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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Jesus Calls Us to a Life of Repentance
Description: “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” LUKE 5:32
What is repentance? Is it beating up on yourself? If repentance is beating up on yourself for your failures, then why would Jesus say there is joy in heaven over a sinner who repents (Luke 15:7)? Why would heaven rejoice over people beating up on themselves?
The repentance to which Jesus calls us is something to celebrate. That is why Levi’s first act of repentance is to hold a feast. “And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large...