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our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

1. Repentance: metanoia (The movement of the convicted heart)

Redirection of the life under God’s reign

a. Change of mind, Matt. 21.28-29; Luke 15.17-18; Acts 2.38

b. Godly sorrow for sin, Ps. 38.18; Luke 18.9-14

c. Confession and forsaking of sin, Luke 15.18; 18.13; Prov. 28.13; Isa. 55.7

d. Turning to God in Christ, Acts 26.18; 1 Thess. 1.19

e. Movement towards restitution and restoration, Luke 19.8-9

2. Faith: pistis (The medium of saving commitment)

Reorientation of one’s life values and vision

a. Knowledge of the apostolic witness concerning Jesus of Nazareth, 1 Cor. 15.1-4

(1) The incarnation

(2) The passion

(3) The death

Context Values/Vision

(4) The resurrection

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(5) The witness and the testimony