the United Kingdom of England. He holds some qualifications such as Master in psychology applied, Management Studies from the University of Leicester and a diploma in Biblical and theological studies. He is author of several books among the best sellers. He is married with big family.

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/20/2020

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dedicate this book to my entire biological and spiritual family for its support during this time

I thank God for extensively using me to communicate his inspirations to his people through writing.

May all those who have helped me in one way or another find here the expression of my gratitude.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1    Law And Sin

Chapter 2    Repentance

Chapter 3    The Steps To True Repentance

Chapter 4    Jesus Christ, Remedy To The Sin

Conclusion

Preface

Jean Tshibangu wants to share with the people of God on a theme which is the basis of normal Christian life: Repentance. It is the very foundation of Jesus’ ministry on which He launched the Great Commission: Go, make all nations disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19).

Indeed, Jesus began his public ministry with the message of repentance (Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:15), which its durability remains relevant in the Church, emanating from the mission, given its importance in Christian life.

Updated under the title of this book "Repentance - Key to Restoring of Your Relationship with God," the author, through a four-chapters didactic journey, leads us to grasp the need for the process of restoring your/our relationship with God.

Our lives as children of God should be defined by the quality of our relationship with God who offers salvation. But God, knowing that by his sinful nature man finds himself from time to time in separation from Him, as it is written: For all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23), out of love, He does not reject him, He always has open arms, awaiting his return as a prodigal son by means of Repentance, key to restoring your relation with God. Luke says in Acts 17:30: God, regardless of the times of ignorance, now announces to all men, in all places, that they have to repent."

The quest for Repentance being permanent, so everyone is faced with this inescapable reality to which he cannot escape if he wants to live in communion with his Creator.

Valentin MbuyiMuluila

Introduction

After my daily devotion, I asked God to instruct on the sermon to be given to his people on Sunday. The voice spoke to me on this subject: Repentance - Key to restoring your relationship with God. As soon as I start putting this in writing, the ideas begin to flow to give birth to this book.

In the meantime, it comes to my mind a story when a certain Bishop came to visit me at home one day. That day, I was writing a book entitled How to deal with Demons &curses? He said to me, "I really like your project; however, a free piece of advice I would like to give you is not to include topics that speak of fear of God and sanctification because partners who materially and financially support our churches will not feel comfortable. They feel better when you talk to them about deliverance and how to be materially blessed. He glanced at the syllabus I had written about deliverance and told me that he was going to use it in a seminary, and he would come back to me to talk about it.

My answer was so simple: my preaching is dictated by the guidance of the Holy Spirit and I preferred to have a minority that fears God rather than the multitude that funds the Church, but walks in disobedience to God’s law.

One observation is commonly noticed in churches: whenever preachers address a subject related to the fear of God, the spirits are overheated and some sulk during preaching. They get up and walk around the room through untimely exits and heckling. They start to cradle the children because they feel exposed in their life.

Returning to the topic of the title of this book, the word repentance appears for the first time in the Bible in the book of Genesis, which tells the story of the abomination committed by the sons of God with the daughters of men: the wickedness of men was great on earth and that all the thoughts of their hearts were carried every day only to evil. The Lord repented for having made created on earth, and He was afflicted in his heart. And the Lord said, I will exterminate from the face of the Earth the man I have created, from man to cattle. (Genesis 6:1-8). Since then, the relationship with man has been restored only through repentance.

In the Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 3, John the Baptist cried out in the wilderness, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near, prepare the way of the Lord, smooth yourself. Jesus Christ followed this path in Matthew 4:17: From that moment Jesus began to preach, and say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." Later on Jesus evokes the parable of the rich man and Lazarus who begged Abraham to send Lazarus to his father’s house to evangelize his five brothers so that they may repent and escape the torments in which he found himself (Luke 16:27-28). Repentance, key to restoring your relationship with God is a title that speaks all. God’s will is not that the wicked die, but that they repent and have eternal life. Didn’t He curse the fig tree that had not borne fruit?

This explains the relevance of this title.

Before addressing this topic, it is important to understand why and how man found himself in this situation where his relationship with God was broken. To respond methodically to this question, we subdivided our subject into four chapters.

In the first chapter, we talk about the Law and sin to demonstrate that sin exists where there is the law, and without the law, there is no sin.

In the second chapter, we refer to repentance as the way of life of the mature Christian and his necessity in Christian life.

In the third chapter, we present the steps of sincere and complete repentance.

In the fourth chapter, sin being a disease that leads to death, we propose the remedy that is Jesus Christ. And we finish our work with a conclusion.

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CHAPTER 1

LAW AND SIN

What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You